In the wake of Big Sean’s Control going viral, the Detroit MC has stated that he thinks his verse goes “harder” than Kendrick Lamar’s…

Kendrick Lamar’s verse was undoubtedly the one that caused the most commotion, but in an interview with Vibe, Big Sean has said that he thinks his verses are stronger than those of Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica.

Big Sean didn’t mince his words in the interview, and said: “…like I said, I ain’t no ho ass nigga like that to hear a verse like that and then be like ‘Oh, I gotta go back and [rewrite] my shit. Oh, I gotta protect myself.’ You know what I’m saying? It’s like nah, it is what it is. I’m a good ass rapper. Big Sean got bars…Listen to everything. Listen to Control. I feel like my verse was harder.”

The rapper also made it clear that after he heard Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Control, he didn’t for one minute consider re-recording his own: “…when I heard that verse I was like ‘Man, I’m not about to go back and change my verse. That’s cheating’…I could go back, change it. Make it this. I could namedrop. You know, I could do this. I could cut his verse up, but that ain’t the way of a OG. You know what I’m saying? That ain’t how Gs move. And I wanted to do that for the culture of Hip Hop. For the culture of rap as opposed to myself. Like tryna protect myself.”

In the closing of the interview, Big Sean said that Control wouldn’t feature on his second album Hall Of Fame due to sample clearence, which is out on August 27.

Spotted via HipHopDX.

Words by Patrick Swift.