"Not like us is the energy of who I am, the type of man I represent."Kendrick Lamar has a lot of things. Seventeen Grammys, an Emmy, a Pulitzer Prize, Drake's gander. But anger issues? Not so.In a new interview with fellow musical icon SZA for Harper's Bazaar,

The comments shared with SZA are the first time Kendrick Lamar has spoken extensively about " Not Like Us ," a song that effectively brought an end, or at least a stalemate, to his rivalry with Drizzy, despite him dropping the mostly-forgotten "The Heart Pt. 6" shortly after.

Back in May, Kendrick Lamar dropped the diss track “Not Like Us”—and it promptly lit the Internet aflame. The now-viral song fanned the flames of Lamar and Drake’s ongoing drama and turned it into a smash hit. “Not Like Us” debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, broke Spotify’s hip-hop streaming record, and became a cultural phenomenon.

"I do believe in love and war, and I believe they both need to exist," he says in a new interview with the "Kill Bill" artist.

For Kendrick Lamar, there's much more to his catchy hater anthem "Not Like Us" than his disdain for Drake. Five months after dropping the diss track, which decisively ended the rappers' legendary rap feud earlier this year,

As the musical collaborators’ conversation veered into the realms of spirituality and vulnerability, the “Snooze” singer touched on rap rivalry, asking Kendrick what “Not Like Us” means to him. “ [Laughing] Not like us?

Kendrick Lamar has mostly spoken through his music in 2024; until now. The 37-year-old rapper sat down with his former labelmate SZA for the upcoming November cover of Harper’s Bazaar. Throughout the conversation,