Father John Misty reacts to Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl efficiency on tenth anniversary of ‘I Love You, Honeybear’

Father John Misty has reacted to Kendrick Lamar‘s Tremendous Bowl efficiency falling on the tenth anniversary of ‘I Love You, Honeybear’.

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The previous Fleet Foxes musician, actual identify Josh Tillman, launched the file in 2015, with NME calling it a “massively formidable, caustically humorous album concerning the redemptive potentialities of affection, and being heartily sick of your personal bullshit”.

Forward of its official anniversary yesterday (February 9), Misty introduced a remastered reissue, which is about to reach on Valentine’s Day (February 14). His extra playful solution to mark the event was to reignite a longstanding light-hearted beef with Lamar, whose earlier releases have typically coincided together with his.

Responding to a tweet marking the tenth anniversary of his album, he wrote: “Needed to do his tremendous bowl efficiency right now of all days good,” in a nod to the ‘Not Like Us‘ rapper’s history-making efficiency.

needed to do his tremendous bowl efficiency right now of all days good https://t.co/LtBZw5sPg6

— Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty) February 9, 2025

Again in November, the ‘Let The Mild In’ musician went so far as sharing a Kendrick “diss monitor” after the rapper surprise-released his new album ‘GNX’ the identical day as he dropped his new album ‘Mahashmashana’.

The Compton rapper posted a hyperlink to the album on his social media pages on November 22, inadvertently coinciding with the discharge of ‘Mahashmashana’, which he later joked about, writing on X/Twitter: “I’m furiously scribbling my seeming response”.

The response arrived within the type of a brand new track shared on Instagram known as ‘God’s Trash’, posted alongside paintings parodying covers for Lamar’s latest diss tracks in the direction of Drake from their extremely publicised feud final summer season. “I’m ready,” Tillman teasingly captioned the Instagram publish.

jokes on everybody I’m watching the matrix

— Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty) February 9, 2025

Previous to the diss monitor dropping, a fan had highlighted the scheduling battle of the 2 releases, saying, “I’m so sorry that you simply occurred to drop on the worst attainable day to drop a brand new album,” Misty identified that that is the fifth time each musicians have dropped albums in the identical yr – in actual fact, the development has been going for nearly so long as Lamar has been releasing albums.

“It’s okay solely different instances it’s occurred was 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022,” he wrote.

Elsewhere, Father John Misty introduced a UK and Eire tour for June and August 2025, stopping in Liverpool, Nottingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin and extra. Visit here for tickets and examine right here for extra data.

As anticipated, Lamar is on tour on the identical time, and can play dates throughout North America with SZA subsequent spring. Visit here to buy tickets.