Father John Misty drops new Kendrick Lamar “diss track” after rapper releases new album on the same day as him

Father John Misty has shared a Kendrick Lamar diss track after the rapper surprise-released his new album ‘GNX’ the same day as he dropped his new album ‘Mahashmashana’.

The Compton rapper posted a link to the album on his social media pages at 5pm UK time on Friday (November 22), with the 12-track, 44-minute release now on all major music streaming platforms.

The drop coincided with the release of Father John Misty’s ‘Mahashmashana’, which he joked about yesterday, writing on X: “not now I’m furiously scribbling my seeming response to”.

Now, the response has arrived in the form of a new song shared on Instagram called ‘God’s Trash’. The track was posted alongside artwork parodying covers for Lamar’s recent diss tracks towards Drake from their highly publicised feud this summer. “I’m waiting,” Tillman captured the Instagram post.

Check it out below.

Prior to the diss track dropping, a fan had highlighted the scheduling conflict of the two releases, saying, “I’m so sorry that you happened to drop on the worst possible day to drop a new album,” Misty pointed out that this is the fifth time both musicians have dropped albums in the same year – in fact, the trend has been going for almost as long as Lamar has been releasing albums.

“it’s okay only other times it’s happened was 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022,” he wrote.

It is Lamar’s sixth studio album and first since 2022’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’, and features production from Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Mustard, Terrace Martin and Sounwave. It also includes uncredited guest vocals from SZA.

The album does not include ‘Not Like Us’ or any of the other tracks that arrived earlier this year as part of Kendrick’s beef with Drake.

In a four-star review of Father John Misty’s ‘Mahashmashana’, NME wrote: “The lush ‘Mahashmashana’ doesn’t quite mainline the zeitgeist in the same way that ‘Honeybear’ and ‘Pure Comedy’ did. Then again, there’s something to be said, in 2024, for logging off in favour of self-reflection.

“On the swooning ‘Mental Health’, Misty rejects the hive mind, concluding that his own particular “insanity” is “indispensable”. Whoever the folk he is underneath that beard, the good Father can’t help but share words of wisdom.”

He will also embark on a UK and European tour in 2025, including a huge show at the Royal Albert Hall.