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Kendrick Lamar wants no part of Taylor Swift's feud with Katy Perry. The rapper who is featured in a remix of Taylor's diss track "Bad Blood" says he didn't know the song was about Katy, and now that he knows it, he refuses to be dragged into it.

"No, I wasn't aware of that, bro," he says on RollingStone's new issue. "That's a great question. No! On the record, no. Which makes it even more funny now, for sure. That's far beyond my concern. I have to stay away from that, for sure. That's some real beef."

The rapper also explains why he won't talk about President Donald Trump. "It's like beating a dead horse. We already know what it is," he says. "Are we gonna keep talking about it or are we gonna take action? You just get to a point where you're tired of talking about it. It weighs you down and it drains your energy when you're speaking about something or someone that's completely ridiculous. So, on and off the album, I took it upon myself to take action in my own community."

He continues, "On the record, I made an action to not speak about what's going on in the world or the places they put us in - speak on self; reflection of self first. That's where the initial change will start from."

When asked about ghostwriting, he says, "I called myself the best rapper. I cannot call myself the best rapper if I have a ghostwriter. If you're saying you're a different type of artist and you don't really care about the art form of being the best rapper, then so be it. Make great music. But the title, it won't be there."

He always tries to stay true to himself. "A wack artist uses other people's music for their approval," he explains. "We're talking about someone that is scared to make their own voice, chases somebody else's success and their thing, but runs away from their own thing. That's what keeps the game watered-down. Everybody's not going to be able to be a Kendrick Lamar. I'm not telling you to rap like me. Be you. Simple as that."

Before finding his own voice, he admits to copying his idol Jay-Z during his early career. "That was my guy. Still is. I'm still a fan," he opens up. "That was just a page I took out of his book, to be able to carry a lyric through conversation and make it feel like I'm sitting right here talking to you."

He also has nothing but good words for the Jiggaman's wife Beyonce Knowles whom he worked with in her album "Lemonade". He gushes, "She's a perfectionist. Think about the [2016] BET performance. She was very particular - the lighting, the camera blocking, the transition from the music to the dancing. It was confirmation of something I already knew."

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