Tom Hanks bizarrely weighed in on the explosive Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud this week – in hilarious messages shared by his son Chet.
Chet, 33, who has previously dabbled in rap music, shared screenshots showing texts between him and Oscar winner Tom, 67, discussing the rappers’ row.
The texts began with Tom – saved as ‘Pops’ in Chet’s writing: ‘Big Main, can you explain the Drake Kendrick Lamar feud to me?’
Chet responded: ‘Yeah, so Drake and this other dude J Cole been saying they along with Kendrick are the ‘Big 3’ in Rap. Then Kendrick put out a song saying, ‘F*** the Big 3, it’s just big ME’ initiating the beef.
Chet, who has rapped under the alias Chet Haze, added: ;Then Drake was like, ‘you got small feet cuz you’re like 5 foot 5 or whatever.’ And then Kendrick was like, you’re a dead beat dad and made fun of his Canadian accent.’
Tom Hanks bizarrely weighed in on the explosive Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud this week – in hilarious messages shared by his son Chet – pictured with Chet, wife Rita Wilson and son Truman 28
Drake and Kendrick have been feuding via diss tracks for many months
‘But it didn’t even matter cuz then Kendrick dropped another West Coast banger where he really went in on labeling Drake a pedophile that was pretty much the sonic equivalent of when you took .me to your high school in Oakland and we walked in on the basketball game and everybody started going nuts.
‘Like if you heard it you would just automatically know how to Crip walk with a stank face while clutching an Oscar in each hand with Marshawn Lynch, then dap him up and tell him ‘Town Bidness’ which solidified the win not only for Kendrick but the entire West Coast.’
Chet continued: ‘It was pretty much the sonic equivalent of when you took me to your high school in Oakland and we walked in on the basketball game and everybody started going nuts.
‘Like if you heard it you would just automatically know how to Crip walk with a stank face while clutching an Oscar in each hand with Marshawn Lynch.
‘Then dap him up and tell him ‘Town Bidness’ which solidified the win not only for Kendrick but the entire West Coast.’
Tom responded: ‘Holy cow! Those are fighting words! People taking sides?? Whose winning???’ with Chet retorting: ‘Did you not just read what I said’ followed by three crying with laughter emojis.
Chet was slammed by his father Tom’s fans in February of 2022, after he claimed he didn’t have a ‘strong male role model’ growing up, as they insisted he is an ‘entitled brat’ who threw his dad ‘under the bus.’
Chet claimed he did not have a ‘strong male role model’ during his teens while he was struggling with the pressures of having celebrity parents.
The texts began with Tom – saved as ‘Pops’ in Chet’s writing: ‘Big Main, can you explain the Drake Kendrick Lamar feud to me?’
Tom responded: ‘Holy cow! Those are fighting words! People taking sides?? Whose winning???’ with Chet retorting: ‘Did you not just read what I said’ followed by three crying with laughter emojis’
Although Chet assured the public that ‘I love my parents’ and ‘wouldn’t want any different parents,’ he confessed having a famous family is ‘a double-edged sword.’
He opened up about his upbringing in a YouTube video titled ‘The Truth About Growing Up As A Hanks’ saying many people had ‘contempt’ for him as a movie star’s child, and while trying to navigate the ‘s***-talking’ and the ‘d***-riders,’ he lacked ‘a strong male role model’ who could have told him: ”Hey, bro, f*** these people. They are just jealous of you.”’
In the video, Chet shared that ‘my experience was even more complicated because on top of fame already being toxic, I wasn’t even famous. You know, I was just the son of somebody famous so I hadn’t even done anything to deserve any sort of recognition and that created a lot of contempt, a lot of contempt for me.’
Chet shared that while his father was ‘on this pedestal,’ he himself was ‘assumed’ to be ‘a really arrogant, entitled spoiled brat even though I really wasn’t.’
During his high school and college years ‘people would make up their minds about me before they even got a chance to know me and it was extremely hard to break down their walls so I encountered a lot of disdain, a lot of animosity, a lot of negativity because everybody was just prepared to hate my guts.’
As a result he wound up with ‘a chip on my shoulder’ and formed a ‘hard exterior’ because of the ‘anger’ he was harboring.
He recalled that ‘people did kinda f*** with me a lot growing up. It was never to my face. It was always behind my back, in the forms of like gossip and s***-talking.’
Chet shocked fans in 2022, after he claimed he didn’t have a ‘strong male role model’ growing up; Pictured with father Tom in 2012
Although Chet assured the public that ‘I love my parents’ and ‘wouldn’t want any different parents,’ he confessed having a famous family is ‘a double-edged sword.
At the time he was also fielding ‘d***-riders’ who ‘didn’t give a f***ing s*** about me’ but were ‘just infatuated with the idea of hanging around f***ing Tom Hanks’ son.’
In April 2023, the father-of-one also faced backlash for refusing to apologize for culturally appropriating accents.
While appearing on Showtime talk show ZIWE, he was asked if there were any marginalized communities he wanted to apologize to. Hanks replied: ‘Nah.’
Chet had routinely been hit with claims of ‘cultural appropriation’ for frequently attempting to speak in a fake ‘Jamaican’ accent.
In 2020, he was yet again slammed for impersonating what seemed to be Jamaican patois – an English-based creole language with West African influences – in a bizarre video rant about Donald Trump following Joe Biden’s presidential win.
Chet once again impersonated a Jamaican accent at the Golden Globes in 2020, after a video went viral of him speaking Patois and laughing, as he said he didn’t want a ‘mawga’ girl, meaning ‘skinny.’