Hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar of Top Dawg Entertainment has been featured on the cover issue of Billboard magazine. In the cover story, Kendrick addresses the infamous tweet that rapper Macklemore sent him on Grammy night.

TDE's Grammy nominated rapper managed to stun audiences at the awards ceremony when he took to the stage with rock band Imagine Dragons earlier this year. What was more stunning than that incredible performance, however, was the fact that Kendrick Lamar failed to take home a single one of the seven awards he was nominated for that night. Instead, Seattle duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis nabbed four of them, including Best Rap Album for The Heist.

Given the critical success of Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city (it was ranked one of the top albums of the year by most music publications and considered a modern classic by some hip-hop fans), many people thought Kendrick Lamar was more deserving of the award.

Among the people who thought Kendrick Lamar was robbed: Macklemore himself.

"You got robbed. I wanted you to win. You should have," Macklemore texted Kendrick. "It's weird and sucks that I robbed you. I was gonna say that during the speech. Then the music started playing during my speech, and I froze. Anyway, you know what it is. Congrats on this year and your music. Appreciate you as an artist and as a friend. Much love."

Macklemore later posted the text to his Instagram account.

While many were put off by Macklemore's apology (rapper Drake among them), Kendrick Lamr has no hard feelings.

"That text surprised me, but Macklemore is a genuine dude," he told Billboard. "However it panned out, I wish him much success. He touched people's souls, and no one can take that away. Really, the whole Grammy moment was incredible. Not everyone gets that shot."

Billboard reports that Kendrick Lamar could release his next album as soon as September of 2014. There's also a possibility that fans can see a release from hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy -- composed of rappers Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q and Kendrick -- before the end of the year.

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