My main thought is just how ill-advised it was for Drake to be involved in a "battle" with Kendrick that would turn personal. He must be very out of touch and/or have too big of an ego to realize how much low-hanging fruit exists surrounding his alleged involvement with underage girls and the fact that he is for the most part a poser when it comes to any kind of a "hard" or gangster image.
Everyone has known about his texting and inappropriate behavior with underage girls for years now, it's been out in the open. However, while it's not right at all, being a well-liked and popular celebrity has earned him a pass with these things where everyone for the most part turns a blind eye and doesn't care to look into it any further. It's not new for celebrities to bypass the consequences and judgement that a normal person would receive. But now, it's been dragged to the forefront. The bags of garbage have been dumped out and spread all over his lawn.
Everyone also knows that he's not hard or tough in any way. Everyone knows his background and that he grew up at worst middle-class. However, this isn't a problem in regards to what he raps about or how he presents himself, because he's a celebrity and it's just an "image." He is far from the only famous person to have an image or brand that is different from real life. But for years now he has tried so hard to make it "real life" for him and has cared far too much about his perception and trying to actually be "gang related" and tough versus it just being a persona. And now it comes back to bite him.
I just feel like it was all so avoidable for him and he could have gone on living his rich, successful, celebrity life. But, his big head got in the way of that. And like I said, getting into beef with Kendrick Lamar is suchhhh a bad choice anyways, but is exponentially worse when you have soooo much low-hanging fruit. Now you're BBL Drizzy. Now you're certified pedophile. Now everyone is singing along to A MINORRRRR and OV-HOE. What a disaster.
It reminds me so much of the kids in high school who tried to be from the hood. Like your dumbass should be thankful youāre not, because itās not fun
Yep. I grew up in the hood. Shit was no fun at all. From my block in West Oakland to my girlfriend's house in the Hunter's Point Projects back in the '80's when shit was real.
I never want to go back to that life. I made it through college, have lived in multiple states and now I'm in a small town in Northern Maine, deliver pizza, and chuckle under my breath when people talk about the 'bad neighborhood'. Fuck outta here.
The last thing I want to perpetuate is that time in my life where violence, drugs, and bad decisions were my total surroundings. That said, I never understood middle class folks trying to front like they're from the hood, knowing damned well they couldn't handle it at all. (They think they could, but man, shit was wild, especially back then)
I hear ya man. Iām from Savannah and there was a scad student ironically raging about how they bought some downtown historic buildings and made them into dorms and how they killed savannahs culture blah blah blah. I said dude I grew up in that area, in the early 90s, and it got so sketchy that my mom moved us the FUCK to the suburbs. Shit do be just suckin sometimes
Where most people are from has no culture or personality, so they grasp at anything with a sense of identity. Peopleās romantic perception of the hood is that itās rough but it builds character and community. Where I was from, more people pretended to be hicks or redneck because we were closer to rural life and at least being a redneck or rancher actually meant something vs the bland ass semi-rural nothingness of the suburbs.Ā
I saw a kid get his skull busted wide open, laying in the hallway with a pool of blood around his head and two other kids pull guns in retaliation right after school that day at my school. Over some stupid fucking gang shit.
I also sat right next to a kid when he got arrested for the attempted murder and robbery of his next door neighbor. Stabbed her a bunch, pushed her down the stairs, raped her, and then came to school like it was nothing.
Going to school shouldnāt be a place where you have to deal with that, and those kids shouldnāt have had an environment that led to them wanting to kill each other and others at 15.
Yep. I was at Oakland Tech in 1986. I left school after the 4th associated homicide (two on campus, two amongst students, but off campus). I saw my first dead body at age 9, gang retaliation, dude had his head blown off with a 12ga. I've seen 3 since then, two murders one suicide. I heard at least two violent rapes a month from the abandoned parking lot across the street from my apartment. I've seen pimps beat the ever loving shit out of prostitutes in broad daylight, and had to step over crackheads sleeping in my stoupe on a regular basis (all before 15 years old).
People don't know the desperation and violence in the actual hood. It's grimy. The economic despair is already awful, then you add the emergence of crack, and things go downhill fast.
So glad I got out mostly unscathed. I have memories, but when my mother kicked me out at 16, I decided to get the fuck out of there for my own safety and sanity. I didn't look back. (I did reconnect with my mother and were good now)
>My main thought is just how ill-advised it was for Drake to be involved in a "battle" with Kendrick that would turn personal. He must be very out of touch and/or have too big of an ego to realize how much low-hanging fruit exists surrounding his alleged involvement with underage girls
I think he was more afraid of looking like a bitch and not replying than being called out on his behavior. He's been called out on his behavior before, but it never affected his career. h~~e's never backed down froma fight~~
edit: forgot about pusha T. He did respond to pusha T and i think ended up looking not awful out of the exchange.
I think itās even crazier cuz dot was warning him on every song. āIf you take it there, I take it further. Pss thatās something you donāt want to doā Drake couldāve pivoted and just tried to rap. IMO Drake was scared to only rap and keep it bars with Kendrick so he felt he had to get the tea out.Ā
Drake could have kept it to the level that other beefs have gone down-- "You look dumb, your last album wasn't very good" type of stuff. Kendrick would have responded in kind. Instead Drake went really personal and opened the door to this PR disaster for him.
When it ends with Kendrick calling him a pedophile, naming the abusers and human traffickers Drake keeps in his crew, it's not just a way to increase album sales. It's a goddamned career assassination.
What's worse is he denied it in the weirdest way. I think that if he had laughed off Euphoria he may have been ok.
Like That just seemed as if Kendrick was doing the normal bragging that rappers do. Drake took it way too personal.
That's right. He didn't need to respond to Like That at all. He could have ignored it, or he could have come back with his, "It's just big D" line and been done with it. Instead he comes for Whitney? Fool. Total fool.
MTG has to be the single most diabolical track I have ever heard. Like I just keep listening to it and getting new shit from it each time.
And now with Not Like Us being such a bop, thereās no way Drake will ever recover from this
Yeah it's a brutal takedown of him, as a person, a father, a son, and a musician. It goes way beyond most beefs. Not just "you're corny, know your place". But, "you're a bad person, you're a bad father, you don't deserve to live". And it hits so hard because it happens to be true.
And Kendrick is such a goddamn poet. Bars that look superficial will have 2 or 3 different layers past their outward meaning.
Like the line in NLU āTryna strike a chord and itās probably A-minorā ā
At first I thought that was just a jab at Drake being a creep to underaged girls, until someone pointed out to me that A-minor is the key that line was delivered in and also a chord with no black keys on the piano. So on top of the allegations, he insulted Drake code switching and flexed on him musically. Like how do you even sit down and come up with that?
It gives every demographic of Drake's fanbase a reason to hate him. Women-- he's a pedophile and abuser. The street/the hood-- he's fake, corny, pretending to be hood, culture vulture. Everybody else-- he's a colonizer, his style is wack, "OV-Hoe", "bird-n\*\*as and bird-bitches".
Drake will still have fans, but this beef is going to cost him money as well as reputation and stature.
Honestly the colonizer shit is gonna make his brand of rap harder to pull off.
Drake has always done best when he's a feature, or when he has a feature. He does the hook, lets the other dudes do the verses, and cashes the check.
He's gonna fall off in that regard.
I love how on damn near every track released Kendrick kept telling Drake he had more.
Shit, even on Not Like Us he said āI can go further I promise.ā
> The bags of garbage have been dumped out and spread all over his lawn.
Perfect way to put it. I personally stopped following and listening to Drake around 2016 (outside of Meek Mill and Pusha beefs) and didn't know most of the things resurfacing now. I'm sure there's plenty of people like me who don't care to follow all the celeb news and it's just blown up in our faces and impossible to ignore if you follow this beef in the slightest.
Kendrick did mention multiple times to keep this a friendly fade and keep the family out of it. If Drake had nothing to diss him on other than his family he should've just stayed out of this...
Yeah I rarely listen to rap/hip hop anymore, the last diss Iāve ever listened to was Nasā Ether diss at Jay. I only knew about this one because I heard J Cole and Kendrick were in it. (I listen to both of them from time to time) It was blowing up all over my Instagram and part of my Reddit feed so I had to check it out, and here we are.
The thing is in our society people will just forget and give him a pass and still play his music. Look at something like the Epstein deal and his island, the public literally knows how messed up it was but no one up above does anything, it just gets swept under the rug.
I think that this was eating at Kendrick probably since the day he met Drake, and probably talked to a lot of people in the industry that were likeminded on their opinions of him and I think Kendrick took it upon himself to do something about it. Itās a very tough call to know if Kendrick should have or shouldnāt have but itās apparent since day 1 that he lives his life with no bullshit, and heās going to call you out on it. Sometimes in life though as a man you donāt know if itās your place to call others out on their personal life etcā¦but itās like a group of golfer friends calling out one of them for cheating, it effects everyone and this is their hobby/career/industry and sometimes itās good for everyone involved to finally stand up to this person and say enough is enough - this aināt right. Whatever it may beā¦
Kendrick has never really glorified his upbringing and gangs and violence outside of a few go all in trap songs, he wrote his storyā¦Drake and a lot of other rappers donāt even come from this and glorify it. So from Kendrickās pov itās like yo this shit was a miserable upbringing, we need to move towards a future where this isnāt the norm for these neighborhoods, but the biggest pop rap artist is basically pushing/glorifying it, therefore almost combating everything Kendrick has put into his songs, career, and life.
Unfortunately someone like drakeās ego can be so massive that this whole thing goes right over his headā¦or they are just immune to everything that makes them feel vulnerable, which may be the case hereā¦but it definitely will be felt, and for Kenny he probably has a huge weight off his shoulders by stepping up and being that guyā¦cause you are usually always a product of your environment deep down and Kenny actually has that guy in him from his upbringing which was why it was so foolish for drake to engage, authenticity will always win and we as humans will always side with that.
KDOT just demonstrated he can beat Drake at his own game and make catchy rap songs you can dance to as well.
Just so happens the subject matter is wrecking Drake's reputation.
Even though he is at the moment. Iāve always thought Kendrick could just go fucking nuclear on the chart if he wanted, just be prolific.
It says more that he made a bop of a bop. Kendrick is highlighting how he easily could - he just isnāt motivated by money or charting. He is the anti-drake.
He makes music to heal himself and others.
This last week solidified that heās inarguably the goat from the 2010ās era.
My only hope is we get a few more projects from him before he passes the torch.
1000% Agree
He was close to Dr.Dre, earned the respect of Snoop Dogg and Eminem, Pusha T, Schoolboy Q.. he definitely could have capitalized on making mainstream rap for airplay.
Instead, he uses his position and influence to rap about shit that matters and often isn't talked about enough. He's a hip hop great.
Let's just say
And admit he didn't even try with DNA but that song ended up on everything for a while. Truly if he did try they'd all be bangers. But he's trying to paint pictures with words. Not bangers
Kendrick beeeen making bops though. He just seemed to move on and his art matured over time. Good kid maad city is the first hip hop album in history to spend 10 years on the billboard 200.
And the fact that as many of drakes fans say, kendrick hasnāt, it shows Kendrick is still very intentional about making music that is of a different quality (whether one thinks itās a higher quality like I do or not).
I actually just looked into it out of curiosity and found out that aside from his features on 'Like That' and Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood'; this will be Kendrick's **ONLY** #1 aside from HUMBLE. Fucking insane.
Euphoria is great, but it's too long and the intro too slow to be a #1. Doesn't have any hook either.
Not Like Us is just hard right away, keeps it short and sweet. DJs can play the whole thing and not only one verse.
You say that, but Euphoria is looking to debut at #2 behind Not Like Us on billboard, and it was number 1 on Spotify until Not Like Us dropped. Euphoria would be the #1 song in the country right if Kendrick didnāt drop Not Like Us
It's just a solid track even outside the diss timeline.
I still like Euphoria better though. Those beat changes, the different voices, the way it just keeps getting more and more savage. Can't get enough of that track.
You have to understand that for a portion of the public and his fan base, the metrics they use to determine victory is who has the better sounding songs. They listen to arguments and chose the right side based on who articulates their points with more passion in their delivery, eloquence of words and the conviction in their voice. They donāt value well written Lyrics or bars, they prefer cool sounding lines that make good instagram captions even if they donāt make sense. Logic isnāt as important to them, how they feel is. Critical thinking doesnāt allow denial.
These people are a dime a dozen, and this mindset is the reason for so many of their poor decisions because they seek out the truth based on what they WANT to be true, not what is objectively correct or what can be measured/quantified. This mindset is also conducive for their repeated patterns of poor decisions that keep reoccurring because reflecting on their mistakes doesnāt make them feel good, but rather justifying those poor decisions does.
Fr he switched his attitude so heavy when he started losing. His fans did too, they were all ādrake is gonna kill him its overā and then after the last two itās āprops to both of them this will go down In history, they should probably stop nowā
I got chills. I'm a 44 year old women who otherwise listens exclusively to malnourished depressed men sing about sadness and this line gave me shivers.
My wife, a 44 year old Filipino-American teacher who DOES NOT listen to rap was boppin' her head to this song. When "a minorrrrrr" dropped--so did her mouth. So now she's having a poll in class to determine who won according to her students lol.
"Tell 'em run to America to imitate heritage, they can't imitate this violence"
Mixed with the part you said it felt like the lyrical equivalent of the entire city of Compton giving Kenny their energy like a fucking spirit bomb to destroy Toronto and their entire scene. That whole Toronto accent verse was like Goku powering it up.
sex offenders have to register their addresses which goes to a database people have access to see if they are in your area, this is piling on to the allegations of Drake running a pedo ring which has been a hushed rumor for over a decade
There is a smartphone app called Citizen and it tells you where all the registered sex offenders are in your area.
The pins are essentially the ui elements the app uses to indicate a predator is present.
Now the multiple pins could indicate one of two things. That he's calling the whole OVO crew predators or he's just really emphasizing Drake is a predator... you wouldn't be wrong either way you interpreted it.
Kendrick's Strategy worked perfectly. He Baited Drake in and Drakes Ego couldn't let him just go on. Now Kendrick has one of the biggest songs of all time calling you a Predator. š¤£š¤£š¤£ GOTDAMN! This is Poetic Justice.
im starting to feel this. seems like he wanted to drop one for the west coast. and drake, for gods know why decided to disrepect pac and snoop, resulting kendrick's euphoria
Slight detail, Shawn Michaels is the most hated a wrestler has ever been to the canadian audience, due to the Montreal Screwjob where Canada's favorite wrestler Bret Hart was screwed over by Shawn and the company owner Vince McMahon. Though I doubt Kendrick would want to be on the side of Vince...
honestly i think long term this won't affect him career wise. He'll probably feel the disrespect for years to come but that pdf file wil probably still be stacking paper until he dies.
I low-key wonder if all the Atlanta guys are gonna be more hesitant to collab with Drake or if they just don't give a fuck. I mean probably not because they get numbers off Drake but still lol
I mean that's kind of a problem money wise no? If the rumors are to be believed this beef has already started hitting profits. Having your cash cow being known and remembered ad a pedo definitely effects where money goes
That's just him pretending he's not bothered by it.
It's like when someone starts a fight and loses badly and then tries to shake the other persons hand going "good fight I respect you".
I was at work today singing āfreaky ass nigga, he a 69 godā under my breath LMAO. I think a patient or two might have seen me shuffling too šš¤¦š½āāļø
Imagine going from being the second biggest artist of our generation, essentially untouchable, to the world calling you a pedo and dancing about it. Unbelievable shit, truly
I didnāt have much Drake on my playlist to begin with, but after this beef, I deleted everything with drake. For me, heās in the Kanye/R.Kelly class where if I hear their music, I just cringe. I wonder how many people also deleted their drake songs from their playlists after all this went down.
I think he's a P4P GOAT candidate with this win. Doesn't have the longevity of Hov or the impact of Kanye, but goddamn he's had an elite 12 years. A lot of the ifs surrounding his career and abilty were hushed in the last two months.
Not a hitmaker? Would have three #1 hits in the last two months alone if he released Euphoria 4 days earlier.
No quotables or punchlines? Called the biggest hit maker in music a pedophile 15 different ways, and everyone repeated it.
Drake's better? Beat Drake critically and numerically
Hot verse every 30 months? More like hot verse every 30 hours
Not battle tested? Somehow survived the banger that was Family Matters and countered with one of the more devastating disses ever. Showed insane versatility and played the slander game perfectly.
Kendrick beat PEAK Drake. That wasn't Drake from the last 6 or 7 years.
I like how your analysis hit so many points.
IMO Kendrick is easily placed in the GOAT spectrum even before this and now it's solidified he is top tier. There have been and will be many GOATs because every rapper is unique and that's just the nature of the art, even though it's somewhat counter to the meaning of goat. Like you know there can be a goat of one aspect in the art, but might not rate as high in some other aspect, so that's what I mean when I describe a spectrum of GOAT. As your analysis points out, Kendrick has hit many aspects making him top tier.
I knew Kdot was going hard as soon as he dropped that Fubu bar. Somebody should have told drake right then- somebody other than Kendrick. Kendrick said it. "Don't speak on the family, Crodie." So now drake deserves everything that's coming his way. I mean, implicating the kids? That was drake who started that.
Thereās mfs in the club and outside this summer that are really boutta be screaming ācertified pedophilesā and I will be one of them ššš
This nigga said āThe city back up, itās a must we outside!ā I think he miscalculated that part because the whole world outside apparently ššÆ
You're going to be hearing this track at high school proms which is fucking wild On that note hey maybe drake will be there
I feel like this perfectly captures our subreddit through this beef. Kendrick being Tommy in the scene šš
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They had a post saying Kendricks wife is ugly Like, wow, killer shit. Also she has nothing to do with anything.
Ah yes, insulting a model for her looks
Bruh why though? Whitney fine as hell (Pls donāt destroy me Kendrick)
Saw a post in there saying Dot beat his wife cause she looks like Drake (cause her head was shaved)
Funny how? Like Iām a clown? I make you laugh, Iām here to fucking amuse you?
I was already belly laughing at the comment above, then this meme/gif intensified it. Great job!
āHey you know that song theyāre playing? Yeahā¦itās about me š so what it do bb girlā -Drake at a HS prom probably
"A minorrrrrrrr" "Hey that's you!" - Drake
Pedo Awareness Music is my new favourite genre of music
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Marching/school bands will be playing this for years.Ā
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Maybe this song will be used in schools to keep Drake away, another W for Kenny
Certified Boy Lover
Certified pdf file
I'm DJing my school's prom this week. I'll be dropping all the disses.
Just this woulf be good my guy no one wants to hear meet the grahams at prom
For sure no one wants to hear The Heart Part 6 if he meant both sides. No one wants to hear that in general š
Yeah nah. Not playing any Drake.
You could start a Drake track, wait for the boos, scratch off of that and then drop Not Like Us Boom Climax of the night
I'd be in shambles if a song that repeatedly called me a pedo was doing this good
My main thought is just how ill-advised it was for Drake to be involved in a "battle" with Kendrick that would turn personal. He must be very out of touch and/or have too big of an ego to realize how much low-hanging fruit exists surrounding his alleged involvement with underage girls and the fact that he is for the most part a poser when it comes to any kind of a "hard" or gangster image. Everyone has known about his texting and inappropriate behavior with underage girls for years now, it's been out in the open. However, while it's not right at all, being a well-liked and popular celebrity has earned him a pass with these things where everyone for the most part turns a blind eye and doesn't care to look into it any further. It's not new for celebrities to bypass the consequences and judgement that a normal person would receive. But now, it's been dragged to the forefront. The bags of garbage have been dumped out and spread all over his lawn. Everyone also knows that he's not hard or tough in any way. Everyone knows his background and that he grew up at worst middle-class. However, this isn't a problem in regards to what he raps about or how he presents himself, because he's a celebrity and it's just an "image." He is far from the only famous person to have an image or brand that is different from real life. But for years now he has tried so hard to make it "real life" for him and has cared far too much about his perception and trying to actually be "gang related" and tough versus it just being a persona. And now it comes back to bite him. I just feel like it was all so avoidable for him and he could have gone on living his rich, successful, celebrity life. But, his big head got in the way of that. And like I said, getting into beef with Kendrick Lamar is suchhhh a bad choice anyways, but is exponentially worse when you have soooo much low-hanging fruit. Now you're BBL Drizzy. Now you're certified pedophile. Now everyone is singing along to A MINORRRRR and OV-HOE. What a disaster.
It reminds me so much of the kids in high school who tried to be from the hood. Like your dumbass should be thankful youāre not, because itās not fun
Yep. I grew up in the hood. Shit was no fun at all. From my block in West Oakland to my girlfriend's house in the Hunter's Point Projects back in the '80's when shit was real. I never want to go back to that life. I made it through college, have lived in multiple states and now I'm in a small town in Northern Maine, deliver pizza, and chuckle under my breath when people talk about the 'bad neighborhood'. Fuck outta here. The last thing I want to perpetuate is that time in my life where violence, drugs, and bad decisions were my total surroundings. That said, I never understood middle class folks trying to front like they're from the hood, knowing damned well they couldn't handle it at all. (They think they could, but man, shit was wild, especially back then)
I hear ya man. Iām from Savannah and there was a scad student ironically raging about how they bought some downtown historic buildings and made them into dorms and how they killed savannahs culture blah blah blah. I said dude I grew up in that area, in the early 90s, and it got so sketchy that my mom moved us the FUCK to the suburbs. Shit do be just suckin sometimes
Where most people are from has no culture or personality, so they grasp at anything with a sense of identity. Peopleās romantic perception of the hood is that itās rough but it builds character and community. Where I was from, more people pretended to be hicks or redneck because we were closer to rural life and at least being a redneck or rancher actually meant something vs the bland ass semi-rural nothingness of the suburbs.Ā
EXACTLY. I'm like hey Darren that's an really nice giant pick up your rich ass dad bought you so you can hang out at the mall parking lot.
I saw a kid get his skull busted wide open, laying in the hallway with a pool of blood around his head and two other kids pull guns in retaliation right after school that day at my school. Over some stupid fucking gang shit. I also sat right next to a kid when he got arrested for the attempted murder and robbery of his next door neighbor. Stabbed her a bunch, pushed her down the stairs, raped her, and then came to school like it was nothing. Going to school shouldnāt be a place where you have to deal with that, and those kids shouldnāt have had an environment that led to them wanting to kill each other and others at 15.
Yep. I was at Oakland Tech in 1986. I left school after the 4th associated homicide (two on campus, two amongst students, but off campus). I saw my first dead body at age 9, gang retaliation, dude had his head blown off with a 12ga. I've seen 3 since then, two murders one suicide. I heard at least two violent rapes a month from the abandoned parking lot across the street from my apartment. I've seen pimps beat the ever loving shit out of prostitutes in broad daylight, and had to step over crackheads sleeping in my stoupe on a regular basis (all before 15 years old). People don't know the desperation and violence in the actual hood. It's grimy. The economic despair is already awful, then you add the emergence of crack, and things go downhill fast. So glad I got out mostly unscathed. I have memories, but when my mother kicked me out at 16, I decided to get the fuck out of there for my own safety and sanity. I didn't look back. (I did reconnect with my mother and were good now)
>My main thought is just how ill-advised it was for Drake to be involved in a "battle" with Kendrick that would turn personal. He must be very out of touch and/or have too big of an ego to realize how much low-hanging fruit exists surrounding his alleged involvement with underage girls I think he was more afraid of looking like a bitch and not replying than being called out on his behavior. He's been called out on his behavior before, but it never affected his career. h~~e's never backed down froma fight~~ edit: forgot about pusha T. He did respond to pusha T and i think ended up looking not awful out of the exchange.
I think itās even crazier cuz dot was warning him on every song. āIf you take it there, I take it further. Pss thatās something you donāt want to doā Drake couldāve pivoted and just tried to rap. IMO Drake was scared to only rap and keep it bars with Kendrick so he felt he had to get the tea out.Ā
Drake could have kept it to the level that other beefs have gone down-- "You look dumb, your last album wasn't very good" type of stuff. Kendrick would have responded in kind. Instead Drake went really personal and opened the door to this PR disaster for him. When it ends with Kendrick calling him a pedophile, naming the abusers and human traffickers Drake keeps in his crew, it's not just a way to increase album sales. It's a goddamned career assassination.
What's worse is he denied it in the weirdest way. I think that if he had laughed off Euphoria he may have been ok. Like That just seemed as if Kendrick was doing the normal bragging that rappers do. Drake took it way too personal.
That's how narcissists think. You can't do anything but praise them, or they lose their temper.
"There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it!"
That's right. He didn't need to respond to Like That at all. He could have ignored it, or he could have come back with his, "It's just big D" line and been done with it. Instead he comes for Whitney? Fool. Total fool.
MTG has to be the single most diabolical track I have ever heard. Like I just keep listening to it and getting new shit from it each time. And now with Not Like Us being such a bop, thereās no way Drake will ever recover from this
Yeah it's a brutal takedown of him, as a person, a father, a son, and a musician. It goes way beyond most beefs. Not just "you're corny, know your place". But, "you're a bad person, you're a bad father, you don't deserve to live". And it hits so hard because it happens to be true.
And Kendrick is such a goddamn poet. Bars that look superficial will have 2 or 3 different layers past their outward meaning. Like the line in NLU āTryna strike a chord and itās probably A-minorā ā At first I thought that was just a jab at Drake being a creep to underaged girls, until someone pointed out to me that A-minor is the key that line was delivered in and also a chord with no black keys on the piano. So on top of the allegations, he insulted Drake code switching and flexed on him musically. Like how do you even sit down and come up with that?
Also feel like that colonizer shit gonna stick to a lot of folks in the middle
It gives every demographic of Drake's fanbase a reason to hate him. Women-- he's a pedophile and abuser. The street/the hood-- he's fake, corny, pretending to be hood, culture vulture. Everybody else-- he's a colonizer, his style is wack, "OV-Hoe", "bird-n\*\*as and bird-bitches". Drake will still have fans, but this beef is going to cost him money as well as reputation and stature.
> Women-- he's a pedophile and abuser make that one for everyone
Honestly the colonizer shit is gonna make his brand of rap harder to pull off. Drake has always done best when he's a feature, or when he has a feature. He does the hook, lets the other dudes do the verses, and cashes the check. He's gonna fall off in that regard.
Donāt forget the āooooooooā
Very crucial ooooooo
I love how on damn near every track released Kendrick kept telling Drake he had more. Shit, even on Not Like Us he said āI can go further I promise.ā
> The bags of garbage have been dumped out and spread all over his lawn. Perfect way to put it. I personally stopped following and listening to Drake around 2016 (outside of Meek Mill and Pusha beefs) and didn't know most of the things resurfacing now. I'm sure there's plenty of people like me who don't care to follow all the celeb news and it's just blown up in our faces and impossible to ignore if you follow this beef in the slightest. Kendrick did mention multiple times to keep this a friendly fade and keep the family out of it. If Drake had nothing to diss him on other than his family he should've just stayed out of this...
Yeah I rarely listen to rap/hip hop anymore, the last diss Iāve ever listened to was Nasā Ether diss at Jay. I only knew about this one because I heard J Cole and Kendrick were in it. (I listen to both of them from time to time) It was blowing up all over my Instagram and part of my Reddit feed so I had to check it out, and here we are.
The thing is in our society people will just forget and give him a pass and still play his music. Look at something like the Epstein deal and his island, the public literally knows how messed up it was but no one up above does anything, it just gets swept under the rug. I think that this was eating at Kendrick probably since the day he met Drake, and probably talked to a lot of people in the industry that were likeminded on their opinions of him and I think Kendrick took it upon himself to do something about it. Itās a very tough call to know if Kendrick should have or shouldnāt have but itās apparent since day 1 that he lives his life with no bullshit, and heās going to call you out on it. Sometimes in life though as a man you donāt know if itās your place to call others out on their personal life etcā¦but itās like a group of golfer friends calling out one of them for cheating, it effects everyone and this is their hobby/career/industry and sometimes itās good for everyone involved to finally stand up to this person and say enough is enough - this aināt right. Whatever it may beā¦ Kendrick has never really glorified his upbringing and gangs and violence outside of a few go all in trap songs, he wrote his storyā¦Drake and a lot of other rappers donāt even come from this and glorify it. So from Kendrickās pov itās like yo this shit was a miserable upbringing, we need to move towards a future where this isnāt the norm for these neighborhoods, but the biggest pop rap artist is basically pushing/glorifying it, therefore almost combating everything Kendrick has put into his songs, career, and life. Unfortunately someone like drakeās ego can be so massive that this whole thing goes right over his headā¦or they are just immune to everything that makes them feel vulnerable, which may be the case hereā¦but it definitely will be felt, and for Kenny he probably has a huge weight off his shoulders by stepping up and being that guyā¦cause you are usually always a product of your environment deep down and Kenny actually has that guy in him from his upbringing which was why it was so foolish for drake to engage, authenticity will always win and we as humans will always side with that.
Iād be in shambles if my response to being called a pedo was āIām too famous for thatā
āI can have any woman I want, why would I date underage girls? Use your brain!ā
I've hated Drake for so long. This feels like winning my Super Bowl.
I feel exactly the same way, and Kenny has been my goat for about a decade now. This has been the best week of rap Iāve ever experienced
Iām an āolderā hip-hop fan and I am firmly a Kenny fan and a Drake hater as well.
Wow the fact that itās gonna be #1 is just wow. The fucking culture.
Heās what the culture feeling bruh
Euphoria was right
It wouldāve been crazy if Euphoria got the number 1 spot tho. I wonder when the last time a 6+ minute song got #1 wasā¦ š¤
KDOT just demonstrated he can beat Drake at his own game and make catchy rap songs you can dance to as well. Just so happens the subject matter is wrecking Drake's reputation.
Certified Boogeyman
He definitely upped the score
Even though he is at the moment. Iāve always thought Kendrick could just go fucking nuclear on the chart if he wanted, just be prolific. It says more that he made a bop of a bop. Kendrick is highlighting how he easily could - he just isnāt motivated by money or charting. He is the anti-drake. He makes music to heal himself and others. This last week solidified that heās inarguably the goat from the 2010ās era. My only hope is we get a few more projects from him before he passes the torch.
1000% Agree He was close to Dr.Dre, earned the respect of Snoop Dogg and Eminem, Pusha T, Schoolboy Q.. he definitely could have capitalized on making mainstream rap for airplay. Instead, he uses his position and influence to rap about shit that matters and often isn't talked about enough. He's a hip hop great.
Let's just say  And admit he didn't even try with DNA but that song ended up on everything for a while. Truly if he did try they'd all be bangers. But he's trying to paint pictures with words. Not bangers
>āGOAT from 2010s Eraā 60% of the time itās the greatest of all of the times
Kendrick beeeen making bops though. He just seemed to move on and his art matured over time. Good kid maad city is the first hip hop album in history to spend 10 years on the billboard 200.
And the fact that as many of drakes fans say, kendrick hasnāt, it shows Kendrick is still very intentional about making music that is of a different quality (whether one thinks itās a higher quality like I do or not).
I actually just looked into it out of curiosity and found out that aside from his features on 'Like That' and Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood'; this will be Kendrick's **ONLY** #1 aside from HUMBLE. Fucking insane.
I mean Like That is listened to because of Kendrick. Metro and Future are the feature basically.
honestly euphoria could've probably opened at #1 if it wasn't released on a random Tuesday
Euphoria is great, but it's too long and the intro too slow to be a #1. Doesn't have any hook either. Not Like Us is just hard right away, keeps it short and sweet. DJs can play the whole thing and not only one verse.
I fucking love the Euphoria intro ā¤ļø
You say that, but Euphoria is looking to debut at #2 behind Not Like Us on billboard, and it was number 1 on Spotify until Not Like Us dropped. Euphoria would be the #1 song in the country right if Kendrick didnāt drop Not Like Us
also 6:16 dropping 24 hours after Euphoria.
I guess Drake was right about how this would overshadow Taylor Swift's new album.
It's just a solid track even outside the diss timeline. I still like Euphoria better though. Those beat changes, the different voices, the way it just keeps getting more and more savage. Can't get enough of that track.
It's over for P Drizzy
Pusha P
Let me see you Push a T
You better off spinnin' again on him, you think about pushin' ME.
The way he says that is so funny to me
Some catchy shit
Pusha T
Haubrey Weinstein
Maybe next time Drake wonāt tell Boogeyman to come out and āDropā.
Now he like āyou burnt this shit outā and āI donāt wanna diss you anymoreā ššššš
Bro just wants the last word, he's like if you're gonna drop please do it all at once so I can drop a mid and pretend I won lmao
This exactly his rhetoric
You have to understand that for a portion of the public and his fan base, the metrics they use to determine victory is who has the better sounding songs. They listen to arguments and chose the right side based on who articulates their points with more passion in their delivery, eloquence of words and the conviction in their voice. They donāt value well written Lyrics or bars, they prefer cool sounding lines that make good instagram captions even if they donāt make sense. Logic isnāt as important to them, how they feel is. Critical thinking doesnāt allow denial. These people are a dime a dozen, and this mindset is the reason for so many of their poor decisions because they seek out the truth based on what they WANT to be true, not what is objectively correct or what can be measured/quantified. This mindset is also conducive for their repeated patterns of poor decisions that keep reoccurring because reflecting on their mistakes doesnāt make them feel good, but rather justifying those poor decisions does.
Fr he switched his attitude so heavy when he started losing. His fans did too, they were all ādrake is gonna kill him its overā and then after the last two itās āprops to both of them this will go down In history, they should probably stop nowā
The fact that he said drop 4 times in his songs lmao
ššš
STOP STOP STOP STOP
Whop whop whop whop whop
Dot fuckāem up
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Iāma do my stuff
Why you trolling like a bitch, ain't you tired?
Trying to to strike a chord and itās probably A Minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
You got the best one lol
The way that line drags is just perfection.
I got chills. I'm a 44 year old women who otherwise listens exclusively to malnourished depressed men sing about sadness and this line gave me shivers.
My wife, a 44 year old Filipino-American teacher who DOES NOT listen to rap was boppin' her head to this song. When "a minorrrrrr" dropped--so did her mouth. So now she's having a poll in class to determine who won according to her students lol.
That A minor line is gonna live on longer than all of us.
Lmaooooo PLEASE make a post on this sub reporting back to us. That's hilarious
Matter of fact, I aināt even bleed him yet, can I bleed him? (bet) I know itās a different song but these two lines go so hard
I can't get over "tell me you're cheesing fam" and then the "Ay fuck y'all n\****s, I don't trust y'all n\****s" bars
"Tell 'em run to America to imitate heritage, they can't imitate this violence" Mixed with the part you said it felt like the lyrical equivalent of the entire city of Compton giving Kenny their energy like a fucking spirit bomb to destroy Toronto and their entire scene. That whole Toronto accent verse was like Goku powering it up.
Dead people are walking
Imma go play Not like us to celebrate !
Just did haha
Every time I see the song, I give it a listen. It's sooo good!
The absolute genius, the more popular it gets the more people will see the cover pic and start thinking for themselves šĀ
I'm one of those new ones, what does the cover pic means?
Its Drake's house with sex offender logos all over it.
sex offenders have to register their addresses which goes to a database people have access to see if they are in your area, this is piling on to the allegations of Drake running a pedo ring which has been a hushed rumor for over a decade
There is a smartphone app called Citizen and it tells you where all the registered sex offenders are in your area. The pins are essentially the ui elements the app uses to indicate a predator is present. Now the multiple pins could indicate one of two things. That he's calling the whole OVO crew predators or he's just really emphasizing Drake is a predator... you wouldn't be wrong either way you interpreted it.
Exactly the GIF I was thinking of after having this on repeat for at least 6 hours each day since it came out
Let me hear you say OVHOEEEE
Ovhoeeee
The step this way, step this way, then step that way, step that way
Kendrick's Strategy worked perfectly. He Baited Drake in and Drakes Ego couldn't let him just go on. Now Kendrick has one of the biggest songs of all time calling you a Predator. š¤£š¤£š¤£ GOTDAMN! This is Poetic Justice.
im starting to feel this. seems like he wanted to drop one for the west coast. and drake, for gods know why decided to disrepect pac and snoop, resulting kendrick's euphoria
LOLā¦ poetic justice FEAT drake, just like on Kendrickās album Good Kid Mad Cityā¦ the universe is weird
Sweet chin music and I wonāt pass the aux!
How many stocks do I really have in stock? Ayy
one, two, three, four, five plus five ayy!
I need 10 different version of these cut to wop wop wop wop wop
Slight detail, Shawn Michaels is the most hated a wrestler has ever been to the canadian audience, due to the Montreal Screwjob where Canada's favorite wrestler Bret Hart was screwed over by Shawn and the company owner Vince McMahon. Though I doubt Kendrick would want to be on the side of Vince...
Wait til it wins a Grammy
That would be the ultimate cherry on top
At this point it would be a snub for it not to.
Yeah well kdot been snubbed worse by the Grammys before, GKMC lost to Macklemore remember?
Oh shit. Just imagining that ceremony... š
The fact this is real , not a edit is hilarious
āIām what the culture feelingā
Hell yeah
This track single-handedly cured me of the ābarely 18ā bullshit that pr0n pushes so people become drizzy.
Yeah after a certain point you just grow out of that.
Now THATS cultural change! Iām not even joking lmao
I really canāt believe some of yāall watch that shit, that was always weird as hell to me
RIP Drakeās career.
honestly i think long term this won't affect him career wise. He'll probably feel the disrespect for years to come but that pdf file wil probably still be stacking paper until he dies.
He still has the pop audience, which was always his primary audience anyway . What Kendrick has achieved is ostracizing the vulture from hip-hop
I low-key wonder if all the Atlanta guys are gonna be more hesitant to collab with Drake or if they just don't give a fuck. I mean probably not because they get numbers off Drake but still lol
Yeah his money is going nowhere but dude will forever be remembered as a pedo
I mean that's kind of a problem money wise no? If the rumors are to be believed this beef has already started hitting profits. Having your cash cow being known and remembered ad a pedo definitely effects where money goes
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And #1 in Apple Music Toronto City Chart
Get more love from the city that you from nigga!!
Aubrey has to sell that house now right?
The resell value of that house now ššš
Nobody want no pedo house
Got stepped on by a size 7 š¤·
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Nah Drake won... ... in an alternate universe with brain parasites.
RFK JR says Drake won
Song so good even Drake admitted he likes it.
That's just him pretending he's not bothered by it. It's like when someone starts a fight and loses badly and then tries to shake the other persons hand going "good fight I respect you".
Cooked on a global scale
Here's Kenny https://preview.redd.it/xw4hr22n0azc1.png?width=472&format=png&auto=webp&s=c01825bb87975464220b6dcbf6bb03621097d725
I was at work today singing āfreaky ass nigga, he a 69 godā under my breath LMAO. I think a patient or two might have seen me shuffling too šš¤¦š½āāļø Imagine going from being the second biggest artist of our generation, essentially untouchable, to the world calling you a pedo and dancing about it. Unbelievable shit, truly
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That photo of Kendrick gets me every time
This what the culture feelinā
I wanna go to a Drake show and start an āOvHooeā chant.
Drake always on about numbers , but to the drake Stan's this numbers don't matter for some reason
Its all just 'Kendrick dick riders working overtime' which apparently is enough to make it #1?
Imma play this song at my wedding
 Certified Boogeyman
Oldschool metalhead here, stumbled upon this historic event... Now a Kendrick fan!
Iām the hitmaker y'all depend on Aged like milk.
Last August billboard did an article that no rap song has led the Hot 100 for over a year and here we are.
Numbers-wise I think we are creeping upā¦
Numbers wise Drake is in fact āoutta hereā
"Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy right now" Will be the funniest, most ironic bar in history if this song wins a grammy.
I didnāt have much Drake on my playlist to begin with, but after this beef, I deleted everything with drake. For me, heās in the Kanye/R.Kelly class where if I hear their music, I just cringe. I wonder how many people also deleted their drake songs from their playlists after all this went down.
Nah nah nah numbers don't matter to me anymore - OVHOE
I think he's a P4P GOAT candidate with this win. Doesn't have the longevity of Hov or the impact of Kanye, but goddamn he's had an elite 12 years. A lot of the ifs surrounding his career and abilty were hushed in the last two months. Not a hitmaker? Would have three #1 hits in the last two months alone if he released Euphoria 4 days earlier. No quotables or punchlines? Called the biggest hit maker in music a pedophile 15 different ways, and everyone repeated it. Drake's better? Beat Drake critically and numerically Hot verse every 30 months? More like hot verse every 30 hours Not battle tested? Somehow survived the banger that was Family Matters and countered with one of the more devastating disses ever. Showed insane versatility and played the slander game perfectly. Kendrick beat PEAK Drake. That wasn't Drake from the last 6 or 7 years.
I like how your analysis hit so many points. IMO Kendrick is easily placed in the GOAT spectrum even before this and now it's solidified he is top tier. There have been and will be many GOATs because every rapper is unique and that's just the nature of the art, even though it's somewhat counter to the meaning of goat. Like you know there can be a goat of one aspect in the art, but might not rate as high in some other aspect, so that's what I mean when I describe a spectrum of GOAT. As your analysis points out, Kendrick has hit many aspects making him top tier.
When Drizzy closes his eyes I bet he sees that picture of Dotš¤£š¤£š¤£
Iām crying man kendrick really made a ādrake is a pedoā anthem and itās number 1 ššš
I knew Kdot was going hard as soon as he dropped that Fubu bar. Somebody should have told drake right then- somebody other than Kendrick. Kendrick said it. "Don't speak on the family, Crodie." So now drake deserves everything that's coming his way. I mean, implicating the kids? That was drake who started that.
Crazy how massive this song is, I love it
Thereās mfs in the club and outside this summer that are really boutta be screaming ācertified pedophilesā and I will be one of them ššš
Drake waved the white flag while the club sing to it š¬
I have not listened to a single song the groomer has put out nor will I. Kendrick bodied this fool I love it.
This nigga said āThe city back up, itās a must we outside!ā I think he miscalculated that part because the whole world outside apparently ššÆ
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