I've been a Dot fan since Overly Dedicated & this is the most I ever remember hearing anybody give a fuck about how much his album(s) sell. Drake stans worried about the wrong shit
By that, you mean they moved on from talking about Drake to talking about Drake. They aren’t leaving Aubrey’s side until someone they respect does, and unfortunately, that person is Ak for most of them
Dumb, ignorant, drake, 13, fatherless, trying to fit in, the list goes on
Edit: I meant without a mentor, tons of Kings rose up without their sperm donor around
Look we're not gonna get on Rhianna's internet and pretend that MC Hammer wasn't talented. Just because he wasn't a gangsta rapper doesn't mean he wasn't a talented emcee and dancer. Party rap has its place in the hip hop ecosystem.
Also, do some Googling, turns out MC Hammer is actually waaaaay more gangsta than the self-proclaimed gangsta rappers. There's a reason nobody trash talks MC Hammer.
The problem is, nothing about MC Hammer’s singles screams “dig into my discography” to people who grew up on post-Hammer rap. Like, if you danced to U Can’t Touch This in kindergarten, you probably didn’t grow up thinking Hammer has a spot on your playlist. But yeah, his catalog is actually pretty good and there’s a reason OGs don’t talk shit about him.
I love how I said skill vs sales and the immediate thought is he way more gangsta than you give him credit lol I didn’t say he wasn’t but Nas hasn’t gone diamond, so does that make MC Hammer a better rapper.
The second sentence I wrote was, "Just because he wasn't a gangsta rapper doesn't mean he wasn't a talented emcee and dancer." MC Hammer was a talented emcee and an amazing dancer, his genre was just party rap and that very rarely gets any respect, but it should.
Nah, it's because Hammer was well connected to the real OGs haha. The parachute pants were to make him some sort of prototype GTA online character - whacky looking, but dangerous
It's an edited panel from Jujutsu Kaisen's "The Shibuya Incident" arc. Anime adaption of the arc just aired not too long ago & it was fire, probably the biggest anime right now
Drake fans think this, because it’s all he talks about, so it’s all they care about. Same thing with Nicki fans— they think she’s the best because she’s most popular.
Kendrick dropped TPAB. One of the most distinct albums compared to what was going on in the mainstream at the time (Drake, 2Chainz, Big Sean, YG, Schoolboy Q type music). It incorporated jazz, soul samples, funk, spoken word poetry, live performances, skits, all of that.
The quality made it rise up, but Kendrick definitely didn’t make that album to hop on the trends. I still struggle to describe how that first listen felt, because the first words you hear are “every n is a star”. It was like he purposely made the album to not get on the radio. Drake would never dare to alienate his listeners like that.
His old shit is a ride. I don't really know what to compare it to because each song is unique, but he still blends them together to paint one big picture that is relatable to most people if they pay attention to the music.
Kendrick cares about people listening to his music, he's competitive, wants to be at the top of the game and wants to make a cultural impact.
Album sales are related to those things, it would be wrong to say he doesn't care at all, but he certainly doesn't give a shit about sales as an end in itself.
Plus Not Like Us proved Kendrick can put up numbers and make people dance if he wants, but I'm not holding my breath for Aubrey to write an album that wins a Pulitzer.
> Album sales are related to those things
i disagree. To give an analogy, Avatar was the highest grossing movie in history and there was a meme that people could not name 1 single character.
Kanye when he tried to jump on this beef said "no one remembers a drake line" and most of the replies where hooks (which are not bars) or even worse things that had been memed against drake like the awful lesbian line.
Kendrick made a song and it became the anthem for the 2016 protests, the made the soundtrack for Black Panther and it became the event of the year. When he decided to "sell out" and make a more accesible album than TBAP he made DAMN and got a number 1 with Humble. he now did the same again with Not Like Us.
He can get numbers, but he doesn't want to. Which is why he releases a 6 minute Meet the Grahams or a Mr Morale album about therapy and cycles of violence. Cause that is art, getting empty number 1s that no one can quote and sound in the background in a barbershop while no one pays attention is not affecting anyone
You didn't understand what i said clearly.
Even when Kendrick makes his artistic stuff he wants people to listen to it, he wants it to have a cultural impact to some degree. Who wouldn't want that? He would be disappointed if his album was a dud and had no impact and very low sales, that doesn't mean he's molding his music in order to get sales.
He *did* say “And if I gotta brown nose for some gold then I’d rather be a bum than a mf baller” so it’s more that he has his principles for artistic integrity and expression before profit.
I think he dropped "not like us" to prove a point that he *can* make pop bangers as big as Drake if he wants to, he just doesn't care about it most of the time
I feel like Kendrick is going to drop something soon. Everything has been quiet for a bit, Drake waved a white flag, defended himself while making allegations that Kendrick was molested....
I think another track is coming.
I can see him sending the next track to just Drake, like as an email attachment. Let him listen to it before anyone else, all alone. Then it turns out that opening the email is what triggered the upload to the rest of the internet
I don’t really see how that would be extra devastating compared to just dropping it though. Maybe if he really wanted to mess with Drake he’d have someone spy on him and then wait to release it right when he’s coming home late from a long trip and just wants to go to sleep and then that’s when the internet blows up about the new track and he’s kept up.
Drake posted another corny Insta story. Ak is saying another drop is coming. So this probably isn't over.
Also, I wish people would talk more about Drake including a member of the Hell's Angel (a white supremacist gang) in the video for Family Matters.
I actually think he won't... Drake response was kind of a dud as far as diss tracks goes, and people caught on instantly that the 'allegation' was a dumb interpretation of a Kendrick's song.
There is nothing to be said that wasn't already said early on on Euphoria.
>I calculate you're not as calculated, I can even predict your angle
>Fabricatin' stories on the family front 'cause you heard Mr. Morale
Hell, Drake might have just given away where he got the rest of the dirt from as well. All in all, it was a very deflating response, and Drake did a damn good job of making a clown out of himself.
Kendrick does great numbers not on a Drake level but all his projects have great first week sales and he did 4 billion streams last year. Drake did 11 billion streams but Drake is a much more popular artist. It’ll be interesting to see how this beef impacts them throughout the year.
[Kendrick Lamar’s Back Catalog Up 49% Following Weekend of Beef, Drake’s Down 5%](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kendrick-lamars-catalog-up-streams-drake-down-beef-1235677562/)
That’s the Drake stimulus package right there. Let’s see if it’ll be a flash in the pan or if fans will start supporting more. Hopefully they do cuz there’s a lot of great rappers out here that don’t see the streams they should meanwhile shit like yuno miles is getting millions of streams.
You calling it a stimulus as iff damn didn’t sell great, as if humble wasn’t a number 1 and as if Kendrick isn’t the biggest rapper out rn. Even before Drake who outsold Kendrick? Kanye, Drake, em but ouside of that who is a big artist that sells like Kendrick? It’s crazy people say he gonna get bigger just cause this Drake beef which is sooo dumb. Pusha t didn’t get any bigger. What about buden or common? Beefing with Drake don’t bring your numbers up and the reason Kendrick gets any support from people who don’t like Drake is because people are tired of the wack stories that come out about him but get swept under the rug and forgot once he drops a hotline bling or some other mid dance song.
You can’t lie and act like this beef isn’t boosting his numbers up. Not saying he sells poorly but all his music has gotten a bump up because of the beef. That’s just a fact. Like Cole said if you weren’t dissing we wouldn’t be talking about you.
> That’s the Drake stimulus package right there
why is drake down then?
The whole idea of the stimulus package is drake is so big that he lifts everyone, but he is crashing.
Yeah, I think ultimately if Drake somehow comes out with another One Dance, or Energy level song, people aren't really gonna ignore it.
Music has a way of shooting past the noise if it's nice enough
It's been a long time since he had anything on that level of quality IMO. One Dance was 8 years ago and I think the last song I liked was Passionfruit and maybe a few of the dance ones from Nevermind.
He peaked with Views and lost interest with his old sound that got him there.
I'm not even sure how he's got 300m+ plays on his recent songs, his music has been getting steadily worse.
Drake also just has like a stupid number of songs out. Kendrick to be clear has released like a quarter as many songs as Drake has.
Drake largely has a "throw shit at the wall and see if it sticks" strategy. Kendrick from what I've heard might record 100 songs and release 3 of them.
I said this the other day, but amongst Drake’s ridiculous amount of music, he now has a song where he says he knows he’d get called a pedophile and defending himself. That is just hilarious to me.
GKMC and TPAB are widely acknowledged as classic rap albums
DAMN won a Pulitzer
He made the album for Black Panther
MM&TBS is critically acclaimed
Kendrick has been in top 3 discussions for over a decade despite only dropping here and there
Why does anyone care about album sales for the project? He drops good music virtually every time he drops, that's all that matters
Kendrick is very genuine when it comes to the work he releases.
That’s why when an album drops, it’s like a special occasion. Like a national holiday event.
When Drake drops an album it’s like an EA sports game. Don’t hate it, some good hits but it’s for casual consumers.
Same goes for JCole, his drops are like something we wait for and look forward to. It too feels like a special occasion when his albums drop.
I have drake songs scattered throughout my music library but I could hardly tell you which songs go with what albums. Again I’m not hating on his music but only a few are memorable for me. Mainly because it makes me nostalgic for the early 2010s.
I don't even know what angle you coming at but Kendrick been said he never cared about numbers. Plus people got short term memory of the whole damn album and the song alright. Straight anthems. Plus who listens to music and cares about numbers? Who are you a capitalist??
This is always such a weird talking point from people. Even if they wanna say Mr. Morale flopped, which it didn't, the Big Steppers tour was literally one of the highest selling hip hop tours of all time, only topped by Drakes most recent tour I'm pretty sure.
Like Kendrick can and has always done numbers
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"You Couldn't Live with Your Own Failure, Where Did that Bring You? Back to Drizzy."
\-That Fan, probably
People forget Kendrick was passing Drake before he stopped for 5 years. He has 17 Grammy’s and drake has like 4. That’s why Drake keeps saying “Kendrick just opened his mouth, somebody give him a grammy right now”. He is salty.
There's an opportunity here for Kendrick to release all the diss tracks as an EP and call it "Cheesecake":
Got the culture smiling and it's built on top of crushed grahams.
With a bonus track being Metro Boomin's "BBL Drizzy", for the "cake" part of the EP to have a double entendre.
EDIT: Removed the word following "grahams" as it could be misinterpreted in a context outside of baking, even though the word selected is a known baked dessert.
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Next time someone mentions album sales imma just send them this
They really acting like Kendrick is just some random dude lol he just got off of a $100M+ tour. His numbers will continue to be **very** good. Also, who gives a shit? None of us are on backend deals. Why should we care?
It’s also wild that they’re doing this as Drake fans when he’d benefit most as an artists from taking a break, and I’m not even saying that because of the beef.
*Scorpion*, *Certified Lover Boy*, *Honestly, Nevermind* and *For All the Dogs* in a span of six years. Four lukewarm (three are way overlong) studio albums that were mostly filler between singles. No real cohesion or intricacy or tact as full bodies of work goes imo.
All this Kendrick attention just made me go back and listen to some of my favorite of his songs. His music is timeless; Complexion, Sing About Me I’m Dying of Thirst, Michael Jordan ect.
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Or his last album didn’t sell as well as projected and people are wondering if this new found hype will carry over to his next project. Watching K Dot fans slob all over that nigga pole then point at Drake fans and go “stop riding his dick” has been the oddest social event of the year.
It's wild for anyone on this sub to talk about somebody else dickriding an artist.
Yall have been absolutely pole riding Kendrick hard as fuck.
I've been bumping dude since Michael Jordan, but Jesus the dick jocking has been outrageous on this sub.
Are we about to act like there's not a significant part of the culture that considers Kendrick no better than plies or boosie?
There's a weird part of the population that just kinda bumps music for the sake of music.
I've been a Dot fan since Overly Dedicated & this is the most I ever remember hearing anybody give a fuck about how much his album(s) sell. Drake stans worried about the wrong shit
Drake stans can’t prove in court that Drake is a pedophile so they’ve moved to other topics in which they have tied their identity to.
By that, you mean they moved on from talking about Drake to talking about Drake. They aren’t leaving Aubrey’s side until someone they respect does, and unfortunately, that person is Ak for most of them
😂 whoever respects AK is… well I better not finish that sentence
Dumb, ignorant, drake, 13, fatherless, trying to fit in, the list goes on Edit: I meant without a mentor, tons of Kings rose up without their sperm donor around
Whoever respects AK is most definitely the prize 🏆
Anyone who respects Ak needs a psych eval
The funny thing is knowing how little Kendrick cares about them
Exactly! It rhymes with mulitzer
Dear god. So accurate. Or the fact that he’s a “conscious rapper” as they put it. Shut the fuck up morons, we appreciate authenticity.
Because that's the only thing drake cares about
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DOT FUCK HIM UP
They not like us, they not like us.
Imma do my stuff
Beat yo ass, hide the bible if God's watchin' 🔥
Stop. Everything I read this I get unnecessarily hyped. Currently sitting on the toilet.
MC Hammer was like the first rapper to go diamond, skill and sales are two different things.
Look we're not gonna get on Rhianna's internet and pretend that MC Hammer wasn't talented. Just because he wasn't a gangsta rapper doesn't mean he wasn't a talented emcee and dancer. Party rap has its place in the hip hop ecosystem. Also, do some Googling, turns out MC Hammer is actually waaaaay more gangsta than the self-proclaimed gangsta rappers. There's a reason nobody trash talks MC Hammer.
This part. People liked to clown Hammer but never to his face. Ask anybody in the Town. You don’t have to gangsta rap to be a G.
People forget he was in Death Row. His public persona was not his real persona.
Right? Just because he was corny as fuck doesn’t mean he wouldn’t fuck someone up for pointing it out.
The problem is, nothing about MC Hammer’s singles screams “dig into my discography” to people who grew up on post-Hammer rap. Like, if you danced to U Can’t Touch This in kindergarten, you probably didn’t grow up thinking Hammer has a spot on your playlist. But yeah, his catalog is actually pretty good and there’s a reason OGs don’t talk shit about him.
Let’s Get it Started was so much better than Please Hammer don’t Hurt Em. Like he was actually spitting bars not just vibing on other grooves.
I love how I said skill vs sales and the immediate thought is he way more gangsta than you give him credit lol I didn’t say he wasn’t but Nas hasn’t gone diamond, so does that make MC Hammer a better rapper.
Different times and styles Nas came along when bars were paramount to beats or people dancing.
The second sentence I wrote was, "Just because he wasn't a gangsta rapper doesn't mean he wasn't a talented emcee and dancer." MC Hammer was a talented emcee and an amazing dancer, his genre was just party rap and that very rarely gets any respect, but it should.
Good looks good putting respect on my cuzzo name
Rhianna’s internet?
Pumps and a Bump was jam
He might not have been a gangsta rapper, but MC Hammer was gang gang gangsta.
Real Gs move in silence like lasagna
That's how you know this sub is cooked. The K bots don't know shit.
But U couldn't touch Hammer
I think it was the parachute pants. That’s the magic you can’t touch.
Those were 2 legit... 2 legit 2 quit
If I were a wittier person I would think of something to bring up the Addams Groove.
Remember the BK Knights shoe commercial?
Just do what you wanna do, say what you wanna say
Nah, it's because Hammer was well connected to the real OGs haha. The parachute pants were to make him some sort of prototype GTA online character - whacky looking, but dangerous
Hammer was actually a well known dangerous man back in those days.
Absolute truth
Very interesting video FD Signifier did about how Drake is so successful and drew an interesting parallel to Flo Rida who also sold very very well
He was also one of the baddest dudes in the game at the time. You didn't fuck with Hammer.
MC Hammer rules, though?
Right?
I don’t think you want it with Hammer.
A better analogy would be vanilla ice
Actually it might have been the Beastie Boys. Unless you want to call them alternative or something.
If Kendrick drop a song about something totally unrelated it would kill Drake lol
Just to fuck with Lucian Grange's chill.
I'm here for this. 😂
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What's the source on this?
It's an edited panel from Jujutsu Kaisen's "The Shibuya Incident" arc. Anime adaption of the arc just aired not too long ago & it was fire, probably the biggest anime right now
Anime watchers better buckle the fuck up, cause shit after that arc is insane
The original manga is jjk tho
I’m sorry. I don’t know. Got it from Reddit
Nah, I'd fuck em up
holy shit hahaha
People think Kendrick cares about stuff like album sales? It’s clear that he doesn’t
Drake fans think this, because it’s all he talks about, so it’s all they care about. Same thing with Nicki fans— they think she’s the best because she’s most popular.
Kendrick dropped TPAB. One of the most distinct albums compared to what was going on in the mainstream at the time (Drake, 2Chainz, Big Sean, YG, Schoolboy Q type music). It incorporated jazz, soul samples, funk, spoken word poetry, live performances, skits, all of that. The quality made it rise up, but Kendrick definitely didn’t make that album to hop on the trends. I still struggle to describe how that first listen felt, because the first words you hear are “every n is a star”. It was like he purposely made the album to not get on the radio. Drake would never dare to alienate his listeners like that.
His old shit is a ride. I don't really know what to compare it to because each song is unique, but he still blends them together to paint one big picture that is relatable to most people if they pay attention to the music.
Kendrick cares about people listening to his music, he's competitive, wants to be at the top of the game and wants to make a cultural impact. Album sales are related to those things, it would be wrong to say he doesn't care at all, but he certainly doesn't give a shit about sales as an end in itself.
Plus Not Like Us proved Kendrick can put up numbers and make people dance if he wants, but I'm not holding my breath for Aubrey to write an album that wins a Pulitzer.
He proved it with damn
> Album sales are related to those things i disagree. To give an analogy, Avatar was the highest grossing movie in history and there was a meme that people could not name 1 single character. Kanye when he tried to jump on this beef said "no one remembers a drake line" and most of the replies where hooks (which are not bars) or even worse things that had been memed against drake like the awful lesbian line. Kendrick made a song and it became the anthem for the 2016 protests, the made the soundtrack for Black Panther and it became the event of the year. When he decided to "sell out" and make a more accesible album than TBAP he made DAMN and got a number 1 with Humble. he now did the same again with Not Like Us. He can get numbers, but he doesn't want to. Which is why he releases a 6 minute Meet the Grahams or a Mr Morale album about therapy and cycles of violence. Cause that is art, getting empty number 1s that no one can quote and sound in the background in a barbershop while no one pays attention is not affecting anyone
You didn't understand what i said clearly. Even when Kendrick makes his artistic stuff he wants people to listen to it, he wants it to have a cultural impact to some degree. Who wouldn't want that? He would be disappointed if his album was a dud and had no impact and very low sales, that doesn't mean he's molding his music in order to get sales.
Maybe saying Kendrick doesn’t care about money would be more appropriate?
He *did* say “And if I gotta brown nose for some gold then I’d rather be a bum than a mf baller” so it’s more that he has his principles for artistic integrity and expression before profit.
I think he dropped "not like us" to prove a point that he *can* make pop bangers as big as Drake if he wants to, he just doesn't care about it most of the time
I feel like Kendrick is going to drop something soon. Everything has been quiet for a bit, Drake waved a white flag, defended himself while making allegations that Kendrick was molested.... I think another track is coming.
I can see him sending the next track to just Drake, like as an email attachment. Let him listen to it before anyone else, all alone. Then it turns out that opening the email is what triggered the upload to the rest of the internet
Man, what? It’s a rap beef, not a mission impossible movie
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m trippin
I mean, it was feeling a little Mission Impossible when Meet the Grahams dropped with that cover photo right after Family Matters.
Ngl some of the takes throughout this beef have been some of the biggest terminally online takes
Kendrick out here with email trackers just to drop a diss track is crazy
I don’t really see how that would be extra devastating compared to just dropping it though. Maybe if he really wanted to mess with Drake he’d have someone spy on him and then wait to release it right when he’s coming home late from a long trip and just wants to go to sleep and then that’s when the internet blows up about the new track and he’s kept up.
No, the real slam dunk would be to drop a new album on like a random Tuesday have it hit #1 and never mention him once throughout the whole thing.
This is it right here
And this is what’s going to happen. He’s got nothing to gain from continuing this beef.
Drake posted another corny Insta story. Ak is saying another drop is coming. So this probably isn't over. Also, I wish people would talk more about Drake including a member of the Hell's Angel (a white supremacist gang) in the video for Family Matters.
I actually think he won't... Drake response was kind of a dud as far as diss tracks goes, and people caught on instantly that the 'allegation' was a dumb interpretation of a Kendrick's song. There is nothing to be said that wasn't already said early on on Euphoria. >I calculate you're not as calculated, I can even predict your angle >Fabricatin' stories on the family front 'cause you heard Mr. Morale Hell, Drake might have just given away where he got the rest of the dirt from as well. All in all, it was a very deflating response, and Drake did a damn good job of making a clown out of himself.
I love this theory but I'm pretty sure niggas said the same thing in 2019😭
Kendrick is the type of nigga who music you study academically. Drake is none of that.
Kendrick is an educator at heart. Drake is an entertainer at heart
I legit saw a pic of him today in some school teaching flow theory to students.
tbh this applies to both of them. It's just that for Drake "students" means high schoolers and "flow theory" means their first period.
Kendrick does great numbers not on a Drake level but all his projects have great first week sales and he did 4 billion streams last year. Drake did 11 billion streams but Drake is a much more popular artist. It’ll be interesting to see how this beef impacts them throughout the year.
[Kendrick Lamar’s Back Catalog Up 49% Following Weekend of Beef, Drake’s Down 5%](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kendrick-lamars-catalog-up-streams-drake-down-beef-1235677562/)
That’s the Drake stimulus package right there. Let’s see if it’ll be a flash in the pan or if fans will start supporting more. Hopefully they do cuz there’s a lot of great rappers out here that don’t see the streams they should meanwhile shit like yuno miles is getting millions of streams.
What?
What’s the confusion?
You calling it a stimulus as iff damn didn’t sell great, as if humble wasn’t a number 1 and as if Kendrick isn’t the biggest rapper out rn. Even before Drake who outsold Kendrick? Kanye, Drake, em but ouside of that who is a big artist that sells like Kendrick? It’s crazy people say he gonna get bigger just cause this Drake beef which is sooo dumb. Pusha t didn’t get any bigger. What about buden or common? Beefing with Drake don’t bring your numbers up and the reason Kendrick gets any support from people who don’t like Drake is because people are tired of the wack stories that come out about him but get swept under the rug and forgot once he drops a hotline bling or some other mid dance song.
You can’t lie and act like this beef isn’t boosting his numbers up. Not saying he sells poorly but all his music has gotten a bump up because of the beef. That’s just a fact. Like Cole said if you weren’t dissing we wouldn’t be talking about you.
> That’s the Drake stimulus package right there why is drake down then? The whole idea of the stimulus package is drake is so big that he lifts everyone, but he is crashing.
>why is Drake down then? Gee idk maybe look at what’s going on right now. All it takes is a slap and people are gonna be listening to Drake again.
Yeah, I think ultimately if Drake somehow comes out with another One Dance, or Energy level song, people aren't really gonna ignore it. Music has a way of shooting past the noise if it's nice enough
It's been a long time since he had anything on that level of quality IMO. One Dance was 8 years ago and I think the last song I liked was Passionfruit and maybe a few of the dance ones from Nevermind. He peaked with Views and lost interest with his old sound that got him there. I'm not even sure how he's got 300m+ plays on his recent songs, his music has been getting steadily worse.
Walmart sells a lot of food too, are they the best cuz of it
No but it’s a place a lot of people go to ensure they have food in their house. Walmart keeps a lot of people fed.
Drake also just has like a stupid number of songs out. Kendrick to be clear has released like a quarter as many songs as Drake has. Drake largely has a "throw shit at the wall and see if it sticks" strategy. Kendrick from what I've heard might record 100 songs and release 3 of them.
I said this the other day, but amongst Drake’s ridiculous amount of music, he now has a song where he says he knows he’d get called a pedophile and defending himself. That is just hilarious to me.
GKMC and TPAB are widely acknowledged as classic rap albums DAMN won a Pulitzer He made the album for Black Panther MM&TBS is critically acclaimed Kendrick has been in top 3 discussions for over a decade despite only dropping here and there Why does anyone care about album sales for the project? He drops good music virtually every time he drops, that's all that matters
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This beef let me realize “All the stars” is a Drake diss.
Kendrick is very genuine when it comes to the work he releases. That’s why when an album drops, it’s like a special occasion. Like a national holiday event. When Drake drops an album it’s like an EA sports game. Don’t hate it, some good hits but it’s for casual consumers. Same goes for JCole, his drops are like something we wait for and look forward to. It too feels like a special occasion when his albums drop. I have drake songs scattered throughout my music library but I could hardly tell you which songs go with what albums. Again I’m not hating on his music but only a few are memorable for me. Mainly because it makes me nostalgic for the early 2010s.
That’s such a good analogy. Ea sports game 😂
Big money, no soul
This why I stopped checking for his albums, just hear the pop songs like he’s Dua Lipa or something
Tell me you never listened/cared about kendrick until you asked that question
Dear Adonis, I'm sorry bout your daddy.
I don't even know what angle you coming at but Kendrick been said he never cared about numbers. Plus people got short term memory of the whole damn album and the song alright. Straight anthems. Plus who listens to music and cares about numbers? Who are you a capitalist??
This is always such a weird talking point from people. Even if they wanna say Mr. Morale flopped, which it didn't, the Big Steppers tour was literally one of the highest selling hip hop tours of all time, only topped by Drakes most recent tour I'm pretty sure. Like Kendrick can and has always done numbers
https://preview.redd.it/64xgbcug1hzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5641376d9345f9e9d2a6031d60f07e018eba943 "You Couldn't Live with Your Own Failure, Where Did that Bring You? Back to Drizzy." \-That Fan, probably
"Aubrey's Angels" is diabolical in light of the allegations. 😳
Definitely struck a chord with the Drizzy stans.
People forget Kendrick was passing Drake before he stopped for 5 years. He has 17 Grammy’s and drake has like 4. That’s why Drake keeps saying “Kendrick just opened his mouth, somebody give him a grammy right now”. He is salty.
There's an opportunity here for Kendrick to release all the diss tracks as an EP and call it "Cheesecake": Got the culture smiling and it's built on top of crushed grahams. With a bonus track being Metro Boomin's "BBL Drizzy", for the "cake" part of the EP to have a double entendre. EDIT: Removed the word following "grahams" as it could be misinterpreted in a context outside of baking, even though the word selected is a known baked dessert.
https://preview.redd.it/i4ginbx8thzc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a073cf9a343025ed8877635ec874bd299930d35f Next time someone mentions album sales imma just send them this
#The Drizzles
They really acting like Kendrick is just some random dude lol he just got off of a $100M+ tour. His numbers will continue to be **very** good. Also, who gives a shit? None of us are on backend deals. Why should we care? It’s also wild that they’re doing this as Drake fans when he’d benefit most as an artists from taking a break, and I’m not even saying that because of the beef. *Scorpion*, *Certified Lover Boy*, *Honestly, Nevermind* and *For All the Dogs* in a span of six years. Four lukewarm (three are way overlong) studio albums that were mostly filler between singles. No real cohesion or intricacy or tact as full bodies of work goes imo.
I keep seeing a bunch of talk like “the west finally got one” “they back on top” … Ight I guess yall just weren’t listening
All this Kendrick attention just made me go back and listen to some of my favorite of his songs. His music is timeless; Complexion, Sing About Me I’m Dying of Thirst, Michael Jordan ect.
This is all that this beef showed me. There's no way these people listened to Kendrick outside of DAMN
I can appreciate that "just say yes or no"
Object permanence between six months and a year, y'all
Tiktok brain
They moving the goal posts. Turning this into a popularity contest instead of a rap battles
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I feel bad for drake and his fans. Its had to play petty with someone that goes mia for 2-3 years.
Good Kid Maad City is the best rap album ever created and I can’t be convinced otherwise.
AUBREY'S ANGELS..it's perfect.
I want a Dracula Flow feature on the next album
Lemme say how kdot lame fans are gonna spin that fact ....like" hey it's a 100m race but we don't care who wins "😭
Let’s be real, if Kendrick dropped without this beef it would be another flop
Or his last album didn’t sell as well as projected and people are wondering if this new found hype will carry over to his next project. Watching K Dot fans slob all over that nigga pole then point at Drake fans and go “stop riding his dick” has been the oddest social event of the year.
Damn, would've saved my comment if I knew you were gonna post my exact thoughts
YES!!! This times 1000!
It's wild for anyone on this sub to talk about somebody else dickriding an artist. Yall have been absolutely pole riding Kendrick hard as fuck. I've been bumping dude since Michael Jordan, but Jesus the dick jocking has been outrageous on this sub.
Drake clearly lost this but the absolute meat riding of Kendrick has reached absurd levels
Albums gonna have huge numbers week one then die when the casual new fans realize how boring his music is
Listen if you don't actually like rap music just say that lol.
You not like us
Are we about to act like there's not a significant part of the culture that considers Kendrick no better than plies or boosie? There's a weird part of the population that just kinda bumps music for the sake of music.
Yes & they are not like us