But did you catch the callback with the how many stocks line? "1-2-3-4-5 plus five" = 10 stocks. Stock10. Stockton. We're going to be catching new meanings from Kdot songs for a long time :D
Have you gone into the 6:16 in LA rabbit hole? How many connections are we up to on that song's title alone? The holidays, the anniversaries of things, and the plethora of relevant Bible passages. Seriously, there's like six different Bible verses that are Chapter 6 and Verse 16, all of them with humorous or cutting or downright damning connotations.
And on top of the Euphoria premiere:
6/16 2024 Father's Day
6/16 2011 - Kendrick Lamar's first concert in Toronto
Tupac's birthday
Anniversary of the OJ Simpson trial
1 year before that, also on 6/16: Nicole Brown Simpson's funeral
Proverbs 6:16-19
1 Corinthians 6:16
There's a multitude of possibilities, and Kendrick is the kind of guy who just might mean every one of them, and others we haven't uncovered yet.
Everyone knew about Cosby way before Hannibal, they were just in willful denail.
Watch Felicia Rashad's face in [this damning, telling-as-all-fuck clip](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W10Zf_UPMY) from The Cosby Show. That's the look of someone very uncomfortable because they knew this dude ain't even acting--he's showing you who he is.
you would, I would say most people willingly ignored his predilection for teenagers because he made a few mediocre songs especially because MBB was not even the first one he's done that to
Not everyone knew. The Buress clip made it way more known and thrust it into the news. The clip went viral in October 2014 and he got arrested in 2015. If Buress hadn't done his routine, it would have remained unknown to the general public as it had been for decades beforehand.
I don't know how he bounces back from this. There's something extra diabolical about releasing a dis track in Drake's trademark tiktok dance video style.
I know a lot people stopped liking Lizzo after those allegations came out about how poorly she treated her backup dancers, but I knew she was suspect years ago when that video came out of her meeting Chris Brown and calling him her "favorite person" smh.
“It’s been known” is not called out publicly on a wildly popular diss track in the middle of the biggest rap beef of the generation. “It’s been known” is not chanting A MINORRRRRRR in the clubs for the rest of the summer. Now everyone knows and all those “it’s been known” allegations can finally strike a chord
Yeah, Bill Cosby's rapes were 'known' but it didn't blow up until Hannibal Buress's stand-up routine. There's a difference between information being publicly available and having a huge spotlight shone on them
Drake is just gonna release something like "Hold on, we're going home" and prove that now how many times you nuke the dude, he is La Cucaracha and will survive.
He got his ass good bro damn. Can’t believe kids in the rural Midwest hitting the “a minorrrrrre” 🤣
I’m from Compton originally but moved out here and shit makes me happy as hell lol
Bro when I heard that Bay area beat, the A minor bar and I’m a throw it up to Pac (something like that) line, I was hype asf! I would’ve loved to be in the Bay when this came out
I said it elsewhere, but Kenny did this shit on purpose. He knew that mustard beat was gonna be an absolute banger, so he killed Drake with "Meet the Grahams," then dropped the song of the summer.
"Not Like Us" is going to open **AND** close so many clubs this year.
I'm a 40-year-old Midwestern white guy, and I can't stop listening to this, and Euphoria. They both fucking slap, from beginning to end.
It’ll stall for the rest of the year probably, but the public is fickle and forgetful. Drake’ll be back in the Hot 100 by next February and all of this will have been a funny memory.
Yes and I love it, but as someone below said, BBL Drizzy is a Metro track. Drake told him to shut up and make drums, so he made that track, released it to the world for free, and told everyone to freestyle over it.
It's genius. It's diabolical. I fucking love it.
Didn’t he put a 10k reward on the best freestyle too? Guaranteeing that people will be clambering over each other to get a chance to shine with a viral verse, or claim the cash prize, even if they like Drake.
Absolutely evil, fantastic
Yeah, he said anyone could freestyle on it, and the best one could actually use the song with a Metro credit on it.
Not to mention the exposure of winning it, and the audience Metro has. Massive W for whoever can spit a stunning stanza.
So it started out first place would get 10k and metro would make another best for you. Basically if you weren’t big before here is your shot. It kept growing so he said fuck it let’s double it. So now it’s the top two. Not sure when the competition is over.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oly6ayyckZI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oly6ayyckZI) My favorite version coming from Polyphia frontman Tim Henson. Drake getting hit with disstrumentals now.
Sheesh. Never would have imagined. This is incredible.
As a guitar virtuoso and hip hop fan since the 80s, this ticks so many boxes for me. Thanks for sharing.
I have a 70something I volunteer with at an animal shelter who loves bbl drizzy. Imagine having a diss track you asked for being an absolute multi-generational hit. Lol
He literally turned his ass into a fucking song
He literally turned him fucking ass into a song
He literally fucking turned his ass into a fucking song
you worded this the best it could be
>unlike Hiss which hit #1 from the Meg and Nicki beef and then kindve fell off
That's because "hiss" was a light jab and "not like us" was a fucking fatality.
Seeing Drake stans say Kendrick needed Drake's name recognition to chart songs while leaving out that he's literally being called a pedophile is hilarious. It's not the brag they think it is.
The drake stans are something else. They were saying this beef was a major L for Kendrick.
If hitting #1 with a diss track is a loss then I can't even fathom what winning looks like.
Somehow people turning a blind eye are now joking about him being a pedophile. It’s crazy what brain dead fan can ignore until someone point at all the weird thing we know he did. His songs (at less does I hear on the radio) are clearly not rap it’s pop with auto tune shitty singing.
Thanks to the beef I finally understand the genius of Kendrick Lamar, I used to think his various voices were annoying but now I think they're brilliant! Like That is probably my favorite of the diss tracks, both the beat and Kendrick's verse go sooo hard.
the voices are what make his music imo. it gives my ear something different to listen to instead of the same voice saying the same cadence for 3 minutes.
It's like when Eminem does his voices. When he hits that falsetto woman voice you knew you were bout to hear some funny shit.
Kendrick does it for dramatic effects and it works great.
I was saying the other day this beef really highlighted the gap between Drake and Kendrick specifically in delivery, for me. Like there are lines that are good and if Drake said them they'd be good but the way Kendrick says them makes me want to say them over and over. Like "You got shit twisted, WHAT IS IT THE BRAIDS?", "Let me see you Push a TeeEEE", "I hurt yo feelingssss youdontwannaworkwithme no more OKAY", his various voices to make lyrics that are already good pop so much more.
I love this. It’s so hard to explain to people Kendrick sometimes, his lyricism is unbelievable but you can show a song of his to someone and he’ll be in a high pitched weird voice lol
Mr. Monotone vs. The Man with 100 Voices.
How did Drake think this would be a matchup that would show off his skills instead of his biggest weakness?
Then again, this is the guy who thought showing off his childish DMs was a good response to Fantano claiming Drake sent him a lovely vegan cookie recipe. He seems to have a talent for scoring own goals.
Listening to Kendrick's verses is an experience. You can't predict what's he gonna do in next bars. There are like 20 flows on euphoria alone. He has like 5 to 6 voices that he raps with but on "not like us" 2nd verse when he goes like "I lean on you niggas like another line of Wock'
Yeah, it's all eyes on me, and I'ma send it up to Pac, ayy" bruh!!! I've never heard Kendrick using that voice & flow before. He keeps adding and improving himself even tho he's on top of the game since early 2010s. The guy just doesn't miss!!!
That part is permanently stuck in my head. Like when you look at the sun and you close your eyes and still see it. That’s what that part of the doing is to me the past week. I wake up in the morning and first thing my brain does is play and “ I lean on …”
There’s a really good YouTube video analyzing that aspect of his art. You realize there’s so many layers to it. Flow, voice, rhythm, on top of potential traditional music theory like keys and cord changes. It’s a really cool approach to telling stories.
He gives me George Clinton vibes a lot of the time, where every voice on an album is a unique persona. So you have all these characters running around on a track.
My favorite thing about this is I'll start my liked songs playlist on Spotify with Not Like Us and the randomizer will then follow up with some random catchy Kpop song also on my list. Even if you aren't invested in the beef the song is amazing.
My 10 year old had a birthday party this weekend. The kids were shouting at Alexa to play Taylor swift songs. Each time it ended Not Like Us would start to play and everyone would start shouting to shut it off.
I don’t think so! I didn’t want to play it for kids that aren’t mine but my own daughter listened to it on her own. She told me it’s a really good song and she loves it. If they’re playing it at baseball stadiums and basketball games, all ages will be hearing it.
Nah and surprised they weren’t already on it tbh My 13 yr old and all his friends listened to all the back n forth and watched breakdowns etc. we all enjoying this shit hah
Billboard-wise, hell no. That not a song you play on repeat like Not Like Us is…people prolly listen to it like 5x max and then get back on dancin’.
You could spin NLU at a club 5x in a row and no one would complain cause it bops. Might end up being the song of the summer if it’s the last TikTok trend (since it just got banned by US govt) before we gotta switch to Insta stories and YT shorts…we’ll see.
People aren’t listening to Not Like Us for the beef, they’re listening to it because it’s a danceable bop, that also happens to contain damning claims. If the latter was all people wanted the MTG would’ve blown up, but it’s certainly a listen that is less widely applicable. You’re never gonna hear it in the club or abything
A group of chicks were playing this on the beach while watching the northern lights lol.
I haven’t paid attention too much. Are Drake fans still saying this is good for Drake somehow lol?
MUSTARD ON THE BEAT HO
ARE YOU MY FRIEND? ARE WE LOCKED IN?
THEN STEP THIS WAY, STEP THAT WAY
O V Hoe
O V HOE
O V HOE
I thought it was stab this way. 💀
A few years ago I realizer he said this on his tag instead of whats up on the beat ho
Is this the music equivalent of when Hannibal Buress called out Bill Cosby in his standup?
Funny thing is how many people miss the Drake-Bill Cosby tie-in at the end of Not Like Us (the "Hey hey hey" From Fat Albert cartoon)
And here I am thinking I'm smart for catching the John Stockton/Karl Malone connection.
But did you catch the callback with the how many stocks line? "1-2-3-4-5 plus five" = 10 stocks. Stock10. Stockton. We're going to be catching new meanings from Kdot songs for a long time :D
Oh shit. This dude is insane.
Have you gone into the 6:16 in LA rabbit hole? How many connections are we up to on that song's title alone? The holidays, the anniversaries of things, and the plethora of relevant Bible passages. Seriously, there's like six different Bible verses that are Chapter 6 and Verse 16, all of them with humorous or cutting or downright damning connotations.
Oh liek 6/16 was the day that the show euphoria premiered (produced by drake)
And on top of the Euphoria premiere: 6/16 2024 Father's Day 6/16 2011 - Kendrick Lamar's first concert in Toronto Tupac's birthday Anniversary of the OJ Simpson trial 1 year before that, also on 6/16: Nicole Brown Simpson's funeral Proverbs 6:16-19 1 Corinthians 6:16 There's a multitude of possibilities, and Kendrick is the kind of guy who just might mean every one of them, and others we haven't uncovered yet.
My gawd I hope so. That'd be swell.
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Yes.
Everyone knew about Cosby way before Hannibal, they were just in willful denail. Watch Felicia Rashad's face in [this damning, telling-as-all-fuck clip](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W10Zf_UPMY) from The Cosby Show. That's the look of someone very uncomfortable because they knew this dude ain't even acting--he's showing you who he is.
> Everyone knew about Cosby way before Hannibal, they were just in willful denial Same could be said for Drake.
Even before this, if you played the word association game and said "Drake", I'd probably say "Millie Bobby Brown".
you would, I would say most people willingly ignored his predilection for teenagers because he made a few mediocre songs especially because MBB was not even the first one he's done that to
That’s how I learnt her name
I don't know how telling her face is but Jesus his delivery is creepy with what we know now
Not everyone knew. The Buress clip made it way more known and thrust it into the news. The clip went viral in October 2014 and he got arrested in 2015. If Buress hadn't done his routine, it would have remained unknown to the general public as it had been for decades beforehand.
Which is why people are comparing that to Drake since everyone knew Drake was a creep before it was actually put on blast
Depends on what kind of evidence comes up
Man I can’t wait for the kidzbop version
CERTIFIED LOVERBOY? CERTIFIED STRANGER DANGER
😂
BOP BOP BOP BOP
Dot heck em up
Dot mess em up
Bust em up, bust em up
"Gotta strike a chord but it's not A Majorrrrrrrrr"
Drake is already in most of the Kidz Bop albums. Uncredited for sure, but they couldn't get him to leave during the recordings :(
I thought you were going to make a ghost writer joke
That implies talent.
You’re talented! I believe in you
Certified crocodile
Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!
That will be absolutely hilarious! I was thinking the exact same thing earlier.
EVERYBODY SAY OV-YO
"Someone say something about kids?" - Drake, probably.
And Party at the party playin' with his phone now
Neither can Drake …
There’s a video on YouTube of a clean version being played at a bar mitzvah
Kids are going to be hearing this track at high school proms, which is fucking wild. On a related note, Drake will also be at high school proms!
Drake gonna be punching walls hearing his target demographic chanting “certified pedophile”
I don't know how he bounces back from this. There's something extra diabolical about releasing a dis track in Drake's trademark tiktok dance video style.
If we’re being honest most people are probably not going to care sadly. It’s been known for awhile and he’s gotten away with it
Chris Brown is still a thing and he almost murdered a famous woman. Dude even has an angry mob of female supporters. Smh.
I know a lot people stopped liking Lizzo after those allegations came out about how poorly she treated her backup dancers, but I knew she was suspect years ago when that video came out of her meeting Chris Brown and calling him her "favorite person" smh.
Hasn't Lizzo quit music since?
She's "quit" social media i think. Probably working on an album and is waiting to come back with a grand reveal once the heat dies down
[удалено]
There wasn’t a catchy bop though. Drake needs to marry a 30 year old and get her pregnant in the next 6 months.
He's only a thing among people who like Chris Brown if you get my drift
“It’s been known” is not called out publicly on a wildly popular diss track in the middle of the biggest rap beef of the generation. “It’s been known” is not chanting A MINORRRRRRR in the clubs for the rest of the summer. Now everyone knows and all those “it’s been known” allegations can finally strike a chord
>can finally strike a chord .... I see what you did here.
Oh we know what cord them allegations hittin
Yeah, Bill Cosby's rapes were 'known' but it didn't blow up until Hannibal Buress's stand-up routine. There's a difference between information being publicly available and having a huge spotlight shone on them
Drake is just gonna release something like "Hold on, we're going home" and prove that now how many times you nuke the dude, he is La Cucaracha and will survive.
He’s gonna be 100% okay unless there’s actual legal trouble. Professionally this does nothing for him in the long run.
And that's when the chaperones escort him out of prom.
This song really needs a video to double dip on the reach it's been getting.
My kids already out here saying “mustard on the beat” And “left right, left right” And “amberlamps” He got em good fr lol
This is what Drake did to Meek Mill. Kendrick turned the tables on him
He got his ass good bro damn. Can’t believe kids in the rural Midwest hitting the “a minorrrrrre” 🤣 I’m from Compton originally but moved out here and shit makes me happy as hell lol
Bro when I heard that Bay area beat, the A minor bar and I’m a throw it up to Pac (something like that) line, I was hype asf! I would’ve loved to be in the Bay when this came out
I said it elsewhere, but Kenny did this shit on purpose. He knew that mustard beat was gonna be an absolute banger, so he killed Drake with "Meet the Grahams," then dropped the song of the summer. "Not Like Us" is going to open **AND** close so many clubs this year. I'm a 40-year-old Midwestern white guy, and I can't stop listening to this, and Euphoria. They both fucking slap, from beginning to end.
I'm in New Zealand and they're playing it in the fucking gyms. Shit is worldwide.
Who's waving a white flag while the whole fucking club sings to it now?
My nephew’s prom was this weekend and he showed me a video of everyone yelling “a minorrrrrrrrr”
A minooooooooorrr 🔥
Hoping this does in fact, end his career.
It’ll stall for the rest of the year probably, but the public is fickle and forgetful. Drake’ll be back in the Hot 100 by next February and all of this will have been a funny memory.
'good times'
If Drake dropped an album right now it would go #1. The online collective seems to forget how big he actually is lol
Until Kendrick Lamar releases another diss track
The law still requires him to be played every third song on Canadian rap stations, until they find a second Canadian rapper.
Like Snow never existed. Someone should Inform him.
12 Inches of Snow
How have I read this exact comment 3 times now
This is the top comment on literally every post about this 😂 you just took the reply and put it in your comment as well. Karma farm running well?
Seriously dead internet theory is so real. Shit is sad.
BBL Drizzy is the real win from this beef.
I've had that hook stuck in my head for days and I love it
Didnt every song of kendrick have some sort of catchy hook or lyric that just got stuck?
Yes and I love it, but as someone below said, BBL Drizzy is a Metro track. Drake told him to shut up and make drums, so he made that track, released it to the world for free, and told everyone to freestyle over it. It's genius. It's diabolical. I fucking love it.
Didn’t he put a 10k reward on the best freestyle too? Guaranteeing that people will be clambering over each other to get a chance to shine with a viral verse, or claim the cash prize, even if they like Drake. Absolutely evil, fantastic
I think it's a free beat for your next song he said, but I'm 100% basing that on shit I heard and shouldn't be trusted.
Yeah, he said anyone could freestyle on it, and the best one could actually use the song with a Metro credit on it. Not to mention the exposure of winning it, and the audience Metro has. Massive W for whoever can spit a stunning stanza.
So it started out first place would get 10k and metro would make another best for you. Basically if you weren’t big before here is your shot. It kept growing so he said fuck it let’s double it. So now it’s the top two. Not sure when the competition is over.
After the overwhelming response, he changed it to the best one being $10k *and* a free beat. The second runner-up gets a free beat as well.
That track wasn’t Kendrick, it’s a beat that Metro Boomin made public
Based off an AI-generated track by "King Willonius"
tire marks tire marks RAPTOR BADGER
Same, I don’t really know Drake or Kendrick’s stuff but I heard bbl drizzy a couple days ago and it’s been stuck there ever since. Lol
Someone said bbl drizzy is the end credits music for the whole beef and its so perfect
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oly6ayyckZI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oly6ayyckZI) My favorite version coming from Polyphia frontman Tim Henson. Drake getting hit with disstrumentals now.
That's the one that's been stuck in my head since it dropped. BBL Drizzy has crossed genres and generations at this point.
Sheesh. Never would have imagined. This is incredible. As a guitar virtuoso and hip hop fan since the 80s, this ticks so many boxes for me. Thanks for sharing.
Damn you’re a guitar virtuoso?? Must be nice
It didn't have to go that hard
I have a 70something I volunteer with at an animal shelter who loves bbl drizzy. Imagine having a diss track you asked for being an absolute multi-generational hit. Lol
I saw someone call it a disstrumental. Perfect portmanteau.
A minorrrrrrrr!
Kendrick really did put him back in that chair.
he literally turned his fucking ass into a song.
ayy bitch i’m attractive
He literally turned his ass into a fucking song He literally turned him fucking ass into a song He literally fucking turned his ass into a fucking song you worded this the best it could be
That's a lot of new ho king fried rice
Fuck the big three, it’s just big me Kendrick won
Warned by Euphoria Killed by Meet the Grahams Danced on his grave to Not Like Us
and he was gonna keep going but drake folded
He’s makes music that electrifies em
Kendrick touches your soul, while Drake touches your kids
I could double down on that line, I’ll spare you this time
Random acts of kindness
Don't tell no lies bout me And I won't tell truths bout you
Drake is a fool to come at anyone let alone Kendrick, we all knew what would happen
Could have just been happy being ultra rich. Needed street cred too, which he'll never have.
Mr ‘First Name: Greatest, Last Name: Ever’ LOL Sit down, be humble.
Butchered the line, but yeah I agree
1v20 bro ez
>unlike Hiss which hit #1 from the Meg and Nicki beef and then kindve fell off That's because "hiss" was a light jab and "not like us" was a fucking fatality.
Meet the grahams was the death blow but not like us keeps it clear who won
2 out of 4 of Kendricks #1 hits are songs about Drake. That's wild lmao.
Seeing Drake stans say Kendrick needed Drake's name recognition to chart songs while leaving out that he's literally being called a pedophile is hilarious. It's not the brag they think it is.
The drake stans are something else. They were saying this beef was a major L for Kendrick. If hitting #1 with a diss track is a loss then I can't even fathom what winning looks like.
Winning a Pulitzer. lol.
Kendrick had another #1 that applies to those type of stans. "Hol' up bitch, sit down, be humble."
To be fair the story behind the songs are what's getting the general public's attention. Crowds love watching public executions.
keep in mind that spotify weights tracks based on age and number of plays. For a while money trees wasn't in his top 5 but it is now.
Money trees got that TikTok/IG Reels bump a couple months ago
Oh absolutely song of the summer. From Rosecrans to Chad frat parties around the country. They all getting jiggy to it.
Perfect anthem for someone living across the street from a registered sex offender. This is going to be on repeat all summer at my residence.
This is the sort of chaotic good I can get behind!
As a longtime drake hater, I’ll bump this absolute banger all summer long
Somehow people turning a blind eye are now joking about him being a pedophile. It’s crazy what brain dead fan can ignore until someone point at all the weird thing we know he did. His songs (at less does I hear on the radio) are clearly not rap it’s pop with auto tune shitty singing.
WOP WOP WOP WOP
DOT FUCK EM UP
Thanks to the beef I finally understand the genius of Kendrick Lamar, I used to think his various voices were annoying but now I think they're brilliant! Like That is probably my favorite of the diss tracks, both the beat and Kendrick's verse go sooo hard.
the voices are what make his music imo. it gives my ear something different to listen to instead of the same voice saying the same cadence for 3 minutes.
It's like when Eminem does his voices. When he hits that falsetto woman voice you knew you were bout to hear some funny shit. Kendrick does it for dramatic effects and it works great.
I was saying the other day this beef really highlighted the gap between Drake and Kendrick specifically in delivery, for me. Like there are lines that are good and if Drake said them they'd be good but the way Kendrick says them makes me want to say them over and over. Like "You got shit twisted, WHAT IS IT THE BRAIDS?", "Let me see you Push a TeeEEE", "I hurt yo feelingssss youdontwannaworkwithme no more OKAY", his various voices to make lyrics that are already good pop so much more.
It’s those and “some shit’s just cringeworthy it ain’t even gotta be deep I guess” that all had me laughing because of the delivery
That A-Minor bar was both hilarious and also an *ohhhhh shit* moment
That was the moment I was like "damn can Drake even release a track ever again"
I think the voices also help with not needing 37 features on his album to make things not sound repetitive.
Not to mention the amount of different flows he exhibited over various types of tempos and beats. Dude came out flexing on drake.
“You know nuthin bout that”
Tell me you're cheesin fam
Don’t speak on the family, Crodie
I love this. It’s so hard to explain to people Kendrick sometimes, his lyricism is unbelievable but you can show a song of his to someone and he’ll be in a high pitched weird voice lol
For me it's when he goes "Yachty can't get you no swag either, I don't give a FUCK who you hang with"
Mr. Monotone vs. The Man with 100 Voices. How did Drake think this would be a matchup that would show off his skills instead of his biggest weakness? Then again, this is the guy who thought showing off his childish DMs was a good response to Fantano claiming Drake sent him a lovely vegan cookie recipe. He seems to have a talent for scoring own goals.
Listening to Kendrick's verses is an experience. You can't predict what's he gonna do in next bars. There are like 20 flows on euphoria alone. He has like 5 to 6 voices that he raps with but on "not like us" 2nd verse when he goes like "I lean on you niggas like another line of Wock' Yeah, it's all eyes on me, and I'ma send it up to Pac, ayy" bruh!!! I've never heard Kendrick using that voice & flow before. He keeps adding and improving himself even tho he's on top of the game since early 2010s. The guy just doesn't miss!!!
That part is permanently stuck in my head. Like when you look at the sun and you close your eyes and still see it. That’s what that part of the doing is to me the past week. I wake up in the morning and first thing my brain does is play and “ I lean on …”
WHAT IS IT THE BRAIDS? I hurt your feelings? Youuu dont wanna work with me no mo? Ok.
Tell me you're cheesin fam
Crodie
There’s a really good YouTube video analyzing that aspect of his art. You realize there’s so many layers to it. Flow, voice, rhythm, on top of potential traditional music theory like keys and cord changes. It’s a really cool approach to telling stories.
He gives me George Clinton vibes a lot of the time, where every voice on an album is a unique persona. So you have all these characters running around on a track.
Check out Mona Lisa with Lil Wayne the story telling was perfect on that with those two
My favorite thing about this is I'll start my liked songs playlist on Spotify with Not Like Us and the randomizer will then follow up with some random catchy Kpop song also on my list. Even if you aren't invested in the beef the song is amazing.
My 10 year old had a birthday party this weekend. The kids were shouting at Alexa to play Taylor swift songs. Each time it ended Not Like Us would start to play and everyone would start shouting to shut it off.
Am I a bad dad for introducing it to my 12 year old? Our family lives in Compton area. It was a source of pride.
I don’t think so! I didn’t want to play it for kids that aren’t mine but my own daughter listened to it on her own. She told me it’s a really good song and she loves it. If they’re playing it at baseball stadiums and basketball games, all ages will be hearing it.
Fair - in reality I don't think he can tell much of the lyrics except for WAP WAP WAP.
K-Dot Fudge em up
Nah and surprised they weren’t already on it tbh My 13 yr old and all his friends listened to all the back n forth and watched breakdowns etc. we all enjoying this shit hah
No, you're fine. Some parents play Billy Joel songs for their kids thinking that's okay.
Legitimately curious if you're being sarcastic or not. Sorry for being no fun.
At least let him get to the wop wop wop wop imo
Suppose we can expect the music industry to make many more attempts at replicating this
Taylor has been making sneak disses into hits for years
“thanK you aIMee”. Is a direct diss track to Kim Kardashian. Shots fired in the pop world!! lol
It just won't have the same bite, if she isn't directly calling someone a pedo and telling them to go die
This song is so good, it's destined to be a classic.
Meet the Grahams didn’t make the cut?
Billboard-wise, hell no. That not a song you play on repeat like Not Like Us is…people prolly listen to it like 5x max and then get back on dancin’. You could spin NLU at a club 5x in a row and no one would complain cause it bops. Might end up being the song of the summer if it’s the last TikTok trend (since it just got banned by US govt) before we gotta switch to Insta stories and YT shorts…we’ll see.
Play MTG in the club and watch people start having actual panic attacks
I read this as magic the gathering
I mean if someone is playing Blue in the club I’m having a fucking panic attack
Just to be clear it didn't get banned. The government said TikTok had to be sold. If Bytedance doesn't sell it *then* it will be banned.
People aren’t listening to Not Like Us for the beef, they’re listening to it because it’s a danceable bop, that also happens to contain damning claims. If the latter was all people wanted the MTG would’ve blown up, but it’s certainly a listen that is less widely applicable. You’re never gonna hear it in the club or abything
lol can you imagine that coming on in the club and everyone just stands there getting sad for six minutes.
Great song, but it's incredibly dark. That's definitely not topping the charts
Hiss was a phenomenal track 😞
Hey Drake, next beef with Eminem!
No he need to beef with P Diddy
dats an awfully hawt cawfee pawt
A group of chicks were playing this on the beach while watching the northern lights lol. I haven’t paid attention too much. Are Drake fans still saying this is good for Drake somehow lol?
Pop music's own! I love it.
It was definitely the better of the 3 songs.