Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

It was more rock than rap actually. My sister-in-law who hates rap loved it.

this verse is awesome

dissing drake is just a bonus

is that really a 'diss' cmon

I do think the saddest thing about this is that there's no descendent of dipset around to make fun of kendrick's fashion choices a la chancletas with jeans but sure

LMAO at kendrick trying to end the popularity of designer clothing though

my favorite description of kendrick's fashion sense on twitter was that he dresses like an african substitute teacher

ha, I saw someone before say Kendrick dresses like every Nigerian dad

I liked Good Kid, M.A.A.D. city. I've not heard his new stuff, though (how much more did he release after that album?).

Is there an actual reason for him to dislike Big K.R.I.T.? I actually like KRIT. Or is he just trying to get attention?

I'm out of the loop with hip hop gossip. Been listening to the music more.

"your Instagram can gobble these nuts"

i don't think he dislikes anyone mentioned in that verse, basically all of them have worked with him or have show mutual respect or w/e.

aggro alpha male kendrick is cool with me, kinda feel like based off this and the "vibe" remix that i will enjoy his next album more than good kid.

i wonder if he dislikes them. makes you wish hed say something in the verse about whether or not he has love for them

hahaha max

it's odd that BEEF IN HIP HOP has gotten so watered down that this what people consider calling someone out

It's the opposite of beef, it's a branding cosign. "These are my peers, my ilk." Naming those names is the worst bit of the verse.

"These are my peers, my ilk, who I AM ABOUT TO MURDER"

It comes off less "I think these rappers are shit" and more "I think these rappers are my yardstick"

Lex is right. He is a) pointing out his group of peers, and b) positioning himself as their leader. The interesting question would be why he did not mention Schoolboy, Ab-Soul or even Danny Brown, who are all closer competition than, say, Tyler. I get that the ones he picked are more likely to be recognized by the general public and more commercially viable in general, but it still seems like a weird omission. Why not include his own crew in this circle of competitor-friends?

Well it is still part of a rap verse. Does it have to be all encompassing?

today's rap doesn't have proper footnoting

i don't think Danny Brown is really anybody's competition, or at least any more significantly than Timmy The Maker.

thomas the tank engine

today's rap doesn't have proper footnoting

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we have rapgenius for that now, so yay?

this verse is whatever and it's not even a diss

Yeah I didnt get much dissing from that idk

it's definitely a boast rather than a diss, I just think it's funny that it's causing garment-rending

what dan said. Internet is being OMG KENDRICK ON TEH WARPATH about this is confusing. Solid verse obvs.

half expected there to be a thread on this

92Q played the whole thing 3 times in a row, WKYS played "ether" and then played kendrick's verse

(as i drove home from work)

narratives too, old djs talking abt the old days and how this guest verse is going to liek singlehandedly "bring hip hop back", it just sounds like nostalgia imo

as the wet blanket on many such occasions, i gotta say i see nothing wrong with people being excited about this. it's a fun verse! his delivery on "MUFUCKA I SELL IT!!!!" is absurdly entertaining.

what am i doing wrong where i'm only seeing people be grumpy about the hype and not the hype. i am clearly not following the right people.

it's just a bummer to be told to calm down about a verse before i even knew it existed

oh to be clear i really enjoyed my ride home tonight. i enjoyed old hip hop heads sounding so EXCITED. i don't think there's anything wrong with nostalgia.

sorta wish i could actually pay attention to jay elect's verse tho, maybe it's good

the silly thing is JE's verse probably would've sounded good in between Sean and Kendrick, there was really no reason to leave him out to dry at the end there

yeah k's verse obviously should've been last anyway?? it's weird.

they def hurt jay by positioning him that way

totally on board w/ Al on this one. Fun song, felt like it injected some life into the corny JUST FRIENDS vibe of current rap

although the return-fire disses better be a lot better than joell ortiz's. The main problem is that no one wants to ACTUALLY diss kendrick, no one wants to get under anyone's skin, they just want to rap in complicated ways about how they are the best.

i want to see people take the gloves off, imo

i said this in a piece i wrote about it but this is about to turn into a bunch of olympians diving for the judges rather than a bunch of wrestlers clamboring into the ring. i def prefer the latter situation when it comes to rap music

gunplay should go at him

kendrick literally says "i respect y'all" in his verse. the kiddie gloves aren't coming off

It's amazing that "competition" is such a foreign concept in rap right now that people are shocked a rapper suggested he wants to be better than his peers. I think that's where most of the backlash is coming from.

It's a great verse, though.

Kind of interesting how Kendrick makes the verse fit his persona. It's a battle verse in structure, delivered on his own non-confrontational, neutral-territory Sweden terms, so it doesn't feel like he's casting himself as something he's not

I also think he tapped a hunger for golden-era one-upsmanship that a lot of contemporary, "we don't need nostalgia" rap fans didn't realize they had. It's also fun watching people reconcile that.

thought the whole thing was terrible tbh

i don't particularly want this song to inspire any diss records, or more 'competitive' rap -- i dunno where you guys have been that you think rappers saying they are the best/want to be the best has been scarce. he basically says the same kind of thing that you could find in a dozen other songs by himself, kanye, cole, drake, all these other post-jay wannabe kings of rap, only difference really is he names names, although i don't think the naming names itself makes the song better or even more an act of aggression per se.

radio caller said that this would raise the WHOOOLE game, all those rappers he called out will suddenly... become better rappers cause they were called out, which, lol (can u imagine drake trying harder)

but kendrick does always sound to me like he wishes he was in the early/mid 90s and he's lonely no one else wants to play his game. should really stop calling it a diss track

idk i feel like in the buddy-buddy my-cosign-will-help-you-crack-my-demographic type shit it's nice to just have dudes competing rather than guesting for branding purposes

i don't get how this is that much different than Drake doing his little "watch me take it" shots and then having Jay photo ops and Kanye concert cameos to make sure people know it's not that serious. you know Kendrick is gonna be on new songs w/ damn near everybody he named in the next 6 months. like literally half of all rappers spitting constantly rap about being the hottest/greatest, it's only when they're really in contention for the title that people talk about who they're putting themselves above.

xp does kendrick really think of j cole and wale as his "competition" tho, like if he's really trying to place himself next to nas

well that's a semantic question, he's saying he's already on nas's level and has left the coles behind or at least is aspiring to that, just depends on whether you're taking him at face value or figure he knows he's kind of inflating things for fun.