Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

Joycean footnotes for this one on Genius, just for the opening line alone.

something about antonoff co-producing this latest one is really funny

people are thinking that's because the diss record Drake did was called Taylor Made

lmao

ok I just read the Genius page for this it's absolutely bonkers l love it

Joycean footnotes for this one on Genius, just for the opening line alone.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, May 3, 2024 3:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol yes, this is what i'm here for

Soooo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkXG3ZrXlbc

But then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QiFl9Dc7D0

He's got Drake's Ozempic prescription in the cover art pic.twitter.com/fIPvderM14

— nathaniel (@NatMcMahan) May 4, 2024

He got called a rapist, pedophile, and sex trafficker and he only addressed the hiding a daughter allegations lmaoo https://t.co/FkOSvY6tZr

— ✌🏾 (@R3TROFLOW) May 4, 2024

Brutal. Also intrigued that he zoomed out the picture and yet it still looks cropped. I wonder if there is more to see.

Putting aside the whole tabloidy aspect of this, Drake is just obviously punching out of his weight class, the sadboi social media singer going against the guy most people agree is the best rapper of his generation. It's like if "My Prerogative"-era Bobby Brown tried to take out Cool J.

J Cole absolutely had the right idea to gracefully bow out and you have to respect the decision

drake is doing us all a service tbh 🫡

Oh my god the new one. Jesus Christ

Kendrick dropped a hydrogen bomb on a coughing baby with this one. How on earth is drake even supposed to respond to this

He tried and failed - only tried to deny the stuff about a daughter and ignored the far worse allegations here

the video drake put up is very funny. like why are you conferring menacingly with a sons of anarchy extra biker dude? every impulse the guy has is embarrassing

was this one produced by john carpenter?

Listening again just now, it struck me that the "Dear baby girl" verse is vague in a way that has to be deliberate, and stops well short of making any actual father-daughter connection between the addressee and Drake. I think Kendrick could plausibly be writing not to a child of Drake's, but to a child of one of the people around Drake who is being drawn into an adult world of exploitation by her father's actions ("He don't commit to much but his music" applying just as much to clout chasers and promoters as actual superstars)

And when I say "a child" I doubt he means a specific child, although he could.

I also question the existence of literal pedophile rings (pending Diddy trial revelations) but we know that Drake likes em young, and I think Kendrick might just be using that as a springboard, to address any young Black women or girls whose family let predators and groomers come around them.

J Cole absolutely had the right idea to gracefully bow out and you have to respect the decision

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, May 3, 2024 11:18 PM

agreed. beef of this calibre in 2024 is cringe. i thought kendrick moved past all this with big steppers. he had nothing to prove, but did it anyway... and he's clearly making drake look like a fool. but this is like lebron crossing up a high schooler and then flashing on them. yeah, good move but i'd be actually impressed with some mercy and maturity.

(ultimately kendrick is right and we never have liked drake; just kinda tolerated him this whole time)

I remember he was conflicted

holy shit just listened to meet the grahams

Drake's really finding it hard because his sort of royal arrogance requires him to sound smug and unbothered and talking about how you have more money, more shooters, etc just doesn't really hit when faced with whatever this is that Kendrick is doing

What if Kendrick’s next track is just a beat for beat description of how Drake reacted during the hour or three immediately after “Meet The Grahams”

ie things only a Drake factorum could know

He'll receive a cassette tape and play it and it'll be about the breakfast he just made, Lost Highway/Cache-style.

Drake's really finding it hard because his sort of royal arrogance requires him to sound smug and unbothered and talking about how you have more money, more shooters, etc just doesn't really hit when faced with whatever this is that Kendrick is doing

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

counterpoint: kendrick lamar is short

i mean show's over, drake, you win this one.

It feels like Kendrick consulted Nardwuar for his latest Drake diss track.

— Matt Lieb?? (@mattlieb) May 4, 2024

It feels like Kendrick is a director who finds Drake fascinating as a character to study and psycho analyze but knows he must kill him off in the final reel.

good move but i'd be actually impressed with some mercy and maturity

this is always the best option

it's interesting to me because it almost seems like one of those moral dilemmas from the old ultima games

drake is far enough beneath kendrick's level that kendrick beefing with drake doesn't really seem honorable, nor is it compassionate

at the same time respect is clearly a core value for kendrick... just because drake is displaying shockingly poor judgement by not backing down doesn't mean that kendrick has some obligation to be the "bigger man" or whatever

i guess overall i'd say "well this is A Thing that is happening"

Kendrick is Arsenal, Drake is like....idk, Bournemouth?

when he dropped the 5 percenter shit in the first verse i knew it was gonna get ugly

oh shit alchemist produced this

at the same time respect is clearly a core value for kendrick... just because drake is displaying shockingly poor judgement by not backing down doesn't mean that kendrick has some obligation to be the "bigger man" or whatever

sigh.

i'll continue with the basketball analogy...

kendrick was working on mj/lebron/magic energy and this is clearly a ja morant action. there's having a strong, disciplined core of values and the skills to execute... and then there's waving guns around on ig and flexing on teenagers.

very entertaining, yes. good for the culture as a whole? nah, not really.

"it's bigger than hiphop"

people on tiktok theorizing that alchemist sampled bennie and the jets on this, but it sounds more like leon russell’s tight rope to me. haunted circus music

someone should make an album that is just the instrumental versions of various diss tracks

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLCJSkak/

I love diss tracks because they're hard to do well.

You hit your opponent with insults that make no sense, or that most people seem untrue, it's over before it began.

You have to structure them to where your big reveals come later but your smaller jabs have to be big enough to hold attention, but not too big to peak too fast.

You have to put in a massive amount of effort and made it sound effortless

*that to most people

agree that total radio silence from Kendrick would have simultaneously been the classiest and most brutal move, but failing that i'm totally fine with him dropping some of his best verses in years and reducing Drake to the status of a tiny little corncob man

The only two lines that Genius doesn't have annotated from "meet the grahams"

Be proud of who you are, your strength come from within

...

No dominance, let's recap moments when you didn't fit in

someone should make an album that is just the instrumental versions of various diss tracks

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:22 (four hours ago) link

when i used to host a radio show back in college my background music between when i would announce what had just been played was Jay-Z's "The Takeover" instrumental.

Jesus Christ lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eK-2OQtew

Again???????

*DJ Khaled voice* another one!

halfway there

kendrick bout to call him a pedophile over some free jazz

— Zack Fox (@zackfox) April 13, 2024

maybe he's doing the first dis album?