Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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?

trying to strike a chord and it's probably A minoooooor

what about eazy e’s it’s on (dr dre) 187um killa

maybe he's doing the first dis album?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, May 4, 2024 5:05 PM

remember when he said "stop playin wit me fore i turn you to a song" on big steppers?

more innocent times.

the drake song is so gross and corny!

good call voodoo

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

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin)

since when is he responsible for "the culture as a whole", though? i'm not arguing for or against anyone (particularly with this latest one, jesus kendrick you have already murdered this man five times over) just, you know, if someone's doing some bullshit, it's not necessarily the best thing to let things slide for "the good of the community".

How many times can the same man be killed?

Stop it, this man has a (secret) family!

Glad Gordon Lightfoot's house next door doesn't have any sex offender flags on the map.

Imo ending Drakes career is a net benefit for the culture

since when is he responsible for "the culture as a whole", though?

didn't say he was, but he's certainly one of the louder voices.

and i disagree that this will "end drake's career." chris brown still has defenders and a lucrative career. if people of that calibre don't get blackballed and censured, drake sure as hell won't either.

drake will still have hits burn kendrick is trying to ja rule him, where he’s a punchline, not taking seriously

the only career you could argue was ended by been is Canibus and let's be real I don't think he was headed for superstardom

Eminem kind of took Everlast off the map...

doing this to Drake right as game 7 starts, unreal

the screenshot is drake’s house overlaid with citizen app sex offender pins 💀

https://x.com/harb0rs/status/1786743210640806215?s=46

drake will still have hits burn kendrick is trying to ja rule him, where he’s a punchline, not taking seriously

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, May 4, 2024 6:13 PM

this is the problem tho...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MQeexi0FPU

drake has BEEN so much of a punchline that even he was in on the joke years ago.

kendrick is punching down with everything he's got...

...why?

the label probably got the idea watching the nicki/meg war play out on the charts in january. hip-hop did very poorly on the charts in 2023 and the success of nicki and meg's diss records likely gave some label guys ideas about how beef could revitalize the genre commercially

— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) April 17, 2024

Yeah obv i dont think that Drake will retire from rap over this but still, K is doing the lords work, every time Drake gets humiliated we all win

Kind of curious to see in a few minutes if this spills over...

had to get one more in before katt Williams’ set huh

— Joshua Rivera (@jmrivera02) May 5, 2024

https://x.com/PlatanoRanger/status/1786913876132421652