Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

The only think piece on beef worth reading was authored by Christopher Wallace

I mean, Kendrick's timing with the "Not Like Us" was brilliant in deflecting any attention given to Drake's claim that Kendrick's manager fathered one of his kids.

Eminem went at Everlast twice in song form and it actually resulted in a brawl between both camps.

Yeah, Eminem escalated things with "If you ever see Everlast whoop his ass! Hit him with sticks! bricks! rocks! throw shit at him! Kick him! Spit on him! Treat him like a hoe! Bitch-slap him!"

lol at the timing being the main deflector. rriiiiiiiggghht.

In the sense that there could have a day of people amplifying the hints and allegations in "Family Matters" but instead there was about 45 minutes to do that.

Now we get think pieces on beef.

― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal)

https://open.spotify.com/track/5YlK04iIVm3uiSo9EeVTdH

In the sense that there could have a day of people amplifying the hints and allegations in "Family Matters" but instead there was about 45 minutes to do that.

― paisley got boring (Eazy)

see i don't necessarily see that as "deflection". i kind of see the first two tracks as kendrick warning drake to back off, and then when he started making accusations like, particularly, the suggestion that kendrick physically assaulted whitney... i mean that kind of thing, if someone's gonna bring that up in the context of a rap beef, i'd say all bets are off.

half-expecting Drake's response track (if he creates one) to be "I'm Not Owned"

is it schadenfreude that i want to see wheelchair jimmy keep swinging?

If I’m in Drake’s ear, I’m telling him to go bananas on ‘The Bitch in Yoo’ or ‘No Vaseline’ instrumental. It’s his last best hope.

he'll just pay a ghostwriter to write his next one

Now I am up to date on this.

This guy’s storytelling skills of the Drake & Kendrick Lamar beef is elite💯 pic.twitter.com/6rwfvXBlr0

— Vini (@OVOVINI) May 5, 2024

kind of always struck me as odd that Drake is this guy from what was basically a Canadian Nickelodeon teen drama who has that baggage and then worked past it by acting chill to every peer until the exact moment they asked wtf he was doing after he asked their ex out in a moment of insecurity

snapped

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

kendricl

Drake response put me to sleep

drake failing some basic reading comprehension with his “mother | sober” bars. to be fair, that really does look like a capital “i” in the title

also was pretty clearly a song about kendrick's mom and her experiences with sexual abuse, not his own experience, but i can see why drake would be confused by someone writing a song that wasn’t about themself

you should never have to get on a record and express that you do not want to have sex with eleven from stranger things, i feel

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) May 6, 2024

https://x.com/uwebollocks/status/1787296999294861522

with this latest appearance ―and keeping in mind, all of us heard kendrick murder him― i think we should start to consider the possibility that zombies are real and drake is case #1.

#zombiedrake

#wheelchairjimmywasazombiethewholetime

somebody say you a sex criminal what you gon say “nuh uh” ?

— Zack Fox (@zackfox) May 4, 2024

to be clear, I'm just reposting stuff for internet points, I have no desire to listen to another Drake track

i ran when i saw a zombie tbh

“If i was a pedophile i’dve been arrested by now” pretty flawless logic there

I regret now talking about your son
and I shouldn't have contacted 11 until she was 21

ok wtf @ this Drake song lol there are multiple lines I literally couldn't believe, what a weirdo

meanwhile there's clips all over TikTok and Twitter of people going nuts for "Not Like Us"

half expected a "My name is Drake and I'm here to say" line

Lol milo

xpost Okay can't stop laughing at this for some reason.

The thing I hate about this beef is that it has me reading more about Drake’s life than I have in the past 20 years.

I still think Kendrick taking the QAnon route might not work out best in the end…

xp exactly - i don't think i've even listened to drake album but that's because i knew him from degrassi. the joke ended there but apparently he's just spent time making the joke bigger.

heart pt 6 is drake's best shot so far, it's not gonna win the battle but it's playing to his strengths, his highly idiosyncratic melancholy passive aggressive shtick

How is completely misreading “mother | sober” and then saying “I’m too famous to be involved in these sort of controversied” when bigger artists than Drake like idk “p diddy” or “michael jackson” went decades without problem, playing to your strengths?

I mean the main point of KL’s addressing this is - receipts or not - that people like Drake are on an “untouchable” level and just reporting this pieces of shit is not enough.

thought it was Drake's weakest effort so far, would be interested to see the writing credits cos it doesn't sound like any of his ghostwriters helped on it, so many mistakes and weak lines

Drake and his fans are idiotic if the winning angle they’re choosing is that rich, powerful people are somehow too noticeable to get away with doing criminal/immoral activity.

Oh don't get me wrong, he comes off as a complete idiot in the song and it's very weak as a rebuttal, but then again I think that's kinda the appeal, he's also a complete idiot on some of his best work (Marvin's Room, Started From the Bottom, Hotline Bling)

Also regardless of lyrics in this whole thing - and as someone who doesn’t really speak english - Drake’s delivery/ flow is so fucking emotionless and dull. Sounds like he’s reading a recipe.

With KL’s songs directed at Drake, there’s drama, rage; passion… change of vocal style, emotion in the narration….

Again I agree and there is no way Drake can win this, Kendrick is on a completely different level of both writing and delivery, he's actually been pretty creative with this and the Mustard beat is great

I'm just saying that if you like Drake's self-pitying passive-aggressive style, which afaik is what he built his career on, then he's back on track and it's much more fun to listen to than when he tries to play tough which is really just laughable

but I mean also Denzel Curry otm

That’s what the fuck you go with?

Stop

— Denzel Curry (@denzelcurry) May 6, 2024

"6:16 in LA" and " Not Like Us" are both very good songs that I think will outlast this beef

yeah Not Like Us is going to be an actually popular song because it's fun and got a great beat

Whoever is the DJ that is responsible for mixing “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar x “Work” by Rihanna in the club last night is a next-level genius!!! 😭 pic.twitter.com/9aAn9IBVzu

— Tenille Clarke (@tenilleclarke1) May 5, 2024

what's with everyone demanding 'receipts', like since when have diss tracks ever had bibliographies

I'm sure I'm Doing It Wrong, but I've spent more time reading these raps on Genius than actually listening to them. so, whenever that kind of thing started.

lol good point. Genius feels like it's always been here and yet it's really relatively 'new', comparatively speaking.

like not saying rappers should be able to say any old thing regardless of truth but hell, Jay-Z's "Takeover" had a number of things that didn't pass fact-check ("Serchlite Publishing" doesn't even exist, per Serch himself), but it's still a classic.

obviously the claims here are a lot more serious, but much of it (as far as Drake goes) is common knowledge, things that had been done fairly openly or whispered about, and then some things that are relatively new, and as far as receipts go, they'll eventually be leaked quietly to TMZ rather than posted on their website, ain't no rapper trying to open themselves up to a long annoying lawsuit. not that most rappers would sue other rappers but Drake seems like one that would do this clownery

what's funny is that Kendrick did not even bring up Millie Bobby Brown iirc. Drake brought her up because he thought he had a slick Bobby Brown/Whitney joke.