Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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.

real Fredo Corleone energy there

this whole beef is like if chuck wepner got seriously insulted by muhammad ali calling himself "the greatest"

Most hip hop beefs are about the same thing

kinda sad Drake isn't still in his hashtag phase as this coulda gotten extra embarrassing....FARTING IN A HOT TUB

lmao you think kendrick's the only one who can go back-to-back?? spent all night in the studio with drake working on another one... we got his ass pic.twitter.com/VoWr0E2RkH

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) May 6, 2024

so good

lol

💀

I would not put it past Drake at this point to try and come for Demi somehow.

"You think shit is real, like where Tel Aviv is" corny enough to be an actual Drake line

Lol

In case anyone wanted the “616” instrumental, for your mixtapes or just for the hell of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV3ufFM86QM

“You can’t touch the kid” is maybe not a great line to be throwing around in this particular beef

https://web.archive.org/web/20230704105620/https://www.gq.com/story/drake-interview-gq-april-2012

remembered this interview from way back in 2012 where Drake is just creepy, ending with him doing the "I let you interview me at my house, are you going to sleep with me or not" implication. what a weirdo

When I ask about the strange square above the bed, he grabs a remote, and a projection system emerges from the ceiling. Neato, I say.

"Would I have you already?" he asks. "Are you sleeping with me?"

Time to go!

It’s a hypothetical question (I think), but Drake, being Drake, still wants an answer: "We had wine and dinner by the pool, I brought you inside, I brought the projector down; are you or are you not sleeping with me?"

What the fuck is wrong with people?

beat your ass and hide the Bible if God's watchin

fuuuuck i love this song, old mean muggin shit

"We had wine and dinner by the pool, I brought you inside, I brought the projector down; are you or are you not sleeping with me?"

https://brobible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dennis-reynolds-implication-its-always-sunny.jpg

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/drake-and-kendricks-beef-is-the-most-miserable-spectacle-in-rap-history/

^Alphonse clearly hasn't heard MC Paul Barman

Can’t get the Mustard beat out of my head…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YmDcCpD1gc

They got the intercept on his ass https://t.co/XU08O4pH1L

— Nathan J Robinson (@jesuslasupajew) May 6, 2024

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/drake-and-kendricks-beef-is-the-most-miserable-spectacle-in-rap-history/

The civility discourse surrounding this is the most ridiculous thing about it and is going to age like milk.

“This is not just beef anymore - these are highly serious allegations being leveled by two monumental, era-defining artists! One leveling accusations of antisemitism and homophobia, and the other spreading the false misinformation that 'nobody listen to techno' and explicitly endorsing physical violence at the hands of Obie. How are we as a culture supposed to move forward from this – just go on and pretend it never happened? We are all implicated in this tragedy.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEopQNxqi4

tbf no prior rap beef included something like the BBL Drizzy challenge

i've stopped typing the acronym for 'be back later' to friends thanks to this

breaking - Drake has submitted x-rays of his butt to TMZ

he does that strangely often

BBL has been...bubbling up...for a while. it's got that crucial thing for rap lingo - it's got a good rhythmic cadence when you say it and it rhymes with a lot of stuff

roc marciano had this on his new album which cracked me up

Never sprung for a BBL
Trailer load of hoes, your boy need a CDL

BBL has been...bubbling up...for a while.

nicely done

i've stopped typing the acronym for 'be back later' to friends thanks to this

― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal)

jesus christ three letter acronyms are a nightmare to deal with. i got so many friends who've had Facial Feminization Surgery. and then you got fuckin' two letter acronyms, how many different things does SA stand for?

to me what pierre's thinkpiece misses is that there's not really a "both sides" to this at all. drake is dropping accusations and they don't all fit together, there's no larger narrative to it. with kendrick, even the trivial shit he talks about goes to building a larger narrative - that drake is not just a hypocrite, but a psychopathic liar, a horrible person who should die. everything he says, every accusation he makes, from trivial shit like the BBL, to the way he uses people and throws them away, to him being a "certified pedophile" - it all leads into that larger narrative.

whereas the two larger accusations drake makes - the accusation dave free is the real father of one of kendrick's kids with whitney, and the accusation that kendrick beat whitney - what do they add up to? i mean that latter one for sure, it is a serious accusation and i guess if i gotta talk about it, i gotta say that my perspective is that i am a victim of intimate partner violence. i don't think the lady who hit me is a bad person. i don't talk about it because for the most part it's between me and her. i'm not ashamed of what happened, i'm not hiding anything, it just doesn't matter by and large. only reason i bring it up is because having had that experience, to me, using that shit as a "gotcha" in a rap beef is some real lowdown shit, fuckin' heinous behavior on drake's part. people do some fucked up shit sometimes. if whitney wants to talk about it, if kendrick wants to talk about it, they can talk about it. i think it would be a good thing. kendrick's talked about some hard shit and he's done it well. but for drake to come out with that accusation like there's some equivalence, like it makes anything and everything drake himself did ok, fuck that. it _really_ pisses me off that drake went and did something like that.

so no i don't think this beef is totally trivial or silly or for the lols, but neither do i think that this beef is a Bad Thing and that Kendrick Should Know Better. fuck that.

not trying to minimize the domestic abuse allegation because if more than just Drake's tut-tutting came out, I'd feel v different about it, but the article v much has "the two of you need to find a way to get along" energy from a teacher on the playground, when one of the two kids very clearly started a fist fight

Drake's "Oh you were abused that's why you don't like predators" thing is probably the grossest so far--it's just been overshadowed by the fact that he didn't even know who the victim was in the song.