Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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.

anyway the DV allegation Drake is talking about is an internet rumor from 2014 about Kendrick supposedly beating up his girlfriend at a Hard Rock Cafe. fwiw Kendrick denied that it happened and there was no police report. Maybe he did hire a Crisis management team to deal with the story.

like Kendrick would go to a Hard Rock Cafe

thinking about it i think that gets me the most about it is the way drake is disrespecting whitney, as a woman and as a human being. domestic violence is some serious shit, and using that just as a way to say say "kendrick you suck" without any kindness or compassion or consideration, yeah that's some ice cold psychopath shit, particularly when drake's other accusation is that whitney fucked around on kendrick with dave free. like what the fuck drake who are you even beefing with here? whitney's her own person, she belongs to herself. you wanna go after kendrick go after kendrick, not his loved ones. don't know why drake wouldn't get that, unless maybe he never loved or cared for another person in his life. that seems to be the case kendrick's making, and honestly the shit drake is saying and doing in this beef goes a long way to back that up.

Perspective of an artist from Toronto

I think if Drake and them hadn't completely intimidated everyone from supporting artists from Toronto that were deemed threats to him in 2012-2018 there would be a lot more artists from home standing up for him right now.

He didn't do that so now it's 20v1 and since there is no…

— IN LOVING MEMORY+ (@seanleon) May 6, 2024

jesus christ three letter acronyms are a nightmare to deal with

When people were abbreviating Meet the Grahams to MTG, the first thing that would pop in my mind was that horrible white woman.

um

https://product-images.tcgplayer.com/fit-in/437x437/222208.jpg

I know that’s not what you’re doing but my first thought when I loaded that picture was “calling Drake a token is crossing a line”

i think it's cute when dudes write poems to each other, I've really been enjoying this myself.

lol

this bbl drizzy thing is out of control

Nah okes, Drake is getting cooked 😭

The beef has crossed genres 😭😭😭what is this even called, a distrumental solo 😭???

BBL Drizzy is uniting the world😭 pic.twitter.com/HHKiVPfYxN

— Gustavo. (@LordVizo__) May 6, 2024

Y’all BBL Drizzy is now international… bro getting cooked in Japanese pic.twitter.com/3wXBHbzBVr

— 🍊Elgin Barrett Eugene Smith lll🍊 (@Southside_Gunn) May 6, 2024

i'm always relieved in 2024 when I read a tweet and can understand it. two of them, back to back, well...I'm going out for ice cream to celebrate

Kate massive OTM in this thread! Really amazing posts, thank you.

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?

Never knowing for sure if your friend is starting cognitive behavioral therapy or getting into cock and ball torture.

Sometimes you know

tom breihan disagrees with alphonse: https://www.stereogum.com/2262414/drake-kendrick-lamar-beef-the-feeling-is-back/columns/sounding-board/

Good piece, I'm caught up now and Not Like Us definitely feels like what's going to be remembered from this.

This has to be the best reaction yet to, they "Not Like Us."
I have nothing against the Drakes. Just an innocent bystander, observing!

(via Reactors Going Crazy | RGC/YT) pic.twitter.com/lKKqwnMLnF

— HipHopPrints.com (@HipHopArtPrints) May 5, 2024

magic

yo that collective silence @ the oakland line

(ahem)

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.”

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), 6. maj 2024 18:55 (yesterday)

a+

we are in uncharted territory with this one

.@kendricklamar's "Not Like Us" breaks the all-time record for biggest single day streams of a hip-hop song in US Spotify history, passing @Drake and @lilbaby4PF's "Girls Want Girls" (6.593 million). pic.twitter.com/YLN6KHSPcz

— chart data (@chartdata) May 7, 2024

yeh it really has broken out to the general public, being played in baseball stadiums and NBA bumpers etc
so funny

Oh wow

props to Mustard that beat is just everything

Drake gonna start paying stadiums not to play it

Really too bad the Raptors aren’t in the playoffs

Oh god can you imagine

RIP the leafs

fuck the raptors

https://www.stereogum.com/2262527/man-injured-in-shooting-outside-drakes-toronto-mansion/news/

oh you know Drake is gonna run w/ that

new Pizzagate

odds that Drake shot someone with a BB gun and wrote K-Dot on his forehead backwards and told him to run to the hospital

Drake's OVO Store in London has been vandalized; someone spray painted "They Not Like Us" on the front window. pic.twitter.com/mjAjdchvWx

— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) May 7, 2024

Not great

how on earth was "girls want girls" holding that record lol

haha yeah i thought that was weird

streaming era so weird

idk Pierre’s point that the social media-fied fan-mob aspect to this is worrisome seems vindicated

after one incident of graffiti and a shooting that we have no details about yet?

I mean the optics of the timing isn't great but there have been similar incidents at his mansion before because he publicizes his address so out in the open. a security guard got stabbed in front of it three years ago

Drake's general behavior reminds me of this novelty tweet of yesteryear
https://x.com/ProBirdRights/status/368542088897372161

the shooting probably gives everyone an excuse to stop dropping songs.

the thing is now Kendrick isn't going to respond because it looks likely that he has possibly his biggest single since Alright (or ever) and you're not going to try to stop that momentum

props to Mustard that beat is just everything

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, May 7, 2024 8:23 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is so OTM, the problem for Drake now is that that he can't respond to it anymore because it's just an infectious song, you can't rap people into not wanting to dance to a great beat, you can't do battle bars to counteract it because people love to say shit like "WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP Imma do my stuff" or "then steeep this way then steeeep this way" or "Sweet Chin Music and I won't pass the AUX!" those are crazy deep bars it's just infectious shit that's fun to say because of the way Kendrick says it, Not Like Us has appeal beyond being part of this whole soap opera

those AREN'T crazy deep bars

Not counting "Like That," "Humble" is actually his biggest single, a #1.

Would love if Drake released music solely to try to get people to stop dancing

Oh wait