idk why some writers are reacting like it's heinous slander to call drake a paedo as if that hasn't that been common knowledge for at least a decade
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 21:11 (one month ago) link
An important distinction: many people mourning Kendrick's allegations don't distinguish an artistic response from a journalistic one.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 21:21 (one month ago) link
I.e. as a journalist you might be repulsed by unproven allegations of pedophilia
once stuff like this is happening it's over all the accusations and shit don't even matter anymore, not like us is just going to be musical shorthand like ether
They Not Like Us https://t.co/QxCGOkmM9n pic.twitter.com/50LCfMxMOB— Wolves Talk (@twolvestalk32) May 7, 2024
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 21:38 (one month ago) link
The way I see it, Drake has two options. Post a lot of troubling Instagram stories seeming to imply he intends to commit suicide or become a first deckhand on the next season of Below Deck Down Under, where he just goes by Aubrey and says he’s from Canada but needed a change.— Christin (@hexprax) May 5, 2024
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 21:41 (one month ago) link
This would be the perfect time for Kanye to drop a catchy track about how Lucien Grange planned all of this.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
"Metro Groomin" is pretty funny, millions of aspiring artists and producers frantically trying to find a name that can never ever ever be turned against them.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 21:47 (one month ago) link
i enjoyed reading craig jenkins' take: https://www.vulture.com/article/kendrick-drake-beef-what-comes-next.html
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 23:02 (one month ago) link
Strong take
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 23:25 (one month ago) link
The amount of copium on that Drake subreddit is even sadder than the one seen on the pro-elon subreddits in the past year.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 01:31 (one month ago) link
when that Sprite commercial came out years ago they probably didn't leave their rooms for a week
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 01:32 (one month ago) link
That vulture article has the best take (besides several in this thread) of all I’ve read so far.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 02:54 (one month ago) link
its a shame toronto missed the playoffs this year
First song after the Celtics take the court: Not Like Us pic.twitter.com/2vvZ6KATdG— Cameron Tabatabaie (@CTabatabaie) May 7, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 03:30 (one month ago) link
Kendrick rhyming "god" with "life" is some precision drawl...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 03:45 (one month ago) link
Ten years ago DJ Mustard named his debut album and record company '10 summers', because that was how long he wanted to dominate music. I loved loved loved DJ Mustard back then - I still listen to My Krazy Life more than anything by Kendrick - but even I thought that seemed a bit like a stretch. And now he might have his first #1 record this summer...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 11:04 (one month ago) link
#1? Not sure how many radio stations are going play that song.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 12:40 (one month ago) link
Appears to be on track for a #1 debut, radio or no.
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 12:46 (one month ago) link
During the first week that "Rich Men North of Richmond" was #1 last year, it had "17.5 million streams and 147,000 downloads ... and, with no radio promotion, 553,000 radio airplay audience impressions."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:03 (one month ago) link
damn I had already completely forgotten about that whole thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:05 (one month ago) link
It’s definitely going to #1. Streaming numbers count nowadays for charts. That’s why we currently have like a hundred Taylor Swift songs on the charts.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:32 (one month ago) link
charts are kinda fake now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:38 (one month ago) link
well, faker
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:40 (one month ago) link
Yeah it’s hard for me to interpret streaming numbers. Yeah “Not Like Us” has 16 million Spotify streams after 5 days, but a lot of the new Taylor Swift songs were in the 30 million range after a week. “Push-ups” has 55 million streams in two weeks ffs.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:46 (one month ago) link
"Euphoria" has 31 million more streams than "Not Like Us" and that's like 4 days older
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:57 (one month ago) link
Just an instrumental loop of “Not Like Us” could be the biggest stadium-sport bumper music since “Seven Nation Army.”
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 15:11 (one month ago) link
J Logic on Insta said Drake is an acronym for
D: Don’tR: RapA: AgainstK: KendrickE: Ever
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 15:15 (one month ago) link
mustard on the beat hoe
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
Meet the Beat Hoes
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link
Meat Beat Manifest hoe
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 15:55 (one month ago) link
Mustard beat sandwiches are the best
― octobeard, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:50 (one month ago) link
NYT Popcast has thoughts https://audioboom.com/posts/8502178-popcast-deluxe-how-kendrick-lamar-out-drake-d-drake
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:17 (one month ago) link
in two days I'm only going to be able to hear the word Drake like the Flaming Moe episode of Homer
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link
*simpsons
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:27 (one month ago) link
lolll my two boys have split on this question. the 15 yo is pro-drake because kendrick is "short".
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:18 (one month ago) link
Little Tracer Newman
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:20 (one month ago) link
what are you teaching the little hands
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:48 (one month ago) link
how to ask high school students if they're on dope
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:50 (one month ago) link
teens should be like "thats old people music" that would be the funniest and best to me
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:56 (one month ago) link
lag otm, kendrick's first album is older than some of drake's girlfriends.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:33 (one month ago) link
sry couldn’t resist
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link
I fully buy that this is old people entertainment
meanwhile my 15 year old son who is very into mainstream rap music has zero interest in the beef— OME (@Mike_Eagle) May 6, 2024
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 23:05 (one month ago) link
I had an afternoon work social thing and a couple coworkers in their 30s broughtup the entire Drake/Kendrick thing and the consensus was that Kendrick wrecked him. I have no idea who the true judge is, maybe their rap peers, but I think in the broader cultural context this is over
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 9 May 2024 00:19 (one month ago) link
I kinda wish it wasn't over so we could get some more Kendrick tracks, but it's probably for the best
― octobeard, Thursday, 9 May 2024 02:01 (one month ago) link
this is just a crazy phenomenon https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/music/137028/kendrick-lamar-music-streams-increase-drake-beef
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 May 2024 03:28 (one month ago) link
That’s a loss Drake has to feel
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Friday, 10 May 2024 03:32 (one month ago) link
banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt_9rcY0j_M
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 10 May 2024 05:50 (one month ago) link
craziest part about that, by far, is Drake's numbers staying the same or dropping
― default damager (lukas), Friday, 10 May 2024 05:53 (one month ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6wgEU8ohBV/
The Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef was pretty exciting at first, but over the course of the month, it’s started to lose steam. Now it seems like the rappers have really started to phone it in: Drake’s latest diss track seems to pin the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks on Kendrick Lamar.
Check out the lyrics to the track, titled “You Going Down In Apatown”—a reference to Judd Apatow, the executive producer of Freaks and Geeks—below:
“You got yourself a bad reputationDisappointing a whole fucking nationCanceling the showwith young James FrancoAin’t no way we were fatiguedWith the work of Paul FeigThey were just getting started, broGotta let Seth Rogen growSaid the show was gonna hurt the brandBut you just didn’t understandIt wasn’t joke-a-minute, dudeBut it had heart and attitudeBusy Philipps deserved so much moreBut we didn’t even get an encoreMartin Starr! That should’ve been a household nameThat shit’s on you man, you’re the one to blameAll I know is you’re no Lindsay WeirMoves like that, man, you’re Lindsay Weird.”
Yikes. Guess we can’t officially confirm or deny these accusations, but given the fact that Kendrick Lamar was 15 at the time and not an NBC executive, it seems incredibly unlikely he canceled Freaks and Geeks. Maybe it’s time to wave the white flag if this is the best diss you’ve got.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 May 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
yes.
more onion-like coverage of everything, please. they're the only ones getting it right.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 10 May 2024 17:18 (one month ago) link
also shoutout freaks and geeks. goat.