Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

i enjoyed reading craig jenkins' take: https://www.vulture.com/article/kendrick-drake-beef-what-comes-next.html

Strong take

The amount of copium on that Drake subreddit is even sadder than the one seen on the pro-elon subreddits in the past year.

when that Sprite commercial came out years ago they probably didn't leave their rooms for a week

That vulture article has the best take (besides several in this thread) of all I’ve read so far.

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

Kendrick rhyming "god" with "life" is some precision drawl...

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...

#1? Not sure how many radio stations are going play that song.

Appears to be on track for a #1 debut, radio or no.

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."

damn I had already completely forgotten about that whole thing

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.

charts are kinda fake now

well, faker

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.

"Euphoria" has 31 million more streams than "Not Like Us" and that's like 4 days older

Just an instrumental loop of “Not Like Us” could be the biggest stadium-sport bumper music since “Seven Nation Army.”

J Logic on Insta said Drake is an acronym for

D: Don’t
R: Rap
A: Against
K: Kendrick
E: Ever

mustard on the beat hoe

Meet the Beat Hoes

Meat Beat Manifest hoe

Mustard beat sandwiches are the best

NYT Popcast has thoughts https://audioboom.com/posts/8502178-popcast-deluxe-how-kendrick-lamar-out-drake-d-drake

in two days I'm only going to be able to hear the word Drake like the Flaming Moe episode of Homer

*simpsons

lolll my two boys have split on this question. the 15 yo is pro-drake because kendrick is "short".

Little Tracer Newman

what are you teaching the little hands

how to ask high school students if they're on dope

teens should be like "thats old people music" that would be the funniest and best to me

lag otm, kendrick's first album is older than some of drake's girlfriends.

sry couldn’t resist

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

I had an afternoon work social thing and a couple coworkers in their 30s brought
up 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

I kinda wish it wasn't over so we could get some more Kendrick tracks, but it's probably for the best

this is just a crazy phenomenon

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/music/137028/kendrick-lamar-music-streams-increase-drake-beef

That’s a loss Drake has to feel

banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt_9rcY0j_M

craziest part about that, by far, is Drake's numbers staying the same or dropping

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 reputation
Disappointing a whole fucking nation
Canceling the show
with young James Franco
Ain’t no way we were fatigued
With the work of Paul Feig
They were just getting started, bro
Gotta let Seth Rogen grow
Said the show was gonna hurt the brand
But you just didn’t understand
It wasn’t joke-a-minute, dude
But it had heart and attitude
Busy Philipps deserved so much more
But we didn’t even get an encore
Martin Starr! That should’ve been a household name
That shit’s on you man, you’re the one to blame
All I know is you’re no Lindsay Weir
Moves 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.

yes.

more onion-like coverage of everything, please. they're the only ones getting it right.

also shoutout freaks and geeks. goat.

as drake's new manager i want to let y'all know he's in the studio as we speak working on a response to kendrick. we are not taking this lying down pic.twitter.com/3fR5mFBSSL

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 26, 2024

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/05/03/kendrick-lamar-joins-eminem-and-michael-jackson-with-his-biggest-album/?nowelcome=1&radk=1&rafeed=3&utm_source=&sh=7eb543d65a2a

getting weird on Twitter with someone posting video footage of the bag from the cover of Meet the Grahams, plus hotel CCTV snapshots. Reddit is digging:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KendrickLamar/comments/1cpal4i/ebonyprince2k24_backups_in_case_theyre_deleted/

get him

Too arcane for me to follow

NYT popcast said all of Rap Twitter is like the Reddit thread for True Detective Season One

y'know i was gonna post at the time but i didn't because i thought maybe it was a glitch BJT---

the "meet the grahams" cover art was only "live" on spotify for a few hours; it's been a blackout ever since.

wow!