Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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!

xp
yup - a few hypotheses floated round when the cover art went dark - Drake played him or trademark problems with the prescriptions or personal information, but consensus moved towards it being an image of potentially stolen personal items that are solidly against terms of service for cover art on the platforms.

This twitter guy with the footage of the bag sort of confirms this - seems to say Kendrick's people can't pay him because Drake's people are claiming the bag is stolen so there'd be legal trouble.

(v v casual kendrick fan - probably closest to Ivy's great posts in this thread - but have got kind of fixated. Following far too closely)

https://i.imgur.com/i1Oda7P.jpeg

can anybody give a tl;dr for the Meet the Grahams cover art / CCTV footage thing? i read through some of the links but just don't have any idea what this gist of it is

Something to do with a journalist in a wheelchair that Drake perhaps assaulted, but everything is hints and speculation

i spent some time looking at kendrick lamar reddit yesterday a great use of my time no doubt and would be happy to explain

https://i.imgur.com/uxlfLge.png

kendrick has this as the cover to meet the grahams which is stuff purported to belong to drake, some prescriptions a receipt from a jewelry store and clothing

drake then says in his latest song that the photo was a plant from his crew to set up kendrick to make false claims and look dumb

but THEN this twitter account @EbonyPrince2k24 shows up with a video of the stuff proving that drakes people couldnt have planted a photo since they dont have the stuff EbonyPrince2k24 does

EbonyPrince2k24 also implies that drake did something shady at the same place that he lost the stuff, they post a security camera photo of the lobby of the mark hotel in manhattan of drake and a local journalist in a wheelchair saying "Jimmy Brooks would not have been proud of you that night", referring to drakes character wheelchair jimmy on degrassi implying that drake did something shameful to the journalist, theyve since been trying to sell the video of the incident for crypto, seems like theyre an employee of the hotel who has experience cleaning up after celebs

#1. King @kendricklamar is not a liar, and I am not a thief!

#2. Mr. Aubrey Graham (@Drake) & Mr. Livingston Allen (@Akademiks) have until noon Monday 5/13/24 to retract your claims of theft, or my attorney Ms. Adrienne Edward and I will exhaust every legal option available. pic.twitter.com/Mm6TBjMiXc

— EbonyPrince2k24 (@EbonyPrince2k24) May 11, 2024

To Mr. Aubrey Graham (@Drake ), may this photo help jog your memory as to where you discarded those items. The issue in the photo should also jog your memory. Jimmy Brooks would not have been proud of you that night... pic.twitter.com/QnPFsIERO7

— EbonyPrince2k24 (@EbonyPrince2k24) May 11, 2024

https://i.redd.it/c9wr08krl00d1.jpeg

attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion...

https://preview.redd.it/ebony-from-drakes-camp-new-tweet-v0-jog3j4lyn00d1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=01b3dc206bb6150ddfd128a52f9dc03f023ebf3d

Ten songs in one session, one the 19 minute Euphoria

Kendricks very close friend @ItalianFiesta did a discord interview yesterday

Here are some of the things he said:

• Whitney is in NY w/Kendrick & the kids

• Kendrick actually did record 10 songs, all in one session, updating then as the beef went on

• Family Matters= 🚨 https://t.co/eos7o5pmUA pic.twitter.com/R83EzwyRLR

— Nadav 🍉 (@NadavIsHere) May 11, 2024

lot of beef detectives are calling bs on that guy fwiw saying he knows kendrick but is way overstating how close they are

if drake says anything hes gonna die, seems excessive!

ty lagoon

except, uhm... he already ded.

#zombiedrake

woww

np xp

if drake says anything hes gonna die, seems excessive!

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