Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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

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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!

Rap beef The Ring has promise. Battle and win in seven days or Kreayshawn crawls out of a phone and kills you.

Appreciate the services of lagoon in exploring the beef mines

I really feel like the perpetually online culture is ruining rap beef

We had a perfectly good, albeit one-sided battle on "wax", now everyone is screaming for receipts, conducting amateur detective work, doing fan theories, creating threaded conspiracy boards, and it's like....

Once upon a time all ya did was yell "OHHHHHHHHHHHH!" when the beat dropped out and that was pleasure enough.

With that being said if the latest has the potential to make DRAKE LOOK EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS

Then I'm down

yes nice summarising! further resources -
longer pastebin notes from the coolee interview
and the whole thing if you want to join true beef detective club

the beefers are purposely feeding it too putting weird lil clues in the songs etc, its kind of lame but also kind of interesting too so idk xp

Appreciate the services of lagoon in exploring the beef mines

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🙏🙏 it was tough having to go on reddit.com but i needed the truth

the beefers are purposely feeding it too

seriously. kendrick's having just as much fun messin with everyone as he is eviscerating drake.

i was just in a store and hotline bling came on and i heard a couple audible groans lol

Oh Azealia

She’s not wrong. Extra points for (surprisingly) bugging up Homeboy Sandman.

"she's not wrong"

right. the author cannot be wrong about their own fantasy world.

azealia far from boring, give you that much

"women and geminis know things" not her best work (grimes smelling like a roll of nickels)

Azealia bringing Biden into the beef is exactly why calling someone a pedophile in a sing-song catchy way isn't so different from what Trump does (even with hints and allegations).

lol, okay. now i've heard it all

Yay new display name time

(even with hints and allegations).

If you’ll be my bodyguard

Why do we have to pay any attention to Azealia Banks

The answer lies in the ending of a much more confusing version of "Death of a Salesman"

I’m very interested in how any of these songs chart.

not like us and euphoria are both gonna be in the top 3, idk about family matters but you'd think it'll be way up there too.

Euphoria debuted at #11 on the Billboard 100
Push-ups is at #17

twitter is once again shadowbanning chart data, so we may never know

That #11 is from only two days of streaming though

"Not Like Us" will be eligible for next week's chart but was only available for 5 days of that week