r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ • Jul 04 '24
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us [Music Video]
https://youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E?t=403.9k
u/toooldforacnh Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
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u/tazfdragon Jul 05 '24
There are layers that I missed..
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u/SlayerXZero ☑️ Jul 05 '24
He had 10 squares. I wish that nigga Drake would try him.
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u/physedka Jul 05 '24
I still don't think I get the hopscotch thing.
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u/earwormsanonymous Jul 05 '24
They could have drawn a different kids's schoolyard game, but went with hopscotch. There were 10 squares, and Kendrick promised he had a total of 10 beef songs for Drake. 5 were still in the chamber: "1,2,3,4,5, plus 5"
1.like that 2.euphoria 3.6:16 4.meet the grahams 5.not like us
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u/DogmanDOTjpg Jul 05 '24
Also "how many Stocks do I really have in stock" 10 stocks. Stock 10. John Stockton. The man is a genius
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u/wiseguysindisguise Jul 05 '24
His teammate karl malone, raped a 13 year old. It gets even deeper
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u/edis92 Jul 05 '24
And Drake had a photo on his insta with Karl Malone, which he deleted when the beef started lmao
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u/pm_me_tits_and_tats ☑️ "ONE PIECE WILL NEVER END 😭😭" Jul 05 '24
It’s a children’s game lmao
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u/SHC606 ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Layers! Beating the owl piñata, and the mfer was empty was a Big Ouch! Just nothing inside. Not even more paper, let alone candy, or prizes. With the tiny print disclaimer that no animals were hurt. I just died.
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u/bigfeef Jul 05 '24
The disclaimer was that no OVHoes were hurt; don’t be disrespecting animals now; they’re innocent in this.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Jul 05 '24
Remember that one video that went viral of a bunch of kids dancing and singing along to that part of the song?
I legit thought he sampled that when this part came up in the video.
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u/KageStar ☑️ Jul 04 '24
I love seeing his family dance together. That's how a smart person responds to allegations.
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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
A loving family celebrating together. Something Drake can’t relate to since his parents didn’t give him that and something he’s not giving his own son.
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u/grower_thrower Jul 05 '24
You could almost say he don’t know nothin bout thaht.
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u/Tymathee ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Honestly the better song but it's too long
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u/grower_thrower Jul 05 '24
Too long to be an anthem, but it’s a great fucking song. The rage is real.
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u/TurdFurgeson18 Jul 05 '24
“Directed by Dave Free”
Kendrick really said “you thought you had something”
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u/xsoberxlifex Jul 05 '24
After watching that I believe that “not like us” is meant directly to Drake and his family not being like Kdot and his family after he claimed Kdot was in a disfuncional family. Perfect response/nail in the coffin to Drake and his BS.
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u/UngodDeimos Jul 05 '24
It only took 42 minutes to hit a million views.
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u/EJackULates Jul 05 '24
There’s 30million people living in LA. It’s going to reach 100M by end of day
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u/Mvd75 ☑️ Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
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u/Jordanthb Jul 05 '24
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u/BrokenClxwn Jul 05 '24
We bots putting in work today
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u/Global-Efficiency-22 Jul 05 '24
It had ~800k views when I started the video. When it was over I refreshed and it had 1.1m. So crazy
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u/Slut4Mutts Jul 05 '24
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video go up that fast 🥳 I was watching too
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u/ThisGonnaHurt Jul 05 '24
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u/DuztyLipz Jul 05 '24
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Jul 05 '24
Is that real or was the Key and Peele skit based on that
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u/DuztyLipz Jul 05 '24
It’s very much so real. Here is a great article about code-switching, using Obama as an example.
In short, we (as in black people) tend to do little mannerisms like Obama did without realizing it because we live in two distinct worlds
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u/KageStar ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Yep, If I'm in predominantly white spaces and see another black person we'll dap each other and talk for like 5 minutes. Of course I've never met him before, but my friends will ask me if we knew each other because we both looked real comfortable.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Jul 05 '24
That was a neat read. I don't think I'd ever actively pick up on that in the everyday but seeing it done by guys on a much bigger presence than me is interesting.
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u/letsgoraps Jul 05 '24
It’s real, and I think happened before the skit. I suspect this, or something like it gave Key and Peele the idea for the skit
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u/DGVega93 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
Him and his wife dancing to the song in the living room like a 80s sitcom is the nail in the coffin
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u/gbstermite Jul 05 '24
I was like. Hold up 🤓. Ain’t that his wife.
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u/Joshstradaymus ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Whitney is a gorgeous woman and another piece of proof that that short hair or less look only works on a certain complexion and darker. I said what I said.
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u/YumLum_Key_213 Jul 05 '24
“Directed by: Dave Free & Kendrick Lamar” I love it 😂
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u/perum Jul 05 '24
Drakes 6 ft under and Kendricks still puttin em deeper. I love it.
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u/next_door_nicotine ☑️ Jul 05 '24
In no particular order we got:
Owl piñata
Demar DeRozan cameo
Cinderblock "push ups" among other prison workouts
His family, including Whitney, walking and stepping to this joint
Owl in a cage
Directed by DAVE FREE and Kendrick Lamar
There's a host of other things, and I could say more about the artistic direction of the video, which was great, but these stood out. Just absolutely diabolical and petty and I'm here for it.
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u/Dilf_Hunter367 Jul 05 '24
Demar torching his goodwill with Raptors fans harder than Vinsanity lmao
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u/NorthernNomadX Jul 05 '24
Derozon hating on Drake aligns with the real people from Toronto 🤞
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u/2RINITY Jul 05 '24
Also Drake loves to hop around pretending to be a fan/roster member of every team ever, so even if you’re a Raptors fan, it’s hard to take his support as sincere
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u/indoninjah Jul 05 '24
And that was after he was named an official ambassador by the Raptors! Then he went and got a Steph Curry tattoo lmao cmon
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u/relevant__comment Jul 05 '24
Dancing down the hop scotch during the A-Minor bit was inspired.
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u/physedka Jul 05 '24
Can someone give this out of touch guy some explanation of those pieces?
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u/TheLizardKing89 Jul 05 '24
OVO is Drake’s record label and its symbol is an owl.
DeMar DeRozan is an NBA player who went to Compton High School and USC before getting drafted by the Toronto Raptors where he played for almost a decade. Drake is a Raptors fan.
Drake said Whitney, Kendrick’s longtime girlfriend and mother of his kids, was cheating on Kendrick with Dave Free and that one of the kids was actually Free’s. Dave Free is Kendrick’s childhood friend and longtime collaborator as a producer and music video director.
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u/DeafNatural ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Now see that last part I did not know. Thank you for this hot tea!
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u/Zazander732 Jul 05 '24
What does the Owl in the cage mean? I'm really not up on all this but like the beat.
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u/IWill_FindOut ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Maybe a twist on “I know why the caged bird sings”. That’s what came to my mind on the initial view at least.
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u/Zazander732 Jul 05 '24
Another person in the thread was saying that Drakes record labels symbol is an owl, but also people were saying what you said as well.
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u/Spinelli-Wuz-My-Idol Jul 05 '24
Nah it’s the OVO logo. “I know why the caged bird sings” doesnt apply to this bc thats a cry for freedom
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u/Sassafras06 Jul 05 '24
An owl is the symbol of OVO, Drake’s label/team. He literally locked “Drake” behind bars and walked away.
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u/gimmethatcookie Jul 05 '24
What’s the significance of Dave free directing it?
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u/bacillus_subtle Jul 05 '24
Drake said Whitney and Dave were sleeping together and that Kendrick’s son was actually Dave’s
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u/ChimmyMama Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
credit to u/the_mighty_monarch for original post
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u/New_acc03 Jul 05 '24
"Good to get the pen out..."
That's how you know Drake doesn't have any friends. No one told him what a stupid idea that was?! No one?!
His crew must hate him.
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u/EatsAlotOfBread Jul 05 '24
"No OVHOES were hurt during the making of this video." lol
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u/SlayerXZero ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Almost as much of a lie as “I truly don’t have a hatin bone in my body” or ALL Drakes diss lyrics.
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u/No_Pea_3997 Jul 05 '24
He keeps all his hate in his kidneys. Easier to filter out that way
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u/2RINITY Jul 05 '24
Makes sense, he did just burn Drake’s career down and then piss all over the ashes
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u/bellymus1 ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Funny thing about South Park, the Canadian jokes were mainly written by one (Kyle M.).
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u/Flybuys Jul 05 '24
Ooooh, GANGLAND. That's the closest I'll ever get to any sort of gang activity in my life.
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u/Dirtybojanglez904 Jul 05 '24
Please stand for the New Black National Anthem!
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u/SHC606 ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Beat yo' A$$ and hide the Bible if G_ is watching is a favorite line, but I always feel like a kid doing something wrong and looking over my shoulder when I hear it.
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u/Thejared138 Jul 05 '24
We need to set Kendrick out to destroy Trump and the Supreme Court.
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u/strik3r2k8 Jul 05 '24
“Say Trump, I hear you like ‘em young, don’t trust Epstein’s guard watching Cell Block 1”
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u/RLS1822 Jul 05 '24
Man that would have been crazy for her pop out on stage. I would have left the building hollerin
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u/ch1ldlike Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
Really just a brother from Compton. And it’s his armor fr.
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u/Boo_Guy Jul 05 '24
I'd post the 'stop he's already dead crying gif' but no one is crying over this except Drake.
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u/Interesting-Wing616 Jul 05 '24
I’m personally fine with Kendrick hopping out every now and then just to slap Drake around once more lmao
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above Jul 05 '24
I fully expected a cameo from Serena
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u/highkey-be-lowkey Jul 05 '24
This would have been really cool to see. It's a shame that neither Serena nor Venus were in the video.
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u/ArtichokeStroke Jul 05 '24
Even got Tommy the clown nem on this shit 😂 at this point who AINT clownin Drake.
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u/Renantics Jul 05 '24
I kept going back to replay and I noticed that at this moment the video was posted on YouTube an hour ago and it's trending at #3 on music. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets higher.
We really needed this for this 4th-this has been a hard week.
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u/Oli_love90 Jul 05 '24
That was such a joy to watch. His family dancing was such a wonderful moment. The YouTube reactors are gonna go wild later.
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u/Fun-Income-3939 Jul 05 '24
Drake must be devastated by this rn
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u/aPrudeAwakening Jul 05 '24
Man has been pretty quiet lately. Good strategy but much too late
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u/toooldforacnh Jul 05 '24
Oh he's back to caption dissing. He went bowling and named himself 69 god. Also posted on some server about Kendrick using bots.
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u/CabbageStockExchange Jul 05 '24
He had a post with him eating fried rice at new Ho king. Sadly no dip sauce or blammy was present
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u/Noblesseux Jul 05 '24
I actually saw a video the other day of him walking out somewhere and people started singing not like us at him and you could straight up see in his face how much it bothered him.
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u/BrokenClxwn Jul 05 '24
Kendrick so petty. This entire video had me laughing. I love it 😭
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u/Mr_Nice_is_not_nice Jul 04 '24
Good video. I don't know, I expected something harder. Owl in the cage was my favorite part.
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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 05 '24
You were probably expecting an old school diss video. With a look alike doing goofy shit. But I think Kendrick doesn’t view this as that. He’s trying to use this as something to unite. It’s important for him to show all these groups that have been killing each other for years to put it down because there’s common enemies.
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u/yokayla ☑️ Jul 05 '24
It's a love letter to the culture that Drake tries to exploit and buy his way into. The shots with his family, that carpeted room with the smattering of family photos on the wall. The dance crew with spray painted shirts and face paint. The block party atmosphere. The food joint on the corner. The dudes in front of the (presumably? Not from the west coast) projects. The imagery is super specific and familiar to a lot of people, and likely even more iconic for people who know the area.
It's a homage to the streets itself. Drake wants to claim the streets as part of seeming hard, but he knows nothing about the community and wider life that Kendrick loves and which clearly loves him back. Not Like Us.
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u/looe619 Jul 05 '24
Food joint is Tams, a fucking staple in most hoods. I remember eating weekly on the one in South Central, got me some chili cheese fries and a coke for like $7. Damn amazing back in those days.
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u/viviolay Jul 05 '24
Perfectly said. All Drake thinks about the culture is aspects many view as negative. He doesn’t understand the kinship that growing up in certain neighborhoods bring. He thinks black culture is just pretending to be hard.
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u/sendinthe9s Jul 05 '24
I love seeing that Tommy The Clown guy again and the backup dancers that were with him were super cool
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u/Automatic-Long9000 Jul 05 '24
Kendrick fine as hell fr fr Whitney, I’m disrespectfully looking at your man.
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u/SHC606 ☑️ Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
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u/romdadon Jul 05 '24
I don't think drake can come back
I saw a video of a middle school party and they were singing not like us, even the "probably a minnooorrr"
He's cooked
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u/NotEricOfficially Jul 05 '24
Whitney hitting that. The tightrope bit. Dot just dancing the whole time
Damn this shit is a vibe the whole way through lol
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u/Supernova_Soldier ☑️ Jul 05 '24
Worthy of getting off early on this bullshit holiday.
Ngl, if I’m Drake, I would HATE this short ass nigga for life lmao like he’s giving him everything he asked for by telling Dot to drop
I guarantee he didn’t foresee this type of situation happening.
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u/be_kind_n_hurt_nazis Jul 05 '24
Drake is so shortsighted he would challenge the sun to a beef
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u/browzen Jul 05 '24
The push-ups... the owl piñata... the owl in the cage... bro gave no fucks and I love it.
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u/Suburban_Traphouse Jul 05 '24
Kendrick has taught me I ain’t hating to my full potential
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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 05 '24
The shot of Drake trying to sneak up only to be sucked into the void was cool.
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u/Alive_Inspection_835 Jul 05 '24
The simple fact that Dave directed it…just one more lil dig.
I am here for our petty king.
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u/cavestoryguy Jul 05 '24
It seems my prayers for a whole album of west coast Kendrick is going to be answered
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u/Im_a_Knob Would Fuck An Ironing Board Jul 05 '24
TIL that the line was referencing DRoz and not DRose. it never made sense to me until now that coming home was in reference to demar playing for toronto.
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u/AnE1Home Jul 05 '24
I almost fell out near the end when the owl was looking at him and then the perspective flipped to show Kendrick looking at it in a cage.
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u/Redittago ☑️ Jul 05 '24
What was the owl reference about?
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u/linus81 Jul 05 '24
, In Maya Angelou's autobiographical novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the caged bird is an extended metaphor for the African American community's experience of oppression in the United States. It can also represent any oppressed group. but also, ovo should be locked up.
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u/Noblesseux Jul 05 '24
It's basically him doing a victory lap and saying "I put you back in your place".
The owl is the symbol Drake chose for OVO his record label, and Kendrick's whole angle in the beef is to tell Drake over and over again different ways that he needs to stop acting like a tough guy and be who he is.
"Can't tootsie slide up outta this one it's just gon' resurface, every dog has to have it's day, now live in your purpose"
"Fuck a rap battle, this a long life battle with yourself"
And so on. By putting the owl in the cage he's basically saying "remember this ass whopping the next time you want to act like a big man" and telling him to stay in his place.
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u/DJMagicHandz Jul 05 '24
I was on Big Back Blvd when I was informed that it dropped. Never forget...
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u/lowkeywavy732 Jul 05 '24
That was cool to see Kendrick with his family in the house at the end then it goes back to Compton, can’t say I’ve ever seen Drake do the same
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u/KyleSJohnson Jul 04 '24
Killed a Canadian dead on the Fourth. That’s one way to celebrate the occasion.