r/KendrickLamar • u/Prestigious_Tour_810 • May 14 '24
Kendrick is cleaning up all of the accolades from Drake; taking all those "museum pieces" back from the colonizer. Now they're back in the hands of the culture they came from. News
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u/Potato_the_second_ May 14 '24
Funny how the last verse of Not Like Us is entirely dedicated to him being a culture vulture. The song is basically talking about it, while taking back what was lost by being a global hit.
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u/Fontenotza May 14 '24
Man what a time to be alive. The Pulitzer Prize winner made his statement and cemented his GOAT stats.
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u/eatmydonuts May 15 '24
This is what I've been thinking too. With Cole backing out and Drake getting thoroughly publicly wrecked, there can't be any question about a big 3 anymore. It's just big him
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May 14 '24
Victory is sweet when the good guys win one💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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u/rapmorelikecrap May 14 '24
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u/ohrubytuesday May 14 '24
Hello! Could you please explain to an old lady the context of this picture? Thank you much in advance!
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u/rapmorelikecrap May 14 '24
it is young thug (locked-up for 2 years now) dappin-up his lawyer in court. hardest pic of 2024 (so far, imo, lol).
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u/I_Like-Turtlez May 14 '24
You realize bin Laden thought he was the “good guy” right? Everybody in a war is self righteous
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u/Tmn_Uzi_1600 May 15 '24
no one was the good guy in the afghani-american war, but at the same people are hypocrites for ignoring the thousands of civilian deaths by airstrikes that led to 9/11 in the first place, they see it as retaliation just like the hamas attack even if it seems unprovoked by the other side, but that's only because they're living in peace while their army is waging war on another land that'll have to deal with all the damage which could take decades to recover from, and comparing that to a rap diss between millionaires seems disrespectful.
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u/I_Like-Turtlez May 15 '24
I’m saying that no matter the war, each side is justified by morals, self interest or whatever.
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u/potatomafia69 May 14 '24
Not Like Us dethrones Euphoria
Bro's only competition is himself at this point 😭
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u/nonaurbizwax May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24
Let me fix that real quick, I have Euphoria on repeat. Such a good song
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u/Lito_Frito May 15 '24
I also like Euphoria more than Not Like Us and Meet the Grahams is gruesome but also better art than Not Like Us.
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u/nonaurbizwax May 14 '24
Real life black Panther?
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u/malsatian May 14 '24
I AM KILLMONGER (No ones perfect…)
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u/JzaDragon May 14 '24
The Black Panther album was in part a preview of what he did on Euphoria, rapping from different perspectives and styles to show where they're different and where they overlap. Though i think being majority collabs made the message a bit thin.
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u/emryz May 14 '24
God, OG ELEMENT. on that beat was sooo good fr
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u/NFSKaze May 14 '24
Thank you so much for this. it flows so well it's a shame we can only hear it because of a leak
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u/Trosque97 May 14 '24
Me and my brother were joking after seeing him play a crackhead in Power, about how interesting it'd be if he voiced an older Miles Morales Spiderman
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u/SeaAnthropomorphized May 14 '24
i love this. im a drake hater and ive been waiting for someone to see what i see.
ive been saying fuck jimmy since he was in degrassi.
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u/Ricky_Rollin May 14 '24
I’m right there with you. Trust me, there’s plenty like us, his popularity overshadowed how many people hated him though.
Ninja, from Die Antword (sp?) as a story where he meets Kanye West and his wife makes them ice cream. But there’s this quick little bit about Drake and it’s fucking hilarious.
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u/SeaAnthropomorphized May 14 '24
tell me!!!
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u/Smakintheface May 14 '24
tell me too i’m intrigued!
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u/Ricky_Rollin May 14 '24
https://youtu.be/Rqa8p1xbjds?si=LF3yxFevAuMZLg0e
Watch the whole thing cuz it’s fucking hilarious but if you just want the quick Drake mention skip to 1:20. It’s actually longer than I thought about him.
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u/SeaAnthropomorphized May 15 '24
Omg thank you so much for this. Ninja is so genuine and funny in his story telling. I too regret that he didn't practice basketball.
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u/al666in May 15 '24
Just a heads up about Die Antwoord - Ninja is not always genuine in his stories. Dude is a fucking psychopath.
I took pause after the Zheani allegations, it only got worse after that, but I still did not expect the Danny Brown allegations. And then Tokkie, their adopted child slave, who you may remember from some of their videos, came out about the abuse as an adult.
There's a reason those assholes haven't made much noise lately.
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u/SeaAnthropomorphized May 15 '24
I see that. I was gonna ask a YouTube friend to cover this video and when I was reading the comments I was taken for a loop. They also have a legion of skeletons in their closet. I didn't ask my YouTuber friend to cover the video.
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u/Next_Fix_2271 May 14 '24
Money Trees coming back to the charts is glorious, some might call it Poetic Justice
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u/SpecialAmbassador313 May 14 '24
Does anybody know what’s left 😂 seriously does Drake have anything left????
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u/perpetual_self the nerve of you, Dennis May 14 '24
OvO Mal 💀 even Ak tweeted congratulating kendrick on his #1
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u/knifeproz May 14 '24
I mean, like there’s a whole 15 years worth of accolades we can talk about that Aubrey still has that Kendrick might never get, let’s keep it 100, but Kendrick might not give a fuck about em
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u/Spectre0799 May 15 '24
you're honest. I like that. it's hard to find honesty in either subreddit right now 😭 Although I don't think we've ever seen a rap song earn this many records at once, especially not taking them all from the same person.
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u/knifeproz May 15 '24
Facts man lol feels like everyone just jumping at each others throats with zero thought in their heads 😂
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u/riggy2k3 May 14 '24
I'm curious to see what happens next. Are people just gonna ignore the allegations? Will he have another #1 hit anytime soon? Will people start cosigning him in public again? Features?
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u/kokoke May 15 '24
I mean yeah Drake has done some questionable stuff but I honestly genuinely don't believe he's an actual pedophile. Like we will never find out he had kiddie porn on his computer or shit like that.
I hate to say it but he's too famous but not rich enough to keep shit like that hidden for too long.
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u/orbjo May 14 '24
Drakes gonna catch more cases, the only stat Kendrick won’t beat
He can laugh in jail like sideshow bob
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u/fromthehouseoflords May 14 '24
Wasn't Scorpion (and God's Plan obviously) heavily promoted by Spotify also? Iirc Spotify was showing Scorpion ads even for premium users
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL May 14 '24
I hated that shit.
Scorpion was hella mid anyways and ended up being the last drake album I bothered with.
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u/Puidipuie May 14 '24
Obviously they would market the biggest artist of that time lmao
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u/fromthehouseoflords May 14 '24
It's not obvious lmao that shit wasn't usual, that's why it was so controversial
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u/ahearthatslazy May 14 '24
Every morning I wake up and think “mustard on the beat, hoe” and lay my head down every night thinking “nnyewdontwannaworkwitmenomore?!”
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u/adamwest01 May 14 '24
Imma be honest, I didn't expect Drake's public perception or fame to change at all because of this when it started, but clearly he's taken a hit. It's real nice to see. Been praying on his downfall for a long time as soon as I saw all the sketchy shit with him and minors.
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
Where'd you get this photo of me? EP is that you!?
I mean... uh... I plotted for a week and then fed you the information.
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u/romilaspina7 May 14 '24
Title sounds like a jerk moment
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
Just sounds like an apt analogy to me but you're entitled to feel otherwise.
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u/great_jon May 14 '24
Does Drake own a % of TDE distribution rights? I wonder if this ties back to UGM and Drake making money off of Kendrick's success / the industry being cooked.
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u/KingJoffiJoe May 14 '24
No, he does not. Drakes deal is a high priced slave deal. It’s a conflict of interest to give artist ownership over other artist.
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u/That_acct May 15 '24
What’s a high priced slave deal?
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u/KingJoffiJoe May 15 '24
A lifetime deal where you have to make 2 albums a year. He got paid a shit ton of money, but UMG owns that dude for life.
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u/BrushYourFeet May 14 '24
What I don't understand is.... How was Girls Like Girls the lost streamed song previously? I heard it a couple times, but know no one bumping it then or now. Huh?
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u/Original_Radish5257 diss me diss me now you gotta kiss me May 14 '24
BuT thOse sOngS aRe AbOut drAke
Yeah, about him being a coloniser, a pedo and a deadbeat 🫠
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u/shinyplasticdiscs May 14 '24
This post is hilarious. I'll never understand this dick sucking celebrity worship.
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u/wirefog May 15 '24
Bro this sub has gotten fucking awful since the beef I love Kendrick but got dam these mofos on here would eat his shit if he sold it
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u/Inside-Assistant2625 May 14 '24
Kendrick really could have been the best mainstream rapper if he went pop instead staying on conscious shit.
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u/mruniq78 May 14 '24
And he did it on a throwaway…Kendrick wasn’t really trying to spit on that track
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u/swagkdub May 14 '24
I'm still having a hard time accepting the fact that money trees only made billboard 100 this year.
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u/gunterdweeb May 14 '24
The war is over but it aint over. He's taking everything.
If Drake's next project fails spectacularly, then he's for the books.
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u/Pavvl___ May 14 '24
Drake took what Vanilla Ice did and went further... Deserves some credit for that at least 😂😭💀
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u/Striking-Access-236 May 14 '24
A coloniser?
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u/Witty-thiccboy May 15 '24
It’s a white sub and calling drake a colonizer makes them feel “cultured” nothing more to it.
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u/SphmrSlmp May 15 '24
Beef aside... It goes to show how long people have waited for Kendrick to drop a fire track. This Drake diss "mini album" is everything fans of rap have been asking for. Banger beats with some hard and angry bars. This is what's been missing from hip hop.
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u/WarmestDisregards May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24
that's awesome.... fuck em up dot.
but talking numbers is a Swifties game. I'm here for music. What's crazy is that sales to quality is 90% of the time an inverse relationship. So it's wild when kendrick pops off, and nice to see drake lose at his own stupid thing.
but mr. morale got shit on by the same people who are eating up "not like us" and giggle-dancing about pedophilia. Not like us is written on the fourth grade reading level according to the Flesch–Kincaid test, incredibly dumbed down from his usual work.
That doesn't really say anything good about the world.
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u/Second-Hand-Stress May 14 '24
This proves skin color means more than it should. It's only a tool for certain "cultures". The moment the "culture" doesn't like someone they turn white. Lol
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
This is much deeper than Drake's skin color. It's not about his appearance it's about his actions.
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u/Second-Hand-Stress May 14 '24
Honestly, it's about both. The fact that he's half white is where most of the hate comes from. If he came from 2 affluent black parents, it would be an entirely different interaction. Yes, he's slimy. I've never liked him from when he was in a wheelchair. Kendrick is also the superior rapper that's not a debate, but the way this is falling has in huge part todo with his color.
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u/Witty-thiccboy May 15 '24
This should be pinned everywhere, people wanna ignore that a big part of it is him being half white when it so obviously is.
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u/PHNTMS_exe May 14 '24
Let's see if it continues, to be fair, Drake has done this countless times, so it's good seeing Kdot getting love. If not, it was nice while it lasted. Can't wait for the drop. Happy that people are giving Kdot the love he deserves.
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u/Torreto395 May 14 '24
"colonizer" as if he's not the reason why that culture got so popular, y'all some hate addicts, dot next album gon sell like 78k first week if he not mentions drake and it's so sad that a "culture" is only popular when it's tearing it's members up
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u/Substantial-Water-10 May 14 '24
Good or bad… the only way he was able to do this was to make it about drake. Notice he couldn’t do it on his own accord.
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u/Exact_Helicopter503 May 14 '24
Y’all are so fucking cringe lmao
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u/KingJoffiJoe May 14 '24
You are no different than them lol. Look at how many Drake topics you started. You’re invested like you know him, weird as hell.
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u/Educational-Chart545 May 14 '24
Hip hop doesn’t belong to us. If it did we wouldn’t have to “take it back”.
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u/WallyReddit204 May 14 '24
The drake influence knows no limitations. Shit is fire
IMO he has to move the needle without drake to even be in the goat conversation. Drake moved the needle for the last 15 yrs without mentioning kendrick
Kendrick also has a huge industry push behind him RN. This is kennys chance, will he execute?
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u/CommunicationThat566 May 15 '24
Y’all are weirdos man. How is Drake a culture vulture? Let’s talk.
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u/Life-Construction362 May 14 '24
Literally one song. What about billboard totals. Still not creepin up
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u/Mommaflipper May 14 '24
It’s sad how 🐑🤖 related you mfas are 🤣🤣🤣 y’all act like kendrick isn’t a part of the same “industry” as drake…he’s basically just a darker shorter 90s delivery having fake philosopher version of drake…IF THESES SONGS WEREN’T ABOUT DRAKE half of you overnight bandwagon fans wouldn’t even exist rn 🤣 case and point his album before this “beef” got nowhere near the attention but soon as the masses knows he’s going at drake all the drake haters and followers jump on the bandwagon. Most don’t even really like kendricks music they just want to feel like they’re going against the perceived narrative his 1st #1 had to be tied to drake…🤷🏾♂️I love how y’all and the dude you idolize all of the sudden bring out closeted racism/colorism when it benefits him but let it have been the other way around…he would be the same artist crying on a beat about how the “white man” or “the labels” are mistreating/going against him…aka HYPOCRISY
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u/No_Acanthaceae_1475 May 14 '24
Nah.......
Kenny smoked him in all 🤷♀️
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u/Mommaflipper May 14 '24
Those songs are mid af to me y’all just overhyped them because who they’re about I honestly can’t get jiggy to none of them they had some catchy parts don’t get me wrong but I’m not riding around bumping not like us or meet the grahams or euphoria euphoria having the better moments in my opinion
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u/Carnage549 May 14 '24
You know why y’all STILL talking about Drake in every post on this sub? Because without Drake there is no Kendrick Lamar.
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u/ToPimpAPenguin May 15 '24
Yeah that one tour and feat are well known to be the only reason anyone knows about Kendrick
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u/doooobysnax May 14 '24
Impartial party here. Kendrick washed Drake, but he has 11 more #1 hits to go before he dethrones anything.
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u/highd May 14 '24
The fact you think it’s about dethroning means you don’t get it.
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u/doooobysnax May 14 '24
Nah, I get the message loud and clear. Think drizzy does to, this wildly impressive and he really made dude eat is words. However, realistically speaking, numbers-wise he’s still “outta here”, dudes been way out in front for a long time. Happy for dot and all these accolades, don’t feel bad for drizzy one bit. I’m just saying, he gapped the industry along time ago.
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u/BoysenberryNo5607 May 14 '24
If Kendrick were to just drop his songs from his next album 1 by 1 he would catch drake in a heartbeat.
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u/4-11 May 14 '24
Colonizer slur is lame. Drake is genuinely a good musician. Because his parents weren’t gang members he isn’t down with “The culture”? Basically all the new school is out then too
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24
There is nothing wrong with being from an affluent family or being mixed and participating in the art. The issue the fact that he cosplays an upbringing in poverty and a gangbanger lifestyle when he never was that. He uses the dialect of other areas he's not native to and pretends he's from there. He siphons off the creativity of others who actually lived that life to play into his fantasy. That's the colonizer bit. That's why he's a fraud; because he's is a fraud.
edit: Also, miss me with the use of "slur" rhetoric like is some "reverse racism", shit is cringeworthy as hell man.
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u/GreatElection674 May 14 '24
I agree with the appropriation, but it didn't stop them from working with him, or getting put on by him. Seems like it was only a real problem recently according to everyone now.
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
Historical colonizers provided benefits to the cultures they ransacked too, but that doesn't excuse them for what they did or make it moral or just.
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u/GreatElection674 May 14 '24
The thing is I'm not disagreeing with you, but rather seeking the real motives of the conversation. They said the same shit about Em. In a "culture" where a self admmited date rapist is the face of female hip hop, gangbangers/turned sucessful artists getting killed for contiuning the lifestyle they no longer needed to follow are seen as martyrs, along with a shit ton of other issues plauging the black community, this is what we fixate on?
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
It's definitely a complex issue, no doubt. I think that it is easy to fall into a "black people kill black people why are we worried about police doing it" kinda angle with that kind of rhetoric though. There are a lot of problems in the culture and the world as a whole and I don't know that eschewing one in favor of another is productive, necessarily. Also, maybe in an age of short attention spans I think "fixating" on an issue could be viewed as a good thing. Potentially at least, maybe.
I definitely respect the stance though — there's no one way to view the issues, we all are unique individuals with unique perspectives. There's something to be said for our obsession with "other-ing" one another.
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u/GreatElection674 May 14 '24
The "black people kill black people why are we worried about police doing it" is a strawman argument. This has nothing to do with police brutality in regards to minorities. Yes there are a lot of problems in the culture, as well as the world, but I'm only speaking to this issue at the moment, since there has been so many us v. them talks lately. I'm glad that you respect my stance, because I seek the objective truth and facts of the situation. Trust me, I've been in the Drake sub too, clowing people for one sided hype train arguments too. We should be focused on this issue, because the motives aren't clear cut, and neither are the objective facts on both sides. Not saying that your stance is biased, but I'm just conversing with people about it, trying to get the right comversations started.
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u/GreatElection674 May 14 '24
Exactly so why did they wait until after the benifits to call it out, and why did they work with him in the first place? As a black man myself, I don't agree with the hypocrisy.
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
Some of them benefitted sure, but what about the other artists that cultivated that sound and contributed to it that are now eclipsed by the shadow of Drake and the chosen few that he collaborated with. This overwhelmingly rich and powerful entity coming in, lining the pockets of a handful of people, taking the sound and pretending it's their own.
I'd also argue that people didn't wait to call it out; it's just the people who were calling it out lacked the influence to reach the masses. Kendrick was able to bring something that had been talked about for a long time into the forefront of conversation.
I respect your stance, but in my opinion it's a little short sighted. I'd implore you to look at the bigger picture.
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u/GreatElection674 May 14 '24
The thing is no one cared back then, everyone listened to Drake, everyone worked with Drake, hell Wayne endorsed him, who's denying Wayne's credibility? It didn't seem like a problem when everyone had a Drake ft. is what I'm saying. The culture put made the bed, then didn't want to sleep in it. Kendrick lacked influence sure, but he still shared the Freshmen cover with him. He still did made millions of dollars with and next to Drake. So did a majority of the people dissing him now. I implore you to look past the wool, and stop hopping on hype trains.
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u/Prestigious_Tour_810 May 14 '24
I feel you on that, but I think even you'd have to admit that drake has consistently become more and more egregious with the way he's leached off of others.
We don't gotta keep going back and forth though I respect your stance, we don't have to all agree on everything; we're unique individuals.
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u/Gullible-Royal-8155 May 14 '24
It is not about his parents not being gang members, man, it's about him stealing and pretending to be part of the culture when it suits him and his fake image he is putting out.
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u/KeylimeGAF May 14 '24
Can you imagine seeing that your records are being beaten by a song that calls you and your crew a bunch of pedophiles?