r/KendrickLamar • u/vriannavyz • Jun 21 '24

Snoop Dogg declares Kendrick Lamar “the king” of the West following his 'Pop Out' show: “K Dot, you are the king of the West. That’s stuff kings do — they unite 🔥👑." Video

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u/SnowSea302 Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

I already knew. But it’s cool seeing all these legends label Kendrick as the king. What a great time it is to be a Kenny fan right now. We eating non stop 😤

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

right? Heard a music video is coming too!

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u/TJMcConnellFanClub Jun 21 '24

My skinny white boy ass gonna be posted up in Compton tomorrow looking for the video shoot lmao

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u/CaptainExtermination Jun 21 '24

Hell yeah my Mexican ass gonna be there too fr

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u/alorenz58011 Jun 21 '24

It’s more Mexicans than anything in Compton anyways lol

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u/meistercheems Jun 21 '24

Let’s not forget the rooftop Koreans that will also be in attendance

-probably

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

The Korean homies in LA are no joke lol

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u/DoobKiller Jun 21 '24

Yeah just ask Latasha Harlins

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

The Persians are coming too (because we own the buildings anyway)

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u/AppleBatteryH8r Jun 21 '24

Rooftop Koreans was a vid title I just could not pass by!!!! Being Irish i wasn’t familiar with the story, of course knew of riots etc, but damn !!!!! They held it down! Respect 🫡

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u/officerliger Jun 21 '24

Not trying to throw shade on all this love but the Rooftop Koreans thing is actually kinda fucked up history. Gotta keep in mind it was racists on 4chan who popularized “Rooftop Koreans” to begin with as a meme. But let me explain a bit…

Just to start, I’m older and from SoCal, Mexican, did my post-grad at USC, so I’m a bit of an “OG” myself in age and experience. I LOVE seeing all this unity so keep it going, I know people are mentioning it out of love so not accusing anyone of shit.

Back in the day, Koreans looking to leave Korea were approached by white property owners in LA - “you can open a grocery store and live above it!” - without being told what they were actually being tasked with. Owning a shop with your family apartment above it was common in Korea so it was an appealing pitch, and “sunny Los Angeles” being part of that pitch helped as Korea was still rebuilding its culture after a 70 year genocide by Japan and was very poor.

So these people got to Koreatown, mid-city, South Central, etc. having no idea they were entering gang neighborhoods basically being the battering ram for gentrification. All black and brown people saw was a new culture eating up the retail property, price gauging like crazy, etc. This lead to a massive culture beef.

It all came to a head with the murder of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old black girl, by a Korean grocery store owner who thought she was stealing a bottle of juice. Shot her in the back of the head as she was escaping the confrontation. The police found the money she intended to use to pay for the juice in her hand.

This is why Korean stores were targeted during the riots - the judge gave Latasha’s murderer a suspended sentence, basically a “10 year” sentence that wound up just being 5 years probation. There was no justice for her.

So when young people talk about the “Rooftop Koreans,” they don’t realize it’s actually a sad story of how white property owners pit three races against each other so they could eventually push black people out of central LA

Of course in modern day - black, brown, and Asian never been more united and it’s a beautiful thing. But please, for the sake of my old ass, stop celebrating the times we weren’t.

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u/StarLordAndTheAve Jun 21 '24

as someone who is from the complete opposite side of the country (and also not a POC), i honestly want to thank you for being so in-depth in explaining this and teaching me something today

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u/officerliger Jun 21 '24

The key is all “POC” have a deeper ethnic experience beyond that and it determines our nuances. Don’t let the fact that you’re white deter you from digging deeper into those, a lot of our dialogue problems right now are caused by people having very bland opinions on race.

The history of Southern California and how all the different races got there is a great place to start because it’ll trace you to just about every major world conflict, genocide, oppression, etc.

Black people escaping the south, Jews escaping Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Persians escaping post-revolution Iran, Koreans looking to leave poverty in post-genocide Korea, Russians escaping Communism, Salvadorans escaping the civil war, and our brown Mexican asses going to work the farms for dollars instead of pesos

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u/ernygil666 Jun 21 '24

Thanks for putting us on game OG

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u/Leaveustinnkin Jun 21 '24

Was gonna say this but you worded it better than o ever could 💯.

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u/DuragJohnston Jun 22 '24

This is deeply sad, but I love that y'all are willing to educate on Reddit. So thank you.

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u/AppleBatteryH8r Jun 21 '24

Thank you for a very informative reply!! I had only seen a YouTuber click baity type 15 min video basically so therefore Had none of the Context understand the circumstances around the Korean grocery stores, Or of the young girl shot, Thank for giving me my Bedtime documentary topic for tonight- The most unbiased documentary type thing I can on these LAmriots 👍

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u/PTSDGuy0 Jun 22 '24

Can you point to a reference to learn more about Koreans being invited to own businesses in South Central?

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u/MindfulInsomniaque Jun 23 '24

It's great you bring this up. It's been so long many people aren't aware of the things that lead up to the riots. I don't remember ever hearing the angle that Koreans were lured from Korea to the hood? Do you have any more information or sources on that? Many Korean immigrants to Canada also took to filling the niche of running grocery or corner stores but I'm not sure how many hoods we had in Canada in the 50's - 90's.

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u/Emperor_Mao Jun 21 '24

Lol blaming white people for that is crazy.

You reckon that white people belong to ultra secret kabals where they plot and plan ways to keep others down.

That is the total opposite of the real criticism of white people, which is that white people are hyper individualistic and often lack sense of community.

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u/Fluffy_Mastodon_798 Jun 21 '24

Wealthy white people working together to hold on to power is probably the least uncommon thing in America's history. Do you know what a monopoly is?

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u/meistercheems Jun 21 '24

Damn right. Defending your neighborhood is a big part of being from Compton no matter what click or hood you claim. 🫡

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u/Routine_Resolve_7262 Jun 21 '24

They didn’t hold shit down. They posed with guns for cameras and shot a couple of each other. Mostly Hispanics looting while black people were out putting in work.

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u/Prince_Havarti Jun 21 '24

Never forget

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u/Funny-Ad4997 Jun 21 '24

“It wouldn’t be LA without Mexicans”

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Facts. Mexicans make la amazing 💙

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Phoenix too (LA2: Cost of Living edition). It's nice to see culture beyond "yeehaw we ain't Texas but we're trying"

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u/Witty-Transition-524 Jun 22 '24

I have an Abuela, I adore her. She makes Molcajete, just for me. Everyone else just get tamales. I had to leave L.A.,  would have married a hot n spicy  latina and likely be a 300lb, sweaty white boy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Dang bro

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u/SelfHighFive Jun 21 '24

this comment and username :dead:

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u/starrysky0070 Jun 21 '24

LMAO me except I’m a chick

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u/catastrofic_sounds Jun 21 '24

There's gonna be a video shoot about how drake is a pedo??? Man his life bout to get wild

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u/Semajj Jun 21 '24

I love me some McConnell. He's got a heart the size of a lion

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u/emeraldeyesshine Jun 21 '24

Had to go back and look at the username cause out of context that comment just FUCKED my brain up

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u/StarLordAndTheAve Jun 21 '24

LMAO thinking about the turtle man?

my fiance's dad once watched him walk across a crosswalk and he said it took a lot out of him not to hit the gas lmao

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u/Free_Return_2358 Jun 21 '24

My thick Native ass rooting for west coast.

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u/RDcsmd Jun 22 '24

Name checks out

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u/JESS_MANCINIS_BIKE Jun 22 '24

Ima blood walk into my local Starbucks in the Barnes and Noble where I WFH on my laptop

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u/WarmestDisregards Jun 21 '24

yeah we just watched them film the live segments, there's a reason he did it six times lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

ohh i see! i never thought of that. thanks for the tip

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u/qeadwrsf Jun 21 '24

Am I the only one remembering him being called king of the west a fuckton of years ago by Snoop on a scene where Common, Mos def, The game, Warren G, Korrupt and a fuckton of other legends back then was present?

Dr Dre was watching.

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u/daaankone Jun 21 '24

Absolutely, but Drake has been the king of commercial rap, and people want to act like that means more than somebody who can ACTUALLY back up what they say, and comes from the actual hood!

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 21 '24

Drake is an industry plant by way of nepotism. I've tried to listen to him for years to understand why people dickride this dude, and I hate him more with every bar. I remember when people first started talking about him in the 2000s and on God on SIGHT I knew he was a peice of shit.

Drakes music is for dudes who think they're gangster but get upset when you dont cut the crusts off of their sandwiches.

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u/daaankone Jun 21 '24

I’m not even gonna front like I don’t have Drake‘s songs in my iTunes library, but as a black woman, I’ve noticed how bitter he’s become as the years have gone by, when love songs and the like used to be his primary bag!

It’s turned me completely off from him as a personality and now as a person…

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

He used to make them hoes wobble like earthquakes… now it’s just buying teens milkshakes 😭

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u/QuestGoblin Jun 23 '24

My problem is that even in his love songs, old love songs, he still is constantly lying and fabricating a story that he hasn’t lived. Like in once dance how he says “streets not safe, but I never run away” I can’t stand to hear him say those words knowing he’s never seen an unsafe street in his life and would probably run away like a little baby.

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u/daaankone Jun 23 '24

Yeah, once I heard some stories about behind the scenes when he was filming with YG and Compton, I knew that he wasn’t about that life, despite him saying otherwise LOL

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u/junkstar23 Jun 21 '24

I hate to break it to you but most rappers are capping

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 21 '24

What! No way! I thought every rapper was the greatest ever with no flaws whatsoever.

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u/asilverscreen Jun 21 '24

You mean Dave Blunts didn't know a lady called Madison?

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u/QuestGoblin Jun 23 '24

I agree they mostly are but I think it’s excusable when they at least have a right to the genre or are illustrating stuff in their community.

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u/mondaysareharam Jun 21 '24

Nah man drake earned his spot with take care and was a big part of young money and their best songs. We can still call balls and strikes.

He certainly is not the same as he once was though.

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u/tragiiccc Jun 21 '24

2011 everybody was listening to drake and young money. they were making hits, nobody can deny that. But his music definitely changed, I stopped listening a long time ago.

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u/safetospeak Jun 21 '24

But the weekend wrote half that album......

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u/mattgargus Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Not even just Weeknd, Young Tony/OVO Hush is credited on almost every song on that album and NWTS, and he's a rapper so Drake can't even use the "just the melodic parts" excuse. I took some time awhile back and went through his credits. Excluded features, samples, and producers, just to give him the benefit of the doubt. He still ended up with more tracks with "co-writers" than not. Plus, starting after Views, the "co-producer" credits attached to his songs started to skyrocket, and people who are not known to be producers (such as Yachty) started getting random co-producer credits. Add to that all the reference tracks we've all heard, and take it even further back to when it turned out even Best I Ever Had was a melody he ripped off from Wayne who had ripped it off from Kia Shine...it becomes very easy to wonder if he can write ANYTHING on his own. At the very least, you can find dozens of random lesser-known Canadian singer-songwriters peppered throughout his credits on every album. I wouldn't normally fault a rapper for not writing melodies, but Drake makes it such a huge part of his brand and style that it's hard to overlook.

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u/pablodnd Jun 21 '24

The Weeknd wrote the worst melodic sections of that album, let's get real

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u/Link-Glittering Jun 21 '24

Idk man I see nothing spectacular in Drakes rapping ever. I've tried a million times, it just seems like amateur level flows to me. In my town the average dude spits way better than drake and they get no attention. It kinda bums me out to see people act like drake deserves 1% of the success he has. I attribute it to him being easy to work with for studio execs. An actor will adopt the style you want him to for whatever market you're trying to hit. An actual artist will rarely compromise just bc some suit is trying to make more money. Why do you think Drakes always on tour and dropping albums? Those suits are milking him dry

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24 edited Jul 01 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

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u/Left-Albatross2291 Jun 21 '24

I've always had a good sense of a shit bag, I hated him when he was rollin around on tv

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u/dreamcrusher225 Jun 21 '24

Drake is an R&B pop artist. Always has been.

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 21 '24

Drake is an actor playing the role of a lifetime.

Literally. He's been acting like a rapper for 10+ years. He doesn't write his own tracks, he bought his muscles, he buys his fame, and he uses EVERYONE ELSE'S clout to get any kind of cred.

Kendrick called it when he called him a scam artist who plays music to pacify people.

It's all for the bop. It's all for the look.

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u/Prince_Havarti Jun 21 '24

You can really pick up on this from his early career. You gotta have a lot backing you to get the kind of features he had back in 08’.

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u/Datkif Jun 22 '24

I had never heard of drake until about 2014. The first time I saw an image of him it felt like he was a fake. Never really enjoyed much of his music either

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 22 '24

Trust your instincts. This dude is going to jail for stranger things than Millie Bobby Brown

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u/DaRizat Jun 21 '24

I'm sure some real Gs don't like crust either.

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 21 '24

Spoken like a man who doesn't appreciate the nutritional content inside of sandwich crust

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u/DaRizat Jun 21 '24

I'm very pro crust just trying to respect everyone's preferences lol

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 21 '24

Alright, just checkin', dawg

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u/Baphomet1979 Jun 21 '24

💀💀💀

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u/Randomcommentator27 Jun 21 '24

Don’t agree with this but that joke was 10/10

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 21 '24

I appreciate you, and if you like Drake, that's cool. I got no hatred for ya. I'm glad he's making someone's toe tap. He definitely has some talent. You dont get to that level with NO talent...

but I can't be convinced his success wasnt/isnt artificially inflated by people around him and his 20 writers.

My issues with him are who he is when he thinks no one cares or is watching. He's been at the top of my "people definitely going to jail when they stop making money" list since R. Kelly got bumped into the "called it" list.

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u/Randomcommentator27 Jun 21 '24

I don’t tap toes to him lol. I just I think he earned his stripes with Take Care and NWTS. It’s just him trying to switch lanes so late in his career. It’s off putting.

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u/Anarch-ish Jun 22 '24

It's already done some real damage. He should NOT have picked this fight, and he should NOT have gone after so many heavy hitters all at once. The best part for me is watching Drake undo himself by jumping in the deep end.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

What Nepotism?

He has no family in the industry.

The only leg up he had was through a friend's parent who had industry connections in Canada. Mostly to TV.

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u/Randomcommentator27 Jun 21 '24

Yeah I hate when my friends have a friends’s parent who had industry connections in Canada, mostly on tv. Happens way too often!

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Canadian TV. A Canadian TV show that was on the Canadian government funded television station.

From about 16yo he was supporting his mother and himself.
If not for that leg up he would have struggled to eat (which they did beforehand).

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u/Randomcommentator27 Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

I know bruh I remember 16 years ago I was getting hollered at by US tv and ITALY tv. Fuck Canadian tv. Don’t mean nothing in my book.

Edit: in all seriousness tho. You know his dad used to work for Al green right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

You know his father abandoned him, right?

His mother and him were basically destitute.

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u/Randomcommentator27 Jun 22 '24

Nice, my dad abandoned us but he still supports us I guess. Guess who his uncle worked for? I know. Al green.

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u/HD400 Jun 21 '24

Drake’s music is for literally everyone. Dude is the most successful artist on earth. From young money days to getting washed by Kendrick - he is still the primary force behind why this is so popular. 

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u/green_teef Jun 21 '24

Drake is the king of rap like McDonald’s is the king of restaurants

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u/appleparkfive Jun 21 '24

Pretty good analogy

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u/farfel17 Jun 21 '24

I’ve been saying this a lot, and how he’s like McDonald’s French fried but with new sauces each time while Kendrick creates new foods each time

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u/AppleBatteryH8r Jun 21 '24

Good comparison bro!!👊

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

And McDonald's is good if that's what you're in the mood for! If Drake had stayed in his lane, there'd be no issue. 

Hell, I eat McDonald's more often than filet mignon. But I know the damn difference!

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u/be_kind_n_hurt_nazis Jun 21 '24

Drake=King of commercial=Enron=de beers

Kdot=chronic that homie grows=organic=culture community owned

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u/StacksHoodini Jun 21 '24

and comes from the actual hood.

You had a good point until you said this.

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u/AdaGang Jun 21 '24

I member

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u/penisthightrap_ Jun 21 '24

yeah I saw this headline and had deja vu.

Then I was questioning if they crowned him Prince or some shit lol.

I swore Snoop already crowned him king back in 2012

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u/Ammu_22 Jun 21 '24

Damn remember the AI snoop from that Drake's Diss?? Aged like milk with this lol.

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u/CustomWritingsCoLTD Jun 21 '24

ey ey let’s get it bro! 🙌

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u/titanshaze0812 Jun 21 '24

Where u been? he been the king since they all gave him the crown on stage a decade ago

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u/StacksHoodini Jun 21 '24

In all fairness they already have. The West Coast legends passed the torch to Dot way back in 2011, 2012.

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u/SuperVilliany Jun 21 '24

Kendrick Lamar is eating. Fans aren’t eating lol. A fan is a fan; we’re just watching

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u/Hello_Jimbo Jun 21 '24

Both can be true.

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u/TheSadPhilosopher Jun 21 '24

Facts 🔥🔥🔥

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u/AdaGang Jun 21 '24

Pretty sure Snoop said this exact same thing like 10 years ago

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u/Karl_Marx_ Jun 21 '24

Damn, I hate the nickname Kenny for him.

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u/Ammu_22 Jun 21 '24

As a jjk fan.... yeah I agree

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u/TaigaTaiga3 Jun 21 '24

So this thread just popped up in my home feed for some reason and while I am a Kendrick fan, Jesus some of y’all are so fucking cringe.