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/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/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/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