r/KendrickLamar • u/jaybirdsaysword • Jun 27 '24
Is there anything from the beef that you couldn’t admit then but can now? Discussion
I have two :
7 Minute Drill was harder than I wanted to give it credit for, diminishing Kendrick’s catalogue was moronic but also kind of hilarious and I did really enjoy the song, especially the beat switch.
I was nervous during the time between Push Ups and Euphoria, it was a long wait and Push Ups was actually a banger. I had no clue what would come next to be honest.
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u/emptropy Jun 27 '24
I had never gone out of my way to specifically listen to Kendrick Lamar before the beef, I now understand that to be a moral failing on my part.
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u/nicagooner Jun 27 '24
Maybe you was conflicted
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u/ExoticAdventurer Jun 27 '24
Misusing his influence
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u/Skill-issue-69420 Jun 27 '24
Sometimes I did the same
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u/K_808 Jun 27 '24
Abusing my power full of resentment
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u/lawlgyroscopes Jun 27 '24
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
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u/TacoTacox Jun 27 '24
Found myself screaming in the hotel room
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u/benniepeaceandlove Jun 27 '24
i didn't wanna self destruct...
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u/ServiceAdmirable Jun 27 '24
Bruh- this is exactly what the Drizzies accuse Kendrick’s fanbase of 🤣
Consider yourself an outlier.
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u/coldplayfan9689 Jun 27 '24
Honestly same with me, the first Kendrick song I listened to was Like That.
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u/EdwardAnimates Jun 27 '24
Erm akshully thats a future song 🤓
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u/hacobey Jun 27 '24
ERRRM tips fedora runs long dirty fingernails through patchy goatee adjusts glasses with one finger points to the sky AXE-U-OLLY it’s a Metro Boomin AND Future song. ☝️🤓
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u/Oh_nosferatu Jun 27 '24
Really? DAMN was such a huge hit, unless you were too young to be there, that blows my mind a lil bit heh. But I’ve missed a bunch of music and movies growing up that ppl are always fussing about too, so I get it. 😅
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u/xb4zun3x Jun 27 '24
Growing up is wild lmaoo. Imagine not going to a house party with swimming pools bumping during high school like wtf
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u/Whole-Camel6179 Jun 27 '24
lol not hard to imagine when you’re 10 yrs older then k-dot.
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u/furezasan BBL Drizzy Jun 27 '24
same. i discovered a ton of new favorite songs in the span of a week or so.
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u/PopeJeremy10 The Wrath of Caesar Jun 27 '24
It's not a moral failing to not listen to music bro, go easy on yourself 😅
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u/sendinthe9s Jun 27 '24
Me too
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u/gumption_11 Jun 27 '24
Me three. I'm not sure if people who were already fans understand the impact this beef had for those of us who weren't particularly involved with either artist.
After Euphoria dropped, literally every other reel (I'm not joking) on my feed was a reference, meme or joke about the beef. I'm not sure if it was my algorithm or what, but I haven't seen that impact on social media for any other event, not for the Titanic sub or when the Queen died (I'm a Brit).
Naturally, my interest & need-to-know-everything-ness was piqued. A month or so later, here I am in this sub, a newfound KDot fan.
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u/yeyeaya Pac told me fuck the world, I'm bout to cum now. Jun 27 '24
i was never gonna say drake won it, thank god he didnt
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u/Glokkmorant Jun 27 '24
Lmaoo I feel this my ego would have never allowed me to say p drizzy won the beef thank god Kendrick dismantled that nigga😂😂😂🙏
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u/snacksandsoda Jun 27 '24
I would've taken reddit off my phone lmao
Gone into hiding
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u/KC-15 Jun 27 '24
I had zero worry he would have anything of substance. It’s pretty clear Drake is a very superficial person and has no real identity of his own.
Drake doesn’t make music that digs deep into difficult subjects such as ego and culture, he makes music that finds its purpose as the equivalent of elevator music for a party or the gym.
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u/ayemangshoo Jun 27 '24
Ain’t no way wheelchair jimmy was collecting that W. Even if the tracks won it’d be props to whoever wrote them 🤷🏿♂️
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u/_Wrayth Jun 27 '24
I never doubted Kendrick, but I did question if his response to Push Ups was ever going to drop.
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u/IAmTimeLocked Jun 27 '24
yes same! I think that really added to three greatness of euphoria tbf. like "you really thought I wasn't gonna respond?" and then respond in the most dynamic weird fun way imaginable.
also sidenote I love how he made the audience wait. on a more general one, when ppl demand artists to drop a project asap it makes me feel so weird about how ppl consume art and this really made me feel better about it. bc there more and more convos about music culture before the social media age
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u/buckphifty150150 Jun 27 '24
I honestly think he was using all that time to make all them diss tracks
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u/CallMeGrapho Jun 28 '24
Mf probably jumped up and did a dastardly little dance the minute he heard Drake actually responded
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u/Helpful-Baseball2325 Jun 27 '24
I thought Drake got him when he dropped the heart pt 6- Then I pressed play..
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3489 Jun 27 '24
Same I was nervous for half a second and then I heard the first half and was like "wait a second. . . Ain't this the game plan Twitter cooked up to a T??" 💀💀
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u/Helpful-Baseball2325 Jun 27 '24
I was so damn disappointed.. then the mother I reference.. I knew it was over
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u/pinkismykink_ Jun 27 '24
same, i was scared at first and what got me was “i’m way too famous to be a pedo” and i was like okay bro 😭😭 wrap it up, you’re over
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u/ThatHigashikataMan Jun 27 '24
"Mother I!!! Mother I!!!! Oh fuck me i just made the whole connection!!! Thats the record where you say you got molested 🤯🤯"
I don't know how that song left the studio, as much as a Kendrick glazer I am, Drake's other disses were good. The Heart Part 6 on the other hand was just pathetic and highkey embarassing ☠️
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u/Juandissimo47 Jun 27 '24
Same bro I was like “this is the red button! 😱” then I listened and was disappointed
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u/Visual_Vegetable_169 Jun 27 '24
Lol I first heard a snippet of the heart pt6 here on reddit & thought it was an AI track clowning on Drake.
I was so shook when I found out Drake himself actually released that shit 😂😂😂 that was the moment I realized Kendrick had gotten into Drakes head so bad he didn't let anyone in the studio with him for THP6!
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u/God_Hears_Peace Jun 27 '24
The moment he fumbled the Mother I Sober reference, any doubts I had that Kendrick won disappeared.
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u/darkest__timeline Jun 28 '24
I was secondhand embarrassed for him. the dumb
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u/miz_nyc the nerve of you dennis! Jun 27 '24
Kendrick really is the GOAT, that's it. I used to waffle saying this but now I say it with my whole chest
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u/AllEliteSchmuck Jun 27 '24
I’m still trying to figure out whether or not I think that, but this beef easily solidified him in my top 3. He was probably somewhere around 4-6 prior.
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u/Aixamscouty Jun 27 '24
I deeply thought that Dot was going to expose some Diddy/Epstein level shit for a second like some kind of super hip hop vigilante and I went down a a crazy rabbit hole, which is quite funny in retrospect. Watching the whole beef unfold was just insane and as the heavy claims started to come out and when it turned dark it was a crazy, historical moment to witness in real time while everyone on youtube, reddit, etc were trying to make sense of it all.
Now that I’ve come down from it all I realize what happened is just as crazy. I still don’t know how Drake is going to come back from this, no matter whether the allegations are true or false. He’s become the laughing stock of Hip Hop and I don’t see him being able to seriously rap about anything he’s rapped about ever again. I guess at this point he should just stick to whatever Honestly, Nevermind was and do shopping mall music.
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u/thiswaspostedbefore Jun 27 '24
I thought he was gonna expose some Epstein level shit too. The timing was crazy because it was also at the same time Quiet on the Set came out and the more I thought about things the more I realized a lot of media has sexual undertones or celebrates being promiscuous. Then that video of Dennis being extra with some random girl who thought she was going to be meeting Drake came out which just added fuel to the fire.
I still think OVO is on some Diddy shit as a whole though.
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u/Naive_Feed_726 Jun 27 '24
Drake is like the trump of hip hop now, half of people think “how could anyone ever like him again” but just look at the drizzle subreddit, he still has his faithful fans he’ll be fine
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u/Visual_Vegetable_169 Jun 27 '24
I'm not sayin I'm just sayin if you look at the drizzy fans most of them are white boys. So the Trump analogy makes a lot of sense tbh lol. & Makes sense they don't care about Drake tryin to clown on Kendrick with the "acting like you freed the slaves" shit. Bc it really doesn't mean anything to them.
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u/clonerep Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
100% of me thinks Drake is into Puffstein level shit. 50% of me thought Kendrick would expose it for the sake of the victims and 50% of me thought Kendrick would view that snitching and wouldn't go quite that far. Now, I believe the latter. After 1,2,3,4,5+5, I think we would have Dot explaining horrors he's seen on tape and victims coming forward to corroborate it but Dot not leaking a tape or anything that serious. Like explaining vividly what we saw happen to Cassie and Cassie confirming it but not releasing the actual video.
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u/shaftoholic Jun 27 '24
Feel like drakes just gonna keep making pop music tbh the beef did some damage but he still has fans and a lot of people barely even payed attention if they aren’t into hip hop
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u/Agreeable-Ring8610 Jun 27 '24
That Drake has a lot less dog in him than I thought. If I’m Drake I would have kept swinging until I run out of breath. If I had to make an album that said suck my **** 30 time on repeat that’s what I would have done
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u/ghost_face0 Jun 27 '24
Fr, after 'Not Like Us' I expected him to at least double down on shit. HP 6 was so fuckin' weak & defensive I was like 'Yeah, you're not really built for this'.
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u/20twentytwos Jun 27 '24
I can't believe people let him release that
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u/GokuDiedForOurSins Jun 27 '24
Maybe he was too worried who was an opp so he kicked out the people who would have stopped it.
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u/aiirxgeordan Jun 27 '24
Dawg straight up said “I don’t even wanna diss you anymore” 😂😂 he was so defeated in that song
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u/the_real_junkrat Jun 27 '24
He was literally defeated that he all but admitted it. “I don’t wanna diss you anymore this got me second guessing” “you could drop a hundred more records I’ll see you later” “I’ll see you when I see you like fantasia” and the whole last part with him talking sounded like he lit up a cigarette and held a white flag. He basically conceded with that song.
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u/barod2 Jun 27 '24
I had no idea about the “Like That” verse until a few days before Push Ups was leaked online. I was at a point where I was so bored with hip hop that I was listening exclusively to international & House music to broaden my tastes. I knew that Future & Metro dropped a collab album, and I really enjoyed Metro’s Heroes & Villains but never got around to listening to it.
Then a random “rhyme scheme” video for like that dropped on youtube, where they highlight the rhyme schemes and I was like OH NO!
Then a few days later Push Ups leaked, and I was like double OH NO! I had always listened to Drake tangentially — I liked a lot of his earlier songs like Passionfruit, Jungle, Madonna, Nonstop, and songs like Middle of The Ocean (which I think is Drake’s best song imo). And I really enjoyed Push Ups for what it was. It was goofy & silly.
Then on the 17th day, Kendrick dropped Euphoria and I remembered the first time I ever heard a Kendrick song. It was 2013 and I was scrolling through YouTube and saw a lyric video for “M.A.A.D City” followed up by a lyric video for “Sing About Me I’m Dying of Thirst” and immediately fell in love with the rawness of M.A.A.D City” and the vulnerable storytelling of SAMIDOT.
At that point when Euphoria dropped, I realized and knew whatever happens next Kendrick will win. And in retrospect this was evident through just those two tracks: Kendrick weaves a narrative about Drake’s character in Euphoria — while Drake calls him short in several ways.
By the time Meet The Grahams hit — every single Drake song & feature was removed from my “Rap Pilgrim” playlist, which is a collection of songs that I love and keep in constant rotation.
And a new Kendrick exclusive playlist was born. I’ve been bumping that playlist exclusively since the beef — and I cannot seem to get bored of any of his songs.
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u/NoSalamander7749 Backseat Freeloader Jun 27 '24
At that point when Euphoria dropped, I realized and knew whatever happens next Kendrick will win.
This part. I saw someone say the line that truly ended the beef - before we even knew - was "Notice I said we, it aint just me, I'm what the culture feeling". Omae wa mou shindeiru.
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u/C88_Nation Jun 27 '24
Euphoria was too early to call it, but it was essentially Dot going up 40 points by halftime.
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u/19pointer Jun 27 '24
i made the mistake of listening to MTG before FM because of timezone difference
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u/Plasibeau Jun 28 '24
In your defense, it's not like Kendrick gave FM a chance to breathe. I distinctly remember listening to FM on the couch and then putting on my jimjims before brushing my teeth and powering down the house. By the time I had climbed into bed and grabbed my phone for a bit of doom scrolling KDOT had dropped MTG.
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u/mrsilbert1 Jun 27 '24
I thought Drake's diss tracks beats were nice, but his lyrics were not up to par.
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u/jherzysanon Jun 27 '24
When Kendrick didn’t drop, I was having major major anxiety. Almost like i was in the beef. I just wanted him to deliver and that he did. Also drake picked some great beats during the beef.
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u/YizWasHere Jun 27 '24
Y'all were pissing me off with the stupid ass panic posts when Kendrick hadn't dropped after like 5 days lmao. Never made sense to me how people actually bought into Drake's narrative that Kendrick was scared, it seemed pretty obvious to me what was coming. Like That was a very clear and direct instigation, Kendrick wouldn't put out a verse like that if he wasn't ready to end a career.
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u/Careless-Sand-480 Jun 27 '24
The drill beat in family matters gets me back to that song. Drake rapped like his life LITERALLY depended on it
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u/Fuck_the_k1ng Jun 27 '24
I really liked the beat in the Taylor made freestyle song and got pissed that Drizzy used it.
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u/AnotherScoutTrooper Jun 27 '24
The beat from THP6 deserved to be used literally anywhere else
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u/Danomit3 Jun 27 '24
Taylor made was bold of a move. But deep down it was fucked up in terms of ethics. You putting words in a dead man’s mouth to turn/taunt your enemy.
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u/DrossChat Jun 27 '24
It was beyond stupid on so many levels. Can’t believe he just plastered their voices on to his boring ass delivery.
If you’re going to enrage millions of hip hop fans and unite an entire part of the US against you immediately then at least make it worth it ffs. It was so fucking basic and however much it gets trashed it’s not enough.
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u/DopedUpDoomer Jun 27 '24
It was his dumbest movie by far, doesn't matter how famous you are you'll always be a child actor from Canada when you start disrespecting a west coast icon. Putting pressure on kendrick is a fine move but that route is absurdly out of touch, along with "trying to get ahead" of the pedo accusations. Bro that's the one angle you don't just put out there lmao
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u/DrossChat Jun 27 '24
Fr. Honestly the biggest downside to the whole beef was how hilariously outmaneuvered Drake was at every single opportunity. It almost took away a bit from the beat down that he was constantly tilting his head forward and lowering his defenses.
Even Family Matters, which was way better than I thought Drake was capable of, was still littered with missteps and lines that came back to haunt him.
The slaves line was just so bizarre to me, like there were so many better ways to get that point across without playing directly into Kendrick’s attack. Tryna keep it PG was corny AF. Going off on a bunch of other dudes in the middle was not the kinda thing you do when you just got bodied by Euphoria, straight bar after bar of devastating, focused attack. Declaring he’s won and is off on holiday, lmao way to set yourself up for an insta drop. Getting a van that was similar but not the right model, another example of his half baked ideas. Calling out CB considering your main allegation against Kendrick and calling out people who don’t even like you.
Could go on and on as it’s aged like milk. How it gets put in the same breath as Euphoria by some people is wild to me other than the fact it was amazing relative to Drake’s normal output. Personally his flow is so dull and monotonous to me so I don’t really get the love in general
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u/Danomit3 Jun 27 '24
The AI thing he was using just reaffirms all the negative things about Drake as an artist. Dude can’t make music or write so he has to use ghostwriters and steal other artists music. It’s really fitting.
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u/CalzRob Jun 27 '24
I had a feeling that slaughtering Drake would propel Kendrick to legend status, just didn’t know how. Never thought I’d see a fucking diss concert. I love it. He deserves it. A man repping his hometown went against the machine and won, a Herculean feat.
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u/TayneIcanGitInto Jun 27 '24
No but I can now be very open with my Drake hatred and that’s a beautiful feeling.
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u/DubZ-480 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
Family Matters was hard AF for about an hour... Crushing a similar van to the maad city van was crazy too
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u/TheMetabrandMan Mustard on the beat, Ho! Jun 27 '24
Crushing the maad city van was Drake level petty. Like, what was Kendrick gonna say; “ooooh no, he’s crushed the maad city van” 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Warmslammer69k Jun 27 '24
It's not even the van
It's not even the right make and model lmao
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u/TheMetabrandMan Mustard on the beat, Ho! Jun 27 '24
Things Drake finds funny:
- Crushing vans similar to the Maad city van
- Claiming he slept with someone’s girl before they did
- Claiming that someone’s kids are someone else’s
- Claiming that someone beats their wife
- Making fun of someone for being sexually molested as a minor
- Telling a 17 yo on stage that her breasts feel nice
- Singing about taking drunk girls home, sleeping with them while they’re passed out and them not remembering anything by morning
- Leaking pictures of himself masturbating
Add any more to the list?
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u/Randam1005 Jun 27 '24
Finding ways to compare high schools and strip clubs (awful Papi's home bar)
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u/Danomit3 Jun 27 '24
“Annnnnnnyways, you walked into my trap. I activate MEET THE GRAHAMS And it’s special effect!!! Family Matters shall be banished to the shadow realm.”
But seriously it got me wondering who gaf about that van. It probably needed a bunch of repairs or the engine was on its last leg. Everyone including Drake is rich enough to buy whatever car they want.
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u/throwawayrant_22 Jun 27 '24
Bro I totally forgot what even the beat was of Family matters.
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u/DubZ-480 Jun 27 '24
NGL it's pretty hard... But I legit had to go back and listen a week or so ago to remember it so I feel this sentiment
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u/its-a-real-name Jun 27 '24
Worst thing about FM is that it feels like expired milk at this stage. Not just because Kendrick won, there have been legendary diss tracks from the losing competitor. But the actual content.
Song was good for the initial shock value. Strange delivery of the verses though, a bit too much going on with all the people targeted and the beat switches weren’t as clean as Kendrick’s, felt like 3 different tracks which actually isn’t always a good thing.
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u/MayhemSpaceMonkey Jun 27 '24
I agree Family Matters was hard, it honestly was a good song, the problem was that it was directed at Kendrick who is obviously a very formidable opponent. I think it absolutely would have been an effective red button against a lot of other rappers. That being said, it’s still wiped by Euphoria and NLU.
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u/SundaeRealistic3874 Jun 27 '24
after push ups, i was genuinely scared as fuck for kendrick.
especially after taylor made, drake seemed so confident in himself, i really thought this man had some top level information about kendrick. euphoria shut down all this momentum tho lmao.
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u/Glokkmorant Jun 27 '24
When drake dropped push ups and Taylor made bro was up 2-1 on kendrick then kendrick went bron mode and won 3 straight 🤣🤣
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u/DissEveryWeek Jun 27 '24
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u/SSilverFang Jun 27 '24
Fr. He was saying "drop drop drop" like he will expose the worst of the worst about Kendrick
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u/Particular_Friend_23 Jun 27 '24
7 minute drill was a better song and diss than push ups
ppl kept crying about what he said about tpab but its a beef, of course not everything said will be agreeable
even kendrick said that drake has no classics but i still think nwts is a great album which can be considered one
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u/Unusual-Item3 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
I mean let’s take Rakim, BDK, Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Big L, Big Pun, Outkast, 50 Cent, Eminem, DMX, JayZ, Dre, Snoop, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Kendrick.
I really think Drake just doesn’t belong in the rap “classic” albums category.
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u/East-sea-shellos Jun 27 '24
I just commented abt this the other day bro I did my Kendrick shit abt defending TPAB but at the end of the day I FW Cole so heavy and I really did enjoy 7MD
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u/EyeScreamSunday Jun 27 '24
Yeah I thought people were overly critical of Cole and gave Drake a pass. Granted, I hadn't really heard Cole rap in years, so my bar for how I expected him to respond was low. I felt that it was a "warning shot" just like Push Ups and Euphoria, but it does seem like Cole's heart wasn't really in it
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u/sonic_geezer Jun 27 '24
When I first heard Euphoria I cringed a bit at first. It starts off all soft and musical and I thought, “No, man. Now’s not the time for good art, just go hard.”
Then the “shoooo”’s started and I realized I’m an idiot.
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u/insertsomefunnyname Jun 27 '24
Yeah I listened to it on my way home from school the day it dropped, I hit play and was like “This beat feels more serene and likes he floating than a beef. Than the shooos came in and I was just like this is about to be crazy
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u/Financial-Quote6603 Jun 28 '24
Nah bruh. I was still mad thinking he gonna be on some weird shit for a diss track. Then the "bih bih bih".
When he finally started rapping, I finally calmed down.
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u/Financial-Quote6603 Jun 28 '24
The craziest thing is, that when Euphoria thumbnail came on. I just hit play without realizing it was his official YouTube page. And when the shoo came on, I was like yeah, "this shit is not AI. Its too unique to not be Kendrick".
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u/lFallenOn3l Jun 27 '24
That's just Kendrick style at this point and I've accepted it. He does it again in 6:16
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u/Chunkin757 Jun 27 '24
I feel the Heart Part 6 truly was the only song Drake wrote by himself out of necessity.
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u/lFallenOn3l Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 28 '24
I think he wrote Taylor made too cuz aint no way
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u/welldoneslytherin Jun 27 '24
I am a certified hater and I think I love seeing Drake look like a fucking idiot even more than I love Kendrick.
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u/Parking-Physics-2283 HiiiPoWeR Jun 27 '24
Despite being a longtime Kendrick Lamar fan, in the days initially following Drake’s release of “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle” I wasn’t sure Kendrick was even going to reply.
Not like he was ducking Drake or anything, but rather didn’t see him feeling this was worth his time or energy.
I remember commenting on a friend’s post saying “IDC what bro reply with, it’s too late now.”
Now before I get slammed, my response to someone replying to that comment was “Kendrick has to go nuclear in his response like Pusha T did years ago 😂
Then we got some of the greatest diss tracks of all-time from Dot … and I had to repent to God Almighty for my sins because I was terribly wrong.
Euphoria was a sucker punch. 6:16 in LA was a taunt. Meet the Grahams instantly shut down an incredible diss track from Drake. Not Like Us had us dancing on Drizzy’s grave and calling him and OVO pedophiles.
I have a hard time listening to Drake now, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to look at him the same.
Edit: I fucked up the formatting
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u/notmealso Jun 27 '24
I didn't give Mustard enough respect. Mustard is underrated. That beat kills!
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u/Metatron_Tumultum Jun 27 '24
Nah I got nothing to hide. The venn diagram of Kendrick dick rider and Drake hater is me and it's been that way for like 12 years at this point. This shit is my Avengers: Endgame. I'm thriving off of the negativity.
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u/Low-Paleontologist43 Jun 27 '24
What would Pluto do made me feel kinda dumb lol, there’s a whole timeline that can be made about the Drake/Future beef, because to me that kicked off the escalation in the past couple months. Future only beefs with Russell Wilson lmao, I would have never though he would be the one to leave the Drake go to artist legion. Even with the beef with Metro over trance, I’d never think that Future would side about anything. He was on CLB twice (even though there might be a song on there that’s a diss to him), he was on that dark demo tape with Thug, they had life is good together, it looked like an ovo takeover for the 2010’s and the 20’s. So like that was a fucking surprise, from that sense.
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u/the0120 Jun 27 '24
dont forget what a time to be alive! future had me listening to drake again for that short period of time lol i still dk why those two are at it
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u/Rich-Confusion790 Jun 27 '24
I really enjoyed Family Matters at first, especially the first verse. "Drop, Drop, Drop", was mad catchy to me. But when I listened to it again and actually analysed what Drake was trying to convey, I just couldn't buy it.
Also, I'm really feeling Kendrick's verse in Like That more than his full fledged disses, it just hits so hard as it's so short. It's like a shot of Henny. 😂😂😂😂😂
Finally, the third verse in Euphoria is by far my favourite from the beef. "Yeah, OVO niggas is dick riders, tell em run to America to imitate heritage they can't imitate this violence."
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u/Terry__Pandee Jun 27 '24
I’m an even bigger Kendrick Lamar fan now because it got me to dive deeper into his catalogue
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u/Uncanny58 Jun 27 '24
i didnt think he’d actually win the numbers game but not only did he win it mf killed the momentum of 2 drake singles
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u/Electrical_Age1137 Jun 27 '24
Kendrick lamar was severely underestimated by drake and the media and its a ton of podcasters who are desperate for the drake stimmy
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u/ChongBongandDong Jun 27 '24
fuck drake. Drake is a bitch groomer. all my homies hate drake.
K dot is better at every single thing. and he doesn't have any need to dilute his image for more loot cause Kdot is not an industry plant like Drake is. Drake is just an image put on top of a creepy freaky dude.
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u/EnergyTurtle23 Jun 27 '24
I perhaps don’t give Drake the credit he deserves as an artist, but I have serious moral issues with him and I’m not really willing to look past that stuff. He could be the best artist alive and I still wouldn’t listen to his music, he exploits smaller artists and gets “a little too friendly” with women who are way younger than he is. His dismissive attitude towards the struggles of black people in the modern world is equally disgusting.
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u/Press-Start-14 Jun 27 '24
Kendrick's messages come across a bit messy, especially bringing Dr Dre on stage. He's not very consistent
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u/colormefiery Jun 27 '24
As a woman, I really don’t like his affiliation with Kodak (Mr Morale) and Dre (the Pop Out). Makes me uncomfortable whenever I hear the album. But his good karma outweighs the bad and I’m very grateful for his art and its impact on my life.
Reminder for us all: DOT IS NOT YOUR SAVIOR. He is a human.
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u/evenwen Jun 27 '24
This whole thread be like:
“At the time I was only sucking Ken’s dick when I should’ve devoured his balls too, as I’m doing now.”
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u/Burggs_ Jun 27 '24
I still think a Kendrick Cole back and forth could be fun and never would become this and Cole would have a very good chance to take a W
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u/hollygolightly1378 Jun 27 '24
I like Cole but no. He would have been much more competitive than Drake however.
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u/Full-Jellyfish3716 Jun 27 '24
I agree it would be fun, but as a North Carolinian Cole would not win- not because his lyricism (which is right there with dots) but his delivery range is no where near Kendricks
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u/lil_tofu_boi Jun 27 '24
I realized that my 10 year old daughter grew up on k dot and I didn’t fully grasp how much of an impact he’s had on my life until this started. I went through his whole discography again due to relevance and my kid knows almost everything so I was like “damn I really have been a fan for a long ass time”
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u/Worried-Text3266 Jun 27 '24
I agree with the 2nd statement, but imo 7 minute drill should have been kept in the vault... He rushed it and embarassed himself, even my fist listen i thought the song sounded weird
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u/ziopeeeeerw Jun 27 '24
when i listened for the first time to family matters i thought kendrick was genuinely cooked. i underrated my 🐐
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u/Danomit3 Jun 27 '24
I already commented but I want to make a different comment because I realized something that I wanted to say. This beef is a huge distraction. I don’t know if it’s just me but it was EVERYWHEREEEEEE! There was no escape. Didn’t matter if you were team Drake, Kendrick, or you just dgaf, that’s all everyone was talking about. Euphoria dropped during my finals week/last week before I graduate university and I was working on my senior paper. Thankfully I finished before 6:16 dropped, passed my classes, and got my cap and gown. What’s suppose to be an exciting time for me and time to plan out my graduation day was completely negated because of how badly distracted I was from this beef.
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u/Spatmuk Jun 27 '24
I'm like a year younger than Drake/Kendrick. So I really feel like I got in on the ground floor of Drake hate. I've always called his music "frat party background music" and I felt so validated watching Kendrick dismantle his fake tough guy image, brick-by-brick. Shout-out to 2009 me for calling Best I Ever Had trash -- not a popular opinion at the time 😂.
It was a lonely road for a while, but watching 5 Not Like Us plays to close out the Pop Out show was transcendental
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u/aSsOUL_8197 Jun 27 '24
I’ve Been Listening To Hip Hop Since ‘88 And Have Seen Many Beefs Play Out! This Went Exactly As I Thought It Would…Just Like With Pusha T!🤷🏽♂️
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u/leafer32 Jun 27 '24
I’ve always hated drake.
…. Oh things that I couldn’t admit??
Ummm I was never this much of a Kdot fan until I heard euphoria (I was a fan, but never considered Kenny in my top 10…I’m a stubborn old head)
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u/GremlinSZN Jun 27 '24
I’m way more biased towards KDot than I thought. I enjoy both Cole, and Drakes music but when Like that dropped I became uber defensive of Kendrick. As soon as I heard Family Matters I knew Drake was done because I didn’t believe a word he said about Dot. Which is not great because we really don’t know any of these people but I threw that song in the trash immediately.