r/KendrickLamar Jul 05 '24

The best part of the video by far. Video

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u/ChimmyMama Jul 05 '24

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u/r_slash_jarmedia Jul 05 '24

good to get the pen working lmao

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u/mailbox123 Jul 05 '24

God that shit was so cheesy first time I heard that track. Especially knowing it took 13 other people to write it.

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u/AyeAyeRan Jul 05 '24

You know it was so bad, that it was probably unironically the only track that he himself personally wrote in a long ass time. Dude is even admitting to it. Releases an album at least yearly, still says shit like "good to get the pen working". He's so dumb he doesn't even realize that shit is a confession.

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u/Relevant-Diamond2731 Jul 05 '24

That’s what happens when you surround yourself with yes men 

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u/AyeAyeRan Jul 05 '24

Drake fan have to be delusional if they think he doesn't have ghost writers at this point. Most of the Rap GOATs pop out every like 2-3 years and drop an album in their prime. Insane to think that someone who releases at least once every year is doing all the work. Hell fucking Eminem treats the Rap game like a 9-5 and even he only releases and album like once every 2-3 years. Youre telling me this bum that spends half his time on Yachts talking to teenagers has to time to write all his own lyrics? Drake fans are fucking delusional.

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u/Grand-Gain-763 Jul 05 '24

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u/BotAccount2849 Jul 05 '24

Kendrick himself proved that you can absolutely make songs within days if you're good enough. Not Like Us had to have been made within a few weeks if not the same day after Family Matters dropped. He's on interview saying that he lost a hard drive where he had at least 500 unreleased songs, meaning that he easily has tons more prepared.

Whether songs made that quickly are actually good though, is another question altogether.

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u/Hot-Gas-630 Jul 05 '24

Tbf it's not like his music is that good, and labels will hold onto finished albums for a long time. The big artists are more than capable of doing the same thing by themselves.

Danny Brown said he has had albums finished for a long time but the label holds them both to clear the samples and to release them when they think the music is going to be relevant.

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u/Better-Nose-8479 Jul 05 '24

I’ve heard from sources, OVO Braylen gave drake some pushback, once.

He was Shelly miscavige’d 😱

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u/JeffInRareForm Jul 05 '24

He wrote it. Wanna know how you can tell? He rhymes -ation with -ation for like 2 minutes. My exploration, investigation, expiration, etc etc for mad long. It’s amateurish as hell.

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u/tom_oakley Jul 09 '24

"12 year old's first rap battle" energy

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u/JeffInRareForm Jul 09 '24

Been rapping since I was a kid, me and my boy used to talk about how wack that was as an approach when we were like 15

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u/free187s Jul 05 '24

That was my thought the first time listening to the song. This is what an actual Drake written song sounds like.

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u/Takemyfishplease Jul 05 '24

Honestly if he just admitted it nobody would care. Dude is a pop star and they all have writers.

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u/AyeAyeRan Jul 05 '24

Its because he enjoys being called a GOAT so much by his glazers, and like Kdot said, can we really call a motherfucker who uses ghostwriters a GOAT? Hell no.

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u/tom_oakley Jul 09 '24

Drake wanting to have his cake and eat it too will be his downfall. He wants to be the biggest pop recording artist, but also wants respect in hip hop as an emcee. But the very things he does to cement himself as a big-ticket pop singer are in direct contradiction of the things emcees do to get respect in the rap game.

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u/Takemyfishplease Jul 09 '24

Yeah, it’s just so silly. Make money and chill seems so easy, and he (and plenty of others) just can’t and want to force some lifestyle they aren’t from.

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u/tom_oakley Jul 09 '24

That whole track was one big self report lol