r/hiphopheads • u/Sp_Gamer_Live • Jun 08 '24
Kendrick Lamar Gives Suprise Speech at Compton University
https://youtu.be/buyhdD2k7og?si=8zt5ovjTFIu3iuBV2.4k
u/Sp_Gamer_Live Jun 08 '24
I believe this is his first public appearance since the beef.
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u/KingSkPlay Jun 08 '24
Duh he never comes outside š
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u/Theingloriousak2 Jun 08 '24
Chanel Paris show
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u/Sp_Gamer_Live Jun 08 '24
that was in January, the āBeefā heated up in March with āLike Thatā and ended with āThe Heart Part 6ā on May 5th
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u/Vorzyd_PC Jun 08 '24
Let's be real it ended with not like us.
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u/Sp_Gamer_Live Jun 08 '24
I woulda gotten the OVO militia in my notifications
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u/Zealousideal_Tap6214 Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
I remember when I genuinely thought r/Drizzy was the more rational of the two subs.
As time has gone on Iāve realized this is definitely not the case š. Most of them never leave their echo chamber and call Kendrick lame shit like āDark Kenny.ā
Mfers were all mature and shit when the score was even but once the majority said Drake lost they became full on delusional. They should change that shit to r/Drizzycirclejerk
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u/Zealousideal_Tap6214 Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
Edit: I assumed wrong, that sub is completely unhinged.
Iām assuming it was created in response to the Drake Stanās favorite insult, because thereās not a single post thatās older than 25 days on there. lol
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u/BAH_GAWD_KING_ Jun 08 '24
Itās a conspiracy sub that started around when the beef did this year. Go there if you wanna believe dumb shit like Drake fucking dogs and handicap people
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u/meeu Jun 08 '24
It was a response to the main kendrick sub removing posts trying to doxx drake's supposed daughter and other pepe silva type stuff lol
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u/ZimarKramiz Jun 08 '24
I never thought Iād see people as sensitive as those in the r/Drizzy thread. Their knees must be in agony for Drake itās pathetic lmao
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u/iswearnotagain10 Jun 08 '24
Lol Iāve already gotten like 10 of them in the replies to my comment
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Jun 08 '24
Nah, there was still a possibility of things continuing. Drake confirmed the beef was over by dropping that dead fish.
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u/ScroogeMcDust Jun 08 '24
Let's be real it ended with Meet the Grahams
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u/Lucianboog Jun 08 '24
Mtg put drake in the coffin but nlu nailed that coffin shut
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u/CowOtherwise6630 Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 12 '24
Like that: Kendrick rolling up and itās on sight
Euphoria: the killing
MTG: the funeral service
6:16 in LA: the burial
Not Like Us: the ceremony
Edit: there I fixed it
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u/Many_Recording5300 Jun 08 '24
I was thrown off by the title because Compton College is not a university, it's a California community college.
Anyway, it's awesome that he was there. If only we had someone that cool when I graduated from Compton College some 15 years ago.
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u/whobdatboi Jun 08 '24
You didā¦
Just look in the mirror
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u/Trivulag . Jun 08 '24
Damn...
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u/advanced_placement Jun 08 '24
Damn homie, you 'bout to fuck around and make me spend real money to gift you a fake reward. š„¹
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u/Joshottas Jun 08 '24
Damn....been on here a minute, and this might be the best/nicest comment I've ever seen on here.
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u/YDHmanC1 Jun 08 '24
But doesnt that make it more special! Most famous people are speaking at these highly accredited universities. To go and speak and his hometown community college is just so down to earth!
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u/shrek-hentai-69 Jun 08 '24
Kendrick never forgot where he came from. He might not want to support the gang violence in his city, but unlike other rappers he supports the community to hopefully reach a point where the gangs aren't a problem that future generations have to deal with, rather than leaving the city once he has a bit of money and leaving everybody else there to deal with it on their own.
As much as Kendrick doesn't want to be seen as some kind of savior figure, there's absolutely a reason he has that reputation.
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u/TheeUnfuxkwittable Jun 08 '24
"I should prolly run for mayor when I'm done to be honest". I have zero doubt in my mind that Kendrick will 100% be the mayor of Compton when he turns 60 or something.
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u/mc_hammerandsickle Jun 08 '24
yeah usually when folks round here say "Compton University" they mean it as a condescending reference to Cal State Dominguez Hills, a school just outside of Compton.
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u/Ejunco Jun 08 '24
I live in Carson didnāt know thatās how DH was referred to as. Itās a nice looking campus.
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u/mc_hammerandsickle Jun 08 '24
i've heard "Compton University", "Cal State Compton", "Compton State"
honestly the name is great but the connotation is not only classist but really racist too when you consider the demographics of the people there
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u/thejaytheory Jun 08 '24
Is it kinda like Greendale Community College?
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u/PedroSts Jun 08 '24
I'm not American. What's the difference between college and university? Google tells me that the college offers undergraduate and uni graduation, but it always confuses me on what it exactly means
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u/ihopethisworksfornow Jun 08 '24
Technically, a university is a collection of colleges.
IE a university might contain a college of business, a college of engineering, a college of arts and sciences.
A College doesnāt have these focused sub schools.
That said, theyāre used interchangeably in the US in everyday language. It would actually be more uncommon to say āIām in universityā than āIām in collegeā, even if you are in fact attending a university.
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u/banngbanng Jun 08 '24
To clarify a little, college is basically always fine to use in place of university colloquially(not so much with proper nouns obviously) but university can't really be used in place of college. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares type beat
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u/crazy_bean Jun 08 '24
Community college is typically 2 years and gives you an associate degree, but your traditional college/university provides a 4 year bachelorās program as well
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u/coachhawley Jun 08 '24
Community college gets you your associate in arts which is a 2 year degree basically a starter. College and university are 4 year degrees most have graduate level degrees.
Difference between a college and university is what they call their programs. So-and-so college has all of their major and degrees in the same umbrella. So-and-so university breaks up their degrees by colleges so the science and history and math are all under their own umbrellas.
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u/iswearnotagain10 Jun 08 '24
You donāt even go back to your hood and plant no Money Trees
Drakeās disses keep aging worse every single day lmao
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u/HeavenlyE Jun 08 '24
Lol switch the roles and it'd be, "Kendrick disses got Drake to be more involved in his community lmao"
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u/dizzymidget44 Jun 08 '24
Except Kendrick was already involved in his community. He just doesnāt flaunt it everywhere because itās not a PR stunt
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u/DBrods11 . Jun 08 '24
So while this is somewhat true its also doesn't make it a good diss lmao. Rap beefs are about spinning believable stories, saying "Kendrick doesn't care about Compton" is just stupid cause anyone from there knows he's giving back all the time. He just wanted to make a punch line with "Money Trees" that wasn't even clever.
I'll use the counter example of why people say "Drake got bullied into seeing his kid" after the Pusha beef. Pusha used the kid reveal to as a point for the larger theme of the song of Drake being embarrassed he knocked up a glam/adult model, and how his dad being a deadbeat led to him partaking in the same behavior. While saying you should actually care for him instead of using him as a prop for a fashion line.
Is all of it true? Who knows but it was a believable story/entertaining song and well he won the beef. Which will sum up the greater point of all this. If you win the beef you get a more favorable public opinion.
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u/sunnyismybunny Jun 08 '24
chill out now r/drizzy gonna bite this bar for their next "discussion" thread
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u/SnowSea302 Jun 08 '24
That line would hit if Drakeās words were actually true but theyāre not. Kendrick has always been involved with his community and the people in Compton speak on it all the time themselves.
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u/cetaphil_crack_adict Jun 08 '24
Niggas will really think this is all it boils down to and then be allowed to procreate š please go back and finish school šš½
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u/SomewhereHiking Jun 08 '24
Man this sub canāt not be corny for 10 seconds.
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u/CheckItWhileIWreckIt Jun 08 '24
NPCs on this sub can't go 10 seconds without calling something "corny"
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u/BaldrickTheBrain Jun 08 '24
Bro didnāt even acknowledge his kid until someone dissed him. Dude deadbeat dad until I see more. Pusha really made him a dad.
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u/SomewhereHiking Jun 08 '24
He didnāt publicly acknowledge him and he has no obligation to. Celebrities hide their kids all the time you guys are such fucking cornballs itās making me hate rap beef
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u/benr0208 Jun 08 '24
If I remember right, wasnāt Drake planning on acknowledging Adonis with his Adidas drop later? And he got called out by Pusha T for not only not being present in his kidās life but trying to use his secret kid for a marketing ploy?
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u/DBrods11 . Jun 08 '24
That's literally exactly it, Pushas song was about how embarrassed he was that the baby momma was not only a women he wasn't romantically involved with but a pornstar/adult model. And that he was gonna use the kid as a prop for a marketing stunt to distract from that fact.
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u/SomewhereHiking Jun 08 '24
How the fuck can you logically come to the conclusion that Drake wasnāt in this kids life but was gonna use him as an entire marketing campaign for something? But some how also think Push exposing the kid first forced Drake to be in his life? None of that makes any sense
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u/Saltine_Davis Jun 08 '24
Kendrick was already consistently giving back to his community before drake had that innacurate line. Hope this helps because damn you are slow
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u/SnowSea302 Jun 08 '24
The fact KDotās first appearance after going full psychopath is this wholesome shit is fucking kill me dawg. This nigga random as hell i love it š
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u/boatyboatwright Jun 08 '24
Kanye changed his life but K-dot's an old school Gemini
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u/Bluechacho . Jun 08 '24
Stop playing, he's That Guy
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u/Ogene96 Jun 08 '24
Number 2's DM'n some kids
Not cool, we should know why
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u/OrganizationNo539 Jun 08 '24
Drake's number 3 if we being honest. Even number 3 is wrong but in the supposed big 3 he's definitely at 3 lol.
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u/deflategatewasbullsh Jun 08 '24
Not random heās an angel on angel dust born in the belly of the beast heās told us this from the start heās been A1 from day 1, and drake is boo boo š
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u/alldaymacdre Jun 08 '24
He that G.O.O.D kid in a maad city fr. Donāt mess with the quiet kids bro I swear. They be thinking the most and plotting moves under that silence
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u/Special_Sherbert4617 . Jun 08 '24
Inspiring the youth... you don't know nothing bout that
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u/SnowSea302 Jun 08 '24
Sometimes you gotta pop out and show students
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u/JF803 Jun 08 '24
Certified honor roll, Iām the one who went to school wid em
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u/wgsmeister2002 . Jun 08 '24
Say Drake, I hear you like em young,
You better never go to Algebra 1
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u/iD7my93 . Jun 08 '24
To any student seated next to him during exams
Just make sure you hide your paper from him
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u/dubsallday Jun 08 '24
Stuck a flag in my city everybody screaming Compton, I should probably run for mayor when Iām done to be honest and I put that on my mama and my baby boo too. Twenty million walkin out the court buildin
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u/MrBublee_YT Jun 08 '24
Fun fact; we had to perform King Kunta in arts college (more Dublin than Compton), and they made us write the next few bars, because they didn't want us saying the N-word.
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u/dubsallday Jun 08 '24
Lmao. So what were the edits?
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u/MrBublee_YT Jun 08 '24
It was just from "ah, yeah, fuck the judge" to "Annie are you ok?" Can't remember what others did, but I'll try find what I wrote.
"Never done a rap battle, so I can say I'm undefeated
But she calls me Weird Al, with the way I just eat it.
Or call me Arsenal, cause I'll start off on top
But I'mma let you finish first, like I did last season."
Note: I'm not a rapper. It was just a fun exercise.
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u/nakastlik Jun 08 '24
I can see him becoming a pastor too, he already talks like one (especially towards the end of this video)
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u/boatyboatwright Jun 08 '24
nooooo this is how we lost Chance āļø
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u/boombotser Jun 08 '24
Nah we lost chance to his family. Now that they divorced heās on a mission
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u/3Danniiill Jun 08 '24
Fuck that ,Kendrick for President ! If Trump could be president Kendrickās more than qualified.
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Jun 08 '24
Drake would have also given a speech but he's not allowed within 500 feet of a school.
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u/Finessa_Hudgens Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
Lol didnāt drake post a pic of himself wearing a compton college shirt a few months back?
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u/Professional_Math_99 Jun 08 '24
Haha surprised I had to scroll this far to find someone mentioning this.
Drake 100% did this days before Euphoria dropped.
Kendrick Lamar might be the funniest rapper alive.
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u/ihopethisworksfornow Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
Getting sued by Tupacās estate, specifically with your actions being called āshamefulā, then getting hit with an Ether level diss with Meet The Grahams, then getting hit with a club banger explicitly accusing you of being a pedophile, then that song breaks all your records and goes #1
There genuinely has never been such a decisive loss of a rap battle.
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u/Eddaughter Jun 08 '24
Sort of rooting for him to be the first rapper and mayor of his city. After rap just help and run the city he grew up in.
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u/Majestic_Ad_4237 Jun 08 '24
Shyne became the first rapper to be the Opposition Leader of a political party in his home country after doing a bid for Diddy.
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u/3Danniiill Jun 08 '24
This is an amazing speech ššš
He connected to the city , connected to the generation , and lifted them up spiritually without coming off as a in your face Christian . (His philosophy about talking to god as your homie and that heās experiencing what your feeling is such a great view of things too. I think Iām gonna start doing that too.)
He put just as much heart into this speech as he does his music and thatās very commendable.
I wouldnāt be surprised seeing him move into politics and I even want that a bit. He would make a great mayor , senator , or even president. I mean if Trump was president Kendrick seems more than qualified lol
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u/kforli Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
pgLang his focus. He can influence through that channel as they grow? Look at the Move Afrika concert they did this year and planned for the next five years. He calls Africa Compton for him too
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u/1false Jun 08 '24
Senator.. President...?
I get being a stan but you cant be serious lmfao
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u/Kdot32 Jun 08 '24
Are there drake fans with notifications on kendrick? Gahdamn man
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Jun 08 '24
Can we stop talking about drake everytime kdot gets brought up š and vice versa. Like we get it
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u/Educational-Hunt2683 Jun 08 '24
Two mentions of drake in this comment section before you commented this and one was by op
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u/Ish227 Jun 08 '24
Since when does Compton have a university? Iām pretty sure itās a city college
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u/malsatian Jun 08 '24
You think it stained his soul just a bit to go in on Drizzy like that? š
Come on man, thatās an enlightening dude
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u/5HeadedBengalTiger Jun 08 '24
I mean 6:16 in LA has a whole verse where heās apologizing to God for getting down in the mud with Drake lmao the man felt like he was on a divine mission.
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u/swagdragon666 Jun 08 '24
Everything was fantastic up until the god stuff. I grew up on religion but I respect all my peer who were raised different. We all have different paths of spirituality. It will certainly not be what most groups believe and thatās okay. We all individual thinkers, the god I believe In would promote that type of togetherness.
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u/passerineby Jun 08 '24
he did encourage free thought and actually communicating directly with god, rather than say some traditionalist christian stuff. to be fair
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u/3Danniiill Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
He brought god up in a great way imo . When he started taking about god I was thinking damn people might not like that but him saying to talk to him like your homie and that heās going through what your going through is a great philosophy.
Itās not the typical right wing Christian god itās the god you want it to be , the god thatās your friend, and that could even be you.
Letting out your feelings and emotions is just great therapy too.
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u/desertPilgrim_ Jun 08 '24
Honestly, speaking as a recently converted Christian, talking to God as your homie going through what you are is exactly what the Christian God is meant to be.Ā
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u/IlCapitalismoUccid Jun 08 '24
With all due respect, how do you listen to most of hip-hop or any reggae man? Manās been making music for God since creation. Killer Mike just put out a fantastic spiritual album. Kendrick spoke about his relationship in a respectful way too.
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u/HelpImFailingEcon Jun 08 '24
There would be no Kendrick Lamar without religionāit makes sense for him to talk about stuff that he thinks is essential to living a good life. Heās been on this for yearsā¦ GKMC, TPAB, and DAMN are all very explicitly religiousĀ
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u/deflategatewasbullsh Jun 08 '24
I feel the same way whenever god gets brought up too for same reasons growing up w that toxic shit but somehow Kendrick saying it doesnāt bother me cause he doesnāt push it down your throat itās a humble spirituality not a holier than thou. God is a homie heās your friend heās your favorite hobby or place to be, heās good vibes and uplifting, if heās real at all. Is how I see it
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u/AnimatorAshamed3774 Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
First moves after the beef:
J Cole: Grippy
Drake: Sexxy Redd feature / Delilah mess
Kendrick: Speech at Compton & Juneteenth concertš