Has Not Like Us surpassed Ether, No Vaseline, and Hit Em Up?

[tehparadox]

One of the first time a song become instantly impactful before it even become a trend on social media.
It trended on social media literally hours after shyt was already going viral in the streets and in clubs.

 

[BlackXCL]

No.

Hit Em Up got people killed.

Drake just sold out an overseas show in under 3 minutes.

You nikkas are new to rap huh

 

[Loose]

0ll

Ok take all the social media hype out of the question…how many diss records made another A-list rapper file a federal lawsuit?

Not sure how I'm supposed to judge a track without pointing out the fact that it was pushed by corporations. Imagine ether hit em up super ugly etc being played in inside nba?

 

[BK The Great]

Still way too early to tell. It’s been an effective diss song and it’s one of the greatest we’ve seen. But there’s disses where we seen violence happen and it got real for some rappers.

 

[MINT]

0ll

Not sure how I'm supposed to judge a track without pointing out the fact that it was pushed by corporations. Imagine ether hit em up super ugly etc being played in inside nba?

Not Like Us literally did damage before it even started getting promoted lmfao.

 

[Kooze4524]

Ok take all the social media hype out of the question…how many diss records made another A-list rapper file a federal lawsuit?

Right!

Not Like Us is a worldwide anthem, no other diss track has ever had this level of impact and reach. It’s bigger than just a hip hop moment.


There’s a reason Drake is losing it over Not Like Us way more than Pusha’s diss. Not Like Us was the #1 song in his own country Canada.

 

[MINT]

I knew this one was very special on first listen, and I did predict it would be very impactful, but at this point not even Oppenheimer's calculations could help buld a nuclear bomb as powerful as NLU.

 

[mundL]

Ether >>>>>

 

[-DMP-]

Yea basically.

 

[Peter Parker]

Ether is a better song for sure but Kendrick preformed that shyt at the super bowl, you can't beat that with a rap diss.

 

[Big Boss]

0ll

Not sure how I'm supposed to judge a track without pointing out the fact that it was pushed by corporations. Imagine ether hit em up super ugly etc being played in inside nba?

That would mean the song made more impact

 

[tehparadox]

Yes, the social media era amplified everything.

Nah... we saw the organic impact it had immediately. As soon as it dropped, we saw people instantly singing that song everywhere.

In this case, the song only started trending on social media after it was already a smash hit in the streets.

 

[Trips]

The amount of people that are cooking someone verbally that is put over the ether beat will be hard to match. But, in 20 years if that is happening with "not like us". Or if people stop saying I need to hear that over the Ether beat, in favor of Not like us then you may have something there.

 

[Overpss]

Not Like Us is basically Ether and In Da Club wrapped into one. The literal definition of nuclear diss record

Will be a very long time before we see a song with this kind of impact again, if ever

Was about to post this.

Not Like Us is basically Kendrick dropping In Da Club on Drake's head. shyt will never go away. I thought MTG was the better diss track (and that shyt is probably one of the best diss tracks ever), but NLU really made history.

Remove the accolades, the records, shyt is still an all-time classic.

 

[Controversy]

What y'all don't want to hear is Not Like Us was pushed by the industry and didn't have an organic impact

Ether was organic & shocked ppl in real time...literally left ppl speechless when they heard it

Imagine walking to school on a cold december day and hearing Ether be played

Nas dropped it on Jigga's bday...and it reclaimed Nas position as the best lyricist in rap

Don't even compare the competitive landscape of 2001 rap (Nas, Jigga, Kiss, Beans, Scarface, 3 stacks, X, Busta, Ghostface, Fab, Ja, Busta, Nore, Luda, etc...) to the barren landscape of 2024 rap

Ether is the most lethal diss in rap history

Not Like Us was a catchy song that was pushed by Lucien Grange and the powers that be in order to elevate Kendrick and diminish Drake