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

Peter Parker

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In no way shape or form is ether a better song than Not Like Us. Not in impact or in writing. Not like us is basically as perfect as a song can possibly get. In all genres.
all subjective, but you did say something about impact which is inherently stupid because literally a sentence better I put not like us above ether due to its impact, and also impact has nothing to do with quality
 

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I was a teenager when Ether dropped, and I find it crazy that this became a term used for losers in a rap battle. But Not Like Us has literally renamed drake's label brand forever, made him file the very first lawsuit after a rap battle, and got everyone in the industry publicly scream that he likes them young :pachaha:
NLU has birthed not one but multiple new terms that are gonna resonate for ever.
 

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Sometimes you gotta pop out and show nikkas
Certified boogeyman, I'm the one that up the score with 'em
Walk him down, whole time, I know he got some ho in him
Pole on him, extort shyt, bully Death Row on him
 

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Yes, it is away and by far the most impactful diss track ever made, and we'll never see anything like it ever again. We can debate whether its lyrics are a substantive as ether's, but if the main goal of your diss track is to humiliate your opponent, then there is nothing better than a song calling them a pedophile becoming one of the biggest hip-hop songs ever. I mean Drake sued for defamation

It stands alone at the top
 

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I don't know if it's the best, but it's definitely in that conversation and the fact it's being placed up there is amazing considering old heads always had a hard time having any kind of consideration for new gen artists.

As far as objective metrics, it's hard to deny its goat status.
 

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Yes, it is away and by far the most impactful diss track ever made, and we'll never see anything like it ever again. We can debate whether its lyrics are a substantive as ether's, but if the main goal of your diss track is to humiliate your opponent, then there is nothing better than a song calling them a pedophile becoming one of the biggest hip-hop songs ever. I mean Drake sued for defamation

It stands alone at the top
Yeah, objectively, it's hard to deny its legacy.
 

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Impact? Yes

But this was their second foray tapping into this same marketing and release strategy



You can say this strategy originated with Hit Em Up ... The buzz worthy non-album single that releases alongside a press release style marketing campaign


But the prequel to this marketing strategy, the predecessor of this is that song where Kendrick sent subliminals at Drake years ago got the name of that song it came out and it had like a bit of a buzz with it


Might've been The Heart part something
 
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