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Enjoy your life and loved ones.
It’s not! imagine me going to church on Sunday to cleanse my spirit and the pastor pops out singing not like us.
Saying it's okay, but the devil's a LIARRRRRRRRR.
I fukks with Kendrick Lamar but enough is enough
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Saying it's okay, but the devil's a LIARRRRRRRRR.
Nomad1
Tupac KONY and GOAT
Get Kendrick outta here. His last album was dogshyt and sales were not that good in comparison to the numbers Drake has done. Kendrick is a bully and tries to pick fights with rappers to stay relevant, and his fans eat it up. At the end of the day, as much as Drake has deviated from his original image and type of "persona" and morphed into this wannabe tough guy, he beat Meek fair and square and did it with bars. Kendrick needed to call him a pedophile in order to win. Which is ironic considering his mentor Dre beats women, TDE apparently sexually assaulted someone, and Kendrick empowered people like Kodak who has raped women.
Kendrick is a talented rapper who needs controversy to stay relevant and wants to appeal to and be a part of the industry but markets himself as an outsider and a revolutionary figure when he clearly isn't.
I experienced real Compton city gs, dre day, hit em up, ether in real time
NLU is easily the most pervasive biggest diss record ever. The fact its so popular and is about pedophilia, colonalism, identity crisis, cultural appropriation.....and is catchy as shyt.....Kendrick is a genius man.
@hex @Ziggiy @Rekkapryde @shopthatwrecks i think we around the same age...have yall ever seen some shyt like this?I know social media wasnt there to amplify things in the 90s but damn, I took my wife to rooms to go last week and it was playing softly over the PA
Nomad1
Tupac KONY and GOAT
tde and associates got weird cases, do you got one too?
Nomad1
Tupac KONY and GOAT
comfortable? the industry and cacs love Kendrick what are you guys on about
BK The Great
Veteran
Drake had a Taylor swift commercial, stop picking and choosing. Kendrick outsmarted Drake, simple as that.
Drake stans going out sad. Original narrative was that when it was all said and done, Drake could always say he sells more than Kendrick, now that Dot beating Drake at his own game now the narrative shifted to Kendrick sold out to cacs. When everyone was doing the hotline bling dance including Trump it was all good though. Can't win for losing.
He was winning since Euphoria and 616 was when people realized Drake can’t outrap him NLU was Kendrick playing Drakes game and making a hit record since the narrative was he wasn’t capable
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The Prince of All Saiyans
Formerly Jisoo Stan & @Twitter
cause Kendrick orchestrated all this right? for somebody who claims to be @Standing on business
this is the opposite
this is the opposite
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
Superstar
"Is it One Mic or Shorty owe you for ice?"
I see where you've got it fukked up.
You're framing it as conscious vs. commercial.
As if he's picked a lane and there's contradiction in him crossing over into the other. And that he's a fraud for coming at Drake when he's commercial as fukk. That's not it. For Kendrick, it's always been both lanes. At least since Swimming Pools.
The idea, and we can debate over how successful he's been at it or if it's even possible, is that he can play the game and try to dominate the commercial lane so long as he doesn't compromise his sense of integrity.
So long as he brings "the culture" with him, that he can do commercial things. That was the entire point of the Super Bowl performance. That he was gonna ride in the most commercial lane in his conscious car.
He acknowledges multiple times in multiple ways in his music that he is heavily flawed. That he has given into temptation and sin and all that shyt. That he tries to be righteous but has been swayed by vengeance and all of the other distractions in life. And he questions whether or not he is equipped to be all that people see him as.
He's got a whole song about not being a savior. And another about him choosing his inner peace over the restrictions of that role. The song Reincarnated on that Stadium pop album? Is about him being gifted with fame/musical ability in past lives by God, and God giving him multiple chances through reincarnation to not fukk up.
Which he continues to do before asking if he's doing right in his current life as Kendrick. God says "you could be doing better". I'm explaining this to say...Kendrick gets the contradictions and he wants to talk to the audience about them.
I love Nas. But when that bar was said about him, it stuck to him a bit. Clearly we're still quoting it despite him beating who said it. Because Nas didn't confront that in his music at the time. He would just present these contradictions without much apparent awareness. Kendrick addressing those things is part of the appeal and it's what insulates him from criticism, fairly or unfairly.
Which brings me to Drake. Its not so much that Kendrick hates all white people and so appealing to them is this big gotcha. After all if it was just that then he would have a lot to say about Eminem and Mac Miller, whom he's worked with and praises. It's the specific type of white person he sees Drake as representing.
Kendrick sees the way that Drake is representing the culture and himself as a man as disgusting. That the discipline that Kendrick is trying to have, Drake is symbolic of the opposite. That Drake takes more from the culture than he gives and he wears it like a skin because he feels inadequate and wants to be seen as of it.
TL;DR: That was a lot to articulate that Kendrick is Oochie Wally AND One Mic. But he has attempted to do the work to bridge the two and reflect, and let the audience contemplate that. And detests the type of white person he sees Drake as representing.
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