It's crazy how closely Kendrick & Drake is mirroring Jay-Z & Nas

[Carl Tethers]

I mean you can literally see this shyt playing out exactly how Nas and Jay-Z post-Ether did

Drake is dropping hot shyt for the clubs and party music, etc. like Jay was, putting out hit after hit, while Kendrick is getting on his pro-black militant tip like Nas did. They are like in their God's Son/Blueprint 2 era right now, although Kendrick is obviously taking some cues from Nas' "Untitled" era.

Everyone is praising Kendrick for implementing jazz and funk sounds on his new work, like Nas did when he dropped that "Bridging the Gap" joint with Olu Dara and that "Get Down" joint that sampled James Brown. Jay stans said it was boring, old sounding trash.. Nas stans said it was fresh, paying homage to the past and bringing that sound back to the mainstream.

Kendrick is even trying to be commercial, but like Nas, he doesn't know how. "i" was basically his version of Nas' "I can".

I think it's gonna play out pretty similar.. meaning, 20 years from now, we might be seeing college courses taught on GKMC or To Pimp a Butterfly, and have 20th anniversary concerts and documentaries about it, but if you ask me which one is gonna be the multi-millionaire mogul? Which one is likely to hire the other one to his own record label? It's clearly gonna be Aubrey

 

[Not Crodie]

only thing OP was right about is GKMC and TPAB being taught at universities

 

[Big Boss]

@Buggsy Mogues

 

[iamduval]

Kendrick has waayyy more stans now. The 10 year jump is crazy

A lot of the nas Stans that were dissing Kendrick are now k bots

 

[That Singer Guy...]

This is what happens when you're able to study the people before you and make your moves based off of them. Every misstep Nas made post battle has been avoided by Kendrick. His music is still accessible, he went just militant enough to still be able to be commercial without sacrificing quality and he's never rubbed the media wrong, bro handled everything like a king.

 

[Yecht]

This is what happens when you're able to study the people before you and make your moves based off of them. Every misstep Nas made post battle has been avoided by Kendrick. His music is still accessible, he went just militant enough to still be able to be commercial without sacrificing quality and he's never rubbed the media wrong, bro handled everything like a king.

This, mixed with Aubrey studying every mistake Jay made after Ether and making WORSE mistakes

 

[Mike the Executioner]

This is what happens when you're able to study the people before you and make your moves based off of them. Every misstep Nas made post battle has been avoided by Kendrick. His music is still accessible, he went just militant enough to still be able to be commercial without sacrificing quality and he's never rubbed the media wrong, bro handled everything like a king.

Didn't Nas drop The Lost Tapes (one of his most acclaimed projects) and God's Son (which had two of his biggest hits) within a year of the battle?

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

@Buggsy Mogues

9-year old post.. statute of limitations has passed on this one, I'm gucci

 

[Versa]

The difference is in skill and reputation.

Nas may have beaten Jay by general consensus, but Jay is still his peer in terms of skill and reputation. Both them nikkas got back to their respective Hall of Fame careers and rapped their ass off. We got some of Nas and Jay's best stuff AFTER the beef - American Gangster, Black Album, Life is Good, King's Disease series, etc.

Nobody cares about Jay losing outside of Nas stans. He's Jay. He's the GOAT (arguably) and he held his own, dropping dope songs and verses throughout the beef.

Drake is only Kendrick's peer in terms of popularity. In terms of skill and reputation, it's not there. It never was there. Drake is EXTREMELY talented, but as an urban pop star who happens to rap. As a rapper, there was never a conversation about who was better - it was obvious. That's why the beef itself and the aftermath played out how it did.

Drake was never supposed to even be beefing with Kendrick. It was always going to play out this way. The people who could actually make Kendrick sweat either aren't popular enough (Lupe, Black Thought, etc), retired, or are dead.

The ONLY person who could have made that battle interesting in this current climate is J.Cole, but his heart wasn't in it.

 

[HollywoodP]

more like Pac and Big. Drake gonna have to put money on Kendrick after what he did. I hope Kendrick got his head on a swivel.

 

[Surreal]

Drake is a weak Phonte
Kendrick is a corporate Dre3000

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Didn't Nas drop The Lost Tapes (one of his most acclaimed projects) and God's Son (which had two of his biggest hits) within a year of the battle?

After God's Son Nas became aggressively anti mainstream which halted his momentum, and even in the immediate aftermath he burned a lot of bridges which made it easier for the narrative to get spun against him

 

[L $ C]

The difference is in skill and reputation.

Nas may have beaten Jay by general consensus, but Jay is still his peer in terms of skill and reputation. Both them nikkas got back to their respective Hall of Fame careers and rapped their ass off. We got some of Nas and Jay's best stuff AFTER the beef - American Gangster, Black Album, Life is Good, King's Disease series, etc.

Nobody cares about Jay losing outside of Nas stans. He's Jay. He's the GOAT (arguably) and he held his own, dropping dope songs and verses throughout the beef.

Drake is only Kendrick's peer in terms of popularity. In terms of skill and reputation, it's not there. It never was there. Drake is EXTREMELY talented, but as an urban pop star who happens to rap. As a rapper, there was never a conversation about who was better - it was obvious. That's why the beef itself and the aftermath played out how it did.

Drake was never supposed to even be beefing with Kendrick. It was always going to play out this way. The people who could actually make Kendrick sweat either aren't popular enough (Lupe, Black Thought, etc), retired, or are dead.

The ONLY person who could have made that battle interesting in this current climate is J.Cole, but his heart wasn't in it.

Not a bad post

I do wonder what Jayzs mental crashout woulda been if social media was around that time, bro got on hot 97 in nearly tears. hov could never handle social media era with that

 

[KBtheKey]

And 15 years after the beef they will say kdot was always overrated (arguable) and that he had horrible beat selection (also arguable)

And drake got embarrassingly merked in the beef but came out on top because he became a business-first entity and only still made music because he felt like it

And in those 15 years we gone have a new group of top tier artists so almost nobody besides tabloids and the hip hop purists are going to even give a fukk about what them nikkas doing in the present

 

[Hum Alistair]

And 15 years after the beef they will say kdot was always overrated (arguable) and that he had horrible beat selection (also arguable)

And drake got embarrassingly merked in the beef but came out on top because he became a business-first entity and only still made music because he felt like it

And in those 15 years we gone have a new group of top tier artists so almost nobody besides tabloids and the hip hop purists are going to even give a fukk about what them nikkas doing in the present

Difference is kendrick has objectively flawless musical composition, so they never gonna argue about beat selection, at this point most of his songs don't even have beats, they're composed.