What did Drake mean when he said you always rapping like you tryna get the slaves freed?

[Ziggiy]

It was his way of trying to say “Your shyt is garbage/ what you tryna kick knowledge?”


And Kendrick responded with the shyt that Drake needed to learn though.

 

[Standing on business]

Why yall so damn sensitive?

Its the same shyt Hov was saying about Nas

You know damn well what he was getting at.

I understand you’re a Drake fan, but Hov doesn’t have any lines that pathetic when he dissed Nas. There’s calling a rapper fake and mocking him for tryna kick knowledge, and then there’s saying “rapping like you’re tryna free the slaves”. that line was horrible for many reasons.


Can you admit that wording coming from a white boy is in bad taste?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I understand you’re a Drake fan, but Hov doesn’t have any lines that pathetic when he dissed Nas. There’s calling a rapper fake and mocking him for tryna kick knowledge, and then there’s saying “rapping like you’re tryna free the slaves”. that line was horrible for many reasons.


Can you admit that wording coming from a white boy is in bad taste?

If Drake is white, then so is J Cole.

Stop it.

Hov was calling Nas all types of hotep and what not.

If any other rapper had said that, yall would be laughing. He was getting disrespectful. It is what it is.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

“I-i-i-is Drake disrespecting black people and slaves?”

No, you dumbass

 

[BK The Great]

Kendrick basically schooled him after dropping that line it on NLU. That’s what ended this battle.

“Once upon a time, all of us was in chains
Homie still doubled down callin' us some slaves
Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trains
Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game
The settlers was usin' townfolk to make 'em richer
Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda”

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Nah the sleight of hand with how Kendrick got everyone to become willfully obtuse to this bar and turn into Karens debating wording was a genius move. Master manipulator.

Everyone knew what Drake was tryna say.

 

[Kenzo Ten]

Kendrick basically schooled him after dropping that line it on NLU. That’s what ended this battle.

“Once upon a time, all of us was in chains
Homie still doubled down callin' us some slaves
Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trains
Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game
The settlers was usin' townfolk to make 'em richer
Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda”

 

[tysigna]

Thats what confirmed Drake was a bad writer that wasn't built to battle rap against the likes of Kendrick and Pusha.

It's not about what he meant (would have been 100% lie doe), its all about what he wrote and how he executed it, and unfortunately for him, he did a terrible job at it.

 

[Izanami]

I always understood the angle to this but this is white boy like rhetoric and sounds anti black. “Why you rapping like you MLK or Malcolm X” would’ve connected better. There wasn’t not one real brotha in Drakes circle to say nah that ain’t it or foresee how that bar could be used against him?

 

[HabitualChiller]

He literally explains it in the next bar.

American English comprehension is in the 6th ring of hell.

 

[Revolutionary]

This bar still makes me laugh to this day, it really made its way to the top 10 worst bars in rap history .

 

[Tasha And]

Nah the sleight of hand with how Kendrick got everyone to become willfully obtuse to this bar and turn into Karens debating wording was a genius move. Master manipulator.

Everyone knew what Drake was tryna say.

And it demonstrates how culturally unaware and Not Like Us he is that he wasn’t able to articulate what he meant in a way that didn’t sound anti black.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

He literally explains it in the next bar.

American English comprehension is in the 6th ring of hell.

This bar still makes me laugh to this day, it really made its way to the top 10 worst bars in rap history .

Nah the sleight of hand with how Kendrick got everyone to become willfully obtuse to this bar and turn into Karens debating wording was a genius move. Master manipulator.

Everyone knew what Drake was tryna say.

This is what pisses me off so much. Drake really couldn’t have ever truly won if people can’t even understand the fact he literally clears this up in the NEXT line

Kendrick really has people primed to accept the most literal interpretation of things while ignoring Drake’s metaphorical and rhetorical disrespect.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

He meant that Kendrick uses fake deep generic antiestablishment pro-black pandering as a marketing gimmick…as an aesthetic …when in reality he’s the biggest corporate over-pushed pop rapper since Eminem (yup, he clears rap Antichrist Drake in that regard)…black history month aisle at Target, Nancy Pelosi kneeling in kente cloth raps…

the last time he actually was tasked with trying to actually speak real talk on racial matters, he blamed black people for cops killing unarmed black kids in some mainstream cac magazine while we were out in the streets fighting pigs in Ferguson ….there was backlash…the labels put the muzzle on him and he ain’t had a real life lucid interview about anything of worth since

 

[Revolutionary]

This is what pisses me off so much. Drake really couldn’t have ever truly won if people can’t even understand the fact he literally clears this up in the NEXT line

Kendrick really has people primed to accept the most literal interpretation of things while ignoring Drake’s metaphorical and rhetorical disrespect.

Don't put this on kendrick by rewriting history, lmao.

People were criticizing and shytting on drake for that line before kendrick even released his song.

This is what poor writing does

Nobody cares about what drake tried to say, it is BAD writing, simple as that.