Who rapped better overall, Dot or Drake?

[desp]

Also the best scheme of the whole battle was Kendrick's Atlanta/colonizer scheme.

Masterfully written That would have shook the room in an actual on stage battle

 

[Revolutionary]

This is a fun topic. I've gotta get it out the way first. Ghostwriters will ALWAYS be a fukking asterisk. And the fact that its not for many...kinda speaks to a key reason so many want him out the paint. But I digress. Putting that kinda off to the side?

I'm going Kendrick. I'll explain why shortly.

But for now, i'm gonna give Drake some flowers. I thought the second verse on Family Matters was fire. It was peak Drake. However, it was the best verse in a song where he should have been giving Kendrick "all of the curses" like Push asked for.

I chuckled at some of the short jokes for sure as far as shyt directed AT Kendrick. That "back to the curb" bar, the "beat her up cuz she's bigger than you". Was cute to me. I wasn't really feeling a lot of the Whitney based shyt. Just fell short for me.

"Where is your uncle at? I wanna talk to the man of the house". fukking fire lol. Like Family Matters was impressive. And if he was able to really dig in on Kendrick like he dug in on Rocky? Man.

The first verse on Heart Part 6 actually pisses me off on repeat listens. His flow and the way he rides the beat and the bars are so fukking nice...
Now I don't believe he's a war general but that whole scheme is just top notch. And then the about the moment where he goes "speaking to anything with a child"...it goes to shyt. I do love the "D Major" line a lot, and the last shot about it being safer for Whitney to hit him back. But he really fukks up his own song and its then that I was really like aiight pack it up.

I was never feeling Push Ups or Taylor Made like that. Sorry. I think altogether though, Drake performed well and had some nice shots. I do not find him versatile enough though and sometimes I found his shyt monotonous and really similar to the sound I grew tired of with him years ago. And then we get to Kendrick.

Kendrick was just so fukking versatile in delivery, tone, inflection, setting shyt up, entendres, references to earlier disses, and he was fukking funny, man. I chuckled at Drake's comedy bars. I LAUGHED at Kendrick's. That Sexxy Red, pop ass with em shyt? Comedy. WHAT IS IT THE BRAIDS?!? Comedy.
I was one of the few who wasn't actually impressed with the YMW Melly line like that. What impressed me more? "In 8 bars i'll clarify that phrase".

And then he proceeds to lead us INTO that 8th bar being the Melly line. The core audience, stomach, abs shyt.
Undressing Drake's adverse effects on the culture, Not Like Us being this joke song but that whole last verse as a mini history lesson in Atlanta leading to the colonizer bar? I think the daughter verse taints Meet the Grahams now (in the same way unsubstantiated claims taint some of the Drake moments), but that's also a showcase of versatility to me. I could go on. But this is an essay already.

TL:DR: Kendrick was painting in a bunch of different ways with different paints and materials on different canvases. Drake was really good at times with just painting his one way. Better than I thought he would be. But Kendrick is a far more creative and versatile rapper. I give Drake his credit though, he held his own...but that's when it comes back to that asterisk for me.

very good analysis sir

 

[GeeEffKay]

Embarrassing to compare when one is clearly levels above in every way. Aubrey sounds like he is getting fed lines and rapping like a run on sentence when he tries to actually rap rap

 

[Don Snow]

Kendrick Stans talking about delivery and mic presence


Drake smoked him bar for bar and his rebuttals was crazy

But Ovhoe right

 

[coose]

Drake

 

[BlackXCL]

Drake. Kendrick, as usual, relied on charisma and voice changing, and his fans ate it up.

Bar for bar, drake was better.

 

[Sad Bunny]

“Euphoria” was the best rap performance IMO.

 

[The Connoisseurs]

6.16 in LA had the best traditional rapping overall.

Euphoria and not like us had the more entertaining raps

the best rapping was from Drake on the third verse of Family Matters

Best sounding flow/melody for sure but we can’t say best rapping.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Meet The Grahams literally goes with the Boogeyman theme. shyt sounds dark as fukk. Lol

Would have been a perfect song minus the fake daughter verse. That makes me mad thinking about that part

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Nina’s talking about adlibs



Bar for bar Drake was better

Pwhaaahahaa a

 

[Piff Perkins]

I feel like the entire battle was a clear explanation that Kendrick is the superior MC. Drake did what Drake always does. Some nice, straight forward (ghost written) rhymes with one of the same 1-2 flows he always used when he's in Serious Drake mode. Both Push Ups and Family Matters sound similar in tonality and content, the beats are somewhat similar, etc.

Kendrick dissed him across multiple types of beats, using multiple flows and types of tracks. He hit him with multiple entendres and subs on Euphoria. Then he hit him with a timestamp track/lyrical exercise on 6:16 In Compton. Then he hit him with some horrorcore raps on Meet The Grahams. Followed by dissing him on a simple hit song that got the country bouncing. Just a straight up clinic of styles from rappity rap to anthems.

 

[JuvenileHell]

Ghostwriting aside

 

[Sad Bunny]

LMAO @ PREDICT

THE WHOLE WORLD KNEW
DRAKE WAS BRINGING THE FAM UP
WHEN HE SAID BODYGUARD LIKE WHITNEY

ALL OF THOSE "HOT LINES"
FROM "LIKE THAT" AND "EUPHORIA"
GOT FLIPPED AND REBUTTED NASTY



​

Kendrick created the hottest lines and Drake had more time to play off them and flip them lol

Drake or his writers should have spent more time creating their own unique lines.

 

[Sad Bunny]

That pass over like Stockton was prolly the worst punchline of the whole battle. What is this 1998 or some shyt? Lol

Cap. It made Drake go and delete his IG picture with Karl Malone

 

[BlueHeffner]

Your last one bricked, you really not on sh!t
They make excuses for you 'cause they hate to see me lit
Pull your contract 'cause we gotta see the split
The way you doing splits, b!tch, your pants might rip



lyrical Masterpiece