I fukks with Kendrick Lamar but enough is enough

[Jaguar93]

I remember early on during the beef I said that none of these dudes. Had a nuke after all the red button, ether, and nuke talk. NLU proved me wrong because the highs and legs this track has is crazy.

 

[xCivicx]

So you mad a diss song gained traction by fans? Not Like Us isn't the only diss. Besides the song is finally being phased out.

Again, you still haven't addressed the point in my post

 

[xCivicx]

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

You think making light of child molestation is "genius"?

 

[EndDomination]

Corniest popular rapper in a long time. Even worst than drake which is crazy.

Insane thing to say.

Why the extremes? Why can’t people just say “I don’t like this artist.” Why the hyperbole?

You’ve got white male and female rappers - MAGA rappers, pedophile rappers, etc.

But the popular critically acclaimed artist who makes music explicitly about their own life is the “corniest rapper in a long time.”

 

[BK The Great]

Again, you still haven't addressed the point in my post

But Drake doesn’t want to grow in his music He’s still rapping about the same bullshyt. He also addressed that stuff way back. That’s the type of artist he wants to be, make trendy music to the masses. He ain’t gonna go Lauryn Hill because that’s not him.

 

[Standing on business]

 

[Cat piss martini]

drake stans are all a cherry wine
cooler away from suicide.

 

[Standing on business]

 

[Da_Eggman]

"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.

Imagine anyone reading this bullshyt