Kendrick Got The Rap Game Looking Like Pride Rock When Scar Took Over

[Capital Steez]

6 God still runs rap

Thread is copium.

 

[Number21000]

Not kendrick fault if he's the only hip hop artist able to make relevant quality.

It's been like that for 15 years though.

Goat.

 

[Number21000]

The canadian releases 100 songs a year in order to manipulate streaming services.
The other guy releases 12 songs every 3 year and his music still gets more consumption

 

[Donny]

Music Industry is moving away from Rap it’s all it is only the big established artist are going to get the budget promotion despite that I feel like it’s actually been a good year for rap classic Clipse album even Cardi B album was more on some rap shyt than pop

 

[Da_Eggman]

This is what you haters wanted

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I don’t want to hear nothing from anybody over 30 right now. NOBODY. You telling me 20 year olds can’t make innovating shyt these days? Man I can’t believe this shyt

If you don’t want to hear anything from people 30+, you’re probably shyt out of luck. The demo you’re craving has absolutely zero juice. I hope you enjoy NBA YB, Destroy Lonely and Lil Tecca.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

You can blame two mutt nikkas for talking shyt and not being prepared for a battle
One ran
One started a lawsuit
Hip hop has had one of the strongest years in recent history and the music is out there
You nikkas just want to vicariously live through another man’s dikk while shopping at target

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

its bad for the game when the leaders are 38/39.

Clipse didn’t even have a “HIT” either.

This is the real issue.

Hip Hop needs someone with an edge....and by edge, I mean someone that can shyt on MAGA like 1989 Chuck D with the flow of Mos Def or Jadakiss over some nice beats. Some Pac "Brenda's Got a Baby" type ish.

Right now, it's either shyt talking other Black people or some crap-trap shyt.

There's nothing mainstream that pushes back on the elite. Nothing that makes anyone a little uncomfortable.

 

[Controversy]

Kendrick was never gonna be able to carry the rap game...he's not interesting enough

The game needs Drake & Cole to drop some heat

 

[SNG]

Even Kendrick pushing 40 himself. This the real problem right here.

Just seen something that said not like us was in the top 5 most streamed songs on Apple Music this year. All the other songs were released in 2024 too.

Seems like mainstream culture in general is just stuck

It’s because all the young nikkaz want to be and streamers now. Remember a lot of us millennials were raised on music videos seeing the money, cars, and women that drew a lot of nikkaz to the rap game. Now it’s different they are seeing people like Adin Ross, Kai Cenat and Speed travelling the world getting money and in the spaces where rappers are coming to them. The streamer is the new rapper. Tbh your better off being a streamer then crossing to a rapper.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Kendrick was never gonna be able to carry the rap game...he's not interesting enough

The game needs Drake & Cole to drop some heat

What does this even mean. Since when are we judging rap solely off mainstream shyt or borderline political shyt like "bububu how many features does he do" lmao. fukkouttahere.

Kendrick had a massive 2024 and 2025. And yet there was still room for rappers to make noise and for the most part they didn't do shyt. Future teased dropping all year and didn't. Cole talked some shyt and didn't drop. Damn near the entire west coast was silent instead of hitting up Mustard for a summer banger. And none of this has to do with labels allegedly sidelining rap. If you have a hit, the label is going to spend.

Biggest destabilizer in 2025 rap was Thugger slandering Gunna and not allowing nikkas to enjoy his shyt. Gunna still had a good year, capping it off with a sold out arena stop. But ATL would have been better off if they made peace so Gunna could continue writing shyt for Thug and Baby. Without that they both fell off a cliff and we didn't get a transition to whoever the next noteworthy ATL rapper is (via features).

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Thats the difference between Drake and Kendrick.

Drake spams streaming services by dropping 100 songs a year...Meanwhile, the most consumed songs are all from Kendrick...despite having released no new music this year.

Kendrick is the definition of straight quality.

To tell you how bogus Drake and his fanbase are, for a full year they talked about people turning their back on Drake and rap is “boring without him”, and Drake dropped a hard drive dump worth of songs during the beef and that fanbase only supported two of them. They are frauds.

 

[VegetasHairline]

To tell you how bogus Drake and his fanbase are, for a full year they talked about people turning their back on Drake and rap is “boring without him”, and Drake dropped a hard drive dump worth of songs during the beef and that fanbase only supported two of them. They are frauds.

Aubrey's Angels still doing everything but talking about his latest music.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Kendrick was never gonna be able to carry the rap game...he's not interesting enough

The game needs Drake & Cole to drop some heat

is interesting about Aubrey and Cole?

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Why Kendrick don't let us eat?

Spoiler

Stop it
They went from "ain't nobody worried about that powerless dweeb" to "look at what he's done to us!!!!!"