Eminem sat down with kendrick awhile back and they went back and forth writing lyrics(i believe it was that) and em came out of it saying "yea kendricks him" If you've got the guy who rarely loses in diss tracks come out and say your pretty good maybe others should listen and not mess with kendrick..
Maybe it's just my age...but for me, a guy having the balls to get up on stage, admit to messing up, and giving an obviously better artist the credit he deserves...I respect that.
couldn’t agree more, i thought the same as well. and it’s j cole, he’s always been the nice humble guy so it was not out of character for him to basically apologize. in also in hindsight it was a smart move that he did avoiding the nuke that is kendrick
So ceremony 2011 and drake takes him on tour 2014 because he was the next big thing to hit the rap scene. Ok got it. Might edit this later as I keep listening.
I deadass tried repeating it and said “some of my black friends can be the meanest” ; he said “blackest” he thinks there’s this sort of gauge of what blackness is… crazy
@@thinwhiteduke708 Naw f that. My black ass was bullied for "white people shit" as a kid and im darker than Drake is. After an experience like that I would absolutely never categorize my black friends as "blackest". What does that even mean? Considering his obsession with his perception and who he hangs with, I think it's very easy to infer he means street dudes. He should have learned to not put other black people in a box like that and learn to be confident in his own blackness instead of worrying about how he is perceived by the wider rap community.
@@3hawnbasically asking why Drake was so concerned about Whitney not following Kendrick on social media, just showing how terminally online Drake was during the beef
It’s some highschool type thing. Shows drakes mentality and view on the validity of a relationship. Maybe it’s because he spends so much time around children that he started thinking like them.
Right🎯🎯 especially since Kendrick doesn’t even post much if anything at all… Only children care about who’s following them or not, and what it means… Not teue grown-ups💯🤷🏽♀️
The thing that I find hilarious with the Adonis thing, is that there is nothing wrong with keeping your kid out of the spotlight, which is what Drake claimed he was doing. But if that was what he was actually doing, he wouldn’t have a total shift in parenting. A man doesn’t hide his kid from the world for the kids safety only to then go “actually nvm I’m gonna post him a lot and put him on my songs” if he actually was hiding Adonis for his safety he would’ve said that then kept acting that way towards Adonis and “raising him” out of the public eye
Kendrick himself keeps his kids out of the public eye, shielding them from all the terrible shit that comes with fame. But to Drake, if you aren't posting pics on the gram then it isn't real. He could have quietly been co-parenting his son and have mentioned him once or twice in an interview and nobody would have had any problems. But instead he hid that he had a kid and wasn't part of Adonis' life until Pusha T pushed him.
He kind of disses himself on accident by saying that Kendrick’s informants are “clowns” and then saying that he himself purposely gave Kendrick false info. Like, is HE the clown???💀💀
Right, and he had a whole week and could only come up with an "11 year old daughter." No fake name, address or who the mother could be? Come on bruh. I can come up with that in a day, not a week.
J Cole sacrificed his prestige for peace of mind and I respect it so much. He saw a tragedy in the making and said "no thank you." Though I fear Kendrick's power to make the internet apologize to a celebrity.
One of the most haunting coincidences about this whole saga: On The Heart Part 4, Kendrick says: "Y'all got til April the 7th to get your shit together." Then guess what happens on April 7, 2024; The J. Cole apology. EDIT: Just to clarify, I did hear this first from that JahMakesMusic short.
@@LarryDaLobstah Ok to break it down. In 2017, during the leadup to DAMN, Kendrick released The Heart Part 4. The line I wrote above is the day preorders for DAMN. It just so happens that J. Cole apologizes on April 7, 7 years later.
I never realized how weird and annoying Drake stans were until this beef. They claim hypocrisy when people believed dot over Drake but never question why that is. Drake has clear and long track record of being inauthentic, sneaky, misogynistic and disrespectful to many over the years meanwhile Kendrick while not perfect, has always been his self since blowing up and stays out of drama. He tore down the fake mobster persona that Drake has been building since Views in a matter of weeks. When Kendrick said “Why believe you? You never gave us nothin’ to believe in” truer words have never been spoken
@@Z4NKA1 how exactly is Kendrick a wolf in sheep's clothing? Do you even know what that means? It means someone dangerous and 'vile', so to speak, pretending to be innocent and pure. Which... Kendrick never did! In fact it's because he was so open about his imperfections and mistakes that Drake thought he had something to cook with for this beef. All of the things he talks about come from Mr Morale, which is the album where Kendrick exposes his vulnerability, the things he's not proud of doing, but still wanting to get better. He didn't portray himself as pure and innocent next to Drake, much the contrary. He's said before in other songs, even before Mr Morale, that maybe he isn't that much of a goodie two shoes that people seem to believe he is, and wonders if people would still like him if he showed his flaws and imperfections. That's where they are different. Drake fails to recognize his issues, to address them and work on himself to be better. He sees himself as a god and never understands why people dislike him because his ego is too big for him to self reflect.
Drake is the Elvis Presley of hip hop. Huge name, wealthy and successful, steals from up and coming black artists, weird relationship with young woman.
Kendrick smoked Drake. Undoubtedly. But let’s not minimize how brutal Pusha T’s diss was in tearing a deep hole in Drake’s armor. Pusha literally changed the whole diss game. That is an undisputed fact.
@@clarkspacewayne2672I’ve never known pusha to not get credit. I think it’s a cannonical event in the downfall of Drake that no one can/will/does deny. Push cracked the facade, Kendrick shattered it.
Saying kendrick got his popularity cause of Drake is wildly inaccurate. His xxl appearance, fucking section.80 mixtape??? Aint no way drake got him that buzz.
It definitely contributed to his buzz but to me I could care less every artist eventually goes on to do collabs with a bigger artists plus like you said he already had buzz it aint like Drake found him performing in some hole in the wall club with 5 people watching and did him a favor
@@billbixby366 mine was the monster freestyle, that tupac/big/bigL/ODB line made me a fan immediately. And the switch ups were nice... Recommend that one to those that haven't heard it.
@@fs4836 It helps them paint the of a villain in their head. Can't hate someone that used to make money like the rest of us. Then we have to make excuses why we didn't improve.
@@TehStylishone it’s so dumb too cuz there’s straight facts people can use to criticize Drake. When they lie their criticisms just lose weight cuz they look uninformed and petty.
By the way, the whole “he beat his wife” thing was a weird rumor that Kendrick debunked in 2015. So basically Drake used an unsubstantiated rumor that was addressed almost a decade ago.
"you are hiding a child, let that boy come home. Deadbeat mf playing border patrol" Probably the most impactful line in hip-hop history. Everybody ran that back immediately
I always thought the way he briefly stops rapping and over-enunciates the delivery of “you are hiding a child” was genius. Pusha T wanted to make sure that line could not be mistaken for anything else.
@@robjgolde3221the line didnt even flow well, and it stand out so much its so hilariously painful when hearing it. It was clear he didnt even mean to rap on it or rhyme to much on it. He just wanted to say "You are hiding a child" 😅
i know pretty much nothing about rap (been meaning to get more into it) and i feel like my third eye has been opened. i knew rap beef existed but i was unaware of how insane the lore gets. watching video essays abt things i know nothing abt is my favorite pastime ever im having the time of my life rn
The thing is there doesn’t actually have to be an 11 year old girl. In fact I don’t think Kendrick has heard of an 11 year old girl at all, he’s proving a point about Drake. The fact that everyone BELIEVES that Drake could have a daughter is what matters, because it’s very likely that Drake, who’s been talking about Kendrick having a broken family, has left behind his own string of broken family, kids missing their fathers, girls that have had their life and innocence ruined because of how much Drake worships himself.
Most people don't know Kendrick used the Teddy Pendergrass sample because Drakes uncle (famous musician Larry Graham) wrote the music for that song. The man is an evil mad genius.
Yeah it was and the part on Meet The Grahams Kendrick says "They be streamlinin' victims all inside of they home and callin' 'em tender Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas" was about that "leak"
Do you wana no what's crazy about him saying that.. Drake said that in FM. In MTG Kendrick says.... *Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas*.. Drake leaked his 'D' pics a few years ago and again recently. The guy is an idiot.
Drake makes it hard to give him credit sometimes lol. I still think sonically and as a diss towards people who aren't Kendrick, Family Matters goes hard but, there are moments like the line you quoted that still make me go "OH BROTHER."
Drake has a lotta nerve for going "Oh there's some things you shouldn't say in a beef, some lines you shouldn't cross" and then having that bit in The Heart Part 6 where he misinterprets Mother I Sober and pretty much goes "oh wait you're just mad about this cuz you got molested!!!" Like. Gee Aubrey that's a line you're okay with crossing huh? Making jokes about someone's trauma? Yeah sure Kendrick says he wasn't abused, but that doesn't change that Drake said some stupid hurtful shit because of his misinterpretation.
"Walking your enemy down" in the hood also means during a shootout walking straight towards your enemy shooting at him either because you're calling his bluff as a killer, have a clear advantage or you crazy and don't give a fuck
before the beef kendrick had about 50 mil monthly listeners and drake had about 80 mil monthly listeners. during the beef kendrick went up to about 80 million listeners and drake went up to about 85 million listeners. now 2 months after the final songs got released kendrick is sitting at 72.5 million listeners and drake is sitting at 74.5 million listeners. if drake wants to talk about numbers lets talk about those numbers cause thats kinda crazy. they essentially are now equal in terms of numbers but kendrick has like half the songs drake does, way more awards, authenticity, and the culture behind him and drake has a record label full of people he cant trust
Don't start pulling out numbers or you'll summon the drake stan brainrot army that only speak in top streams, diamond certificates, gold certificates, monthly streams, overall streams and further boring ass nerd shit that has 0 correlation with quality of the music.
Wow, this was an amazing breakdown! I was super invested in this beef, and as a person who is a fan of both, I knew Kendrick was going to win before it even started. Drake is the McDonalds of hip hop. It tastes good, it’s reliable, it’s always there, it’s affordable, it’s popular…but the quality is questionable because it’s essentially mass produced fake food. Kendrick is like Thanksgiving dinner. It’s highly anticipated because you only get it once it a year, it’s homemade, takes hours to make, and reminds you of where you come from.
It all boils down to drake being oblivious to hip hop culture. There's so many clips of drake confirming that in my mind. Even the beginning of the beef with the control verse. Every other rapper pretty much understood what that was about, but drake got in his feelings about it. Rap has always been competitive. There's always a rapper out here trying to be the best. It is like a sport. I'm just glad Kendrick tucked the sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.
@@andrewz1313 Drake didn’t take it personally, they were still friends after the verse and Drake even went to his concert in 2022 and offered him a feature in 2023. Kendrick’s always been envious on the low, same with metro
@@Z4NKA1 Yes he did, there’s clips of him taking it personally and multiple instances of him being salty. I see you constantly defending Drake in the comments and as a Drake music fan…dude you are embarrassing me. Chill out. Kendrick has not been friendly with Drake at all despite Drake’s attempts in the past. He doesn’t respond to Drake positively ever basically. No matter what Kendrick said for PR bruh. He also said one of those songs wasn’t about Drake, LIE 😭 Just take Drake’s willy out your wonka and relax. Drake is a sensitive baby, that is okay. He doesn’t have to be this tough guy he wants to be. He is the guy who sung Texts Go Green. He is the guy who said “you say you a lesbian girl me too”. His songs are fun and catchy. That doesn’t make him worth defending with your life bruh.
@Z4NKA1 Envious of what? Record sales? I dont know any michelin star chef jealous of mcdonalds success. If anything theyre offended at its existence because it is a blight on their passion and artwork.
The one thing this battle has done is brought out some INCREDIBLE commentating. This video was incredible. I laughed, I learned, and I spoke to the screen. Amazing work!
Kind of reminds me how Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” had all folks conversing intellectually if that makes sense. Kind souls are breaking down the beef AND deciphering lyrics (mostly Kendrick’s) beyond surface level. Kendrick isn’t a Pulitzer Prize recipient for nothing.
when i saw not like us dropped...i was in my car driving home from a dinner where my good friends had, not an HOUR earlier, explained the entire beef to me in detail. i screamed, they texted me a minute later screaming, we were all screaming. the music video coming out and seeing whitney and kendrick dancing together with their kids and having a good time is one of, like, 200 cherries on top of all this
ovhoes in the comments complaining about the video's "bias" and being "not objective" is ironic 😂the only thing Kendrick is wrong about in his diss is that Drake fans aren't slow😭
It’s crazy hearing drake going on about “my thing is about lasting power having an album that will last” when he’s recorded some of the most forgettable, mind numbing, blendable, dead on arrival albums since like views.
Honestly Nevermind FAYD is a great album one day yall will realize that one yall stop hating this man edit: It just like when I have to defend MM&TBS when it just drop but due to the Drake hate all of a sudden everybody like MM&TBS
So, to recap. Euphoria is a warning shot, 6:16 is Kendrick shaking his head, Family Matters is Drake attempting to curse K-Dots name, Meet The Grahams is the execution while Not Like Us is Kendrick lighting up the corpse and everyone dancing around the bonfire. (Edit) i forgot about The Heart pt6 i guess that's the dying gasp.
Can't wait for the next Drake "interview" two years down the road where he finally announces that daughter and claims Kendrick only won because he smeared his name as if Drake didn't try to do the same thing first
Fucking real dude, he did it first but he acted like a victim. drake is literally a dumbass for doing the same shit (mentioning the wives/fiancee in a rap battle) twice. He's just irritating and insecure
7 min drill wasnt a bad diss but we all know by now that Cole just wanted a simple rapping battle but Kendrick was going for Drake's head and it was personal
I feel like Kendrick just texted Cole after it went up and was like "bro this isn't about you, we cool, I just hate that Aubrey n****" and Cole hearing that there was HATE involved realised this was not a simple diss battle and tapped out. I know he said he felt pushed to release the response, but I feel if it was just gonna be simple disses he would have kept it up and not felt so weird about it. But when he realised this rap battle was actually a war he was not participating
It’s crazy to think this all started cause drakes ego couldn’t handle a metaphor. Bro called out the people who featured him on the song and they didn’t say anything
Remember when Story of Adidon kept strangely getting taken down off every channel that posted it for like the first week on YT cause you know Drake was pulling HELLA strings tryna get that song buried but it was already too late
Watching DJ Akademics slowly die inside as he does a live reaction to Not Like Us was the icing on the cake for me. You could tell even he had to resist bopping to it.
its also worth mentioning that the uncle bar is subtle transphobia. calling Kendrick a lesser man than his uncle, who is a transgender man, only serves to insult his uncle. its an especially yikes bar when you add the Weeknd bar in the previous section. by saying your uncle is the man of the house, you are basically saying that Kendricks masculinity is less than that of someone who wasn't born a man, thus basically delegitimizing a random fucking person.
Yeah the most trans/homophobic bars on here are the combos he throws at The Weeknd. Who thought in their right mind "Abel music only played where boys got a little more pride" and "punk sissy from the Northside" would be seen as anything else than bigotry
I still dont know how ppl can meatride drake so much He lied about the wife beater allegations He lied about dave free being one of the kid dads And a bigot
Nigga Issa diss record who cares Kendrick literally wished death on him yall pick and choose and I don’t even like Drake at all and listen to Kendrick way moreeee
I’m with you on the never subscribing to the Big 3 thing. I had Kendrick and Cole up there..Drake has never been in my top 10-20 of rappers. I never understood how he got so much credit as a lyricist once all the reference tracks and ghost writer allegations came out
@@Z4NKA1You don't know Hip Hop. Drake can not and will NEVER be considered top 3, 5, 10 or 25, and that's by the cultures standards. He was disqualified when all of ghost writing and reference tracks were exposed. I get it you're his biggest fan and I respect you for standing up for him and your opinion about him but in reality, Drake is not a rapper. He's an actor.
J. Cole “backed out” because he’s above a rap beef. He’s on a spiritual level and there’s just no need to continue rivaling with someone he got love for
J Cole backed out because the Internet clowned his for that weak as 7 min drill diss track. Everything he tried to say about kendrick's discography actually applied to j Cole. He had to back down cause kendrick's reply would have extinguished cole's already dying career. Yeah, j Cole fell off with an apology 😂
In my opinion the "bar" about alleged DV that Drake had was him AGAIN lacking reading comprehension in regards to "Mother I Sober". There's a part in the track where Kendrick says: Mother's brother said he got revenge for my mother's face Black and blue, the image of my queen that I can't erase 'Til this day can't look her in the eyes, pain is taking over Blame myself, you never felt guilt 'til you felt it sober Kendrick is reiterating the guilt he felt about not being able to protect his mother when she was assaulted and beaten when he was 5. Drake and his remaining braincell took that to mean that Kendrick was admitting to DV due to him feeling guilty. It's the wording that Drake used when referring to Whitney. Until then he referred to her by name, here he refers to her as "your queen" as an attempt at a gotcha moment. That and him later using the sexual assault of his mother and saying it was Kendrick who was assaulted even though in the song he explicitly states "No, I wasn't." just shows how Drake lacks authenticity and good will. He is still underestimating Kendrick as an artist and that was his biggest mistake.
Also also, Kendrick calling out Drake as a culture vulture is so satisfying for me as a Latino. He jumped on some Latin music and he put no effort in his lyrics or flow. Damn did I hate his verse on Odio. It was stupid and ruined a nice sounding song. Although Latin music has had its own identity crisis and pop issues, what Drake did felt lazy and distasteful in contrast to the song he was on.
@@rekishaprovost1243 drake said “epstein angle” which means pedo allegations angle… it was obvious that kendrick was gonna use that angle bc his dickeaters on tiktok started that false shit
As a pop girlie, who mostly listens to Pop and Indie Music, thank you for this great breakdown! It‘s so interesting to get emerged in and learn about hiphop and its culture.
Everytime you say Kendrick Fucking Lamar, you sound fed up. 😂😂😂 I get it because they acted like he was some new artist nobody knew. It's KENDRICK. He proved why there's no Big 3 by solidifying his GOAT status from this beef. He's been that guy. It's always quality over quantity with him. He takes being an artist literally by legitimately creating art. His albums are masterpieces. You can see his growth with each album.
Thank you so much for bringing up the homophobic crap drake pulled. I always found it stupid that all the other reactors found that bar to be a genuine insult
@@adrianl1464except its not making fun of gay people. Its saying that the people listening to you are gay as a diss. The joke here only works if you think being gay is an insult, so the joke is homophobic. Making fun of gay people and ponting at something as saying "HA GAY!" specifically as an insult are two different things
I'm BIG MAD that a breakdown and commentary of this caliber isn't getting hundreds of thousands of views already. Your insight and obvious enjoyment of the genre really shines. Fantastic video!
idc about the song or the context but "7 minute drill" has to be the hardest title of the beef. No frills, no time or effort wasted, just "I'm gonna drill you and this is for how long."
Every Kendrick song has more replay value than any drake songs... Kendricks music will be studied 100s of years from now while drakes music will be played in elevators or when you on hold.
I know the average drake fan doesn't care about misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, but the amount of those things drake casually sprinkles into his songs esp the ones from the diss tracks just truly points out the type of person he is. dissing a guy by saying he's gay or the line about kendricks uncle. those lines were just so unnecessary? like either he couldn't come up with something to say so he just defaulted to 2010 era insults, or he legitimately don't like gay and trans people? either way its a loss for drake on that alone.
@ssj4goku18825theepic YOU don't care. Don't speak for other people. Clearly people care otherwise people wouldn't be making judgment calls on Drake for saying shit like that. Saying no one cares might make you feel better about "political shit" (truly people's right to live in peace isnt political, but whatever I guess?), but that doesn't make that shit true. And if you want to remind someone to "focus on the beef" talk to Drake. Twice. TWICE this lil fucker got his ass absolutely handed to him because he kept going off course and tryna bring people's fiancé's into shit that had nothing to do with them.
@@ssj4goku18825theepicwhile I think the “transphobic” and “homophobic” are overly politicized terms, I think we can avoid that by simply looking at what drake said. Youre making fun of the weeknd because gay people listen to his music. Ok… I guess thats a dunk or something? Homophobic or not its grasping for straws and lacks any real punch.
@@fxlltxtsearch I’m a massive Kendrick fan and I do think what Drake did is super cringe and lame especially at the weekend besides the point but i also don’t enjoy the cringe identity nonsense coming into this beef from some of the fans who clearly want to throw in a bit of politics into this beef that has nothing to do with it
@@ssj4goku18825theepic i agree 100%. But the point still stands. The diss is “your fans are gay”. Alright… I guess thats a big diss fam? Its follows the same logic as some of his previous disses towards kendrick. “You’re short!” Ok…. you groom under age girls and pop out when they touch 18???? Its just a very low level of depth coming from his disses at this moment.
@@ssj4goku18825theepicIt's a fair criticism. Drake's insults amount to "haha u gay" which is fucking elementary. It's something a prepubescent boy says to his friends.
Meet the grahams is the greatest diss track I’ve ever heard in my life. It was No Vaseline but man. I’ve never heard someone get completely dismantled down to their fucking brain chemistry the way Kendrick did.
Excellent video. I have no clue about the culture/history of any of these musicians and I don't listen to any of them, but I was curious what this was all about your explanations made it easy to follow. Great work.
as a hip hop fan from atl i will tell u all these rappers drake clique’d up w had a name before he was making music w them esp 21, migos & for sure future!
I gotta be the only person to not have given Cole any flack when he backed out. Cole wanted to keep it rap..Kendrick legitimately hates Drake..if ya’ll couldn’t feel that before Euphoria dropped then idk what to tell you 😂 i think Kendrick has enough wherewithal to keep it strictly rap with Cole if they were going to go at it.:but if i’m Cole i’m like nahh..tension is at an all time high..imma let them get this out the way
Yeah lol j cole is very wise to be able to quiet himself and his ego enough to hear what God is telling him to do. Which in this case was to stfu lol because god was using Kendrick for something much bigger
Good to see I wasn't the only one. I absolutely understand where people were coming from, but I can't put the music before the man, his principles, and the path he sees for himself. I gave in to the pressure, but returned to himself, regardless of consequences...I respect that
I think Kendrick really feels like Drake is a bitch so it made more since for Cole to get out the way Cole and Kendrick can catch a friendly later now that Kendrick proved his point
Hands down, the best video explaining the beef in youtube rn! I was locked in onto the video right from start to end.You deserve a lot more for this effort!!
If Drake truly understood hip-hop culture, he would have understood that the Control verse wasn't personal. If you understood the culture, you understand that K. Dot wasn't taking a shot...it was you guys are where I want to be and I have to come for you. It's about showing respect for your work and spot in the game, while announcing that I'm coming. That's all. But when you're thin skinned and not truly part of the culture, that's how you react: you clutch your pearls, sneak diss, and act like a b...you know the rest!
I'm a casual fan and I will fully admit I don't really know or understand the culture.....but even I know that Kendrick wasn't insulting anybody with that verse
Thats funny, i never heard of Kendrick until close to GKMC. I remember driving around LA bumping his album for 1 year and every time i heard Drake on it would skip past his part.
I'm Canadian and the literal only things I remember about Drake before this beef is Hotline Bling and him getting cooked by Pusha. I never got him acting tough either, he is exactly like those middle-class white dudes who try to act hood in their late teens. It's honestly embarrassing. I'm 5 hours from Toronto and the only thing I hear people talking about is how much Drake got cooked and how it will be difficult for him to literally show his face in public at all since people will probably just constantly heckle him for being a pedo.
“ How many opps you really got? I mean, it's too many options I'm finna pass on this body, I'm John Stockton “ John Stockton is 1 in assists. Passing the go ahead to diss on drake to everyone in the industry. John Stocktons most notable teammate is karl Malone. Karl Malone infamously got a 13 year old girl pregnant. To me that was the line that killed Drake. Everything else was Kendrick rightfully dancing on his grave
After hearing how they first met, it seems to me Drake tried to do to Kendrick what he usually does to upcoming artists: give them a glimpse of what fame and money gets you in an attempt of intimidation and lovebombing. See what I can give you? Sign with me and remember I can destroy you. And Kendrick saw through the fake nice, wasn't about that life.
This is one of the best summary videos I’ve watched on this whole beef and you added a bunch of context I missed without repeating the same talking pts I’ve been hearing on other vids.
@@MarLoriaI figured that has to be the case. I don’t know if it’s possible, but are you able to voiceover these spots? I actually watched this video, but a lot of times I just listen, and the dropped audio always startles me.
Been thru this saga a million times but the way you discuss it has me hooked all over again, glad to have found your content brother
Appreciate it!!🙏🙏
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Hello fnf CZcamsr
Bro wasn’t lying when he said he was a Kendrick glazer
hi dude if u see this, i love your vids
Witnessing this beef play out is like watching a movie with the most satisfying ending.
It really is a movie ! I'm glad the one I was rooting for won 😂❤
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IKR. Drake is such a 🐈🐱
It was like watching a live boxing match where they’re just going blow for blow, but eventually Kendrick had Drake on the drops just dropping bombs
legitimately like watching all of the mcu films in order up to endgame.
"Kendrick Lamar _isn't most rappers_ " sums up this entire thing, doesn't it?
Sure did!
add "and drake is a pedo" then it's finished
I just realised how much i hated Aubrey's smug face and the duck lips he does
Eminem sat down with kendrick awhile back and they went back and forth writing lyrics(i believe it was that) and em came out of it saying "yea kendricks him"
If you've got the guy who rarely loses in diss tracks come out and say your pretty good maybe others should listen and not mess with kendrick..
Ironically, Kendrick is not like us
Maybe it's just my age...but for me, a guy having the balls to get up on stage, admit to messing up, and giving an obviously better artist the credit he deserves...I respect that.
I was about to comment something similar, having humility should exempt you from being apart of some objective "big 3", dude should still be up there.
I like J. Cole more now because of that.
It's not age, it's plain maturity and wisdom. I'm 26 yo and thought the same thing. And some people much older than me disagree with this take.
What?
couldn’t agree more, i thought the same as well. and it’s j cole, he’s always been the nice humble guy so it was not out of character for him to basically apologize. in also in hindsight it was a smart move that he did avoiding the nuke that is kendrick
Drake 2013: "Is anyone thinking about the Control Verse anymore?"
CZcams Video Essays 2024: "So the Control Verse is crucial here..."
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well yeah it kinda is because of kendrick bringing this all back on with like that...
So ceremony 2011 and drake takes him on tour 2014 because he was the next big thing to hit the rap scene. Ok got it. Might edit this later as I keep listening.
Saying “some of my blackest friends” is so weird to say if he *actually* identified as a Black man 😬
Exactly. He couldn't possibly see himself as a black man and accusing Rick Ross of being racist was icing on the cake.
I deadass tried repeating it and said “some of my black friends can be the meanest” ; he said “blackest” he thinks there’s this sort of gauge of what blackness is… crazy
Its actually not weird at all.
@@thinwhiteduke708how is that not weird? please explain.
@@thinwhiteduke708 Naw f that. My black ass was bullied for "white people shit" as a kid and im darker than Drake is. After an experience like that I would absolutely never categorize my black friends as "blackest". What does that even mean? Considering his obsession with his perception and who he hangs with, I think it's very easy to infer he means street dudes. He should have learned to not put other black people in a box like that and learn to be confident in his own blackness instead of worrying about how he is perceived by the wider rap community.
Why does Whitney have to follow Kendrick when she’s literally at home with him everyday…
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@@3hawnbasically asking why Drake was so concerned about Whitney not following Kendrick on social media, just showing how terminally online Drake was during the beef
It’s some highschool type thing. Shows drakes mentality and view on the validity of a relationship. Maybe it’s because he spends so much time around children that he started thinking like them.
Right🎯🎯 especially since Kendrick doesn’t even post much if anything at all… Only children care about who’s following them or not, and what it means… Not teue grown-ups💯🤷🏽♀️
The thing that I find hilarious with the Adonis thing, is that there is nothing wrong with keeping your kid out of the spotlight, which is what Drake claimed he was doing. But if that was what he was actually doing, he wouldn’t have a total shift in parenting. A man doesn’t hide his kid from the world for the kids safety only to then go “actually nvm I’m gonna post him a lot and put him on my songs” if he actually was hiding Adonis for his safety he would’ve said that then kept acting that way towards Adonis and “raising him” out of the public eye
Kendrick himself keeps his kids out of the public eye, shielding them from all the terrible shit that comes with fame. But to Drake, if you aren't posting pics on the gram then it isn't real. He could have quietly been co-parenting his son and have mentioned him once or twice in an interview and nobody would have had any problems. But instead he hid that he had a kid and wasn't part of Adonis' life until Pusha T pushed him.
Add in that Adonis was introduced in an advertisement for shoes, it seems Drake was avoiding his son until the kid was profitable.
Also he was going to put him on the spotlight through a commercial. So he was going to bank on his kid, talking about seeing him as product...
Drake wanted to use him for an ad to make money
I'm so jealous I didn't think of your screen name first 😂 GGs
That “my mother came over today and i was like mother I” shit will forever be cringy
Mother I 🥵Mother I😩MOTHER IIIIIII😫😫😫
I was like “omg he missed the fucking point of the song”
"The Heart Pt. 6" is a lesson in cringe
@@Alecgotgame26😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@icecactus11no only the point every bar over his head there’s no way he writes music and can’t catch bars
Drake gonna be running through the 6 with his woes after this
😂😂😂😂
The blatant disrespect😂
Marvin’s room pt 2
Woes is some canadian slang for friends... he doesn't have those
Stop bro. I didn't need to laugh this hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #KenFolk
He kind of disses himself on accident by saying that Kendrick’s informants are “clowns” and then saying that he himself purposely gave Kendrick false info. Like, is HE the clown???💀💀
“The ones telling you stories are clowns”
“We plotted for a week, fed you false information”
Right, and he had a whole week and could only come up with an "11 year old daughter." No fake name, address or who the mother could be? Come on bruh. I can come up with that in a day, not a week.
The age old Freudian banana peel all pathological liars slip on 😂
J Cole sacrificed his prestige for peace of mind and I respect it so much. He saw a tragedy in the making and said "no thank you."
Though I fear Kendrick's power to make the internet apologize to a celebrity.
One of the most haunting coincidences about this whole saga:
On The Heart Part 4, Kendrick says: "Y'all got til April the 7th to get your shit together."
Then guess what happens on April 7, 2024; The J. Cole apology.
EDIT: Just to clarify, I did hear this first from that JahMakesMusic short.
Kennydamus
Wow!!!
Very eery
Also the song was 7 minute drill
@@LarryDaLobstah Ok to break it down.
In 2017, during the leadup to DAMN, Kendrick released The Heart Part 4. The line I wrote above is the day preorders for DAMN.
It just so happens that J. Cole apologizes on April 7, 7 years later.
I never realized how weird and annoying Drake stans were until this beef. They claim hypocrisy when people believed dot over Drake but never question why that is. Drake has clear and long track record of being inauthentic, sneaky, misogynistic and disrespectful to many over the years meanwhile Kendrick while not perfect, has always been his self since blowing up and stays out of drama. He tore down the fake mobster persona that Drake has been building since Views in a matter of weeks.
When Kendrick said “Why believe you? You never gave us nothin’ to believe in” truer words have never been spoken
@@kingjay9929 I agree Drake is a slimy guy, but Kendrick is genuinely not much better. Drake is just a wolf and Kendrick is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
@@Z4NKA1how so?
@@Z4NKA1 how exactly is Kendrick a wolf in sheep's clothing? Do you even know what that means? It means someone dangerous and 'vile', so to speak, pretending to be innocent and pure. Which... Kendrick never did! In fact it's because he was so open about his imperfections and mistakes that Drake thought he had something to cook with for this beef. All of the things he talks about come from Mr Morale, which is the album where Kendrick exposes his vulnerability, the things he's not proud of doing, but still wanting to get better. He didn't portray himself as pure and innocent next to Drake, much the contrary. He's said before in other songs, even before Mr Morale, that maybe he isn't that much of a goodie two shoes that people seem to believe he is, and wonders if people would still like him if he showed his flaws and imperfections. That's where they are different. Drake fails to recognize his issues, to address them and work on himself to be better. He sees himself as a god and never understands why people dislike him because his ego is too big for him to self reflect.
@@Z4NKA1you showing you're a drake Stan. You know we can see comments you've made in one click 😏
Both fanbases were annoying
When discussing 15 yr old GIRLS , please please please stop referring to them As Women, they are CHILDREN, MINORS GIRLS NOT WOMEN
Exactly. 💯
teenagers: 🪦
fr. they are barely women...
he’s doing that so the drake estate doesn’t file for slander 😭
Drake is the Elvis Presley of hip hop. Huge name, wealthy and successful, steals from up and coming black artists, weird relationship with young woman.
I really like Elvis but that is fair.
Slow clap. Never understood the appeal-
Also a jo oO like his mum.
THIS! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Elvis is better than Drake
Kendrick smoked Drake. Undoubtedly. But let’s not minimize how brutal Pusha T’s diss was in tearing a deep hole in Drake’s armor. Pusha literally changed the whole diss game. That is an undisputed fact.
It’s crazy that Pusha doesn’t get that recognition
Yes!! 💯
@@clarkspacewayne2672Cos Drake gave up too early.
@@clarkspacewayne2672he did, when it was his time. Now its Kendrick’s time.
@@clarkspacewayne2672I’ve never known pusha to not get credit. I think it’s a cannonical event in the downfall of Drake that no one can/will/does deny. Push cracked the facade, Kendrick shattered it.
Saying kendrick got his popularity cause of Drake is wildly inaccurate.
His xxl appearance, fucking section.80 mixtape??? Aint no way drake got him that buzz.
DOC FUCKING DRE? He was already working with Dre on Detox before he ever met drake
Facts. I didn’t know about that tour til years later. Ignorance is Bliss, and Section.80 was my intro.
It definitely contributed to his buzz but to me I could care less every artist eventually goes on to do collabs with a bigger artists plus like you said he already had buzz it aint like Drake found him performing in some hole in the wall club with 5 people watching and did him a favor
@@billbixby366 mine was the monster freestyle, that tupac/big/bigL/ODB line made me a fan immediately. And the switch ups were nice... Recommend that one to those that haven't heard it.
These Drakeys F.A.N are delusional
"I am a war general seasoned in preparation" had my ass rolling
Calm down Aubrey, you grew up upper class
With Canadian healthcare, no less.
50k a year taking care of his Mom? You silly😂
No he didn’t. Why y’all gotta lie about him to criticize him?
@@fs4836 It helps them paint the of a villain in their head. Can't hate someone that used to make money like the rest of us. Then we have to make excuses why we didn't improve.
@@TehStylishone it’s so dumb too cuz there’s straight facts people can use to criticize Drake. When they lie their criticisms just lose weight cuz they look uninformed and petty.
By the way, the whole “he beat his wife” thing was a weird rumor that Kendrick debunked in 2015. So basically Drake used an unsubstantiated rumor that was addressed almost a decade ago.
"you are hiding a child, let that boy come home. Deadbeat mf playing border patrol"
Probably the most impactful line in hip-hop history. Everybody ran that back immediately
I always thought the way he briefly stops rapping and over-enunciates the delivery of “you are hiding a child” was genius. Pusha T wanted to make sure that line could not be mistaken for anything else.
@@robjgolde3221the line didnt even flow well, and it stand out so much its so hilariously painful when hearing it. It was clear he didnt even mean to rap on it or rhyme to much on it. He just wanted to say "You are hiding a child" 😅
I still listen to that song every week😂 it's just too good and needs way more creditability imo
That line gave me goosebumps bro. Crazy.
"He averaging one hard verse like every 30 months or some"
As a casual rap listener, this feude helped me learn and respect the art of rap. Thanks for the breakdown.
Same same ❤
Sameee
i know pretty much nothing about rap (been meaning to get more into it) and i feel like my third eye has been opened. i knew rap beef existed but i was unaware of how insane the lore gets. watching video essays abt things i know nothing abt is my favorite pastime ever im having the time of my life rn
Same
The thing is there doesn’t actually have to be an 11 year old girl. In fact I don’t think Kendrick has heard of an 11 year old girl at all, he’s proving a point about Drake.
The fact that everyone BELIEVES that Drake could have a daughter is what matters, because it’s very likely that Drake, who’s been talking about Kendrick having a broken family, has left behind his own string of broken family, kids missing their fathers, girls that have had their life and innocence ruined because of how much Drake worships himself.
Most people don't know Kendrick used the Teddy Pendergrass sample because Drakes uncle (famous musician Larry Graham) wrote the music for that song. The man is an evil mad genius.
No, it was not Larry Graham who never was in a Al Green band. It was a cousin who they refer to him as a uncle .
This beef was a fight for the soul and direction of hip hop. I’m glad Kendrick won coz I don’t know how a world with drake as the victor would be.
Drake wont won in any beef imho
It's a reflection of spiritual warfare
FACTS 🎉
@@monilaninetynine3811 as well as the culture of hip hop in general
and finally somebody “gets it”
“There’s only big D and there’s video proof” was the corniest shit he ever said
Yeah it was and the part on Meet The Grahams Kendrick says "They be streamlinin' victims all inside of they home and callin' 'em tender
Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas" was about that "leak"
Shake that ass for free but not that typa free I’m talking about my nigga Dave is close second 😭
his D Major bar is cornier to me especially with the delivery the big D video proof bar just makes me feel disgusted
Do you wana no what's crazy about him saying that.. Drake said that in FM.
In MTG Kendrick says....
*Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas*.. Drake leaked his 'D' pics a few years ago and again recently.
The guy is an idiot.
Drake makes it hard to give him credit sometimes lol. I still think sonically and as a diss towards people who aren't Kendrick, Family Matters goes hard but, there are moments like the line you quoted that still make me go "OH BROTHER."
Drake has a lotta nerve for going "Oh there's some things you shouldn't say in a beef, some lines you shouldn't cross" and then having that bit in The Heart Part 6 where he misinterprets Mother I Sober and pretty much goes "oh wait you're just mad about this cuz you got molested!!!"
Like. Gee Aubrey that's a line you're okay with crossing huh? Making jokes about someone's trauma? Yeah sure Kendrick says he wasn't abused, but that doesn't change that Drake said some stupid hurtful shit because of his misinterpretation.
That John Stockton bar went over so many people’s heads that it’s actually crazy
Did you catch BOTH Stockton bars?
"Walking your enemy down" in the hood also means during a shootout walking straight towards your enemy shooting at him either because you're calling his bluff as a killer, have a clear advantage or you crazy and don't give a fuck
Oh does it just mean that "in the hood" ? Stfu 😂
I read it as wanking yout enemy down at first
lol. Walking someone down is a Wild West term
@@Apollo-th2xb yes the hood creates lingo and creates a lot of the slang terms we use today.. so you stfu and thank them.
@@Apollo-th2xb Don't get discouraged by all your videos literally having less than 50 views. You got this lil bro, don't give up
before the beef kendrick had about 50 mil monthly listeners and drake had about 80 mil monthly listeners. during the beef kendrick went up to about 80 million listeners and drake went up to about 85 million listeners. now 2 months after the final songs got released kendrick is sitting at 72.5 million listeners and drake is sitting at 74.5 million listeners. if drake wants to talk about numbers lets talk about those numbers cause thats kinda crazy. they essentially are now equal in terms of numbers but kendrick has like half the songs drake does, way more awards, authenticity, and the culture behind him and drake has a record label full of people he cant trust
Update: Kendrick is at 75 million listeners, the only rapper with more monthly listeners is Eminem, with 85 million.
Don't start pulling out numbers or you'll summon the drake stan brainrot army that only speak in top streams, diamond certificates, gold certificates, monthly streams, overall streams and further boring ass nerd shit that has 0 correlation with quality of the music.
Kendrick literally is the only rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize
Drake has quantity, Kendrick has quality
As of 07/27/24: Kendrick - 75.4m Drake - 73.8m Kendrick beat Drake on numbers too lmao
Can't even credit "Take Care" as his signature sound. That's actually The Weeknds sound
Wow, this was an amazing breakdown! I was super invested in this beef, and as a person who is a fan of both, I knew Kendrick was going to win before it even started. Drake is the McDonalds of hip hop. It tastes good, it’s reliable, it’s always there, it’s affordable, it’s popular…but the quality is questionable because it’s essentially mass produced fake food. Kendrick is like Thanksgiving dinner. It’s highly anticipated because you only get it once it a year, it’s homemade, takes hours to make, and reminds you of where you come from.
i love this analogy it’s so spot on lol
Wasn’t expecting to read the best food analogy in history today.
@@ruthie8785 thank you ❤️
@kamjohne523
what food is Chicago drill?
@@allahalkareem8055kfc
its shit
It all boils down to drake being oblivious to hip hop culture. There's so many clips of drake confirming that in my mind. Even the beginning of the beef with the control verse. Every other rapper pretty much understood what that was about, but drake got in his feelings about it. Rap has always been competitive. There's always a rapper out here trying to be the best. It is like a sport. I'm just glad Kendrick tucked the sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.
@@andrewz1313 Drake didn’t take it personally, they were still friends after the verse and Drake even went to his concert in 2022 and offered him a feature in 2023. Kendrick’s always been envious on the low, same with metro
FACTS 🎉
@@Z4NKA1 Yes he did, there’s clips of him taking it personally and multiple instances of him being salty. I see you constantly defending Drake in the comments and as a Drake music fan…dude you are embarrassing me. Chill out. Kendrick has not been friendly with Drake at all despite Drake’s attempts in the past. He doesn’t respond to Drake positively ever basically. No matter what Kendrick said for PR bruh. He also said one of those songs wasn’t about Drake, LIE
😭
Just take Drake’s willy out your wonka and relax. Drake is a sensitive baby, that is okay. He doesn’t have to be this tough guy he wants to be. He is the guy who sung Texts Go Green. He is the guy who said “you say you a lesbian girl me too”. His songs are fun and catchy. That doesn’t make him worth defending with your life bruh.
@@Z4NKA1Come on, rest your fingers.. You’re not going to be able to fight all of Drakes battles for him Z4nka…
@Z4NKA1 Envious of what? Record sales? I dont know any michelin star chef jealous of mcdonalds success. If anything theyre offended at its existence because it is a blight on their passion and artwork.
The one thing this battle has done is brought out some INCREDIBLE commentating. This video was incredible. I laughed, I learned, and I spoke to the screen. Amazing work!
Right
Kind of reminds me how Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” had all folks conversing intellectually if that makes sense. Kind souls are breaking down the beef AND deciphering lyrics (mostly Kendrick’s) beyond surface level. Kendrick isn’t a Pulitzer Prize recipient for nothing.
Nah fr😂💪🏾
@@87alsjth EXACTLY 💯 % 🙏🏾
when i saw not like us dropped...i was in my car driving home from a dinner where my good friends had, not an HOUR earlier, explained the entire beef to me in detail. i screamed, they texted me a minute later screaming, we were all screaming.
the music video coming out and seeing whitney and kendrick dancing together with their kids and having a good time is one of, like, 200 cherries on top of all this
ovhoes in the comments complaining about the video's "bias" and being "not objective" is ironic 😂the only thing Kendrick is wrong about in his diss is that Drake fans aren't slow😭
It’s crazy hearing drake going on about “my thing is about lasting power having an album that will last” when he’s recorded some of the most forgettable, mind numbing, blendable, dead on arrival albums since like views.
Like mos def said it's like background music while
You shopping at target 😂😂
With how frequently he puts out records, he doesn't even let his own work develop staying power before dropping something new.
only real music’s gonna last. all that other bs is here today & gone tomorrrrrrr 🖤
Honestly Nevermind
FAYD
is a great album one day yall will realize that one yall stop hating this man
edit:
It just like when I have to defend MM&TBS when it just drop but due to the Drake hate all of a sudden everybody like MM&TBS
So, to recap. Euphoria is a warning shot, 6:16 is Kendrick shaking his head, Family Matters is Drake attempting to curse K-Dots name, Meet The Grahams is the execution while Not Like Us is Kendrick lighting up the corpse and everyone dancing around the bonfire.
(Edit) i forgot about The Heart pt6 i guess that's the dying gasp.
"The Pulitzer Prize winner is definitely spiraling"- A famous actor we once knew who was spiraling 🤣🤣
In retrospect, it's so crazy to hear how The Heart Part 6 was just 4 minutes of projection
You know that part when a corpse takes one last nasty shit. Reach inside and thats where the Heart Part 6 was.
@@marcrodriguez345 it wasnt projections… WHY DOES SHE FOLLOW DAVE FREE AND NOT MR MORALE 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@jdamah....because they are adults? Lol my wife has thousands of people following her and I don't 😂😂😂
Drake just pissed me off even more because I am TODAY YEARS OLD finding out one dance was a song already! He’s such a vulture!
The interview drake did post pusha t was crazy bc he got upset pusha brought in family but... he literally did it first?
Can't wait for the next Drake "interview" two years down the road where he finally announces that daughter and claims Kendrick only won because he smeared his name as if Drake didn't try to do the same thing first
@@fangal12 I'm just waiting on it, I know it's coming, it's his m.o. 🤭
Fucking real dude, he did it first but he acted like a victim. drake is literally a dumbass for doing the same shit (mentioning the wives/fiancee in a rap battle) twice. He's just irritating and insecure
J Cole shouldn’t have been ridiculed for moving around. This wasn’t about rap. That was an obvious from the beginning.
What hip hop beef is lol?
HE WAS CLOWN FOR THAT WEAK AZ 7 MIN DRILL SONG 😂😂😂😂😂
It ain't about who the greatest
It's always been about love and hate😂
7 min drill wasnt a bad diss but we all know by now that Cole just wanted a simple rapping battle but Kendrick was going for Drake's head and it was personal
I feel like Kendrick just texted Cole after it went up and was like "bro this isn't about you, we cool, I just hate that Aubrey n****" and Cole hearing that there was HATE involved realised this was not a simple diss battle and tapped out. I know he said he felt pushed to release the response, but I feel if it was just gonna be simple disses he would have kept it up and not felt so weird about it. But when he realised this rap battle was actually a war he was not participating
It’s crazy to think this all started cause drakes ego couldn’t handle a metaphor. Bro called out the people who featured him on the song and they didn’t say anything
Remember when Story of Adidon kept strangely getting taken down off every channel that posted it for like the first week on YT cause you know Drake was pulling HELLA strings tryna get that song buried but it was already too late
it wasn’t him, it was his owners lol he don’t have that much power to pull that off alone
Watching DJ Akademics slowly die inside as he does a live reaction to Not Like Us was the icing on the cake for me. You could tell even he had to resist bopping to it.
When he reacted to the concert, he was singing along to every other bar, no cap
its also worth mentioning that the uncle bar is subtle transphobia. calling Kendrick a lesser man than his uncle, who is a transgender man, only serves to insult his uncle. its an especially yikes bar when you add the Weeknd bar in the previous section. by saying your uncle is the man of the house, you are basically saying that Kendricks masculinity is less than that of someone who wasn't born a man, thus basically delegitimizing a random fucking person.
It's funny tho 😂
Yeah the most trans/homophobic bars on here are the combos he throws at The Weeknd. Who thought in their right mind "Abel music only played where boys got a little more pride" and "punk sissy from the Northside" would be seen as anything else than bigotry
Oh wow just when I thought Drake couldn’t get worse, he’s a bigot on top of everything else.
I still dont know how ppl can meatride drake so much
He lied about the wife beater allegations
He lied about dave free being one of the kid dads
And a bigot
Nigga Issa diss record who cares Kendrick literally wished death on him yall pick and choose and I don’t even like Drake at all and listen to Kendrick way moreeee
I’m with you on the never subscribing to the Big 3 thing. I had Kendrick and Cole up there..Drake has never been in my top 10-20 of rappers. I never understood how he got so much credit as a lyricist once all the reference tracks and ghost writer allegations came out
drake is better than cole at just about everything, plus he put cole and kendrick on. He 100% is in the top 3 of the 2010s and up
@@Z4NKA1 Dre put em on. Is dre a better rapper than em by those standards
@@youngwolf024 stop deflecting onto other artists, dre and em dont have anything to do with cole especially since theyre both better than cole
@@Z4NKA1You don't know Hip Hop. Drake can not and will NEVER be considered top 3, 5, 10 or 25, and that's by the cultures standards. He was disqualified when all of ghost writing and reference tracks were exposed. I get it you're his biggest fan and I respect you for standing up for him and your opinion about him but in reality, Drake is not a rapper. He's an actor.
@@Z4NKA1- Did he write ALL of his hits? True Mcs write their own raps. If you use ghost writers, you are disqualified off top.
J. Cole “backed out” because he’s above a rap beef. He’s on a spiritual level and there’s just no need to continue rivaling with someone he got love for
J Cole backed out because the Internet clowned his for that weak as 7 min drill diss track. Everything he tried to say about kendrick's discography actually applied to j Cole. He had to back down cause kendrick's reply would have extinguished cole's already dying career. Yeah, j Cole fell off with an apology 😂
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
It's good that he's above rap beef but it also means he wasn't fully the guy he pretended to be in his lyrics.
In my opinion the "bar" about alleged DV that Drake had was him AGAIN lacking reading comprehension in regards to "Mother I Sober". There's a part in the track where Kendrick says:
Mother's brother said he got revenge for my mother's face
Black and blue, the image of my queen that I can't erase
'Til this day can't look her in the eyes, pain is taking over
Blame myself, you never felt guilt 'til you felt it sober
Kendrick is reiterating the guilt he felt about not being able to protect his mother when she was assaulted and beaten when he was 5. Drake and his remaining braincell took that to mean that Kendrick was admitting to DV due to him feeling guilty. It's the wording that Drake used when referring to Whitney. Until then he referred to her by name, here he refers to her as "your queen" as an attempt at a gotcha moment. That and him later using the sexual assault of his mother and saying it was Kendrick who was assaulted even though in the song he explicitly states "No, I wasn't." just shows how Drake lacks authenticity and good will. He is still underestimating Kendrick as an artist and that was his biggest mistake.
At this rate Kendrick finna drop a diss album on this man's birthday ☠️
Honestly Nevermind was dropped on Kendrick birthday
That Nas effect. Nas dropped Ether on Jay Z’s birthday
24th October, mark the date!!!!
Whitney is gliding on that beat. Compton girl through and through.
Also also, Kendrick calling out Drake as a culture vulture is so satisfying for me as a Latino. He jumped on some Latin music and he put no effort in his lyrics or flow. Damn did I hate his verse on Odio. It was stupid and ruined a nice sounding song.
Although Latin music has had its own identity crisis and pop issues, what Drake did felt lazy and distasteful in contrast to the song he was on.
D- Don’t
R- Rap
A- Against
K- Kendrick
E- Ever
Drake was baited and savagely ambushed by a crew of Kendrick and his multiple personalities LOL
Ok as someone who’s a huge fan of Kendrick’s many voices this comment just sent me 😭 10/10 💅🏾
🗣️HE’S STILL AN OLDSCHOOL GEMINI 🔥🔥🔥
Kendrick the Menace
@@queenmedinaKenny Krueger
@@Delksy1524 🤣
I like to imagine that Kendrick saw how easy it was to bait Drake from watching that Fantano video lol
KENDRICK NEVER MENTIONED EPSTIEN EITHER.HE SAID WIENSTINE
@@rekishaprovost1243 drake said “epstein angle” which means pedo allegations angle… it was obvious that kendrick was gonna use that angle bc his dickeaters on tiktok started that false shit
As a pop girlie, who mostly listens to Pop and Indie Music, thank you for this great breakdown! It‘s so interesting to get emerged in and learn about hiphop and its culture.
Describing FPS as the Franz Ferdinand assassination?!? 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It pisses me off that the Taylormade Freestyle beat was wasted on that bs track.
Same. That beat goes stupid.
Wont lie when i first heard it i laughed at the trolling. By the 3rd play through I had completely hated the track. Keep that AI shit outta music.
I thought no one related bro. Shit! That beat could've been put to better use
The 3rd boi1da beat from family matters will forever make me sad its on that trash song 😢 sometimes i listen to just the instrumental lol
@@oso1165 family matters is fire bro you’re tripping..
Kendrick breaking Drake down was a borderline movie 🍿
Personally liked how Cole apologized, he's always been about the music imo
Everytime you say Kendrick Fucking Lamar, you sound fed up. 😂😂😂 I get it because they acted like he was some new artist nobody knew. It's KENDRICK. He proved why there's no Big 3 by solidifying his GOAT status from this beef. He's been that guy. It's always quality over quantity with him. He takes being an artist literally by legitimately creating art. His albums are masterpieces. You can see his growth with each album.
Thank you so much for bringing up the homophobic crap drake pulled. I always found it stupid that all the other reactors found that bar to be a genuine insult
Real men do that bar was funny af 😭
If your masculinity is founded on homophobia then your masculinity is weak. You can do better.
@@bancopopular5689 this the least masculine shit Ive ever seen
Making fun of gay people is bad?
@@adrianl1464except its not making fun of gay people. Its saying that the people listening to you are gay as a diss. The joke here only works if you think being gay is an insult, so the joke is homophobic.
Making fun of gay people and ponting at something as saying "HA GAY!" specifically as an insult are two different things
Man, these English dudes take their hobbies differently. They go all in or nothing.
He also said "niggas" 25:09 ...
All in for sure. He dropped the n bomb without hesitation. Pretty funny
That might be because he’s black.
He is black @@moonflare7070
Yo I had to check the comments to see if I was the only one who heard that lmaooo what is bro problem
I only stopped the video to go listen to that Control verse again. Well done!
"Kendrick FUCKING Lamar" had me cracking up every single time
People always called me a hater for saying these same things about drake, glad it’s all coming to light 🎉
I'm BIG MAD that a breakdown and commentary of this caliber isn't getting hundreds of thousands of views already. Your insight and obvious enjoyment of the genre really shines. Fantastic video!
it does now 😁
“YOU ARE HIDING A CHILD.” -Terrance Thornton @ Drake in 2018
idc about the song or the context but "7 minute drill" has to be the hardest title of the beef. No frills, no time or effort wasted, just "I'm gonna drill you and this is for how long."
Every Kendrick song has more replay value than any drake songs... Kendricks music will be studied 100s of years from now while drakes music will be played in elevators or when you on hold.
Shit either way they both gone be here for a long time
Kendrick’s albums bring me back to important moments in my life. Drake reminds me of highschool feelings
@@JENNIFAFAAKendrick's music makes you sit down and replay every single moment in your life that made you the person you are 😂😅
I know the average drake fan doesn't care about misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, but the amount of those things drake casually sprinkles into his songs esp the ones from the diss tracks just truly points out the type of person he is. dissing a guy by saying he's gay or the line about kendricks uncle. those lines were just so unnecessary? like either he couldn't come up with something to say so he just defaulted to 2010 era insults, or he legitimately don't like gay and trans people? either way its a loss for drake on that alone.
@ssj4goku18825theepic YOU don't care. Don't speak for other people. Clearly people care otherwise people wouldn't be making judgment calls on Drake for saying shit like that. Saying no one cares might make you feel better about "political shit" (truly people's right to live in peace isnt political, but whatever I guess?), but that doesn't make that shit true.
And if you want to remind someone to "focus on the beef" talk to Drake. Twice. TWICE this lil fucker got his ass absolutely handed to him because he kept going off course and tryna bring people's fiancé's into shit that had nothing to do with them.
@@ssj4goku18825theepicwhile I think the “transphobic” and “homophobic” are overly politicized terms, I think we can avoid that by simply looking at what drake said.
Youre making fun of the weeknd because gay people listen to his music. Ok… I guess thats a dunk or something? Homophobic or not its grasping for straws and lacks any real punch.
@@fxlltxtsearch I’m a massive Kendrick fan and I do think what Drake did is super cringe and lame especially at the weekend besides the point but i also don’t enjoy the cringe identity nonsense coming into this beef from some of the fans who clearly want to throw in a bit of politics into this beef that has nothing to do with it
@@ssj4goku18825theepic i agree 100%. But the point still stands. The diss is “your fans are gay”.
Alright… I guess thats a big diss fam? Its follows the same logic as some of his previous disses towards kendrick. “You’re short!” Ok…. you groom under age girls and pop out when they touch 18???? Its just a very low level of depth coming from his disses at this moment.
@@ssj4goku18825theepicIt's a fair criticism. Drake's insults amount to "haha u gay" which is fucking elementary. It's something a prepubescent boy says to his friends.
Aubrey really needed a reality check and to be put in his place. Kendrick did just that.
Meet the grahams is the greatest diss track I’ve ever heard in my life. It was No Vaseline but man. I’ve never heard someone get completely dismantled down to their fucking brain chemistry the way Kendrick did.
This flows like a college lecture and I’m here for it-wonderful job
so glad Kendrick did this. I wanted drake ended since he dissed cudi for getting mental help
“Kendrick FUCKING Lamar” so good 🤌🏽
Excellent video. I have no clue about the culture/history of any of these musicians and I don't listen to any of them, but I was curious what this was all about your explanations made it easy to follow. Great work.
as a hip hop fan from atl i will tell u all these rappers drake clique’d up w had a name before he was making music w them esp 21, migos & for sure future!
That's what he do , Jump on the bandwagon when they hot, he a fan for real 😂
Shit I knew future and I'm not even on his same continent 😂
Exactly, even 21 said the same thing about ATL niggas not caring about numbers
I gotta be the only person to not have given Cole any flack when he backed out. Cole wanted to keep it rap..Kendrick legitimately hates Drake..if ya’ll couldn’t feel that before Euphoria dropped then idk what to tell you 😂 i think Kendrick has enough wherewithal to keep it strictly rap with Cole if they were going to go at it.:but if i’m Cole i’m like nahh..tension is at an all time high..imma let them get this out the way
Your not the only one
Yeah lol j cole is very wise to be able to quiet himself and his ego enough to hear what God is telling him to do. Which in this case was to stfu lol because god was using Kendrick for something much bigger
Good to see I wasn't the only one. I absolutely understand where people were coming from, but I can't put the music before the man, his principles, and the path he sees for himself. I gave in to the pressure, but returned to himself, regardless of consequences...I respect that
J Cole was asked to step aside and let these two go at it. Thankfully he felt the same way. He is still a great rapper pushing P.
I think Kendrick really feels like Drake is a bitch so it made more since for Cole to get out the way Cole and Kendrick can catch a friendly later now that Kendrick proved his point
For me I feel like HUMBLE was definitely foreshadowing what drake was gon face and he chose to ignore all the warning signs
Hands down, the best video explaining the beef in youtube rn! I was locked in onto the video right from start to end.You deserve a lot more for this effort!!
If Drake truly understood hip-hop culture, he would have understood that the Control verse wasn't personal. If you understood the culture, you understand that K. Dot wasn't taking a shot...it was you guys are where I want to be and I have to come for you. It's about showing respect for your work and spot in the game, while announcing that I'm coming. That's all. But when you're thin skinned and not truly part of the culture, that's how you react: you clutch your pearls, sneak diss, and act like a b...you know the rest!
I'm a casual fan and I will fully admit I don't really know or understand the culture.....but even I know that Kendrick wasn't insulting anybody with that verse
Absolute masterclass of a breakdown. Glad this came up in my algo. Great work bro 🔥
Thats funny, i never heard of Kendrick until close to GKMC. I remember driving around LA bumping his album for 1 year and every time i heard Drake on it would skip past his part.
40:23 Drake's ghostwriters issues is going so far that bro now even has lawyers writing for him 💀
"it would be on par with 'nobody cares about MF DOOM' which... would be... ridiculous"
I will NEVERRRRR forget how it felt the first time I heard metro going ape shit on like that. Goosebumps every time
Beef aside. sensationalism aside. This video is excelleeeennnnt. Really well done brutha
Didn't Drake in THp6 go "you got that information from clowns" just so a few bars later going "we fed you the information"
... wah?
In retrospect, Meet The Graham’s was the knockout punch, with Not Like Us being the after party.
U mean not like us was a cremation
@@dikarilee4975Naaah, it's the wake party after the cremation 😂😅
@@k0htp0t lol
One of higher quality breakdowns i’ve seen in this beef
Catching up to this 2 weeks late. Fantastic video, sir!
I'm Canadian and the literal only things I remember about Drake before this beef is Hotline Bling and him getting cooked by Pusha. I never got him acting tough either, he is exactly like those middle-class white dudes who try to act hood in their late teens. It's honestly embarrassing. I'm 5 hours from Toronto and the only thing I hear people talking about is how much Drake got cooked and how it will be difficult for him to literally show his face in public at all since people will probably just constantly heckle him for being a pedo.
I just thought about it “have you ever walk yo enemy down like with a poker face?” Kdot face in the music video makes so much since now😮😂
Sense
Lmaooo The clip of Ish not enjoying Not Like Us will forever be hilarious
Part 1: Kendrick was the better rapper.
Part 2: The End
TL;DW!
“ How many opps you really got? I mean, it's too many options
I'm finna pass on this body, I'm John Stockton “
John Stockton is 1 in assists. Passing the go ahead to diss on drake to everyone in the industry. John Stocktons most notable teammate is karl Malone. Karl Malone infamously got a 13 year old girl pregnant.
To me that was the line that killed Drake. Everything else was Kendrick rightfully dancing on his grave
After hearing how they first met, it seems to me Drake tried to do to Kendrick what he usually does to upcoming artists: give them a glimpse of what fame and money gets you in an attempt of intimidation and lovebombing. See what I can give you? Sign with me and remember I can destroy you. And Kendrick saw through the fake nice, wasn't about that life.
Bingo
This is one of the best summary videos I’ve watched on this whole beef and you added a bunch of context I missed without repeating the same talking pts I’ve been hearing on other vids.
ill always giggle when UK dudes pronounce 2 Pack instead of 2 Pac
had some Audio issues lol! Great video tho
Yeah in some sections copyright absolutely terrorised me 😭
@@MarLoriaI figured that has to be the case. I don’t know if it’s possible, but are you able to voiceover these spots? I actually watched this video, but a lot of times I just listen, and the dropped audio always startles me.