Kendrick Lamar's Euphoria Explained Reaction

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[@BluEx22329]

I appreciate all the "hmms" and "mm hms" 😂

[@aerion4077]

"No its fine, talk your ish"

[@HD00957]

sounding like somebody auntie 😂

[@mrdavis8814]

His channel is really good! I understand why it takes so long for his videos to release because the research is extensive.

[@SeanStrife]

He's on that Hbomberguy time; he may not drop as frequently as others, but the quality can't be touched.

[@St1ckyGrape]

@@SeanStrife no one is on hbomberguy time, that guy has turned not uploading into an artform

[@kogure7235]

I'm glad people are going back and analyzing the tracks in context. A lot of what Kendrick predicted actually came true, showing just how well extremely well planned this really was. He took some time to strategize, but when he set things in motion it was absolutely surgical.

[@younghustler1102]

Appreciate the love you're showing "what's the dirt"🔥

[@DecaturQue]

I love this girl a lot. She reminds me of somebody I like in real life back in the day I think.

[@313Mann]

Listen to that Johnny p caddy it’s 🔥

[@BluEx22329]

Huh? Still aint over it?

[@313Mann]

Dude breakdowns is crazy accurate

[@codelz187]

To answer your question about Melly having a phone... It's very easy these days to get smartphones while incarcerated. Some guys will have literal stores in their cells. They'll lay out 10-15 phones for you to choose from. They'll even have iPhones, Galaxies, Pixels etc

[@StorymodeReacts]

Oh wow, I really had no clue!

[@JayJay-wz8qd]

Lol....... Hell they have some COs selling them for like ten times the price

[@direcircumstances]

Damn, I didn't know Future was secretly a Game of Thrones character. What a name!

[@freetownJoe]

Mr moral doesn't grow on you, you got to grow on Mr moral

[@StorymodeReacts]

MMMMMMMMMM

[@freetownJoe]

Lol you don't "got a", it'll just be there if ​it's needed @@StorymodeReacts

[@jdbolick]

With everything now revealed and Drake's lies exposed, Euphoria stands out as an astonishingly prophetic track. Kendrick really did see how all of this would play out.

[@pmpdaddyt1218]

1:26:00 I think Kendrick Intentionally mixed up the names, Haley Joel Osman and Joel Osteen because if you go to the previous line he says, "Am I battling Ghost or AI" .. He doesn't know his opponent, he's confused so he's confusing the names.. Clever Boy 🧐

[@hollybarnhart4585]

Also listen to how he pronounces Joel Osteen - it sounds like "Jo-Hale Osteen". He's using Osteen to fit into the rhyme scheme with "off him" but he's clearly trying to reference both people and fit them into one bar

[@BOGOworms4sale]

Also Joel Osteen iirc used AI to write his sermons. Idk if that’s said in the vid I’m not that far yet

[@RaaW350z]

I don’t think Kendrick is confused, but I think he is asking a question to Drake and the audience as well, for them to ponder and then answer the question on their own.

[@jojojajahelp1762]

@@BOGOworms4saleIt is and its broken down moreo

[@BOGOworms4sale]

@@jojojajahelp1762 damn 😔 I fell off

[@amann3161]

Kendrick’s mind is masterful

[@boforuff]

“not the niños”😂🤣😂😭 I’ve been enjoying your videos🥰👏🏼 kudos on your commentary🔥🙌🏼 thx🎶🎤😃

[@amyzaaiman7566]

The TMZ footage is from a civilian getting beaten up by Drake's security because he wouldn't leave the bathroom so that Drake could use it alone. I couldn't find a link to it but I've seen it referenced elsewhere. His security is really dirty - there are tons of instances of them beating people up etc.

[@tedlessthan3]

Damn man must’ve really needed to take the shit of all shits

[@JayJay-wz8qd]

A classic ages well over time. Something that all of Kendrick's work does so far

[@t0ky0reacts]

I'm so happy BEAM was talked about because majority of folks would not know who that is so I know this flew over multiple heads 1:19:58. One of my favorite up and coming artists.

[@hesmlurh2467]

Beyonce's Renaissance comes to mind, in all irony, Drake co-wrote one of her songs on that album

[@hesmlurh2467]

In addition, Beyonce featured Kendrick on the remix of America has a problem, indirectly jabbing at Drake

[@Iamraretalent]

On a weaker opponent drake’s tactics would have worked he was supposed to know that Kendrick’s power level is nowhere near a weak opponent level

[@JB-423]

i think people are starting to understand why kendrick needed almost 3 full weeks to write his first 3 tracks

[@ELOWORA]

1:14:38 the not liking women because he likes girls thing makes sense but I genuinely just think it's like you said where he's talking about Meg and also just Drake being misogynistic in general

[@BOGOworms4sale]

That’s what I got from the bar as well

[@plafayette]

I see a lot of people who don't listen to J.Cole miss the primary meaning of the "I got a Benjamin and a Jackson all in my house like I'm Joe ok" bar... Remember the context of Euphoria is J. Cole dropped 7 minute drill dissing Kendrick then Drake did Pushups and Taylor Made where Drake asked for a quintuple entendre -something he don't even understand. Kendrick starts by saying "I ain't worried about no reaper, n***a I'm reaping what I sow ok." -this is a reference to J.Cole sneak dissing him on his verse on Johnny P's Caddy where Cole says 'you'll feel the wrath of the reaper'... So the next bar he addresses his two sons, J.Cole and Drake saying: "I got a Benjamin and a Jackson all in my house like I'm Joe ok!" It's a legit quadruple entendre (also Drake didn't understand it) at minimum, here are the meanings: 1. Benjamin Button (J. Cole -see his verse from Crocodile Tears saying he's Benjamin Button getting younger as the hours pass) and Michael Jackson (Drake claimed this on First Person Shooter). That makes Kendrick their father (Joe) and his house is hip hop. 2. Ben the pet rat and MJ in Joe Jackson's house (who was abusive to MJ) 3. Benjamin Harrison and Andrew Jackson in the White House where Joe Biden lives (the paintings of the former presidents in the White House) 4. US currency $100 Bill (Benjamin Franklin) and $20 (Andrew Jackson) -obvious bar saying he's got stacks

[@tbarret320]

It bothers that he keeps referring to teenagers as "younger women". 🤨

[@el-7ar3th90]

It bothers you of him saying it but it doesn't bother you someone else doing them well you people are fucked up

[@davidcici11Evolution]

Yes me too it is a small one pet peeve for me but the proper reference is "girls" they can't be women if they aren't of legal age.

[@heyitsmira17]

Isn't it kind of like how polite adults talk about kids? Young man, young woman... even to children this is said sometimes. Though I get why one would feel weird about it

[@shiottamusic]

I love you reacting to what’s the dirt? He’s so good. He deserves a BAG

[@tbarret320]

We need a second one. A lot more has been revealed since this video dropped.

[@kutiiriye]

She dropped it lol😂😂😂hell yeah

[@aerion4077]

Honestly I kind of love you for watching this on stream and your reactions. I agree with you mostly and really enjoy your commentary and analysis

[@l.1586]

Your channel is one of the one's I'm so happy I found during the beef. Keep up the great content!

[@IamDetre]

He missed the Michael Jackson reference, in the song “the way you make me feel” Mike says “I like the groove of your walk, your talk, your dress” Kendrick just flipped it to hate

[@foolymcgooly]

Y’all broke things down immaculately, but respectfully, he took some days off work to make this breakdown video lol

[@StorymodeReacts]

Oh absolutely, we did some theories on the fly haha but I really appreciate the research he put in!!

[@BlendinBlandin]

"I didn't point down enough, today I'll show you I learned from those mistakes" This bar is harder than anyone even talks about. He's saying that his friend showed him how to takes shots at Drake, but he didn't listen. He shot too high and went over Drake's head. Now, he'll do it right, and aim for the headshot. People think he's saying he's gotta take low shots, which is true, but it's also saying that he's been taking shots that went over Drake's head.

[@kizzyjem]

Nice catch! My god, there are so many interpretations with this.

[@davidfuller581]

It's also in reference to the Draco automatic pistol, which is basically just an AK without a stock. You have to point it down because of the recoil.

[@aCOOLERgeek]

It’s crazy to me how they accuse this man for reachin? When thinkin that Kendrick was talkin about Jay Z & Beyoncé being the two goats he was referring to? Was the biggest reach ever. He literally says “In 8 bars I will explain that phrase” then name drops Cole & Aubrey. This man did his research and actually provided facts to back his claims. Sounds to me like he knows more about the culture than the one who keeps pausing the video to giggle about pictures 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@StorymodeReacts]

Go touch some grass today, I beg.

[@aCOOLERgeek]

@@StorymodeReacts thanks for the advice. Will do. 🙏🏾✌🏾

[@robertapodaca3533]

I know it was easy, but how come he didn't mention the "I'm whoopin feet" line.. Clearly a call back to the Canadian saying Kendrick is short.. 🤷🏻‍♂️ *Dot fan since '07 so we see it all..

[@TuchNGoh]

Im all outta tin foil ! just seen some CRAZY ish on twitter about those shipping containers in the NLU vid 😭 I might need a Reynolds re-up 👀🧐

[@afrobutterfly]

As someone who has worked in healthcare near the border, shipping containers are absolutely used for that purpose. we pulled so many Jane Does out of failed shipments. 😔 It's well known in medical communities and Border states like California. That and organ harvesting are a deep dark secret in America

[@Tez60]

Who’s NLU is that the Twitter handle .? 👨🏽‍💻

[@afrobutterfly]

@@Tez60 NLU = Not Like Us... the song

[@kaelthunderhoof5619]

He forgot the "Remember!", where it's also from a Drake song and how he copies when Drake references Kendrick's lyrics in Push Ups

[@JackHarlowComboMeal]

45:19 "Sometimes, it do be ice cream music up here" is a WILD phrase, god damn. I need that in my vocabulary. You and your chat are very entertaining 😂

[@thefitnessexhibit]

K dot = konnecting the dots

[@askholia]

To be fair, I don't think Aubrey Graham understands a lot of hip-hop, so it wont take much for him to 'not understand'

[@elijahmack]

Joe Budden was critical about “Views”on Everyday Struggle (the pod he had w/ Akademiks and Nadeska)…Drake got butt-hurt Joe felt the album wasn’t his best work so he started trolling Joe. That’s how the beef started.

[@panosjapan7]

His 6:16 in LA was really good. This one reaches A LOT. I'm not even sold on the Kill Bill theory yet.

[@Mwezi828]

Kendrick said “Joel HALE Osteen”. That was to show it’s intentional that he’s confusing the 2 names, which plays into the theme of not knowing who he’s battling.

[@giosbizarreart9048]

YESSS😫 SHE DONT MISS

[@ifakerr8369]

What's The Dirt is a fire reaction channel. Well worth the wait 👍🏾

[@blacklinkfirelink2304]

His video about the history between these two is also really good, worth watching!

[@omaridanner1254]

Really enjoying all of your videos 😊😊

[@robertapodaca3533]

Also, since this was dropped after the not like us video, it makes a little sense to mention, or maybe I stretched before typing this.. But how many pushups did Kendrick do in the not like us video? That may be the actual splits, kuz everything is calculated..

[@gloriaredmon-booth6572]

You had me cracking up 😂.

[@stephenmallory7049]

I enjoy your videos!!!😍

[@endershepard7117]

Things no one else but me seemed to pick up on in K-Dot’s Euphoria song: 1. The Wiz came out in 1978. So did Superman The Movie. 2. The creators of Superman: Jerry Seigel & Joe Shuster are both Canadian Jewish Americans. 3. Clark Kent is an act of Superman and Drake is an act of Aubrey Graham.

[@Proverbs3_5]

Inmates in prisons are given tablets now, which can be used for watching movies, downloading music, posting on social media, etc.

[@ShirleyTimple]

I thought it was this guy but it must have been another deep dive that had a better explanation for the Joel Hale Osteen bar. It covered the same information mentioned here about both Joel Osteen and Haley Joel Osment, but they offered up the possibility that the whole sequence of bars was about Confusion. "Am I battling ghosts or ai?" It's like he's not sure who or what he's even fighting, which confuses him. That confusion is where the name mix up comes in, using Osteen and his deeds for the rhyme while also using Osment for the film references. It could be a reach but it sounded cool😅. Loved the video❤

[@WowoWinn-lc9qb]

Euphoria: "with the hopes of being accepted" Family Matters: "who really bang my set, my ni---- YG" The Pop out concert: *a YG set* broooo you can't make this up, this is poetic justice😭

[@UHeardJoey]

Not "I'm not gonna listen" after ALL THE SHOCK! 😂😂😂😂

[@mikelows1988]

I'm loving this channel 😁

[@DeadMeProject]

1:20:25 "n**** feelin' like Joel Hail Osteen" can be interpreted to play on the fact that Osteen is regarded as a preacher but in the next line when Kendrick says "funny he was in a film called A.i." Kendrick is also referring to Osteen being a conniving preacher. Osteen faking his intelligence and love of God, in front of a camera for the world to see. Aligning both Drake and Osteen as actors, he brings "Haley Joel Osment", a credited actor, name to attention to play with the line "am I battling ghost or A.i" . In it totality "Am I battling Ghost or A.i. n**** feelin' like Joel Osteen Funny, he was in a film called A.I. And my sixth sense is telling me to off him" Are enforcing his previous statement where Kendrick brought Drake's ghost writers to the forefront. "Bring 'em out too, I'll clean 'em out too" showing off his word play at an elite level. So while Kendrick is "confused" on who he's fighting, everyone is confused on how to fight him because "They can't imitate this violence"

[@504_Scooby]

Dammit, I always seem to miss your live stream. I got the notifications turned on too.

[@nigelbaboolal5072]

Have people already forgotten that kendrick has a son to raise? 4 layers, sure, but he's not referncing a word from a song from an album from 6 years ago on top of the multiple layers that that line already appearant. Once he has come up with a few layers for a line that works, you think he keeps looking for reasons to use that line?

[@Pug8]

You should react to the what's the dirt video "Drake Vs Kendrick Lamar - The 100% Full Story Explained" it is awesome and you would enjoy it.

[@konnieb9319]

The Joel is teen bar I got perfectly. He’s not saying the child actor is LIKE Joel osteen he’s saying int he rap drak is feeling like the preacher Joel and then he switches to say the boy actor who played in the sixth sense.

[@BOGOworms4sale]

The biggest thing I appreciate is that Kendrick didn’t take the low road and call drake gay. Kendrick has been really good about queer issues and I was scared that he might take that route since it’s been a prevalent narrative. It’s something that drake himself wasn’t above calling The Weeknd gay on family matters.

[@zerofox3075]

I from the south we call them throwaways

[@direcircumstances]

Wait wait I have to point out an obvious mistake: around the 1 hr 24 min mark he says that Kill Bill fight scene happens in a Chinese restaurant, but that's wrong. That whole section of the movie takes place in Japan.

[@t0ky0reacts]

Just to add to the Japan bit, the name of the restaurant is called Gonpachi and the interesting part is there's a blu-ray disc version of the movie in a glass case near the room where the fight scene took place.

[@diablodeo19]

Dig it haha Story keep doing your thing!

[@y2dereko]

@1:20:38 I think Kendrick mashed the names together on purpose because he says Joel Hale Osteen and not Joel Osteen or Haley Joel Osment. By mashing the names he's able to make references to inauthenticity, ghostwriting, and Taylormade (AI) in only 4 bars instead of having to set them up separately and it being 8 ort 12 bars

[@daw91210]

“cut throat business, you got ish twisted.” In Hip Hop, battle rapping for supremacy is and always will be a big part of rap. Drake catching feelings because Kendrick dares to challenge him.

[@rushgotjokes]

1:22:01 he didn’t understand we use different ways to say stuff so it rhymes . He was talking about the kid actor Osteem not the pastor 😂 Gotta remember the dude is Canadian and doesn’t understand how we talk fully

[@brightntuliart]

'Shout out to you make your money' 😂

[@QueensNative]

Pacifying them…. as in how people were upset about him kissing a 17 yr old girl on stage and paying 500K (CAD) for a case… he then dropped Tootsie Slide to “pacify” the masses and calm them down. It worked btw 🤣 people forgot about it and kept supporting his music. You have to reach when you’re dealing with someone who is giving someone what they want… Drake wanted quadruple entendres!!! BUM!!! Now he got kendrick out here writing bars with 8 different meanings to it 🥶

[@ComplexionSalad]

if the business is true, kendrick might be a legit psychopath

[@afrobutterfly]

Welcome back!

[@buckminsterowski]

"does Kendrick watch The Sopranos?" 🤣🤣

[@MidSeasonGroup]

Drake also didn’t understand Mr. Morale. Please don’t be like him.

[@sagespice85]

She talk all through us hearing the guy

[@Gladiator696]

This breakdown blew my mind

[@envydayizo6410]

This guy is gud at this 🔥🔥

[@tnicoletnicole]

Sis can you do the video “Drake vs Kendrick every diss explained” by What’s the dirt as well? It’s fire

[@willdavis3951]

Cliff is certified... He's been doing this for years

[@TheBabyodi]

People seem to miss that the Benjamin and Jackson line is also about the White House. Joe Biden lives in a house with portraits of a Benjamin (Harrison and Franklin) and a Jackson (Andrew)

[@BluEx22329]

This dude is Canadian with a LA hat 😂

[@jamesw7174]

I love your laugh so much 😂😂😂

[@Tez60]

47:12 😂😂😂 lmfao yoooo

[@izzalp]

1:21:06 "Allegedly" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@envydayizo6410]

Luv u ❤

[@BrenynMartin.]

“What are these little hands?!” 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀 please be serious

[@askholia]

That Basquiat shirt is hard AF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@WillTSheldon]

She has a bubbly aura...which is needed

[@Nikki-nt4pt]

Kendrick would be a great attorney 😊

[@dreemreecha3021]

13:00 makes you think what's the "i" for or what did we miss in *Kendrick Lamar* - i

[@Gahr20]

They said Teddy was gay because he was caught with a trans woman when he go into his accident. But they trans women came out and said he never knew she was trans till he started feeling up on her in the car and crashed .

[@peytoncooley8778]

She needs to do Asmr or commercial or smth. Her voice is so pretty!☺️☺️☺️

[@Zitolos]

@48:12 the slaughterhouse vs young money era was crazy but not mainstream crazy. Probably because Eminem and lil Wayne sat it out

[@davidcici11Evolution]

Teddy Pendergrass is a play on the tv show Degrass Pen 🖊️ Degrass the pen is mightier than the sword. Teddy 🧸 soft like children just another minor theme. Soft ass to grass is what Kendrick is saying with the sample 😂 Bur seriously it also ties into the fact Teddy Pendergrass was also in a wheelchair due to an accident and Drakes character Jimmy brooks was also in a wheelchair so that is the main theme wirh the sample. Drake is an actor he isnt real. The person under that mask is Aubrey but he has an identity disorder.

[@lokstatre2738]

Whats the dirt is really good at what he does..wven if some things can seem like a reach but it sounds good most the time that can be seen as possible tbh haha..but he definitely called the beef on the kendrick vs drake video he did in the beginning of the year or so..and called the whole kendrick reply after FPS sometime soon and literally a month or 2 later we get the bazooka of the year before kendrick dropped the nuke 😂

[@akizok]

pretty sure hes saying joe-Hale osteen so he mixed the two names intentionally

[@J.R.roychannel]

demon is another song future made

[@809Mornelle]

It’s funny how drakes entire family has a history of being apart of black culture music and now the main ppl celebrating Drake not being like them are the yts 😂😂😂 “ you’re one of us bud”

[@oblivionworldwide]

"When was this?" Damn you old 😂. Okay Auntie Bri

[@krys7667]

I know this completely unrelated, but I’d LOVE to see you react to Doechii’s new music video, Rocket. I feel like she’s such an underrated artist and I’d love to hear watch you think of it

[@rodneydavis8631]

Demon means on some hardcore evil hype in the streets and a throw away is a gun used for a crime and tossed

[@saintslime5670]

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the beef pusha t vs birdman which turned into pusha vs Wayne which than turned pusha vs drake. The Pharrell line is about pusha being on pusha t side plus the album Production

[@StorymodeReacts]

It’s so complicated lmao, but to my understanding, it was Birdman v. Pharrell from the money issues of What Happened to That Boy, then Pharrell/Pusha vs. Wayne (shots on Mr Me Too), then years later Drake “inherited” the beef 😮‍💨

[@saintslime5670]

@@StorymodeReacts just for Kendrick to inherit the beef for them both

[@bisqueybusiness2339]

21:55 right because he was tryna look like smino so bad

[@MDW82]

He missed the video of Drake saying the N-word with a hard ER