RXKNephew wins the Drake/Kendrick BEEF! "What Does BBL Even Mean" song analysis

[@inigoquixote5451]

I'm queer and I think the gay line is deeper and more scathing than you realized. Both Drake and Kendrick claim to be allies to the queer community, but also used a lot of homophobic implications as insults in this fight. They used it because they thought the other would be insecure about it, not because they dislike us, but that doesn't make it better. It kinda draws attention to the hypocrisy they are both showing in regards to misogyny too. I have been fascinated by this beef, I love Kendrick's music and I thought what he did here was amazing, but it's a valid criticism and worth exploring. Why can't male rappers insult each other without defaulting to implying they are gay or women? It's worth meditating on.

[@dimsdaledimma4321]

It's a sad reality, but you will literally get raped(or extorted)in many prisons as a feminine or soft man. So people that are close to prison don't want to be soft or feminine men.This makes the streets and culture more homophobic.

[@kmarcol1]

Because this is a patriarchal homophobic society. Hip hop is a microcosm of a greater construct

[@Solospeaking]

In a rap battle there are no rules and everything is allowed. Better develop thick skin or leave hip hop culture rap battling to those who understand, live it and love it.

[@Solospeaking]

And another if you knew anything about Kendrick, you would know he addressed growing up with a transgender uncle. Drake took a cheap shot at her in family matters asking "where is your uncle at" I want to talk with the man if the house " that's directly at Kendrick's aunt who transitioned to his Uncle.

[@inigoquixote5451]

@AS-of1cs I didn't try to apply rules or say I was offended by any of the lyrics. I was saying what I thought RXKNephew meant by the line. And based on those lines, I would bet that he agrees with us that there are no rules in rap beef. But the audience hears what they hear. If this was just any rap beef, I wouldn't think twice. But these two men are trying to prove they are this generation's greatest rapper. I find it interesting that neither of them believe they can insult their opposition without resorting to misogyny and homophobia. Drake used a lot of other lazy crutches, and they all made him look bad, but I would argue they were the only two Kendrick resorted to. I'm not sure I'd even argue he used it poorly or it wasn't worth it. I just think it's interesting when everything else is clever complex vulnerable dissections of Drake as a person and the industry as a whole. Just a clarification for anyone else who finds this comment and wants to add some variation of "why are you butthurt, snowflake?".

[@barnabyrow288]

Neph dancing above the beef: "Why's Kendrick picking on the weak?" = “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

[@AlexIAm30]

Bro I commented on one or two Drake things saying Drake is still the bigger artist, Kendrick separated himself as a hip hop artist and a creator. And I got locked in a Drake won/he’s the goat echo chamber algorithm for 3 weeks lmfao

[@jonz23m]

​​@@AlexIAm30 drake still has to prove if he is the bigger artist after the beef. That's actually the whole point

[@dueceiswi7d]

K dot did and won. I dont think it always makes u an idiot😂

[@omnitiontpictures]

Wait, who's weak in this scenario? Because I don't like Aubrey but his by no means 'weak'

[@AlexIAm30]

@@jonz23m when Kendrick’s streams were doubled and drakes streams were down 5% he was still 100m streams to Kendrick’s 50m. And now he’s back to 3x Kendrick

[@GoodiesFire]

"Why is Kendrick picking on the weak?" because he has to. This question is equivalent to "Be the bigger person" or "Turn the other cheek." No way! Actions must have consequences. Some people talk shit while taking advantage of others' kindness or patience. When it backfires, they get upset and play victims. What BBL means: self-victimization. Regarding "the beef", aka marketing campaign, this is my theory: The OGs weren't happy with how this situation escalated because they didn't want another high-profile war for "the industry", but it won't happen while Kendrick and Drake are worth more alive... let it sink.

[@kmarcol1]

When they go low, we pick up lucifer's crown and break it

[@SuperMcha]

This is a narrative I feel like people don't give enough validation. Kendrick's battle with Drake was righteous. Drake might be artistically inferior but he is powerful and influential for all the wrong reasons and rewarded for his bad behavior. That's worth fighting.

[@lugebeatzz8747]

​@@SuperMcha Kendrick was fighting with a purpose but let's be real the hypocrisy of Kendrick is thinking the war is righteous. No, he is just as bad as Drake with a different angle. Is the idea of Drake is flawed? Yes, If you remove Drake do you solve the Fake problem?No The fact that hip hop's greatest entry is not being real is a flaw in the system. The entry of hip hop is metaphors, similes, Double entendre, rhyme schemes, punchlines and flow. What happened to the truth?

[@GoodiesFire]

@@lugebeatzz8747 Everyone has their belief systems. Is defending your background and the people you love worth fighting for? Yes, this war is righteous. What happened here is the story of a narcissist who can't get a no for an answer. Kendrick and Drake can't stand each other, but like the cloud chaser Drake is, he wanted Kdot in the first personal shooter, and Mr Morale told him no, but J. Cole brought Kdot into the song in verse (Big mistake). Some people need to learn to live and let live. Don't you like me? I'm not rocking with you, either; let's move on.

[@SuperMcha]

@@lugebeatzz8747 How exactly is Kendrick "as bad" as Drake? Sincere question. Whatever the fallout from this battle might be and we might not see it all right now - in fact I'm confident we won't - I believe Kendrick is righteous for taking a stance that most within Hip Hop weren't willing to take. And I believe it will be a turning point. He's shifted the trajectory already. Many artists were willing to support and collaborate with Drake who actively leeches off other artists and destroys careers - not to mention his other transgressions. Kendrick might be a flawed person in the same way most humans are flawed - which he has acknowledged - but he chose to stand up to combat this type of behavior taking place in a craft that he's honed with precision and has deep passion for. If that's not righteous, I'm not sure what is. As for truth - I don't see much truth in Drake's work and that's why his work will never be art. I agree with what you allude to which is that most of Hip Hop is still fake. Right now that's the case. This battle might just shift the tide of influence to raise up a crop of rappers that follow a more genuine ethos - returning to Hip Hops roots. And that's what's real.

[@whym6438]

One thing that this video made me think of was how I reacted when rappers started bragging about high fashion brands. My first reaction to the rap name "Gucci Mane" was "Wait, this guy's supposed to be representative of black hyper-masculinity, but he's named after a company that I associate with purses and handbags?" I think Nephew is having a similar reaction to the idea of a rapper getting a BBL - "When did the rules of masculinity get changed on me?" AVAA

[@SeanLKearns]

The fact that conscious rap is becoming the mainstream is so nice man. All that fake gangster shit was getting old.

[@Solospeaking]

Hip hop and rap at it's core started off conscious rap!

[@ictogon]

​@@SolospeakingIt started as party music wdym

[@SHAKE-S-PIERRE]

That wasn’t fake, a lot of those rappers are dead or in jail.

[@aegisfate117]

Bladee for lyfe

[@TheDancerMacabre]

I think Gangster Rap has its purpose. Conscious Rap is about trying to overcome and prosper, the "We'll all in this together" while Gangster Rap is the other side of succumbing to criminal elements to get the best life possible because the system is too corrupt for incremental change. And this isn't just a "Black" thing: we see it in Norteño and Country music. (Narcocorridos and Outlaw Country) You can't put food on the table with "Hope" and you can't save the orphanage with breakdancing

[@myrontomlinson4736]

AVAA ❤ I love Neph and his deceptively intelligent sense of humor. Whole rap Wrestlemania

[@hardlyworking_]

ho* rap wrestlemania. he's calling them hos

[@hardlyworking_]

ho* rap wrestlemania.

[@ProdNu]

@@hardlyworking_nah its whole

[@marcelobaldavia]

AVAA - Actually, what is a comment? What even is a like bucket?

[@nessy3098]

16:50 I prefer the idea that because they think something that is pretty clearly untrue (at least according to RXK), that “paid to think” is actually about how they don’t get paid, because they aren’t good at thinking. It reminds me a lot of Capital Steez’s line off survival tactics, “they say hard work pays off- well, tell the based god don’t quit his day job.” They both are pointing out the absence of something (thought/hard work) by mockingly pretending that it is present. To fill out the RXK line, not only do they suck at thinking, they also don’t get paid.

[@ManiaBeats]

I’ve been saying this since 2012 a beef between Kendrick and Drake is pointless because Kendrick would always win

[@BkGoodBoyBad]

The point of a beef isn’t to win…it’s to beef. Thats the point.

[@brandondavis4766]

10:50 The style which you are referring to, I believe, is called shit talk. Pioneered by rappers such as YN Jay and Rio Da Young OG. It tends to involve talking shit on everything and everyone around you, while occasionally not rhyming nor going with the flow of the beat. Sometimes, I have noticed, the lyrics will be recorded as samples, and then the lines are layered in a way where the rapper is essentially interrupting him or her self. This contributes to the overall aggressive feeling of the shit talk style, where they will not even let themselves finish the previous bar. This is emulating the way in which they would argue with their ops. The style is believed to have originated from the state of Michigan within towns such as Flint.

[@melllowx4319]

Don’t forget durk, he does it to a degreee…..

[@3h2o49]

Facts

[@notnow_stopitagain5800]

Whyte Folks doing what Whyte Folks do… over analyzing what they seemingly discover what ALREADY EXISTED & CLAIMING a NEW DISCOVERY… now that’s really SHYT TALKING, Clowns🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 😉🌸✌🏽

[@tacodfs]

*spice talk

[@PulseTrip]

been here since an old mach hommy video. you're right about RXK. he's tried quitting liquor multiple times.

[@blaquehealer5484]

Rap has been commodified, so that has changed the game, so Kendrick is doing his best to appreciate rap culture that saved his life. AVVA

[@Cog_Nomen]

I tried to bring the rules into question by breaking them, and kicked the like bucket instead of smashing it... my whole false sense of self as someone comfortable with postmodernity is now dead. Good thing, too! Now I'm free to play by the rules and write AVAA 🙃

[@MarcusMcGinty]

Hip Hop in it's current state reminds me of the Jim Gaffigan bit... "It's all McDonald's"

[@userX_00]

I unironically found you the first time bcs pf RXK and then you came again on my feed bcs of Kendrick beef. Subscribed ever since! Your breakdowns are not filler and offer a fresh angle. Appreciate you!

[@JamesTimSamson]

I feel that part about not calling yourself bias. I feel like everybody is constantly trying to prove their unbiased when they have a take on this beef

[@lugebeatzz8747]

You can't be 100% unbiased but you can try. Winning or loosing the beef is about audience that's how it was done and is still done. Kendrick won the beef before he touched the mic which is absurd.

[@jcg_001]

AVAA, so glad you covered this - RXKNephew legitmately is one of the most interesting and critically sharp thinkers of contemporary hip-hop

[@-47-]

Review Yuno Miles' diss track

[@neekopat]

This reminds me of the spongebob episode called opposite day, where everyone is squidward. Everyone is BBL, everyone is squidward.

[@noidedorion]

AVAA. probably one of my fav BBL Drizzy freestyles. He always has something unique to say and I love it

[@leroymsipa4011]

Hie prof...ive been following you for a while now since you reviewed RXK Nephew a while back and then seeing you blow up over the Drake and Kendrick beef was really cool. Keep it up, and i look forward to seeing how you interpret rap music and the culture, its really refreshing

[@Yoyoambassador]

AVAA please look at a new beef that is brewing between underground kings silkmoney and icytwat, I think you’d like silks song “ 2 fa 1” that just came out it’s a very good diss song

[@countvondutchessofwestmoor3974]

they beefing again??? highly recommend $ilks projects prof if you haven't

[@back2byte]

He doesn't do beefs!

[@Chainsyy]

I’m gonna go listen to this

[@melllowx4319]

It’s crazy they beefin tho….

[@nicoldengenyakeye6905]

These breakdowns are gold. Still bumping that new Conway the machine. Thanks for that prof.

[@itube899]

AVAA prof. I believe the "paid to think" line actually speaks to and ties into your previous ideas regarding Neph and epistemology. We can only know performers relative to our perception of them. As more of the information on artists is given in such a way that they can control their own narrative as artists, this leads to us more generally creating assumptions that artists like Meek Mill and Rick Ross are living genuinely. So why would we think that? Since it creates a state of cognitive dissonance as we already know these artists aren't genuine (the personas are the performance) as many don't even use their real names.

[@athehybrid]

AVAA!!!! I had the same idea first listen that he was discrediting the ridiculousness of beef as a whole. Mark my words, Neph will be seen as ahead of his time.

[@TheMoonDejesus]

Paid to think- is a play on the expression “good thing you’re not paid to think” which means you’re stupid

[@transformedlife2000]

Prof can you do a breakdown of Tupac’s Makaveli? Just put this album on this morning, not sure if it gets the recognition it deserves!

[@rudetuesday]

I really liked RXKNephew's read of the Drake/Kendrick beef and of the rap industry itself. Some people believe there is a veil between the false world we live our human existence in and the true presence of reality. I think this idea makes it hard for very perceptive people to fall for the rope-a-dope most of us are generally okay with rocking with. I hope RXKNephew can put the drink aside, so he can live lots of good days.

[@radiobe4179]

I think that the lines you took as defenses for Drake were actually a denouncement of hypocrisy. When he says I think you're all R. Kelly trapped in the closet, he seems to mean that he thinks that a lot of these industry dudes are abusers themselves. Why were they cool with it? Isn't this burning being done mostly for selfish reasons? He implies the industry is cooked, and everybody is and always was enabling it.

[@willn8136]

quick correction, diogenes it’s disputed whether he said ‘i’m looking for a honest man (modern)’ or ‘i’m looking for a man (ancient)’ not i’m looking for a reasonable man, AVAA ❤️

[@lisolette1]

Exactly …it was one honest man !

[@poilaaliop]

AVAA! Love seeing your passion for hip hop

[@owensmusicalmisadventures2312]

AVAA❤ I would say Kendrick /wasn’t/ on the same planet as Drake. Now this beef has very much settled them as bed partners in my mind

[@boa7284]

🗣️🗣️🗣️“Chat GPT on the beat” 🗣️🗣️🗣️ AVAA ❤️❤️❤️

[@Cptl_ZERO]

AVAA, "why Kendrick picking on the weak?" as an opening bar told me everything I needed to know. good job neph, good job prof

[@babybirch]

AVAA . Neph just dropped one of his best records today “Till im dead 2” would love a review from u !

[@deathsyrup]

This song really is a monumental moment. He rhymes weird with weird and that somehow was the most effective diss. Also the Charles Manson being switched with Marilyn Manson line is hilarious beyond academic analysis 😂😂😂

[@secretcircuit]

Thank you for all your work on Neph and Billy Woods. Much respect.

[@StuartJuggernaut]

you gotta bring Neph in as a guest lecturer

[@qyntifex]

i snuck AVAA into a comment and it went unseen :') love the videos!

[@Kyocus]

16:27 The context of "paid to think" are the beliefs which people are offered to believe. The fake credentials people think are true. Paid to think = Paid to believe what is presented as a false reality.

[@LunchboxLex]

32:43 he should ask why Drake ain't have his enemies rubbed out since he got mob ties 😂😂😂

[@Corndadthepop]

Epistemology can also be misleading by asking loaded questions and inserting seemingly innocuous opinions at opportune moments. Watch Tucker Carlson talk about anything and you'll see what I mean.

[@abuslang5715]

i appreciate that you made a video like this addressing the thibgs about this beef that make me personally feel "uncertain" and just not able trust neither side. i really look at kendrick as an example when it comes to being an artist but also other life things so seeing him say these things in this beef and knowing that he has many times said that he stands by his words and says things cuz he feels like he has to just left me uneasy so anything to solve this confusion is nice (and im only 5 mins into the video, not sure how it will solve it but i appreciate it)

[@gertimahmudai3679]

AVAA Professor 🐐

[@JobaKurtz]

AVAA! Skye, please please please review the Parannoul album when it comes out!

[@JobaKurtz]

He released the lyrics in English on his Bandcamp.

[@Arawadewiseman]

AVAA, thanks for opening my eyes to the magic of RXKNephew

[@lazhwardafsharzada]

RXKnephew also has a Kanye diss called Yeezy boots.

[@Cptl_ZERO]

RXK 🗣️🗣️

[@unluckychloe13]

AVAA! im very gay and the homophobic bar makes me die laughing every time. something about the way he says it lol

[@kissyf4c386]

Dear professor Skye please make a video about Lucki

[@LiamBurke-if1cs]

AVAA nephs style is definitely catching on within the underground, check out christ dillengers recent work and acid souljah and you’ll hear neph all over it

[@KevinsBirthday]

Avaa love rxnephew. We need a 2hr video on lil b.

[@GREENWZRD96]

"yall get paid to think" a little more simple "damn i just said yall thought something 3 times in a row. thats a lot of thinking. you must be getting paid for that." comedy. AVAA

[@JamesTimSamson]

Yoooo the professor live

[@254koloko]

This song has been haunting me for a while

[@BelzertheRippler]

AVAA. I always enjoy your thoughts on RXKNephew!

[@melllowx4319]

I’ve watched a few of your vids….you have earned a subscriber my friend.

[@Kevin-zv6ds]

It's weird bc I'm here because of RXKNephew not because of the beef. I saw your vid on American Tterrorist

[@AthletesFeats]

America! We’ve finally peaked 🔥 AVAA

[@robotubetwob]

The only values are matters of the heart and meaning, not meaninglessness.

[@dayotobiusa]

22:30 I've got to disagree with you prof, at least on this one. People have been calling each other "dumb" for most of recorded history, in a myriad of languages, figures of expression and Euphemisms. And while it can be "ableist", it is also (when properly used) one of the most directly accurate insults you can give someone (when it fits). If anything, in the worst case scenario for 2045, someone will pull the "Oh I am very sorry, I don't mean to offend you... I was just expecting a battle of wits, now I see you're unarmed."

[@P.Crawley]

Kendrick beat Wal-Mart. I'm good with that.

[@jackietunes]

Mr. Skye, Love your takes on everything. I was hoping to hear you breakdown the long standing culture vulturism in the american music industry one day.

[@gompwomp3545]

AVAA- been a long time fan and love rxknephew, please listen to Yeezy boots by neph if you haven’t heard it, it’s about kanye

[@kenno7830]

AVAA the we paid to think line could be we're paying the industry for their product, ie these rappers music and them being in the streets

[@tiffuhneea]

i smashed the like bucket

[@aegisfate117]

And you're already scubscribed 🎉🎉🎉

[@love-thugger]

avaa i found you from a early ka video. and then again shortly after with the rxknephew ttterrorist. Great videos always. I love the mach-hommy reviews. Death of the author ! 🧛

[@aguynamedmixx]

Slightly off-topic, but not really... Any artist weighing-in on the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake is an opportunist. Kdot never used social media to attack Drizzy or sent out hints about what was coming next through KZbinrs, unlike Drake. The brilliance behind what Kendrick did was to eviscerate his opponent entirely with rhymes. That has always been the essence of rappers dissing each other. Who "won" the rap battle is irrelevant. We were all entertained. Some of you pundits even profited from the whole beef, thanks to Kendrick. That's the American way.

[@gonewayward]

AVAA… you said you don’t have ads but it seems KZbin has placed ads on your video. If you can resolve this issue it be awesome cause I loved being able to watch your videos without the barrage of ads. You rock don’t stop making these vids!!

[@professorskye]

Don’t do sponsorships, but can’t stop KZbin putting on ads. (I highly suggest going premium)

[@smol578]

Neph a sculptor he turnin rock into art

[@maxstrauss4581]

I wish any of my professors in college were as cool as you. AVA

[@cucumberlemonade5358]

AVAA❗️ Neph one of the most unique rappers currently fr

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

I think when he asks how Drake isn't in jail if he's a pedophile, its less asserting his innocence and more tying into the next line about the whole industry being rotten If he's guilty and free, its because the same system all these guys participate in is protecting him

[@pinkgrillz88]

Great video skye

[@willievance8784]

The culture vs consumerism

[@dredmaaa4759]

I think the análisis its cool but i disagree thougth, I believe Kendrick Won at all levels at least in the fact that theres a lot of people that will try being better tham Drake in a lot of ways being more careful in their relation with women ect. People that are growing up and have in them being artist have an example in the mainstream of being more atach to themselfs, Kdot low key make me feel more confident on the things I make and try harder at the same time, my thing its that even thougth everything didin't got fix in the culture sometimes we win battles and we should try to build upon them not stop and comeback to feeling sad because we fuck in the end, I feel happy And I dont Know if we really are jealous of Drake the man Its a Goofy with a check, the dude its a Insecure Loser (We all are somethings but no so frecuenly we so many eyes on us) that does so many Shameful things that 4 months ago was amoust shameless P.S: the man had 15 years to learn the culture and learn how to be better the dude has the same relationship with raze and Women he did in 2010

[@ashacovie]

Love this comment! Kendrick's motives and justifications seem to be more easily understood by authentic artists and lovers of hiphop

[@Maizak_]

😂😂killing me with zoolander, you are great prof

[@TomiDeSiviglia]

Damn Neph shamed me for investing my emotion in to this BBL beef. 😢

[@jackgross9282]

AVAA No shot we are gonna have to stop saying dumb and stupid

[@tylerhackner9731]

I love these breakdowns

[@sizwesokopo281]

AVAA - What does scubscibe even mean? Off to Beachboy Nino I suppose

[@-47-]

How dare you talk about postmodernism without mentioning Yuno Miles' BBL Drizzy verse?

[@zzzz__lou]

Paul dano was never in the wonder years what the fuk is a wonder year

[@melllowx4319]

I hope nephew watch this fr…..

[@JOSSHBLoris]

**the entire comment section on the beat**

[@readynreadin]

I think Cartesian cogito presupposes thr existence because of the use of I

[@BenNixBradley]

Hmm. What do you know about NoEmotion ?

[@elitedarklord315]

T-1000 on the beat is the most wild thing you’ve ever said

[@LunchboxLex]

"He's got a way with words" I'm not taking up for Slim, but that's how people where I'm from talk. That's how I talk, until it's time to code switch. I can't stand when people come for AAVE. There's nothing wrong with talking like that. It's a real dialect. Why do people dive into our culture and put it down? Happens way too often.

[@JeffCook1]

Whole rap game wrestlemania

[@gestalticavia322]

AVAA The WWE concept isn't bad. Make leagues, or somn. Imagine if beefing were split off into a separate genre, lyrical combat. Rap Battles are and were a thing, though their nature is decidedly less hostile than modern beef. I wouldn't be surprised if the Hip Hop Union does something like that to curb and temper the escalating beef culture. It doesn't have to be kayfabe, but it really should be about exhibition of the craft and skill.

[@malcolmbridges7304]

AVAA! What do i do if i watched the heachboynino video before this one?

[@professorskye]

You get 50 Prof Points

[@rome-s4c]

Im a lyrical whistle when I open my mouth I capture ear (air)… Don’t come pressing me Im too sharp, pick you apart like cactus hair.. All I needs a challenger, watch me rock it out this atmosphere.. Cause with these bars I’ll get my sales up like when a heavy breeze finds a ship… So much word play packed in a line I plan it every time my rhymes eclipse.. But with a lantern I’ll guide you quick through my mind's abyss, on my last leg and it’s thick cuz my life’s a bitch... My life’s spiralingso you know that’s cryptic, but hard to wrap around your head because my thoughts are twisted... But I keep my meadow (metal) peace (piece) with silencer to whisper every time he spit… Concealed with extensions, literally that’s two shine eclipse…

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

But what if I think Kendrick won the beef AND I am completely illogically biased against him? AVAA 🤣

[@donotoliver]

RXK!!!

[@Ringowasprettygood]

Lmao yessss I just became a fan of neph because of that video

[@GetonthestiiX]

"HA HA" - Nelson Muntz

[@ICYMIKE]

RXKNephew!!!!

[@ElijahBurg]

Love your videos but the needle is down😢

[@GDBOYFilms]

For some reason I listen to your reviews on songs and LPs before listening to them and it always gives a greater understanding going in