This battle wasn't even close...

[@abaren730]

Drake said “I was really tryina keep it PG” and Kendrick said “Yeah I bet you were” 💀

[@JeromeProductions]

Damn 😂

[@Lunacyk]

Playing. With. Girls.

[@ballinglikewilt100]

😂😂

[@GavrielRosario]

he did it so that his girlfriend can listen to it

[@JeromeProductions]

@@GavrielRosario HA💀

[@Eniggma39]

A rap beef forced people to listen to lyrics and now Kendrick album sales for all his records are going up. Truly a return to form for hip hop.

[@mouna8720]

this was always the prophecy. kendrick was always meant to take his place as the rightful rap heir.

[@Renegade-kf8fp]

He ain’t no Gil Scott heron that for sure

[@vietnamesericefarmer2602]

There was something I found funny that Drake made the Family Matters video basically a karaoke lyric video. It's almost like I don't trust my audience to catch every line so let's spell it out 😂.

[@wilaustu]

@@vietnamesericefarmer2602 haha good point

[@askellpositive]

Lyrics Kendrick is not lyrical 😂😂

[@ReallyRoland701]

A point that needs to be stressed more is that it didn't even feel like Drake cares if Kendrick beats Whitney. He said it not because he cares about domestic abuse but because he thought it would make Kendrick look bad. Otherwise he wouldn't have defended Tory Lanez

[@AngeBiampandou]

Or shouting out Chris Brown on the same song

[@dedem1315]

​@@AngeBiampandouor flirting with a supposed DV victim on the track while making puns about her being beaten. If Kendrick did commit DV, the tone taken by telling her to "shake that ass for Drake" and that "when I hit you back it's a lot safer" is also SUPER fucking ghoulish and belies a lack of respect to DV victims, women in general, and obviously Whitney herself.

[@TexasChick45]

Exactly.

[@superdupeninja8149]

They both are trying to Me Too each other…that’s what a rap battle is getting angles on each other whether it’s true or not

[@austinthesan-antonian3932]

And contrastingly Kendrick (even if we don’t truly know how much HE cares about issues he appeared to emphasise e.g., human trafficking, pedophilia, facilitation of abuse) DID perform VERY WELL AT giving a shit. If Drake gave a fuck, he did a really really poor job of presenting that.

[@SymbiSpidey]

Drake's inability to read the room ultimately led to his downfall. He's the heel who thinks he's the face.

[@Renegade-kf8fp]

Y’all so damn corny with this shit

[@Flow_Easy]

Basically how John Cena's character was during his prime🤦🤣

[@Lucy-cv7tm]

​@@Renegade-kf8fp That's literally a large part of his downfall here. The slavery line, the Mother I and the Millie Bobby line. He also didn't seem to understand no one really trusts him since he clearly thought Family Matters was the killshot/red button.

[@Cdr2002]

This

[@coltsfan354]

Are you saying his Reign of Terror is over?

[@forty_two42]

I made my sister who only likes K-Pop and stuff like Abba, listen to meet the grahams. Because she super hates drake for texting minors. And she cried and sent me a bunch of specific lines she loved and just texted me this morning that she's listening to tpab for the first time. Kendrick went so hard that he's pulling in people who don't even listen to hip-hop

[@nameisamine]

That’s amazing

[@honeybun3492]

Okay I literally went through the same thing, not super into rap, hate drake cause I KNEW he was a pdfile (hated when everyone bumped teenage fever)!!! but following the beef listened to all of Mr. Morale and tpab and definitely see why Kendrick is legendary, not what I was expecting rap to be but at the same time so much better?? Good on you dragging your sister into this cause the albums are WORTH 🎉🎉

[@joelman1989]

That boy Kendrick really does make music that is bringing families together 😂 love that for you guys

[@idontneedaname318]

No for real I had never listened to either Kendrick or Drake but hated him!!!

[@TylaStark]

That's so freaking hilarious 😂

[@huesoftheheart139]

Meet The Grahams slowly creeping into frame with the piano is hilariously poetic lmao

[@heinzchristian4517]

the heart part 6 did more damage to drake than any of kendricks songs "if i did it i would have been caught"

[@Henez89]

The recurring joke that Drake must have written this one himself because he self-owns so much 😭

[@loreliz4]

And that’s why Kendrick ain’t drop another song to respond… sometimes letting somebody talk for themselves is the best route, let you bury yourself 😭😭 the last song we got to go back to is the one where man’s is claiming he’s too famous to be a chester molester like we don’t have diddy and Russell Simmons running around… R Kelly was free for 20 something years and we had his ass on tape

[@Lucy-cv7tm]

His lyrics age worse everyday. Look at that Diddy situation right now. Diddy was able to hide that footage because he's rich and famous.

[@afrosamourai400]

Imagine mocking a potential victim of SA when you accused of being a pedo..like what?? And the touch my body bar was just cringy as well

[@camipco]

To be fair to Drake, it's a basically impossible accusation to answer. Like there's no version "guys, I'm not a pdf, believe me!" that doesn't sound creepy.

[@GhostWriter520]

Video not even up 15 minutes, and Drake stans already salting up the comments with their tears before they finished the video 🤣🤣🤣

[@BlackTestament]

Massive Copium on there part lol Edit: Case in point

[@mnkm5860]

So this video ain’t just 30mins of Kendrick meat riding

[@arvaakuka8568]

@@mnkm5860 That insult has become completely meaningless at this point because you can do the most profound, neutral analysis of the beef and somebody will call you a dick rider for complimenting one side or the other.

[@slimekuniva6348]

@@arvaakuka8568literally

[@Dontclickmychannellll]

@@mnkm5860 bro yall say that about each video that talks about Kendrick….like dang why is so hard to admit your favorite lost…it’s not like he’s losing numbers or anything he still go be one of the top artists no matter what happens In a way they both won

[@ltlbuddha]

Thing about the short joke. I'm very short and no one likes a short joke more than me. But when things are getting real, a short joke is just weak. Any jab at a physical characteristic when you opponent is hitting hard about behaviour, just seems desperate.

[@pablopereyra7126]

This 100%. If you jab at someone's height, that's just having bad genetics. But if you jab at someone for texting minors? He CHOSE to do that. He knew it was wrong and did it anyway. There's no coming back from that.

[@shaspearman8647]

Being short isn’t bad genetics. Being short is just being short. And this is coming from a woman who is 5’9”. There are whole groups of people, ethnic groups that are short in relation to others. Imperialism and globalism has forced people together, making physical differences more varied and extreme than they ought to be.

[@AiirxGeordan]

I was thinking this too. I’m fat and I been hearing those jokes both in lighthearted ways and malicious ways since like middle school, a mf would have to be way more creative than drake to come up with a variation that could get past the thick skin surrounding that insecurity.

[@imnotakingimnotagodiam..ab9455]

True that's like punching your enemy while your enemy is putting holes in you with AK.

[@JacobHeath-kj8qe]

@@shaspearman8647 maybe “bad genetics” is a mean way to put it. but it’s still definitely a genetics thing. something that can’t be helped, which was ultimately the point

[@AllTheArtsy]

one W early move by Dot was removing his copyright claims. he knew people needed to go to reaction channels/music channels/rap fans to understand his bars. and we needed to be able to hear those songs in full not chopped up. and that he was gonna go for a club banger knockout that would have tiktok dancing. its actually so eeries how "prophetic" euphoria ended up being. it went exactly as he said it would. he predicted every angle. kung fu kenny really built different

[@yosh6278]

Mr Kendrick.... Boogeyman Lamar (old man laugh)

[@dwaynejpeterkin]

The boogeyman of rap 😈

[@themostsecretscience6409]

Euphoria was a master class in predictive programming in telling a man about himself and he goes out and does everything to a T. Down to a manipulated shooting at his home to draw attention away from the other allegations.

[@SaccharineHearts]

Not to mention all the badass animations we got out of it!

[@kobebuckets]

“They had almost a week to recover from the euphoria of Tuesday’s series winning victory” is pretty damn accurate how it ended.

[@80soa]

My partner is in France and he heard they not like us in a supermarket 💀

[@KiraDaBeastNY]

It's everywhere at this point. I had a friend in Vermont tell me they heard Not Like Us in a store, my bro told me today the manager at the hotel he works at was blasting it, and another friend told me his boss was blasting it in his office at work. It's unavoidable at this point lol

[@felixt808]

​@@KiraDaBeastNY kdot united the world its so funny 😭

[@CharlieApples]

I live on a native American reservation in rural Montana and Not Like Us is currently the most requested track on the tribe’s only radio station

[@mitchelltague3674]

I heard Not Like Us come on in a fucking dispensary in Massachusetts yesterday

[@merry_christmas]

Heard it at Dutch karaoke yesterday 🙌

[@watcherofthemundane]

Drake lost a beef against Anthony Fantano, how's he gonna beat Kendrick?

[@fourmoyle]

Holy shit. Wow.

[@goudawheel]

I feel like ppl were so quick to move past that. Hanging around all those teenagers has really fucked with his ability to handle conflict like a fuckin adult LMAO

[@ps4ap_ballin672]

this thread is so important…how do i save this

[@lincolncarvalho8739]

Lost to Pusha, Fantano and K-Dot, god damn. 0-3 in his last 3 fights, time to hang the gloves.

[@MeatyPeach]

Ok but that beef was one of the funniest things to witness in real time. It almost gave me a soft spot for Drake for being such a clown so that I have that video series to watch when I need a good laugh. (I like Drake when he is a meme, I don’t like Drake trynna be taken seriously) The vegan cookies video itself was funny af, even not knowing the full story. And then Drake outing himself as a creep bc Fantano tried to make light of his creepiness instead of engaging it was just such a bizarre own goal but also on brand that it was poetic. And Fantano finally having to make a full video about Drake being creepy about his now ex wife because Drake can’t allow his misogyny ignored…

[@rainbowkittycat627]

You forgetting meet the grahms, the most important track of this whole beef, and then saying, “Oh, like that, duh!” Has to be the funniest possible thing I’ve ever watched in one of your videos.

[@ShjadeNexayre]

With the Meet the Grahams beat behind it. Well played.

[@joshuafetter3831]

I have a suspicion that this moment was a part of the script, which if so is absolutely genius

[@paradise_valley]

@@joshuafetter3831certainly helps with engagement haha, well deserved either way

[@CyrusIsnt]

Nah because it not that good. Family matters is better then it. His timing when dropping it was great, but the daughter claim miss, and the energy wasnt there. It did what it was ment to, but if we stopped at that point not sure if most would say kendrick 100% won

[@ExpertPenguin]

I think he legit forgot, and had no shame whatsoever into editing it into a postmortem joke at his expense. One of many reasons I’ll drop anything when I see he uploads 😂

[@the-grimwar]

I am convinced after this that megan would have also stomped drake if nicki didnt throw herself in front of him to take the shot

[@lucastaylor3399]

100% I think everyone forgets Meg was the first to throw shots at Drake and the industry as a whole, it was just Nicki who get down mr. President-ed for them and got CTE-ed out of the rap game

[@the-grimwar]

@@lucastaylor3399 right, like two whole sections of the video were dedicated aesthetically to women who publicly ridiculed that man on two seperate occasions 😭

[@ConvincingPeople]

Fiq has actually mentioned this before and I have no doubt it'll come up in the new video, because the fact that Megan and "Hiss" specifically really got the ball rolling on the "Fuck Drake" moment of 2024 is honestly beautiful.

[@dabunnydabunny1243]

​​@@ConvincingPeopleWhat's extra beautiful is that Meg getting that ball rolling is ultimately Drake's fault. Absolutely NO ONE made that dude mock Meg. He *chose* to be a catty bitch and it led to this.

[@the-grimwar]

@@dabunnydabunny1243 exactly. That part.

[@r-pupz7032]

I'm glad Kendrick explicitly talked about how Adonis is Black. It shows that his jabs about Drake's Blackness weren't about him being bi-racial/light-skinned, but we're a critique of how Drake exploits Black culture without being part of it or for it.

[@josh44026]

In which song

[@immabananatwo]

@@josh44026meet the grahams

[@TheJamacaneseNerd04231996]

​@@josh44026 Meet the Graham's

[@noxy_D]

​@@josh44026meet the Grahams

[@noxy_D]

💯. So many people missed that and really hanging on to the racist narrative with their last tooth. He literally called Adonis a black man & referenced as king.

[@AaronHatcher]

I'm still surprised that people are saying "I'm surprised Kendrick was able to make such a banger." To me Kendrick has several bangers. He's shown a long time ago he knew how to make bangers.

[@tyestancil2783]

Said absolutely no one, men lie (like now) numbers don't

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

​@tyestancil2783 if numbers don't lie I bet ur device's screen time usage is definition unhealthy

[@gojiratar1132]

We didn't expect him to make one after Meet The Grahams tho lmao

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

🎯

[@tape-6]

​@@tyestancil2783 kendrick has had multiple hit songs. why do you guys do this to yourselves.

[@russellwest8767]

Drake didn’t understand this was a boss battle, and not only that it’s a soulslike with multiple stages and attack patterns. Drake didn’t prepare his summons or his buffs or plan his dodges, he just equipped his biggest sword and hoped for the best

[@elijahclaude3413]

I fckn love this metaphor!!!

[@KathyClysm]

And not only that, people who are built for a soulslike may make that mistake the first time, but once they realise, they go grind it out and come back better prepared. Instead, he rage-quit and uninstalled

[@russellwest8767]

@@KathyClysm the heart part 6 was a total rage quit lol “ I read online that I could make it through stage 2 by spamming Dave free and clearing the wave attack enemies, but I’m losing half my health before I can even find your hitbox. This is bullshit”

[@ullebor]

Not even gem slotted properly. Straight up inting.

[@Mr_turner-m1s]

Bro walked into malenia without a black flame weapon

[@zephniahjonesiii5274]

“Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go get him an award” is the cattiest, most obviously jealous line I can remember in rap beef history

[@matthewgabbard6415]

That's what that little Canadian poseur has always been like

[@goudawheel]

Kinda a throwback to that ig tantrum he threw back a decade ago when Macklemore publicly apologized for winning the Grammy over Kendrick

[@Evol1HipHop]

Drake got washed, but I will admit It was a funny line. Your explanation is the best worded representation of it I’ve seen

[@shaneikaj.8711]

I think this would have landed IF kendrick wasn't decorated lol

[@prodcogs]

lmaoooo that line was so funny f*** drake tho

[@caleb281]

17:48 Kendrick basically said it about Drake in Meet The Grahams. When he says Drake messed up by targeting his family, he notes "guess integrity is lost when the metaphor doesn't reach you," basically telling him "I know you're taking these low cheap shots because you're just too stupid to swing at my level" And then Drake proves it in The Heart pt 6 when he demonstrates an utter lack of comprehension of Mother I Sober, and seems to admit he only values Not Like Us of all Kendrick's tracks, solely because it's the most danceable beat. He only values as far as he can reach. If Drake does have real hate for Kendrick, this is probably why. He hates that he doesn't *get* Kendrick or why other people put Kendrick above him, and that Kendrick makes him look and feel stupid. Like, what kind of a jab is it to tell Kendrick to use triple entendre and be deep? He's basically going to the kids who's better at math and saying "oh whatcha gonna do, pass the math exam with higher grades than me??" and expect it to sting. He fought this whole beef as though they were playing on the same terms; like internet comments and Instagram follows would be ample ammunition, when it just came off like *desperate teenage girl* logic (wonder how he picked up that mentality). In the end, Kendrick even showed through Not Like Us that people didn't even need Drake for them to have rowdy hits they could dance to. That's all Drake had left over Kendrick, but if Kendrick even had him beat in that category, then what reason does anyone have left to defend Drake or keep him?

[@KiraDaBeastNY]

I don't think Drake hates Kendrick because he doesn't get him. It's purely because he doesn't understand why people like him more. In Hip Hop, while it was the Big 3 for years, it was obvious there was a certain reverence for Kendrick that just wasn't there for Cole and Drake. And that bothered the shit out of Drake. As for the whole thing about him telling Kendrick to use triple entendre and be deep? It's the whole mentality that Kendrick is a boring rappity rap mfer, that quite a few people have for Kendrick. Just look at the comments people were making during the rap beef. Multiple people joked about Kendrick coming back and dissing Drake over a jazz instrumental, even people who were Kendrick fans. Someone in the comments above noted that a youtuber stated this about Drake fans but I think it also applies to Drake. They're incurious. Maybe they aren't "dumb", but they're surface level thinkers, and that doesn't make em worse than people who think a bit more deeply, but they just aren't interested in things that you have to look deeper into. And it's clear this is why they misread Kendrick. They just aren't at all interested in learning why people like him. To them he's just some weird dude who makes unfun jazz rap and postures as a social activist. Nothing more to it.

[@JulianWyllie]

I agree with you honestly. It reminds me of when Drake shouted out MF DOOM on IG once. It felt disingenuous because it doesn't feel like Drake genuinely concerns himself with that side of hip hop anymore. He seems to want the hardcore underground respect without doing the work musically. It's just weird to me.

[@lambousginiguccigod2007]

I read the the song differently. “I guess integrity is lost when the metaphor doesn’t reach you” Kendrick is claiming drake didn’t have the ability to listen to what he was saying, because of that he lacks integrity. I believe Kendrick honestly wanted to have a different type of rap battle with this man. He didn’t want to do any personal cheap shots or family dissections. “We ain’t gotta get personal, this a friendly fade we should keep it that way.” “You fucked up the moment you mentioned my family’s name”. This would have been a very different battle had drake not roped in Kendricks wife and kids. Even as someone who isn’t as much of a fan of Not like us, I understand why he took the approach. It was to spite drake for all the petty allegations he threw at him. Kendrick did a better one in every conceivable way. Family matters was drakes big red button and when it didn’t bang like he hoped it was outta ammo. Not to mention I can only imagine his defeated face witnessing Kendrick drop moments after and watching everyone hop back to his side. Even if I were to think Drake had teenage girl mentality it doesn’t stick with me as we know he is quite intelligent. You can tell by how he approaches this whole beef with dirt tactics and whatever. He took false methods of bringing down Kendrick instead of true ones. That makes him look worse. Cheap shots, dirt, addressing everyone not named Kendrick is what did him in for me since family matters maybe even pushups. Hopefully drake will put up great music after this. Family matters and pushups was missing for a longtime.

[@chanson8508]

I like your points 👉🏾 👈🏾 👇🏾👏🏾

[@bradbradson4543]

Don't be mean to teenage girls

[@mitchelldunn9149]

I can’t stop eating the beef content. I’ve watched mfs I’ve never had before over this. It’s been fuckin great.

[@AllTheArtsy]

girl same lol im even watching Joe Budden over this

[@Bresocharming]

We must be family got the same last name and everything cuz this been me since the beef started!

[@fajitariñho]

@@AllTheArtsyknew it was bad when I voluntarily clicked on a Joe Biden video just to watch more people lose it while listening to the evisceration. edit: one of the joes, at least. idk there’s a lot going on and I lost track.

[@ZEHAHAHA9697]

​@ron-by5oh but you can't lie, Joe Budden CRASHED TF Out! And it was glorious.

[@xtyayotx93]

@@fajitariñhoJoe Biden 😭😭😭

[@colelarsen-cj-8952]

You know Drake fucked up when Sig is calling it “The N-Word”

[@Slowdancinginthemoonlight]

Sorry would you mind explaining what you meant..? I'm an 18 year old oldie not very much associated with hip-hop and updates, 🤭

[@kingjiy2778]

Fax, he doesn’t even want to be associated with that goofball Drake

[@scottbuck1572]

Drake coming at Kendrick for the Taylor and Maroon 5 collaborations is the DEFINITION of throwing rocks from a glass house

[@xavmanisdabestest]

Tbf that was the point of the bar saying he's just as commercial as drake is

[@moustik31]

Actually, I think it was one of his best shots: Kendrick is also making songs to "pacify" the audience.

[@sxlrac_barlos3392]

@@moustik31i mean compared to his whole discography that’s juss a small portion of his work come on now lol. Most of his music electrify people.

[@moustik31]

@@sxlrac_barlos3392 From a diss track pov, it's still a good jab.

[@daltonbedore8396]

@@moustik31 sayong "you do the same thing i do" as an INSULT, is not the move you think it is

[@dylanor1183]

Went to the park with my little sister yesterday and there were so many kids shouting "a minooooooor" its insane

[@dangerxbadger2300]

My car got totaled last week so I've been riding the bus way more and at least once every single day while waiting at the stop I've heard a car roll by bumping "not like us". Every. Single. Day.

[@dabunnydabunny1243]

Public schools might as well make that song the new theme for stranger danger awareness at this point

[@santoriomaker69]

This is legitimately the best thing I've ever heard coming out from this situation. Literal KIDS are saying that Drake is a pedo... Holy shit...

[@samkeiser9776]

Pokemon

[@1988jeffy]

Drake didn’t know how to approach Kendrick… his image is based on his cultural stature and it’s an area where Drake is incredibly clumsy and tone deaf

[@cloudcamo]

Exaactly. He was fumbling around, searching for ammunition. Whether or not what he claimed about Kendrick's marriage is true remains to be proven, but we see throughout this beef that drake couldn't even come close to dissecting his opponent on an analytical level. Goes to show the limits of his cognitive abilities 🤣 He should have taken a lesson from The Book Of Cole - thou shall not beef with someone in a higher weight class lol

[@feodiente9460]

And this is where him and Tory Lanez differ as Canadians doing American Hip Hop ..Tory's is more organic vs Drake on the strength of Wayne stimulus package

[@XcuzeTheMessDeer]

Kendrick laid him out than Metro walked by and kicked the corpse. That Atlanta verse exposed Drake's whole grift

[@madeofmandrake1748]

Metro came and literally made a contest on who could kick Drake's corpse the hardest, what a legend

[@PuffinPass]

Yeah Metro is a legend for this.

[@bagchaser326]

@@madeofmandrake1748nah only on the internet.. in real life we still listen to drake more than both so there’s that

[@fredztuhh]

Drake told him to go make some drums lmaoo be careful what you wish for

[@AisforAtheist]

I can't get that outta my head. Livin rent free. 🎶BBL Drizzy🎶

[@RealJohnnyGuillotine]

Kendrick "Not like us" was like the 1990's for a brief moment.

[@ComicXanz]

Kendrick is like Godzilla stomping on a T-Rex. That T-Rex is of course drake

[@SaccharineHearts]

More like pteradactyl 😂​@@ComicXanz

[@RealJohnnyGuillotine]

​@@SaccharineHeartsPred-adactyl

[@Obsidian_Enigma]

@@RealJohnnyGuillotinenah that’s crazy lmao💀

[@FentySeroquel]

shit made me go listen to No Vaseline, King of the Hill and Ice Cube Killa

[@TatendaMikey]

Kendrick is a lyricist, Drake is an entertainer, and J Cole is a wise man to know not to fight a war that didn't need to be fought 😂😂😂

[@christophergrant5705]

Well said

[@williamd2989]

Yet he still made Grippy

[@susanrichardson631]

Amen ....my favorite out of ALL of them

[@Aquarian-t8p]

Well, that opinion on J. Cole is changing FAST. See Deleted’s video for that.

[@TheSkaOreo]

FD gets it. People who were complaining how Kendrick was just saying stuff that wasn’t new is entirely missing the point. What gave Euphoria power, and what allowed Kendrick to body Drake in general, is that he voiced what the culture has always felt about Drake. Kendrick used his reputation to turn public reception against Drake, because everyone knew Drake was a piece of shit: We just wanted someone like KDot to say it publicly. That’s why people are clowning on Drake, and crip walking to “Certified Lover Boy, Certified Pedophile”

[@Renegade-kf8fp]

The same culture that pushed so many new acts out because they didn’t want to get down with the gatekeepers

[@ACE_CORP1]

I can tell this is also what the industry wanted everything against drake to spoke on know while the insane amount of info on not only Kendrick but all of tde is just covered up and one seems to care i mean like theres alot but i guess only people who would care would be people who are unbiased like me

[@chanson8508]

😂😂😂😂

[@SomeRandomDude010]

This flew over so many peoples heads

[@Lunar0Strain]

He laid it all out clearly, over a beat and with serious artistry. The fact that we already knew or suspected those things to be true just makes them hit even harder. One of my favourites is the Atlanta verse in Not Like Us. It's not new information at all, everyone knows this is how Drake operates on every project since the future collab album, but he lays it all out so cleanly and makes that punchline hit so hard, and now it's imprinted in everyone's mind forever, along with "A minor" and "certified pedophiles"

[@jejo63660]

I believe Kendrick won primarily because of his narrative writing ability (which is why he’s just a great, pulitzer prize winning artist in general). Meet the Grahams is a masterpiece of narrative, where Kendrick paints Drake in such an eerie, disturbing light in a form of an intervention he’s staging on Drake’s family. Drake tried to do a tiny piece of that narrativizing/psychoanalysis on the heart part 6 (the mol*sting part) which completely fell flat because of his obvious misinterpretation of Mother I Sober. Even if the daughter part doesn’t turn out to be true, it is a believable story in the midst of all the other facts we know about him, and Kendrick’s ability to tell this story of Drake as a ‘sick man with sick thoughts’ is what got him the W. Kendrick painted the picture fully and disturbingly, while Drake only said ‘you hired a crisis management team to hide the fact that you beat on your queen, *the picture you painted just aint what it seems* ‘ Drake wanted the listeners to ‘paint that picture’ ourselves in our own imaginations, while Kendrick painted it for us in gory detail with Meet the Grahams.

[@denaliagolden]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 alla this

[@Lucy-cv7tm]

Kendrick's disses complimented one another and made earlier lines make more sense. In some cases it created moments Drake's rebuttal of an earlier line from Dot no longer works because he was essentially responding to the wrong thing. An example being the "We don't like the women you f*""k" Drake flipped it to say "I have relationships with black women so what do you mean by that. But later we see Kendrick was calling him a sex pest.

[@Billiamwoods]

​@@Lucy-cv7tmYes. The whole thing that made it so effective is him tearing his armour off piece by piece. Maybe how he delivered some of the... info was a little wrong (like uhh call the cops), but the way he used everything to build up, knowing Drake would have to respond, to disassemble his whole public persona was so good. Kendrick doesn't actually have to believe that Drake isn't black, he just has to point out that it's an insecurity for him because he doesn't address black issues in any way, and it hits because he doesn't really have a rebuttal that would save face for his position in the culture. FD's Drake video aged so well, man.

[@whym6438]

The thing that gets me about Kendrick's diss tracks is that every single part of those songs are disses. The cover art, the choice of samples, the choice of producers, the titles, everything. Meet the Grahams is even in the key of A minor, so the line on Not Like Us is a callback. There's like 5 different things to dissect before you even listen to the track.

[@vietnamesericefarmer2602]

100% hit the nail on the head and something I've said to others. If we compare rap to stand up comedy Drake has always been that witty 2 line joke comedian or what I call a "bar rapper" where the setup and punchline is at max 4 bars. Whereas Kendrick is that comedian kind of like Chappelle at his best where he is giving you those small jokes or bars but it using them to build up a bigger setup and punchline. Basically story telling rap. This has always been a weakness of Drake as a rapper he is incomplete because he's never had that skill/done it well which is surprising because most of the rappers we consider as the GOATs have that ability.

[@CalamityJay-ez2mq]

Its hard to fight back when Kendrick hit the nail on the head, "You're not a colleague, you're a fuckinh colonizer" A lot of people want to play this off as just generic beef, but it feels more like Kendrick defending hip hop as a political art form that allows poor kids from the worst areas of the country to transcend the circumstances of their birth, against Drake who represents the co-opting of that genre to defang it, making it safe and palatable for the establishment, taking out the righteous anger and replacing it with empty commercialism and celebration of the very aspects of society that hip hop originated to oppose. Its the same thing that happened with Elvis and rock

[@umairashraf5167]

What happened to Elvis and Rock? because imo Elvis helped bring rock into the mainstream and he was actually talented

[@CalamityJay-ez2mq]

@@umairashraf5167 cause he pretended that he was writing some new style of music and didn't acknowledge any of the black musicians who actually developed the style that he stole Also, Elvis is mid as hell

[@umairashraf5167]

@@CalamityJay-ez2mq I don't really think so,I'm pretty sure he did shout out to big mama Thornton when covered hound dog and btw, can't help falling in love is my favorite Elvis song

[@markcarey67]

Yeah it definitely felt existential - I don't do hip hop but I'm a musician and writer and to me it felt like a victory of poetry over propaganda

[@omgeoh]

Unpopular opinion: Meet the Grahams is the best track from this whole beef. Spooky, 90s-esque, and a gut-punch. Produced by the Alchemist as well. The track and the strategy when dropping is just legendary.

[@afrosamourai400]

Seek help you got no taste

[@lovelyminx6444]

So everything he said in the song just went straight over your head, huh?

[@joekerins9772]

Huh? Most people in comment sections know that Meet the Grahams is the best track of the beef, why would that be unpopular?

[@HazelwithaZ]

Not the best, but I can't stop playing it. I get goosebumps when he talks to Drake's mom, tells her to sit down for this. So much pain, and the music reflects it. It really hits different.

[@albus9115]

Let it stay unpopular

[@JackgarPrime]

I mean, he DID try to fight back, and just buried himself further. Dude needs to just go into seclusion for a while. Maybe see his kids for once!

[@ckorp666]

p sure that wet fart was just to prevent the next drop, since (from what i heard) they were gonna keep going until they saw a white flag. dragging him out of his bender to cobble that thing together and have it immortalized in the public record is hilarious

[@afrosamourai400]

Damn!! Lmfao...

[@kaize666]

He can't. His contract dictates he has to keep pumping out music to pay off that 460 mil they gave him. Plus now he lost Nike money. Drake dropping two more albums before this year over with.

[@ZEHAHAHA9697]

Pull a Kanye and Come back with MBDTF

[@samsonthemanson]

That's how quicksand works tbh and Kenny buried him

[@kori2169]

i'm still floored by drake's logic of "oh, you're so hung up on this predator accusation because you're a victim." like first of all, you don't have to be a victim to be disgusted and outraged that someone like drake is a predator. second, i cannot understand how he misinterpreted mother, i sober so FUCKING BAD. he fucked up so bad that people went back to put money in kendrick's pockets just to prove drake wrong. like it's truly comedic.

[@spiridonrobert16]

Ironic coming from the song where Drake screams "i am not an predator"

[@Anonymous1930.]

He even makes fun of kdot for being "molested", mf what type of defense is that??

[@spiridonrobert16]

@@Anonymous1930. Exactly like the whole "epstein angle ik that You re gonna Say that "îs not the line that You think IT îs Even If that was the context of the mother i sober song making fun of that when You re being called a predator îs like self reporting

[@blargh559]

drake ain't got time to be writing songs about grown men, there are teen girls to groom

[@goudawheel]

LMFAOOO

[@taekook188]

Nooooooooo😂

[@maremare3205]

FAX

[@RabidDogma]

I was telling people FROM THE START that Euphoria was the warning shot. He lets him know VERY CLEARLY that he could say more, and he did.

[@eastsidereviews727]

What's crazy is that I don't think Kendrick has gone all out.

[@onetwo8847]

People need to keep this in mind. Kendrick called this man a "certified pdf file" and yet shortly after in that same song, still said: "Rabbit hole goes deep, I can go further, I promise. Ain't that somethin'...?" I think Kendrick has some serious dirt (and receipts to back it) on Drake. Which is why he's so confident and nonchalant in dropping all the heavy accusations on the tracks, and why drake is waving the white flag

[@Renegade-kf8fp]

Kendrick ain’t clean either but whatever

[@taaaaaaaazzzzzz]

@@onetwo8847 if he has receipts he should’ve dropped them immediately, or does he care more to have something on drake than stopping a sex trafficking ring if it really is true?

[@onetwo8847]

@@Renegade-kf8fp yeah but you basing that off accusations drake made with zero evidence, that even AK (number 1 drake fanboy) has refuted lol. There are PLENTY of reasons to suspect the things drake is accused of tho lol, even if we don't have the smoking gun yet

[@lordraiden7397]

​@@Renegade-kf8fpLiterally get out of the comment section. Lmfao. All you've been doing is defend drake and cry about Kenny winning

[@brunaishuman]

FD got so traumatized by Meet the Grahams that his brain just blocked it.

[@Encyclopedia_Brown97]

When Euphoria dropped, I said the beginning felt like Kendrick calmly loading a gun and preparing for war… based on that metaphor, Meet the Grahams was the cold-blooded fatal shots and Not Like Us was Kendrick crip-walking at Drake’s funeral lol

[@michaelbenham3603]

I feel hung over or like I’m coming down off drugs now that the main part of the beef is over… the whole thing was intoxicating, got really dark for a bit, now I’m snorting up commentary trying to prolong the high and struggling to move on

[@starmanda88]

This is incredibly relatable

[@susanjoyce4244]

SUCH a good analogy

[@greendoritoman2464]

This is me but with the BBL drizzy trend. I’m so starved for disses right now after the high that was meet the grahams

[@Corkyjay]

"Proposed in 2015 but dont wanna make her your actual wife" Now drake I know u aint talking when u hid a child and didnt marry the girl u got pregnant. You didnt even make it to that point 😭😭😭💀

[@THEDOYLER]

he never hid the kid, he was about to reveal him an adidas release literally named after his son, however pusha t said the name of the adidas run was named after his child he hadn't told anyone abt yet. still the story of adidon is an amazing diss

[@JFirecracker]

We ate this past couple weeks honestly Now that I'm actually ruminating tho, your chat about Drake losing his status of 'iconic' got me thinking about how much I liken hip-hop to pro wrestling these days, and to make a metaphor? Drake's spent all his time this past few years telling us he's Bryan Danielson; aiming to spend the twilight of his career putting over the new talent, getting them on and all before he has to retire (while instead Chris Jericho-ing them); and even then-- Bryan Danielson isn't going to get an **"iconic"** bout out of Daniel Garcia, or Jack Perry, or Duane Martin; he still has to go against the likes of Zack Sabre Jr or Will Ospreay to get that **"iconic"** five-star match kind of bout. Same way with Drake, clout vampiring the new blood is a very fast route to losing your lustre, no matter how many temporary hits it lands you.

[@ijeomaobi4456]

I agree! There really was food in the fridge this week 😂

[@venicec3310]

We?

[@yeonlyn]

the withdrawal is fuckin TERRIBLE

[@JFirecracker]

@@yeonlyn Think I spent the last week refreshing Kendrick youtube page waiting to see if he was gonna end zone dance or nah 😂

[@ZEHAHAHA9697]

Straight fucking facts, you aint never lied ​@@JFirecracker

[@Cdr2002]

You wrote 20,000 words? That’s like 3% of my fanfic

[@queenblacc4579]

Lol. What the fandom. I’ll check you out

[@kjarakravik4837]

Ykw leaving this comment here in case you reply with the fanfic name

[@genericname6817]

You can't just say that and not give us a link!

[@Cdr2002]

@@genericname6817 KZbin deleted my comment 😭

[@Cdr2002]

@@kjarakravik4837 for everyone in this thread because KZbin doesn’t like links, just google a story called “Mortal Kombat Requiem” and you’ll find it on FFN under my same username as on here. It’s a massive albeit still unfinished passion project I’ve been working on for years and I appreciate the interest from all of you in the replies

[@KaliDreamer]

That Meet the Grahams drop was the spookiest shit I’ve ever experienced in Hip-hop. I had LITERALLY just found out about the release of Family Matters, and then I get a message from my dude like, “Kendrick dropped.” Man WHAT? No the fuck he didn’t, the song JUST came out! I open KZbin, and there it is; Meet the Grahams. That eerie ass piano riff kicked off and froze me in time. I don’t think I breathed or blinked the first two minutes of the track. What a crazy moment.

[@newsystembad]

Those piano bars are goddamn _harrowing_ , every last note is like a funerary bell announcing someone's doom

[@lovelessact1]

Drake lost the moment he realized Kendrick is the most boring rapper in history, his digital footprint is cleaner than your grandparents

[@fajitariñho]

When I saw him at Bonnaroo I was on a bunch of shrooms and shouted “my favorite thing about Kendrick is that he is perpetually and aggressively a 40 year old dad and has been since he was born.”

[@Shin3yBidoof]

His family called him ManMan as a kid for a reason. That boy emerged fully grown

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Drake had a team trying to dig up dirt and they probably found an overdue library book a couple parking tickets and *gasp* sneaks his own candy into movies

[@mrmrfahrenheit9127]

Next he's gonna reveal how Kendrick forgot to wash his dishes last week

[@KathyClysm]

I am 100% sure he's the type of guy who puts dirty dishes in the sink not the dishwasher. AND washes dark cloths together with brightly coloured ones. A true monster

[@GamingAndSocialism]

It’s wild to me that this is one of very few videos I’ve seen with this sentiment. It seems like people are treating this with kid gloves to save feelings or something, but you’re right. Kendrick won, and it wasn’t even close.

[@afrosamourai400]

Kendrick crushed him!!

[@ceeitrus]

Like ppl are so scared to say definitively that kendrick won and tip toeing around it so they don’t look like a d-rider, but the fact of the matter is Kendrick won, kendrick is objectively more talented than drake and drake just set himself up for a loss 😭

[@leonconnelly5303]

Kendrick won before it started though

[@BluejThompson]

The para social relationship that Drake has been able to foster with people of not particularly high intelligence is very scary

[@Ghost_Gaming1899]

What I find wild about this is how Kendrick had way more quotable and funny bars throughout the beef. Like, funny/memorable bars are right in Drake’s lane and he still lost at that.

[@CMBlue]

Mr Instagram Captions couldn't get his punchlines together

[@undercookedtoast1479]

Kendrick beat him on EVERY front, even numbers

[@dontpreorder2783]

Only funny lines Drake got is “Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy rn” telling metro to shut up and make some drums which is more funny in retrospect than anything and a personal favorite of mine being “shit we do for bitches, he doing for niggas (what the fuck 🤨)”

[@AiirxGeordan]

@@dontpreorder2783nah I liked that “when you put hands on your girl, was it self defense cuz she bigger than you” too

[@dontpreorder2783]

@@AiirxGeordan I can’t get down with that honestly. Making fun of a man beating his girl, especially after you shouted out Chris brown, comes off shitty to me and after THP6 where he tried to shame Kendrick for being diddled as a child (which isn’t what happened but the sentiment remains) it comes off like Drake don’t really care about abuse happening he just wants Kendrick to look bad You’re entitled to your opinion tho, I will say the flow and inflection he had on that line was pretty good

[@calypso4882]

meet the grahams is so raw, F.D had to forget about it for a second.

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

More or less

[@bagchaser326]

he lied about a daughter lmfaoo you geeks are so cringe

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

@@bagchaser326 go chase that bag and stop riding 💀

[@ItWasBetterBefore]

Had to forget about it like Drake forgets about his kids.

[@calypso4882]

@@bagchaser326 bro you can't like your own comment and think you did something.

[@kimaya4503]

The crazy part is that Not Like Us is just as lyrically layered as all the other Kendrick songs, people are just blinded by the format. But actually go back and read the lyrics 😂. He didnt have to switch up his content in order to beat Drake at “his own game”.

[@r-pupz7032]

Yes!! That's why I love it so much. It's almost a perfect song in my eyes, from the beat to the delivery to the catchy and hilarious one liners to the clever and complex wordplay. I feel like he really gave something for everyone. I don't mind when people just enjoy it as a bop, it slaps and is funny af, but I love it when people dive into the bars too ❤️

[@kimaya4503]

@@r-pupz7032 facts like let's not act like the bars are not there tho 😂

[@lvernon9471]

The Drake Regime is over.

[@yosh6278]

LONG LIVE KING KILLMONGER

[@bridgerparker4275]

​@@yosh6278red light green light red light green light

[@yosh6278]

​@@blasphimusthe problem is even to this moment he still hasn't bounced back and he's letting the culture roll over him on social media.

[@poliquitit]

The Empire of Drake has fallen 😭

[@alexc5156]

BBL Drizzy in multiple languages and styles....Aubrey taking an L globally

[@intolerant_left]

"We want a ceasefire, fuck a response from Drake" - Macklemore, Hind's Hall, 2024

[@teenxtcy]

hes performing at the coca cola arena in october. coca cola supports israel he still has time to back out but its important to know

[@katerrinah5442]

👏👏👏👏

[@Dracon7601]

@@teenxtcy Coca cola doesn't support Israel so much as it has a bottling plant in Israel, it's not the kind of company to take any stance on this.

[@kevinf2757]

@@teenxtcy Unless they try to censor him he should absolutely not back out. That would be the weakest shit ever lol.

[@NoTengoIdeaGuey]

​@@teenxtcy better to still perform, and then draw attention to that fact while there. They just throw in on the stadium, it's not as of everyone who performs there is sponsored by Coke personally. So it would actually be a good way to talk about BDS in general.

[@Evbot2]

"AND kendrick is a hotep" made me cackle, great vid

[@Nagstersept109868]

They played some of "Not Like Us" before a commercial break during the NBA playoffs.

[@opinionladyy]

It’s damn near an unofficial song now 😂

[@makiba9461]

Yep

[@whotfisliz]

all these candid videos of people celebrating and singing along to a song labeling drake a pdf file are still so surreal to me

[@afrosamourai400]

I like that..drake needs to be shamed for his groomings

[@SaccharineHearts]

Right! We cant let him for get that he was having pillow talk with millie bobby brown at 16 🤢​@@afrosamourai400

[@jacknapier6668]

Me too bro I have a play list of Drake diss songs now and they just so happen to be from my favourite artists I can’t believe this shit waited almost 15 years for it I’ve been eatin

[@opinionladyy]

That’s what I said 🤣

[@DarkshadowXD63]

Im not going to lie. I was under selling Drake before he did his response track. I was hoping for Kendrick and Cole go at it skill for skill. But Drake was saying some lines that had me like ok you getting some hits in but all that stopped when Drake said "you rapping like you trying to free the slaves" that line alone was wild especially coming from the dude who in his last major beef was exposed for black face.

[@JStack]

Kai Cenat screaming “DRAKE GET UPPPPPP GET UP DRAKE” after the Sexy Redd line was the beginning of the end lmao by the story time of they not like us even Ak was talking about how Drake just gonna need to hide and release another hotline bling because the rap shi is over lmao when I woke up to my graveyard shift to see euphoria dropped, I would never have guessed it wouldn’t actually done so much damage to Aubrey and his brand. Even Drake fan channels are just posting about general hip hop last week lmao 2:47 I wouldn’t rule out his ghostwriters mailing this one in. Like sure we can mass manufacture 50 one liners for zoomers and suburbanites, but BATTLE KENDRICK!? Literally not what they signed up for.

[@quatariusray9321]

😊

[@IamNster]

​@quatariusray9321 I also like Kai's reaction to Meet The Grahams. "...Somebody gotta diiieeee...!!"

[@DJJE928]

That last sentence is such an excellent point.

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

I expected more from Drake too, which to me means, KDot has more on him, didn't empty the full clip, and Drake does not want to push it

[@51909relapseminem]

I feel like Kendrick would have dropped another diss after The Heart Part 6, but he was prevented by the industry. Like Kendrick is popular, but Drake is still leagues ahead of him in terms of money generated. So the powers that be at UMG probably put pressure on Kenny to drop the beef, because they are losing money on Drake because of Kenny just stomping on Drake

[@PuffinPass]

@@51909relapseminem Would not surprise me one bit if UMG didn't offer Kendrick a fat payout to squash the tracks he had lined up. Kendrick was drip feeding info in those tracks progressively, so for him to have another two or three in the chamber wouldn't be a surprise at all.

[@ratedr7845]

​@@51909relapseminem That could be the ONLY reason Kendrick stopped, Kendrick straight up hates drake and wants him gone, it's like pusha t all over him

[@internetizmyhome]

It’s kind of crazy how the winner of the Drake Kendrick beef was Macklemore

[@shaspearman8647]

That is mathematically, impossible, you do realize that right.

[@rafaelmarkos4489]

​@@shaspearman8647 I think you might be missing context. OP is referring to Hind's Hall, which was unquestionably the best song to come out during this time.

[@jchris333]

See, I think we did get the best of Drake. I also think we overestimate him greatly

[@myra-yves]

something tells me he wrote heart pt 6 himself because oof child….

[@jasminewilliams1673]

I don’t think he ever had to grow as an artist. I also don’t think the trend hopping helped that either, it made it worse

[@FabiolaRVela]

Lol damn that was his best??? 😬 that’s sad

[@nope-np6hk]

That's what I've been saying. He is very coddled

[@goldenstarmusic1689]

Listening to Family Matters again, that is a respectably punchy diss track that if you didn't know any better, would have been deadly for any rapper. Kendrick Lamar was just that fucking guy, he could bounce back in less than an hour and wipe the floor with Drake.

[@playapiano666]

The idea of Kendrick being this warlock charging up a big spell to drop on Drake and his crew is so perfect to me. Even better because they were just sitting there taunting him while he prepared the attacks that wiped them all.

[@Renegade-kf8fp]

Lol

[@LicoriceLain]

Kendrick the Grey

[@llamawarllord]

Hit him with the comet azur

[@samt3412]

Bro was charging Zettaflare in the back while Rick Ross was tanking damage

[@ForrealMwangi]

Great analysis however, be advised there was a quintuple entendre in the actual title of Euphoria. 1. It’s a Drake show(obvious) 2. it’s a kill bill reference (20 v 1 theme) (drake posted a kill bill meme prior to its release). In kill bill there is a Truth Serum that ultimately gets the protagonist to see the absolute truth. 3. The second definition provided in its cover artwork refers to “series winning victory on Tuesday”. Which is when it dropped. 4. Euphoria is state of bliss experienced prior to death, Which taps into the fact that Drake was feeling euphoric after push ups not knowing it was actually the beginning of the end.

[@corwintipper7317]

is the 5th entendre about Drake being on drugs?

[@wheelbass]

wop wop wop wop wop

[@TheEmbessyNetwork]

Dot Fuck em up!! 😂😂

[@JayJeremiahC]

wop wop wop wop wop

[@Tjxal]

I'ma do my stuff

[@DD_MENEN]

😂😂😂

[@Rossoneri2]

Shoutout to the Italian community

[@RadikoolS]

Random thought, do y’all remember Queen Latifah’s diss track to Foxy? “You couldn’t come up, if you were getting f*cked on an elevator” - Name Callin’ Still one of my favourite lines in any diss track ever 🤣 Random. But anyway, thanks for the video! 🌟

[@afrosamourai400]

Who said it? Foxy? That's hard as fuck

[@RadikoolS]

Latifah, she went hard back in the day. Foxy had no chance.

[@loreliz4]

I legit just listened to name callin part 2 the other day ‼️😭

[@SCHRODINGERS_WHORE]

thats fire bruh

[@Eniggma39]

DAMN

[@300IQPrower]

Things Drake doesn't understand: - Race and its relationship with hip hop - You always go for the mage first

[@peggytheveteran4968]

Kendrick's immediate response to Family Matters was so smart. I feel like if Kendrick dropped a few days later, a lot more people would say Drake won

[@Illthallion]

Consider the fact that Kendrick was well away of Drake dissing him in 2014 and that interview prevented from being released. I would imagine KDot has kept his eyes on Drake's every move and was patient to utterly destroy him. Just my thoughts.

[@victormartins7867]

​@@Illthallion I don't think it's that much calculated cause they been going at each other for a decade now with subliminals. however, starting from dot's verse on family ties with keem, it was made clear Kendrick was ready to take it to the next level

[@konsta245]

I'm not a Drake fan but Family Matters was a banger

[@OutrageIsNow]

@@IllthallionI’m sure he’s had most of these bars on standby for years and he’s been adding to it and keeping notes this whole time. He’s been waiting a long time for this moment and he executed it perfectly.

[@MD80-Unruly]

This beef was one of the most beautifully executed baits I have ever seen. Kendrick really gave him enough rope to even hang himself in the end. The crazy part is that Euphoria ends with a warning about what would happen, and the ENTIRETY of 6:16 is describing exactly how Drakes jig was up. A part of me thinks that if Family Matters never came out, we would live in a world without Meet the Grahams or Not Like Us, which is kinda wild to think about.

[@alexmsevans]

what annoys me the most about the heart part 6 is that if Drake had actually not given up we could have had even more Kendrick songs - i would have loved to hear them

[@dontpreorder2783]

@@alexmsevansas much as I agree with the sentiment I think Kendrick stomping out Drake even more when it’s so clear to everyone (with a functional brain) watching that Drake is everything Kendrick said he was would sort of ruin the perfect book end to the situation that the heart part 6 drop was. Besides I’m sure Aubrey will fuck around and try to spin back eventually only to get stomped into the dirt again

[@alexmsevans]

@@dontpreorder2783 Oh I totally agree, Kendrick does not need to respond or make any new music regarding this considering how badly it went for drake - in fact, it would take away from what he's already done. My comment was more saying it's almost a shame drake didn't put up a better fight SOLELY because I like Kendrick and I would have loved to hear those songs (divorced from the situation entirely)... that being said a little part of me does want Aubrey to fuck around and find out again so we can hear those other songs hahaha

[@ladymischief011]

One of my favorite consequences of this situation is how Kendrick is being embraced so fully everywhere. It’s warm in Mississippi & I keep hearing GKMC when people ride by with the windows down. Puts a smile on my face every time.

[@paultapping9510]

"I knew you'd call me a pdf, that's common knowledge bro, plus I'm way too rich and famous to do something like that anyway" was my favourite Drake bar

[@myra-yves]

“why you rapping like you tryna free the slaves and shi🤬🤬🤬”

[@makiba9461]

It’s global

[@jungkookismyonlyalpha2813]

​@@myra-yves and Kendrick replied saying bro is still calling us slaves 😂😂😂

[@blackmcbain3145]

He was implying that he's too rich to be caught 😆 master manipulator huh

[@imnotakingimnotagodiam..ab9455]

ironically written by Drake

[@dreamerdoes_is_love8986]

23:24 "The fact that his red button was family matters, a song that spends 40% of it's run time talkin' about other dudes and another 30% talkin about rumors that he can't prove." Why is this bars though? 😂😅🙃💀🤠

[@AiirxGeordan]

Best part is that Kendrick shot that shit down in 20 minutes 😂

[@jakemiller8455]

I think you could have called it after Drake said "its only big D and there's video proof" and kendrick not even 15 minutes later called him a "sick man with sick thoughts" and claimed that he and people like him "leak videos to push their agendas." That proved Kendricks narrative in more than one way

[@jmydn2]

"busha T" is craaaazy 😂

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Busha T is either the spiritual successor to snoop or raps about how best to grow different types of tea leaves and shit

[@mazenelrafie2326]

busha t shantay u stay

[@equasimilione6493]

He's up in these stritty greets (iykyk)

[@PuffinPass]

No one in Drakes camp or fanbase took Kendrick serious because they were being blind to the difference between pop success and hip hop talent, whether they did this willingly or simply not recognizing the difference depends on who is in the discussion. For his camp I think it was a bunch of "yes men" who were more worried about losing their spot in his camp than being honest. If you are talking about his fans then I would say there is probably a strong number that either only knows pop rap and nothing about actual hip hop or Drake is their only foray into rap of any kind. There are a lot of people out there who legitimately think that sales numbers means that someone is the best at something and you can't tell them otherwise, well, Kendrick really exposed just how wrong that can be.

[@elilost]

Honestly Kendrick's "self seriousness" is really refreshing in terms of how other pieces feel afraid to be genuine and serious out of the fear of being cringe

[@Mepharias]

Cringe is the new based

[@tracksuit2774]

The meet the grahams miss was also a hit by the editor lmfao

[@MangoMann072]

Family Matters was a better diss towards Asap Rocky Rick Ross The Weeknd than towards Kendrick

[@Dog-999i]

I have no clue why he hates The Weeknd so much. Such a random person to despise. Abel had just as many shots thrown at him as Kendrick.

[@myra-yves]

@@Dog-999idrake is just jealous he couldn’t sign and own him essentially

[@kazihiseguy-fernand4637]

@@myra-yves dude wanted him to end up like PND

[@codred84]

​@@Dog-999iwho knows but word on the street is drake is always trying to sleep with someone's woman so

[@camdatboi]

He violated rocky I'm mad asap probably never gonna say nun back

[@blackmcbain3145]

Drake lost the moment he crushed a random astrovan... Depriving some Mexican family a ride to work. What an asshole 😂

[@olayinkaakinbuwa4726]

this is hilarious lol

[@Kickinthescience]

I still want to hear at least 2 more diss tracks from Kendrick since each one different from the last. The versatility was on display

[@MrPhoenix357]

You forgot 6:16 in LA. It's the most slept on song.

[@padawansound6423]

100%. Such a great tune. Easily the most relistenable to me.

[@jameschukwudum552]

As a rpg gamer nerd, that spell caster, tank analogy was so on point

[@TheUAProdigy]

People forget that Drake lost twice. He lost to Metro. #BBLDrizzy

[@kgfoster14]

That man did go make some drums. Gotta give him that 😂 distrumental is hip hop history haha

[@anju5124]

And made the whole world make disses to that track! Out of the box!

[@antzerobooks]

from what i heard from khadija so far canada had quite a big racism problem. it's just the public perception of it is so low. the biggest black pop artist being from canada and the public perception of racism in canada is low is telling on drake. i wonder if your full video on this will gave us more spotlight on this

[@roi2426]

The reason Meet the Grahams will one day, imo, surpass Ether, Hit em Up, and No Vaseline, is because its strategy is unparalleled. All other beefs have been measured by how ruthless they are in insulting the other person, their family, or associates. MTG UPLIFTS the family, apologizes for Drakes shortcomings and sincerely challenges him to raise his standards and be a better man to help those whom he loves. It removes all the empty trivial success of fame and reminds us what the MOST important goal of anyone’s success should be. Kendrick may be embarrassing him by having a tough conversation, but there is not one verse or piece of advice offered that isn’t important. It transcends all of its predecessors and pushes the culture forward which is the fundamental purpose of this art form in the first place.

[@kilbarz8751]

The good parts of the Drake disses are from tracks “Push Ups” and “Family Matters” where he gave us some solid melodies and flows. That’s about it, wish we’d get that kind of rapping that is reminiscent of “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late”. You were right on the money when you stated how him and his fan base are in this bubble so far removed from what music lovers actually appreciate about Hip Hop. His albums started to feel like the loot boxes you’d get from Call of Duty multiplayer, rehashed version of the same bs but less interesting every time after and we all know there’s a new COD every year but worse than the previous one but people still go out to buy it because it’s COD and they don’t realize they’re in a bubble and part of the problem, because it’s COD and just like with Drake, like his music.

[@Ogreslayer93]

Mr morale was also about shedding that savior complex that he had so to me those jabs that Drake had about that fell flat to me as well

[@obansari]

Unpopular opinion: Drake does not have enough information on Kendrick to make a full Diss Song.

[@jessinthecomments]

That was part of it too. He didn’t have much to work with. On top of that Kendrick had tons of material on him because well he’s the enemy.

[@benedictadeya8370]

Might be true, but again, Drake is not talented enough to expand on one theme. He was dropping his info on Kendrick like in one or two bars and its over. While Kendrick could expand on one idea/info the entire verse. Drake depended on tea, but Kendrick starved him by not giving him the responses. Its very embarrassing that Drake even went ahead to restate how Whitney/Dot are not responding to the allegations. Thats desperation out of lack of info. He needed Dot to respond so that they can start a back and forth, but Kendrick starved him out of it. Meen, Kendrick really is smart. He cornered Drake so bad that Drake announced his intentions to quit the battle and go on a vacation on two different songs, thats crazy.

[@anju5124]

​​@@benedictadeya8370You are so right. Also the truth is if Drake wanted to use information about Kendrick, wasn't it all already there inDot'son't music? Since it's all very honest and coming from personal experiences? Even when Drizzy tries to do it with "Mother I Sober", he gets it wrong! He simply seems to be unable to get it. Meanwhile Dot seems to know every disses and allegations against Drake.

[@deadforever]

To be fair, and I say this as a diehard Kendrick fan who was in no doubt about who would end this and end it on his terms, the Kendrick Subreddit got really weird and almost pizza gate parallel there for a minute while all this was blowing up....

[@MasoTrumoi]

Every cult of personality is still a cult. Cults require conspiracy to justify their insecurity. Kendrick won, always would take him over Drake (and I'm Canadian) but idolizing any one person too hard is a straight shot towards lunacy.

[@howmuchmorecanItake]

As soon as I saw a CDAN post in the Kendrick subreddit I had to dip lmao

[@nope-np6hk]

Both subreddits got really weird. I got banned from the Drizzy subreddit despite being a longtime member for pointing out how weird it is to edit pictures of Whitney and make a conspiracy website

[@Adri_Unsung]

Your first mistake was expecting Reddit to be normal lmao

[@leonconnelly5303]

That's the thing that bothers me is how much kendrick obviously was aware and leaned intoall that kind of shit so

[@ReedMySole]

Hate aside Drake was bad in this battle. Drake sleeps around so much how would he know if he has some secret babies.

[@myra-yves]

drake is the epitome of male toxicity

[@jefferycoleman1257]

I was leaving my 10 year old nephew's baseball game yesterday after they won.... his teammates started playing Not Like Us...💀

[@XTheJokeDealer]

27 minute light work 😂😂 “WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP FD F*** EM UP!”

[@vitormelomedeiros]

I'm gonna leave a comment here because even though we're all stuck on content bubbles I'm so very glad to have found yours. Love the videos!

[@lousmanifesto]

"You might want to check on that person." LMFAO

[@thegoomba6183]

I took the "Kendrick opened his mouth get him a Grammy" bar as jealously from Drake. Maybe it's just me.

[@7Bobby7]

I see, in my eyes because Drake got grammies, for me it was just a funny line about how critically acclaimed kendrick is. Maybe a commentary on how out of all his work, it was Danm that got the pulitzer. Anyway initially it made me laugh and it still does.

[@PavillionKing]

I mean, it is true. His cry rapping on "U", falsetto on "Goosebumps", his "top of the morning" lines on that Baby Keem song and his dead pan deliveries on some of his songs would be considered corny if Drake did it. Kendrick can literally make fart noises on a track and people will be calling it "art".

[@hawkrose2698]

​@@PavillionKing 💯

[@kristianorellana5664]

@@PavillionKingthe fact you say the crying in u is exactly the point that made that kind of delivery not cringe, is being used in context, a artistic choice

[@afrosamourai400]

It's even crazier when you know he bragged about his sales and numbers on push ups, he even said sza and travis sold more than kendrick..and then he tried to downplay the simple fact that kendrick got more grammies because he makes better music..drake is pathetic!

[@dreadthedreads4567]

Low key this battle reminded me of Conor Mcgregor vs Khabib or Terence Crawford vs Errol Spence Jr. Ppl thought it was a 50/50 fight…..and then they got in the ring lol

[@WeebakuFreeman]

Thank you for the blerdy tidbit thrown in here. Long-ish time fan, so I know what's up when I come around, but "seeing me" in your content means more than words can describe. A lot of us blerds have grown up as tokens in our communities, and your proud display of blerdiness makes me feel like I have at least one spot to go to see others like me. Much love, keep up the great work, and I'm looking forward to the "This Battle Wasn't Even Close..." LP.

[@urgeintheicebox]

Looking forward to the exhaustive four-hour, Avengers-style Cornbreadtube team-up video essay that subsequently gets picked up by Max.

[@eastsidereviews727]

Not Like Us is the song of the summer, maybe song of the year. Like, we are going to be bopping at cookouts all summer to a song calling Drake a pedo, wild stuff 😂!

[@theanimerapper6351]

We live in the best timeline 😂

[@michaelreppenhagen736]

Nail hard on the head about Drake and his circle underestimating Kendrick and revealing how little they actually participate in the culture and in being students of the game. Between him completely misreading Mama I Sober and then the B Sharp line, he's even showing that he's not really someone who has the skill to merit his status in the game.

[@tdwwxyz]

FD’s brain is already repressing the memory of Meet The Grahams 😂 it hit too hard 7:00 I understand, that song is HEAVY

[@DekuScrub_]

a half hour video from uncle fiq on the drake v kendrick beef? we really are the real winners this week 😩🙏🏾

[@i_am_a_music_maker5212]

All of Drake’s diss tracks from the beef sound like when you start arguing with someone and halfway through your first sentence you realize you were wrong but you feel like you have to double down