at the end of the day, not like us is the anti-pedophile song to most people, not the anti-anyone-who-has-ever-committed-any-moral-transgressions song, so i don't think this will stick.

(even though he did call out drake specifically for being friends with baka, who is not a pedophile but just generally abusive towards women lol)

Someone said “free him immediately” and you replied with “not if it has anything to do with that TDE case, keep his ass locked up”

Shouldn’t YOU wait for more information before suspecting why he got arrested?

Especially since Drake fans are VERY sensitive when it comes to labelling people sexual abusers…

I've seen people get emotional over a difference of 0.3k streams in the sales thread. It could be worse

Both mentally ill unfortunately

Focus on yourself my guy

He is not your saviour

• Him

I think it’s lame that because of the beef every move either of the two make are under a microscope. We all know rappers are flawed.. the irony is it happens on both sides. There were people bringing up Drake’s collaboration wit Carti as ammo for countering his placement of DV allegations on Kendrick. The same way the other side called Kendrick a hypocrite for working wit Carti.

Hip hop as a whole should be called out as well, even the fans. Hip hop fans and the industry enables many of these rappers who are either active degenerates or push degeneracy through their music until some real cases pop out. Or better yet when a beef happens, niggas put their masters degree in whataboutism to use

Do I think that admitting to being a hypocrite absolves your from criticism? No but I also don’t think that means in the context of beef I can’t go into attack mode.

don't care GNX out now

The cat is out the bag he is not your savior

The problem is humans ever trying to pretend this isnt how they operate lol

That moment was one of the most out-there co-signs I ever seen

How does this make Kendrick a hypocrite ?

Has Kendrick said he would never work with anyone who has "controversy" surrounding them?

If he did then yes he would be a hypocrite. If not then ppl in this thread have no idea what the word hypocrite means.

Writing a 16 bar verse on someones song isn't a contract stating you endorse their bullshit.

Half the artists in the industry have some form of controversy or vice attached to them, that's their business. Working with other others isn't any statement saying you stand by/condone their BS.

Most of these guys have literal murders and gangsters in their close friend group yet every single one of them know and will state that killing someone is terrible. That's not hypocritical. Many people have friends who do shady s***, but you continuing to hang out with them doesn't make you a hypocrite.

What makes you a hypocrite is saying something you don't do...then going and doing it...that's the literal definition of hypocrite. Kendrick has never stated he doesn't work with criminals, people with controversy, etc. As far as we know, most of the music industry and definitely rap would fall under that umbrella so it would be stupid for anyone to have that stance anyway.

As an aside, what's the controversy surrounding Carti

But also at the same time

Its a lot of factors

Kendrick message and impact dies if he doesnt try to at least be somewhat relevant in the mainstream/the youth and carti oddly gave him a chance to do it here

Someone like Carti (from what he portrays) Thug Future etc didnt come in the game on some Comeback Season or even So Far Gone type s*** for Kendrick to have those same issues, they also didnt have the cultural 180 drake did from the mid 2000’s where he was a lightskin carlton banks type dude

This goes deeper into just rap pre 05 vs post 05 tho. Its like if Nas worked with Lil Jon or something vs in actuality Nas going on that Hot 97 rant about the direction of the industry / Hip Hop is dead type songs/N type albums

Kendrick can’t be a mainstream force and be the nerdy book guy and the people criticizing him for that are holding that over his head knowing that would be impossible to do. Lol this s*** is all convoluted / culture got all types of goofy s*** going on and at this point people are mad that Kendrick kinda “gets” it and is playing the game

Tl;dr niggas cant be mad he learned from how you f*** niggas did Lupe, Canibus, Jay Electronica (okay the last two had all types of other s*** going on but you get my point nigga) type rappers

He burning both ends of the candle until yall prop up someone more righteous who can play the game without having to do that. Good luck lol

Buncha GOATS you listed

what the hell happens on this site i've been gone too long

I actually thought the same thing when I first realized he was on the Carti record but all it did was remind me that none of this s*** is real.

*anti drake song

Its amazing to me they have the r kelly example, xxx example, dre example, and the billie jean line on TPAB which would actually show kendrick probably not some crusader about this s*** and actually may not give a f***/have what would be considered “toxic” opinions on it being raised innthe environment he was raised

However drake just tried to make the beef some other s*** and kendrick outplayed him given the s*** he got floating around the net. Subconsciously niggas dont like that and want that sole thing to make kendrick some womans abuse rights activist

Lmaoo this beef has made niggas act so odd

Parasocial nonsense