nigga been b****in since May

All speculative but feel like he would’ve took a lot more serious than he did that’s for sure. He still was looking for validation in the traditional sense as a rapper back then whereas I don’t think he really cares anymore now

Well its a good thing he had rebuttals on all the disses

Control was 2013. I specifically remember where I was at when it dropped lol

I stand corrected

Nothing would’ve changed tbh. Drake made the same exact mistakes he made against pusha. He just isn’t cerebral enough to battle intelligent lyricist.

Part of it is what you have to rap about by that age

Most people are very settled by their 40s, they’re comfortable financially and socially and aren’t able to really dig into the depths of their souls to breach the existential fears of advancing age.

We Got It From Here was so great because they were starving on that record. Death, culture, legacy, all of it is there and beautifully expressed. Most writers won’t go there with it, but they did.

yea cuz J Cole responded to Control later that year on the Justin Timberlake TKO remix lol and Joey Badass dropped Killuminati as a response that year too

ALL THIS woulda been avoided if Drake didnt conveniently forget rap was about competition and started just s*** talking kendrick after control dropped

Good job sir. This spot on.

Nah he cares a lot, him crashing out recently shows that.

It’s just back then he would’ve immediately taken it seriously as a threat and got to work.

Drake this year held up this fake nonchalant attitude towards the whole thing until MTG/NLU dropped and him and his camp started panicking.

And that was his biggest mistake. He needed to set his ego aside and understand the gravity of the situation.

That’s why they gotta pivot into surrealism

Honestly yeah, the rappers who age the most gracefully are among the most abstract in their writing

Kendrick shouldve reuploded “bitch I’m in the club” 30mins after Drake dropped THP6

yepp

I think Kendrick would have won still, but it would have been less of a landslide

The same. That minor video was a long time ago. I think the bigger question is what happens if it didn’t get personal.

Season 1

All the evidence to use against Drake would have still been out there, the outcome would be the same. Mr Morale didn’t exist so Drake would have even less of an advantage but he also burnt less bridges then too

Would have still ended in a Kendrick W but I think Kendrick benefited a lot from the Meek Mill and Pusha T beef.

The hiding a kid angle probably wouldn’t be available depending what year obviously

Maybe there’s a timeline where Drake released an undeniable hit that overshadowed anything Kendrick said but it most certainly wasn’t going to be in 2024. Drake is just the inferior rapper and has too much dirt to be buried by.

Kendrick made hood politics around this time? 😂. You gotta. BE insane.

Drake was still a commercially juggernaut obviously but I think public opinion on him was lower than ever before at the start of this year

Lmao this is true for push’s prob but Kendrick was always going to do that