You probably think Post Malone greater than Rakim

Drake was more popular than Kendrick in the 2010s. Fact. That’s legitimately the only reason he won the award because Billboard gives it out based on raw data. Again, we’re not saying Kendrick is BIGGER than Drake. He still isn’t.

We’re saying he’s the greatest rapper of his generation and has a genuine argument to be the greatest of all time. Drake does not. The only title we can give him at this point is arguably the biggest of all time

It’s what you implied

And RIAA certifications aren't everything? Drake has Diamond eligible songs that never charted high and were technically never "hits."

That's not how implications work

I love how Kendrick’s art is more respected and that deeply bothers Drake, to a point where he lashed out against a white critic nerd

He always felt the urge to belong and s*** pisses him off that no matter what the accolades he grew up a hip hop head and doesn’t get respect from the culture.

That’s why he getting braids for the first time after turning 35

rap and r&b are US centric genres idc about outside US.

His fans been making up narratives and stats to try compete ever since 😭

It is… anyone reading that post would think you implied that Kendrick doesn’t have cultural relevance outside of the beef

Is that why your guy said the best rappers are from the UK?

checkmate

You’re refusing to acknowledge the fact that Drake winning would’ve been the peak of his cultural relevance too

It would’ve been the cultural peak for WHOEVER won the battle, whether that was Kendrick, Drake, or Cole if he didn’t bow out

You could argue losing the beef was his cultural peek. There are people across the world who know nothing about either artist that tuned into this beef.

This is true too, but it would’ve been a bigger moment for him if the public had decided him victorious. But you could definitely make the argument that simply being engaged was the peak of his cultural relevance as well.

I didn’t even think of it like this

Losing the beef is definitely his cultural peak and what he will be most remembered by to people who arent hardcore stans

Some people are really gonna know Drake as “the guy who got called a pedophile on a really big song” or “the guy that lost to Kendrick”

I can understand some of the crashouts now

A song calling you a pedophile is bigger than any song you've ever dropped

That's genuinely an insane way to go out

Drake stans are still in denial about Not Like Us being bigger than any Drake song ever

"Take that away and he's next to nothing."

What a shameless and embarrassing take, the biggest artist to influence alternative R&B in the 2010s till now is next to nothing if he doesn't have success in the US is hillarious.

This is what happens when the echo chamber is bunch of basement dwellers who post on 28 different forums with the same hive mind and think that’s reality.

The beef is the biggest thing to have happened in both of these artists career. Ain’t no denying it.

Only thing is one artist is being celebrated for giving a generational beat down and the other has people a year later defending how he didn’t lose while world continues to call him a pedophile each time the biggest rap song ever gets played no matter where it is.

So influential that Drake had to ape the sound (and outright take songs) for one of his classic albums lmao

They cope so hard in here