Laced

6mo

I'm sure he's already in the DMs tryna secure a remix or feature

thegreatdivine

6mo

As much as I hate to agree with anything Akademiks says, he isn't wrong here. A handful of producers and even rappers have already come out to hint at feeling this way. This is the same s*** that plagued female rap for years (and still does till this day) where you're either team Nicki or team Cardi B and you'll get attacked by fans and get cut off by even the artists themselves if you work with one or the other and either one feels slighted.

It's not a lie that since the beef, rap has been weird. The game has now turned into this weird space where everything falls into one or the other. You're either team Drake or team Kendrick. If you're team Drake (or you just so happen to be cool with Drake), you'll get attacked for being against the culture, for having no integrity in rap and for making the kind of rap that's a cancer to the game.

If you're team Kendrick, then you're great for the culture and you're exactly what the game needs. It's exactly the sort of division that rap doesn't need right now when things seem to be in a transitional phase in the industry.

It's not that rappers aren't making good songs or songs that are just as good as they've always made it and it's not that audiences are now magically only checking for rap that's more lyrical or "says something" because the rappers making music that fits that mold aren't only not getting the attention for their music that they deserve, the music is flopping hard.

On the media side, not only are they not talking about these so-called amazing rap albums we've gotten this year, they're obsessively covering any and everything that concerns Drake, even more than usual, as if Drake needs the extra press. That's also something that's hurting the game.

What's interesting about the whole thing is that right now in rap, the only two people that I can say for sure will be fine are Drake and Kendrick. Everyone else's future is up in the air and if you think the fix to this s*** is something as simple as "making better music," let's all wait and see how 2026 turns out for some of you to realize that the answer isn't that simple (even with the adjustment that's been made to how streams are weighed).

Bobby_96

6mo

Future dropped 3 number 1 albums in a row during and after the beef....

Bobby_96

6mo

And the Clipse almost went number 1 too with what many consider AOTY.

Saying Drake and Kendrick are the only rappers getting attention is wild af lol.

@fader

thegreatdivine

6mo

And 2 of those albums flopped. My point exactly lmao.

thegreatdivine

6mo

As much as I hate to agree with anything Akademiks says, he isn't wrong here. A handful of producers and even rappers have already come out to hint at feeling this way. This is the same s*** that plagued female rap for years (and still does till this day) where you're either team Nicki or team Cardi B and you'll get attacked by fans and get cut off by even the artists themselves if you work with one or the other and either one feels slighted.

It's not a lie that since the beef, rap has been weird. The game has now turned into this weird space where everything falls into one or the other. You're either team Drake or team Kendrick. If you're team Drake (or you just so happen to be cool with Drake), you'll get attacked for being against the culture, for having no integrity in rap and for making the kind of rap that's a cancer to the game.

If you're team Kendrick, then you're great for the culture and you're exactly what the game needs. It's exactly the sort of division that rap doesn't need right now when things seem to be in a transitional phase in the industry.

It's not that rappers aren't making good songs or songs that are just as good as they've always made it and it's not that audiences are now magically only checking for rap that's more lyrical or "says something" because the rappers making music that fits that mold aren't only not getting the attention for their music that they deserve, the music is flopping hard.

On the media side, not only are they not talking about these so-called amazing rap albums we've gotten this year, they're obsessively covering any and everything that concerns Drake, even more than usual, as if Drake needs the extra press. That's also something that's hurting the game.

What's interesting about the whole thing is that right now in rap, the only two people that I can say for sure will be fine are Drake and Kendrick. Everyone else's future is up in the air and if you think the fix to this s*** is something as simple as "making better music," let's all wait and see how 2026 turns out for some of you to realize that the answer isn't that simple (even with the adjustment that's been made to how streams are weighed).

Bobby_96

6mo

And the Clipse almost went number 1 too with what many consider AOTY.

Saying Drake and Kendrick are the only rappers getting attention is wild af lol.

@fader

thegreatdivine

6mo

Why you tagging in Fader like this is the WWE?

always4never

6mo

charts looking super weak rn, need iceman

Gosh

6mo

You know big dog mad as s*** Drake didn’t get a single number 1 this year

TheFader

6mo

Carti had one of the highest first week sales of the entire year

Tyler had a career year

Clipse killed s*** all year

But let the Drake stans tell it and nobody cared about any of that because the Drake music flopped

Big Dog

6mo

Thinking about me on Christmas Eve is cute thank you ❤️

Gosh

6mo

You been thinking about rubbing that make believe number 1 in fader and kroniic face all year and never got it

Big Dog

6mo

Bro Kendrick may never have another #1 again but I can guarantee you Drake will have another few lmaoo who cares

Gosh

6mo

You have never and will never see me anticipate a Kendrick number 1 to rub in someone’s face because I’m not a dweeb

Big Dog

6mo

You went back MONTHS on my posting when I haven’t been active in here in a minute to make a joke on KTT.. its a little too late for the dweeb talk from you to be fair

Gosh

6mo

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I love seeing people be confidently wrong, it’s why I’m on here, yall look stupid then get mad at people who remind yall of the dumb s*** yall say

And you haven’t been active because Drake keeps flopping the rollout sucks

Big Dog

6mo

Dweeb

Gosh

6mo

Poor baby gonna cry because you never got to brag to kroniic and fader

Big Dog

6mo

You’re a real life loser with posts from KTT on your mind 😭. You be walking around listening to Kendrick on the daily thinking about KTT?