Feb 17, 2025amazing brother
Feb 17, 2025·1 reply
Zenitsu AgatsumaDie Hard was a hit but he didn’t promote or push any singles. I wonder why?
It wasn’t really a hit to me. Unfortunately Morale didn’t have any “hits” to me. N95 was probably the closest, but that was pretty minor in comparison to DAMN & GNX.
But that wasn’t the goal of the project or what mattered. He bared his soul for that project and probably got the most vulnerable we’ve seen
him.- Feb 17, 2025
cyclopsIt already is
Real
Feb 17, 2025Real music I’m afraid
mos def 🪐Feb 17, 2025cyclopsIt already is
Feb 17, 2025Kendrick the goat just by the amount of shambles he introduces
Feb 17, 2025its good to see an artist who has artistic creativity (mainstream wise) to thrive in 2025. as a fan who's rocked with kendrick since 2011 means commercial music still has some sort of merit.
it sucks that he had to use gimmicks ie rap beef but how do you get eyes on you these days? its contingency so it is what it is but still proud
I look forward to when drake and dot are old age and they can laugh about this s***
Feb 17, 2025·1 reply
LeftsideBut in terms of space and population, the West Coast outweighs the East. The East Coast gets a lot of acclaim from being the "progenitor" but the history to me is richer out West and is more interesting
Sidenote: They really should've listened when I talked about the sub-ethnic implications on that battle. Drake was fighting an insurmountable uphill battle and Kendrick leaned right into it. I swear I was talking about it the page before Euphoria dropped
Honestly, it felt like these two niggas were really arguing about different things all throughout the battle lol.
- Feb 17, 2025
NewCopeJustDroppedWayne’s run started in 2005 -2009.
We are talking about a single year period with Kendrick. It’s not even close.
Wayne 2008 was pandemonium
Feb 18, 2025WESLEYS THEORYKendrick’s had 4-5 hits this era, swept the Grammys for a diss song, had the highest viewed SB in America of all time, has 3 albums in the billboard top 10 and 2 of them are old and right now is occupying 5 spots in the billboard top 10 weeks after the SB and months after GNX dropped.
Id say he’s pretty close man. I’ve never seen a run this impressive aside from Wayne or Eminem in 2002.
Wayne, Eminem, 50, Kanye, 2Pac, Biggie, Drake, all those guys had monster sales when they were on their GOAT run
GNX did well, IDK if it's up there. I think the next album has to sell 400-500K to really solidify it
Feb 18, 2025
cryforhellReturn with a #1 hit while calling out the big three that they’ve lumped you in with virtually your entire mainstream career? ✅
Win the biggest rap beef ever against the biggest rapper ever? ✅
Go #1 and have the song of the summer? ✅
Host your own concert that ends up breaking the record for the most minutes watched of any Amazon Music video? ✅
Surprise drop an album that ended up going platinum in 37 days? ✅
Get sued over said diss song? ✅
Be the first rapper ever to host a stadium tour as the headliner? ✅
Win 5 Grammies for your diss and perform at the SB, pulling in record breaking numbers and the biggest viewed anything ever in the same week? ✅
Go number one several times in different seasons nearly a year after the song dropped? ✅
Replace yourself at #1 with a song that’s 4 months old? ✅
Be the first rapper to simultaneously chart 3 of your albums in the top 10? ✅
Hit 100M monthly listeners? ✅
Idk bro
Niggas love playing dense
- Feb 18, 2025·1 replyCRACKASTEPPAVEGAN
Honestly, it felt like these two niggas were really arguing about different things all throughout the battle lol.
They were but several points of that battle Kendrick made sure to involve the entire coast. He used that rich history against Drake because the West is very separate and sensitive to rest of niggas in the US. It's extremely paramount that even subtle things like most niggas America being on either Eastern or Central time and how they experience life in general. Just a nerdy sociological and geographical theory but I think most people looked over that really important aspect
- Feb 18, 2025·1 replyLeftside
They were but several points of that battle Kendrick made sure to involve the entire coast. He used that rich history against Drake because the West is very separate and sensitive to rest of niggas in the US. It's extremely paramount that even subtle things like most niggas America being on either Eastern or Central time and how they experience life in general. Just a nerdy sociological and geographical theory but I think most people looked over that really important aspect
I think it's a dope angle you're exploring if you wanna make a thread on it, but yeah, when I heard Pac on Taylor Made, I was like "On some 4D chess type s***, Drake is playing the game well with the trolling/disrespect, but this s*** might get him cooked lol" - Feb 18, 2025·1 replyCRACKASTEPPAVEGAN I think it's a dope angle you're exploring if you wanna make a thread on it, but yeah, when I heard Pac on Taylor Made, I was like "On some 4D chess type s***, Drake is playing the game well with the trolling/disrespect, but this s*** might get him cooked lol"
What really made me see that thread was talking to my ex, who is from LA. She started having super home team pride and I knew she wasn't the biggest Kendrick fan until NLU. Being out West myself in my younger years I felt that physical distance from my family and got to experience life with that West Coast culture
It's something I'm sure nobody took serious on the Drake side but I was telling people to stop clowning Hed because he really a legend, the West can unify fast as hell if need be. Relatively younger black settlements and aforementioned distance probably have that as the reason. I'll talk about ideas like this with people I respect, I don't think we need more threads and opinions on the beef
- Feb 18, 2025·1 replyLeftside
What really made me see that thread was talking to my ex, who is from LA. She started having super home team pride and I knew she wasn't the biggest Kendrick fan until NLU. Being out West myself in my younger years I felt that physical distance from my family and got to experience life with that West Coast culture
It's something I'm sure nobody took serious on the Drake side but I was telling people to stop clowning Hed because he really a legend, the West can unify fast as hell if need be. Relatively younger black settlements and aforementioned distance probably have that as the reason. I'll talk about ideas like this with people I respect, I don't think we need more threads and opinions on the beef
Mase and Cam picked up on that too and said the west really throws up that W no matter where you are, but in NY it's all about the boroughs, and the energy is different altogether.
- Feb 18, 2025CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN
Mase and Cam picked up on that too and said the west really throws up that W no matter where you are, but in NY it's all about the boroughs, and the energy is different altogether.
On top of that Kendrick covered himself in the cloak of "the culture" to make his assertions hit harder, Drake tried that as well but it don't hit the same anywhere else but out West
OPFeb 18, 2025
Experiment626True but wasn’t there reports that he has like a five year plan or something like that? Idk where I saw that but would be interesting to see how that would play out
the only thing that is planned for 5 years is Move Afrika which is currently in Year 3
Feb 18, 2025·3 repliesthese niggas hating hard
Feb 18, 2025·3 replieshttps://twitter.com/CurtisBashar/status/1891507487754391773fancy lacriminalthese niggas hating hard
i hate this because everyone was saying he always takes too long to drop, and that he didn't come back and impress anybody when Mr Morale dropped. Now that he did exactly what they wanted him to do they're begging him to stop
- Feb 18, 2025soapmanwun
i hate this because everyone was saying he always takes too long to drop, and that he didn't come back and impress anybody when Mr Morale dropped. Now that he did exactly what they wanted him to do they're begging him to stop
Rap game in the cobra clutch these p**** niggas tapping out like that song ft. Birdman & Future
Feb 18, 2025https://twitter.com/CurtisBashar/status/1891507487754391773fancy lacriminalthese niggas hating hard
Man is talking like Kendrick personally called up all 100 million listeners.
Feb 18, 2025soapmanwuni hate this because everyone was saying he always takes too long to drop, and that he didn't come back and impress anybody when Mr Morale dropped. Now that he did exactly what they wanted him to do they're begging him to stop
Now y'all don't even know how to rate him
Niggas lookin' like I'm a Create-A-Player
Everybody who didn't pay respect
Gotta fess up now and pay ya debts- Feb 18, 2025https://twitter.com/CurtisBashar/status/1891507487754391773fancy lacriminal
these niggas hating hard
"Aye dot, can I get a drop?
"I'm like "NIGGA NAH
" - OPFeb 18, 2025soapmanwun
i hate this because everyone was saying he always takes too long to drop, and that he didn't come back and impress anybody when Mr Morale dropped. Now that he did exactly what they wanted him to do they're begging him to stop
first it was
“use me as a they ain’t got nothing to drop button”
then it became “you got this played out”
been given up on honest discussion lol
Feb 18, 2025The notable thing about Kendrick’s current run compared to the other seminal runs (only matched by Em in 2000, 2002, 50 in 2003) is that the general public has been perched at every move and meaning. It isn’t just the works with cultural presence amongst the buying demographics but meaning beyond that
There’s regular folks being moved by his every move in a way we really haven’t seen