It’s top 5

They stepped on it by dropping a record straight after it if I am not mistaken.

It also help pushing ones narrative when you have media, podcasters, celebs and other influencers pushing your stuff. Gassing it.

A few who has now admitted to being supported and probably taking payola. Selectively saying they are journalist to appear objective and ”I am not a journalist”, when it suits them because obvious bias.

It is easy to win when you got a lot of people doing the work for you, pushing the narrative, and just brushing over what is being said in the other direction. Not having to respond to it.

Find it so strange people look at dark lane as a project. He just officially released leaks and added a few loosies lol

Was never planned or really marketed

Eh disagree

From the Toosie Slide video to the cover I’d say DLDT was a distinct era before CLB. And Drake has referenced that cover a few times now

Add in the IG Live snippets sprinkled on the tape and it’s a quarantine classic

deep pockets so underrated

How did he out rap him?

Like in what way? Y’all just be saying this then start trying to clown when you don’t have an actual answer

I fw family matters and push ups but this narrative of “oh Drake actually out rapped him and Kendrick only won because of podcasters” or whatever the dude above me said is hilarious cope

It’s an opinion. Just like I think drake out rapped him, but Kendrick called him a pedophile. Like, what bigger bomb could you drop during a rap beef.

It is what it is, but family matters/drake’s rebuttals were genuinely better in my opinion.

Interesting how some want to downplay the impact of being able to control the narrative online and in media to influence masses.

This why it never mattered what Drake actually said or dropped. They baited him and then pressure on him to respond became too big after J Fold did what he did.

Kendrick then ”just” had to deliver some scathing disses and let others push the narrative.

It was very strategic and coerced by mutiple people, with different interests.

someone on twitter already did a month ago (3 tweets 3 song lyrics)

that guy also had previewed fatd lyrics months before release

“A few who has now admitted to being supported and probably taking payola”

Brother is not even confident in his own cope

What a classic man

TOMORROW.

Man CLB OG was def going to be a classic

🥶

Tonight
Scary Hours

🦉

We gotta stop with this victim blaming. Drake controlled the narrative, he was just out played musically

It’s so backwards to me like we didn’t see Drake use social media and streamers to clown and beg Kendrick to respond, he literally used one of the biggest streamers in the world to introduce family matters

Like you said, he just got out played

Yeah, he was trying to control the narrative but it didn’t work. He was way too arrogant and got played.

Also, let’s just say everything did work in his favor. They wouldn’t be having this opinion.

Saved us all during a dark time

Good point, if the general consensus was that Drake won and the world clowned Kendrick they would just join in and these conspiracies wouldn’t exist at all

Imagine typing this when drake had akademiks on his side pressuring Kendrick and pushing narratives. Completely unserious. He lost and it's been 2 years. It's time to let it go

Yeah, you feel the pressure, man, I know the pressure
And my wifey is a spice like I'm David Beckham
A lot of pent up aggression coming out of my section
OVO on me while y'all n* was playing dress-up
And I know who gon' take the fall with me
They right here on call with me, they all with me
You could throw curve balls but I got the glove fitted
They been saying it's love, but it isn't love, is it?

Toast to the days when they wasn't out to get me
I worked at JD's connections whenever Jason let me
Ceesay's, I was buying fitteds everyday
Kenny's caravan and trying not to catch a stray
I dropped out right before I graduate
Six credits left, my mama had a saddest day
"It's only up from here, I promise, you just gotta wait"
And she took my word for it, that's all I had to say

Lately I just feel so out of character
The paranoia can start to turn into arrogance
Thoughts too deep to go work 'em out with a therapist
I get a blank page when I try to draw a comparison
I'm getting straight to the point with it
Need y'all to know that I never needed none of y'all n
F- being all buddy buddy with the opposition
It's like a front of the plane, n, it's all business
But I haven't flown with y'all boys in a minute

Look, they'd rather run up on me than towards them goals
My n* still hit the club when it's 20 below
Who you think running this show?
You saw it in me at 20 years old
The lingo start to sound like we talking in code

I got a pure soul, I don't do the hate
You don't worry 'bout fitting in when you custom made
Me and Niko used to plot on how to make a change
Now me and Kobe doing shots the night before the game
Still drop 40 with liquor in my system
Numbers going unlisted just to create some distance
I might see you on and off but I'll never switch ya
N* quick to double cross like both of us Christian

Lamborghini got me feeling like I'm Christian Bale
And I never bare my morals for the ticket sales
Tipping scales, bars heavy like triple XL
I never tag no one in, I'd rather get you myself
Running through the 6, storming through the contracts
I'm possessed, you can see it under the contacts
They think I had the silver spoon but they'll get it soon
I still got something left to prove since you left me room

Paint a plan for the family debt, we in the minus
And like it's going in a trunk, I put it all behind us
Where you tryna go? I got it, I'll take us wherever
I'm a staple in the game, all my papers together
And my life is on display like Truman
They wanna pre the movements, gotta start to make 'em sooner
My exes made some of my favorite music
I dated women from my favorite movies
Karma's such a thing of beauty

I'd share more of my story but you wouldn't believe it
It's far fetched like I threw that sh- a hundred meters
I keep it 100 like I'm running a fever
I might take a breather but I won't ever leave you
If I was you, I wouldn't like me either

They act like it’s 1920 and we had to hear about who won from a telegram, brother we were all here in real time, there is no payola for real time experience

Drake won anyways

Y'all should write a screenplay about it at this point