Like who cares about hits dude shut the f*** up. Dudes swear they can out rap someone but their songs say differently. So many people start beefing for no reason like they have nothing better to do. It’s not a competition man. That’s not what this is about at all

It's not that serious

Just fun for the people

idk mayb they want their fanbases to participate in the rivalry to drive sales/streams

Control verse

Social media
Bunch of insecure attention seekers in the game

Im on a payrol B

Motivation.

they bored

French Montana influence tbh. Shifts the culture with every interview

wtf are u talking about

Drake has more hits than the Beatles

Also this

Rap has always had a competitive aspect

Yeah but that’s when people were actually trying to one up by going bar for bar. Now it’s “I have more hits” “I could outrap you I just don’t rap like that in my music” you know?

Hip hop artists have always been competitive. Honestly, it's a lot less competitive than it was back then. All of that beefing has less to do with competition and more to do with insecurity/internet makes these artist feel tougher than they really are.

?? Competition simply went from being better as a rapper to having more hits due to hip hop being the new pop
It was always there lmao

Which is dumb as the Good thing about rap competition was being the better rapper or making better music not hits

The powers that be.... the signs....

kinda started wit Pac and Hov making lines/talking about it and then 50 really used it to diss niggas

Ye/50 and then Wayne the next year

Somewhere between 50 Cent clowning Fat Joe or whoever and Drake telling us about how well his songs do on the charts qualifying as crazy enough bars to keep him as that nigga for a decade, It was used as a instant remark for someone’s lack of skill or you not liking their music and that’s where it got lame

Hip Hop the only genre that’s openly a hustle to niggas

Pop at least tries to sell you the songs having concepts or ambiguous vague lyrics

@Cookies see, this is exactly what i mean man