recently found out about his Pumped Up Kicks remix & decided that’s too many indie white people songs to be a coincidence (plus Bad Blood)

the original had a Somebody I Used to Know sample

to gain traction

not sure why that's surprising, tons of people did this late 2000s to early 2010s, it was a trope

also how did you skip the tame impala remix from this era

Lock thread before they arrive, they won't like this one.

Do you know what a bag is OP?

When Kendrick does pop better then Drake 💅🏽

He was just returning the favor to Taylor

Fighting ghosts

Where?

he was in the future lane before he got all serious and s*** with tpab

Market saturation, he was on a Lonely Island song

How do you think he got that Pulitzer. White people give those out. I respect the grind.

Now talk about his 108 rap features he did in the same 3 year span

That's not how it works. That fanbase criticize other rappers for doing pop songs, so we got to use the same logic with their guy.

He was doing s*** like this and dropping classic albums in the same time period so its all good

Why did I think Pumped Up Kicks came out way before Kendrick got on the scene

Real s***, Pumped Up cane out in September 2010 which somehow feels like Eons before spring/summer 11 when Kendrick’s name was really starting to get out there

He was doing this and jealous by Fredo

he was on everything not just white people

including features

the gkmc to tpab period when he was touring the world is when he became one of raps biggest collaborators at the time

anyways wayne and kanye influence

Yeah it was a normal thing to do for everyone at the time

Female rappers are still doing pop features a ton but on the male side the mid level guys arent as crossover friendly and the biggest rappers are too cool to do it.

because most of the audience who likes him is white

Nvm I confused this era, he just was selling out tryna get white folks attention I guess idk why they was fw GKMC/TPAB already

Till this day he switched up the whole god savior, censored himself at the superbowl and did a weird cashapp ad. He greedy just like any other rapper 🤷🏽‍♂️

Label s*** probably

label mandated features

branching out is a great branding move

the problem is all those features were ass and forgettable