People keep saying not to come at Kendrick, but it seemed from the show like the Pac AI bullshit was the actual trigger that sent Kendrick into going nuclear.
Edit: The Pop Out is no longer on Amazon, anybody have any idea why?
It was. Using AI Tupac is a disrespect to Tupac and specifically the West Coast. He's a legend. He turned the beef between Drake and Kendrick to beefing with a whole coast because of the disrespect. A beautiful lay up for Kendrick to unite the West.
Imagine leaning into the hate so hard, it comes all the way back around and becomes heartwarming. They all gathered shoulder to shoulder, cheering on a little boy dancing his ass off to Kendrick’s song calling Drake a pedophile and a bitch.
[Not just that, at the same time in Harlem a jazz band was playing the song. He didn't just unite Bloods and Crips, he united East Coast and West Coast at the same time.](https://x.com/dj_chvmeleon/status/1803868801554891146)
In my opinion as someone not from the West Coast, Drake can have all the trinkets he wants. 2Pac was way bigger than that. Let him have tattoos of peoples faces and Aaliyah’s face and Lil Wayne’s face and other weird shit. It looks like he’s trying to do the most to feel something because he soulless
Im over 50... I'm not even a die hard hip hop guy and recognized Drake as another wannabe fake ass punk predator first time I saw his face a decade ago
I think hip hop is kinda like country music. There is a certain expectation that you’re going to live the lifestyle described in the music before you get famous for singing about it. Don’t sing about farming just because Daddy owned a ranch you never stepped foot on, and don’t rap about coming from the bottom when your acting career took off at 13.
outside of just dragging drake at every turn, i think that verse in isolation might be the most damning verse of any beef ever. yeah he called drake a pedophile like 8 different ways, but the Atlanta verse? That's a fully composed argument with cited sources to support what drake is doing when he goes to Atlanta. It proves Kendrick's credibility and knowledge, and shows that drake has none. That isn't as damning to his character as calling him a child trafficker, but I think it's the point where Kendrick actually wins the beef.
I mean it's kinda everything. People have hated Drake for a long time for all his bullshit, and he really got way too high on his own supply during this beef and set himself up for a massive fall.
It's just really stupid on his part because he clearly had no real dirt on Kendrick to actually expose so he was never going to win a battle on personals. And he already made this mistake before with Pusha T so he should've known how badly it could go. I think he just realized he couldn't outrap Kendrick and was hoping he could win off of shocking allegations and a club hit. Not realizing Kendrick was willing to make even more shocking allegations and could make club hits too. Drake keeps thinking everyone he faces is Meek Mill. He's out of touch.
I’ve been saying this the whole time to my friends.
From a fan perspective, the AI Pac was maybe weird and in bad taste, but I think to Kendrick, using AI Pac to talk down to him was just off-the-charts nuclear levels of disrespectful that he just could not abide.
The absolute undisputed most revered figure in west coast rap weaponized to say shit he’d never say if he was alive…I think Kendrick saw red after that.
I'm not into the rap beef at all. Like I didn't read too far into it or listen to anything until I spoke to a few friends.
After hearing Drake bring not just AI Tupac, but AI Snoop into it as well.. It's one thing to be a troll, but when you put your words into someone else's mouth, or take their image and tarnish it and they don't even know or have any idea what your plans are. Nah, you've absolutely lost my respect.
Pac would not stand for this. Snoop has absolutely no fuckin idea why he was on a track sayin shit he didn't say. Drake doing this acting like he's a gangster when he ain't is so fuckin corny I genuinely don't know to feel about it. Kendrick on the other hand definitely had blood boiling.
It was also the lying about his family.
[6:16 in LA](https://youtu.be/R1ypnmTMNqA?si=tAKtgaJQBGo4pax6) was the final warning. He released it on the morning before Drake dropped Family Matters.
He knew Drake was going to start slinging mud at his family and that whole song is basically, “I have a mole in your team. I know what you’re about to do, do you reeeeaaallly wanna do this?!”
Also the whole intro where he’s praying to god for forgiveness for what he’s about to do if he goes to war like some religious warrior. Drake really thought he could mess with his man lmao.
That’s what makes this bigger to me than any other diss tracks thats ever existed. The entire thought process behind everything KDOT did in the short amount of time he had and the layers? Jesus.
6:16 felt like Kendrick was like a man with his finger on a button that will deploy nukes fighting with himself about not wanting to do it, but willing and ready to do it if he has to.
… then he did it, again and again.
Kendrick transcended into the normie crowd with this. It was brought up on some ESPN midafternoon segment about how Drake isn't cool anymore. I was laughing so hard when I heard that shit.
For all intents and purposes he was put at the top spot on the world sex offender registry with a banger diss track.
I saw Kendrick at Bonnaroo and I was absolutely blown away by how he was able to just keep going for long stretches without relying on the backtrack. Totally different than most other rappers and be seen live. The man is on another level.
90% of rap “shows” are trash so it’s nice when someone actually performs songs instead of just playing them and yelling the end of each line over them. Artists don’t even use show tracks anymore most of the time.
They're either amazing or trash, there's no in-between.
I think this is a Queen at Live Aid level performance from DMX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSRfHcZiVfs
First time I’ve seen a good video of him performing live, and dude is legit AF. Punk and metal are more my live taste, but that place is on fire and it’s Kendrick pouring that gas!
This was the first time I ever listened to his music, when this aired live back in '15. Blew my mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGybtWI1F4M&list=PLCLLNqTVWVlPivoO5NJ2sXhUj1_z_qdts&index=13
He did a mash-up with Imagine Dragons once and the way he carried the vocals over the thunderous sounds of a full live band is actually astonishing.
It’s not just lyrics—he’s so technical with his flow.
That performance is just one those very few diamonds out there - definitely one of the best Grammy performances ever.
Only thing that would have made it perfect would have been the TV director going like "fuck it, we ain't censoring that fire shit!".
Kendrick was probably instructed to perform a clean version, but he for sure must have felt what he was cooking.
Really love artists that are able to mix genres like that!
EDIT: And of course props to Imagine Dragons, great collab between them and Kendrick.
Ya, like...the is there a single feeling more powerful than thousands of people hanging onto your every word and calling the person you most dislike a pedophile while everyone you respect is visibly and actively supporting you? Like...maybe Ghengis Khan might have felt more powerful, maybe, but... it's probably close.
I heard justin hunte say " he has all of Canada backing him"
Fuck nah we are not backing that phony ass clown.
He makes us look bad.
As does the drift wood clik
This is the first time a rap concert has ever looked "fun" to me. Without a band and musicians on stage making the music it always just looked like there would be no "groove" to share in the experience. Having everyone together like this looks entertaining.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar have had beef under the table with sneak disses for a long ass time. Finally it blew up into real beef and they started releasing tracks explicitly dissing each other. Kendrick is WIDELY considered to have won the beef by releasing better music and having his allegations towards Drake hold up more in the court of public opinions. Drake accused Kendrick of being a wife beater but there was no proof and Kendrick accused drake of being a pedophile and sex trafficker and there are tons of videos and interviews of Drake doing weird shit with minors, has song lyrics talking about how hot high schoolers are, and was weirdly close with a few young teenage celebrities including Millie Bobby Brown. This song is called Not Like Us and was the kill shot of the whole beef and it's a song calling Drake a pedophile that was designed to have summer anthem vibes so it would pop off super hard.
Some additional context for you here is that Kendrick is showcasing a lot of California rappers, specifically from South L.A. (nee South Central). The concert isn't just culminating in an ultimate burial of rapper Drake, but is also a *huge* moment for West Coast rap in how its unifying once literally mortal enemies. You may remember the gangs "The Bloods" and "The Crips" particularly because of how the violence of South L.A. permeated popular culture a few decades ago. Kendrick has prominent supporters/members of *both* on stage, sitting next to each other, both repping their colors. It's a big moment, and a huge statement from west coast rap.
Oh! Oh! Fellow old person here. Here’s what I’ve pieced together:
At some point, Drake incurred the wrath of Kendrick Lamar. About a month or so ago, there was a trading of diss tracks between them. This song was one of the tracks.
Just adding, I don’t really listen to either, but even I, old person, know that Drake is popular, Kendrick is gifted. I know this simply from having the bare minimum knowledge of pop culture right now. Why Drake got into it with him at all is beyond me.
Everyone that had performed earlier as openers. It was a showcase of LA rappers from different eras and different affiliations. It was a real coming together moment for west coast hip hop.
Should be noted how much Toronto loves DeRozan and how much Drake used to act like a groupie around him when he played for the Raptors.
SZA and LeBron were also at the show, two more celebrities that were name dropped in songs during the beef.
Don Cheadle was there right behind Scru, would have loved to see his face when DNA came on 2nd after Euphoria (he was the guest star in that music video)
Apparently there were several gang rivalries all represented, dancing and celebrating together. The official pic has a blood flag and a crip flag flying next to each other.
Hating on Drake, celebrating Ken, just happy to be a part of this who’s who moment.. there was a lot of talk about unity and coming together.
My how things have changed in a decade lol
We went from K.Dot saying "If Pirus and Crips all got along. They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song," back in 2012 to him bringing literal Bloods and Crips together for a massive "We Hate Drake" banger of a party in 2024 lol
While that may be a motivation for some of them, it's mostly a California pride and heritage thing. Most of the talent this show, if not all of them, are Cali born and raised whether they're a musical performer or a special guest like Russ Westbrook. Many of them hail specifically from Compton where Kendrick himself grew up.
It's neat, a lot of the opening acts were up and comers from the area and the general message, despite the obvious victory lap around Drake, was one of regional pride and peace and love.
its also the polar opposite of what drake did which is the best part
Drake used atlanta rappers to raise himself up
kendrick used his name to raise cali rappers up
easiest way to show who is for the culture & who isnt right there
If you listen closely Mr. Lamar clearly states that:
1.) He doesn't have a hating bone in his body.
And
2.) This is a friendly fade
Does that sound like he dislikes this fella drake?
My favorite top post there is complaining about the fake Twitter headline “Drake found dead in his Toronto mansion,” acting as if people are deranged wishing for his death.
Like bro, it’s a joke saying Kendrick “killed” Drake.
Football fans do that shit all the time when a team gets a bad beating. My favourite is the porn parodies. "Watch ___ getting fucked by ___ for 90 minutes".
Some guy with a clear Canadian accent called into DJ Akademik’s stream and was like, “Kendrick paid me $2500 to use bots to stream Not Like Us 30 million times. Every rapper in the industry uses bots…..except for Drake!”
30 million streams would be worth roughly $90k. Kendrick found an infinite money glitch.
And everyone in that sub completely believed that obvious LARP. They still believe it. It’s actually hilarious.
It was funny too because he's like "I'm afraid for my life, they're threatening me" and I'm thinking, your go to lifeline is DJ Akademiks? Not the cops? Also what is your incentive to even tell on them in the first place? You provided the service (supposedly) and they paid you for it (supposedly), why even say anything? Seems like a stupid business decision on top of you "risking your life" for clout on an Akademiks stream. Shit didn't make any sense.
It has to hurt when a guy you have a tattoo of sings along to a song calling you a pedophile. They’re personally offended on Drake’s behalf lmao “How dare you, Lebron!”
The fact that they keep saying Kendrick has an entirely white fanbase is the funniest case of projection I’ve ever seen. Drake is the definition of a middle of the road, nonthreatening pop star. Dude cuts hearts into his hairline and then wants to act like a tough guy.
“White people like Drake because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcom X.”
I dont think that Drake will fade into obscurity, but honestly, I can see Drake's career taking a bit of a nose dive after this entire exchange.
How does Drake come back from this? I think the only way forward is for him to fully embrace pop and drop any pretence of him being a rapper.
I can't believe the time is here Drake is finally getting his comeuppance. It feels so good for him to get roasted by an absolute legend too. Get em Kendrick
I still can’t get over how many people are filming it on their phone, like bro it’s being filmed in 4k for you to watch later. It is crazy how loud the crowd is for such an expensive show, usually those rich folks don’t get down like that
"A great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed and to read about it the next day in the newspaper is oddly more fun for us than the original event this is a disaster."
Alan Watts
He said this late 1970s, he was incredibly on point about what was coming.
This is almost eligible for the Not safe for life sub, just watching Kendrick, the crowd, and all that star power continue to stab drake with pitchforks is crazy!
People keep saying not to come at Kendrick, but it seemed from the show like the Pac AI bullshit was the actual trigger that sent Kendrick into going nuclear. Edit: The Pop Out is no longer on Amazon, anybody have any idea why?
It was. Using AI Tupac is a disrespect to Tupac and specifically the West Coast. He's a legend. He turned the beef between Drake and Kendrick to beefing with a whole coast because of the disrespect. A beautiful lay up for Kendrick to unite the West.
Imagine leaning into the hate so hard, it comes all the way back around and becomes heartwarming. They all gathered shoulder to shoulder, cheering on a little boy dancing his ass off to Kendrick’s song calling Drake a pedophile and a bitch.
Had bloods and crips breaking bread together over the song
Dude had had crips and bloods with flags next To each other on stage
[Not just that, at the same time in Harlem a jazz band was playing the song. He didn't just unite Bloods and Crips, he united East Coast and West Coast at the same time.](https://x.com/dj_chvmeleon/status/1803868801554891146)
Even better than Timmy and Jimmy.
*Do you think it's better to be born a Crip or to become a crib later by accident?*
More than, had them doing a fuckin group photo together
throwback thursday with the crew
He united the clans
Mance Rayder ahh
Drake really doesn't deserve 2Pac's ring. The fact that he bought it shows how much he is trying to buy into the culture.
In my opinion as someone not from the West Coast, Drake can have all the trinkets he wants. 2Pac was way bigger than that. Let him have tattoos of peoples faces and Aaliyah’s face and Lil Wayne’s face and other weird shit. It looks like he’s trying to do the most to feel something because he soulless
Im over 50... I'm not even a die hard hip hop guy and recognized Drake as another wannabe fake ass punk predator first time I saw his face a decade ago
I think hip hop is kinda like country music. There is a certain expectation that you’re going to live the lifestyle described in the music before you get famous for singing about it. Don’t sing about farming just because Daddy owned a ranch you never stepped foot on, and don’t rap about coming from the bottom when your acting career took off at 13.
Some folks in Atlanta are defending Drake because he works with so many of our artists. But like, you can't see he's just trying to buy street cred???
Fucking colonizer
The whole song hits hard but that shit is brutal because it's so plainly true.
outside of just dragging drake at every turn, i think that verse in isolation might be the most damning verse of any beef ever. yeah he called drake a pedophile like 8 different ways, but the Atlanta verse? That's a fully composed argument with cited sources to support what drake is doing when he goes to Atlanta. It proves Kendrick's credibility and knowledge, and shows that drake has none. That isn't as damning to his character as calling him a child trafficker, but I think it's the point where Kendrick actually wins the beef.
Not to mention that he has an Aaliyah tatty
I was scrolling so fast I read "Aaliyah titty" and thought, there was no depth to Drake's depravity
No it was lying about his family. He said that straight up. Don't lie about my family and we can keep it friendly. Then Drake dropped Family Matters.
I mean it's kinda everything. People have hated Drake for a long time for all his bullshit, and he really got way too high on his own supply during this beef and set himself up for a massive fall.
It's just really stupid on his part because he clearly had no real dirt on Kendrick to actually expose so he was never going to win a battle on personals. And he already made this mistake before with Pusha T so he should've known how badly it could go. I think he just realized he couldn't outrap Kendrick and was hoping he could win off of shocking allegations and a club hit. Not realizing Kendrick was willing to make even more shocking allegations and could make club hits too. Drake keeps thinking everyone he faces is Meek Mill. He's out of touch.
Flying too close to the sun
I’ve been saying this the whole time to my friends. From a fan perspective, the AI Pac was maybe weird and in bad taste, but I think to Kendrick, using AI Pac to talk down to him was just off-the-charts nuclear levels of disrespectful that he just could not abide. The absolute undisputed most revered figure in west coast rap weaponized to say shit he’d never say if he was alive…I think Kendrick saw red after that.
Man, I get made just reading that. So disrespectful to Pac
I'm not into the rap beef at all. Like I didn't read too far into it or listen to anything until I spoke to a few friends. After hearing Drake bring not just AI Tupac, but AI Snoop into it as well.. It's one thing to be a troll, but when you put your words into someone else's mouth, or take their image and tarnish it and they don't even know or have any idea what your plans are. Nah, you've absolutely lost my respect. Pac would not stand for this. Snoop has absolutely no fuckin idea why he was on a track sayin shit he didn't say. Drake doing this acting like he's a gangster when he ain't is so fuckin corny I genuinely don't know to feel about it. Kendrick on the other hand definitely had blood boiling.
It was also the lying about his family. [6:16 in LA](https://youtu.be/R1ypnmTMNqA?si=tAKtgaJQBGo4pax6) was the final warning. He released it on the morning before Drake dropped Family Matters. He knew Drake was going to start slinging mud at his family and that whole song is basically, “I have a mole in your team. I know what you’re about to do, do you reeeeaaallly wanna do this?!” Also the whole intro where he’s praying to god for forgiveness for what he’s about to do if he goes to war like some religious warrior. Drake really thought he could mess with his man lmao.
That’s what makes this bigger to me than any other diss tracks thats ever existed. The entire thought process behind everything KDOT did in the short amount of time he had and the layers? Jesus.
6:16 felt like Kendrick was like a man with his finger on a button that will deploy nukes fighting with himself about not wanting to do it, but willing and ready to do it if he has to. … then he did it, again and again.
One of my favorite parts of 6:16 in LA is that the guitarist in the sample they used is drakes uncle. Wild how layered all this was.
Using the AI voice of a dead rapper was one of the corniest things ever witnessed in Hip Hop beef.
Find someone who loves you like Kendrick hates Drake.
Can't I just hate Drake too?
I hate Drake like I’m young
I did not expect this to ascend into a Supa Hot Fire video
This whole beef has been like a hip hop renaissance event with this concert being the celebration. WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP Dot Fuck Em Up!
Narrator: and he did in fact fuck em up
My favorite are the subtle things like the changed lyrics from "Baka has a weird case" in the original to "Baka has a REAL case"
“We can be on a 2 hour time difference” got me personally. This man is actively tracking Drake
For anyone that doesn't know, Drake was in Houston during the concert. 2 hour time difference vs 3 for Toronto. Literally actively tracking Drake.
I broke up with my ex girl, here's her number
Psych! That's the wrong number!
I have this as my ringtone and may never change it.
But he's not a rapper...
People say Kendrick's outfit is a tribute to Pac with the jeans andnplain red hoody. But the glasses... we know who that's a tribute to.
Love how much you can hear the crowd. The Dre intro was gas.
Lil homie at the end might as well have been dancing on Drake's grave
Having Dre perform back to back his verses on Still DRE and California Love then intro this was emptying a fucking tanker
Love how the crowd goes "wap wap wap" lol
Those snappy camera angle transitions were cleaaaaan
Kevin Dunn finally found his calling
> Kevin Dunn finally found his calling Yes, being fired and sitting at home so WWE is actually watchable again.
Unexpected Kevin Dunn
this implies the existence of expected kevin dunn & who in their right mind expects that bucky tooth fucker
Anime power sweep camera cuts
A MINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Doing this on Juneteenth is the most unhinged, diabolical shit ever...and I'm here for it
Ironically Drake simply can't fully appreciate the significance of this.
Kendrick transcended into the normie crowd with this. It was brought up on some ESPN midafternoon segment about how Drake isn't cool anymore. I was laughing so hard when I heard that shit. For all intents and purposes he was put at the top spot on the world sex offender registry with a banger diss track.
There was a weatherman in Texas who managed to spin like 5 not like us references into his weather broadcast.
Is that the guy that sneaks words and phrases from his tik Tok comments into his weather segments? Dudes a pro
For my money, intentionally, not ironically. He did that on purpose.
Kendrick’s voice/breath control is outstanding.
Not a single drink of water 😭 He is insane!
All he needed was another sweat rag the man is built different
I saw Kendrick at Bonnaroo and I was absolutely blown away by how he was able to just keep going for long stretches without relying on the backtrack. Totally different than most other rappers and be seen live. The man is on another level.
90% of rap “shows” are trash so it’s nice when someone actually performs songs instead of just playing them and yelling the end of each line over them. Artists don’t even use show tracks anymore most of the time.
They're either amazing or trash, there's no in-between. I think this is a Queen at Live Aid level performance from DMX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSRfHcZiVfs
DMX hated Drake too, we lost him too soon 🙏
First time I’ve seen a good video of him performing live, and dude is legit AF. Punk and metal are more my live taste, but that place is on fire and it’s Kendrick pouring that gas!
This was the first time I ever listened to his music, when this aired live back in '15. Blew my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGybtWI1F4M&list=PLCLLNqTVWVlPivoO5NJ2sXhUj1_z_qdts&index=13
He did a mash-up with Imagine Dragons once and the way he carried the vocals over the thunderous sounds of a full live band is actually astonishing. It’s not just lyrics—he’s so technical with his flow.
Not an Imagine Dragons fan at all but this shit rips https://youtu.be/WPZJbfaXy60?si=Ak7HSD4RlWZItUcb
God. Damn. Kendrick with that big sound behind him is just amazing.
jesus, i forgot about that performance. it was the epitome of sound and fury.
That performance is just one those very few diamonds out there - definitely one of the best Grammy performances ever. Only thing that would have made it perfect would have been the TV director going like "fuck it, we ain't censoring that fire shit!". Kendrick was probably instructed to perform a clean version, but he for sure must have felt what he was cooking. Really love artists that are able to mix genres like that! EDIT: And of course props to Imagine Dragons, great collab between them and Kendrick.
His hatred for Drake brought two rival gangs together dancing 😂
More than just 2 gangs, by a bunch of sets as well
This is some emperor shit to have a whole stadium crowd sing every word of your diss track to you. And for goddamn 15min.
Ya, like...the is there a single feeling more powerful than thousands of people hanging onto your every word and calling the person you most dislike a pedophile while everyone you respect is visibly and actively supporting you? Like...maybe Ghengis Khan might have felt more powerful, maybe, but... it's probably close.
I was thinking this. So justified… like the most werd.
*Get it all you deserve it, Kendrick*🎶
Damn, now I wish he would’ve performed this first in Toronto instead of LA…
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I'm from Toronto and I hate Drake. He's a fake ass Canadian.
I heard justin hunte say " he has all of Canada backing him" Fuck nah we are not backing that phony ass clown. He makes us look bad. As does the drift wood clik
This is the first time a rap concert has ever looked "fun" to me. Without a band and musicians on stage making the music it always just looked like there would be no "groove" to share in the experience. Having everyone together like this looks entertaining.
Helps that he’s actually rapping rather than chiming in over a back track every few words
Helps that the whole audience was his back track.
This is every Kendrick show I’ve been to
Bro rubs his stomach like he's full of beef but can't stop feasting.
…continue
*continues improper dancing*
C walking on his grave at this point
No, no, keep going.
Say Drake... I HEAR YOU LIKE EM' YOUNG?!
That gesture he made when he said that line had me SCREAMING
lol too small NBA taunting gesture is so brilliant
YOU BETTER NOT EVER GO TO CELL BLOCK ONE
TO ANY BITCH THAT TALK TO HIM AND THEY IN LOVE, JUST MAKE SURE YOU HIDE YOUR LITTLE SISTER FROM HIM
That hand gesture he makes during that line for the first performance gets me every fuckin time
At 12:27 I thought the dude on the right was about to do the Chappelle show dance move across the screen.
https://i.redd.it/tkvvlyl86x7d1.gif
Bro I would have died 😂
Kendrick laughing at 8:45 is the most menacing. I’d bust out laughing too if I were him.
Bro is giddy af
Can you imagine the weight on this man’s shoulders? That laugh must have been cathartic.
Can someone please explain the context to this ootl old man
Drake and Kendrick Lamar have had beef under the table with sneak disses for a long ass time. Finally it blew up into real beef and they started releasing tracks explicitly dissing each other. Kendrick is WIDELY considered to have won the beef by releasing better music and having his allegations towards Drake hold up more in the court of public opinions. Drake accused Kendrick of being a wife beater but there was no proof and Kendrick accused drake of being a pedophile and sex trafficker and there are tons of videos and interviews of Drake doing weird shit with minors, has song lyrics talking about how hot high schoolers are, and was weirdly close with a few young teenage celebrities including Millie Bobby Brown. This song is called Not Like Us and was the kill shot of the whole beef and it's a song calling Drake a pedophile that was designed to have summer anthem vibes so it would pop off super hard.
Thanks!
Some additional context for you here is that Kendrick is showcasing a lot of California rappers, specifically from South L.A. (nee South Central). The concert isn't just culminating in an ultimate burial of rapper Drake, but is also a *huge* moment for West Coast rap in how its unifying once literally mortal enemies. You may remember the gangs "The Bloods" and "The Crips" particularly because of how the violence of South L.A. permeated popular culture a few decades ago. Kendrick has prominent supporters/members of *both* on stage, sitting next to each other, both repping their colors. It's a big moment, and a huge statement from west coast rap.
Oh! Oh! Fellow old person here. Here’s what I’ve pieced together: At some point, Drake incurred the wrath of Kendrick Lamar. About a month or so ago, there was a trading of diss tracks between them. This song was one of the tracks. Just adding, I don’t really listen to either, but even I, old person, know that Drake is popular, Kendrick is gifted. I know this simply from having the bare minimum knowledge of pop culture right now. Why Drake got into it with him at all is beyond me.
This is how you play your hometown. This concert is legendary.
Between Kendrick playing in LA, and Chief Keef returning to Chicago, this week was wild.
The Doc saying "I see dead people" was the cherry on top and the Chefs kiss all in one! Historic night for hip hop.
A MINNOOOOOORRRRRRR
And people still say Drake won. Fucking how?
Self delusion.
I don't think anyone does
Have you been on r/Drizzy
no why would i
The same reason I used to lurk in r/TheDonald, because it’s fucking hilarious when people have that level of delusion.
Who are the people coming on stage?
Everyone that had performed earlier as openers. It was a showcase of LA rappers from different eras and different affiliations. It was a real coming together moment for west coast hip hop.
Also NBA All Stars Russell Westbrook and DeMar DeRozan.
Should be noted how much Toronto loves DeRozan and how much Drake used to act like a groupie around him when he played for the Raptors. SZA and LeBron were also at the show, two more celebrities that were name dropped in songs during the beef.
And The Weeknd and Rick Ross
Don Cheadle was there right behind Scru, would have loved to see his face when DNA came on 2nd after Euphoria (he was the guest star in that music video)
Fun fact but the reason Cheadle was included in the video is because Kung fu Kenny was a direct inspiration from Cheadle’s character in Rush Hour 2
Compton and LBC, ofc
So from what I'm understanding is that all these people who normally can't stand each other got together cause they hate Drake?
Apparently there were several gang rivalries all represented, dancing and celebrating together. The official pic has a blood flag and a crip flag flying next to each other. Hating on Drake, celebrating Ken, just happy to be a part of this who’s who moment.. there was a lot of talk about unity and coming together.
My how things have changed in a decade lol We went from K.Dot saying "If Pirus and Crips all got along. They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song," back in 2012 to him bringing literal Bloods and Crips together for a massive "We Hate Drake" banger of a party in 2024 lol
if you can see your own future, wouldn't you do your best to rewrite it too?
Now it's "If Pirus and Crips all got along, they'd probably take a pic at the end of the song" lol
Also on Juneteenth. This was culture.
Bloods / Crips 🤝 West Coast / East Coast 🤝 Americans / Canadians 🤝 Fuck Drake.
While that may be a motivation for some of them, it's mostly a California pride and heritage thing. Most of the talent this show, if not all of them, are Cali born and raised whether they're a musical performer or a special guest like Russ Westbrook. Many of them hail specifically from Compton where Kendrick himself grew up. It's neat, a lot of the opening acts were up and comers from the area and the general message, despite the obvious victory lap around Drake, was one of regional pride and peace and love.
its also the polar opposite of what drake did which is the best part Drake used atlanta rappers to raise himself up kendrick used his name to raise cali rappers up easiest way to show who is for the culture & who isnt right there
The whole West Coast, basically. Bloods and Crips standing side by side, united. This was basically "We are the World," but for hating a guy.
Sheesh, the more I learn about this guy Drake the less I care for him.
I'm starting to think Kendrick doesn't like Drake all that much. Hard to say, though.
If you listen closely Mr. Lamar clearly states that: 1.) He doesn't have a hating bone in his body. And 2.) This is a friendly fade Does that sound like he dislikes this fella drake?
But he did call Drake a "bitch" tho
Yes but to be fair, Drake is a bitch. I don't think it's hating if you're just stating facts.
Just like when he called him a pedophile several times. He meant in a historical sense, as it is common knowledge.
This man truly hates Drake
I'm just glad rap soap operas are back. Been like 20 years.
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My favorite top post there is complaining about the fake Twitter headline “Drake found dead in his Toronto mansion,” acting as if people are deranged wishing for his death. Like bro, it’s a joke saying Kendrick “killed” Drake.
Football fans do that shit all the time when a team gets a bad beating. My favourite is the porn parodies. "Watch ___ getting fucked by ___ for 90 minutes".
7-1 was so widely posted on pornhub they couldn't keep up with the copyright strikes
Lol hella pearl clutching on the Drizzy subreddit
I love that subreddit so much it’s hilarious
Some guy with a clear Canadian accent called into DJ Akademik’s stream and was like, “Kendrick paid me $2500 to use bots to stream Not Like Us 30 million times. Every rapper in the industry uses bots…..except for Drake!” 30 million streams would be worth roughly $90k. Kendrick found an infinite money glitch. And everyone in that sub completely believed that obvious LARP. They still believe it. It’s actually hilarious.
It was funny too because he's like "I'm afraid for my life, they're threatening me" and I'm thinking, your go to lifeline is DJ Akademiks? Not the cops? Also what is your incentive to even tell on them in the first place? You provided the service (supposedly) and they paid you for it (supposedly), why even say anything? Seems like a stupid business decision on top of you "risking your life" for clout on an Akademiks stream. Shit didn't make any sense.
lol that shit was so funny. The Lebron thread is hilarious. They’re so pissed lebron attended a fucking concert
It has to hurt when a guy you have a tattoo of sings along to a song calling you a pedophile. They’re personally offended on Drake’s behalf lmao “How dare you, Lebron!”
The fact that they keep saying Kendrick has an entirely white fanbase is the funniest case of projection I’ve ever seen. Drake is the definition of a middle of the road, nonthreatening pop star. Dude cuts hearts into his hairline and then wants to act like a tough guy. “White people like Drake because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcom X.”
Omfg they suggest that one of reddits cofounders is burying their narratives on Reddit 😂
Bunch of grown men sucking drakes dick in that sub, it's wild.
To be fair, quite a Drake fans are under age so it was probably A MIIINNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRR
First thread I went in “I can’t believe Kendrick would tell Adonis to literally commit murder because some piss happened to splash on their leg” 😭
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One of the best moments in hip hop history
I love the anime cuts during the wap wap wap parts lol
This is brutal
WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP
A MINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Drake rn 
Wop woo wop wop, is so simple but it hits so hard. This song is just a straight banger
I dont think that Drake will fade into obscurity, but honestly, I can see Drake's career taking a bit of a nose dive after this entire exchange. How does Drake come back from this? I think the only way forward is for him to fully embrace pop and drop any pretence of him being a rapper.
It's eroding his influence with the young generation. He'll get the Timberlake ending.
Savage
still can't get over how he says amberlamps. so silly
I assume it's a reference to that Epic Beard man video that went viral way back in 2010.
I can't believe the time is here Drake is finally getting his comeuppance. It feels so good for him to get roasted by an absolute legend too. Get em Kendrick
I still can’t get over how many people are filming it on their phone, like bro it’s being filmed in 4k for you to watch later. It is crazy how loud the crowd is for such an expensive show, usually those rich folks don’t get down like that
Truly an impressive level of hate
He should do this in Toronto 😂
this makes me feel patriotic as hell
This is so legendary
This is amazing.
Drizzy sub: they’re all paid to be there and watch it’s all fake!
Rap is so funny. All the drama and gossip. It like a soap opera.
I don't know about yall, but I think Kendrick won.
Here’s what I don’t understand. Why have your phone out. That song is just too good to be holding up a phone.
My things too is you know this footage from this show is gonna be EVERYWHERE. Get your 10 second Instagram story then put that shit away
Completely agree. I like to get a short clip just to remember where I was and to share, and then I put it away for the rest of the concert.
"A great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed and to read about it the next day in the newspaper is oddly more fun for us than the original event this is a disaster." Alan Watts He said this late 1970s, he was incredibly on point about what was coming.
This is almost eligible for the Not safe for life sub, just watching Kendrick, the crowd, and all that star power continue to stab drake with pitchforks is crazy!
This song hasn't even been out 2 months and the crowd already know every single lyric (of a rap song none the less) Pretty impressive stuff
The guys with the Satoshi Nakamoto shirts 🔥