Kendrick automatically has the whole west coast on his side

loyalty is seemingly very important in Compton culture

an absolutely asinine thing to say

was not public why he backed out at the time this was written but an example of some of the flak he caught

extremely disrespectful to J Cole, some say he is a better lyricist than kendrick and he has multiple multi-time platinum and diamond albums. He absolutely belongs in the conversation

to this day it is debated who won the beef

some think rap beefs are no holds barred while others don't bring up sensitive topics and keep it relatively friendly

Worth noting that Drake and J Cole helped Kendrick get to where he is today by giving him features, taking him on tour, etc.

included Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj

Cole caught a lot of flak for this and he still does. he was told what direction it was heading and he did not want to lose one of his friends by siding with the other

Kendrick was offered to be put on the song but declined. This info had not come out yet

Kendrick calls out Tyler, the Creator, Pusha T, Drake, Big Sean, J. Cole, Wale, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller, and others. A very broad list

Drake and Kendrick are undoubtedly among the top of the game right now

very debatable, both have grown a ton since 2013 only getting better. Kendrick has been putting out music less consistently and has been experimenting more but that doesn't mean he's not at the top of his game now

Cole was never the target, he was just in the crossfire

Cole does flatter kendrick. Drake says in the song that it is "just you and Cole" speaking about himself

similar to how we look back on biggie and tupac, nas and jay z, or 50 and ja rule

happens a lot, a low profile rapper will sometimes diss a world wide name, one example is lil pump dissing j cole, while lil pump was a big rapper at that time, he was nowhere near the size or respect as j cole

gladiators, like the fans themselves are fighting to the death more than the artists are

i think that's debatable in this instance

probably very true, social media made it the biggest event in the world for months

people were being full on detectives over every word said and every song cover

twitter at the time of this beef was a crazy place to be

more attention=more streams=more money, there have been speculations about some rap beefs being a publicity stunt to make both artists more money

extremely popular tactic in todays rap game

it has been said before that hip hop is a game, aka the rap "game"

seems like a very knowledgeable and credible source

for the individual artists maybe, not at all for hip hop as a whole

he later apologizes to kendrick for being okay with his ai voice being used. blames it on the edibles

she never ended up speaking about it, probably smart on her end to not get in the middle of two rappers trying to end each others careers

kendrick rapped, "motherfuck the big 3, it's just big me" the big 3 being drake, kendrick, j cole. all of them are considered to be the best rappers in game by a long shot

creative communications company that is owned by one of kendricks close friends

huge album rollout, drake is suspecting that this is why kendrick has not responded to his first diss

an award that kendrick received, honors exemplary writing/journalism

opinion

opinion

rap beef article turns into an anti-ai article

article said earlier, "there are no rules in rap beef", contradiction

why are you inserting your opinion?

possible, important to note that drake himself did not use twitter bots

drake has made a lot of enemies in his time in the rap game, his song "Fake Love" says, "i got fake people showing fake love to me" implying that he knows some of his friends aren't really his friends

longstanding diss of drake, who is lightskin, in one of his songs he says, "i used to get bullied for being black and when i get here i'm not black enough", "here" being the rap game

he has never tried to, in one of his songs he says his dad told him "mike never tried to rap like pac, pac never tried to sing like mike", he very well may not have the skill, but it would be odd if he did because he is from toronto, not LA

he has

true, very weird behavior and possibly why drake tried to close this door for kendrick

she has previously said that drake never made anything weird to her and that it was strictly a friendship, although it is a weird age gap, nothing legally wrong

completely out of context, "tupac" was telling kendrick to say stuff about the allegations, drake was trying to close that door for kendrick because it was an easy diss to make and had no evidence of it happening, it is an extremely messy and defaming allegation to make on someone

he has addressed them, so have the "victims", it didn't happen

drake has claimed in the past to have "mob ties"

didn't have the heart is weird because it was his decision to make the ai voices say that, so technically he did say it. Again credibility, drake made the voices say it, but i think he used their voices because they are west coast legends as is kendrick, wanted to hit close to home

saying drake used the ai voices to pretend to be tupac and snoop??

rap legend, did he get permission from Nipsey's family?

did kendrick get permission from kanye or OJ?

drake did not get permission from Snoop or Tupac's family

kendrick has used AI before.

drake often makes RnB songs about women and experiences he's had

a close friend of drakes, "circus" calling drake a clown and his song not to be taken seriously

drake has dropped back to back diss tracks before and won the beef in the public's eye. trying to do that again?

this makes it seem like Rolling Stone is biased to Kendrick

collaborated on "Bad Blood", Punch allegedly made kendrick do a feature with taylor swift and maroon 5, drake makes fun of him for doing features for white people

pretentious or juvenile

from eminems song "Stan"

interesting take

deification of past hip hop legends

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"Ideas can be built" metaphor

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"Mascots are the team" metaphor

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Easily preventable disease with vaccinations

Could be because of the anti-vaccine belief becoming more popular during and after COVID

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After some research, they sold the team for "estate and family planning considerations"

We see this record being broken every time a team is sold, showing us that sports are becoming an ever more valuable part of our world

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