#kendrick diss

[euryvices]

having been a taylor pop girlie all my life, this rap beef is making me understand that there's actually a lot of lyricism in rap that's not just a tip-of-the-iceberg shit. i gotta admit, i listened to mr. morale and the big steppers after hearing not like us, and i shed more than a few tears. so, this is me swallowing my pride and asking for rap record recommendations. please?

[thepatronsaintoffilth]

that tonal shift between Meet The Grahams and Not Like Us is absolutely wild to me in hindsight. Plus it felt like a direct response to all the people sleeping on Kdot's banger/bop credentials. Just picturing everyone crying on the floor in despair from MTG, only for Kdot to burst through the wall like the kool aid man yelling "YOU MUHFUCKAS SAID YOU WANTED TO DANCE, GET UP NIGGAS, LETS DANCE"

[iaminpossesionofheadtrauma]

kendrick’s pr team rn

[angelsaxis]

the next pic is gonna be the back of drake's head from inside his bedroom

[popop-maru]

Okay here's my obligatory post about Tumblr users and their ignorance of rap, as a (white) fan of rap:

Saying "Not all rap music is about violence, here are alternatives" is not helpful, because the violent music ALSO has meaning.

When Biggie Smalls postures about his gang connections and packing heat, he isn't doing it because wow violence is so edgy, it's a powerful statement. Youth in urban areas where gang activity is heavy are often treated as lesser than by default, especially compared to black people the same age from a wealthy background. There's a reason that the "wholesome and respectable" black-lead entertainment of that era was stuff like the Cosby Show, with doctor-lawyer parents, or Family Matters, with a cop dad. There's a reason why the big joke of Fresh Prince is someone with a more unstable upbringing moving in with one of these model black sitcom families.

Standing up and saying yeah, I came from the mean streets, I was molded by this violence and yes, I did what I had to do to survive in a world that refuses to acknowledge my existence as meaningful or worthy of protection. I protected myself, I made my own way, and fuck anybody who tries to stand in the way of that.

Refusing to demonize that environment and wearing it like armor in a way that protects from the authority that wants you to see them as sub humans incapable of only violence and hatred, and saying HEY. I'm here, I lived this, and there is love and there is pain and there is ART in this.

That is powerful. That is the essence of gangster rap.

It isn't about hurting people for fun, it's about holding a mirror up to a society that does the hurting and then calls you a monster for what it's made you. Its about validating the experiences of the disenfranchised and biting back at authority. It's about turning a pain that the world say you deserve being one of those people from those places into POETRY. Into ART.

And thats why it matters.

And thats why you need to shut the yell up and stop dismissing it as violence without substance when you all sat on your ass listening to songs about Hatsune Miku eating people in middle school.

[max-nicoxposts]

The Drake and Kendrick beef summed up in one image

[bilbobagginsomebabez]

i dont see anybody talking enough about drake ai generating tupac's voice. there's no clearer way to prove kendrick right, that he has no respect for or comprehension of the culture. i'm white and i'm mad

y'all remember this book rec getting passed around a while ago? this is tupac's aunt.

tupac shakur is the son of afeni shakur and the nephew of assata shakur. his mother afeni left a prominent/leadership role in the black liberation party after she was separated from her children and unlawfully detained for 8 months. tupac's early life was marked by federal surveillance and targeted police brutality, the strain of which absolutely had an impact on his mother's struggle with addiction. his aunt assata was forced to flee to cuba and has not returned since.

tupac was the original "conscious" rapper and was so influential in part because he was a member of this Black political dynasty. borne of the people who led the militant arms of the Black liberation movement.

i literally do not know how to describe how disrespectful it was to use AI to generate new bars in his voice because Kendrick, the new pillar of conscious rap, knows and respects his history. my jaw is on the floor

[baking-bisexual-bitch]

New track as of 40 mins ago

[sleepyghostmp3]

WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP

[undbtlone]

Drake fans after Not Like Us:

[inkdrinkerofthevoid]

to be clear I know nothing about any of these people. I am a medieval peasant watching nobles fight each other and I'm having a great time

[lostyouuth]

"I expected you to call me pedo". you.. expected it?

[straightasaaro]

best reactions from the comment section of drake’s newest whining session diss

[kcyars99]

[lzrdprsn]

I would KILL to be a fly on the wall in Megan Thee Stallions house. I would do anything to hear what she's saying on the phone right now.