My bad y’all. Just realized there’s an extra 10 min at the end. Had an error exporting and uploaded the wrong version then had to head to a movie premiere. Just noticing this. So, if you’re just getting here, the video is 17 min or whatever. Not 30 min. It’s all happening. 🏆
Your take on WTD's breakdown is incredibility disingenuous and prejudiced which is ironic considering that's your whole argument for 3/4 of the video. You just blatantly downplayed and ignored every other *factual* part of his 2 and a half month project based off established history and patterns because either you REALLY dislike Drake or you're the one that's getting a check cleared.
The worst part by far was him combing through whitneys social media and then asking the audience if they think she had post partum depression....like....wtf
That was WILD! There was so much reaching , so much disrespect to the culture. I think someone has to make a rebuttal to that whole video cause crodie is wildin with this one.
I can't believe you gave this dude an honest assessment of his work, offered genuinely constructive criticism/advice for improvement, and this dude called you a SNAKE.. Nice piece, Justin.
Agreed. It also wouldn't surprise me if Drake was that corny. This take came from an opinion shared by the majority of his audience. I'll stand on that.
I had a white lady tell me she was blacker than me because I don't talk crazy to my husband. Their idea of what makes you black is so screwed up and can never be trusted.
WTD squandered his good will. The lack of professionalism and him being defensive meant that no matter how many times he claimed to be “objective”, he clearly wasn’t. He made sure to point out to audiences that everything pertaining to Drake in 6:16 in LA was an accusation; which is fair. However, in this breakdown he was presenting his opinions as facts. He never took this long to do a breakdown. Clearly something was going on behind the scenes. This wasn’t a breakdown done by a music lover. It was a hit piece which backfired.
@@F-N-Z-01 AGREED! Now to figure out if he was threatened to do it, paid off, or just wanted to appease OVHoes who were mad at his last 6:16 breakdown, which was critically acclaimed and praised by most! He was saying things that only Drake would care to brag about like YGs first week sales being Abysmal and not going to get another Drake feature again, and he hopes it was worth it. Why would we or YG care about that? He has the whole west coast Hip Hop behind him, KENDRICK, Future, TDE, Rick Ross, ASAP Rocky, Metro, etc. Why did we randomly need to know that Matt was “sure he probably slept with” Kim Kardashian? It was nuts! Nothing like his previous work.
Eminem, Mac Miller, Alchemist. Clearly race ain't the issue. When I'm playing video games, my issue isn't that lil Timmy is saying the N-word, its the fact that he clearly just says it on the internet, or to seem edgy. "N*gga I said it I know that you mad," is some Lil Timmy on Xbox ish
I feel like people need to talk more about how Drake is always telling on himself. When he says "that puppy love was over in y'all late teens" he's just admitting that he doesn't know there are stages of love that are deeper than puppy love. He's never had any kind of sustained relationship. And when he says "why don't you hold your son and tell him say cheese" he's admitting that to him, fathering is just posing for pictures with your son. Like, over and over again he's just telling on himself. It's crazy.
@@makempay8710 Right. I guess I’m sleeping with my partner’s best friend because I don’t follow my man on instagram and his bestfriend left a heart emoji under a cute pic of me and the kids. And he’s actually the father of my second child. Drake is insane.
I never expected that it would take What's The Dirt dropping this monstrosity for Kendrick's line "no cultural cache to binge, just disrespecting your mother" to age this well, but here we are.
I love this line in the song. Binging some culture cache should be a requirement to speak on Black culture if you're not of it. Even then some things would fly over people's heads.
@@desdes7900 Same here. Because children shouldn’t be just saying it because they heard it being said and it’s the trendy thing to do. They need to be old enough to comprehend its history and why the word was “reclaimed” by the Black community.
Exactly! That was horribly done. That wasn't a breakdown that was a failed attempt at a hit piece on Kendrick. Trying to make that trash song seem deep. All black people don't use the N-word.
This right here. This song wasn’t that deep. He made it that deep when he went digging for things to throw dirt on Kendrick. The fact he compared Nip and Kendrick saying Nip has done more for the community and Kendrick has done nothing but give away money for tax write offs.. I stopped watching after that. Couldn’t do it any more.
@@donbrave7994I couldn't watch after he said Kendrick was Jealous.. I'm like wtf.. that's ridiculous. Kendrick had a choice to go down Drake's path, and he chose otherwise.. so envy & jealousy.. FOH
I think he was trying to be fair by analyzing Drake's lyrics as much as he did with Kendrick's, but Drake's lyrics are nowhere as thoughtful as Lamar's. As a result he ended up looking insane.
L take when it's literally white kids enabling artists to tour. You can't gate keep nothing. Biggest concerts outside Beyonce are filled with white people. They buy tickets
Matt also put it out with certainity that 1. Kendrick is a "milkman" because of his confessions on MMATBS 2. That Kendrick and Whitney are not together and co-parenting. He has no way of knowing either of these claims.
@@freedomm tbf to the dude, he makes it clear neither of those is a fact, just his conclusion. I disagree with both to a point (the second more than the first). Like I see how he got to that idea I'm just not sure it needed to be in the video.
A line Kendrick said that I thought Kanye said on his "Late Registration" album - "Touch the Sky." He changed the first word, and added "Baby" to the end of it.
@@bupemofyalongwanikunda3772I believe he was in communication with Drake, through DMs. Drake probably reached out to him and WTD was star struck and compromised from there.
One thing our culture will always side eye is you publicly disrespecting your own mother. Most of our Mothers remain the ONE person who CAN get us in check, even in adulthood.
@andreaseverin1346 Drizzy with BBL has shown us time and time again, he will do whatever to keep his name in a headline. It's all a popularity game. No morals, just money.
That What’s the Dirt video was terrible. 😂 The angle he took was to dig into Kendrick’s personal life to try to prove Drake’s very surface level bars were “true” and therefore great bars. There was so much opinion presented as “facts” and a lot of speculation. I was ready to write him off after he claimed Whitney “probably” slept with other men. He said, “come on guys, this is a thing women do!” 😂
@@TheCompanyManwhat about kendrick wishing death on drake and his loved ones? is that disgusting too? brother its rap beef at the end of the day. distasteful? absolutely. but being upset about that shows how personal you’re taking this when it doesnt involve you
@@NightOwlJa I can understand how and why Kendrick arrived at that conclusion about Drake after what Drake said about his wife, child, and best friend. In fact, I would feel the same way. I don’t think that’s disgusting at all. Lines are drawn in rap beef when it comes to shots at your opponent versus shots at their family. You can absolutely take it there, but if you choose to be the one to do that, and your opponent comes back and wishes death on you, you don’t get to say that that’s one and the same. Drake deserved everything that has happened to him from that point on.
Ugh Right! I couldn't even get thru his whole take because it seemed he was reachin alot! smh like Drake didn't even grow up with his Father and his side of the fam and that is a well known fact🤦🏾♀️
Drake is both not smart enough to plot a song ahead of time that way And if he did...that is the corniest thing This man reaching for another universe with the 37
Drake is definitely smart enough to do something like that. He's also corny enough to do something like that. But was that his intention? Idk, WTD was reaching something fierce. As the company man said, all this just proves Kendricks point.
@@charlespeter5610No. Do you guys purposely act stupid or is it that you don’t have common sense? The reason why videos are longer, is because people are asking for it everywhere. Everyone has been complaining about how short videos have been and have been begging for longer ones.
@@Kal-El207 ...what is your problem man? Are you not aware that longer videos=more space for ads=more money? I don't know why you gotta come out swinging for no good reason. I think you might be a little too invested in this video or something. Go outside.
I feel like we are witnessing someone letting greed turn them into a vulture right in front of our eyes. Justin - thanks for being a voice for the culture 👊🏽
As a black Canadian: WTD just made it worse because now im questioning why Drake went against his own mom on the opening of the track like a prime Slim Shady 😂
THANK YOU! Me and all my other Black friends were astonished at how he cut off his mama 😭 JayZ’s mom made him apologize to Nas but this man screaming the N word over her 🤦🏾♀️ nahhhhhh
i've been following WTD for a minute, but damn the family matter breakdown video really made me question why i be listening to him. that video made me really uncomfortable, because it really showed how tone deaf he is when it comes to being brown - like people really dont understand when dot said he's what the culture is feeling and why he chanted "we dont wanna hear you say n no more" - the crazy thing about kendrick is the fact he has been so prophetic with EVERYTHING, and with that let the party die track out it really shows how bad things have gotten with entertainment and with the media
Facts. I had to unsubcribe after listening to about 20 minutes of his breakdown. He's been compromised and that's unfortunate. But thankfully we Justin and FD and others to listen to.
That’s a breakdown we didn’t need. Those lyrics are easily digested. When he spent 10 minutes talking about the van (and it’s not the same) I was over it.
And when he implied that Whitney may have stepped out of the relationship, because she was unhappy...I got angry...Because to me he was doing the same thing that Drake did to Whitney, throughout his raggedy song....
@@thehandifanwith9386 That’s when I realized that the video was basically fanfiction and gossip. You can’t just say that without any base to your claim.
Yeah, because he isn't from it and doesn't belong to it. Instead, he focuses on the music. White men do this thing where they think they're one of us and understand Black culture and so on and so forth.
@TheCompanyMan. To be honest, I dont think the N word issue was the most damaging thing. When i knew WTD was lost in the weeds was when he was scouring Whitney's Social Media and commenting that "these dont feel like posts of a happy relationship". And then mused "Perhaps she had post perinatal depression". I was floored. It was basically, she has perinatal depressions or her relationship with kendrick was bad. And that doesnt even speak to the idea of him having the gall to speak on the issue at all. Basically everything related to whitney in that video was gross as f
The use of ‘nixxa’ argument has nothing to do with being part/half/full black. Imagine Carlton (Fresh Prince) up and saying it one day. He’s black, but it would be cringe af if he did…
@@SoulTrybeThat's been the point the whole time. And everyone who didn't get that immediately is "Not Like Us" lol. (Race has nothing to do with it for the slow ones in the back)
Same way it’s weird when us Africans use the N-word. I frown on Africans that use it especially those that have never been to the US just because they listen to hip hop.
My dad NEVER allowed us to use it at home. He STILL to this day does not allow it in the house. I started saying it with my friends outside of the house.
I feel your anger. The breakdown lost me when he justified Drake use of calling us slave. Drake didn’t grow up with that lifestyle to call us that just because his dad is. See Drake lives life like it’s on him for the rest of us it is in us
See, I read the comments from people saying he got that take wrong, and I just turned the video off because I knew listening to that would piss me off too much.
It was a big swing and a miss with this breakdown. I suffered through the entire 2 hours and he was glazing Drake Olympic style. I couldn’t believe how much he added. Bringing up Nipsey, Cole-making assumptions about it all. He used Cole’s lyrics to add credence to Drake. I was flabbergasted. I usually like his takes but it was too much.
One of the worst parts of the video. Him equating heritage with lived experience. Drake didn't grow up with his dad and the black half of his family so it was incredibly tone deaf to say it was ok because his dad's side of the family descended from people who were enslaved.
He had some crazy reaches in his 6:16 video too. Always makes me cringe when I hear people from outside our culture speak like they’re an authority on it
He's basically invalidated any perceived value to his 6.16 in LA video with that nonsense. Like that moment in a film where the characters realise someone they thought was higher thinking and more capable, is actually off their rocker and dangerous to be around.
Saying kendrick wasnt really affiliated with a gang is weird af. Im a white man and seeing another trying to say kendrick didnt really grow up with affiliations to gangs and gang violence is just weird.
def one of those that can say “i was watching you in high school.” was happy when i found your current channel after you discontinued doing the breakdown on another channel. you have certainly helped me process my relationship with hip hop and the music industry over the years; even as I have now entered into those spaces as my career
been watching for a decade since freshman year of high school man, u were one of the main avenues i had to really appreciate things i couldn't know or be a part of, and respect them for how they came to be and my place as a listener of it. You're part of my daily digest these days and am just very happy to see you around still giving commentary
@@Hikikomortisit’s not based on his race, it’s based on the fact that WTD clearly doesn’t comprehend the nuances of our culture enough to critique it for the masses
This breakdown was awful IMO. I feel like dirt was trying to force a balance between Drake and Kendrick by leaning into Drake’s perspective egregiously. I was super offended by his opinions on black culture. He stated opinions as facts back to back to back. It was very frustrating. He is a guest at BEST in the culture and for him to speak on the culture like an authority on a world he has nothing to do with is insane. I am half black and was raised primarily by my white mother and even I am well aware of the distance that puts between me and the black community that I call myself a member of. Dirt lacks cultural awareness in this space he needs to take a breath and listen more than he speaks. Thank you so much for speaking on this. You are eloquent and accurate and we need your voice on this matter.
This is a highly nuanced, extremely incisive response to WtD's ridiculous theory. However, seeing WtD's reacting to Justin's response was very infuriating. The guy is an absolute crybaby and the 'I can tell' part was very off-putting and then his further defense of this statement by comparing Justin to Carlton from Fresh Prince was cringeworthy. What a sore loser! Justin was one of the first to pave the way for these modern breakdown channels. He is one of the best when it comes to this.
I already commented WTD's stream about his cultural ignorance. Then I thought this is BROADLY how Drake sees the world, which indicates his internalized self hatred. I'm sorry Drake isn't that bright.
I started WTD's and had to pause it today. It is so frustrating because he still just doesn't understand the root of people's criticisms of his recent content. It's NOT just because Kendrick fans can't stand to hear anything against him as he says.👌
Exactly. WhT got me was when he said Kendrick mentioned drake’s son first but then minutes down the line used drake’s line on push up to push Whitney probably cheated with “bodyguard like Whitney” 💀💀
@@ekinse.1877thought the same thing. Kendrick trying to tell him to keep it rap is him saying, Drake’s got the drop on me. lol. nah fam. He just wants to keep it rap
When he said, "Go ahead and call me a culture vulture" it gave the same energy as "talk about him liking young girls, that's a gift from me" He studied Drake so much he became like Drake.
3:51 I don’t think kdot is talking about something else about the N word. When Drake started up his rap career drake is on a video saying the N word with a HARD ‘er’ and not ‘a’ which most black ppl will NEVER misuse that
It got weird because when kendrick was talking about Drake being a pdf matt outright denied it saying it wasn’t possible but when it came to the kendrick DV he was like I can’t put it on Kendrick but i’ll let you decide 🙄
It’s already been debunked. The vill channel broke it down and has pictures and proof that it wasn’t Kendrick but it could be another celebrity who was in Vegas during that time
That breakdown was so culturally unaware that it’s ridiculous. All black people don’t use the N word, especially the older ones like my grandparents. It meant something completely different to them than it does to the younger generation. He just showed how much he doesn’t understand black people at all. Mayo babble
@@ArmLegLegArmHead47 that’s all it is bro 😂😂😂😂😂 he acting like saying the N word is what makes u black, or because you’re black you just automatically say the N word. It’s ignorant
when kendrick says "they not like us" you guys call him a lyrcal god but when drake says a bar you guys intentionally misinterpret it to get fake outrage 😂
@Z4NKA1 you can literally say this about drake stans and the whole biracial fiasco. Yet you guys took that and ran out into the ground. All that fake victimhood
@@Z4NKA1 remember not like us was a response to the Slave Bar, nobody misinterpreted nothing, the bar is similar to when Kanye said slavery was a good thing to happen to black people, U don't use slavery to convey a point , a better example to make it understandable let's say a kid fell victim to gun violence in the neighborhood, then one parent say as long that ain't my kid I'm fine ,ignoring the gun violence
WTD dissed Kendrick harder than anything Drake put out. He is definitely not interested in being a journalist. His hurt feelings towards the backlash he has received clearly shows.
Exactly! People are acting like Kendrick fans are just mad cause it’s a Drake video. I wouldn’t care about a Drake lyric breakdown but it’s the personal attacks and using opinions as fact that bothered me.
@@T.Gundhamnah cuz they think Kendrick telling Drake he can’t use the n word and then drake using exactly 37 times not not or less in a 7 minutes. Is sooooo farfetched. man Kendrick this 17 push-ups cuz Drake like em young Kendrick said wop 5 times cuz it was diss records he released Drake planning a whole music video to release alongside his song at the same time means he can’t literally sit there and say imma use theirs for every year I wan born. 37 is way to specific of a number to stop using the word at esp when he didn’t use the word at all in the entirety of the last verse used in both the first two verses and just arbitrarily stopped after the 37th time and that isn’t symbolic? He’s to surface level he can think that deep Yeah the man who had one the bar in the entire beef with the MJ/prince flip can’t think that deep.
@T.Gundham That part of the video was filmed in a jail cell while he was rapping about how Drake "should never wanna go to Cell Block One." A theory is only as good as its evidence.
I'm also one of those kids who watched the breakdown back in high school and went on to start making my own music content, and Justin's words about getting lost in the weeds and lost in hubris really spoke to me. I've been working on my own long form breakdown of the beef and have gotten demoralized from seeing other great breakdowns like Justin's many videos or FS Signifier's, but videos like this are great reminders to keep your view in perspective
Thank you for rocking with me, ADAA. Here's a pro tip. Focus on the facts and let the story come to you, and don't worry about discovering something new. I had an editor tell me once that a great editorial either reinforces something everyone knows or disproves a common assumption. Either direction is fine as long as your voice and perspective shines through. That's what kendrick did on Euphoria by opening with Richard Pryor saying backwards: Everything they know about me is true. A battle like this is so amazing because there are so many angles nuances that apply to all aspect of life. Followed your channel the other day. Can 't wait to watch.
Seemed like on this breakdown more than any other he was sharing his opinions and letting that dictate his takes. His breakdown seemed very subjective and led to some very bizarre takes just off the top : 1. Kendrick is not with Whitney 2. Kendrick is jealous and only drops disses for attention and relevancy 3. Kendrick is massive liar due to not admitting to infidelity on a public forum as if that’s the sane thing to do 4. Kendrick hasn’t planted money trees since it’s not Nip level contributions lol If you disagree with him “you’re a super glazer”. What a safety net.
What's the Dirt was literally watching Akademiks stream a day or two ago. He sent Ak a superchat where he dissed Kendrick's fanbase, he's always been biased. His "breakdown" is an attempt at trying to grant Drake some kind of win in the complete landslide victory by Kendrick, and it does a horrible job of "exposing" Kendrick. Edit: Great job pointing out how WTD is in over his head and attempting to force narratives to make his breakdowns look better.
Half expecting What's The Dirt to go full pro-Trump, to try and get into Akademik's good books and milk the RUclips algorithm. He clearly doesn't care about anything but money.
That's the grossest thing about this, and maybe Kenny's biggest point: that this is all targeted at manipulating our children. They grow up thinking this is valid and thoughtful analysis when it's actually propagandists unpacking and disassembling.
Another thing Matt aka What’s the Dirt did that annoyed me, was paint Kendrick as some bitter rapper who’s jealous of Drake’s success. And his proof of that was, as he called it, “Kendrick’s own words” when he took lyrics from a Kendrick verse on “Determined” where he said, “Me and my girl split the bucket of KFC, she listening to Drake and all I can say is ‘damn these niggaz that much better than me baby?!’” He didn’t even realize that’s a Kanye West reference from “Touch The Sky.” I’m gonna be honest. I like his break downs, usually, but I feel like that man reached a lot, and usually does when it comes to Drake. He calls some of the simplest things “clever” when it comes from him. He made sure to give himself a buffer by preferencing that he’s a fan of both artists, but he clearly leans Drake. His videos would be much more legitimate if he just left his bias out.
@@CastroJr92it is a competitive sport and what annoyed me back in 2013 is hearing Kendrick on the radio station telling hosts that “nah, I ain’t mean nothing by that song, it’s all love baby”. Like wtf, you called out all these people like Pac would have but then backpedaling like you afraid of them coming at you. And if you remember correctly, the only people putting out response videos were people who weren’t even mentioned.
WTD is so overly defensive that any valid criticism he’s receiving, he’s now trying to blame Kendrick fans for not being able to handle anything negative about Kendrick. Which is ridiculous because he covered Push Ups and Taylor Made with no issues 🙄
It’s what happens when folks ‘study’ the culture. Once they get any recognition, they center themselves and use that recognition as authority to dictate to the culture. And if the culture disagrees, it’s a problem with the culture, not him.
The only reason I know about the WTD videos is due to KThots glazing the dude over his videos. Then he releases the FM video and they are mad. Kendrick and Drake stans ruined this beef from the jump.
@@snowhawk04 thank you bro. That’s what I was saying he got praised a lot when he dropped 6:18 and euphoria breakdowns. But family matters ppl gotta problem bc he exposed some stuff lol
@@elmark3550 What's The Dirt tweeted a 13 minute clip from Justin's video, with the words "Time to start Punching back at some of these Snakes and this dude is the biggest snake of them all. "Damn Homie, in high school you was the man homie, WTF happened to you"". He's getting pretty badly ratioed for it thankfully.
You will definitely be quoted going forward in my videos as part of my “tourist to the culture” caveat “Not in a position to properly contextualize”- Justin Hunte Might make it into a placard. Yeeezus!
I watch your videos and I appreciate your caveat 😉 Your reaction on this would be an interesting video. I know its a reaction, of a reaction, of a reaction....😅
@@Mr.Morales1000absolutely. That is some white boi shit through and through, slap my stamp of certification on it. It's a bad theory, and it's pretty obviously wrong, but aside from that it's just such a fucking white boi theory.
@@Mr.Morales1000absolutely. Slap my stamp of certification on that, it's as white boi as you can get. Difference between myself and old mate, is I'm fully aware I'm not a part of the culture enough to make blatantly incorrect theories into two hour videos and expect people to believe me.
I used to live in predominantly black neighborhoods during some of my childhood and teen years in the south (VA and LA). I don't remember any of my friends or their families ever saying it. Even when we were completely alone saying all the cuss words in the world, I never heard my friends say it. Not to say I never heard it AT ALL out in public, but I have many vivid memories of older Black people getting after random kids for it and them apologizing shortly after. I'm not speaking on whether it should be said or not as it's not my place to speak on that as a mestiza Latina, but these are the Black people I knew during a large chunk of my formative years, so it was crazy to hear this dude say "Drake's half Black, so his father's family uses it" with such conviction. Like, what?! Does he even know any Black people? WHY is he so sure? So weird.
WTD tone in regard to this breakdown was wildly different. He was condescending, defensive, and it felt oddly personal. I knew something was off when he started talking about paying to access Kendrick’s family information. For a lyric breakdown? Furthermore his obsession with Whitney was becoming alarming in the build up to dropping this video. Family Matters was a discombobulated, scatter brained track; that spent more time dissing Whitney than Kendrick. No amount of fake lyric breakdown will change that.
Thank God. My immediate reaction to seeing WTD’s video notification was “yea, here we go!” Then I saw it was 2+ hrs and thought “WTF? This ain’t that deep.” Tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and couldn’t do more than ten min. Obvious content farming. Thought I might be crazy and everyone else would eat it up. So glad to see the backlash. Not out of spite or hate, but because I don’t like seeing “both-side-sizing” from people who haven’t earned it. Bless you man!
There were so many statements he made that really left me kinda upset, not because it was biased or favored whoever, but because it was just kinda out of pocket stuff that either he shouldn't be saying or is really poorly thought out logically. One of the things that really just frustrated me was when he was saying "In my opinion, Kendrick and Whitney aren't together anymore," and it's like, brother, that's not a thing you have an opinion about. Either they are together or they aren't, and it's either you know this to be true or you don't, and it's very clear that he does not know this. Saying "in my opinion" about someone's relationship is WILD. I also have a lot of gripes about his evaluation on certain angles, like saying Kendrick was jealous of Drake and wanted the life that he had and using Determined to argue his point, but Determined isn't about jealousy it's about Kendrick's insecurity and low self-esteem, and he explains that in the song. Like just flat out incorrect reading of the bar. Also maybe it's just me being WOKE, but the fact that he just reads off Drake calling Abel gay and in the closet and does not even begin to reflect on that or critique Drake being one step away from just calling Abel the F slur with no pushback, I just don't understand. I don't get how you read those bars and don't think, "Man this is kinda corny in 2024," just reads it out like it's a normal thing to do.
hes saying it in drakes perspective, thats not even his own opinion thats why its a breakdown. and youre seriously complaining abt "homophobia" of all things said on both sides? drake and kendrick have both said way worse than that
@@Z4NKA1 It's his theory because he is not Kendrick, does not know Kendrick, and cannot possibly know for a fact that his theory is correct. You can't claim it to be objectively true when Kendrick hasn't confirmed it. Also go somewhere else with the whataboutism, Kendrick didn't say anything worse during this beef and whatever else was said in the past is not relevant to what Drake said this year on Family Matters. Even if we want to rake Kendrick over the coals for whatever thing you have a problem with, Drake is still just calling Abel gay as an insult. That still happened.
IMO a larger mistake is WTD approaching this as Drake and Kendrick being equal in their ability to craft stories and rhymes-when there's clear evidence that it isn't the case. Hell, theres multiple instances of Drake's inability in The Heart Part 6 alone.
Yeah. It felt really 'both sides are the same' when they're clearly not. And regardless who you prefer, taking each artist's pros and cons individually and dissecting them based on what they bring to the table rather than attempting to validate or justify or communicate where they're coming from in the same style can cause storytelling challenges sometimes.
Him reaching to find Kendrick level hidden messages etc in other people's songs, let alone Drake's, is a dead give away he doesn't listen to rap music like that.
What’s the Dirt tried to give equal attention to Drake, but as many people in the comments here have noted, Drake’s song is just too surface-level to justify that.
I think the biggest faux pas was him explaining Drake's lineage. He said "its in his blood and you cant take that away from him" The african american experience is not innate, you grow and live through it. That's where it started to go off the rails for me, and there's plenty more examples in that breakdown. I think he should've presented things from a more neutral perspective because it kind of turned him into a villain, unintentionally
That was another point I wanted to mention because it's the next part after the clips I shared, but I started feeling redundant talking and forgot to get to it. That part was wild too. Some points are just easier to stay away from.
@@TheCompanyManThis convo’s got me thinking that having white men doing blood quantum to justify rap lyrics has been somewhat unnerving lol… would appreciate a video going into the topic in the comment above🙏🏾 tyvm
This is when people need to gate keep and preserve the culture. I’m sure there are content creators who have the life experience, information, education, and interest in hip hop to do a better job.
I'm an English teacher in Spain, i have a huuuge problem trying to explain my kids and teens not to use the n word.. they haven't lived in the US and they see it so normalized in tv music movies etc that they really don't feel it's their responsibility to deal with those social issues.. so the lack of internal dialogue in the US also affects external dialogue at least in that topic..
6:00 whats even sadder about WTD bringing this line up is the fact that it was never about Drake being mixed. Nothing about Drake being light-skinned or mixed was ever brought up until Drake said it.
The domestic violence reach he went for felt intentionally false. The rapper that had the domestic violence problem on may 25th was Diddy he & Cassie were at the hotel the lady was referring too. And WTD knows that! He’s intentional enough to have that info. He just chose to ignore it to spin a narrative.
For 6:16 in LA, he explained what the bars meant. For Family Matters, he kept trying to justify and validate what Drake said with a lot of "I feel" and "I think".
"Hmm.. how can i respond to kendrick? I know! I'll say the word once for each year old i am. That will show him!" That's not symbolism lmao. That's asinine. That sounds like the kind of genius annotation someone writes when they're desperate to seem clever
Am I the only one who found the segment weird where he talked about "blood mixture" and "dilution"? That's eugenics in a lyrical breakdown. Disturbing to say the least
I checked out the video when he said "If Kendrick always hated Drake why make a song with him" like did they work together again after those songs? Clearly something happened during that time period not before
It took so long because he wasnt researching he was trying to come up with believable angles to make Drake look just as clever as Kendrick to soften the blow of the loss. I suspect he was paid to do so.
@@triplehayes6416 My take is he's been too embarrassed to release it for months, but saw some of the attacks on Kendrick this week because of the Lil Wayne Super Bowl thing and thought he could sneak it out now. All very sad.
@@luckyspurs damn I didn’t even register that myself. You’re right tho he was trying to use that Wayne story to soften the blow on that mid he put out.
My introduction to you was the 2012 GKMC hiphopdx review when I was 12 years old and you turned me into a hip hop head who analyzes lyricism and concepts. You also turned me into a Kendrick Stan. Been supporting for 12 years.
@gabehere Nawl but that wasn't the intention behind his lyrics as Em was profoundly impacted by his words being taken literally. It is hero worship but these artists are human. But hey if you like it, I love. For instance, when I realized what s/he drunk the kool-aid referenced. I am real intentional about when I use it.
What’s the dirt is gonna think you’re some hater, but anybody who doesn’t like his breakdown are all “Kendrick Stan’s” lmao, bro took 4 months for that ?
I feel like WTD stating Drake said the word 37 times was an attempt to make it seem like he could do what Kendrick did on Nosetalgia with numerology (9, 10, 19, 87, 36). "Drake can do that too, see!"
My bad y’all. Just realized there’s an extra 10 min at the end. Had an error exporting and uploaded the wrong version then had to head to a movie premiere. Just noticing this.
So, if you’re just getting here, the video is 17 min or whatever. Not 30 min. It’s all happening. 🏆
I thought you did it to mock how unnecessarily long WTDs video was. lol.
Your take on WTD's breakdown is incredibility disingenuous and prejudiced which is ironic considering that's your whole argument for 3/4 of the video. You just blatantly downplayed and ignored every other *factual* part of his 2 and a half month project based off established history and patterns because either you REALLY dislike Drake or you're the one that's getting a check cleared.
@@Mike4pf wipe your chin.
@@Moshuun So did I! It definitely works! 😉
@@TheCompanyMan you need to see the comment wtd left on your video... he's proving he's just as lost as aubrey is in this battle 🤦🏾♂️
Funniest comment on Reddit, "The video is longer than Family Matters was relevant".
IT's all happening🤣
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@@dearfrugallife LORD HAVE MERCY
That's crazy 😂...but true 🤣🤣🤣
Reddit lol the core audience for those type of breakdown videos
The worst part by far was him combing through whitneys social media and then asking the audience if they think she had post partum depression....like....wtf
I didn't get that far. He lost it with this one.
That's absolutely disgusting
That was WILD! There was so much reaching , so much disrespect to the culture. I think someone has to make a rebuttal to that whole video cause crodie is wildin with this one.
How surprising it is that it's always a dude trying to determine if our public suffering is enough to qualify as worthy of attention/care.
I'm was not about to watch that video, but this definitely seals it. Nasty work.
I can't believe you gave this dude an honest assessment of his work, offered genuinely constructive criticism/advice for improvement, and this dude called you a SNAKE.. Nice piece, Justin.
Pissed me off!
@@commaJim where?!
@@tamaraallen215 where did he call Justin corny..? On Twitter!
@@tamaraallen215the dude made a rebuttal video on his Twitter acct and spent hours getting clowned on and trying to argue back
When did he call Justin a snake?
8:26 the idea that saying the n-word is what makes you black is the whitest take I've heard. And this is why I think there should be more Gatekeepers.
As a black man, how would saying n-er make you black. It was used by white people first.
Agreed. It also wouldn't surprise me if Drake was that corny. This take came from an opinion shared by the majority of his audience. I'll stand on that.
@@Robin-cz7twMine either. Forbidden
I had a white lady tell me she was blacker than me because I don't talk crazy to my husband. Their idea of what makes you black is so screwed up and can never be trusted.
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WTD squandered his good will. The lack of professionalism and him being defensive meant that no matter how many times he claimed to be “objective”, he clearly wasn’t.
He made sure to point out to audiences that everything pertaining to Drake in 6:16 in LA was an accusation; which is fair.
However, in this breakdown he was presenting his opinions as facts. He never took this long to do a breakdown. Clearly something was going on behind the scenes. This wasn’t a breakdown done by a music lover. It was a hit piece which backfired.
once I saw him posting on twitter with ovhoe merch, I knew it was a wrap 😆
@@F-N-Z-01 AGREED! Now to figure out if he was threatened to do it, paid off, or just wanted to appease OVHoes who were mad at his last 6:16 breakdown, which was critically acclaimed and praised by most!
He was saying things that only Drake would care to brag about like YGs first week sales being Abysmal and not going to get another Drake feature again, and he hopes it was worth it. Why would we or YG care about that? He has the whole west coast Hip Hop behind him, KENDRICK, Future, TDE, Rick Ross, ASAP Rocky, Metro, etc. Why did we randomly need to know that Matt was “sure he probably slept with” Kim Kardashian? It was nuts! Nothing like his previous work.
Eminem, Mac Miller, Alchemist. Clearly race ain't the issue.
When I'm playing video games, my issue isn't that lil Timmy is saying the N-word, its the fact that he clearly just says it on the internet, or to seem edgy.
"N*gga I said it I know that you mad," is some Lil Timmy on Xbox ish
Too much truth!
I mean the same I’m not listening to you mom energy 😂
@@pepsiscrub nah bro "SHUT UP MOM YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" is "clever"
Omg a 10 year made a sound with his mouth you triggered
Drake has to shout "n****, n****, n****" on repeat cuz he's a crackkka culturally whiter than me.
I feel like people need to talk more about how Drake is always telling on himself. When he says "that puppy love was over in y'all late teens" he's just admitting that he doesn't know there are stages of love that are deeper than puppy love. He's never had any kind of sustained relationship. And when he says "why don't you hold your son and tell him say cheese" he's admitting that to him, fathering is just posing for pictures with your son. Like, over and over again he's just telling on himself. It's crazy.
Guess I don't love my kids cuz I don't post pictures with them on social media. Drakes a whole fool for that line.
Completely agree 💯👌🏽!!
@@makempay8710 Right. I guess I’m sleeping with my partner’s best friend because I don’t follow my man on instagram and his bestfriend left a heart emoji under a cute pic of me and the kids. And he’s actually the father of my second child. Drake is insane.
@@makempay8710”WHY SHE FOLLOWING DAVE FREE AND NOT MR MORALE 👉🏼🥴👈🏼”
I picked up on that with him in his interviews…. He projects so much he doesn’t realize it 😂😂😂
I never expected that it would take What's The Dirt dropping this monstrosity for Kendrick's line "no cultural cache to binge, just disrespecting your mother" to age this well, but here we are.
You're cooking
MTGs is 10 times harder now!
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I love this line in the song. Binging some culture cache should be a requirement to speak on Black culture if you're not of it. Even then some things would fly over people's heads.
And only when it is highlighted......🎉nice one.
That’s actually a bad word in most black holds I know… growing up I only heard it at school or when adults were not present..
Me too.
Same here.
@@desdes7900 Same here. Because children shouldn’t be just saying it because they heard it being said and it’s the trendy thing to do. They need to be old enough to comprehend its history and why the word was “reclaimed” by the Black community.
@@LeonaHeart I don’t even use the word unless I’m rapping and it’s in the song… lol
Again thank you for your intellectual fair and clear analysis 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿T.C.M@@TheCompanyMan
Exactly! That was horribly done. That wasn't a breakdown that was a failed attempt at a hit piece on Kendrick. Trying to make that trash song seem deep. All black people don't use the N-word.
This right here. This song wasn’t that deep. He made it that deep when he went digging for things to throw dirt on Kendrick. The fact he compared Nip and Kendrick saying Nip has done more for the community and Kendrick has done nothing but give away money for tax write offs.. I stopped watching after that. Couldn’t do it any more.
@@donbrave7994😮 He said waaaaat??🤯
@@donbrave7994 that's insane level of bias in there lol
@@donbrave7994I couldn't watch after he said Kendrick was Jealous.. I'm like wtf.. that's ridiculous. Kendrick had a choice to go down Drake's path, and he chose otherwise.. so envy & jealousy.. FOH
Definitely a hit piece!
I hate to break it to What's The Dirt but the "guy who has the definitive video on this battle" is already F.D. Signifier.
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Exactly this!
@@YetiCoolBrother 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Nah not even close someone else definitely did better
I think he was trying to be fair by analyzing Drake's lyrics as much as he did with Kendrick's, but Drake's lyrics are nowhere as thoughtful as Lamar's. As a result he ended up looking insane.
INSANE
COMPROMISED
Insane and compromised
Insanely compromised
Compromised by insanity.
WTD spiraling on twitter now and showing us EXACTLY why we need to gatekeep hip hop and especially who profits from it
Because he praised a rapper you didn't like?
@@cyber-bully5063 No because he’s calling a black man a Carlton because his family didn’t use the N word.
L take when it's literally white kids enabling artists to tour. You can't gate keep nothing. Biggest concerts outside Beyonce are filled with white people. They buy tickets
@@itslawren Good job making it about his skin colour and background rather than the quality of his work!
@@ogbmtthe quality of work is the whole point. Did you watch this video?
Matt also put it out with certainity that 1. Kendrick is a "milkman" because of his confessions on MMATBS 2. That Kendrick and Whitney are not together and co-parenting. He has no way of knowing either of these claims.
@@freedomm tbf to the dude, he makes it clear neither of those is a fact, just his conclusion. I disagree with both to a point (the second more than the first). Like I see how he got to that idea I'm just not sure it needed to be in the video.
Well one thing is for sure, he did cheat on his “wife” “girl” whatever, for a bunch of white girls, but yeah he’s 100% for the culture
The fact that Drake used the n word with the hard r kinda proves that one side of his family did use it and it wasn’t the black side 😂
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that part 😂
Facts!
Facts
Why would him using the hard R mean his family uses the hard R?
I knew WTD was off when he said Kendrick always been jealous of Drake because of a line Kendrick used in 2009
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It’s something Drake would say
Damn I can’t believe he said that shit
A line Kendrick said that I thought Kanye said on his "Late Registration" album - "Touch the Sky." He changed the first word, and added "Baby" to the end of it.
@@bupemofyalongwanikunda3772I believe he was in communication with Drake, through DMs. Drake probably reached out to him and WTD was star struck and compromised from there.
I think somebody lying, you can see the vibes on Matt, even he's looking compromised, let's peel the layers back.
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@@corywelch667 🔥 🔥
Very compromised
Yep, he seems compromised.
Tried to convince us he's not, then proceeds to spin his own narrative.
One thing our culture will always side eye is you publicly disrespecting your own mother.
Most of our Mothers remain the ONE person who CAN get us in check, even in adulthood.
Speak on it!!! I watch my words to this day & I'm grown with kids of my own!!
Jay-Z embarrassed himself in public rather than disrespect his mother. Drake just casually makes a theater scene of it
@andreaseverin1346 Drizzy with BBL has shown us time and time again, he will do whatever to keep his name in a headline. It's all a popularity game.
No morals, just money.
That What’s the Dirt video was terrible. 😂 The angle he took was to dig into Kendrick’s personal life to try to prove Drake’s very surface level bars were “true” and therefore great bars. There was so much opinion presented as “facts” and a lot of speculation. I was ready to write him off after he claimed Whitney “probably” slept with other men. He said, “come on guys, this is a thing women do!” 😂
The way that Drake paints whitney as being abused while simultaneously labeling her a whore is pretty disgusting.
@@TheCompanyMan Yep. DV victim in one verse, whore in another. Wild.
@@TheCompanyMan the slave line he try to justify made me cringe so hard
@@TheCompanyManwhat about kendrick wishing death on drake and his loved ones? is that disgusting too?
brother its rap beef at the end of the day. distasteful? absolutely. but being upset about that shows how personal you’re taking this when it doesnt involve you
@@NightOwlJa I can understand how and why Kendrick arrived at that conclusion about Drake after what Drake said about his wife, child, and best friend. In fact, I would feel the same way. I don’t think that’s disgusting at all.
Lines are drawn in rap beef when it comes to shots at your opponent versus shots at their family. You can absolutely take it there, but if you choose to be the one to do that, and your opponent comes back and wishes death on you, you don’t get to say that that’s one and the same. Drake deserved everything that has happened to him from that point on.
So happy you're covering his video. The breakdown was awful to me. He was clearly siding with drake the entire time
Ugh Right! I couldn't even get thru his whole take because it seemed he was reachin alot! smh like Drake didn't even grow up with his Father and his side of the fam and that is a well known fact🤦🏾♀️
We felt the same way when he did a breakdown to euphoria and 6:16 but y’all can not take any criticism 😂
@@chrissyish4945 there are clearly pictures when they are together, you need to do some research,
Drake is both not smart enough to plot a song ahead of time that way
And if he did...that is the corniest thing
This man reaching for another universe with the 37
Drake is definitely smart enough to do something like that. He's also corny enough to do something like that. But was that his intention? Idk, WTD was reaching something fierce. As the company man said, all this just proves Kendricks point.
@@scroopynoopers9824exactly. LOL. But I would say he's stupid enough to do something like that and think it's clever.
bro you think he came this far in the music and business industry by not being smart?
Another Kendrick meat eater
He was defensive. No way a 2hr video was needed for family
I've noticed a trend with a lot of creators and ballooning lengths of videos. I'm pretty sure they're just tryna rake in that ad revenue.
@@charlespeter5610No. Do you guys purposely act stupid or is it that you don’t have common sense? The reason why videos are longer, is because people are asking for it everywhere. Everyone has been complaining about how short videos have been and have been begging for longer ones.
@@Kal-El207 ...what is your problem man? Are you not aware that longer videos=more space for ads=more money? I don't know why you gotta come out swinging for no good reason. I think you might be a little too invested in this video or something. Go outside.
@@charlespeter5610 Correct. The current YT meta favors 'watch time'.
@@nilespeshay1734 exactly. the dude attacking me just got all up in his feelings for ??? reasons
"his goal is to be THE GUY who has the definitive video(s) around this battle". No way thats happening. That title goes to FD Signifier. Hands down.
I hate to break it to some of you . . . but WTD's beef breakdowns were never that good 🤷🏽♀️ and his obsession with Whitney is disgusting and creepy.
Smh very creepy
WTD is on some freak-off shit
I feel like we are witnessing someone letting greed turn them into a vulture right in front of our eyes.
Justin - thanks for being a voice for the culture 👊🏽
All these White men are.
WTD suffers from the same cultural tone deafness as Drake.
Exactly!!!!!
Honestly I just think he got a OVO care Package
Basically
His an example of what Kdot meant, invite them to eat and they want to chew your face off.
WTD is from Canada too! But yes him and Drake are one in the same
As a black Canadian: WTD just made it worse because now im questioning why Drake went against his own mom on the opening of the track like a prime Slim Shady 😂
THANK YOU! Me and all my other Black friends were astonished at how he cut off his mama 😭
JayZ’s mom made him apologize to Nas but this man screaming the N word over her 🤦🏾♀️ nahhhhhh
I always thought that part was soooooo weird and almost insulting because of what it insinuates. He thought that shit was clever🤬
How you call it clever disrespecting mom cause she CAN'T say it 🤔
37 times cause he 37 is weak! He probably added a few to make it 37 🤭
His music caters to closeted incels now. It's on brand to disrespect mothers. Even if it's because she forgot your tuna bagel.
The irony is that this was a point of argument Kendrick said in Meet the Grahams. "No cultural cache to binge, just disrespecting your mother"
i've been following WTD for a minute, but damn the family matter breakdown video really made me question why i be listening to him. that video made me really uncomfortable, because it really showed how tone deaf he is when it comes to being brown - like people really dont understand when dot said he's what the culture is feeling and why he chanted "we dont wanna hear you say n no more" - the crazy thing about kendrick is the fact he has been so prophetic with EVERYTHING, and with that let the party die track out it really shows how bad things have gotten with entertainment and with the media
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Facts. I had to unsubcribe after listening to about 20 minutes of his breakdown. He's been compromised and that's unfortunate. But thankfully we Justin and FD and others to listen to.
@@brownlady222FD is just worse just basically a scummy person. How do you can a whole fambase pdf files and trump supporters
That’s a breakdown we didn’t need. Those lyrics are easily digested. When he spent 10 minutes talking about the van (and it’s not the same) I was over it.
“Watch The Party Die”
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Before or after the Superbowl party?
@@i.m.6758even before. Kendrick don’t care much abt the SB, that’s why he released that song.
@@joneschilufya867 lol ok. He performing that at the Superbowl?
@@i.m.6758 I doubt he'd perform that at the superbowl. All I can say is he is definitely going to trigger some people
I didn’t watch the video intentionally, that 37 times theory is so insane that he said that with a straight face.
And when he implied that Whitney may have stepped out of the relationship, because she was unhappy...I got angry...Because to me he was doing the same thing that Drake did to Whitney, throughout his raggedy song....
@@thehandifanwith9386 how could he come to that with no evidence wtf he sounds like he made assumptions
After that 37 mention he lost me
@@thehandifanwith9386 That’s when I realized that the video was basically fanfiction and gossip. You can’t just say that without any base to your claim.
That's the problem when you have nothing To say but Feel like you have to say something 😂😂😂😂😂
TO MANY PEOPLE ARE trying to participate in HIPHOP WHO DONT UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE
Yeah, because he isn't from it and doesn't belong to it. Instead, he focuses on the music. White men do this thing where they think they're one of us and understand Black culture and so on and so forth.
What culture?
@quan144 are you illiterate. He just told you.
@@quan144if you gotta ask, you ain’t in it.
@@quan144Black American culture
His response to this was even worse, WTD really is compromised
@TheCompanyMan. To be honest, I dont think the N word issue was the most damaging thing.
When i knew WTD was lost in the weeds was when he was scouring Whitney's Social Media and commenting that "these dont feel like posts of a happy relationship". And then mused "Perhaps she had post perinatal depression".
I was floored.
It was basically, she has perinatal depressions or her relationship with kendrick was bad. And that doesnt even speak to the idea of him having the gall to speak on the issue at all.
Basically everything related to whitney in that video was gross as f
Wow...I am beyond disgusted and creeped out
Yea bruh took one drake line and spent like 15 min talking about Whitney and Kendrick relationship
This is what happen when guest get too comfortable in your home.
Exactly!!!!
Quit inviting them to the damn cookouts.....
@@almetapeal5225shxt I just stop inviting myself to that BS ass cookout. They Playing Drake and Sexy Redd over there anyway
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The use of ‘nixxa’ argument has nothing to do with being part/half/full black. Imagine Carlton (Fresh Prince) up and saying it one day. He’s black, but it would be cringe af if he did…
EXACTLY 😂😂😂😂
@@SoulTrybeThat's been the point the whole time. And everyone who didn't get that immediately is "Not Like Us" lol. (Race has nothing to do with it for the slow ones in the back)
YEEEEES pls for the love of god WTD is seriously trying to say as a whole white man who's gonna say or not say the n word weird behavior
Trust me I’m on your side but Carlton is not a good example, “can black intellectuals not say it? “
Same way it’s weird when us Africans use the N-word. I frown on Africans that use it especially those that have never been to the US just because they listen to hip hop.
That is such a wild notion that it could be the premise for a "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong" segment from Chappelle's Show
WTD exposed himself, if not in the Family Matters breakdown, then the way he responded to your valid critisicm.
My dad NEVER allowed us to use it at home. He STILL to this day does not allow it in the house.
I started saying it with my friends outside of the house.
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Family Matters was very surface level. It did not need a 2 hour video dedicated to it😂
Exactly
That's pretty much it.
I Second you on that
Agreed 🤦🏾♂️
It needed 30 minutes
I feel your anger. The breakdown lost me when he justified Drake use of calling us slave. Drake didn’t grow up with that lifestyle to call us that just because his dad is. See Drake lives life like it’s on him for the rest of us it is in us
Yeah that's another weird part of the WTD breakdown
See, I read the comments from people saying he got that take wrong, and I just turned the video off because I knew listening to that would piss me off too much.
It was a big swing and a miss with this breakdown. I suffered through the entire 2 hours and he was glazing Drake Olympic style. I couldn’t believe how much he added. Bringing up Nipsey, Cole-making assumptions about it all. He used Cole’s lyrics to add credence to Drake. I was flabbergasted. I usually like his takes but it was too much.
Yeah that take was crazy coming from HIM , no matter how you frame it that “ you rapping like tryna free the slaves “ bar is trash
One of the worst parts of the video. Him equating heritage with lived experience. Drake didn't grow up with his dad and the black half of his family so it was incredibly tone deaf to say it was ok because his dad's side of the family descended from people who were enslaved.
Damn the 37 times thing was so incredibly dumb
Craziest part is he counted wrong, it's 38 times
He had some crazy reaches in his 6:16 video too. Always makes me cringe when I hear people from outside our culture speak like they’re an authority on it
He's basically invalidated any perceived value to his 6.16 in LA video with that nonsense.
Like that moment in a film where the characters realise someone they thought was higher thinking and more capable, is actually off their rocker and dangerous to be around.
@@Newjerseydestroyer the fact that he had to count it to know is what makes it even crazier.
Justin calling DIY about that 37 made me LOL. 😂
Saying kendrick wasnt really affiliated with a gang is weird af. Im a white man and seeing another trying to say kendrick didnt really grow up with affiliations to gangs and gang violence is just weird.
def one of those that can say “i was watching you in high school.” was happy when i found your current channel after you discontinued doing the breakdown on another channel. you have certainly helped me process my relationship with hip hop and the music industry over the years; even as I have now entered into those spaces as my career
been watching for a decade since freshman year of high school man, u were one of the main avenues i had to really appreciate things i couldn't know or be a part of, and respect them for how they came to be and my place as a listener of it. You're part of my daily digest these days and am just very happy to see you around still giving commentary
Rare Kwite sighting 😂
You got a great sense of humor, love the slop vids, you make slop that's actually funny for a change.
That's wassup Kwite 👍🏽
WTD is a prime example of why we need to gatekeep more
eww racism
@@Hikikomortisit’s not based on his race, it’s based on the fact that WTD clearly doesn’t comprehend the nuances of our culture enough to critique it for the masses
@nahomkebede5107 that's not what racism is. You must be a Drake fan given how tone-deaf your comment is. I bet you love that "slaves freed" line
@@Hikikomortisit’s about culture, not race. You’d never understand that though
@@CarlClinto doubling down on the gate keeping without even knowing my skin color is what's wrong with the black community
This breakdown was awful IMO. I feel like dirt was trying to force a balance between Drake and Kendrick by leaning into Drake’s perspective egregiously. I was super offended by his opinions on black culture. He stated opinions as facts back to back to back. It was very frustrating. He is a guest at BEST in the culture and for him to speak on the culture like an authority on a world he has nothing to do with is insane.
I am half black and was raised primarily by my white mother and even I am well aware of the distance that puts between me and the black community that I call myself a member of.
Dirt lacks cultural awareness in this space he needs to take a breath and listen more than he speaks.
Thank you so much for speaking on this. You are eloquent and accurate and we need your voice on this matter.
This is a highly nuanced, extremely incisive response to WtD's ridiculous theory.
However, seeing WtD's reacting to Justin's response was very infuriating. The guy is an absolute crybaby and the 'I can tell' part was very off-putting and then his further defense of this statement by comparing Justin to Carlton from Fresh Prince was cringeworthy. What a sore loser!
Justin was one of the first to pave the way for these modern breakdown channels. He is one of the best when it comes to this.
Judging by WTD's theory of the N word usage I'm 10,000 years old
I already commented WTD's stream about his cultural ignorance. Then I thought this is BROADLY how Drake sees the world, which indicates his internalized self hatred. I'm sorry Drake isn't that bright.
went to Twitter yesterday to let him know.. you’re NOT LIKE US
I started WTD's and had to pause it today. It is so frustrating because he still just doesn't understand the root of people's criticisms of his recent content. It's NOT just because Kendrick fans can't stand to hear anything against him as he says.👌
Exactly. WhT got me was when he said Kendrick mentioned drake’s son first but then minutes down the line used drake’s line on push up to push Whitney probably cheated with “bodyguard like Whitney” 💀💀
He sold out. He doesn’t care. He is NOW PAID.
@@ekinse.1877thought the same thing. Kendrick trying to tell him to keep it rap is him saying, Drake’s got the drop on me. lol. nah fam. He just wants to keep it rap
And his now gaslighting ,claiming his being bullied typical move.
Omg Same! WTD has no clue about any of them things… Clever what a joke!
When he said, "Go ahead and call me a culture vulture"
it gave the same energy as
"talk about him liking young girls, that's a gift from me"
He studied Drake so much he became like Drake.
He didn’t become like him, it was already there. He resonates with that side of Drake.
Dude look the shit you are talking lol
3:51 I don’t think kdot is talking about something else about the N word. When Drake started up his rap career drake is on a video saying the N word with a HARD ‘er’ and not ‘a’ which most black ppl will NEVER misuse that
It got weird because when kendrick was talking about Drake being a pdf matt outright denied it saying it wasn’t possible but when it came to the kendrick DV he was like I can’t put it on Kendrick but i’ll let you decide 🙄
It’s already been debunked. The vill channel broke it down and has pictures and proof that it wasn’t Kendrick but it could be another celebrity who was in Vegas during that time
When i clicked on the video and saw it was OVER 2 hours long i was like... "Aint no way..."
That breakdown was so culturally unaware that it’s ridiculous. All black people don’t use the N word, especially the older ones like my grandparents. It meant something completely different to them than it does to the younger generation. He just showed how much he doesn’t understand black people at all. Mayo babble
Na u don't understand who you are
"Mayo babble" 😂😂😂
@@ArmLegLegArmHead47 that’s all it is bro 😂😂😂😂😂 he acting like saying the N word is what makes u black, or because you’re black you just automatically say the N word. It’s ignorant
Trying to Defend the slave bar was the craziest part
when kendrick says "they not like us" you guys call him a lyrcal god but when drake says a bar you guys intentionally misinterpret it to get fake outrage 😂
@Z4NKA1 you can literally say this about drake stans and the whole biracial fiasco. Yet you guys took that and ran out into the ground. All that fake victimhood
@@Z4NKA1 remember not like us was a response to the Slave Bar, nobody misinterpreted nothing, the bar is similar to when Kanye said slavery was a good thing to happen to black people, U don't use slavery to convey a point , a better example to make it understandable let's say a kid fell victim to gun violence in the neighborhood, then one parent say as long that ain't my kid I'm fine ,ignoring the gun violence
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@@lefa2008 so you heard that line and ACTUALLY thought drake was making fun of slaves? did you even listen to the song or are u trolling?
WTD dissed Kendrick harder than anything Drake put out. He is definitely not interested in being a journalist. His hurt feelings towards the backlash he has received clearly shows.
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Exactly! People are acting like Kendrick fans are just mad cause it’s a Drake video. I wouldn’t care about a Drake lyric breakdown but it’s the personal attacks and using opinions as fact that bothered me.
I felt the same way with his take
It seemed like What the dirt was injecting a bias by trying to appear fair and balanced to both Kendrick and Drake.
Kendricm & Drakr 💀
there is nothing fair about nothing. He said he was very in my opinion, taking sides.
@@ace_woe haha my bad. Thanks for the catch
HE WASNT EVEN THAT EXCITED LIKE WHEN HE DID EUPHORIA 😅
I think it’s possible, because Drake fans were outraged. I also think it’s possible he was paid off. But I question if he was threatened.
"Kendrick fans are reaching on some of these lyrics."
"Drake specifically planned out how many Neighbors to use in Family Matters."
I mean, Kendrick fans counted the amount of Push Ups he did in the NLU video.
@@T.Gundhamnah cuz they think Kendrick telling Drake he can’t use the n word and then drake using exactly 37 times not not or less in a 7 minutes. Is sooooo farfetched. man
Kendrick this 17 push-ups cuz Drake like em young
Kendrick said wop 5 times cuz it was diss records he released
Drake planning a whole music video to release alongside his song at the same time means he can’t literally sit there and say imma use theirs for every year I wan born.
37 is way to specific of a number to stop using the word at esp when he didn’t use the word at all in the entirety of the last verse used in both the first two verses and just arbitrarily stopped after the 37th time and that isn’t symbolic?
He’s to surface level he can think that deep
Yeah the man who had one the bar in the entire beef with the MJ/prince flip can’t think that deep.
I love that autocorrupt changed it to neighbors
@@kaedatiger some people purposely say Neighbors as a censor method.
@T.Gundham That part of the video was filmed in a jail cell while he was rapping about how Drake "should never wanna go to Cell Block One."
A theory is only as good as its evidence.
The breakdown was longer than the track was relevant
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Damn lmao
factual
Every detail matters
I'm also one of those kids who watched the breakdown back in high school and went on to start making my own music content, and Justin's words about getting lost in the weeds and lost in hubris really spoke to me. I've been working on my own long form breakdown of the beef and have gotten demoralized from seeing other great breakdowns like Justin's many videos or FS Signifier's, but videos like this are great reminders to keep your view in perspective
Thank you for rocking with me, ADAA. Here's a pro tip. Focus on the facts and let the story come to you, and don't worry about discovering something new. I had an editor tell me once that a great editorial either reinforces something everyone knows or disproves a common assumption. Either direction is fine as long as your voice and perspective shines through. That's what kendrick did on Euphoria by opening with Richard Pryor saying backwards: Everything they know about me is true. A battle like this is so amazing because there are so many angles nuances that apply to all aspect of life. Followed your channel the other day. Can 't wait to watch.
Main reason why I don’t like outsiders trying to tell me about my culture. Things like this happen.
"Did you know Drake said the N word 37 times to show he's been a "N word" for 37 years?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ridiculous!
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😅 Tell me he did not say this... 😂
No...he didn't say that bro..plz tell me🤭🤭🤭
@@darkfire06most definitely said it and said it was Clever
Seemed like on this breakdown more than any other he was sharing his opinions and letting that dictate his takes.
His breakdown seemed very subjective and led to some very bizarre takes just off the top :
1. Kendrick is not with Whitney
2. Kendrick is jealous and only drops disses for attention and relevancy
3. Kendrick is massive liar due to not admitting to infidelity on a public forum as if that’s the sane thing to do
4. Kendrick hasn’t planted money trees since it’s not Nip level contributions lol
If you disagree with him “you’re a super glazer”. What a safety net.
Honestly I almost lost my mind watching the breakdown. I stopped 3mins in😭
@@ameen1001me too!! Once I realized his thesis was kendrick is jealous of Drake. I was done.
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@@ameen1001and that's the best way to let your thoughts be known by not giving him views
He was gaslighting like a moo foo too trying to get ahead of and critique.
What's the Dirt was literally watching Akademiks stream a day or two ago. He sent Ak a superchat where he dissed Kendrick's fanbase, he's always been biased.
His "breakdown" is an attempt at trying to grant Drake some kind of win in the complete landslide victory by Kendrick, and it does a horrible job of "exposing" Kendrick.
Edit: Great job pointing out how WTD is in over his head and attempting to force narratives to make his breakdowns look better.
Link?
@@Eniggma39 Can't post links on RUclips. But there was a screenshot of the moment on Reddit
@@overlord6815which sub? I need to see this one 😂
Half expecting What's The Dirt to go full pro-Trump, to try and get into Akademik's good books and milk the RUclips algorithm.
He clearly doesn't care about anything but money.
Not only was he watching it, he also donated to Ak's channel and included a message trashing Kendrick fans.
WTD was very out of touch culturally. The 37 n word line was the craziest reach . He went on his twitter and crashed out so bad. 🤦🏾♀️
That's the grossest thing about this, and maybe Kenny's biggest point: that this is all targeted at manipulating our children. They grow up thinking this is valid and thoughtful analysis when it's actually propagandists unpacking and disassembling.
Another thing Matt aka What’s the Dirt did that annoyed me, was paint Kendrick as some bitter rapper who’s jealous of Drake’s success. And his proof of that was, as he called it, “Kendrick’s own words” when he took lyrics from a Kendrick verse on “Determined” where he said, “Me and my girl split the bucket of KFC, she listening to Drake and all I can say is ‘damn these niggaz that much better than me baby?!’” He didn’t even realize that’s a Kanye West reference from “Touch The Sky.”
I’m gonna be honest. I like his break downs, usually, but I feel like that man reached a lot, and usually does when it comes to Drake. He calls some of the simplest things “clever” when it comes from him. He made sure to give himself a buffer by preferencing that he’s a fan of both artists, but he clearly leans Drake. His videos would be much more legitimate if he just left his bias out.
Him saying Control was basically an attention seeking clout chaser move annoyed me. No understanding of Hip Hop as a competitive sport.
@@CastroJr92no understanding of hip hop at all 😂😂😂😂😂
@@CastroJr92it is a competitive sport and what annoyed me back in 2013 is hearing Kendrick on the radio station telling hosts that “nah, I ain’t mean nothing by that song, it’s all love baby”. Like wtf, you called out all these people like Pac would have but then backpedaling like you afraid of them coming at you. And if you remember correctly, the only people putting out response videos were people who weren’t even mentioned.
@@Lj_el_greatHe said it's all love in the Control verse, you and Drake have the same mindset.😂
He was saying it in DRAKE'S perspective. thats why its a BREAKDOWN. he did the same for every other diss track. stan culture is insane with you guys
I don't say it because it wasn't allowed in our household. Not all Black people uses that damn word.
Same in mine! That word caused so much pain to my ancestors, so we don't use it in my household either.
WTD is so overly defensive that any valid criticism he’s receiving, he’s now trying to blame Kendrick fans for not being able to handle anything negative about Kendrick. Which is ridiculous because he covered Push Ups and Taylor Made with no issues 🙄
He covered 6:16 and euphoria with no issues
I left this same comment on another video. People are being intentionally dense.
It’s what happens when folks ‘study’ the culture. Once they get any recognition, they center themselves and use that recognition as authority to dictate to the culture. And if the culture disagrees, it’s a problem with the culture, not him.
The only reason I know about the WTD videos is due to KThots glazing the dude over his videos. Then he releases the FM video and they are mad. Kendrick and Drake stans ruined this beef from the jump.
@@snowhawk04 thank you bro. That’s what I was saying he got praised a lot when he dropped 6:18 and euphoria breakdowns. But family matters ppl gotta problem bc he exposed some stuff lol
Wow, What's The Dirt's disgusting tweet about The Company Man is absolutely revolting.
What a horrible person he turned out to be. Absolutely sick.
What did he say? I don't have twitter
@@elmark3550 What's The Dirt tweeted a 13 minute clip from Justin's video, with the words "Time to start Punching back at some of these Snakes and this dude is the biggest snake of them all. "Damn Homie, in high school you was the man homie, WTF happened to you"".
He's getting pretty badly ratioed for it thankfully.
Thin-skinned for someone seeking attention 🙄
You will definitely be quoted going forward in my videos as part of my “tourist to the culture” caveat
“Not in a position to properly contextualize”- Justin Hunte
Might make it into a placard. Yeeezus!
I watch your videos and I appreciate your caveat 😉
Your reaction on this would be an interesting video. I know its a reaction, of a reaction, of a reaction....😅
@@iluvdissheet I've thought about it my whole way to work.
Professor!! I love channel, appreciate your respect of the culture, and enjoy your perspective 😊 ✌🏽. Your thumbnails and titles are great 😄👏🏽
@@professorskye very few could do it the justice you probably can
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37 times is such a white boi theory. And this is coming from a 33yo white guy in New Zealand.
So you are confirming that the theory is basically whiteboi certified? Weird flex but you do you KING.
@@Mr.Morales1000😂😂
@@Mr.Morales1000absolutely. That is some white boi shit through and through, slap my stamp of certification on it. It's a bad theory, and it's pretty obviously wrong, but aside from that it's just such a fucking white boi theory.
@@Mr.Morales1000absolutely. Slap my stamp of certification on that, it's as white boi as you can get. Difference between myself and old mate, is I'm fully aware I'm not a part of the culture enough to make blatantly incorrect theories into two hour videos and expect people to believe me.
8:25 😂😂 that's the face we all made when he made that statement
I think I heard that, said "nah" and mentally checked out. Like, it was on like, another 10 mins, but it was just white noise (no pun intended)
literally lmfaooo
That was that same face Rory made when Mal said Drake was better than Lupe, Royce and Black Thought. Like aight mfka
I used to live in predominantly black neighborhoods during some of my childhood and teen years in the south (VA and LA). I don't remember any of my friends or their families ever saying it. Even when we were completely alone saying all the cuss words in the world, I never heard my friends say it. Not to say I never heard it AT ALL out in public, but I have many vivid memories of older Black people getting after random kids for it and them apologizing shortly after. I'm not speaking on whether it should be said or not as it's not my place to speak on that as a mestiza Latina, but these are the Black people I knew during a large chunk of my formative years, so it was crazy to hear this dude say "Drake's half Black, so his father's family uses it" with such conviction. Like, what?! Does he even know any Black people? WHY is he so sure? So weird.
Counting the number of times he said the word? That was very disturbing and to try to justify it...yes he did prove Kendrick's point. Crazy.😮
WTD tone in regard to this breakdown was wildly different. He was condescending, defensive, and it felt oddly personal. I knew something was off when he started talking about paying to access Kendrick’s family information. For a lyric breakdown?
Furthermore his obsession with Whitney was becoming alarming in the build up to dropping this video.
Family Matters was a discombobulated, scatter brained track; that spent more time dissing Whitney than Kendrick. No amount of fake lyric breakdown will change that.
Thank God. My immediate reaction to seeing WTD’s video notification was “yea, here we go!” Then I saw it was 2+ hrs and thought “WTF? This ain’t that deep.” Tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and couldn’t do more than ten min. Obvious content farming. Thought I might be crazy and everyone else would eat it up. So glad to see the backlash. Not out of spite or hate, but because I don’t like seeing “both-side-sizing” from people who haven’t earned it. Bless you man!
There were so many statements he made that really left me kinda upset, not because it was biased or favored whoever, but because it was just kinda out of pocket stuff that either he shouldn't be saying or is really poorly thought out logically. One of the things that really just frustrated me was when he was saying "In my opinion, Kendrick and Whitney aren't together anymore," and it's like, brother, that's not a thing you have an opinion about. Either they are together or they aren't, and it's either you know this to be true or you don't, and it's very clear that he does not know this. Saying "in my opinion" about someone's relationship is WILD. I also have a lot of gripes about his evaluation on certain angles, like saying Kendrick was jealous of Drake and wanted the life that he had and using Determined to argue his point, but Determined isn't about jealousy it's about Kendrick's insecurity and low self-esteem, and he explains that in the song. Like just flat out incorrect reading of the bar. Also maybe it's just me being WOKE, but the fact that he just reads off Drake calling Abel gay and in the closet and does not even begin to reflect on that or critique Drake being one step away from just calling Abel the F slur with no pushback, I just don't understand. I don't get how you read those bars and don't think, "Man this is kinda corny in 2024," just reads it out like it's a normal thing to do.
His opinion that Kendrick is jealous of Drake directly contradicts his opinion of the opening of his 6:16 breakdown.
That’s crazy. How does this guy expect to be any type of authority or journalist/media figure saying stuff like that?
hes saying it in drakes perspective, thats not even his own opinion thats why its a breakdown. and youre seriously complaining abt "homophobia" of all things said on both sides? drake and kendrick have both said way worse than that
@@yoojin3877 its not HIS opinion tho thats why its a breakdown
@@Z4NKA1 It's his theory because he is not Kendrick, does not know Kendrick, and cannot possibly know for a fact that his theory is correct. You can't claim it to be objectively true when Kendrick hasn't confirmed it.
Also go somewhere else with the whataboutism, Kendrick didn't say anything worse during this beef and whatever else was said in the past is not relevant to what Drake said this year on Family Matters. Even if we want to rake Kendrick over the coals for whatever thing you have a problem with, Drake is still just calling Abel gay as an insult. That still happened.
IMO a larger mistake is WTD approaching this as Drake and Kendrick being equal in their ability to craft stories and rhymes-when there's clear evidence that it isn't the case. Hell, theres multiple instances of Drake's inability in The Heart Part 6 alone.
Yeah. It felt really 'both sides are the same' when they're clearly not. And regardless who you prefer, taking each artist's pros and cons individually and dissecting them based on what they bring to the table rather than attempting to validate or justify or communicate where they're coming from in the same style can cause storytelling challenges sometimes.
Him reaching to find Kendrick level hidden messages etc in other people's songs, let alone Drake's, is a dead give away he doesn't listen to rap music like that.
His breakdown is so clearly from a YT teen/man's perspective LOL.. Distasteful
What’s the Dirt tried to give equal attention to Drake, but as many people in the comments here have noted, Drake’s song is just too surface-level to justify that.
I think the biggest faux pas was him explaining Drake's lineage. He said "its in his blood and you cant take that away from him"
The african american experience is not innate, you grow and live through it.
That's where it started to go off the rails for me, and there's plenty more examples in that breakdown. I think he should've presented things from a more neutral perspective because it kind of turned him into a villain, unintentionally
That was another point I wanted to mention because it's the next part after the clips I shared, but I started feeling redundant talking and forgot to get to it. That part was wild too. Some points are just easier to stay away from.
@@TheCompanyManThis convo’s got me thinking that having white men doing blood quantum to justify rap lyrics has been somewhat unnerving lol… would appreciate a video going into the topic in the comment above🙏🏾 tyvm
Just finished watching his breakdown and I rolled my eyes 25 times to represent the number years I've been alive
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That was a good one!🤣
This is when people need to gate keep and preserve the culture. I’m sure there are content creators who have the life experience, information, education, and interest in hip hop to do a better job.
Exactly....I find it very hard to watch breakdowns from people not in the culture. Actually I turn em off. Much rather watch someone who lived it
I'm an English teacher in Spain, i have a huuuge problem trying to explain my kids and teens not to use the n word.. they haven't lived in the US and they see it so normalized in tv music movies etc that they really don't feel it's their responsibility to deal with those social issues..
so the lack of internal dialogue in the US also affects external dialogue at least in that topic..
6:00 whats even sadder about WTD bringing this line up is the fact that it was never about Drake being mixed. Nothing about Drake being light-skinned or mixed was ever brought up until Drake said it.
Right, he missed the point. He didn’t grow up and experience being a young African American man. He literally can’t have that understanding.
The domestic violence reach he went for felt intentionally false. The rapper that had the domestic violence problem on may 25th was Diddy he & Cassie were at the hotel the lady was referring too. And WTD knows that! He’s intentional enough to have that info. He just chose to ignore it to spin a narrative.
If I'm remembering correctly, someone sent him the video that The Vill did, which debunked it being Kendrick.
For 6:16 in LA, he explained what the bars meant. For Family Matters, he kept trying to justify and validate what Drake said with a lot of "I feel" and "I think".
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"Hmm.. how can i respond to kendrick? I know! I'll say the word once for each year old i am. That will show him!" That's not symbolism lmao. That's asinine. That sounds like the kind of genius annotation someone writes when they're desperate to seem clever
Am I the only one who found the segment weird where he talked about "blood mixture" and "dilution"? That's eugenics in a lyrical breakdown. Disturbing to say the least
I checked out the video when he said "If Kendrick always hated Drake why make a song with him" like did they work together again after those songs? Clearly something happened during that time period not before
It took so long because he wasnt researching he was trying to come up with believable angles to make Drake look just as clever as Kendrick to soften the blow of the loss.
I suspect he was paid to do so.
He finished that trash video in like 2 weeks. The rest of the time he was just working on his new “merch” to sell.
@@triplehayes6416 My take is he's been too embarrassed to release it for months, but saw some of the attacks on Kendrick this week because of the Lil Wayne Super Bowl thing and thought he could sneak it out now.
All very sad.
@@luckyspurs damn I didn’t even register that myself. You’re right tho he was trying to use that Wayne story to soften the blow on that mid he put out.
My introduction to you was the 2012 GKMC hiphopdx review when I was 12 years old and you turned me into a hip hop head who analyzes lyricism and concepts. You also turned me into a Kendrick Stan. Been supporting for 12 years.
Go back and listen to Stan by Eminem because I am conflicted about this term. Stan ended in a murder/suicide...Yeesh😮
@@blaquehealer5484Nas on Ether turned Stan into another meaning of super fan so I know what I’m talking bout. I know my hip hop ish brother.
lol, I learned how to read and write better by reading his articlesEnglish is my 2nd language
@@blaquehealer5484the word has been reassigned to mean "fan who's more intense or deep into the fandom" nowadays.
@gabehere Nawl but that wasn't the intention behind his lyrics as Em was profoundly impacted by his words being taken literally. It is hero worship but these artists are human. But hey if you like it, I love. For instance, when I realized what s/he drunk the kool-aid referenced. I am real intentional about when I use it.
Bro out of all the reactions I and breakdowns I’ve seen…I’ve never come across your channel until now. Subbed.
What’s the dirt is gonna think you’re some hater, but anybody who doesn’t like his breakdown are all “Kendrick Stan’s” lmao, bro took 4 months for that ?
I feel like WTD stating Drake said the word 37 times was an attempt to make it seem like he could do what Kendrick did on Nosetalgia with numerology (9, 10, 19, 87, 36). "Drake can do that too, see!"
Every verse is a brick motherfucker go figure🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥