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@@tdsim5779 Yeah, this guy looked up the cliff notes from someone else and then decided he wanted to give a piece of his mind too. This was absolute garbage.
Drake didn't just call Kendrick an abuser. Drake said that the mother of Kendrick's kids was a wh*re basically and homie hopping. He took direct, nasty shots at a civilian. The same error he made with Pusha T, but worse. He should have expected annihilation 💯
YES. I've seen a lot of people saying it's an insult to Kendrick because he's supposedly raising another man's kid, but that is way more insulting to Whitney's character than Kendrick's. I can understand why he wanted to end Drake's entire career after that.
I think that's cause the only women in Drake's life are ones he either has to groom and 'keep them from other men ever touching them' or going around and just outright meddling in already established relationships. And the fact he said that was a dis at all the women who already had men that he hooked up with. Like, how could he not see how stupid of a move that was? He was not only insulting Kenny, but his girl and just about every woman he's had since he became famous. What did they have to do with anything?! It said more about Drake's view of women and friends in general than anything substantial about Kendrick. Talk about a self pwn.
i think that's why she was in the music video. everyone seemed to assume kendrick brought her out as a way of clearing his own name, but i bet she wanted to step on drake just as much as he did
Is jealousy and envy was so bad it's like you can smell it and is always going after people's wives yet going to Whitney that she's safe with him when he's the one with the sa Case been wearing that Drake costume for so long he really thought he is thug life was really his and Kendrick's life was Drake's life do you want to be A thug that bad which I don't understand why would you want to grow up in the life that Kendra grew up in Compton during the LA riots watching his friends be murdered dying in front of them having to learn to fight just make sure he can protect himself when he out in the street I do not understand people like that I grew up in the projects of Newark New Jersey if I had a choice it would be the opposite to be the projects ducking bullets and things like that is not fun
@@redfirework3690 from what I gathered, Drake claimed that Whitney slept with Dave Free, and that one of Kendrick’s children was not his. That is an attack on her character, on his children and their family. This was after claiming that Whitney walks around with bodyguards, in Push ups I think.
Family Matters wasn't the only time Drake has referenced slavery in a gross way. In Slime You Out Drake says that he has "whipped and chained [his girl] like American slaves". It wasn't a one-off mistake. He's been called out for it in the past he and keeps doing it.
And let's not forget Drake clapped back at OBAMA, the president of the united states of america, for choosing the american rapper Kendrick Lamar over the canadian Drake when asked. Any other rapper would have left that alone just out of sheer respect for the first black american president but not Mr. Fragile ego. It really goes to show how not like us he really is.
He was referring to providing women with fancy cars (whips) and expensive necklaces (chains). So you know it’s basically like slavery because they have the same names. Even the genius annotation calls it a “questionable relation”
@@pumas6189You’d think he’d have learned after, “You are hiding a son, let that boy come home” but no. Drake must be a masochist of some variety for this much self sabotage.
"I be with some body guards like Whitney" is such a soft shot. Kendrick was obvs waiting for any reason just like pusha t. Both knew they had the w in the bag and just needed an excuse.
Yeah, absolutely not, while it's an extreme example, if a belligerent drunkard was beating their kids in public for no reason and you called them a bad parent, no one would think you're talkin about the kid. lmao
Yeah saying "your a deadbeat dad to your son" doesn't actually insult the son at all, just the dad". But saying "your wife cheats on you" insults both the man and his wife.
Then there Kendrick in New york chasing white women while Whitney raises them kids herself. The only thing cornier than Kendrick is the stans who gulk him down
It's a reference to the track element when he said ”put the Bible down and go eye for eye with this sh*t". Now he's hiding the Bible because he doesn't want God to see him destroy Drake in the manner he's willing to take it.
It's a reference to the track "Element" where he says "Put the Bible down and go eye for an eye for it." Now on not like us he's hiding the Bible because he doesn't want God to see him destroy Drake in the manner he's willing to go.
The fact that this music video appeared a whole two months after the song came out, makes it less a way to promote the music or earn money, and more a (well-deserved) victory lap.
You're talking in the time where music videos and songs come out together...in the time before time like just 10 yrs ago before Bey starting dropping visual albums...videos came months after an audio version.
@@BeautifulEarthJa sure but that just adds even more to Kendrick being more old school & sticking to the roots of hip hop even though he's more new school & he's also implementing that into the beef to keep on egging Drake on by being able to stretch it out the way he's been able to which is a great chess move especially since the video had disses & implications/references in it too on top of the audio of the actual song itself too. Drake dropped a weak lame video for Family Matters with the song & it was just straight up weak didn't help at all what so ever. Kendrick dropping a video for NLU 2 months later only gave it way more hype than it originally got lmao. it worked in his favor while Drake sticking to the new school ways failed him.
What are you talking about? The John Stockton line was great. The all-time leader in assist who passed the ball to Karl Malone, who famously at the age of 20 had to child with a 12-year-old girl in college. That was genius?
Right?! It was a creative way paint an oh so very vivid picture. It showed just how many people are lining up to best Drake's ass he might just pass Drake off to one of many people waiting.
Yeah great ode to Dr Dre as well who Kendrick had on stage who also famously impregnated and beat a 16 year old. That Kendrick guy loves hanging with abusers.
speaking as a total outsider (metalhead), it just shows how major this track is that it sent digital earthquakes across the internet so drastically that even people like me who rarely keep up with rap artists noticed - when the most recent phase of this rap battle started kicking off, even the smallest update would dominate every podcast, commentary channel, and general algorithm recommendation cycle. the whole ride's been insane and i couldn't look away at this point even if i wanted to.
I’m in the exact same place. Dedicated metalhead who rarely trekked into the world of hip hop but there was something to this beef that resonated across the entire music industry and pop cultural landscape. And, as a metalhead, I think I can safely say that Meet the Graham’s is one of the most brutal tracks I’ve ever heard.
Metal head HERE although I've always enjoyed 90s Hip-hop . This beef introduced me to Mr Duckworth aka K-DOT and Kung fu Kenny . I decided to go down the Kenny rabbit hole and I'm enjoying every bit of it !
Lifelong metalhead, I was never big into metal, with the exception of some R&B. But when I listened to meet the grahams, it really was a brutal masterpiece imo. I think every metalhead has to admit, that Kendrick Lamar is freaking beast, and as metalhead, I throw my metal horns to that man!
The fact that this song calling Drake and his crew predators is *still* topping the charts is basically another diss on top of the actual lyrical content. He showed that not only is he an infinitely better lyricist, he can also do what Drake does and make huge hits if he wants to.
@@romaretaylor9953He's saying the fact that a hit song calling Drake and his boys pedos that has people literally singing along at sporting events is like the second shot.
6:26 drake went after family first (as he has a habit of doing **cough** pusha t) on push ups, “on some bodyguards like whitney.” the implication being that kendrick’s long-term partner whitney alford was unfaithful with a bodyguard, with no evidence or relevance to the beef. that’s what kendrick was warning drake about on euphoria when he said “don’t speak on the family crodie … if you take it there, i’m taking it further (psst, that’s something you don’t wanna do).”
Right!! Folks are missing this. In Euphoria he did not attack Drake’s kid; he attacked Drake’s parental skills. Two distinct differences. Kendrick warned Crodie and told him his family would bleed if he didn’t take heed. Fool messed around and found out.
Iiiiiiiii gotta point out. You said "*cough* Pusha T" when actually he's shown to do this even *earlier* than that against Meek with Nicki Minaj. He just does this shit consistently with the partners and ex partners of ppl he doesn't like. It just ain't cool.
Also, when he’s talking about pass on the body like John Stockton John Stockton’s teammate for the longest time was Karl Malone and Karl Malone got a 13-year-old girl pregnant when he was 19
Also, Stockton used to be THE assist guy! Bruh, if you really think a Kendrick line is a throwaway, by this point someone criticizing his media should check it first. I’ve been telling people with the way he played this entire thing we are nowhere near having figured out every level in every bar. And tbh, I don’t really want to this quickly because that’s what gives replay value to songs from good lyricists.
Drake definitely mentioned Whitney first when he said.. “I be with some bodyguards like Whitney” with many perceiving that line as Whitney cheating on Kendrick. You can compare Kendrick attacking Drakes parenting to Drake attacking Kendrick as a partner, but you can’t forget he made another allegation of Whitney cheating on him with his best friend and having a child on him.. that is clearly more of an attack on Whitney’s character than Kendrick, because how low down do you have to be to do something like that.. then he told her to “shake that ssa itch hands on your knees, now shake that ssa for Drake and shake that ssa for free” that’s deeply disrespectful to Whitney directly.. he act Like he was beefing with her.
"Your Honor, I do belive the defendant has abused his blackness in a maner indistinguishable from colonialization. And, as such behavior is antithetical to the preservation of our heritage, move to strike Mr. Graham's blackness from functional usage" Best line in youtube ever
Nah, Meet the Grahams is the song going for the jugular. This is styling on the guy after he drops. And honestly, Meet The Grahams is the one that really fascinates me in its construction. The chilling atmosphere and the dripping venom.
haha yea, I got what you mean, but this one's the big single, PLUS it was kinda the "circling the block to make sure the deed is done" kinda track in the whole situation
I've tended to compare it more to an MMA fight, and Meet The Grahams was like a perfectly-executed gut punch. Done right, you don't even fall, you just stand there, bent over, desperately praying for air. And Not Like Us is the fancy spinkick that only works if your opponent/victim has just been hit so hard they revisit all their meals this week.
@@mohamedfahad2364 there’s a few faults with the criticisms in this video actually. I like the articulation but some research and notes needed to be taken first so yeah I definitely agree
7:40 you kind of missed why Kendrick did this, surprised tbh since I thought it was pretty common knowledge atp, but drake mentioned Kendrick’s fiancé first on push-ups, hence why Kendrick warned him to stop on euphoria. Kind of deflates your topic when you miss that crucial detail
It's not illegal to be a deadbeat. It's only after Drake accused Kendrick of domestic abuse that Kendrick started dropping the serious allegations too.
No family matters wasnt just a diss to kendrick in relation to whitney via wife beating but a direct mention of whitney when he accused her of sleeping with his best friend and having a kid by him. I think that was the line crossed
Allegations aside, what I love about "Not Like Us" is that Kendrick brings up so much history, calling Drake a colonizer. Also, bringing the Bloods and Crips to the live show? That alone is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize or something.
It’s kind of crazy how Drake just dropped three new songs with two of them featuring Atlanta artist. I really don’t think he will ever beat the allegations.
@@Waine888 He called The Weeknd gay then said that's why you and your friends go to Atlanta. He pretty much called Atlanta gay for no reason lmao. Straight disrespect.
He said his music gets played in places where the guys have a little more pride 🌈 and something about his friends needing a guide in Atlanta or something like that. @@Waine888
The thing that really got me with family matters is you don’t just say that somebody is abusing their wife and then casually shout out Chris Brown as one of your friends in the same track. I know Kendrick ain’t the most innocent in this whole situation either, but at least he didn’t shout out Kodak Black on not like us or meet the Grams.
@@SirLightsOut99 omg I didn’t even think about it like that! There’s so many mistakes on Drake’s end in this whole beef…people are even making video essays on where Drake went wrong in his disses smh
"Beat your ass and hide the bible if God's watching" is a reference to the track "Element" where he says "Put the Bible down and go eye for an eye for it." Now on not like us he's hiding the Bible because he doesn't want God to see him destroy Drake in the manner he's willing to go.
The thing is...in fighting games theres a thing called flowcharting, its executing a gameplan regardless of what the opponent tries to do. Intiially the beef was all footsies then Drake did an unsafe move and got absolutely looped into flowchart gameplay. Absolute devastation
@@JFirecracker I definitely had Killer Instinct's absolutely insane combo potential in mind here. I can't think of a game that allows longer combos, outside of the laughably easy infinites of some unbalanced older games.
7:14 Pushups. “I be with some bodyguards like Whitney”. Drake mentioned family first. I think Kendrick was going to come after him regardless. But Drake went there first.
I knew Drake wouldn't win, not because I am biased towards Kendrick (which I am 100%) but because Drake isn't self-aware enough, nor is he aware of the intricacies of blackness enough to insult Kendrick. He came close with the line "Kendrick just opened his mouth/someone go hand him a grammy right now" but he doesn't get close enough to really stick the landing imo.
@wadespencer3623 right? Or he could have said that he's a hotep who accepts awards from white establishments and collabs with white people whereas Drake has collabed with black people globally. It would have been a hypocritical thing to say but a lot of the audience would have taken it at face value at first.
@@PeggyKonekoI mean didn’t Drake bring up performing with white artist and stuff? Sure it could work but someone else would have to say it for it to land. It can’t be Drake to say it. Sometimes the message has to be said by the right messenger for it to hit. Like Future couldn’t call Drake a deadbeat dad as a diss 😂 everyone will just side eye him Future even if he was right
Plus... no disrespect to the man, but Drake got his shit WRECKED by Pusha T... what the FUCK made Drake think he stood a chance against Kendrick when Pusha T fucking DESTROYED his ass.
Also, John Stockton used to pass it to Karl Malone, who’s a certified pedophile as well. The man admitted that a kid who’s mother was 13 when he impregnated her is his son, can’t get more certified than that.
He began his entry into rap lying that he was poor. CBS did an interview and exposed him and as the actor always does, he tootsie slid his way out by saying oh, but my friends had more money than my rich family had.
He was Listening to Rap as a kid, and his hanged out with his uncle. Lmfaooo. Drake was always black lol. That's just who he was a biracial Jewish kid who had interaction with a variety of culture.
Watching everything that Kendrick said would happen on Euphoria play out in real time was the best part of all of this for me. That song is an incredible piece of work.
Yeah Drake did start family talk first by saying "your wife is cheating on you" so while Kendrick kept that energy to a certain degree with bringing up Drake's son, Drake is the one that started going there. Like That was Kendrick strictly talking about Drake's music and saying mine is better. Now I think Kendrick WANTED Drake to go too far so Kendrick could step on his neck but its still on Drake
I still think Meet the Grahams is the greatest diss track of all time. I had never heard a rap that made me feel like if it was aimed at me I’d be buying rope before that one.
Right. It made me feel a bit uncomfortable to listen to. Can’t imagine how it’d feel for that song to be targeted towards me with millions of people to listen to 😭
meet the grahams was the killing blow and not like us was the victory lap. i've definitely listened to not like us more because it's easier but nothing conveys hate as perfectly as meet the grahams.
I feel the "Beat yo ass and hide the bible if God watchin..." line isn't "Don't let god see me do this" but more "I'm putting the rules away for this one". Mostly because the shots he was taking at this point in the battle were basically using an artillery piece to flatten someone's tent.
Drake said Kendrick wife first “ I keep a bodyguard like Whitney” that is Kendrick Lamar’s wife’s name and it was said on push ups other than that I agree with the video for the most part
Great video, but I gotta disagree on two fronts. 1. Control and Like That are not comparable. They seem similar at first, since they are both the text book definition of "funny how one verse can fuck up the whole game". But on Control Kendrick was saying "look, I love you guys, but step your god damn game up. This is about skill, and if you slouch on me I will leave you in the dust". It's harsh but ultimately kind of encouraging. Where as on Like That Kendrick is not addressing the entire rap game, he is specifically laser focusing on Drake(and J Cole I guess). But while on Control Kendrick's downplaying of his peers accomplishments was framed as a splash of cold water to get their ass into gear, Kendrick is actually insulting Drake. He's not saying "you can and should do better" he's saying "your best work ain't shit and I am better than you". That's a very different tone. 2. I don't think it's fair to compare what kendrick said about Drake and his son to what Drake said about Kenny and his wife. When Kendrick is bringing up Drake's relationship with his son, he is only attacking Drake. Adonis is being eluded to, but not insulted, only as a means to point out that Drake is a deadbeat and a loser who cares more about trolling on Instagram than raising his own child. Drake claiming that Kendrick doesn't take pictures with his son serves a similar function, again Drake is bringing his kid up but he is not insulting his kid. But that is not the case when he brings up Whitney. Drake bring her into this as another way to degrade Kendrick's image, painting him as an involuntary Cuckold and a woman beater. But in the process he accused an innocent woman who barely has anything to do with any of this of being an adulterer. He also low-key called Whitney a bitch, which like wtf is wrong with you dude.
"innocent woman", brother you dont know that. None of us do. Its a very common thing for dudes to call other dudes' gf a hoe. It implies the dude has bad taste in women. Ill never understand how women are always innocent in people's eyes. Just rush to their aid if anything bad is said about them. As for getting personal during a beef, thats expected when you are an emotionally fragile person like Drake. He couldnt take a friendly jab, he had to blow it out of proportion. Whitney was collateral damage, nothing more.
There was way more to 6:16 in LA than you get on first listen. The most damning critique of Drake's character is hidden in that first verse, and it completely flew under the radar.
Kendrick didn't mention family 1st on Euphoria. That was Drake mentioning Whitney on Push Ups. He crossed the line first and after several warnings, Drizzy doubled down. He brought it upon himself.
He did pass on this body... to the internet. We dug up the proof. We roasted him. We made BBL Drizzy verses. He can't fully end Drake alone. He needed the rest of us to care once the battle was over. (See "Not us. Culture, you got us?" from his song with Beyonce last year.)
@@romaretaylor9953 You can just say you missed the whole internet moment a few weeks ago when his album dropped. Also 2016 was 8yrs ago - which means you also missed their lil moment a few years ago after Bino dropped “This Is America”. And with allllllat said: if a person laughing with you is all you need as proof of being cool, you’re probably a pure soul, but you’re also an easy target.
To be fair... "kayfabe" as a term has found its way outside of wrestling circles, as weird as it sounds. I've seen it brought up in relation to both VTuber and, of all things... philosophical discussions on the nature of reality... and now hip-hop beef.
Kayfabe is also heavily used in rap commentary because it’s the persona many rappers must take for critical acclaim. But yeah I’m pretty sure rc watches wrestling…if not him, FD does
Smh Kendrick had to dumb down his lyrics AND make a club banger and people still don’t get it. Calling Drake a 69 God is bad regardless of the reference because Kendrick is also calling him a pedo in the same song..
@@SeanStrife calling him the 6 god wouldn't be a diss if anything it would affirm his ego/status. has everything to do with what @VanityZERO spoke on referencing tekashi69 being busted with some underage females. The masses been used to drakes low vibration music/thinking that it takes them awhile to digest just a fraction of a song by an individual who's levels and levels above what you perceived as the best or top tier. The person's reality shatters as they begin the process of recalibrating the way they look at life. with that said, Kendrick's next album will not be slept on by the masses. and dot knows this hence why he's giving the people time to fully digest the content he released during the battle. He's the only artists that while battling the puppet also at the same time is taking on the CEO's of the music industry and actually not only drew blood but wounded them. The "untouchables" behind the certain.
2:51 folks were going in on me on Instagram for saying Euphoria was too tame. He kept saying “I know stuff” and I’m like dawg either say it or you sound like you’re bluffing… after he really started SHOOTING
Some notes: Everyone's noted Drake brings up Whitney in Push Ups, but lets not forget Taylor Made and how he paraded around the corpse of 2Pac [the man whose crown Kendrick bares and who he pretty clearly still feels grief over Hip Hop losing so early in TPAB] and put words in the mouth of Snoop [you know, one of the guys who literally passed Kendrick the crown of the west coast on stage, a moment that moved him to tears]. 2Pac and Snoop are family to Kendrick in a spiritual sense. Drake was asking for things to get nasty before Kendrick even put out his first full track. Drake was asking for him to drop. He was asking for him to talk about him touching little girls [he literally puppeteered 2Pac's corpse into asking him to do that in Taylor Made]. Let's stop pretending Kendrick went too far, he went exactly as far as Drake asked him to. People use the word "unsubstantiated allegations" a lot in this beef, saying neither side has evidence or receipts or whatever and both sides are engaging in baseless mudslinging. That's Drake apologia. The least substantiated thing about Drake from this whole beef is the daughter thing, which we know he got subpoenaed for a paternity test by a Miami waitress years back [her daughter would be 11 or 12 now], we just don't know the result of that subpoena. The next least-substantiated is the ab surgery thing, which is suspected due to some photos, but nothing's concrete, though this is a case of it appearing more likely due to the fact that: We know Drake is on Ozempic because of the cover of Meet the Grahams. DJ Akademics, Drake's foremost glazeroni, has confirmed they're from Drake's father's suitcase and his legal name is right there. This isn't a court of law, it doesn't matter how we saw it or how they got their hands on it, we know Drake has a prescription for Ozempic and he hasn't said anything about having diabetes. We know Drake is having issues with pills, we've seen his uppers and downers from the same cover. He also sings about it on every album more or less. We know Drake has a toxic relationship with women - he sings about it constantly and we have interviews with the women who ran Tinder accounts to find girls to invite to his parties. That's not including his beefs with his exes or his pre-Story of Adidon attempts to dodge his BM. We know Drake has gambling problems - he posts about it on social media. His sports betting is so notorious there's lore about it being a curse to the teams he bets on. We know Drake is a shitty father - see Story of Adidon. We also know Drake's father wasn't in his life for a long time from Drake's own account, though that's not a knock against Drake. We know Drake keeps sus people around him. Baka has a weird case. That's a matter of public record. He was arrested for assault and prostitution charges that miraculously vanished when the witness disappeared into the mist. And Drake isn't indifferent to Baka being around him or merely tolerant of it - Drake said 'I might declare it a holiday as soon as Baka get back on the road.' We know Drake has ghostwriters and has people do reference tracks for him. We know Drake is a colonizer. He's from Canada and was primarily raised by his white Jewish mother in working class conditions until around 23 when his third mixtape got him signed by Lil Wayne after a bidding war - those aren't bad things, but that speaks to his environment and what authenticity from Drake would look like. That's not what he portrays in his music. He's demonstrably worked with a ton of Atlanta artists. He's demonstrably hopped on trends more than once. No one on his label is doing anything more significant than writing for Drake outside Partynextdoor. He does some pretty cringe things with accents that aren't his. He has been acting like he's slime gang/a drill rapper for a while. We know he's rapped some pretty cringey things about American slavery - both in Family Matters and Slime You Out. He isn't a gangster, he was a promising right-winger for a minor hockey team until his dotting florist/english teacher mother [no shade to her] got nervous about his safety, then he worked for his grandfather's furniture business, got bullied in school, dropped out of school to help support his sick mother with his acting career, and worked on his music while sometimes sleeping in a dressing room so he wouldn't have issues being late to recording [paraphrased from his wiki page, which are based on early interviews with him]. He struggled as a kid and that's valid, but when it comes to his music he raps about struggles that aren't his own but rather those of black communities he has a tenuous connection to at best and at worst actively disrespects. That sucks. And, more than all of that, we know Drake has inappropriate relationships with underage girls. Does that involve statutory r*pe? Unknown. Does it involve him grooming girls under 18 to then go on dates with him once they're legal [at least twice on record]? Does it involve him texting and DMing 13 and 14 year old girls about how much he misses them and to give them 'advice about boys'? Does he get weirdly close - physically close - to underage girls and kiss them on camera [*cough* Kylie *cough*]? Has he ever kissed an underage girl on stage and talked about how 'thicc' she is and how '[he] likes how her breasts feel'? Yes to all that. We have video evidence, photographic evidence, testimonial evidence from witnesses and the people involved - both the girls themselves and Drake. The most well-documented 'accusation' from this whole beef is that Drake is weird around little girls - there is more evidence of that than there is that Tommy the Clown and Kendrick have met in person, a thing we only have a concert and a music video to prove. There's some question marks about the allegations from Drake's side, but on the domestic abuse the most substantiated it gets is a single account from a bouncer from a decade ago that has no corroborating evidence. The people Drake drags into the beef [Dave Free, Whitney, Kendrick's kids, a couple of the celebrities he talks about] end up showing out for Kendrick in the Not Like Us video and/or at the Pop Out. And Drake misunderstands the things he does know about Kendrick [due to Mr. Morale] so badly he made himself look like an idiot in The Heart Part 6 with his bars about Mother I Sober, maybe the most cringe set of bars to have been released by a non-White Nationalist in the past decade. Kendrick spoke and rapped about his issues [infidelity] and had everyone he supposedly wronged back him up. Drake openly acts like a piece of sh*t, raps about being a piece of sh*t, and has never shown even a token interest in changing his behavior in that regard. There's no equivalency to be made there.
@Rryiac For me it was implying that Drake makes Kendrick so angry that he would even use a Bible to beat Drake. When God watches, he hides the Bible, because it is morally right to beat Drake, just not with a Bible. It's another additional diss that even God finds it ok to beat up Drake.
@@ThePhreakass I also thought he hid the Bible because he was beating Drake but I thought it might be a reference to a “Bible beater”, who are overly pushy Christians who try to convert people. Like that Drake is an immoral sinner who needs Jesus so Kendrick needs to “Bible beat” him metaphorically as well as physically beating him.
It’s saying you’re gonna beat someone so bad that you’d try to hide Gods witnessing it, or keep anything holy outside of it, bc there’s nothing holy in a ass beating that bad
"I make music that electrify em You make music that pacify em I could double down on that line, but spare you this time..." A lot of people don't talk about that warning in Euphoria.
15:51 Drake's hypersexualization is something worth pointing out. I think you need to view this verse as well as Not Like Us "Hide the Bible" verse less literally and see what is actually being said, not just what is being spoken.
For someone who says they're a rap critic you'd think you'd get your facts straight. Drake brought up family first when he said on Push Up that he "be with some bodyguards like Whitney." That's why Dot gave him warnings on Euphoria and 6:16 in LA to NOT bring his family into the battle. In fact, the whole beef started because Drake is a little beeyotch and got hurt feelings over a compliment. LOL! Nobody took that Control verse as an insult except Drake. And then Drake had the nerve to get even madder when he said he ran into Dot after the verse came out and Dot was friendly. Yet another metaphor that didn't reach Drake. But, again, Drake is NOT 'of the culture" so of course eh didn't understand that it wasn't disrespectful. That sums of the whole rap beef - Drake is not of the culture, just a vulture feeding off it.
Love that there are video essays that go, "Here's a history of hip-hop and how it all came to this" and others that are like "here's a blow-by-blow of this exact moment in-time." I know it's not "THE" lyric that gets focused on, but I really think "I hate you like I'm young" is an incredible line.
Putting aside the obvious (Drake bringing Whitney into it from jump with Push-Ups) I feel like you're forgetting that Drake said Whitney slept with his close friend and had that man's baby in Family Matters.
I think this is an insane stretch. lol It's just a funny play off of 6 God, and ties in to him being freaky. There is NOTHING that would make it seem he is referencing Tekashi. lol
@@YerpDerp17 No, that it is precisely the reference. The Tekashi 6ix9ine story was a widely known spectacle in hip hop at the time. There is every reason to think Kendrick knew about it. How else would "freaky ass..." even make sense as a jab in the context of pedophile allegations?
you totally did not understand the "pass on this body like john stockton bar". John stockton's teammate was Karl malone who impregnated a 13 year old. it was a deadly bar
Ayyy!! Your linguistic prowess in breaking down Kendrick's lyrics is amazing! I agree with everything you said but it's also HOW you said it. I wish I could love this video! ❤ Congratulations to me for being a new subscriber right now!
“I be with some bodyguards like Whitneyyyy”. If that was my family, its off with your head. And Kendrick literally doubled down on that line and spared him.
There's a reason kendrick said in euphoria "You gonna bring my family crodie? Someone in your family gonna bleed now crodie", he talked about whitney in push-ups and fucked it all up.
Drake said tht kendrick beat on his queen. In the song 'mother i sober' kendrick said he felt guilty seeing his queen (his mother) with a black eye. Drake doesn't khow to break a song down. 😅😅... It was talking about his mother
6:28 You're wrong here. Kendrick was responding to Drake's Push-ups diss where Drake claimed "I be with some bodyguards like *Whitney'"* mentioning Kendrick's wife name. The intro to Drake's push-ups diss says "WHO'S KID?". The first word of that song is bringing kids into the beef, alluding to what Drake claims to be the questionable origin of Kendrick second child in his Family Matters diss. So no, Kendrick didn't target the family first, that's why he warned Drake doing that in Euphoria. Also, every single Drake beef he targets loved ones first. With Meek Mills, it was Nicki Manaj (his girlfriend at the time), with Common he diss Serena Williams (Common girlfriend at around that time) and with Pusha T his wife. Still a good video though.
Drake brought up family first on push-ups. Kendrick essentially just called Drake a bad father. Drake said his wife cheated on him with his friend. Public knowledge vs personal
I've been watching you since TGWTG days and its really beautiful how much you've evolved as a critic. I'm always happy when i see a new upload from you.
How can a dude named "rap critic" miss the entire part where Drake calls Whitney a homie hopper in Push ups by insinuating she was sleeping with her bodyguards? Like, wtf huge miss.
Did you seriously accuse Kendrick of being the first to bring family into it? "I be with some bodyguards like Whitney" is a line from Push-Ups. Calling Drake a shitty dad is not on the level of accusing someone's wife of multiple infidelities NOR WAS IT FIRST.
I fell off on hiphop back in the 2000's but for my entire life my favorites have been Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Outkast and Cee-lo but primarily because I never found much appeal in the hardcore gangster rap and always loved how all of my favorites could get hard af but still have me rolling on the floor with how not-serious they can be while they do it. "Not Like Us" is the first hip-hop song I've memorized every single word to in a hot minute and I never seem to be able to listen to it without smiling ear to ear and despite watching a MILLION videos about it, it took your video to make me realize that despite how sinister Kendrick's whole rollout was, he's just being so aloof throughout those first two verses. You can tell he's having so much fun and it just shines through.
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‘rap critic’ you forgot about push ups? The first mention of family was on it “I be with some bodyguards like Whitney” which Kendricks fiancés name.
@@tdsim5779 Yeah, this guy looked up the cliff notes from someone else and then decided he wanted to give a piece of his mind too. This was absolute garbage.
You have been my favorite rap critic for 10 years
The "69 God" refers to the rapper 69 and him pleading guilty in a child sex case...
Drake didn't just call Kendrick an abuser. Drake said that the mother of Kendrick's kids was a wh*re basically and homie hopping. He took direct, nasty shots at a civilian. The same error he made with Pusha T, but worse. He should have expected annihilation 💯
YES. I've seen a lot of people saying it's an insult to Kendrick because he's supposedly raising another man's kid, but that is way more insulting to Whitney's character than Kendrick's. I can understand why he wanted to end Drake's entire career after that.
I think that's cause the only women in Drake's life are ones he either has to groom and 'keep them from other men ever touching them' or going around and just outright meddling in already established relationships. And the fact he said that was a dis at all the women who already had men that he hooked up with. Like, how could he not see how stupid of a move that was? He was not only insulting Kenny, but his girl and just about every woman he's had since he became famous. What did they have to do with anything?! It said more about Drake's view of women and friends in general than anything substantial about Kendrick.
Talk about a self pwn.
He also weirdly made a joke about Whitney beating Kendrick because she’s bigger than him. He dissed Whitney harder than Kendrick tbh
i think that's why she was in the music video. everyone seemed to assume kendrick brought her out as a way of clearing his own name, but i bet she wanted to step on drake just as much as he did
Is jealousy and envy was so bad it's like you can smell it and is always going after people's wives yet going to Whitney that she's safe with him when he's the one with the sa Case been wearing that Drake costume for so long he really thought he is thug life was really his and Kendrick's life was Drake's life do you want to be A thug that bad which I don't understand why would you want to grow up in the life that Kendra grew up in Compton during the LA riots watching his friends be murdered dying in front of them having to learn to fight just make sure he can protect himself when he out in the street I do not understand people like that I grew up in the projects of Newark New Jersey if I had a choice it would be the opposite to be the projects ducking bullets and things like that is not fun
kendrick murdered the man. then pissed on his grave and danced all over it. with his friends and the entire city.
Not the first time drake gets pissed on, right?
@@ivanthrive8253😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kenny shitted on him 😂😂😂
Some rappers drop bombs.
K Dot fired a mass driver.
@@ivanthrive8253 i love how someone actually remembers this lmfaoo
Drake spoke on Whitney first in push ups I wish people would acknowledge that fact.
Right? This shit has gone on too long for a “rap critic” to miss something that important.
He didnt say he beat whitney tho
@@redfirework3690Drake brought her up first. After that, it’s fair game
@@n0hesitati0n15 he said dot beat whitney in tmf, thats prob why kendrick went so crazy
@@redfirework3690 from what I gathered, Drake claimed that Whitney slept with Dave Free, and that one of Kendrick’s children was not his. That is an attack on her character, on his children and their family.
This was after claiming that Whitney walks around with bodyguards, in Push ups I think.
Family Matters wasn't the only time Drake has referenced slavery in a gross way. In Slime You Out Drake says that he has "whipped and chained [his girl] like American slaves". It wasn't a one-off mistake. He's been called out for it in the past he and keeps doing it.
that song is just very uncomfortable in general for me
It’s just a really gross song
And let's not forget Drake clapped back at OBAMA, the president of the united states of america, for choosing the american rapper Kendrick Lamar over the canadian Drake when asked. Any other rapper would have left that alone just out of sheer respect for the first black american president but not Mr. Fragile ego. It really goes to show how not like us he really is.
Hard to imagine he grew up in a poor black neighborhood with the way this man acts. Shame on him.
He was referring to providing women with fancy cars (whips) and expensive necklaces (chains). So you know it’s basically like slavery because they have the same names. Even the genius annotation calls it a “questionable relation”
No Drake started the family mentioning first by having a line about Whitney in Push-ups.
Its what he does, he did the same thing with PushaT
@@pumas6189You’d think he’d have learned after, “You are hiding a son, let that boy come home” but no. Drake must be a masochist of some variety for this much self sabotage.
@@Blueeyesthewarriormaybe his ghostwriters want him to get his ass whooped
@@Phantomphan613 Which ties into Kendrick's narrative of "I got moles in OVO".
"I be with some body guards like Whitney" is such a soft shot. Kendrick was obvs waiting for any reason just like pusha t. Both knew they had the w in the bag and just needed an excuse.
I don't think saying 'you're a terrible father' is a reflection on said terrible father's son. That's a direct shot.
Exactly
Yeah, absolutely not, while it's an extreme example, if a belligerent drunkard was beating their kids in public for no reason and you called them a bad parent, no one would think you're talkin about the kid. lmao
Yeah saying "your a deadbeat dad to your son" doesn't actually insult the son at all, just the dad". But saying "your wife cheats on you" insults both the man and his wife.
Then there Kendrick in New york chasing white women while Whitney raises them kids herself. The only thing cornier than Kendrick is the stans who gulk him down
@@RichardJork What does that have to do w anything?
"beat your ass and hide the bible if god watching" to me always implied Kendrick was literally beating him up with a bible. He's hiding his weapon.
Oooo, I love that. Knowing Kendrick it’s both.
Ppl have also been known to hide weapons in bibles....😉
Think Matrix & John wick type hollowed out books.
It's a reference to the track element when he said ”put the Bible down and go eye for eye with this sh*t". Now he's hiding the Bible because he doesn't want God to see him destroy Drake in the manner he's willing to take it.
It's a reference to the track "Element" where he says "Put the Bible down and go eye for an eye for it." Now on not like us he's hiding the Bible because he doesn't want God to see him destroy Drake in the manner he's willing to go.
It is. This guy just missed so many obvious references and metaphors in this song.
The fact that this music video appeared a whole two months after the song came out, makes it less a way to promote the music or earn money, and more a (well-deserved) victory lap.
You're talking in the time where music videos and songs come out together...in the time before time like just 10 yrs ago before Bey starting dropping visual albums...videos came months after an audio version.
@@BeautifulEarthJa sure but that just adds even more to Kendrick being more old school & sticking to the roots of hip hop even though he's more new school & he's also implementing that into the beef to keep on egging Drake on by being able to stretch it out the way he's been able to which is a great chess move especially since the video had disses & implications/references in it too on top of the audio of the actual song itself too. Drake dropped a weak lame video for Family Matters with the song & it was just straight up weak didn't help at all what so ever. Kendrick dropping a video for NLU 2 months later only gave it way more hype than it originally got lmao. it worked in his favor while Drake sticking to the new school ways failed him.
He waited those 2 months to release it on an important date, 'murica's "we finally free" day (Independence day)
@@marieramos638 facts while Drake was attending an All-White freak off party 🤣
He didn't have time to make a video during the exchange. But when he did afterwards, he took the time to do it up right.
What are you talking about? The John Stockton line was great. The all-time leader in assist who passed the ball to Karl Malone, who famously at the age of 20 had to child with a 12-year-old girl in college. That was genius?
Right?! It was a creative way paint an oh so very vivid picture. It showed just how many people are lining up to best Drake's ass he might just pass Drake off to one of many people waiting.
Yeah great ode to Dr Dre as well who Kendrick had on stage who also famously impregnated and beat a 16 year old. That Kendrick guy loves hanging with abusers.
Agreed! Also think he’s alluding to the how many stocks does he really have in stock?(ton) whether it’s a ton or ten.. there’s something there 🧐
Also Drake had that picture with Malone that he deleted
He also completely misunderstood the 69 god reference too. This is such a half assed analysis.
speaking as a total outsider (metalhead), it just shows how major this track is that it sent digital earthquakes across the internet so drastically that even people like me who rarely keep up with rap artists noticed - when the most recent phase of this rap battle started kicking off, even the smallest update would dominate every podcast, commentary channel, and general algorithm recommendation cycle. the whole ride's been insane and i couldn't look away at this point even if i wanted to.
I’m in the exact same place. Dedicated metalhead who rarely trekked into the world of hip hop but there was something to this beef that resonated across the entire music industry and pop cultural landscape. And, as a metalhead, I think I can safely say that Meet the Graham’s is one of the most brutal tracks I’ve ever heard.
Metal head HERE although I've always enjoyed 90s Hip-hop . This beef introduced me to Mr Duckworth aka K-DOT and Kung fu Kenny . I decided to go down the Kenny rabbit hole and I'm enjoying every bit of it !
Lifelong metalhead, I was never big into metal, with the exception of some R&B. But when I listened to meet the grahams, it really was a brutal masterpiece imo. I think every metalhead has to admit, that Kendrick Lamar is freaking beast, and as metalhead, I throw my metal horns to that man!
What country is that in your pfp
Saaame
The fact that this song calling Drake and his crew predators is *still* topping the charts is basically another diss on top of the actual lyrical content. He showed that not only is he an infinitely better lyricist, he can also do what Drake does and make huge hits if he wants to.
Kendrick’s had hits since the GKMC days tho everyone knew “or should’ve known” he can make hits
@@romaretaylor9953 I'm obviously not saying he hasn't had hits before, just that this is him flexing on Drake he can do what Drake does better
@@romaretaylor9953He's saying the fact that a hit song calling Drake and his boys pedos that has people literally singing along at sporting events is like the second shot.
@@BobLee-df4zh no I get it lol trust me
6:26 drake went after family first (as he has a habit of doing **cough** pusha t) on push ups, “on some bodyguards like whitney.” the implication being that kendrick’s long-term partner whitney alford was unfaithful with a bodyguard, with no evidence or relevance to the beef.
that’s what kendrick was warning drake about on euphoria when he said “don’t speak on the family crodie … if you take it there, i’m taking it further (psst, that’s something you don’t wanna do).”
Right!! Folks are missing this. In Euphoria he did not attack Drake’s kid; he attacked Drake’s parental skills. Two distinct differences. Kendrick warned Crodie and told him his family would bleed if he didn’t take heed. Fool messed around and found out.
Also in push ups he questions Kendrick’s child with the “who kid” reference. Who Kid had nothing to do with push-ups.
Yeah idk how he missed that. After that, Kendrick gave him several warnings not to go any further and he didn’t release MTG till Drake went further
Iiiiiiiii gotta point out. You said "*cough* Pusha T" when actually he's shown to do this even *earlier* than that against Meek with Nicki Minaj. He just does this shit consistently with the partners and ex partners of ppl he doesn't like. It just ain't cool.
@@heartfulcry also serena and her husband and asap and rihana
Also, when he’s talking about pass on the body like John Stockton John Stockton’s teammate for the longest time was Karl Malone and Karl Malone got a 13-year-old girl pregnant when he was 19
I thought he was 20 when he got that girl pregnant?
@@xavierjohnson2321 What's the difference, the girl was 13 bro.
The older he is, the worse it gets, tbh.@@MobUnchained
I came here to say that right after he mentioned this line. Wonder if he'll change his opinion on the line
Also, Stockton used to be THE assist guy! Bruh, if you really think a Kendrick line is a throwaway, by this point someone criticizing his media should check it first. I’ve been telling people with the way he played this entire thing we are nowhere near having figured out every level in every bar. And tbh, I don’t really want to this quickly because that’s what gives replay value to songs from good lyricists.
Kendrick even got a fake Drake for the video. Just like Pac got a fake Biggie Hit Em Up. Making the West Coast proud!
Where was that?
@@daelen.cclark it was during the black and white bit when that guy in the ski mask got flu g away
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Oh, that part. That’s a nice touch.
Drake definitely mentioned Whitney first when he said.. “I be with some bodyguards like Whitney” with many perceiving that line as Whitney cheating on Kendrick. You can compare Kendrick attacking Drakes parenting to Drake attacking Kendrick as a partner, but you can’t forget he made another allegation of Whitney cheating on him with his best friend and having a child on him.. that is clearly more of an attack on Whitney’s character than Kendrick, because how low down do you have to be to do something like that.. then he told her to “shake that ssa itch hands on your knees, now shake that ssa for Drake and shake that ssa for free” that’s deeply disrespectful to Whitney directly.. he act
Like he was beefing with her.
you are a real woman for seeing all this snake ish from drake he is definetly a terrible person
"Your Honor, I do belive the defendant has abused his blackness in a maner indistinguishable from colonialization. And, as such behavior is antithetical to the preservation of our heritage, move to strike Mr. Graham's blackness from functional usage"
Best line in youtube ever
Nah, Meet the Grahams is the song going for the jugular. This is styling on the guy after he drops. And honestly, Meet The Grahams is the one that really fascinates me in its construction. The chilling atmosphere and the dripping venom.
haha yea, I got what you mean, but this one's the big single, PLUS it was kinda the "circling the block to make sure the deed is done" kinda track in the whole situation
Meet the Grahams is one of the most brutal songs of all time
@@davidthepangolinKendrick tap danced on Drake soul in meet the grahams
I've tended to compare it more to an MMA fight, and Meet The Grahams was like a perfectly-executed gut punch. Done right, you don't even fall, you just stand there, bent over, desperately praying for air. And Not Like Us is the fancy spinkick that only works if your opponent/victim has just been hit so hard they revisit all their meals this week.
@@RapCritic *Meet the Grahams* is the punch that knocked Sonny Liston flat. *Not Like Us* is the picture of Muhammad Ali standing over him.
Bro, Drake brought Kendrick’s family first on Push Ups. Go listen again the track then fix the video coz overall it’s a good video
Ditto
THANK YOU lmao
@@mohamedfahad2364 there’s a few faults with the criticisms in this video actually. I like the articulation but some research and notes needed to be taken first so yeah I definitely agree
@@VanityZERO its not even real research like reading the lyrics of all the songs is the bare minimum if youre gonna anlayze rap beef tf
7:40 you kind of missed why Kendrick did this, surprised tbh since I thought it was pretty common knowledge atp, but drake mentioned Kendrick’s fiancé first on push-ups, hence why Kendrick warned him to stop on euphoria. Kind of deflates your topic when you miss that crucial detail
Was gonna say this. Drake said Whitney's name and Kendrick still 2x tried to spare him.
It's not illegal to be a deadbeat. It's only after Drake accused Kendrick of domestic abuse that Kendrick started dropping the serious allegations too.
@@Taelo that’s what I said.
No family matters wasnt just a diss to kendrick in relation to whitney via wife beating but a direct mention of whitney when he accused her of sleeping with his best friend and having a kid by him. I think that was the line crossed
facts
And as some have pointed out... Drake was doing that shit all the way back in Push-Ups.
Allegations aside, what I love about "Not Like Us" is that Kendrick brings up so much history, calling Drake a colonizer. Also, bringing the Bloods and Crips to the live show? That alone is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize or something.
absolutely!!
It’s kind of crazy how Drake just dropped three new songs with two of them featuring Atlanta artist. I really don’t think he will ever beat the allegations.
It's even funnier cuz he called Atlanta Gay in Family Matters and none of the big boss Atlanta rappers had anything to say about it.
@@luv83um did he? I thought he called the Weeknd gay lol..
@@Waine888 He called The Weeknd gay then said that's why you and your friends go to Atlanta. He pretty much called Atlanta gay for no reason lmao. Straight disrespect.
as if those are the allegations that need beating😅
He said his music gets played in places where the guys have a little more pride 🌈 and something about his friends needing a guide in Atlanta or something like that. @@Waine888
The thing that really got me with family matters is you don’t just say that somebody is abusing their wife and then casually shout out Chris Brown as one of your friends in the same track. I know Kendrick ain’t the most innocent in this whole situation either, but at least he didn’t shout out Kodak Black on not like us or meet the Grams.
@@SirLightsOut99 omg I didn’t even think about it like that! There’s so many mistakes on Drake’s end in this whole beef…people are even making video essays on where Drake went wrong in his disses smh
Maybe like getting Dre to announce his pedo song?
@@Tishtash1 is Dre a pedo?
"Beat your ass and hide the bible if God's watching" is a reference to the track "Element" where he says "Put the Bible down and go eye for an eye for it." Now on not like us he's hiding the Bible because he doesn't want God to see him destroy Drake in the manner he's willing to go.
“For the next 15 minutes, I am not a pacifist.”
The thing is...in fighting games theres a thing called flowcharting, its executing a gameplan regardless of what the opponent tries to do. Intiially the beef was all footsies then Drake did an unsafe move and got absolutely looped into flowchart gameplay. Absolute devastation
And Kendrick KNEW he was going to do it. He had that shit ready to go. Hell he probably told him not to go there as bait!
Kendrick punished him into super
@@hueyfreeman9094 Meet the Grahams was a full combo ending in a super. Not Like Us is just juggling his body after he's already dead.
@@wadespencer3623 That season 1 Killer Instinct triple-Ultra that lasts a full five minutes before you're allowed to go back to the queue
@@JFirecracker I definitely had Killer Instinct's absolutely insane combo potential in mind here. I can't think of a game that allows longer combos, outside of the laughably easy infinites of some unbalanced older games.
7:14 Pushups. “I be with some bodyguards like Whitney”. Drake mentioned family first. I think Kendrick was going to come after him regardless. But Drake went there first.
I was just bout to type lol
Fax
I knew Drake wouldn't win, not because I am biased towards Kendrick (which I am 100%) but because Drake isn't self-aware enough, nor is he aware of the intricacies of blackness enough to insult Kendrick. He came close with the line "Kendrick just opened his mouth/someone go hand him a grammy right now" but he doesn't get close enough to really stick the landing imo.
As F.D. Signifier said, if Drake actually knew black culture he would have called Kendrick a Hotep and leaned on that weird shit.
@wadespencer3623 right? Or he could have said that he's a hotep who accepts awards from white establishments and collabs with white people whereas Drake has collabed with black people globally. It would have been a hypocritical thing to say but a lot of the audience would have taken it at face value at first.
@@PeggyKonekoI mean didn’t Drake bring up performing with white artist and stuff? Sure it could work but someone else would have to say it for it to land. It can’t be Drake to say it. Sometimes the message has to be said by the right messenger for it to hit. Like Future couldn’t call Drake a deadbeat dad as a diss 😂 everyone will just side eye him Future even if he was right
Plus... no disrespect to the man, but Drake got his shit WRECKED by Pusha T... what the FUCK made Drake think he stood a chance against Kendrick when Pusha T fucking DESTROYED his ass.
Like he could have said something clever with "you claim to be an activist but even Taylor Swift's singing along."
"69 God" was a reference to Takashi 69 because like Drake he too was messing with young girls......
Also, John Stockton used to pass it to Karl Malone, who’s a certified pedophile as well. The man admitted that a kid who’s mother was 13 when he impregnated her is his son, can’t get more certified than that.
K. Dot could've called Drake,"A Black Tekashi" or namedrop Tekashi in some way.
this
It's a double entendre of Tekashi 69 and drake calling himself the "6/9 God"
Also refers to Stolas, the 69th demon, who is depicted by an owl.
Aubrey never had a "black card". Yes he has the DNA, but that does not make his in tune with the culture.
He began his entry into rap lying that he was poor. CBS did an interview and exposed him and as the actor always does, he tootsie slid his way out by saying oh, but my friends had more money than my rich family had.
He was Listening to Rap as a kid, and his hanged out with his uncle. Lmfaooo. Drake was always black lol. That's just who he was a biracial Jewish kid who had interaction with a variety of culture.
@@awsomeboy360 Yo we got a Drake dickrider in the comments y’all!
@@awsomeboy360He uses a the hard ER. He's not like us. Maybe he'll sing to you on stage for defending him though.
Watching everything that Kendrick said would happen on Euphoria play out in real time was the best part of all of this for me. That song is an incredible piece of work.
Actually drake mentioned Whitney first on push ups with the bodyguard bar.
But they both went back and forth uping the family disrespect lol.
Drake mentioned Whitney and questioned the validity of his child on push-ups
Yeah Drake did start family talk first by saying "your wife is cheating on you" so while Kendrick kept that energy to a certain degree with bringing up Drake's son, Drake is the one that started going there. Like That was Kendrick strictly talking about Drake's music and saying mine is better. Now I think Kendrick WANTED Drake to go too far so Kendrick could step on his neck but its still on Drake
@@pianist150 "Meet The Grahams" and "Not Like Us' was a two-hit (shoryuken-like) combo on Drake.
I came to say the same thing. Not sure how differently things would have played out if Drake hadn’t mentioned Whitney in Push Ups…
@@hippieholler5253 Drake did mentioned Whitney on DJ Khaled "Popstar" (before Push-Ups).
I still think Meet the Grahams is the greatest diss track of all time. I had never heard a rap that made me feel like if it was aimed at me I’d be buying rope before that one.
the mofo sent fuckin letters to his mom, dad and son, to diss him that's creative as hell..
@@afrosamourai400 AND to his daughter too, which is arguably even more crushing.
That and euphoria yes
Right. It made me feel a bit uncomfortable to listen to. Can’t imagine how it’d feel for that song to be targeted towards me with millions of people to listen to 😭
meet the grahams was the killing blow and not like us was the victory lap. i've definitely listened to not like us more because it's easier but nothing conveys hate as perfectly as meet the grahams.
I feel the "Beat yo ass and hide the bible if God watchin..." line isn't "Don't let god see me do this" but more "I'm putting the rules away for this one". Mostly because the shots he was taking at this point in the battle were basically using an artillery piece to flatten someone's tent.
The John Stockton line is a real reference to Karl Malone
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For those who don't know, Karl Malone impregnated a 12 year old
Drake said Kendrick wife first “ I keep a bodyguard like Whitney” that is Kendrick Lamar’s wife’s name and it was said on push ups other than that I agree with the video for the most part
Great video, but I gotta disagree on two fronts.
1. Control and Like That are not comparable. They seem similar at first, since they are both the text book definition of "funny how one verse can fuck up the whole game". But on Control Kendrick was saying "look, I love you guys, but step your god damn game up. This is about skill, and if you slouch on me I will leave you in the dust". It's harsh but ultimately kind of encouraging. Where as on Like That Kendrick is not addressing the entire rap game, he is specifically laser focusing on Drake(and J Cole I guess). But while on Control Kendrick's downplaying of his peers accomplishments was framed as a splash of cold water to get their ass into gear, Kendrick is actually insulting Drake. He's not saying "you can and should do better" he's saying "your best work ain't shit and I am better than you". That's a very different tone.
2. I don't think it's fair to compare what kendrick said about Drake and his son to what Drake said about Kenny and his wife. When Kendrick is bringing up Drake's relationship with his son, he is only attacking Drake. Adonis is being eluded to, but not insulted, only as a means to point out that Drake is a deadbeat and a loser who cares more about trolling on Instagram than raising his own child. Drake claiming that Kendrick doesn't take pictures with his son serves a similar function, again Drake is bringing his kid up but he is not insulting his kid. But that is not the case when he brings up Whitney. Drake bring her into this as another way to degrade Kendrick's image, painting him as an involuntary Cuckold and a woman beater. But in the process he accused an innocent woman who barely has anything to do with any of this of being an adulterer. He also low-key called Whitney a bitch, which like wtf is wrong with you dude.
the mofo even told whitney to shake her ass for him after accusing her of being a hoe who slept with dave free and bodyguards like what??
Not exactly what Kendrick is saying on control.
"innocent woman", brother you dont know that. None of us do. Its a very common thing for dudes to call other dudes' gf a hoe. It implies the dude has bad taste in women.
Ill never understand how women are always innocent in people's eyes. Just rush to their aid if anything bad is said about them.
As for getting personal during a beef, thats expected when you are an emotionally fragile person like Drake. He couldnt take a friendly jab, he had to blow it out of proportion. Whitney was collateral damage, nothing more.
@@fightingmedialounge519Nigga yes it is. Word for word bar for bar, that what the control verse is about.
6:51 boss, Drake mentioned Whitney in push ups.
Exactly! And in Euphoria he says don't mention my family lol
I came to the comments to say this, and found your comment close to the top. Lol.
*Exactly* like he did with Pusha T
Yeah I hate when they don’t listen to the songs I’m clicking off the video now
There was way more to 6:16 in LA than you get on first listen. The most damning critique of Drake's character is hidden in that first verse, and it completely flew under the radar.
Kendrick didn't mention family 1st on Euphoria.
That was Drake mentioning Whitney on Push Ups. He crossed the line first and after several warnings, Drizzy doubled down. He brought it upon himself.
He did pass on this body... to the internet. We dug up the proof. We roasted him. We made BBL Drizzy verses. He can't fully end Drake alone. He needed the rest of us to care once the battle was over. (See "Not us. Culture, you got us?" from his song with Beyonce last year.)
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Drake, the audience is not slow was 💯 correct. If I was on a jury today, with the proof I’ve gathered, he’d be found guilty and jailed. BUM 🧨
He also passed to Pharrell, Rocky, Gambino and JPEG Mafia… the latter two have been dissing Aubrey for like a decade like Dot.
@@SweetieMsgambino and Drake haven’t had issues for a decade, I saw pics of them laughing backstage in 2016
@@romaretaylor9953 You can just say you missed the whole internet moment a few weeks ago when his album dropped. Also 2016 was 8yrs ago - which means you also missed their lil moment a few years ago after Bino dropped “This Is America”. And with allllllat said: if a person laughing with you is all you need as proof of being cool, you’re probably a pure soul, but you’re also an easy target.
“Lets drop the kayfabe” I know a wrestling fan when I hear one 😂
To be fair... "kayfabe" as a term has found its way outside of wrestling circles, as weird as it sounds. I've seen it brought up in relation to both VTuber and, of all things... philosophical discussions on the nature of reality... and now hip-hop beef.
Kayfabe is also heavily used in rap commentary because it’s the persona many rappers must take for critical acclaim. But yeah I’m pretty sure rc watches wrestling…if not him, FD does
"sweet chin music and i wont pass the aux"
@@SeanStrife to be fair, V-Tubers have a rather large connection with professional wrestling, surprisingly enough. Ever hear about The Great O-Khan?
Smh Kendrick had to dumb down his lyrics AND make a club banger and people still don’t get it. Calling Drake a 69 God is bad regardless of the reference because Kendrick is also calling him a pedo in the same song..
Plus, he's making fun of Drake calling himself the "6 God".
@@SeanStrife calling him the 6 god wouldn't be a diss if anything it would affirm his ego/status. has everything to do with what @VanityZERO spoke on referencing tekashi69 being busted with some underage females. The masses been used to drakes low vibration music/thinking that it takes them awhile to digest just a fraction of a song by an individual who's levels and levels above what you perceived as the best or top tier. The person's reality shatters as they begin the process of recalibrating the way they look at life. with that said, Kendrick's next album will not be slept on by the masses. and dot knows this hence why he's giving the people time to fully digest the content he released during the battle. He's the only artists that while battling the puppet also at the same time is taking on the CEO's of the music industry and actually not only drew blood but wounded them. The "untouchables" behind the certain.
69 god is a play on sixteen-eyeing god too.
"Hey, hey, hey" (Fat Albert) Bill Cosby F.A.N. -- "Step this way, step that way" (Stepping in the name of love) R Kelly F.A.N.
The first time the music video cuts to the crowd singing "They're not like us," it was clear Kendrick had an entire community behind him and he won.
2:51 folks were going in on me on Instagram for saying Euphoria was too tame. He kept saying “I know stuff” and I’m like dawg either say it or you sound like you’re bluffing… after he really started SHOOTING
Kendrick's line about
"hide the Bible if God's watching" was a reference to Drake's song feat. Lil Durk & Giveon 'In the Bible'
The "You are like us!" was a masterful joke by those guys. Had me dying 😂😂
Some notes:
Everyone's noted Drake brings up Whitney in Push Ups, but lets not forget Taylor Made and how he paraded around the corpse of 2Pac [the man whose crown Kendrick bares and who he pretty clearly still feels grief over Hip Hop losing so early in TPAB] and put words in the mouth of Snoop [you know, one of the guys who literally passed Kendrick the crown of the west coast on stage, a moment that moved him to tears]. 2Pac and Snoop are family to Kendrick in a spiritual sense. Drake was asking for things to get nasty before Kendrick even put out his first full track. Drake was asking for him to drop. He was asking for him to talk about him touching little girls [he literally puppeteered 2Pac's corpse into asking him to do that in Taylor Made]. Let's stop pretending Kendrick went too far, he went exactly as far as Drake asked him to.
People use the word "unsubstantiated allegations" a lot in this beef, saying neither side has evidence or receipts or whatever and both sides are engaging in baseless mudslinging. That's Drake apologia.
The least substantiated thing about Drake from this whole beef is the daughter thing, which we know he got subpoenaed for a paternity test by a Miami waitress years back [her daughter would be 11 or 12 now], we just don't know the result of that subpoena.
The next least-substantiated is the ab surgery thing, which is suspected due to some photos, but nothing's concrete, though this is a case of it appearing more likely due to the fact that:
We know Drake is on Ozempic because of the cover of Meet the Grahams. DJ Akademics, Drake's foremost glazeroni, has confirmed they're from Drake's father's suitcase and his legal name is right there. This isn't a court of law, it doesn't matter how we saw it or how they got their hands on it, we know Drake has a prescription for Ozempic and he hasn't said anything about having diabetes.
We know Drake is having issues with pills, we've seen his uppers and downers from the same cover. He also sings about it on every album more or less.
We know Drake has a toxic relationship with women - he sings about it constantly and we have interviews with the women who ran Tinder accounts to find girls to invite to his parties. That's not including his beefs with his exes or his pre-Story of Adidon attempts to dodge his BM.
We know Drake has gambling problems - he posts about it on social media. His sports betting is so notorious there's lore about it being a curse to the teams he bets on.
We know Drake is a shitty father - see Story of Adidon. We also know Drake's father wasn't in his life for a long time from Drake's own account, though that's not a knock against Drake.
We know Drake keeps sus people around him. Baka has a weird case. That's a matter of public record. He was arrested for assault and prostitution charges that miraculously vanished when the witness disappeared into the mist. And Drake isn't indifferent to Baka being around him or merely tolerant of it - Drake said 'I might declare it a holiday as soon as Baka get back on the road.'
We know Drake has ghostwriters and has people do reference tracks for him.
We know Drake is a colonizer. He's from Canada and was primarily raised by his white Jewish mother in working class conditions until around 23 when his third mixtape got him signed by Lil Wayne after a bidding war - those aren't bad things, but that speaks to his environment and what authenticity from Drake would look like. That's not what he portrays in his music. He's demonstrably worked with a ton of Atlanta artists. He's demonstrably hopped on trends more than once. No one on his label is doing anything more significant than writing for Drake outside Partynextdoor. He does some pretty cringe things with accents that aren't his. He has been acting like he's slime gang/a drill rapper for a while. We know he's rapped some pretty cringey things about American slavery - both in Family Matters and Slime You Out. He isn't a gangster, he was a promising right-winger for a minor hockey team until his dotting florist/english teacher mother [no shade to her] got nervous about his safety, then he worked for his grandfather's furniture business, got bullied in school, dropped out of school to help support his sick mother with his acting career, and worked on his music while sometimes sleeping in a dressing room so he wouldn't have issues being late to recording [paraphrased from his wiki page, which are based on early interviews with him]. He struggled as a kid and that's valid, but when it comes to his music he raps about struggles that aren't his own but rather those of black communities he has a tenuous connection to at best and at worst actively disrespects. That sucks.
And, more than all of that, we know Drake has inappropriate relationships with underage girls.
Does that involve statutory r*pe? Unknown.
Does it involve him grooming girls under 18 to then go on dates with him once they're legal [at least twice on record]?
Does it involve him texting and DMing 13 and 14 year old girls about how much he misses them and to give them 'advice about boys'?
Does he get weirdly close - physically close - to underage girls and kiss them on camera [*cough* Kylie *cough*]?
Has he ever kissed an underage girl on stage and talked about how 'thicc' she is and how '[he] likes how her breasts feel'?
Yes to all that.
We have video evidence, photographic evidence, testimonial evidence from witnesses and the people involved - both the girls themselves and Drake. The most well-documented 'accusation' from this whole beef is that Drake is weird around little girls - there is more evidence of that than there is that Tommy the Clown and Kendrick have met in person, a thing we only have a concert and a music video to prove.
There's some question marks about the allegations from Drake's side, but on the domestic abuse the most substantiated it gets is a single account from a bouncer from a decade ago that has no corroborating evidence. The people Drake drags into the beef [Dave Free, Whitney, Kendrick's kids, a couple of the celebrities he talks about] end up showing out for Kendrick in the Not Like Us video and/or at the Pop Out. And Drake misunderstands the things he does know about Kendrick [due to Mr. Morale] so badly he made himself look like an idiot in The Heart Part 6 with his bars about Mother I Sober, maybe the most cringe set of bars to have been released by a non-White Nationalist in the past decade.
Kendrick spoke and rapped about his issues [infidelity] and had everyone he supposedly wronged back him up. Drake openly acts like a piece of sh*t, raps about being a piece of sh*t, and has never shown even a token interest in changing his behavior in that regard. There's no equivalency to be made there.
One of the funniest things to me is the mocking wave that he gives Drake in the music video as he says, "Are we locked in?"
No . The Stockton line is in reference to his teammate who impregnated a 13 year old . As an assist leader he was passing the ball to Karl Malone
I was so sick of Drake and honestly I never liked him to begin with.
Ditto
69 god is in reference to Tekashi 69, who got in trouble for SA with a minor. As well as a play on Drake’s nickname “6 god”
4:41 “drop the kayfabe” 😂 love u man
I always thought he hid the bible because he was beating Drake over the head with it
Lmaaoo what?
@Rryiac For me it was implying that Drake makes Kendrick so angry that he would even use a Bible to beat Drake. When God watches, he hides the Bible, because it is morally right to beat Drake, just not with a Bible. It's another additional diss that even God finds it ok to beat up Drake.
@@ThePhreakass I also thought he hid the Bible because he was beating Drake but I thought it might be a reference to a “Bible beater”, who are overly pushy Christians who try to convert people. Like that Drake is an immoral sinner who needs Jesus so Kendrick needs to “Bible beat” him metaphorically as well as physically beating him.
thank you, that made the song even more enjoyable to me😂
It’s saying you’re gonna beat someone so bad that you’d try to hide Gods witnessing it, or keep anything holy outside of it, bc there’s nothing holy in a ass beating that bad
"I make music that electrify em
You make music that pacify em
I could double down on that line, but spare you this time..."
A lot of people don't talk about that warning in Euphoria.
D.R.A.K.E ->
" Don't Rap Against Kendrick Ever "
The wordplay you were looking for at 12:18 is "OvHoever" tbh
Ovrrrrrrrrrrrr
If we’re being honest no fan of lyricism thought for even a millisecond that Drake would beat Kendrick in any form of rap beef
15:51 Drake's hypersexualization is something worth pointing out. I think you need to view this verse as well as Not Like Us "Hide the Bible" verse less literally and see what is actually being said, not just what is being spoken.
Honestly, I didn't think anyone was ever gonna top No Vasaline until I heard this one.
I take the “69 God” thing as a reference to 6ix9ine. He pled guilty to charges involving sexual contact with a minor.
And also a jab at Drake calling himself "The 6 God".
A six denying god
For someone who says they're a rap critic you'd think you'd get your facts straight. Drake brought up family first when he said on Push Up that he "be with some bodyguards like Whitney." That's why Dot gave him warnings on Euphoria and 6:16 in LA to NOT bring his family into the battle. In fact, the whole beef started because Drake is a little beeyotch and got hurt feelings over a compliment. LOL! Nobody took that Control verse as an insult except Drake. And then Drake had the nerve to get even madder when he said he ran into Dot after the verse came out and Dot was friendly. Yet another metaphor that didn't reach Drake. But, again, Drake is NOT 'of the culture" so of course eh didn't understand that it wasn't disrespectful. That sums of the whole rap beef - Drake is not of the culture, just a vulture feeding off it.
thing is, in Push Ups drake said Kenny's fiance's name first so he got what he earned
RC going full Dave Meltzer in the Tokyo Dome with that 6/5!
And rightly so!!
LMAOO I agree!
He said Whitney name first on push ups my boy
This my first time watching one of your videos and you're probably the coolest dude I've seen on RUclips since 2006. Respect.
Love that there are video essays that go, "Here's a history of hip-hop and how it all came to this" and others that are like "here's a blow-by-blow of this exact moment in-time."
I know it's not "THE" lyric that gets focused on, but I really think "I hate you like I'm young" is an incredible line.
Why does everyone forget Drake started with Whitney right from the beginning on Push Ups.
Putting aside the obvious (Drake bringing Whitney into it from jump with Push-Ups) I feel like you're forgetting that Drake said Whitney slept with his close friend and had that man's baby in Family Matters.
Never challenge a Pulitzer winner in a game of writing
To beat Drake you have to go for his character. You can't "out popular" him
Drake loves the popularity, fame.
But K Dot did 😂
@@BeautifulEarthJa he didn't but ok
@@RonaldMcGhee ...no, no he did. He really went after his character.
@@SeanStrife I'm pretty sure their saying Kendrick didn't out popular.
69 GOD is referring to Tekashi 6ixn9ne allegations against young females
I think this is an insane stretch. lol It's just a funny play off of 6 God, and ties in to him being freaky. There is NOTHING that would make it seem he is referencing Tekashi. lol
@@YerpDerp17 No, that it is precisely the reference. The Tekashi 6ix9ine story was a widely known spectacle in hip hop at the time. There is every reason to think Kendrick knew about it. How else would "freaky ass..." even make sense as a jab in the context of pedophile allegations?
7:24 you missed Drake saying Whitney??? Push ups is how we all know her name.
I was just about to say the same thing.
you're either biased towards drake or not well informed on the lyrics and "personas" involved.
Man this song a masterpiece and it will stand the test of time. I can’t imagine even trying to make a response to it 🤯
Drake mentioned family first. This was never gonna be a friendly competition i dont know how this situation could ever be read in that way
Good video but “I’ll beat ur ass, and hide the Bible if God watchin” is one of the hardest bars of the year.
you totally did not understand the "pass on this body like john stockton bar". John stockton's teammate was Karl malone who impregnated a 13 year old. it was a deadly bar
2:01 Who plays their trump card at the START of a battle..?
Excellent analysis, as always.
I love it when I watch a video that doesn’t waste time and clearly has a competently-written script. Good stuff.
And on the third day, god declared that we must step this way, step that way.
Ayyy!! Your linguistic prowess in breaking down Kendrick's lyrics is amazing! I agree with everything you said but it's also HOW you said it. I wish I could love this video! ❤ Congratulations to me for being a new subscriber right now!
“I be with some bodyguards like Whitneyyyy”. If that was my family, its off with your head. And Kendrick literally doubled down on that line and spared him.
You missed the part where Drake brought up Whitney in "Push Ups" which was the initial topic of bringing up family.
There's a reason kendrick said in euphoria "You gonna bring my family crodie? Someone in your family gonna bleed now crodie", he talked about whitney in push-ups and fucked it all up.
Drake said tht kendrick beat on his queen. In the song 'mother i sober' kendrick said he felt guilty seeing his queen (his mother) with a black eye. Drake doesn't khow to break a song down. 😅😅... It was talking about his mother
DAmn. Havent seen a rap critic vid show up on my feed in YEWARS. GLAD TO SEE IT.
6:28 You're wrong here. Kendrick was responding to Drake's Push-ups diss where Drake claimed "I be with some bodyguards like *Whitney'"* mentioning Kendrick's wife name. The intro to Drake's push-ups diss says "WHO'S KID?". The first word of that song is bringing kids into the beef, alluding to what Drake claims to be the questionable origin of Kendrick second child in his Family Matters diss. So no, Kendrick didn't target the family first, that's why he warned Drake doing that in Euphoria. Also, every single Drake beef he targets loved ones first. With Meek Mills, it was Nicki Manaj (his girlfriend at the time), with Common he diss Serena Williams (Common girlfriend at around that time) and with Pusha T his wife. Still a good video though.
This doin numbers. I hope this video leads to a resurgence of Rap Critic, I adore your work man
He mentioned Whitney first and then Dot warned him to not do it again, and yet…
I don't even like rap that much but i think this song is a masterpiece
Drake brought up family first on push-ups. Kendrick essentially just called Drake a bad father. Drake said his wife cheated on him with his friend. Public knowledge vs personal
I've been watching you since TGWTG days and its really beautiful how much you've evolved as a critic. I'm always happy when i see a new upload from you.
How can a dude named "rap critic" miss the entire part where Drake calls Whitney a homie hopper in Push ups by insinuating she was sleeping with her bodyguards? Like, wtf huge miss.
Kendrick's attention to detail is amazing and the video for Not Like Us just takes it to another level.
The weird ass dancing killed the video for me.
To be fair, when it comes to talking about family, Drake actually did take the first shot there by subbing Whitney on push-ups.
Did you seriously accuse Kendrick of being the first to bring family into it?
"I be with some bodyguards like Whitney" is a line from Push-Ups.
Calling Drake a shitty dad is not on the level of accusing someone's wife of multiple infidelities NOR WAS IT FIRST.
Worth noting that the music video dropped on the 4th of July. He called him a colonizer on independence day
I fell off on hiphop back in the 2000's but for my entire life my favorites have been Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Outkast and Cee-lo but primarily because I never found much appeal in the hardcore gangster rap and always loved how all of my favorites could get hard af but still have me rolling on the floor with how not-serious they can be while they do it.
"Not Like Us" is the first hip-hop song I've memorized every single word to in a hot minute and I never seem to be able to listen to it without smiling ear to ear and despite watching a MILLION videos about it, it took your video to make me realize that despite how sinister Kendrick's whole rollout was, he's just being so aloof throughout those first two verses. You can tell he's having so much fun and it just shines through.
drake brings up family first on push ups when he implies whitney sleeps with bodyguards
Now I think he means she needs security (protection from K Dot) 😒🙄
I... just kinda assumed that was a mention to the 1992 movie The Bodyguard starring Whitney Houston.
@@SeanStrife right, and in that movie whitney houston sleeps with her bodyguard
@@BeautifulEarthJanah, the whole Plot of the body guard is that Whitney falls in love with her body guard.