Mr. Creosote and the Beef Schleppers - “Family Matters” & “Meet the Grahams” analysis

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  • @pantalaemon
    @pantalaemon 2 месяца назад +318

    Hey prof, I disagree with you about "too much beef." I think what you're witnessing here is not a slap fight between two grown men, you're witnessing a targeted, premeditated character assassination and a cultural call to arms disguised as a rap beef. Kendrick seems to have planned this whole thing pretty meticulously, if you look at how quick he was with responses, receipts, etc., and the coordinated way he ramped up his allegations. I think you're right that this whole beef is Kendrick trying to illustrate the points he made in Mr. Morale. He's trying to destroy Drake not merely as a person, but as a symptom of all the things Kendrick has been writing against for years. And while i agree that the ensuing beef is UGLY as hell, it's also, possibly, kind of vital that it happen, and that it happen thoroughly. It's not a reckoning if it doesn't go (by the standards of a "normal" rap beef) too far.

    • @aleksaa24
      @aleksaa24 2 месяца назад +16

      Hard Agree.
      Was gonna make a comment but you made it for me haha

    • @dg9444
      @dg9444 2 месяца назад +24

      Yh, if we’re going by analogies, this is lean beef, full of protein, and low in fat. It’s where you can really see how well each rapper can grow/ respond to criticism or how resilient they are. And imo the heart part 6 shows Drake’s lack of resilience

    • @poilaaliop
      @poilaaliop 2 месяца назад +3

      Absolutely agreed!

    • @kiraparson2746
      @kiraparson2746 2 месяца назад +2

      I agree 10000%

    • @itube316
      @itube316 2 месяца назад +5

      It's cancer surgery.

  • @BJCDavis2777
    @BJCDavis2777 2 месяца назад +933

    AVAA! Not fully finished with the video yet but I would strongly disagree that Meet the Grahams is just “content”. It is a deeply emotionally effective song, the reactions I’ve seen look like people watching something borderline traumatic. It doesn’t feel good, it’s sounds like a horror movie, but you cannot say it doesn’t stir the emotions in a profound way, and personally, I think that’s the mark of great art. If everything said on that track is true in 50 years it will still be mentioned as one of the best diss songs of all time and a towering artistic achievement and moment in hip hop history. Calling it content because it leaves a bad taste in your mouth isn’t giving it its due.

    • @YerpDerp17
      @YerpDerp17 2 месяца назад +172

      I agree. Meet The Grahams is the biggest indictment of a person that I have EVER heard in a rap song. And I had some really nice headphones on when I first heard it and it was legit creepy. Especially at the end where his vocal tone raises, and the background vocals when he says "lied". And is it all true? Eh, I can't say for sure. But I do know where there is tons of smoke there is fire. And Kendrick, not Drake, bases their whole career on honesty, integrity and truth. So its really hard for me to think he made any of it up. And the abuse allegations against him have already been debunked, though if they were true then that's something that shouldn't be swept under the rug. But this is a rare type of track where I felt like I shouildn't be hearing what is being said. lol It truly made me feel gross once it ended, but that's what made it so powerful.

    • @finnstewart4820
      @finnstewart4820 2 месяца назад +3

      agreed. great point

    • @radiosurgery1802
      @radiosurgery1802 2 месяца назад +31

      Agree 100% and very well said - I can't recall if any other song, or piece of media in general, has left me feeling the way I was feeling after listening to Meet the Grahams

    • @mushy6290
      @mushy6290 2 месяца назад +5

      @@YerpDerp17I’m just curious, who debunked them? I just haven’t seen anything yet personally

    • @radiosurgery1802
      @radiosurgery1802 2 месяца назад +21

      Actually thinking on this further the only other song that has genuinely unsettled me like this is Kim by Eminem.

  • @MachManus
    @MachManus 2 месяца назад +318

    As silly as everyone thought this beef was gonna be, turns out we were all wrong. This might be the biggest topic in our culture in the past few years

    • @user-kj6sm1bs9k
      @user-kj6sm1bs9k 2 месяца назад

      shots fired at drakes
      ral ones

    • @dg9444
      @dg9444 2 месяца назад +9

      I mean it’s been brewing for like 10 years. The rifts just been growing with subliminals since Kendrick’s control verse

  • @crystalskunk3658
    @crystalskunk3658 2 месяца назад +105

    AAVA
    To your point about the underage stuff, i think it'a important to note that Drake was genuinely caught interacting with minors years ago and it has been known
    The problem is people dont seem to really care about it which is i think why Kendrick released this song
    Besides the daughter thing nothing else he said is really a big secret, but the kids and casual listeners who make up the bulk of Drake's audience wont care unless it comes from someone like Kendrick

  • @tristanslambert652
    @tristanslambert652 2 месяца назад +23

    27:26 to add context, this is the second back and forth where Drake relied on punching down and personalizing it. Against Pusha T, it was his wife, and the same with kendrick. Why i always emphasize starting the history at Kendricks control verse is that people in a back and forth with Drake keep it limited to the field and eachother, yet drake is the one to step over the line.

  • @celiaortiz7556
    @celiaortiz7556 2 месяца назад +56

    I disagree, I think what Kendrick did in this beef is very artistic. He is an artist, in the truest definition in regards to music. The beef was just the canvas in which the art was able to materialize. The artistic decisions he made in the formation of the songs really showed through, and gave his work much deeper meaning, depth, and feeling.

  • @princepeachfuzz
    @princepeachfuzz 2 месяца назад +439

    somebody said "Kendrick made me look inwards and hate the Drake in me" and i felt more gravitation to his values and it made me feel better,
    Professor Skye on the other hand, reminded me why i love every artform in the first place, i hope these days & experiences end up influencing the people & enriching our cultures

    • @HolyRollerTV
      @HolyRollerTV 2 месяца назад

      Drake is always gunna be a corrupt mofo...a man that can afford anything he wants but his female audience is too young...thats fcked up...

  • @soarsoverearth
    @soarsoverearth 2 месяца назад +57

    “Meet The Granthams” makes “Story of Adidon” look like a nursery rhyme. I’ve seen it described as “funeral music”, it’s just seven straight minutes of the most hate filled music, and I really don’t think Drake is ever EVER going to be looked at the same. That said, Kendrick’s pure hate for Drake can be too much lol 🥲 I do not want to explode. AVAA

    • @adellturner3846
      @adellturner3846 3 дня назад

      I agree. But the only thing i disagree with is the hate part. And even though Kendrick said he was the biggest hater. He doesn’t mean it literally. He meant it as, I care for you as a person, but I HATE the person you TRY to be.

  • @jcg_001
    @jcg_001 2 месяца назад +144

    AVAA I haven't finished the entire video yet but wanted to respond to the "isn’t this beneath Kendrick" idea. I'm going to take a bit of different angle from a lot of comments I've seen online and say not only is it necessary for Kendrick to do this but also vital - almost moral. Kendrick isn't perfect and ultimately his music releases through and functions under capitalism however Drake represents the grossest elements of the commercialisation of hip-hop - Yasiin Bey didn’t describe Drake’s music as being compatible with shopping for no reason. Drake is emblematic of hip-hops current flaws: misogyny, hypersexualisation of (young) women, pushing a fake lifestyle, over produced/over written, entirely product focused, an obsession over material wealth, etc
    I think Kendrick is fighting an entire section of the medium - the industry, the fans and ofc Drake himself.
    In this sense I think he’s right tbh and continuing to hammer his point home in a multitude of different angles is highly effective - he’s trying to drown them in a deluge of tracks and critiques. Hopefully this beef will push people to engage with the medium in a better way than whose numbers are bigger and whose lifestyle is louder.

  • @alephmale3171
    @alephmale3171 2 месяца назад +19

    Kendrick is saying this is bigger than rap. He sees Drake as a head of the cancer on the culture.

  • @LucasJKey
    @LucasJKey 2 месяца назад +176

    Hey prof, your not going to believe this...

    • @belijeonodugo2222
      @belijeonodugo2222 2 месяца назад +15

      Fam Kendrick is on tilt fr

    • @Thobeian
      @Thobeian 2 месяца назад +10

      ​@belijeonodugo2222 I think he tilted Drake though, if to the heart part 6 is any indicator

  • @ThatGuyMN
    @ThatGuyMN 2 месяца назад +54

    AVAA. Thank you for adding some nuance to this beef professor!
    However, I don't think this is beneath Kendrick for a few reasons.
    1. Drake being the biggest Rap artist in the world opens him up to beef from anyone, but especially what I would call the cultural favorite in modern day rap. This beef had to happen, because friendly or not Kendrick must prove himself. If he didn't, Drake, who is always going to win the numbers and social media game, gets to say he has no challengers. Well here he is being challenged, by maybe the only rapper who can compete on an numbers and skill level. This started as a test of skill.
    2. If what Kendrick has said about Drake is true, he was right to call him out. After the Pusha T diss... if Drake is still hiding a child it is not just a bad look, it's morally wrong.
    Kendrick might know more than you or me, and whatever that info is might be worth calling out. We like when this beef was passive and about music, but they both made this sound much deeper. If that's true, then Kendrick has not only a motive, but in his mind an OBLIGATION to call Drake out.
    Obviously Drake has some serious allegations against Kendrick that need to be addressed; but if Kendrick is really under the impression that abuse/trafficking/rape/child exploitation/etc. is going on than he is doing what he feels necessary. It sounds like this isn't just a Drake issue either. This is industry wide.
    3. Kendrick might be using this as promotion. There are rumors that Kendrick might have a new album dropping soon. As you brought up with Drake previously, all publicity is good publicity. What better way to return to the charts and get people talking than dropping multiple hits against your main competition? And if you think thats above him, he absolutely did the same before with Control and he absolutely is loving the attention the Like That trake got him.
    At this point, I think Kendrick just hates the industry and how it abuses people as a whole, and sees Drake as the complete embodiment of that mentality. I agree though. That this point, any further beef would just be for content. There is no further place to go to.
    Shout out to MF DOOM.

  • @gabehere
    @gabehere 2 месяца назад +128

    Prof, you just got your wish for your wednesday class.

  • @moyaj82
    @moyaj82 2 месяца назад +6

    The carnivore diet got me off my BP meds so, I'm here for all the beef and the way Kendrick served it was gourmet level 🙃
    Just to throw in my own bit of seasoning I'll add this. My take on this round of songs was that the whole thing was theatre and Meet the Gaham's was auric and aural melodrama. For me, this round was all about performance and Kendrick was all about it. When music is particularly moving, I immediately start seeing scenes play out in my mind. This more often occurs with classical or instrumental music, but on rare occasions, lyrical songs fire my imagination in the same way. Meet the Grahams did that in spades. It had me riveted to an imaginal film that was written by every one of Kendricks artistic choices. The tone of his voice, the pace of his delivery, the haunting piano, the portions where he played with the cadence of the prose he was delivering to climaxalingside the content, the psychoanalysis disguised as a rap song all drew me into the dark world he created.
    As the haunting notes of the piano came in, I saw Kendrick in a dark room. He was reciting the letter he wrote to Adonis while sitting alone at a table with the letter in his hand but he's not looking at the letter because he has it memoriezed and his focus is fixed on something I can't quite see. He has a calculated look in his eyes. His fingers, stained with ink loosely hold the letter as if the page is a breath away from floating to the floor and you get the feeling that if the page falls, something horrible will happen.There is a single light above him, dimly illuminating him as he raps words of both condemnation and encouragement while we, the viewers, take in a closeup shot of him- all deceptively relaxed posture and bridled intensity. Throughut the verse, he stares straight forward, not quite making direct eye contact with us through the camera's lens and It's not until the "dun dun dun dun dun dun dun na" break in the melody, that the camera drifts across the length of the table like a shadow and as the haunting piano melody resumes we realize that he's not alone.
    He's in a room that bares an eerie resemblance to a stranger things-esque 80's living room in the upside down. A woman, who represents Sandra, is sitting on a chair. He hands, and legs are tied to the chair and her mouth is bound. The room is still in shadows but Sandra is clearly visible as Kendrick materializes out of the darkness like a wraith. He sits in front of her with aching slowness and begins telling her about the wickedness alive in her son as she sobs quietly.
    As the song progresses, Kendrick starts talking to Dennis, but he continues staring at Sandra until the camera pans down to Kendrick's feet and we the viewers see that Dennis is tied up at Kendricks feet with Kendricks black boot clad feet resting atop him. There is a 7 written in red on Dennis' shirt alluding to the movie 7 and Drake's comments about his shoe size.
    I'll stop here so as to not bore you to death but suffice it to say that a whole movie played in my mind on my first listen of Meet the Grahams. In my mind, meet the Grahams was beautiful in its ugliness. Art is not always pleasing and does not always depict or speak to the lovely aspects of human nature, but it makes you feel, contemplate, react. Contrast is important in that it helps us recognize what we detest and strove for what we desire. In an unxepected way, meet the Grahams did that for me.
    Thank you for sharing your views and your knowledge. It makes my grown self miss university and all the analysis we used to do. All the best 🩶

    • @SoulUniQ
      @SoulUniQ 23 дня назад +1

      If you wrote a book i would definitely read it. That was beautifully illustrated.

  • @Ash10Gray
    @Ash10Gray 2 месяца назад +63

    This video is going to age like wine. Because it doesn't look like Kendrick is stopping as he has uploaded a another track since this was uploaded.

  • @oliverbranch777
    @oliverbranch777 2 месяца назад +78

    As soon as Kendrick drop last night I thought fuck professor got his wish 😂. It just that u respect music this much that so shocking. Shout out to your wife for saying that. I going to say this, Kendrick is doing this for people like me
    Because I’m a black man that has been failed by my father and my community and society. This is more than a battle prof it’s a realignment for black people.
    Thank you professor for your input on this subject I’ve learned a lot from you in this past year with your extensive knowledge on French in conjunction with Haiti…..

  • @agustindiocares1361
    @agustindiocares1361 2 месяца назад +38

    You can let me know if this is coping but I believe this video is the opposite of content consumption. It’s just way to long to be in the table of Mr. Creosote In the frame of the internet. This isn’t a 1 minute snack of you freaking out or quoting a line. This isn’t a live fast food reaction.
    As a Mr. Creosote myself when it comes to consuming all the reactions of this beef yours has given me ideas to think about instead of opinions to agree with or disagree with. Which by the way I glad you brought up how this is basically part2 of Mr. Morales. I was also thinking when euphoria dropped Kdot isn’t beefing with drake literally but more of the idea or what drake stands for. And how it goes against the values he addresses in Mr. Morales. Which is why to me this is fascinating and why meet the grahams is beautiful art and not just a beefy diss. This is Kendrick moving through the internet and saying if this is how you consume then let me trick you in consuming something that he’s been conflicted with.
    lol now I’m just rambling but if you read this thank you. Hope you have a peaceful light weekend

    • @banksofchaos93
      @banksofchaos93 2 месяца назад +6

      I completely agree with you. I didn't know Kendrick had been paying attention to how much youtube has shaped how people encounter, listen to, and think about music. I would have bet he hadn't been paying attention. But this seemed to me like him being really aware of it and really savvy in bringing his message "to the masses," if you will.
      RUclips "reactors" are a huge part of that (i'm lumping bar breakdowns and analyses and everything critical into the same category as the shrieking and earphone-flinging) . Kendrick makes music that requires multiple listens, an attention span, knowledge of the culture and history of hip hop, the ability to catch allusions in popular culture, just a really highly-trained ear for lyrical hip hop that not everybody has.
      RUclips reactors help break it down, and the comments sections provide a place for discussion, so listeners can take a participatory role as something like this unfolds.
      Does the most gluttonous and hyperbolic segment of the hip hop audience live here? Sure. But so does everybody else.
      People are hearing Kendrick who didn't hear him on Mr. Morale. I am not ashamed to say I needed a lot of help to catch everything Kendrick was saying. I got that help on RUclips. And the reason I feel confirmed in my sense that Kendrick has been paying attention is because he lifted the copyright claims so youtube reactors could monetize their reactions/breakdowns/analyses.
      Sure there are people consuming this like it's a fast food binge, eating and swallowing without chewing. But that doesn't mean it actually *is* fast food. What's been happening here is important.

  • @taliaasims
    @taliaasims 2 месяца назад +25

    This is a historical event in hip hop history. Not beneath you

  • @didiMao
    @didiMao 2 месяца назад +35

    imma let you know i'm digging the history of this beef through your videos. started with the Hearts 6 and workin my way backwards :)

  • @guillermobenitez9139
    @guillermobenitez9139 2 месяца назад +151

    They both need lawyers at this point

    • @cheetoman42
      @cheetoman42 2 месяца назад +33

      From rap beef to a high profile defamation trial….history is being made.

  • @lilidonna
    @lilidonna 2 месяца назад +20

    came for the beef, staying for the eckhart tolle impressions

  • @9.99TV
    @9.99TV 2 месяца назад +16

    I feel your opinion on it being too much but keep in mind this is has been literally a decade in the making with subliminals coming from both sides and endless debates from fans

  • @Adameshh
    @Adameshh 2 месяца назад +2

    Thanks for wading in on this. I wouldn’t have found your channel without it. I hope this affirms that even exposure to your ideas might be worth wading into the swamp.

  • @tomfoolery5844
    @tomfoolery5844 2 месяца назад +21

    AVAA I’m extremely glad you’re covering this. From my perspective as a fan of the more oldschool 90s sound(though I still enjoy some new stuff), I for one have been waiting for Drake to be called out for a long time. And properly called out, because he makes music bereft of substance, because to me he himself has no artistic integrity for one reason. His music and persona is entirely fabricated. I’m fine with an artist whose persona and art contains just 1 percent of their real personality, but Drake puts absolutely none of himself into his art; he only distorts pieces of himself and sells them to a woefully uninteresting and disturbing degree. It’s been painfully obvious for a long time.
    I’m not even a big Kendrick fan, I do love his most popular songs, but I don’t really listen to his albums like that. But this puts him over for me. What he’s doing is so incredibly needed, and only adds to his story in such a way, that even I, a person who has never listened to a full Kendrick album through, consider doing so. Kendrick is doing what needs to be done, regardless of the ramifications and consequences for his own artistic integrity, and I think it’s very interesting.

  • @knightcantrap
    @knightcantrap 2 месяца назад +18

    This is my new favorite channel… And I wouldn’t have found you without this beef… so even though I do think that this had a negative effect on society as a whole.. at least I was able to extract one positive from this whole thing 🙂

  • @bon.8819
    @bon.8819 2 месяца назад +8

    holy shit you may have a point professor, I feel like your video's just came at a right point to me as I'm come to the tipping point realisation at how I'm consuming stuff in general, and how I sometimes overly consume stuff (a huge probs with my ADHD that I'm trying to deal with) - it's funny how this beef has sorta derailed my day a bit and I'm glad you're helping me put that into perspective. AVAA!

  • @Quarter_Notes
    @Quarter_Notes 2 месяца назад +10

    AVAA I love the way you prompt us to think about our consumption of this beef. As an amateur music cricket I too feel how much oxygen this has taken from other, potentially great, music coming out right now.

  • @Mesfizzy
    @Mesfizzy 2 месяца назад +4

    This is such a sensible analysis of the 2 tracks. Thank You! The connection to Mr. Morale and the way you explored it is inspired!

  • @mattkeegan7523
    @mattkeegan7523 2 месяца назад +3

    Found you through this back and forth and find the takes to be extremely insightful. Definitely sticking around.

  • @sindanimasina7885
    @sindanimasina7885 2 месяца назад +13

    The beginning and the daughter segment of 'Meet the Grahams' was a gut punch even for me the Kendrick fan. The whole song was hitting and felt like Kendrick was Jigsaw(John Kramer), especially in the last part. I feel like the song will go down in history as one of the most gut punching songs in Rap Beef history....

  • @UwgAllDay
    @UwgAllDay 2 месяца назад +9

    AVAA! This is what video essays think they are doing. Not to shade, but to try to identify just how elevated your video's message and quality is and how cohesive the content is with your thesis. I guess a professional communicator is good at communicating

  • @ADandyGuyInSpace
    @ADandyGuyInSpace 2 месяца назад +3

    Love your analysis on this Professor! Thanks!!

  • @HFtA_.
    @HFtA_. 2 месяца назад +22

    AVAA... he dropped another one.

  • @fredess3737
    @fredess3737 2 месяца назад +8

    AVAA. Took your advice and gave the Al Green record a good listen. Beautiful stuff! Thanks for the recommendation :)

  • @EayuProuxm
    @EayuProuxm 2 месяца назад +56

    Well, I kinda hoped this time you'd take your time on it, bc this feels like something that should take the measured thoughts of Professor Skye, but I trust your judgment

    • @professorskye
      @professorskye  2 месяца назад +54

      I quote you in the video!

    • @aegisfate117
      @aegisfate117 2 месяца назад +9

      ​People who comment a lot on videos don't usually typically watch the entire video before they leave a comment. Usually they only watch for about a minute or two, which is probably what this person does on most of your videos before they comment​@@professorskye ps I left this comment only 2 minutes into the video but I do intend to watch the whole thing

  • @kidtheday
    @kidtheday 2 месяца назад +4

    AVAA keep doing what you're doing prof. this is awesome

  • @CanIBe4real6
    @CanIBe4real6 Месяц назад +1

    AVAA
    Super funny moment soon as you said too much beef is bad for you a Big Mac ad popped up 8:36

  • @Loi_of_Earth
    @Loi_of_Earth 2 месяца назад +4

    Discovered your channel, this looking like I mighta watch you.

  • @Private_Madam
    @Private_Madam 2 месяца назад +1

    Watching this way after. I think we're Mr. Creosote because we've been starving for this for 10 years! great vid.

  • @ulitmateman1997
    @ulitmateman1997 2 месяца назад +2

    Honestly here from the beef but I love your references. The gangrene shoutout alone is worth a sub. Hopefully there’s some retention from your moment in the sun.

  • @trydodis690
    @trydodis690 2 месяца назад +113

    “Too much beef” is definitely how I feel about the state of this feud at this point.
    Now that the disses have serious legal repercussions and reveals the presence of potential victim this needs to be taken more seriously with a lot of effort put into proving or disproving claims and less in one upping each other artistically.

  • @nyobeb6960
    @nyobeb6960 2 месяца назад +4

    Prof, you understand the way in which music is life-affirming on a deep level and that is your advantage over younger music commentators.

  • @jackdyson1646
    @jackdyson1646 2 месяца назад +1

    AVAA skye, over the past two days i noticed myself end up feeling disturbed and drained by the beef. Which was far from the excitement i got from the like that verse dropping. You managed to articulate why this change was happening for me.

  • @willllll9006
    @willllll9006 2 месяца назад +1

    you just said it and i’m watching currently so i don’t know where you’ll go with it, but i had the same connections with these disses and mr morale

  • @scottwatrous
    @scottwatrous 2 месяца назад +4

    "Would you like a wafer thin mint?" is definitely a known quantity. Dont know anyone who ever referred to that skit by Mr Creosote tho.

  • @shrimpscampin
    @shrimpscampin 2 месяца назад +2

    29:15 how did he "basically admit to being physically abusive" on Mr Morale? Because he was open about infidelity and being a toxic partner? I dont believe someone who would beat their woman deserves any chance of redemption, thats an insane stretch to make, can you please explain that?

  • @04_claymore
    @04_claymore 2 месяца назад +1

    came for the drama, stayed for the interesting insight and recommendations

  • @cinemaocd1752
    @cinemaocd1752 2 месяца назад +2

    Blast from the past seeing that Disposable Heroes of Hiphopresy cd in the library jacket no less. I reviewed it for a college newspaper. In all my years of loving rap I can't believe how far out of containment this got. New sub out of this. :D

  • @jose_glz
    @jose_glz 2 месяца назад +1

    I think the "Meet the Grahams" beat might be a leftover from MMATBS, more specifically, an alternative beat for "We Cry Together. After listening to the song, I ran to check who produced both of them and to my surprise they were both produced by The Alchemist.
    What do you think about this, Professor? #AVAA

  • @yamonjo5438
    @yamonjo5438 2 месяца назад

    AVAA!!!!
    I am an educator myself in the Great North (go Trailer Park Boys!!).
    I found your channel during this crazy beef, and I am so happy I did. Most channel would simply react to the songs, and maybe break some bars, but none managed to get as analytic as you did!
    Now, I'm going back through your other content! You got yourself a subscriber for life!

  • @Moongod2500
    @Moongod2500 2 месяца назад +4

    I’m just fascinated with your whole story and journey in hip hop . I love this . We need more of this

  • @reneranguy7048
    @reneranguy7048 2 месяца назад +1

    I got to say the Kendrick and Drake beef brought me here, but your presentation of it makes me view you as a Artistic Intellect...Respect.....so I subscribed and I am viewing all your past videos, great work.......keep it up.

  • @ohmwai
    @ohmwai 2 месяца назад +1

    Let's Go by Kool Moe Dee is as amazing as you claim it is. Wow. I will definitely be checking out the other recommendations

  • @LawrenceAdam_
    @LawrenceAdam_ 2 месяца назад +3

    I went and watched the Mr. Creosote scene after you mentioning it and your title for this video is GENIUS! AVAA!

  • @Tikililo
    @Tikililo 2 месяца назад +2

    oooooh digestion, good point prof.

  • @josephpuckett3208
    @josephpuckett3208 2 месяца назад

    Watching these videos after the beef has died down a bit aged well. New perspective, love it.

  • @whereisawesomeness
    @whereisawesomeness 2 месяца назад +27

    I think what’s interesting about this whole conversation is that ‘meet the grahams’ is being turned into content, but at it’s core it isn’t. At least for Kendrick, this is a lot more than beef. The reactions I’ve seen (for I too have been Mr. Creosote - thanks for the reminder to get some distance, I need it) have been a mixture. Some people have treated it as basically just content, others have gone into it expecting content, an entertaining episode in the ongoing beef, and come out of it shocked not only at the allegations, but also at the way people are treating it. Drake’s treating all this like content, but Kendrick seems genuinely out for blood (possibly literally). Anyway, I’d say more if I had time to think it over, but I see Fantano’s uploaded a delicious, minty-looking video

    • @okuhle1711
      @okuhle1711 2 месяца назад +3

      I feel the same way Drake is out here treating this like some battle, throwing slick lines and witty bars like "No matter what I say these bars will go over Kenny's head (ref: Kendrick's height)".
      But I think the real truth is the bars are going over Drake's head, if you listen to Kendrick he is not battling like Drake he is trying to eliminate him.
      I'm thinking about what Kanye said in an interview he said him, Future and metro where excited about THE ELIMINATION OF DRAKE then Kendrick said "we don't like the girls you're with and it's not just me I'm with the culture (ref: other rappers).

  • @21stSc
    @21stSc 2 месяца назад

    oh my good sir. You have earned a subscriber 🙏

  • @GravityJWST
    @GravityJWST 2 месяца назад +1

    My brother had a heart attack, this beef is something I’ll never forget 🎉🎉

  • @Andz200zx
    @Andz200zx 2 месяца назад +1

    What a time to be alive

  • @styxtwo1
    @styxtwo1 2 месяца назад

    It ain't no starting back once arteries start to squeeze

  • @EayuProuxm
    @EayuProuxm 2 месяца назад +1

    43:40 Is this beef going to end?
    Question: Was Not Like Us released before or after you released this video?

  • @StoutShako
    @StoutShako Месяц назад

    I think your advice about laying off the beef if it's too much for you, I think it's a welcome distraction from how rough life can be for some of us at the time.
    On a personal note, I'm here showing up to the drama a month later because I totally disregarded it as "celebrity BS" when it first came out... And then, my grandma, who I was extremely close to, died suddenly last week.
    Learning about the beef was the only thing that helped calm me down from how terrible I was feeling, and I still find that to be the case. It's so interesting and layered and just... honestly a once in a lifetime type deal.
    EDIT: Also, the allegations brought up are serious enough that if either party thought the other was really doing what they accused them of doing, it would be a damn near moral obligation to bring it to the public eye.
    I do question the morality of Kendrick possibly letting the beef rest (haha) if Drake hadn't stupidly walked right into the trap he laid for him, though... Like, if you think there's a child trafficking ring being perpetrated by one of the biggest entertainers in the world, I don't know why you would possibly decide to pass up letting that be known -- you might literally save more people from being victimized.
    But then again, maybe Kendrick was playing 69D chess while Drake was playing Connect 4, and he knew there was no way Haudry could pass up the juicy bait that was presented to him. Who knows how things might have resolved if Drake simply took the beef as seriously as the situation deserved.

  • @georgegeorgenstein
    @georgegeorgenstein 2 месяца назад +1

    professor it wont end

  • @anandai3480
    @anandai3480 2 месяца назад

    this beef made me find you and glad I did!

  • @lucasalamo3448
    @lucasalamo3448 2 месяца назад

    Do your thing, Professor !

  • @jeso7606
    @jeso7606 2 месяца назад +1

    Hey man ignore the haters amd keep it comin i just subbed

  • @tinhose69
    @tinhose69 2 месяца назад

    Even if we're really just consuming these tracks then regurgitating our takes you still manage to give us one of the most nutritious vomits out there prof. AVAA!

  • @Turtl289
    @Turtl289 12 дней назад

    What are those things you have the cds in? Like old dvd cases or something?

  • @co0ki3M0NstAr
    @co0ki3M0NstAr 2 месяца назад

    Yes thank you for the Al Green shout out I'm only 34 but I love Al Green OMG his voice is just like your meditation it's just great everyone should listen to a little Al Green! He can put you in a good mood ❤

  • @Paulie_Geelie
    @Paulie_Geelie 2 месяца назад +1

    Meet the Grahams was pure vitriol, just concentrated hate and disgust concocted by a man trying to eradicate an annoying, buzzing fly that's been in his ear for too long. This is more than just content, this is Kendrick showing the world that he, the man known for his values, his character, his self awareness, and his masterful artistry, looks at Drake, the man known for his money, his lavish lifestyle, and his carefully cultivated image, and sees only a child, forever chasing the love he never got from his absent daddy. Drake is a man who stands for everything Kendrick despises while having none of the qualities he respects, and he wants this to be known.
    Kendrick said it himself, he's not doing this for the game, or for attention, he just wants Drake to see just how small he is standing next to a real artist, that it's fine if Drake wants to make fun music and make money, but that he doesn't embody hip hop, that he has no right to consider himself amongst the best to ever do it, that he was foolish to poke the bear. This is Michael Jordan in game 6, this is the Lebronto game winner, this is Curry earning his first finals MVP in 2022, this is Magic with the baby hook, this is the greatest put to the test in the biggest stage, all eyes on him, and proving exactly why he's the greatest. If you don't want to consider that to be artistic, thats fine, but this moment is more significant than any pointless internet RUclipsr drama of the last 10 years.
    Not content.

  • @gmltui
    @gmltui 2 месяца назад +1

    Where did Kendrick say he hit/beat Whitney on Mr. morale ?

  • @jerryseinfeld-
    @jerryseinfeld- 2 месяца назад

    Hi professor, I found your take that this seems more like internet drama to be consumed from the trough to be wildly illuminating; though I feel that's more due to these artists massive appeal towards an audience that maintains itself through the noosphere of the internet, particularly K-Dot's overwhelmingly upper middle-class terminally online audience who view him as a zoo animal more than a human.

  • @Rucker1980
    @Rucker1980 2 месяца назад +1

    I agree about the too much, once i listened to the Grahams, that song just drained me

  • @eggonegg
    @eggonegg 2 месяца назад +5

    It's what people wanted, it's too much because it's about sexual abuse in hiphop.meg the stallion was aiming for it. Kendrick served it. Now hopefully leads to a new Gen of music a more transparent hiphop

  • @amorettais7969
    @amorettais7969 2 месяца назад +2

    36:20 Sadly, we’re reaching the point of the wafer thin mint. News of Drake’s security guard getting shot just released…

  • @ammjd3418
    @ammjd3418 2 месяца назад +1

    Goofy ahh video title, but an awesome video as always!

  • @smelly1060
    @smelly1060 2 месяца назад +1

    Peak creosote is my new favourite phrase

  • @Themayseffect
    @Themayseffect 2 месяца назад +1

    I kinda had a bit of a revelation about this entire ordeal last night. I feel like this battle is a bit orchestrated from them both in order to convey a much darker thing between the 2 of them. It would be a little interesting to chat with you about it if possible.

  • @xyz1087
    @xyz1087 2 месяца назад +1

    thank you so much for mentioning that point of how messed up it is that if Kendrick knew about Drakss sex crimes and wouldn't have said anything if not for this beef. seriously that felt so wrong and nobody mentioned anything :/

  • @tickeymickey360
    @tickeymickey360 2 месяца назад

    Professor, you have another song to discuss

  • @KennyRazzell
    @KennyRazzell 2 месяца назад

    Mr Cresosote was always a reference point in my household as a kid

  • @TheeIntrepidTaurayon
    @TheeIntrepidTaurayon 2 месяца назад +2

    NO! This is in no way beneath you Professor. Because this is an UNPRECEDENTED series of events.
    1. "Meet The Grahams," there is something wrong with that song.
    2. There is an missing event in the timeline. It was fleeting yet catastrophic in nature.

  • @Shoba14
    @Shoba14 2 месяца назад +4

    Vince staples said the same thing

  • @calldaygo
    @calldaygo 2 месяца назад

    8:28 The only thing I like about this beef is that I found your channel!!

  • @Fiveward
    @Fiveward 2 месяца назад +2

    Saturday Afternoon Test joke was slick. AVAA

    • @professorskye
      @professorskye  2 месяца назад

      I forget which 80s movie that joke is from.

  • @Welcometotheslam5424
    @Welcometotheslam5424 8 дней назад

    The thing is with Drake…
    His own actions have made it far easier for Kendrick to accuse him of those two major allegations:
    1. Having a secret daughter (who’s OLDER than Adonis).
    2. Sexually abusing children.
    Firstly, Drake already had a secret child, Adonis, who was revealed via a diss track.
    Yes, Drake did technically take some responsibility and took him in, but the fact that it happened makes it far easier for us to believe that it could happen again.
    And secondly, and far darker, Drake HAS literally been involved with minors.
    Millie Bobbie Brown (who Drake name-drops in The Heart Part 6 despite Kendrick never even mentioning her), outright revealed that Drake texted her when she was a minor, talking to her about boys and even saying he ‘missed her.’
    Finally, and far more openly, Drake literally called a teenage girl to the stage during a live concert, and despite her making it OPENLY clear that she was underage, he still groped her chest, told her that she was ‘thicc’ and KISSED HER ON STAGE.
    Not a head kiss, not a cheek kiss, but a full-blown lips-to-lips kiss (albeit of course ANY of those other kisses would’ve still been unacceptable.)
    Drake did this on a live concert in front of HUNDREDS of people. So if he was willing to do THAT publicly, then one can only imagine what he does in private.
    And that is honestly the thing. Even if Kendrick was wrong about the points he made, Drake would STILL have texted Millie Bobbie Brown in borderline romantic ways when she was a teenage.
    Drake would STILL have groped, flirted with, and kissed a teenage girl on stage.
    Drake’s own actions helped to make Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us be as devastating as they were.

  • @joey69763
    @joey69763 2 месяца назад

    Is this live? Keep up the good work Professor 🤌

  • @freetshirt_250
    @freetshirt_250 2 месяца назад

    You had me at rock a piss & disposable heros

  • @bbcvscj
    @bbcvscj 2 месяца назад +2

    Kendrick just dropped another one - I agree with everything you said on this video, but with how things are going, it looks like kdot is performing basically a surgical removal of drake. while not probable, at this moment it seems possible

  • @iamdxddyt
    @iamdxddyt 2 месяца назад

    I thought your door knob was a smudge/crack on my screen because I dropped my phone this morning 😂😂

  • @loki350
    @loki350 2 месяца назад

    22:45 so I think youre obviously going to be feeding a mass that is only really here for momentary satisfaction.
    But youre also documenting and providing a unique perspective that people (like me) will look back on and interact with and use to digest and understand and form new opinions

  • @derbistheeternal2947
    @derbistheeternal2947 2 месяца назад +2

    8:07 it can lead to getting teeth capped

    • @derbistheeternal2947
      @derbistheeternal2947 2 месяца назад +1

      Damn I just got to the part where you mention beef rapp nvm

  • @gauravphuyal9486
    @gauravphuyal9486 2 месяца назад

    no longer the "Langoustine". subscribed

  • @33up24
    @33up24 2 месяца назад +5

    Certainly not a great gime to be vegan.
    To be honest, you are quite on point with the internet drama thing. I wanted a rap battle, what we've got is getting very ugly.

  • @jaydeem1264
    @jaydeem1264 2 месяца назад +17

    Personally I think Kendrick started this whole thing BECAUSE he had the dirt that he did. Not the other way around. He picked the fight because he knew exactly where Drake was gonna take it (as he hints at in Euphoria) and he wanted to highly publicize the accusations of sex trafficking, and to prevent all of this coming out some other way and Drake the master manipulator from turning public opinion on his side. At least, that's what I would do if I were him. Crazy stuff.

    • @mrD66M
      @mrD66M 2 месяца назад +2

      At the same time I kinda wish Kendrick didn't get into a beef with Aubrey because 1) dude is Canadian 2) dude does not know/relate to the struggle of black America and 3) his stuff is superficial. It kinda demeans him to get mixed in this YET I'm glad Kendrick did. At this moment in time, and possibly for the past decade, he IS the standard bearer of hiphop (not only on a moral sense but on a creative sense, how far he pushed the boundaries of this art form while embracing the culture) and as such, he cannot let someone get away with shitty behaviour without taking their measure. Disrespecting 2Pac's estate was way too much

    • @toasttghost
      @toasttghost 2 месяца назад +1

      He didn't just hint, he said it explicitly in euphoria

  • @blaquehealer5484
    @blaquehealer5484 2 месяца назад +1

    KLamar said he can predict Drake every move...Beef is usually in person so it makes sense.

  • @michaeldonnelly7217
    @michaeldonnelly7217 2 месяца назад

    I don't know about roughage but the Fat Albert (Bill Cosby) reference at the end of Not Like Us felt like dessert to those of us pushing 50.
    AAVA.

  • @Khaldunii
    @Khaldunii 2 месяца назад

    Can you review Brother Ali’s latest album “Love & Service”? 🙏🏿
    Might be his best album

  • @ccgmacc69
    @ccgmacc69 2 месяца назад

    Yes. That Al Green album is in my top 5. You can play it straight through.