EDIT: I FIXED MY AUDIO!!! To anyone reading this, if your voice is already as smooth as mine, you dont need no stinkin filters. My videos after this are of much better quality. Check them out and let me know! Because they need the views 😢. I swear to god....if I have to hear the word 'glazing' one more time.....
I haven't seen a rapper commit career suicide this spectacularly since Machine Gun Kelly tried to diss Eminem. Like, picking a fight with Kendrick wasn't enough for this idiot, so he goes and pulls that AI Tupac stunt. It's like Drake subconsciously knows how badly he fucked up and decided to go out in the biggest blaze possible.
Drake is that meme of the kid putting that stick between the bike wheels and blaming it on Kendrick. Or the classic "I fooled you into thinking I was stupid the whole time!"
Anyone else feel like J.Cole, set this up 😂 like told buddy “yeah let’s get him!!” Just to make him speak ill on kdots name and feel the peer pressure to continue.
Drake seemed overly confident in "Family Matters" the songs outro makes it sound like he thought that was the finisher and his next track didn't really add anything new and he just waved the white flag. Kendrick was definitely prepared and surprisingly didn't underestimate Drake and had a strategy and a stock of songs ready.
Drake is a face, the people behind drake allowed the ego to get into a beef they weren’t prepared for. In the end more people got exposed to the mask that is drake, the ghost writers and more importantly Aubrey and his back seat roles
Kendricks part of the song which was 2/3 of the song was good and has a great message of love and acknowledging your significant other, drakes part messes up the message making it about sex and womens body, definitely not Kendricks worst song but Kendricks worse feature choice @@kg7219
I think if you view Drake’s verse as being from Sherane’s ex who is at the same party as Kendrick, it makes narrative sense and is thematically satisfying…
There is also how Kendrick and Drake talk about Michael Jackson. When Kendrick was nominated for 11 Grammys, one away from Mikes record of 12, Kendrick said he didnt want more than Mike. 11 was perfect for him. Even when pushed on about deserving more nominations, he still said he didnt want 13. 11 was perfect. Meanwhile, Drake talks about being one away from Mike on billboard top 100s. And talks about putting Kendricks first number 1 in his hand. Just shows your point even harder. Not to mention Kendrick made Humble. Still a banger and telling. Great video.
@Kal-El207 I mean kendrick doesn't want to appear humble he so clearly isn't. His lyrics also delve on thos, he doesn't care about the award side of music, more being respected by those he respects, the ogs basically, and being respected by the West Coast as a whole. Like he absolutely cares what others thinks and is up himself and gasses himself up but its not for awards more the competitive side of hip hop and his competitive nature.
Drake was always like this. Yall just weren’t listening. I would ask girls why they fw him and drop specific bars since 2009. They always enacted cognitive dissonance when dealing with Aubrey.
Nails the point even more that Kendrick is an ARTIST artist. While Drake just makes club bops that the kids can dance to. Which is fine too but they not on the same plane of existence.
Not even close. In high school Drake was the go to. But when i graduated and found other artists to listen to I stopped listening to Drake. Came back to his music to find it very childish. Kendrick’s had always felt more mature.
It took me a long time to get into KDot, always recognised his stuff as good but his lyrics are so incredibly dense with meaning it takes me a long time to decode, not to mention the various flows and beats he experiments with. More than anyone else I can think of, he continually pushes the lyrical and creative limits of hiphop, as well as raising awareness to many things pertaining to black people's experience. His body of work is structured in such a way that each album stands on its own merits, some pushing the envelope one way and the next, in another direction. Yet still from S-80 to MMATBS there are threads connecting it all together into a rich tapestry. All this to say - I have no idea, if this man makes another album, what it will look/sound like; but I can bet it will fit very well with the other jigsaw pieces before it although with its very own theme and soundscape.
I cut Drake's verse out of the track with an editor when this track came out and changed the name, completely forgot he was on here. Good vid, top stuff bro.
I belive that Kendrick already knew about drake's habits and planned this from the start. He told us to look back through his discography and view it in reverse. He knew drake would take a long time to take down and he started building himself up to be better even from the start.
There are some old interviews that have resurfaced from like 2016-2017 that are alluding to this being correct. Apparently Drake did an interview with ESPN and started going outta pocket about Kendrick and threatened to pull put of hosting the espys that year unless the interview was killed.
@@IroquoisPliskin6789Kendrick’s whole discography. Songs like Element, King Kunta and Wesley’s Theory, Untitled 02, and many songs from Mr Morale (among others) all have potential references and sneak disses for drake.
@@johnmark3350 Even in b don't kill my vibe, they're dressed in white dancing around a casket popping champagne😂 and he's got lines like " Why you resent every making of this? Tell me your purpose is petty again But even a small lighter can burn a bridge" and "I'm trying to keep it alive and not compromise the feeling we love You trying to keep it deprived and only co-sign what radio does" and "I can feel the new people 'round me just want to be famous You can see that my city found me put me on stages To me that's amazing To you that's a quick check, with all disrespect let me say this"
An interesting talk! 🧡 When people started talking about Poetic Justice I forgot Drake was on it. He just never fit the vibe and Kendrick had such powerful verses especially in comparison.
@@drewlavay Lmao this is a dumb AF view lol. "Doesn't fit the vibe" this is literally Drakes signature style of instrumental and subject matter. People say anything for the sake of their idols especially Kendrick it's insanity
You went lying. I mean I liked drakes started from the bottom, but that was really it. I’m I never bought any of his albums or listen nor streamed his stuff. I’ve never really fucked with rappers like Drake, Diddy, Ja Rule , etc. I’ve been a kind fan since I heard Swimming Pools. As an old head if it was not for Kendrick Lamar, I probably wouldn’t even listen to any of this generations rap. I fuck with Kendrick, because you can tell he’s real. no he’s not a gang member but he’s true to who he is and he is from the hood, he does have a lot of experience, real life experience that he can talk about. On top of that that is a real hip-hop fan and is a fan of lyricism can tell that really takes the art of being a lyricist very seriously. Fans like us don’t really fuck with people that have ghost writers. To me, Drake should never be brought up in conversation when you’re talking about who are the top MCS of all time. There are some circumstances like Dr. Dre, he’s never claimed to be a lyricist. He’s just a producer who also happens to wrap, but he’s never hid the fact that D.O.C. Snoop, Eminem, Xzibit, Kurupt etc. He wrote a lot of his songs. Drake is out here pretending to be a real MC wrapping about stuff. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I don’t think Drake fans really were checking for Kendra because I think they’re like Drake. I think they’re shallow as shower water. So to us we knew from day one that Kendrick would beat him. A real lyricist is always going to beat a popstar..
When Drake takes this girl to "the motherland" does he mean his mother's land? Eastern Europe...? Thanks for pointing out metaphors I missed in these bars for a decade.
Motherland= Africa Young East African girl You're to busy fucking with your other man I was trying to put you on game, put you on a plane Take you and the mother to the motherland
This beef has me seeing more Drake content than I’ve seen his entire career. I’ve never been a fan of Drake. He was always just there. So many clips of him in projects in all these think pieces I’ve never seen 😂😂
Facts these are my exact thoughts too. I vividly remember his come up never liked his type of music but as a person he seemed ight back then. Never really paid any attention to him but now ive seen more than enough to fill a lifetime lol. This damn algorithm wont stop
100% agree with the notion that he's just there - i had so many "drake songs" liked on spotify before this, i'd guess around 30, and most of them were features on other artists' songs lol
Ok, since you brought of Kendrick and court of thorns and roses 6:58 (which came in 2015, and GKMC came in 2012) BUUUUT when you showed clips from First Person Shooter with all the dogs with the girls names on the collars- it definitely made me think about Ramsay Bolton from the Game of Thrones novels, and his pack of "Bastard's girls" where he names his dogs after his victims.
I had Watched A video About this song years ago and I am Trying to find it, but in that video The guy broke down that Kendrick wrote Drakes Verse for this song and this was the first official point in the beef where Kendrick indirectly Dissed Drake on His own Song with his own Lyricals and Got Drake to Narrate everything thats wrong with Hip Hop. Hence The title Peotic Justice. The Song is an Ode To Hip Hop Like Commons I used to love her song, But Kendrick had his own twist by getting Drake to Star and Narrate and depict everything that was wrong with Hip Hop. Kendrick has been walking this man Down for a while.
I was listening to this song a week ago and said this song was very telling of the future based on how they were talking about their topics on the same song
@@drewlavay I thought I posted the link under these comments days ago. But it doesn’t matter . That song has been broken down by poets and scholars explaining the interpretation of each word.
You missed a great parallel between the song and the movie Poetic Justice. Where you have 2-Pac (Kendrick) being a regular guy that ends up fawning and trying to win over Janet's character (Sheraine) which is the friend (Drake's Girl) of his friend/co-worker's (Drake) "girlfriend". Look at the movie again and you can see it. Great Video btw! Side note: I think you got the noise gate filter too far up because some of the audio is barely audible (like towards the ends of the words).
I'm listening to the first two books (because my wife asked me) and I went with the graphic audio voice acted version. There will be a video about my thought's. Everyone was right about the first book being just world building and filler so I'm gonna get into book two before recording anything.
I can honestly say I unconsciously tuned out Drake’s verses on this track and had never paid attention until now. Thanks for the insight, subbed, looking forward to more 🙏
I find your interpretation and angle of observation of this song very refreshing; I appreciate the new point of view and agree. When you read the lyrics, it comes off exactly as how you stated.
Thank you for taking a different perspective on how you differentiated between the 2 artist by listening to one song. You put a lot of thought and analysis into this video and I really enjoyed the presentation. ❤️
Hey dude your editing is very good, you do a good job keeping whats on screen related to what you're talking about and made it easy to follow along with the voiceover. Good stuff 👌
Listening back to Drake’s verse honestly it’s borderline incel. “How DARE you not give me what I want? I was going to buy you shit and I write songs about how hot you are”
@@-astrangerontheinternet6687Considering the entire album is based on Kendrick's youth.......... Do you find it weird when Kendrick is talking about fucking a High schooler on this very album? Or do you only understand the context when you want to?
@@drewlavay You mean when Kendrick talks about Sherane when he was in the 11th grade? That’s the context there. The context in poetic justice is drakes a 26 yo adult with enough money to fly a “young African girl” and her mother to the motherland. Drake isn’t telling a story about his youth. He’s bragging about his current resources. The context makes Drake look even worse.
The contrast was crazy. I never liked Drake’s verse on this song. It was the first verse I felt Drake was ass. During those times I was liking Drake’s music more, but not by much. It was more of my 20 year old superficial mindset during those times.
Haven't been online this last month, but excited there's a backlog of videos of yours to watch. The range you have from gaming to music is insane; the amount of info and the depths you go into is admirable. Glad to see you're getting the recognition you deserve!
Welcome back! And thank you! My kids are gonna be home for summer in like three weeks so I'm grinding my butt off until I have less time to make videos lol.
If you listen all his music in reverse like damn it seems like he’s been telling us about him this entire time “even a small lighter can burn a bridge.”
It's always been about love and hate, Now let us say We are the biggest haters, We hate the way that you walk, The way that you talk We hate the way that you dress
Halo is a good M rated game to let your kids play. My uncle slid through and convinced my grandma to let me have the OG Halo as a kid when I was 8, back on the OG xbox
I'm working really hard in getting my audio down to a clean quality. If anything I hope you come back in a few videos and let me know if I'm making my way there.
Amazing video, if you want to hear the song in a way that Drake fits, imagine that he an Kendrick are trying to get the same girl... and he fails miserably 😂😂
This was a really well executed deep dive on an artist with true intention versus a cash cow with an ego. I’m looking forward to whatever else you make!
Should just let “not like us” play on the back end of the clip with no commentary. Just to show Kendrick selflessness again by removing copyright from it😂
Kendrick also sums Drake's side of fame in his 2011 album Take Care. Sneak dissing that part of fame on the biggest artist at the time was a good move. Really always is several steps ahead
I feel like drake really missed a great opportunity, cuz as someone that is biracial I can see where his insecurities come from, I feel like if he would've explored those thing more in his music he wouldn't have the culture vulture stigma now but tbf I don't live in the us so idk if I'm really qualified to talk on this
Luckily I am both biracial and a US citizen so I can at least a test to the idea that that would have been one of the better wrinkles to take. I know people like to make fun of logic for it but at the very least he started a conversation which was the whole point.
You should listen to Nas' albums Illmatic, It Was Written and Stillmatic... absolutely on the level's of Kendricks albums if not better (definitely better IMO) but theyre both great
Having not listened to much of Kendrick before all of this recent stuff I was instantly into him after hearing all of these recent diss tracks. I went back to listen to his older stuff and this track stuck out to me. It almost felt like Kendrick purposefully gave his lyrics double meaning on who the target of the lyrics could be towards and interpreted. And then drakes verses just felt so one note being all about thick African girls and it almost felt to me like Kendrick purposefully had him in that song to sneak diss him
I like this video lots your tone and style is actually a good pace change from all the clout chasing channels that sound the same and don’t give any personal aspects to it
this is exactly what i've been telling people who have tuned in to kdot bc of this beef -- they really only need to listen to poetic justice to see how kdot's pen game is LIGHT YEARS away from drake's (and his ghostwriters'.) 12 years later and nothing has changed in that regard.
Well done! Before this beef, I never listened to neither of them. I come from JayZ, Luda, 2Pac, Biggie era. I went back and listened to footage from both rappers early in their career. What I could see from then to now is that Kendrick was/is grounded and his words have depth; whereas, Drake has become cocky and his lyrics have no substance. They're basic, demeaning to women, objectifying women, etc. These men are the epitome of Yin and Yang.
3:17 Im this far in the video and I’m digging how you break down these points, but I think it would benefit you to get the frame rate less choppy during this section with your face. Still loving this video so far tho
Good essay, very well thought out. If I could be hypocritical for a second, I would suggest work on your speaking and maybe finding a better microphone if you can afford it.
"Keepin' my connections strictly physical Everyone that's married is miserable I know that that is not a lifestyle I can give into" -Drake, Omerta (2019)
And you've completely misunderstood any meaning of what this is about It is NOT about skin color, it IS about the way you carry yourself and your upbringing. Example: lightskin people from the hood will call the blackest mf you've ever seen in your life "not black" and it's not because of the color that doesn't make sense, it's because this black guy grew up in a nice stable house in the suburbs and went to a nice school. The point is the culture, the way you carry yourself, your upbringing, in a lot of black peoples eyes thats what defines blackness not the shade of color. but you people misunderstand it to be "oh its about color he's being racist etc etc" or "he's saying biracial people can't say the n word" when that's not it. Drake is a fking white boy on the inside that pretends to be a gangster and that's everyone's issue... It's an act, and people don't like fakes period, he ain't authentic he a character
As an avid longtime fan of rap / hip hop, ive never honestly took a super big liking to Drake and didnt really understand or participate in the hype and all that around him, even around my friends etc who would love or rly like him and ive always been "meh" abt Drake. Im a millennial so i remember his early hits and i remember watching him on Degrassi lol! Ive always had mad respect for Kendrick and everyone from TDE are some of my fave rap artists, fr!! 💯! Kinda always had a weird feeling about Drake and i guess my weird vibes i always felt... were actually right 😂 nice channel ❤ btw
This vid has a real strong thumbnail. It contrasts the two figures with light and dark, connecting with the themes of Christian morals. It also succinctly describes their contrast with selfless v. Selfish. Eye-catching and deep!
Not going to lie bro, I think you should review your audio. Its quite hollow sounding at times and drowns out every now and again. It's a good video but it's very hard for me to pay attention when the audi keeps slipping
Kendrick fan...love this song jts an absolute earworm. Im not here to glaze, but i thinkmit was genius to have Drake be the kne to deliver the selfish lines kf the song. They are completely contrasted from each other, nkt just in this song, but off the record as well. Jts genius that the kid with a rough Compton upbringing is the compassionate kne and the kid with more privileges from polite Ontario Canada is the selfish womanizer. Its crazy. Juxtaposition.,,thats the word. Lol you said it as i was typing this comment
BTBAM were one of the bands that helped me break out of the "all metal sounds the same" mindset. For lack of a better phrase, I didn't know you could make music like that until my friend from HS showed them to me lol. So yeah, they hold a very important place in my heart and growth.
Some of the observations are great, however… A Court of Thorns and Roses’ first book released roughly three years AFTER the release of this song. Kendrick couldn’t possibly be referencing it, unfortunately.
You are a great RUclipsr however stop the announcements they’re bringing down the retention time the video needs to stop as soon as possible. love ur content but the algorithm only cares abt watch time.
EDIT: I FIXED MY AUDIO!!! To anyone reading this, if your voice is already as smooth as mine, you dont need no stinkin filters. My videos after this are of much better quality. Check them out and let me know! Because they need the views 😢.
I swear to god....if I have to hear the word 'glazing' one more time.....
The glaze for neutrality is unreal.
I'm out here trying to glaze for peace.
I only glaze buns and melons...not egos
Open your mouth, I got some glaze for yah.
@@ReptarusOnIcelmfaoooooo so true
Drake: An entertainer that can rap shallow songs.
Kendrick: A rapper that entertains people through real stories.
not only that, drake uses ghost writers
Pacify v. Electrify
@@3serionot even mentioning doubling down on that line 👀
drake: a “rapper” and pop star
kendrick: a rapper, artist, and songwriter
Kendrick makes songs that make you, FEEL. DAMN.
I haven't seen a rapper commit career suicide this spectacularly since Machine Gun Kelly tried to diss Eminem. Like, picking a fight with Kendrick wasn't enough for this idiot, so he goes and pulls that AI Tupac stunt. It's like Drake subconsciously knows how badly he fucked up and decided to go out in the biggest blaze possible.
Drake is that meme of the kid putting that stick between the bike wheels and blaming it on Kendrick.
Or the classic "I fooled you into thinking I was stupid the whole time!"
Anyone else feel like J.Cole, set this up 😂 like told buddy “yeah let’s get him!!” Just to make him speak ill on kdots name and feel the peer pressure to continue.
Drake seemed overly confident in "Family Matters" the songs outro makes it sound like he thought that was the finisher and his next track didn't really add anything new and he just waved the white flag. Kendrick was definitely prepared and surprisingly didn't underestimate Drake and had a strategy and a stock of songs ready.
Drake is a face, the people behind drake allowed the ego to get into a beef they weren’t prepared for. In the end more people got exposed to the mask that is drake, the ghost writers and more importantly Aubrey and his back seat roles
@@donalddarko5807I think your talking about his heart part 6
I always thought Drake verse ruined this song, I was not alone, thank you
Yo everyone had to. None of us were alone. Drake just took over somehow
lol worst song kendrick ever made and its not even his fault... its even worse than no makeup lolllll and thats saying smth
@@kg7219yo come on now, that’s so cap. Coming from a dot fan. It was definitely a banger
Kendricks part of the song which was 2/3 of the song was good and has a great message of love and acknowledging your significant other, drakes part messes up the message making it about sex and womens body, definitely not Kendricks worst song but Kendricks worse feature choice @@kg7219
I think if you view Drake’s verse as being from Sherane’s ex who is at the same party as Kendrick, it makes narrative sense and is thematically satisfying…
There is also how Kendrick and Drake talk about Michael Jackson. When Kendrick was nominated for 11 Grammys, one away from Mikes record of 12, Kendrick said he didnt want more than Mike. 11 was perfect for him. Even when pushed on about deserving more nominations, he still said he didnt want 13. 11 was perfect. Meanwhile, Drake talks about being one away from Mike on billboard top 100s. And talks about putting Kendricks first number 1 in his hand. Just shows your point even harder.
Not to mention Kendrick made Humble. Still a banger and telling. Great video.
Reaching. One wants to appear humble and the other doesn’t. To judge based off that is weird.
"And talks about putting Kendricks first number 1 in his hand" when he was talking about future is crazy
@Kal-El207 I mean kendrick doesn't want to appear humble he so clearly isn't.
His lyrics also delve on thos, he doesn't care about the award side of music, more being respected by those he respects, the ogs basically, and being respected by the West Coast as a whole.
Like he absolutely cares what others thinks and is up himself and gasses himself up but its not for awards more the competitive side of hip hop and his competitive nature.
It's so funny how people think they know Kendrick lol
How young was that East African girl?🤔
6½ probably
The pěd0 jokes will never end will they😭
He did say take you *and* your mom to the motherland in the verse.
Seems kinda sus to me in hindsight🧐
Definitely A Minor
she was probably A Minooooorrrr
I never realized how gross Drake’s verse of Poetic Justice is lol, selfish lover with an inflated ego no wonder mature women don’t fuck with him 😳
Yeah in my 20s I didn't think much of it but now in my 30s its just so blatant. No wonder he needs younger girls to feel cool.
I've listened to Jungle lately and it sounds like such a smooth love song on the surface then you listen to it and it's about himself.
Kendrick wrote his verse to make fun of him… he made drake diss himself 🤣🤣🤣
I never cared for his verse
Drake was always like this. Yall just weren’t listening. I would ask girls why they fw him and drop specific bars since 2009. They always enacted cognitive dissonance when dealing with Aubrey.
Nails the point even more that Kendrick is an ARTIST artist.
While Drake just makes club bops that the kids can dance to. Which is fine too but they not on the same plane of existence.
Not even close. In high school Drake was the go to. But when i graduated and found other artists to listen to I stopped listening to Drake. Came back to his music to find it very childish. Kendrick’s had always felt more mature.
It took me a long time to get into KDot, always recognised his stuff as good but his lyrics are so incredibly dense with meaning it takes me a long time to decode, not to mention the various flows and beats he experiments with. More than anyone else I can think of, he continually pushes the lyrical and creative limits of hiphop, as well as raising awareness to many things pertaining to black people's experience. His body of work is structured in such a way that each album stands on its own merits, some pushing the envelope one way and the next, in another direction. Yet still from S-80 to MMATBS there are threads connecting it all together into a rich tapestry.
All this to say - I have no idea, if this man makes another album, what it will look/sound like; but I can bet it will fit very well with the other jigsaw pieces before it although with its very own theme and soundscape.
"Things colonist say" took me tf out lmaoooo
I cut Drake's verse out of the track with an editor when this track came out and changed the name, completely forgot he was on here. Good vid, top stuff bro.
Why did I never think to do this?
How do I do this? I NEED to do this!!
It’s weird because this song was all romantic and stuff, and then Drake did the same thing that tip did to him on fancy
I belive that Kendrick already knew about drake's habits and planned this from the start. He told us to look back through his discography and view it in reverse. He knew drake would take a long time to take down and he started building himself up to be better even from the start.
There are some old interviews that have resurfaced from like 2016-2017 that are alluding to this being correct. Apparently Drake did an interview with ESPN and started going outta pocket about Kendrick and threatened to pull put of hosting the espys that year unless the interview was killed.
Look through Who's discography? Drake or Kendrick?
@@IroquoisPliskin6789Kendrick’s whole discography. Songs like Element, King Kunta and Wesley’s Theory, Untitled 02, and many songs from Mr Morale (among others) all have potential references and sneak disses for drake.
@@johnmark3350 Even in b don't kill my vibe, they're dressed in white dancing around a casket popping champagne😂 and he's got lines like
" Why you resent every making of this?
Tell me your purpose is petty again
But even a small lighter can burn a bridge"
and
"I'm trying to keep it alive and not compromise the feeling we love
You trying to keep it deprived and only co-sign what radio does"
and
"I can feel the new people 'round me just want to be famous
You can see that my city found me put me on stages
To me that's amazing
To you that's a quick check, with all disrespect let me say this"
@@aidanfarris6565dawg that shit sounds spot on.
An interesting talk! 🧡
When people started talking about Poetic Justice I forgot Drake was on it. He just never fit the vibe and Kendrick had such powerful verses especially in comparison.
IMO, the fact that Drake thinks that political activism and layered writing is lame just shows how shallow he is as a person.
@ReptarusOnIce He’s seen both sides of the coin.
Kendrick fits the R&B vibe more than Drake now?
Half (or more) of Drake's catalog is R&B...
@@drewlavay Lmao this is a dumb AF view lol. "Doesn't fit the vibe" this is literally Drakes signature style of instrumental and subject matter. People say anything for the sake of their idols especially Kendrick it's insanity
@@maxxmarino6500Yo Aubrey, get off the burner and go make Toosie slide 2. Oh and stop texting them 16 year olds.
Real Kendrick fans have been saying this since day one
You went lying. I mean I liked drakes started from the bottom, but that was really it. I’m I never bought any of his albums or listen nor streamed his stuff. I’ve never really fucked with rappers like Drake, Diddy, Ja Rule , etc. I’ve been a kind fan since I heard Swimming Pools. As an old head if it was not for Kendrick Lamar, I probably wouldn’t even listen to any of this generations rap.
I fuck with Kendrick, because you can tell he’s real. no he’s not a gang member but he’s true to who he is and he is from the hood, he does have a lot of experience, real life experience that he can talk about. On top of that that is a real hip-hop fan and is a fan of lyricism can tell that really takes the art of being a lyricist very seriously. Fans like us don’t really fuck with people that have ghost writers. To me, Drake should never be brought up in conversation when you’re talking about who are the top MCS of all time. There are some circumstances like Dr. Dre, he’s never claimed to be a lyricist. He’s just a producer who also happens to wrap, but he’s never hid the fact that D.O.C. Snoop, Eminem, Xzibit, Kurupt etc. He wrote a lot of his songs. Drake is out here pretending to be a real MC wrapping about stuff. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I don’t think Drake fans really were checking for Kendra because I think they’re like Drake. I think they’re shallow as shower water. So to us we knew from day one that Kendrick would beat him. A real lyricist is always going to beat a popstar..
Real drake haters been sayin this since day -2
@@bdr113080yapping
When Drake takes this girl to "the motherland" does he mean his mother's land? Eastern Europe...? Thanks for pointing out metaphors I missed in these bars for a decade.
I thought that the motherland was África to everyone
Thought he meant Canada 🇨🇦
*israel
Motherland= Africa
Young East African girl
You're to busy fucking with your other man
I was trying to put you on game, put you on a plane
Take you and the mother to the motherland
Lol @@missshannonsunshine
This beef has me seeing more Drake content than I’ve seen his entire career. I’ve never been a fan of Drake. He was always just there. So many clips of him in projects in all these think pieces I’ve never seen 😂😂
Facts these are my exact thoughts too. I vividly remember his come up never liked his type of music but as a person he seemed ight back then. Never really paid any attention to him but now ive seen more than enough to fill a lifetime lol. This damn algorithm wont stop
100% agree with the notion that he's just there - i had so many "drake songs" liked on spotify before this, i'd guess around 30, and most of them were features on other artists' songs lol
Drake wasn’t trying to be black but acted like he was hood.
Ok, since you brought of Kendrick and court of thorns and roses 6:58 (which came in 2015, and GKMC came in 2012) BUUUUT when you showed clips from First Person Shooter with all the dogs with the girls names on the collars- it definitely made me think about Ramsay Bolton from the Game of Thrones novels, and his pack of "Bastard's girls" where he names his dogs after his victims.
Damn, not gonna lie. That's a pretty sick association. I love it.
I had Watched A video About this song years ago and I am Trying to find it, but in that video The guy broke down that Kendrick wrote Drakes Verse for this song and this was the first official point in the beef where Kendrick indirectly Dissed Drake on His own Song with his own Lyricals and Got Drake to Narrate everything thats wrong with Hip Hop. Hence The title Peotic Justice. The Song is an Ode To Hip Hop Like Commons I used to love her song, But Kendrick had his own twist by getting Drake to Star and Narrate and depict everything that was wrong with Hip Hop. Kendrick has been walking this man Down for a while.
I was listening to this song a week ago and said this song was very telling of the future based on how they were talking about their topics on the same song
And when u find out Kendrick wrote drakes verse on this song. He was trying to tell us what type of man was entering the industry.
@@Rayebae738Kendrick didn't write Drake's verse.
@@drewlavay I thought I posted the link under these comments days ago. But it doesn’t matter . That song has been broken down by poets and scholars explaining the interpretation of each word.
@@Rayebae738it’s not that deep
@@Goodnightsrest to a surface level thinker. I bet it’s not.
You have a unique perspective and I'm excited to see how you continue to grow as a content creator
I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. I have a million things to talk about and I'm glad people are liking it so far!
You missed a great parallel between the song and the movie Poetic Justice. Where you have 2-Pac (Kendrick) being a regular guy that ends up fawning and trying to win over Janet's character (Sheraine) which is the friend (Drake's Girl) of his friend/co-worker's (Drake) "girlfriend". Look at the movie again and you can see it.
Great Video btw!
Side note: I think you got the noise gate filter too far up because some of the audio is barely audible (like towards the ends of the words).
you’re killing me with the acotar references 😭😭😭
I'm listening to the first two books (because my wife asked me) and I went with the graphic audio voice acted version. There will be a video about my thought's. Everyone was right about the first book being just world building and filler so I'm gonna get into book two before recording anything.
I was listening to this song a couple days ago and the motherland hit me like a brick to the face
I can honestly say I unconsciously tuned out Drake’s verses on this track and had never paid attention until now. Thanks for the insight, subbed, looking forward to more 🙏
Kendrick is fucking genius.
I find your interpretation and angle of observation of this song very refreshing; I appreciate the new point of view and agree. When you read the lyrics, it comes off exactly as how you stated.
9:17 dude the way you say this verse transforms its meaning
Big ups for the BTBAM shoutout at 4:37 you have great taste dude
That is not me: **DRAKE** 😭
How did we miss that he was a creep this whole time. It was right THERE!
u goofies were too infatuated....
Thank you for taking a different perspective on how you differentiated between the 2 artist by listening to one song. You put a lot of thought and analysis into this video and I really enjoyed the presentation. ❤️
I appreciate your time and comment!
Hey dude your editing is very good, you do a good job keeping whats on screen related to what you're talking about and made it easy to follow along with the voiceover. Good stuff 👌
I appreciate that!
Listening back to Drake’s verse honestly it’s borderline incel. “How DARE you not give me what I want? I was going to buy you shit and I write songs about how hot you are”
I think that's the point They're both rapping to the same girl
Drake is rapping to a girl who is so young she would have to travel with her mother.
@@-astrangerontheinternet6687Considering the entire album is based on Kendrick's youth..........
Do you find it weird when Kendrick is talking about fucking a High schooler on this very album? Or do you only understand the context when you want to?
@@drewlavay
You mean when Kendrick talks about Sherane when he was in the 11th grade?
That’s the context there.
The context in poetic justice is drakes a 26 yo adult with enough money to fly a “young African girl” and her mother to the motherland.
Drake isn’t telling a story about his youth. He’s bragging about his current resources.
The context makes Drake look even worse.
This is crazy y’all
I make music that electrifying them
You make music that pacifying them, i can expand on that ,but imma spare you this time 💯
I’ll never forget being so annoyed everyone wanted to overplay swimming pools the summer it dropped
The contrast was crazy. I never liked Drake’s verse on this song. It was the first verse I felt Drake was ass. During those times I was liking Drake’s music more, but not by much. It was more of my 20 year old superficial mindset during those times.
Haven't been online this last month, but excited there's a backlog of videos of yours to watch. The range you have from gaming to music is insane; the amount of info and the depths you go into is admirable. Glad to see you're getting the recognition you deserve!
Welcome back! And thank you! My kids are gonna be home for summer in like three weeks so I'm grinding my butt off until I have less time to make videos lol.
If you listen all his music in reverse like damn it seems like he’s been telling us about him this entire time “even a small lighter can burn a bridge.”
It's always been about love and hate,
Now let us say
We are the biggest haters,
We hate the way that you walk,
The way that you talk
We hate the way that you dress
Colors was not what i was expecting from your top 3. Such a great album
I’m your 1000 sub dawg. High five!
You're officially a part of my lore now. 💚
Great vid, btbam and a reference to the wire. Man has good taste.
Halo is a good M rated game to let your kids play. My uncle slid through and convinced my grandma to let me have the OG Halo as a kid when I was 8, back on the OG xbox
Bravo! That was a a brilliant break down!!
Thank you for your time and for leaving a comment!
Would love to hear a version of this with fixed audio. The autogate makes it a little hard to understand
I'm working really hard in getting my audio down to a clean quality. If anything I hope you come back in a few videos and let me know if I'm making my way there.
Beautifully put together expose’ my friend. 🙏🏾
love the use of The Heart Part 5 in the background. been listening to it a lot recently
Such an interesting video. Big ups👍👍
Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
This a good video, well done
Thank you for the support and taking the time to please the algorithm.
Amazing video, if you want to hear the song in a way that Drake fits, imagine that he an Kendrick are trying to get the same girl... and he fails miserably 😂😂
This was a really well executed deep dive on an artist with true intention versus a cash cow with an ego. I’m looking forward to whatever else you make!
Already loved the video concept. Then you brought up the fact you’re making video game content for new parents and I immediately subbed.
Amazing breakdown jit👍
6:57 I’m so sorry but I did not expect to get jump scared by this book in a Kendrick v drake video 😭
Love the video love the analysis
Should just let “not like us” play on the back end of the clip with no commentary. Just to show Kendrick selflessness again by removing copyright from it😂
Love these videos man!!!
Kendrick also sums Drake's side of fame in his 2011 album Take Care. Sneak dissing that part of fame on the biggest artist at the time was a good move. Really always is several steps ahead
You had my sub at Between the Buried and Me. Great content brother!
I feel like drake really missed a great opportunity, cuz as someone that is biracial I can see where his insecurities come from, I feel like if he would've explored those thing more in his music he wouldn't have the culture vulture stigma now
but tbf I don't live in the us so idk if I'm really qualified to talk on this
Luckily I am both biracial and a US citizen so I can at least a test to the idea that that would have been one of the better wrinkles to take. I know people like to make fun of logic for it but at the very least he started a conversation which was the whole point.
You should listen to Nas' albums Illmatic, It Was Written and Stillmatic... absolutely on the level's of Kendricks albums if not better (definitely better IMO) but theyre both great
I uses to listen to Illmatic on repeat during high school but I wasn't at a stage where I got the depth of it. I definitely need to revisit it now.
Having not listened to much of Kendrick before all of this recent stuff I was instantly into him after hearing all of these recent diss tracks. I went back to listen to his older stuff and this track stuck out to me. It almost felt like Kendrick purposefully gave his lyrics double meaning on who the target of the lyrics could be towards and interpreted. And then drakes verses just felt so one note being all about thick African girls and it almost felt to me like Kendrick purposefully had him in that song to sneak diss him
That "me, DRAKE" is so quotable😂
I like this video lots your tone and style is actually a good pace change from all the clout chasing channels that sound the same and don’t give any personal aspects to it
this is exactly what i've been telling people who have tuned in to kdot bc of this beef -- they really only need to listen to poetic justice to see how kdot's pen game is LIGHT YEARS away from drake's (and his ghostwriters'.) 12 years later and nothing has changed in that regard.
Well done! Before this beef, I never listened to neither of them. I come from JayZ, Luda, 2Pac, Biggie era. I went back and listened to footage from both rappers early in their career. What I could see from then to now is that Kendrick was/is grounded and his words have depth; whereas, Drake has become cocky and his lyrics have no substance. They're basic, demeaning to women, objectifying women, etc. These men are the epitome of Yin and Yang.
3:17 Im this far in the video and I’m digging how you break down these points, but I think it would benefit you to get the frame rate less choppy during this section with your face. Still loving this video so far tho
“I just see faces, faces staring blank as they go on with the routine”
Earned my sub just for the fact that Becasuse the internet was in your top 3.
Stay tuned for the BTI video! It's a part of my list!
this is a great analysis
Poetic justice Kendrick is dropping poetry !!
He knows we are supposed to be buried in White Kendrick is So in touch with who we are
Good essay, very well thought out. If I could be hypocritical for a second, I would suggest work on your speaking and maybe finding a better microphone if you can afford it.
this is a good video, but you need to alter your settings on your gate/compressor for the audio track as its clipping slightly weirdly as you speak
I have a solution for Drake: get married for good
"Keepin' my connections strictly physical
Everyone that's married is miserable
I know that that is not a lifestyle I can give into" -Drake, Omerta (2019)
"Shit that weirdo dudes with no personality say"
ayo great vid bro
How does Drake pretend to be white? Y'all repeat anything y'all hear
And you've completely misunderstood any meaning of what this is about
It is NOT about skin color, it IS about the way you carry yourself and your upbringing. Example: lightskin people from the hood will call the blackest mf you've ever seen in your life "not black" and it's not because of the color that doesn't make sense, it's because this black guy grew up in a nice stable house in the suburbs and went to a nice school. The point is the culture, the way you carry yourself, your upbringing, in a lot of black peoples eyes thats what defines blackness not the shade of color. but you people misunderstand it to be "oh its about color he's being racist etc etc" or "he's saying biracial people can't say the n word" when that's not it. Drake is a fking white boy on the inside that pretends to be a gangster and that's everyone's issue... It's an act, and people don't like fakes period, he ain't authentic he a character
Good video!😊
Thanks! 😊
Man everyone out here is Mr. Morale now 😑
Doin it for the culture.
and U dislike that says alot about U wtf!? 😂😂😂
Honestly you hit the nail on the head. You don’t have to prove you’re black and if you feel like you do than you aren’t black lmao.
Always hated Drake's verse on Poetic Justice, always felt shallow and egotistical.
i was listening to this video and the acotar reference jumpscared me LOL
As an avid longtime fan of rap / hip hop, ive never honestly took a super big liking to Drake and didnt really understand or participate in the hype and all that around him, even around my friends etc who would love or rly like him and ive always been "meh" abt Drake. Im a millennial so i remember his early hits and i remember watching him on Degrassi lol! Ive always had mad respect for Kendrick and everyone from TDE are some of my fave rap artists, fr!! 💯! Kinda always had a weird feeling about Drake and i guess my weird vibes i always felt... were actually right 😂 nice channel ❤ btw
Great video! I'ma def sub. Though maybe invest in a better microphone? Keep it up.
Ayy bro u a real one. Respect
Respect dude so level headed no wonder he stopped liking drake but still likes kendrick
This vid has a real strong thumbnail. It contrasts the two figures with light and dark, connecting with the themes of Christian morals. It also succinctly describes their contrast with selfless v. Selfish. Eye-catching and deep!
I think kdot said it best, “once a lame, always a lame. Oh you thought the money, the power, and fame would make you go away?”
6:58 can someone explain this reference? My girl is reading this series rn and I was surprised to see it in a Kendrick vs drake video 😂
Not going to lie bro, I think you should review your audio. Its quite hollow sounding at times and drowns out every now and again. It's a good video but it's very hard for me to pay attention when the audi keeps slipping
Working on it
Kendrick fan...love this song jts an absolute earworm. Im not here to glaze, but i thinkmit was genius to have Drake be the kne to deliver the selfish lines kf the song. They are completely contrasted from each other, nkt just in this song, but off the record as well. Jts genius that the kid with a rough Compton upbringing is the compassionate kne and the kid with more privileges from polite Ontario Canada is the selfish womanizer. Its crazy. Juxtaposition.,,thats the word. Lol you said it as i was typing this comment
is the video lagging or is it me
Kendrick's transcendence of real experience vs. Drakes's empty emulation. Your analysis is spot on.
"Sho feels damn, good ta me, wen i'm pushin inside of uuuu..." 😎
Obligatory sub here dropping a btbam reference in a video about Kendrick… this fella has good taste
BTBAM were one of the bands that helped me break out of the "all metal sounds the same" mindset. For lack of a better phrase, I didn't know you could make music like that until my friend from HS showed them to me lol. So yeah, they hold a very important place in my heart and growth.
Some of the observations are great, however… A Court of Thorns and Roses’ first book released roughly three years AFTER the release of this song. Kendrick couldn’t possibly be referencing it, unfortunately.
Yeah it was just a joke and a teaser on future content I'm doing.
You are a great RUclipsr however stop the announcements they’re bringing down the retention time the video needs to stop as soon as possible. love ur content but the algorithm only cares abt watch time.
Oh shit gyro zeppeli watches my content. Also appreciate the feedback. Sincerely.