Best Song of the beef?

  • Like That

    Votes: 19 2.3%
  • Push Ups

    Votes: 7 0.8%
  • Euphoria

    Votes: 262 31.2%
  • Family Matters

    Votes: 27 3.2%
  • Meet The Grahams

    Votes: 152 18.1%
  • Not Like Us

    Votes: 358 42.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 16 1.9%

  • Total voters
    841

Rellyrell28

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
29,464
They were at a night club. Chris Brown sent Drake a bottle of Ace of Spades. Drake responded by sending that note and his entourage to Brown's table. Words were exchanged, then Drakes crew started throwing bottles. Several people were injured by the glass.

I think this was the beginning of Drakes shift to his wannabe gangsta persona
I feel like it was probably another incident but was this the one incident that got Tony Parker injured? I feel that was another club incident but I have to ask.
 

Judau

Member
Oct 28, 2017
4,948
They were at a night club. Chris Brown sent Drake a bottle of Ace of Spades. Drake responded by sending that note and his entourage to Brown's table. Words were exchanged, then Drakes crew started throwing bottles. Several people were injured by the glass.

I think this was the beginning of Drakes shift to his wannabe gangsta persona

Damn, I thought it was just Drake being a petty clown. That's way worse.
 

Trup1aya

Literally a train safety expert
Member
Oct 25, 2017
21,648
I feel like it was probably another incident but was this the one incident that got Tony Parker injured? I feel that was another club incident but I have to ask.

This is the same incident. Parker was sitting near Chris Brown when Drake's crew started throwing bottles.

Brown, Parker and one of Brown's bodyguards were injured along with two other partygoers.

Damn, I thought it was just Drake being a petty clown. That's way worse.

Chris brown is legit psycho, people should've known that.

No guidance is a banger tho.

Chris Brown is a psycho, but this one was all on Drake and Co. The two have made up, and since then it's come out as a misunderstanding. Chris sent the bottle as a friendly gesture, and for some reason Drake took offense which lead to the rest.
 

EzekelRAGE

Member
Nov 3, 2017
16,473
Chris Brown is a psycho, but this one was all on Drake and Co. The two have made up, and since then it's come out as a misunderstanding. Chris sent the bottle as a friendly gesture, and for some reason Drake took offense which lead to the rest.
Probably because when he buys bottles for dudes it's to throw something in their face/stunt on them, so that's they only way he can see that gesture lol.
 

Zaph

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,505
i still just want to know who told drake to do this. who in his camp hates him that much
 
Oct 26, 2017
16,575
Mushroom Kingdom
Listened to Meet the Grahams again this morning. My god . Can't imagine what it's like being Drake's Mom and hearing that



they should be ashamed for cutting the video at the drop 😑

edit:

found a clip with the drop LOL


View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7NbjUrMub3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
 

Kyuuji

The Favonius Fox
Member
Nov 8, 2017
32,994
I still find myself hunting out new reaction videos each night. Just for Kendrick's tracks mind. Seeing their progressive reaction as each track goes harder into Drake doesn't get old.
 

sonicmj1

Member
Oct 25, 2017
716
I still find myself hunting out new reaction videos each night. Just for Kendrick's tracks mind. Seeing their progressive reaction as each track goes harder into Drake doesn't get old.
I've kept doing this too, far beyond the point where I'm really getting anything new from them. It's... just hard to resist somehow.

One thing that happened because I've kept myself still immersed in this beef is that I went back to the most stepped-on and ignored song in this entire beef. Not Family Matters, not Kanye's Like That remix, but Drake's Buried Alive Pt. 2.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-fud7NmxA

Clocking in at eighty seconds, posted only on Instagram at the same time as Family Matters, in a way where most people reading the post were likely to miss that the song was even there, it got swamped by Drake's own track and then completely buried by Meet the Grahams fifty minutes later. Looking at it again, it's such a missed opportunity, another reflection of the hubris with which Drake approached the beef.

The original Buried Alive (Interlude) is a time capsule of Kendrick on the threshold of fame in 2011, meeting Drake for the first time after showing him his unreleased Section.80 mixtape, wrestling with the choice between staying true to himself or "burying himself alive" in money, power, and fame. The track is framed around his encounter with Drake, of being surrounded by markers of luxury and service, and being told by Drake that accepting this comes at a cost, that "you belong to the people when you go outside." He acknowledges his own jealousy at that time, that Drake has achieved so much more than he has at the same age. It's a vulnerable track. There's a ton of potential to flip it in a beef.

There are the beginnings of an attack on Kendrick's jealousy by Drake here, some of which are almost unavoidable due to the original lyrics ("React like an infant whenever you are mentioned"). You could imagine it building into something bigger, looking at the paths they've taken since the song came out, chiding Kendrick's discomfort with the fame and limelight, elaborating on how his jealousy lead him to seek out this feud because he's frustrated he can't achieve Drake's commercial success. I don't know if such an attack would be true, but it'd be plausible and have greater power coming from this song Kendrick already made.

Instead he can't even match the original's short 2:30 runtime and is already throwing out nonsense about "Twitter ghostwritin' your reply" a minute in that detracts from the main point. It's lazy. It could have been so much more.
 

krazen

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,532
Gentrified Brooklyn


He's had some pretty terrible 'post race' takes over the years. While he would not be a capital C conservative bigoted grifter era, he's the kind of guy you drag out to have a conservative counterpoint to discussions about race in a liberal space. IE the Clarence Thomas 'If you darkies stop thinking about it, close your eyes, and really wish to be white, the concept of race would disappear.'

Irony is that his talking head status is based solely on being the guy talking about racism. I also wonder why he got assigned this; he's not a music guy and not a pop culture guy so the editors absolutely had a slant they wanted.

Reminds me of the intentional misinterpretation of Ross's 'Big Nose' jabs I saw in some articles; the joke is he's ashamed of having an ethnic (Black and/or Jewish) nose, not that ethnic noses are bad or ugly.
 

beat

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,829
I also wonder why he got assigned this; he's not a music guy and not a pop culture guy so the editors absolutely had a slant they wanted.
Yeah, that's the Atlantic for you.

My more cultured friend says TCW is a smart guy in some areas, but I think he's so awful where he's awful that I can't ever take him seriously.

edit: as for not being "a music guy nor a pop culture guy", remember his 2010 book was literally titled "Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture" 🙄🙄🙄
 

J-Skee

The Wise Ones
Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,315
I still find myself hunting out new reaction videos each night. Just for Kendrick's tracks mind. Seeing their progressive reaction as each track goes harder into Drake doesn't get old.
I like to see the high they have from Family Matters & watch the mood dramatically change with Meet the Grahams.

"Dear Adonis...." is still the craziest shit from this whole thing.
 

krazen

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,532
Gentrified Brooklyn
Yeah, that's the Atlantic for you.

My more cultured friend says TCW is a smart guy in some areas, but I think he's so awful where he's awful that I can't ever take him seriously.

edit: as for not being "a music guy nor a pop culture guy", remember his 2010 book was literally titled "Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture" 🙄🙄🙄

LOL! I forgot about that title! LOL. But yeah, I less blame him because this is what he does (lets racist liberals speak the quiet part loud), as opposed to the Atlantic who basically said, "Lets make this about how Black people are the real bigots."

Kendrick = Hamas confirmed.


View: https://www.instagram.com/p/C48XKKoLk8m/?igsh=bWFpb3FiZXFtYjkw
 

EzekelRAGE

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Nov 3, 2017
16,473
Was revisiting this song and forget kendrick was on the remix so checked it out. Verse was like a prophecy.

(Casket man) Where be your rapper's angle?
Bunch of subliminal bitches, I'd rather fingerbang 'em
Oh, ke-mo sah-bee, pray to God nobody try me
Catch a body over nothin, Top couldn't even stop me

I got key to my city, I got key to California
I might legalize your homicide and more marijuana
Let my daddy smoke his weed, only thing they keep me friendly
I ain't got no jewelry on me, bitch, I got the jewelry in me
Oh, shit, let me talk my shit, I always been the shit
This ain't overnight, they love me now like they loved me then

Timestamped the vid to that part, but all his verses hard on here.

View: https://youtu.be/URiDdlAS6ls?t=102
www.youtube.com

Jidenna - Classic Man (Remix) ft. Kendrick Lamar

Download "Wondaland Presents: The Eephus" at iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheEephusAmazon MP3: http://smarturl.it/EephusAmzSpotify: http://smarturl.it/EephusSp...

ehh, cliped that part of the verse since embed not working

View: https://streamable.com/yia7m9
 

Compbros

Member
Oct 30, 2017
5,796
I think 6:16 just wasn't the move so soon after euphoria because I've been playing it on repeat a lot more post beef.
 

indigo blue

Member
Oct 25, 2017
151
Toronto, Ontario
I think 6:16 just wasn't the move so soon after euphoria because I've been playing it on repeat a lot more post beef.
6:16 is masterful and Kendrick was trying to do Drake a kindness warn him one final time… to no avail.

He then proceeded to completely dismantle Drake's persona and expose him on a surgical level.

Somehow some balance has been restored with this end result, so I am grateful for Drake's hubris.
 

DealWithIt

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,852
Was revisiting this song and forget kendrick was on the remix so checked it out. Verse was like a prophecy.

(Casket man) Where be your rapper's angle?
Bunch of subliminal bitches, I'd rather fingerbang 'em
Oh, ke-mo sah-bee, pray to God nobody try me
Catch a body over nothin, Top couldn't even stop me

I got key to my city, I got key to California
I might legalize your homicide and more marijuana
Let my daddy smoke his weed, only thing they keep me friendly
I ain't got no jewelry on me, bitch, I got the jewelry in me
Oh, shit, let me talk my shit, I always been the shit
This ain't overnight, they love me now like they loved me then

Timestamped the vid to that part, but all his verses hard on here.

View: https://youtu.be/URiDdlAS6ls?t=102
www.youtube.com

Jidenna - Classic Man (Remix) ft. Kendrick Lamar

Download "Wondaland Presents: The Eephus" at iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheEephusAmazon MP3: http://smarturl.it/EephusAmzSpotify: http://smarturl.it/EephusSp...

ehh, cliped that part of the verse since embed not working

View: https://streamable.com/yia7m9

This is sick.