Im glad people are calling out drake for being a sexual predator but I dont trust all the rappers he be beefing with. Like some of them are doing it just for clout and are using it as a chance to get back at drake for personal reasons and would have never spoke up about drake dating teenagers if drake hadnt become persona non grata in the last few days. Its like harvey weinstein. People in hollywood knew for years there was rumors people spoke up and lost their jobs but it wasnt until he was done thats when everyone came out with shit on him. Like everyone who knew he was a predator before this and worked with him then and became angry at him not for the predator shit needs to go too!

Counter point, the Drake-Kendrick beef will be forgotten in like two months and nothing major will change because of it.

IDK, this guy is kinda reaching. I could see where he's coming from if he was saying this beef and the things Kendrick is talking about reflect larger societal issues, but how could they possibly be shaping them? Pop culture, and all of the superstructure, arise out of the material base but has extremely little power to do anything except reinforce it. That's why Kendrick and other conscious artists limit the scope of their message to a very specific part of the struggle, which elements of the ruling class are already ready to recuperate and make concessions in (more Black billionaires! (which is not what Kendrick is asking for but it's definitely the safe, capitalist response to this tide of conscious hip hop (and it's what other artists like Jay Z put forward as their solution) and even the most radical artists don't want to bite the hand that feeds them)). Even then, I don't want to be too cynical as to obscure what some smaller rappers out there are doing, others like Noname have put forward a more materialist criticism and have been outspoken about genocide and imperialism. How much of a difference does that make? Probably quite a lot, I'm sure many of the people in campus protests right now can attribute part of their political development to pop culture. But is it the actual, deciding factor for the movement and progression of history?

Ultimately the amount of change these artists can enact is limited due to their positions relying on capital; streaming platforms and record companies aren't gonna keep Fred Hampton on board for too long if that's really bringing about political action that threatens their bottom line.

Tired of hearing vout this and not actually hearing the songs, I went to look up Kendrick Lamar expecting to hate it because I'm old and all rap sounds like shit to me these days.

And... This kinda hits. This Lamar kid's got somethin.

tiktoks should be banned so we can be free of the moronic editing technique of separately splicing together every single clause a presenter speaks.

You think the Bay gon' let you disrespect ‘Pac, n*

I think that Oakland show gon' be your last stop, n*

I used to just hate Drake cause I'm Canadian. Now I kinda like Kendrick Lamar for owning a dude so hard I has to see what the fuss was about. Now I have other reasons, as stenchcore scum who pays little attention to mainstream music, Kendrick goty clicks and I told co-workers about it. He was like if you made Narduar really mad at you.

ITT: hexbear being extremely lmao

I feel like if you're writing mean songs about how much you hate someone you've already lost. Why doesn't the diss-ee simply make a meme of them and be done?

I don't know who these people are

FD Signifier talked about this way more in depth on his Drake hate video from a couple years ago. He talks about the branch Drake came from and how Drake is the inevitable conclusion once capitalist forces began working their way into hip hop. It's a really good video for anyone interested in the topic/has 3 hours to kill.

Panem et circenses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses