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I wasn't clear - his music will obviously stand the test of time. It will no longer linger on the charts for multiple weeks 30 plus weeks etc. 53w - Not Like Us (Kendrick Lamar) 52w - Trap Queen (Fetty Wap) 52w - See You Again (Wiz Khalifa) 52w - SICKO MODE (Travis Scott) 52w - Woman (Doja Cat) 51w - What's Poppin (Jack Harlow) 51w - I Like It (Cardi B) 51w - Watch Me (Silento) 51w - Big Energy (Latto) 49w - Thrift Shop (Macklemore) 48w - Lucid Dreams (Juice WRLD) 48w - Need To Know (Doja Cat). Notice all of these either have a very melodic hook and are what I would call hybrid rap/ trap/ melodic rap whatever. NLU is an exception to a very huge cultural moment. It is not a long term trend, simply an isolated moment. Also you have a good point most of the talking heads would trash the goats of your generation. But tell me, who are they? Idek if I know

@rationprotocol @scaryhours5555 Hip-Hop media did this. Most of the talking heads would rather trash the goat's of our generation instead of appreciating them. Btw, to think Drake's music ain't gonna stand the test of time, you'd have to ignore the FACT that it's already doing it.

They're trying to make the Billboard Hot 100 chart strictly Pop & Country. It's no way urban/black songs stand a chance with radio having as much power as it does. I rapper/singer will need a perfect 10/10 song like "Janice STFU" by a Drake type artist to compete with a 7/10 country song that's been out for 7 months.... Yeah, y'all got it

@nothin2seehea1 @RizMan1313 @joepezz_ He will be great until one game hes not and then he will pile on to the problem. If you lose 3 games in a row or some shit, he will not be an asset he will be a liability

@RizMan1313 @joepezz_ Difference is he’s the clear WR1 and will have the offense featured around him

AJ Brown blames the expectations of being a defending Super Bowl champion as the reason why he requested a trade

And just to drive this fact. The list of songs that Drake has had help writing on, is 10 times larger than the list hes helped others write lol. For all we know all these songs are from the OVO sweatshop and he gave them away. His pen is permanently questionable. I mean an artist just came out 2 weeks ago saying he stole Little Birdie from him lol

Wow Drake is extremely good at writing from the perspective of an emotional woman. 90% of these songs aren't even rap songs wtf he the goat of lol. Kendrick wrote All The Stars (including the chorus and melody), 16 by Baby Keem, All Day for Kanye, music for Jay rock and Schoolboy Q. He even wrote Jay Rock's groundbreaking verse on Money Trees. If anything constantly bringing up Kendrick Lamar when he hasn't dropped an album in 2 whole calendar years while drake has dropped over 80 songs in the last 2 years is enough said. Y'all gonna be coping FOREVER

If you needed another reason why Drake is better than Kendrick Lamar, let’s talk about all the hit songs he wrote for other artists. Unthinkable - Alicia Keys 6th Sense - Kodak Black Yikes - Kanye West 30 Hours - Kanye West Facts - Kanye West I’m Single - Lil Wayne Mine - Beyoncé Not Nice - PARTYNEXTDOOR Fall For Your Type - Jamie Foxx I Been That Girl - Melanie Fiona R.I.P. - Rita Ora & Tinie Tempah Now what songs has Kendrick written for anybody that was this successful? If he’s written any? When it comes to rap, Drake will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time. The only reason we’re not calling him the GOAT yet is because we still hold the classic artists in such high regard. But in another ten years? We’re gonna have to say Drake is the greatest of all time.

@WondoXL @AyeDereKells Oh im not disagreeing with that at all

@rationprotocol @AyeDereKells It’s about subject matter and Jays raps are all about self like Drake. Nas has songs about the world around him like Kendrick

Jay Z was known as the flashy hit marker and Nas was known as the deep philosophical rapper…. But I guess I’m remembering wrong.

@TodaysDateGuy youtube.com/watch?v=ipSpNy… I mean cmon this gotta be one of the coldest beats ever heard

You're too young. Before he even met Kanye people considered him a top 5 rapper ever. Not to say Kanye's production put a battery in his back because it did. But so did Timbaland, No ID and Just Blaze. Id argue Just Blaze's production was even crazier than Kanyes for Hov. U Dont know, Lyrical Exercise, Public Service Announcement. It might be cliche to say, but PSA has one of the craziest instrumentals ive ever heard. And to this day idk if ive ever heard a better Jay instrumental than the Intro to The Dynasty album.

The Camel’s legacy without any of the Kanye records is average as fuck

It just what it is. The same happened to punk music it went super mainstream for awhile with people like Avril Lavigne and Green Day then it died. Rap had a golden era with tons of greats competing with each other. And even just 15 years ago the blog era had Kendrick, Drake, Wayne, Kanye, Joey, Krit, Mac, Ab-Soul, Q, Meek, ASAP, Wale, Big Sean, Tyler all fully active in the same year. Mainstream rap evolved from the days where you can be excited for a TI album and the very next week a Kanye West album or The Game. Soundcloud era brought a ton of diversity and new original acts. But imo started the decline of the genre. People no longer "like" rapping. They like this half-sung/half-rapped version where lyrics aren't even the priority (see Playboi Carti). It's more about branding and aesthetics/aura. There are very few superstars currently active and the ones that exist are from previous generations. Unless new ones emerge, the genre will continue to be a shell of its former self. This all started around 2018ish. Streaming also had a major impact on this as well. In the future, I imagine it will be niche fanbases for specific artists (Baby Keem, Ken Carson, Yeat) but none of them will be Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z and Drake. And none of them have their talent either bc people dont like rap anymore.

@rationprotocol @scaryhours5555 This is not a good thing lol

Bc people like Jay, Nas, Kendrick even Pusha are the "real deal". They're all cerebral rappers. Mfing Nas is in his 50s and how many young rappers could honestly go toe to toe with him? None. When all these guys were young they could easily go toe to toe with OGs. Not the same anymore

😂😂😂😂😂 For someone who people claim is “irrelevant”, Jay-Z sure does conjure up fear. Not bad for a “washed” rapper.

@OShitMedia @Mushur9a4 @SeewhyChels Ah yes FM, the song he made after listening to Euphoria and thought to himself "oh gee im never gonna be able to do anything remotely close to that so lets just call him short, his boy banged his BM, my dick is big, he wins alot of awards and he beats his BM"

Nigga, what? Drake is the only rapper who has battled multiple times. There's a reason people go at him and not anyone else. No, lyrically Duppie killed Pusha T and Family Matters bodied Kendrick. Jay-Z himself doesn’t look at anybody else’s as competition besides Drake. Everybody else, he looks at them as workers that includes Kendrick.

🚨 Mal believes a Drake vs Jay-Z battle will eventually happen “Drake is the top dog of this era while Hov is the greatest ever…” Mal says the two eventually have to see each other on wax but unlike recent rap beefs, he believes it would be more of a “friendly fade” than actual beef Mal also admitted he’d be riding with Drake if it ever happened “Hov is big bro… but Drake is my man…I gotta go with my man.” Via Rory and Mal

@Waxminister @chadsaboing @JayFaydAway LOL wow

@rationprotocol @chadsaboing @JayFaydAway Erm…

Kendrick raps about the community & culture he was raised in. Drake raps about the community & culture Kendrick was raised in.

I dont even think hes bad. So Far Gone EP changed the genre, you dont get all the classic blog era mixtapes that sounded like albums without it. He blended singing with rapping so well. Made plenty of iconic songs. He just simply not the brand he portrays publicly. The man is playing a role

@rationprotocol @Thismfspittin1 @SeewhyChels By far greatest actor / rapper

🚨 Mal reveals Drake was texting him about Jay-Z’s Roots Picnic freestyle in real time according to Mal, Drake was one of the first people to reach out after Hov’s performance… but while everyone else was focused on the bars, Drake’s main question was: “Yo, but what’s up with the hair?” Meanwhile, Rory says things got so heated that Jermaine Dupri grabbed his phone at an afterparty and demanded he FaceTime Mal immediately JD allegedly got on the call and started yelling: “Pick a side of the family!”

@Waxminister @chadsaboing @JayFaydAway theres a lot of irony talking about how you started from the bottom, and another man is helping you lol. Should be "We Started From The Bottom"

@rationprotocol @chadsaboing @JayFaydAway Weather he CO WROTE it or not, he is the one that rapped it

@chadsaboing @JayFaydAway well he didnt even create Started From The Bottom, QM wrote that one

@JayFaydAway Yes started from the bottom filmed in a shoppers drug mart is Kendrick’s community and culture, the motto is Kendrick’s community and culture you guys love your narratives man

@KungFuJodee @JayFaydAway @seeker_506 Kendrick has multiple albums with narratives structured entirely around his community

@JayFaydAway @seeker_506 Kendrick doesn’t rap about his community as much as Drake raps about the 6ix

LOL mass psychosis event. This whole beef destroyed peoples brains. Btw that is a classic joint and dropped shortly after GKMC. "Nigga that thought Good Kid gon' flop, or that I might go pop Or your bitch won't drop, knees when my shit drop Y'all too infatuated with the fucking numbers Which make it easy for me to divide and conquer" "This is where we at? I guess it's entertainment I guess this is speculation making a CLASSIC came with If I ain't have the patience I'd probably self destruct Real people want real music, the jig is up"

Wow… almost as if… that was the point… 🤯

@strifewaves The same guy stabbed a man who leaked his album lol

Nigga apologized to jadakiss and got chased by big pun .. Chubbs definitely pressed that nigga 😭😭😭😭😭

@Wiseguy_Cy Yes

This Jay Z that Drake cannot touch. Is it the same Jay Z that Drake ran circles around on Pound Cake.

@Thismfspittin1 @SeewhyChels I really like alot of Drake's music but it is so hard to separate him from the guy I used to watch on Teen Nick and images like this feel so dystopian. It will forever blow my mind how he was able to psyop the public lol

@SeewhyChels Drake of all people asking that?! About hairstyles?

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@BinaGotti @AyeDereKells I still regularly listen to it. Can I live, d’evils, politics as usual, feelin it, dead presidents. All some of my favorite songs of all time in one album