Drake’s NUKE??? Family Matters Lyric Breakdown | DeCypherEd
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- On this episode, Skip and Dj breakdown Drake's diss track "Family Matters". We break down the lyrics line by line to search for any hidden meanings, entendres, metaphors, or just petty lines that we may have missed or ignored when the song was first released.
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As most people caught, Kendrick was talking about culture and Drake kept jumping to race. Every time he mentions race, it’s weird. Calling Ross racist. No black Perron accuses another Black person of that. There’s an anecdote that he has about the first time of experiencing racism was from African Americans. And then his awkward mentions slavery. He’s separating himself from us in those moments.
Word! He's Canadian! He don't know nothing about what Black Americans went through, how we grew up, and the abject poverty that inspired hip hop. He's an actor that fooled the world for 16 years! This is gonna expose how the music industry is using hip hop to destroy our kids while their young and impressionable. Example: Sexy Red. "My coochie pink, my booty hole brown" 😢
The way he started off that song was like when you tell a white teenager boy not to say the n-word 😂😂😂😂
Hard headed and obnoxious lol
Big “nan nanny boo boo” energy… hate it
Drake professed his love for Rihanna multiples times. Then she curved him. Rocky swooped in and wifed her. That’s an L for Drake.
You are white 🤣🤣🤞
@@lapolicia23 ‼️🎯
The feeling was never mutual. In fact, she said it made her uncomfortable. It's giving obsessed.
@@riss3690It’s giving Stan, bc no grown, healthy man gets curved that much b4 that moment, just to make a whole ass speech during a woman’s big moment just to make it about how much he feels about her. She’s being recorded on national television, she can’t fight, flight, freeze… he put her in a position where she can only fawn. And she played that role as little as possible, but she still had to play that role. And I wanna fight him for that
@@SweetieMs exactly! He doesn't know how to move around women and when they back away he acts like they are doing something to him. The man doesn't know how to self reflect and correct his behavior. Hence the reason he goes after girls that are on the cusp of womanhood.
I thought that Drake didn’t understand Kendrick bars when he said I’ll park your son. Kendrick did say in meet the Grahams that the metaphors does not reach him because he messed up by saying my family name
Family Matters is a comically ironic song in hindsight. The Pop Out was not only a great concert, uniting moment and coronation for Kendrick, it was the repudiation of the allegations Drake made. Kendrick's family was there. PgLang was there TDE was there. YG was there 😅
I think Drake should've scrapped this record as soon as he heard euphoria. That 6.5 minute song was laser focused on him alone. There was no mistaking who the target was. Meanwhile, you can be forgiven for not even knowing who Drake is rapping/singing about in Family Matters sometimes. He wanted to match euphoria with a long song with multiple beat switches, but the issue is he didn't seem to have enough to say to or about Kendrick in that time that he filled it with shots to other people who he frankly could and should have ignored in favor of the biggest threat.
Drake was trying to win the “I’m getting jumped by all of them” narrative, which was stupid but his fans really support that crap. So in some weird world he feels justified. But he got that ass whooped
Appreciate the take on moving in reverse to the streets.... always confused by ppl that run to the streets when they dont have to. 🙃
Ppl wanna be accepted that’s all. End up crashing out looking for acceptance
I honestly think that Drake was playing until his last record and Kendrick Lamar was being dead serious until his last record and that's why Drake lost or at least lost as bad as he did
Lol that's interesting
i dont even think Kendrick thought Not Like Us was his last record for the beef. he says "f a caption, i want action, no accidents" he wouldve kept going
@@AllTheArtsy I agree
Great video as always brothers. For me though, I'm the kind of guy who has never sat down and listened to Drake when I'm by myself listening to music. I've listened to Drake a lot, but because it was playing wherever I was at that time. My relationship with his music was always that he'd be there in the background at social events.
I say this, because going into this whole beef, I really thought Drake was gonna do better than he did. Even his best lines in Family Matter feel weak as hell now that we have more context. I was honestly shocked by how hard Kendrick won, because I just assumed Drake would be better at this than he was.
He got beat up and set on fire lol then stomped out with steel toe boots
@@wearedecyphered Fr tho!! Like I was never a hater, I just was neutral if anything. I always thought Kendrick was going to win, but brother I didn't foresee Drake losing this hard. Not because Kendrick, but because he just didn't stand on business!!
@neruneri I thought I was the biggest hater but kdot worse😂
@@neruneriLiked your comment, even though I disagree: been a hater from time, not remotely neutral 🤣 But I appreciate people less biased than me reaching the same conclusion as my biased af ahh 🤦🏽♀️
And right hand raised up to the sky, I swear I’ve never heard a black man or woman or child slip and say the hard “er”, ever. I’m willing to bet whoever who is reading this now hasn’t either. We don’t do that.
Same. Not even my biracial cousins, now some of their white mothers on the other hand.....
I highly recommend checking out What’s the Dirt’s breakdown of “6:16 in L.A”. By the time you see this comment, you probably will already have seen that video.
That said, the Buried Alive pt. 2 parody is a rebuttal to 6:16. I don’t want to give away the breakdown of 6:16, but let’s just say these 2 were more locked into each other and the moves they’re making than we thought.
Y’all gotta check it out.
His content is nuts , will def check it out !
@@wearedecyphered y’all are gonna like it! Can’t wait to hear what you think.
Facts
Great video definitely caught some new stuff.
Great chemistry y’all got keep it up!
I listened to this before meet the grahams just like most people and it never seemed worth the hype. When you're dissing somebody, what you say about them should never be just as easily said about you. A bunch of shit Drake was dissing Kendrick on in this track applied to him even more. Idk.
Feel like that was part of a strategy of trying to take bite off of Kendrick’s eventual attack angles (just like with AI Tupac mentioning the “young children” thing). Think the way Drake was approaching it was that if he could get ahead of Kendrick’s attacks first, he could blunt their impact. It didn’t work at all, but I think that’s what he was going for.
I don’t look at Kendrick as being a hater… imagine you really write all of your bars and the so called #1 rapper in the world simply doesn’t write all his bars but has the nerve to claim that spot. Any true lyricist would feel a type of way and take shots. It’s simply just competition not jealousy/hate. Kendrick best selling album “DAMN” didn’t have any real shots towards Drake so that angle is kinda mute. Gkmc didn’t have any shots towards Drake and that’s one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. This battle was the machine vs the embodiment of the culture. Simply real vs fake. Kendrick has shown he can do what Drake does at a high level but Drake cant do what Kendrick does. Sing about me/ dying of thirst Drake could never make such a record or execute it to the level of Kendrick
Drake is simply not an artist. He’s a pop star.
Drake could never produce a verse or a whole body of work equal the KDot’s verse on Nosetalgia.
There is no brownie points for roasting The Weeknd, or Metro Boomin. They don't rap. Picking easy targets is why he is ducking pdf file accusations today. No credit for that, it was funny but no.
I mean he doesn’t get battle stripes for attacking them but those were some good bars. Don’t help at all in this Kendrick battle because they weren’t directed at him, some good lines though.
Drake isn't beating the bad dad allegations with him calling his son "his seed"
“Could’ve been schemes and not haymakers” is a good summary of this battle for Drake.
Will yall do a 6:16 in LA breakdown? That song is the sleeper in this battle.
It’ll be last but yea we can. We just hadn’t gotten to it yet.
I can’t even listen to it the same fr. Did you really pack anyone up if you have a team of writers? Any diss with writers credited just don’t hit
Im gonna let it ride until it’s confirmed that he didn’t write it.
Honestly I don't even care whether he wrote it or not. The fact that he hyped it up as if it was the decisive win, the nuke, he was leaning into it as if he had an Ether lying in his back pocket. Family Matters is an okay song that ages like milk. But the worst thing is that it isn't worthy of all the hype that Drake pushed it for leading up to its release. It wasn't an Ether. It wasn't a nuke. It wasn't a haymaker, even if he was up against Meek again, let alone Kendrick.
@@wearedecypheredit is confirmed he at last had help just check the credits on all the diss tracks
I just love the first verse so much lol that beat sooo cold 🥶
This song was really good, MTG just crushed it
Now, I have to be honest, I heard Meet The Grahams before Family Matters so my opinion would be extremely biased. Kendrick eviscerated that boy w/MTG. However, I do think that the 2nd verse regarding the others in the field was some of Drake's best rapping. But I have to take points away because his focus should've been Kendrick. The other people shouldn't have mattered at this time.
It absolutely should’ve been a dedicated Kendrick diss track. He died a horrible death underestimating this man.
The "you say your brother Jermaine
But you wanted him to stay out of the light" line is even more insane when you take into account that MJ and Jermaine had a legit public beef with Jermaine accusing Mike of trying to undermine his album by stealing producers from him (i.e. BabyFace and LA Reid) to work on Mike's Dangerous album (something LA Reid confirmed in an interview). Jermaine even dropped a diss song on Mike. To Drake's credit, that was a crazy double entendre.
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Can’t wait for y’all to break down meet the grahams 😂 this breakdown was great!
Coming soon! uploading now
Dope record collection on the wall
Appreciate it!
Song was ass then, song is ass now
that's crazy lol he lost in terrible fashion but this song is good. he was too concerned with everybody but his biggest opp
@@wearedecyphered I stopped listening to Drake long before this beef because of his mediocre music, he had a chance to prove himself and he’s still producing mid music with his career on the line. The set of disses he dropped are some of the worst songs of his career (including TM and pushups) I genuinely don’t like the song outside of the beef stuff, but the beef stuff doesn’t help as his disses were mediocre nothing scathing was said and nothing held up, I’m not a fan of UK beats so that was an automatic L for me, the first part is catchy but his flow is so basic and there’s no hard punches other the “little k” line. The last verse sounded the best but his bars were so wack from dissin MJ and it was contradicting (talks about being a pop star and rapping for whites to Kendrick lol). Even for Drake standards it just showed his lack of lyrical ability at this point of his career, it’s funny people call k dot and cole boring But love the monotone abc flow from this Drake, and he really lacks from creativity in his music, even this song. Imo I don’t think any of drakes disses were better than ANY of Kendrick’s disses and I’ll die on that hill. Me being a fan of lyrics the song doesn’t sound that good to ignore other areas he was lacking in. Just my honest opinion
I don't think Kendrick comes out when it's tension or he wants attention I think he only comes out when he has something to say so if he has nothing to say he didn't say anything at all because the Heart part 5 was big and it was no attention at all
You can’t pop out, if you’re always out!
@@bushidobot8251 well somebody needs to tell Aubrey to stay in the house at least for a little while because hymn performing not like us at his show is wild as hell
@@charlescowart5229I think that was fake.
I think its weird that people say Kendrick disappears but I guess they mean he's not dropping an album cause he does features, goes on tour, participates in and hosts events in Compton, etc. He doesn't post on social media that much but PG Lang posts all the projects they have going. I'd rather an artist put out inspired music rather than dropping mid albums every month; it shows a lack of confidence if you ask me.
we definitely need a not like us breakdown
It’s on the way
Being from the WC, I am definitely biased towards Kendrick. BUT, I didn’t think Drake was even a worthy opponent until I heard Family Matters. In particular, that part over the drill beat is wild-I don’t think most rappers could even flow over that beat, but Drake demolished it. At this point, I think Drake’s greatest gift is how well he adapts his flow to different sounds. So, I definitely give him props for a great song. However, on replay, my personal favorite petty observation about the song is that Drake put on the best American Blaccent he’s ever produced during that song. It is very wild to me that he intentionally dips in & out of his invented Blaccent whenever it suits him.
That last sentence is part of the huge issue Kendrick had with Drake. But yes Drake did cook on this song.
Notification bell!
thats the way to do it !!
The two differences in approaches was telling.
For Kendrick, every diss whether we enjoy them or not it was for Drake and Drake only. I don't think Kendrick really cares for others approval, just be objective if you are talking about the diss records.
For Drake, he's such a egomaniac that even when trying the "little bro" or "I made you seen" approach. He in his mind was thinking as long as I have public questioning Kendrick's persona I win. Even if I'm not going bar-for-bar with him me referencing his closest friend and wife will get the public on my side. If I rap over the craziest beat possible the public will be on my side.
My biggest conclusion on his L was me watching the opinions of Women on the feud. Whether your on here, TikTok or Twitter many of them had some great thoughts on the feud.
10:50 in what world would Kendrick open for Drake now? Even if they were friends, Drake music is the appetizers and K Dot is the entree 🎉
not this world
Drake hates ASAP and Weeknd like Kendrick hates him. 😂😂😂
video essays would be sick
If we can make time for them, we might shoot a pilot.
I honestly think that whole Michael Jackson run at the end was the best bars of this entire ordeal from both sides. The girls you "actually" like. Darker secrets coming to light, maybe im Prince and you actually Mike... Jermaine out of the light etc....
Those were hard bars but meet the grahams to me has the best writing from either side
I'm still dying at the 6:25 mark. I do not like Drake or his music, but that interlude is probably the best thing that came out of the beef from Drake's end. That shit was funny as hell. 😭
Too bad Kendrick crashed his whole lil shit. Should've kept it rap. 🤷🏾♂️
Are y’all doing a video on the pop out?
Yeah it’ll be a live stream
Kendrick never responded to Family Matters or The 🖤6, but 2 months later is doing Victory Laps.
Drake did the 🖤6 in under 24 hours.
If you think he needed or to or didn’t respond you lost the plot.
Not a Drake fan, so I wasn’t going to watch. But I’m glad I did to see more of the vinyl wall.😅
Keep doing what y’all are doing because it’s not many people in the space who actually know rap beyond mainstream artists.
Check out our pre-beef content, we broke down some great albums and once the beef is officially finished as far as our videos go, we have a about 6 albums lined up to start breaking down.
I need to know what you think about the Drake feature with Camila, fyi she has a racist past and actually had to go to counseling to help with her image.
I ain't from North America, so I can't really comment or say that word and feel good about it. But reading what you sayin, I can imagine a lot of people "we don't wanna hear you say ..." singing lmao
Rapping about that vid then jump straight into kids barz is pdf vibes. I picked that up 1st listen. I skip that whole last verse coz of it but rest is 🔥
i’m tired of the drake killed asap narrative. asap whole life has drake deep in his feelings 😂
True true, BUT them catty raps went kinda hard
I really don't understand the whole Baby Keem angle. Like he didnt even take into consideration Keem's age. He wasnt even old enougn to be Kendrick's ghost writer for his classic hits. And that was my main problem withe Drake. I can understand that during a beef you're gonna just throw stuff out there but at least make it plausible. Like I would never be like, your fiance doesnt follow you on social media when neither of them really has any social media presence; you have to make it make sense.
He had nothing so he was just throwing stuff at the wall hoping it stuck.
you should do 6:16 in la
We have notes on it and intend do so. If I found out how to do it, we might react to What’s The Dirt’s video on 616inLA and include our notes too.
@@wearedecyphered that sounds like a good idea
I’m confused. 11:05 hypothetically speaking if they were to tour why would dot open when his tours do numbers Cole would be the opener and I’m pretty sure Dot would co headline and they would alternate who closed. The price went up after Dot won that Pulitzer so in no way could Drake ever son Dot NOW just saying.
anybody not closing the show is basically an opening act, and drake would speak on it in that fashion. Unless you are listed as a Co-headliner
Buried Alive was very good better than anything in Family Matters. People gassed that song a lot and I was really underwhelmed. I felt kinda crazy and listened an again. Still was underwhelmed.
Maybe because I was waiting for him to get to Kendrick and he was taking shots at people I didn’t care about in the moment.
As a complete track it’s kinda fire, as a Kendrick diss it’s weak
Kendrick always been one my favorite west coast rappers, untitled album, Gkmc, Section 8 and tPaB have always been good to me but I still like Drakes lil catchy songs
They get people moving, clubs and any event really
But damn Drake lost so bad
When you go through any of drakes disses its very easy to pick each bar apart and disprove most of them. Drakes biggest angle was the DV and dave free being the father, but as you can tell they are all happy at the pop out. I expected better from drake tbh dude really is a out of touch manipulator
Oh, I hate that Boi1da send beat line... I like disregard for grammar sometimes, but that is filler and it sounded like pre historical dudes talking on cartoons
Will you respond to Drake playing *not like us* at his concert and dancing to it please?
It wasn’t real.
Thank you for telling me. I was like.....what!?
It would be something he could dance to, if Kendrick wasn’t tripling down on some whole other bullshit!😂🤣😂
@@bushidobot8251😭😭nah fr like he would be a worth competitor, if Kendrick wasnt lying to every blogger and editor
@@fatherchris4004 Gtfo with that ish unless you got some receipts LMAO
Hold up what ?? KDot was first mentioning families drake retaliated . Drake hit KDot hard because they keep talking about his lightness yet the spouse is light and he cheated on her with white . Top did try to rob KDot Father at the fastfood spot . Drake didn't really want to smash him he got info that's simply it.
I be with the body guards like Whitney. You so wrong it’s laughable.
You’re wrong on every point here
Drake mentioned families first! Drake went hard because he looked at it as a way to “win” DoT went low, then Drake went lower with Family Matters, after that Dot took it to hell.
I’m a little disappointed that you all are impressed by these nursery rhyme rap schemes. Inflation, ovation, dedication, celebration… who is he, Dr. Seuss?? 😂😂 this song is trash
Even though Kendrick has written for Keem, I still believe Keem has written for Kendrick
Absolutely no proof of that anywhere
You can believe something all day long, doesn't make it true.
@@ssstarburst87 lol I don't believe it for no reason. God bless tho
i believe drake grooms minors.
@@TheWaveClub - lol so 11 year old Keem wrote GKMC and at 13, wrote TPAB - damn, by that definition, the big 3 should be Keem, Kendrick and J Cole. Drake gets excluded because he lost too many rap battles😂😂
Drake OUTRAPPES K.DUCK
Nah.
@@wearedecyphered then why did he buy streams???
There’s no proof of that. That LLC on that “bank statement” doesn’t even exist.