Metalhead's First Listen to Kendrick Lamar - Euphoria Reaction
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This was my time hearing Kendrick Lamar, and WOW what a diss track! My normal music taste is almost the opposite of this but I'm glad that getting into reacting to music is letting me experience so many different things with you guys. If you have a favorite Kendrick song, let me know what it is in the comments so I can try and get some more of his on my list! If I missed any references (which I'm sure I did) let me know those in the comments too, because I just KNOW this song was meant to cut deep.
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Listening to Euphoria as your first Kendrick song is crazy 😂
is.... CRAAAZZYYYY!! 😂😂😂. I was so concerned for him 😅
Tbh my first was meet the grahams. So.. yeah. 🤣
@@fungulusmaximusthat’s wild bro 😂
@@fungulusmaximus so when's your first therapy session?
@@Apizzaslicebros gonna listen to mr morale for therapy
Getting Euphoria to be your first Kendrick Lamar song sounds like a "just graduate" journalist covering a war overseas
😂😂😂
Perfect description
my first was meet the grahams 💀
😂😂😂
@@kialyra6526that’s absolutely wild. But honestly as a day one Kendrick fan back when was Dot, Meet the Graham’s was my favorite song out of the entire diss, but I’m here for all of Dot’s shenanigans. And that was definitely diabolical.
Guy wearing a hello kitty ears reacting to Kendrick Lamar wasn’t on my this years card 😅😂
🤣🤣🤣
That's exactly what caught my attention before watching the video. I don't even care what musical styles the next videos will be, I'm staying lol
I’m 15 minutes in and just noticed because of this comment lmfao was enjoying it to much to notice 😂
the second you bursted out laughing at the dementia bar, i knew i had to drop a like 💀
Thanks 🤣
Same, lol! ❤
Yeah i cracked up at him cracking up at that part haha
PARK-HIS-SON
Shhh... nobody tell him about Meet the Grahams.
But it’s SO GOOD!!!!
This one comes up a bit as a suggestion. Its def on the list!
Pssssssst I see dead people
@@TheRonnieaj And "Not Like Us"
@@dethrowegamer1715And 6:16 In LA is pretty good.
"Very first time I shot me a drac" is him talking about the first time he shot a gun he missed because he didn't point down enough to account for recoil. He says he learned and he isn't gonna miss today.
Yeah, Drac, is short for draco which is a nickname for a gun. Wordplay with Drake’s name too
I think he meant that his first diss missed Drake because he didn't aim low enough to hit him. He calling Drake a scam artist
@AsapCodeine yea it was both. The line has multiple meanings
You can't listen to Euphoria without the study guide...especially if you're not that plugged into hiphop. I have about 3 hrs under my belt now lol
I believe it also has to do with Drake saying he is on top of the mountain, Kendrick is saying that he is even higher and therefore has to aim down
having a cat ear headphone is so metalhead 🔥🔥
Bro jumped into the deep end 😂 props!
DNA.
ELEMENT.
Money Trees
Father Time
Rich Spirit
Alright
These Walls
FEAR.
Count Me Out
Better
M.A.A.D. City
Blacker The Berry
Institutionalized
Untitled 5
The Heart Pt. 4
HiiiPOWER
ADHD
FEEL.
Compton
Sing about me ?
@@kendol36 Tbh i feel you need to listen to the whole of good kid mad city and Keisha's song to really appreciate that song
Any song on to pimp a butterfly
@@pandajaeger3079 yeah
it's better if you just listen to the whole concept album i guess
@@kendol36 yeah that too
honestly a lot are great. can't really go wrong with a lot of the tracks
One thing i love about Kendrick is how his lyrics can have multiple meanings. Its straight up poetry and reading the lyrics on Genius blew my mind. Stoked youre enjoying expanding your musical horizon!!!
You gotta do 6:16 , Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us
It was the craziest couple days in hip hop history
The whole Mr Morale album would be a great bet too. Kendrick is a master of the lost art of making concept albums
I mean, IGOR is a banger
this proves that all you have to be to enjoy kendrick is intelligent. at least a little. he gon reach you if you listen
The puff reference was for when puff slapped Drake over a dispute over a beat
Puff daddy
It was the 0 to 100 beat to be exact
Funny Drake says “0 to 100 real quick, whole squad on that real shit” but him or chubbs didn’t do anything when puff slapped him
ALSO
J COLE had a fight with Puff ALLEGEDLY over something that had to do with Kendrick. J cole mentioned the fight on his last album “THE OFF SEASON” on the song “Let go my hand”
Kendrick is a deep individual 😂
@@214silk2I heard the Puff thing with Cole was over Kendrick saying he’s the king of New York on control
@@ysy_y that part I didn’t know 😱
The ring reference is about Drake buying Tupac’s ring how Kendrick would pay twice as much to buy it from him. Tupac turning in his grave about Drake having the ring and that Drake used an AI voice of Tupac in his diss track at Kendrick.
This song has a lot related to Pusha T doing "Infrared" and " Story of Adidion" from Pusha T and ---- he clearly has info right.
Think he and pusha met up and had a talk, cause pusha said he was going to peel it back layer by layer 😊😅😅😅😂took several yrs and a different player
Of any modern rapper, Kendrick really loves pushing genres and writing meaningful music. He doesn't really have "metal" songs, but to pimp a butterfly and untitled unmastered are full of insane tracks that a non hip hop-head music lover could appreciate. Especially untitled unmastered, wjth Thundercat on bass and some aggressive and dissonant jazz type stuff. It's worth listening to
A metal head jumping straight into rap with not only a Kendrick song, but a diss song at that... this is like taking one of my buddies who only listen to rap and throwing Rammstein or Slipknot in their face 🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Dude I love this. All of my friends are strictly metal/punk heads and hate rap but recently got obsessed with Kendrick Lamar. I haven’t seen a true music head deny him yet.
Good music is good music! Anyone that really appreciates music can tell when someone puts care and effort into the music they create. I feel like Kendrick is what happens when pure talent meets hard work.
@@dethrowegamer1715 amen!
As someone who has been listening to Kendrick since 2011, I LOVE that this is your first foray into the world of Kendrick Lamar and I would love to help guide you through his discography
I appreciate you! I have been reacting to his whole album DAMN, and it has been amazing! Dude is a genius.
One of the things that I think gets overlooked in this beef is that because Kendrick’s hatred for Drake is so palpable, people overlook the fact that a lot of Kendrick’s bars are really funny.
Hes so good with writing his stuff! He goes from serious to insanely funny so easily. So versatile!
This was not the place to start at all with Kendrick 😂😂
This was a complete diss track towards Drake. I’d say start with an album as he’s the type of artist that tells his story through albums. The main reason why I say don’t start here is because there’s too much outside information going into this.
Thanks for the comment and the insight! Yea, bruh he let Drake have it in this one 🤣. Ill check out some of his other songs. If you have any specific good ones, just let me know.
@@dethrowegamer1715 I would highly recommend listening to his main studio albums in order from start to finish because he tells his life story/experiences through them, but if you just want to gauge I’d say songs like Alright, Count Me Out, King Kunta, and ADHD are good starting points. I also recommend using the site ‘Genius’ for lyrics, as you can click anything you don’t understand, and there will be an explanation.
@@dethrowegamer1715 I would highly recommend listening to his main studio albums in order from start to finish because he tells his life story/experiences through them, but if you just want to gauge, I’d say songs like ‘Alright’, ‘ADHD’, ‘King Kunta’, and ’ I’ are all good starting points. I also recommend using the site, ‘Genius’ for lyrics as they breakdown any lyric you may not understand by clicking on it.
@@dethrowegamer1715 I would highly recommend listening to his main studio albums in order from start to finish because he tells his life story/experiences through them, but if you just want to gauge, I’d say songs like ‘Alright’, ‘ADHD’, ‘King Kunta’, and ’ I’ are all good starting points. I also recommend using the site, ‘Genius’ for lyrics as they breakdown any lyric you may not understand by clicking on it.
Ngl this is where I started lol, I love this song
Fellow metal/hardcore head here since the early 2000s. Kendrick has become one of my top 3 artists of all time for a few years now and his concept driven and lyrically deep albums like GKMC, TPAB and Honestly all of them have become some of my all-time music. I highly recommend you to listen or even react to them :) when I was younger I alost avoided hip-hop bc I was under some false impressions that it doesn't go as "deep" or even instrumentally intricate as metal, hardcore etc but Kenny is special. I hope you enjoy it you check out more. 🤗
Thanks for the comment! I really enjoy when people tell me about the backstory on their music tastes and discovering new music. I feel like KL is going to be my door to enjoying more rap than I currently do.
as a fan of hip hop nearly my whole life i loved watching this perspective! sick video bro
Thanks for the comment! I appreciate you!
I see no one answer your Drake question. A draco is a kind of firearm. When you use it it tends to go up. So in order to aim and hit what you want you have to aim lower and let it carry you into what you're trying to hit. So it's a double entender because of Drake's name how he needs to attack him is aim low and it will take him to his intended target.
A Draco is what you mean; it’s an Ak-47 converted pistol
@@Scorpion-lj2zb I was using voice to text it changed it to what it thought I meant lol.
Thanks for that info, I def didnt get the reference. I really liked this one, so I plan on reacting to the entire back and fourth between him and drake.
It's a quadruple entendre: Kendrick is saying that Drake isn't #2 or #3 behind him, Drake is actually further down the list.
Plus, he's calling Drake dumb. Essentially, 'my first shot went over his head, so now I gotta dumb it down.'
@@dethrowegamer1715honestly do his albums first. The beef is much better with context and background for the artists
Im a bit late, but "what's the dirt" has a really good video if you want to know the meanings behind all the lines.
People might talk shit because you are new to a thing but look at it like you get to experience things for the first time and people wish they can do things for the first time again
Don’t know if you do stand up reactions but Josh Johnson does a pretty hilarious explanation of why they’re in a rap beef
You got that line “you gone make a nigga bring back puff” pretty close, P Ditty aka Puff Daddy was notorious for being really violent in the rap industry, even apparently slapping drake across the face at one point. He was also accused of being the one that put the hit out on Tupac but it’s never been confirmed
If you liked the first part of the song, it's a sample of Teddy Pendergrass "You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration"
Mannn, crazy way to be introduced to kendrick. i love lots of metal as well, but kendrick just does something no artist can do for me. the man is lyrically powerful and these disses man 😭
“You’re gonna make a N-word bring back Puff” referencing Puff Daddy (aka P.Diddy) who punched Drake in the face at a party
I do hope you check out the rest of Kendrick's diss tracks throughout this battle. 6:16 in LA came out after euphoria, then he released meet the grahams like 20 minutes after Drake responded with Family Matters. And then not even 24 hours after meet the grahams he dropped Not Like Us as a final nail in the coffin lmfao
Overall I do recommend Kendrick's stuff in general. You mentioned he's got a special voice and if you like the various "voices" he did in this track you'll find plenty more surprises in his past stuff.
The ynw melly line is insane cus he said " if they not my real friends im ynw melly" and ynw melly is a rapper who killed his friends
There is a LoNG video explaining the meaning of this song on the UA-cam channel “What’s The Dirt”
It is really entertaining
That Teddy Pendergrass in the intro gose hard.
damn, wish you would have covered more of this beef. my first time here but your reaction was great. even starting from drakes family matters which is the halfway point t would give you a good insight to kendrick as an artist and clearly tell you who the winner was lol but kendrick has so many amazing tracks that covering all of his best music would be hard to choose from 😅
Thanks for the comment! Im going to cover more of the beef between them. Think Ill do some of KL's old stuff then come back to the diss tracks later.
@@dethrowegamer1715 oh damn that's sweet. im new here & its cool to see that you interacts with comments & take suggestions into consideration. turning on notifs for you now
Wild introduction to Kendrick lol.
Id listen to all these diss tracks.
Like that
Euphoria
6:16 in LA (the sleep IMO)
Meet the Grahams
Not like us
Its a wild ride.
Thanks for the comment! Ill def be coming back around to all the diss tracks.
Pushing p is in reference to a song called p power that drake was featured on, in which he talks about pushing p which is supposed to mean have power over women and pussy ig. So Kendrick is basically saying if you wanna talk about pushing p then try to push a t in reference to pusha t who destroyed drake in a previous battle. Kendrick is saying that drake is better off trying to battle pusha t again then challenge him.
the raspiness you brought up in his voice is a sound from compton/long beach ca. im not a rapper but grew up in area and have that raspiness too
“Euphoria” is my favorite. I didn’t love it though when I first heard it because I didn’t understand the references mentioned in the song because I didn’t know the history and context. UA-cam comments clued me in. Once I read the comments and better understood the verses, the song became straight 🔥.
17:29
Guess what:
"This is America" was originally a Drake diss track. 😂
when he says “bring back puff lemme see if chubbs really crash something” some years ago diddy (puff daddy) slapped drake and chubbs is drake’s right hand man or security guard and he didn’t do anything when diddy slapped him
Brodie is Toronto slang for your bro, and Kendrick saying Crodie is referencing the crip gang and how they replace Bs with Cs. Basically showing Drake that Kendrick is what he pretends to be. Kendrick himself is not a gang member but has family members and friends who live that life.
P diddy touched me
I would really suggest reacting to the video for "Alright" it is PURE ART!
Great video man!
Its kinda wild that you've been making videos for 2 years and this already your most viewed video. In a genre you don't cover
Yea, I mainly did videos from my streams, but I love music and have been wanting to react to new stuff for sometime now. I finally got up the courage to try it out and the support and feedback has been absolutely amazing. Video games and music are huge parts of who I am, and I want to share as much of it I can with others.
I highly recommend the WhatsTheDirt video on this track. He breaks down every single part of it and it goes crazy.
you should listen to his snl performance of "i"
There are a lot of really good lines in this but my favorite part of this song is the very first line - when played forward he’s saying “everything they say about me is true!“ which is a reference to when Richard Pryor says “everything they say about me is true! I’m a phony!” from the wiz as Dorothy discovers the Wiz is just a man and not magic at all. It’s like foreshadowing to the fact that Kendrick is going to show everyone how full of shit Drake is
i would recommend reading lyrics from genius so you can get a detailed breakdown of all of the references. you should watch the pop out: ken and friends concert to see a masterclass in artistry and performance as well as the story of adidon- pusha t to see drake get destroyed again. a canadian pop star with 0 originality, creativity or self-identity challenging a pulitzer prize poet and multi-grammy winning artist from compton.
I know this comment is 3 months late but let me help you a little on the questions you had during the song. With the "shot me a drac" it references 3 things. the degrassi bit, the gun itself (which is why I spelled it that way "drac") and the man this song is about, Drake himself. As others have said, this song is an insane song to start. Everything Kdot does great is in it but its a lot for newer listeners. You got the triple quad entendres, the culture references, name dropping but using it as an insult (Aubrey is a weak ass name for a "thug" rapper as Drake has tried to make himself seem like). It has story telling, beat switches and even his own unique voice changes.
The "bring back Puff" is in reference to a situation between Puff and Drake in public where Puff punched him in the face and Chubbs (who he references right after) is Drake's bodyguard who was right there and did nothing in the moment. To add, the "crodie" and "nuthin bout dat" bars are Kdot making fun of the Toronto accent where Drake is from.
Something a lot of people who don't listen to rap don't understand during all of this is that, someone like Kdot is extremely loved and revered in the culture. What that means is he has street respect across the country but mainly Cali(while staying out the actual gangs), he has the admiration from essentially every single rapper. And he also gives back to his community which is adding to the respect I just mentioned. On top of that? He is becoming arguably the single best rapper to ever live skillwise. Biggie, Pac, Andre 3K, Em and Nas are the only ones you can really compare him to. Drake on the other hand uses a ton of ghost writers on most of his projects.
Sorry if you've already talked or knew about all of this. First video and enjoyed how you broke it down and questioned the meanings! I see some other reactors blow past certain things almost as if they are scared to be wrong.
Thanks for the comment and all the info! I appreciate you hoppin in the comments to help me understand more of the references!
Kush and Corinthians my favorite track by him
If you ever listen to more kendrick or rap in general, i would recommend to use genius lyrics, as you can click on most any line and get a breakdown on the meaning. Most of kendricks lines will have 2 or 3 meanings and most will be lost on people not in the know
Lifelong metalhead here that discovered Kendrick a few years ago. The album To Pimp a Butterfly was my intro, followed by Good Kid MAAD City.
(My first song was Blacker the Berry which might be an even more insane intro to Kendrick than this...)
Great reaction
Thanks! It means a lot that you liked it!
Ive been a true Kendrick fan since 2010, trust me, most of these comments don't know, but there's this unreleased song my Kendrick Lamar that is a must listen, only on UA-cam. Cartoon and Cereal by Kendrick Lamar, won't disappoint 😊
You gota listen to Not Like Us, brother. If you think this is a harsh dis track, you aint heard nothin yet lmao
The Pusha T line is a dis track Pusha T made about Drake that exposed a son he was hiding from the media basically. The "First time I shot a drac line is referencing a gun nicknamed a Draco and it's a play on words with Drake
Pls more Kendrick! Meet the grahams and not like us... 👀
You gotta listen to meet the grahams
Ngl euphoria is a good first introduction to Kendrick
you should listen to more kendrick for sure
Dude, you look so chill...why do all metalheads looks like cuties? You remind me of Tom Nook lol
Thanks I think! 😂😂😂
Yo! The deep end?!? Damn!
😂
This was amazing, it shows the power of GOOD music. Doesn't matter the genre, if it's good, people will jam to it. If you haven't, can you listen to Meet The Grahams and Not Like Us? I'm really curious to see how you react to Kendrick getting more annoyed as time went on. 😂😂
Agreed! Good music is good music!
Bro you gotta listen to Meet the Grahams!
Bro I remember you reacted to a Kendrick album before
This was my very first KL reaction. I just released my Humble reaction a few days ago. I am looking forward to hearing more of his stuff.
REACT TO MORE KENDRICK PLEASE RAHHHH
O yes, your next track by Kendrick must be Not Like Us.
not sure if yk lil uzi vert but he's a popular rapper and in his last album pink tape he has some songs with baby metal, bring me the horizon and he even did a cover of chop suey! def check those songs out if not the whole album
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Listen to money trees… matter of fact listen to the entire good kid Maad city album. It is truly a journey. I’m going to subscribe so i can see your reaction lol
Thanks for the comment, suggestion and sub! I think im going to do an entire video of an album react. Still planning it out.
Look if you like that opening you like Kendrick. Go listen to To Pimp a Butterfly. Legitimately the best album of at least the last quarter century
TPAB reaction is def coming in the future. Dont know when, but its def coming!
Kendrick is usually not this hateful. Sorry u had to witness that
I thought you were the dude that got pulled over by feds high af
OMG Link video! I wanna see. XD
Kush and Corinthians
Thought this was Jon Wayne
Try Kendrick songs maad city or king kunta
meet the grahams!!!
This is an INSANE way to discover Kendrick
Yeeeeaaaaaa, I didnt know what I was walking into 🤣
It is how I discovered him too. Still am working my way through his "classics" and "tragics," but Euphoria is still my favorite.
@@imorvitI’ll be honest man, this is definitely one of his better tracks imo
@@theblan1k0nesongs a banger but mans got bops
@@walt3479 Don't get me wrong, GKMC, TPAB, and DAMN are in my rotation.
I'm a die hard metal head for over 25 years. Kdot is my favorite rapper. Kdots style resonates really well with fans of all music culture. He won a pulitzer prize for his damn album. It's true art.
DAMN is all caps lol, looks weird without it
@@K-tw4wb aint nobody got time fo dat
@@keithkirby7376 Responding with casual racism, nice
Sounds like you're emphasizing album rather than mentioning a specific album.
I honest to god think Kendrick could pull of rap metal like a Numb/Encore type song
The YNW Melly line is crazy 😂 when he said “I pray they my real friends, if not, I'm YNW Melly” he’s referencing to the ongoing court case with rapper YNW Melly who is facing murder charges for allegedly murdering 2 of his friends.
This blew my mind, Kendrick says, "I love 'em to death, and in eight bars, I'll explain that phrase, huh," and eight bars later is the YNW Melly reference.
The Puff reference, Diddy slapped Drake and his bodyguard didn't do anything about it so when he says "lets see if Chubbs really crash something", Chubbs is his body guard so he's saying "lets see if he'll stop me"
Is this like watching Endgame as your 1st Marvel movie??🤣🤣
Right!!! 🤣
This is probably more infinity war as a first movie, meet the grahams would be endgame
lol endgame was my first marvel movie
Endgame was weak sauce
No, that'd be Meet the Grahams.
a "drake" is slang for a gun, so he's saying the very first time he dissed (shot at) drake, (with a drake/gun) he didnt go low enough lol
The line also suggests that Drake is beneath him because he has to aim down. Kendrick is known for his lines with multiple meanings.
@@TheLogicLives or the shots he shot before all went over drakes head. (integrity is lost when the metaphors doesnt reach you)
And a “Drake” is another term for a variant of a “dragon,” something well associated with the devil in Christian literature.
I took the "not aiming down enough" as Kendrick saying all his previous shots were warning shots
A Drake is also a male duck! K-Dots music is very layered. 😂
His vocal range is INSANE he is constantly switching up his tone in a way I have never seen any other artist do. Dudes like making up characters and shit just with voice tone
Easy intro songs for Kendrick: Humble, Money Trees, Swimming Pools.
Kendrick isn't like any other rap artist, he really emobodies true hip hop...he touches on alot of deep subjects and makes you think. I hope you give him more of a listen. He's one of my favorites.
Thanks for the comment! Yea im going to be digging into some of his older stuff to get a better feel for the artist. Im excited to see what else he has.
@@dethrowegamer1715Don't listen to individual songs listen to the entire album all the way through or you'll miss context for a lot of those songs
@@Darrakkii unfortunately to enjoy the full album, you need some backstory
@@dethrowegamer1715UA-cam channel “what’s the dirt” has the best breakdowns of this entire Drake Kendrick beef. If you want to know EVERYTHING about this to understand the songs better, I recommend you watch.
Swimming pools actually turned me off on him... Hearing it I thought he was a generic 2010's party rapper until I heard I on the Forza Horizon 4 soundtrack.
When the beat switches after he said Daft Punk, it's a Daft Punk song sample call "Forget the World"...
Noooowayyy
"this sounds like a diss track" 😂😂😂
I didnt know what I was walking into 🤣🤣🤣
I feel like Kendrick transcends musical genre. Every genre has some fantastic artists that can entertain anyone, but Kendrick is something so special
the "I like this! holy shit!" after the park ya son line, sounded SO genuine. it's dope to see non-hiphop fans appreciate undeniable talent
One of my favorite parts is kendrick doing the Toronto accent and ordering what drake ordered on the night he got robbed in his own city
4:50 One of my favorite hidden references is when KDot drops the “Shoo Shoo Shoo Shoo… Be Be Be Be.” Shoobie is derogatory slang for daytripper or tourist. So he is calling Drake a tourist in the rap industry. Also “shoo” to all of these ov-hoes (Drake’s brand is oVo or an owl.) 😂 Rumor is that the original version of this song was 19 minutes. I can’t imagine what was cut. Great reaction!
19 MINUTES LONG?!?!? Damn! I would’ve been down with it, too.
Yep!! Facts.
Coming from a pink floyd fan, kdot is leagues ahead most rappers. Listen to these:
Money Trees - m.A.A.d. city - Wesley's Theory - How Much a Dollar Cost? - u - These Walls - To Pimp A Butterfly as an entire album -
Solid list of reccs
Coldest line is him saying "In eight bars I'll explain that phrase" and then saying he's YNW Melly eight bars later. YNW Melly went to trial for killing his friends.
DUDEERE
He's always been in my top 5. The Pulitzer he won, Drake could never
Thanks for the comment! Yea this song was really good. I will def be reacting to some of his other stuff.
Like “progressive rock” kendrick makes progressive rap.
Oh, ive never even heard of progressive rap, I like that. I listen to a lot of prog rock, my favorite band is Tool. Ill def check out some more Kendrick's stuff.
@dethrowegamer1715 I'm a first time watcher so unfamiliar with what you listen to within prog rock/metal but if you enjoy Maynards projects and other prog rock like Coheed, I think you'd enjoy Kendrick also. I've heard it called conscious rap/hiphop rather than prog but could be regional! I'd also suggest RA Rugged Man, Brother Ali, Immortal Technique (NOT dance with the devil as a first song- it isn't representative of his majority)- they have a song together called Civil War that I enjoy. More mainstream maybe you'd like Royce Da 5'9 also 😊
@@dethrowegamer1715 I might’ve made up the term but it makes sense for a lot of what Kendrick does artistically.
You might enjoy jpeg Mafia too or death grips. Experimental rap is fun@@dethrowegamer1715
@@dethrowegamer1715Progressive Rap is usually underground stuff, this is one of the things that make Kendrick an anomaly.
If you're still kinda wanting to understand this song in it's entirety; i.e. references and line meanings, please check out the video about this song by a channel named "Knox Hill". The guy is incredible and will explain it so thoroughly that you will not need knowledge of pretty much anything having to do with the beef to get it.
Just listen to “The story of Adidon” by Pusha T and you’ll understand that line. That whole song basically gave a child a father lol. Drake was hiding his son until Pusha T made it public and Drake didn’t want anything to do with him until he got called out for being a bad father
Imagine his first Kendrick song was “Meet the Graham”😂
I know a couple people whose first song was Meet The Grahams
Your energy is awesome. I did not expect someone uninitiated to Kendrick to walk into Euphoria and handle it with grace and good vibes.
Thanks for the comment! It means a lot to me. I cant wait to react to more of KL's stuff!