it really is an extra crazy look that Drake was reaching out to a bunch of black creators like Kai to hype up his diss tracks, then only actually showed up for white streamers like Adin Ross and Xqc, and proceeded to only list black creators in his lawsuit. its like unbelievably tone deaf lol
Wow, I never even considered Drake’s stream record, but that’s absolutely a bad look when juxtaposed to the lawsuit. Maybe Drake’s just more comfortable around White people considering how he grew up in an all-White Jewish community 😮
Yeah where tf is his team to help him navigate this type of shit? It’s been 1 bad move after another. The language in that lawsuit makes him sound so soft that I’m having a hard time believing his PR people didn’t warn him about the reactions.
Huh ? He made the best song in the diss track .. what was actually funny was drake accusing kendirck of not showing his music and his response was to talk about his son 😂😂
@@hegeliandianetik2009 the stimmy was real but let’s not get it misconstrued, save for a few artists every major smash Drizzy collabed on benefited him as much the other party. Be it future 21 Travis or anyone like them, bro got elevated in ways numbers alone can’t ever capture… but K Dot did 😭
@@JME1186exactly. These people acting like Drake was doing these Atl people a favor. This was mutually beneficial. Atl and southern rap been on top for a while. Drake benefited just as much from Nola and Atl and if you think he put those areas on, you for real a colonizer just like the Canadian pop star and you really ain’t like us at all.
Really makes you wonder wtf their concept of a rap beef actually is. And then how they could possibly think that they have any sort of accurate handle on what it is, when clearly they can’t have any real knowledge on it.
The fact beta/alpha theory is bunk makes the metaphor more appropriate. He is chasing an illusiory signifier of success, and happiness. His methods are ill-concieved, relying on simplified understandings of culture and music. He is beta because he misunderstands the world as being simply categorized into people being either a beta, an alpha, or a sigma. If not explicitly then in a deeply internalized way. Thanks FD for the food.
Drake is definitely a psuedointellectual when it comes to so many things. He plays the part, can say the words, and give a shallow representation of rap and culture, but anyone who knows these things even on a slight deeper understanding can see he's just puppeteering. More than that, he's so entitled he gets *angry* at the very community that built the culture he benefited from because they rightly didn't accept him with open arms. And why should they? He propped himself on a community he had no part of, had no care to show respect by learning, listening and immerising himself on the oppression and pain that made it, and instead of empowering and helping that community, he used his positon to serve only himself. What did he think was gonna happen? I've never been able to take him seriously because of his constant Nice Guytm behaviour when it comes to Rihanna and his borderline creep stuff with miners, and I'm glad he's being seen for what he is. But it still baffles me how fervent so many of his fans are.
@@fawnieee For real. I always say if Drake would have came to hip hop with that humble attitude, knowing he was an outsider. Wanting to learn and make challenging music, he probably would have been accepted. He wouldn't have been as big as he was, but hip hop would have loved him. Ironically took the opposite approach of white rappers like Em, Mac, Marlon Craft, etc.
He isn't a beta though, because that is nonsense. People are complex individuals, each unique and on their own personal journey. And that is the truth. I get that he said it was an analogy and you are saying it's a metaphor but I can't say I agree. I think it's better to avoid that line of thinking at all. Dude isn't a 'beta' because no such person exists. He is who he is. Labron isn't an alpha, he is just another person who happened to be born with a great aptitude that was put to good use. Even if you are just using it as a metaphor, using these titles for people is reductive and not based on anything outside of this pseudo-science idea. What does it mean when you say "he is a beta", if not that he fits the pop culture, nonsense, toxic, homophobic, and misogynistic idea of what that means. There is a reason why I used so many negative associations there, because there is no other lens from which to view the terms. Unless you define it yourself as something completely distinct from the pop culture understanding, at which point why even use the phrase. You feel me?
its not bunk just the wolf example was found as a family not an alpha and beta structure etc idk if there a modern theory for it, but there was the people that got out and got the hunt and the rest drake just takes most and isn't that
Hi F.D, I am born & raised in Etobicoke/Toronto (now Toronto, not gonna get into Ontario politics) I just wanted to add to your point, once Drake became big, he brought forth a caricature of our culture which birthed a bunch of white people copying said culture (which inevitably brought forth ridicule in the online space). When he released "Started from the Bottom", we all clowned on it because he lived in Forest Hill making $50k in the 2000s, when Toronto (and Canada) faced the deepest recession in modern times; $50k was a lot. Forest Hill, is a damn rich neighbourhood. Today, the properties are around $4mil - $5mil. The only times he'd talk about us is when he wanrs to look tough, which again, is stupid. The man barely lived in poverty. You correctly pointed out in your "I'm what the culture is feeling" video that he's completely different than the black demographic in Toronto, but I also want to point out that the only time hes really used our culture, was to his benefit rather than boosting our sound here. Thanks for the video, its just really depressing that Americans (and the world) associate us with Drake, when in reality, our culture comes from our parents & grandparents leaving war and trying to better their lives for us.
As a Londoner I always hated the way he wore our culture and borderline mocked it for clout with the American market. What sucked is the way that a lot of UK rappers ended up sort of backing drake in the beef for some reason. I can't imagine just how frustrating it must've been as someone from Toronto where he made that his whole career. What a rat.
Kendrick told us all this in Meet The Grahams. “Wanna be liked so bad it’s puzzling”, “no dominance, let’s recap moments you didn’t fit in, no secret handshake with your friends, no culture cachet to binge, just disrespecting your mother”. THATS why he can’t get over it. As Push said, Kendrick is a lyricist that speaks to your soul
I just learned today that, Wren Drake was on the TV show Degrassi. He threatened to sue the show in order to get his character out of the wheelchair because he feared it would make him look weak as he was starting his rap career at the time. He's always been this way.
Drake has always suffered from impostor syndrome in hip hop. He’s never felt like he belonged and it’s why Kendrick calling him “not like us” was his worst nightmare and he’s struggling to get over it.
@@Gervais-l7x Imposter syndrome refers to someone feeling undeserving of their position when they actually are, usually felt by people who are minorities in the field or position that they're in. Drake felt like an imposter because he actually was an imposter in the sense that he was playing a character that was not actually himself, wearing all of these different Black cultures like costumes because he never actually lived in Black culture and didn't know how to be Black (which is technically the fault of his deadbeat father.) That is not imposter syndrome. That is just being an imposter.
If he listened to Wayne and didn’t pretend to be something he is not, he wouldn’t be in this situation. He is an imposter and a lot of people can smell inauthenticity a mile away and hate it.
My take is narcissistic collapse. Everything that Aubrey used to tell himself he was better than others, that he was part of the culture, that he liked himself, was taken away from him, and now he’s desperately trying to pick up the pieces. He needs the win even if he just keeps on losing. Like getting tilted playing video games.
I mean he is a gambling addict and that is kinda how gambling addicts react to losses. “Even if I pretty much lost it all last time, the only answer is to risk even more”
I once saw a tweet along the lines of "guys who love drake want to get women but can't seem to figure out what they're doing wrong" and that description has been true for every man I've met who loves drake
You may not have meant anything by it but using that Tyler clip is actually super appropriate. Tyler is kinda like Drake in that he has been wanting for years to be taken more seriously by the culture and audiences. But whereas Drake has done this by homogenizing the game and making it so that most hip-hop replicates him and churns out half hearted club bangers on the regular instead of innovating. Tyler has worked for years to evolve as an artist, rework his sound, improve his lyrical ability, all while keeping his sound distinctly his own. I would argue it’s finally starting to pay off as a lot of people mention him in the same breath as Kendrick and Jcole.
Also, Tyler doesn’t seem to give a fuck if people like him or not. He’s just doing his own thing and he’s being rewarded because people like his stuff. He’s not trying to make background music (the way most of drakes stuff feels like background music)
I don't think anyone is disputing the fact that girls will listen to Drake regardless of how creepy and mid he is. When they said recover, they were referring to recovering respect in the game. Going the lawsuit route he has lost that much more respect in the public @lordbauer5983
@@lordbauer5983 i mean you say that and you may well be right, but the stuff drake has put out since has been terrible, that freestyle he did the other day was some of the worst rap I've heard from a professional rapper ever, it's like since the beef he feels the eyes on him and its completely psyched him out If this keeps up he may well not find that traction again
and drakes verse comes across as so weird and wrong in that song now not that it ever sounded normal for what rappers say in a sexy type of song but by god has it aged like milk
How come throughout this ENTIRE debacle has no one pointed out that Drake failed to take his mentor Lil Wayne’s advice EARLY in his career? Wayne LITERALLY told this man to NOT pretend to be this “tough guy,” & just be himself. Ladies & gentleman, this is what a crashout looks like. & think about it, Wayne had enough foresight WAY BACK then to see Drake wasn’t cut from “that cloth” OR our culture, hence him giving out that advice. That’s very telling.
Imo, it wasnt enough to tell him to "be himself" when both Wayne and Drake's worldview believe Drake's authentic self is "lesser" than the ideal. To me, it's similar to when wp tell Black people to "just be themselves", when authentic Black presentation is always penalised by mainstream antiBlack culture. It's heartbreaking, when people have to chose btw being themselves authentically, which comes with the very painful cost of social ostracisation (we are a very social species) and assimilation, which is rewarded socially while creating an also very painful cognitive dissonance. Im not excusing Drake, who has a lot more ressources to shield him from social ostracisation. He could have easily start his own counter-culture. Imo, he has no business being less brave than a random Black teen boy deciding to wear makeup in highschool. 🤷🏾♀️
@@moustik31 I don’t think Drake ever really knew who he was to begin with. Probably because of that thing a lot of biracial people go through all of their lives. So Wayne telling Drake to be himself was pointless since Drake doesn’t even know who he is. I love what you said about the Black boy in high school that wears makeup. Difference between them & Drake is that those people know who they are so they live in that expression. Drakes identity has always changed with the wind. Probably from a very very young age. I feel sad for him but I don’t feel sorry for him. He has used his power to hurt Black women & disrespect Black American culture.
Anybody who actually cared about Rap as an artform would NEVER do something like this, setting the precedent for rap lyrics to be used in defamation cases is the NASTIEST work. Like dude really is so butthurt he lost he wants to burn the whole genre down smfh. I personally will NEVER listen to a Drake song again after all this, & that's not even having to do with Kendrick.
I fully trust the legal system to be completely unbiased in their treatment of one of the most famous aspects of black culture going forward, and won’t use this as an opportunity to hurt people for no reason.
Maybe Drake’s 4D chess plan was to give internet hip hop critics, commentators, and reaction channels content for the next year. He was really looking out for UA-camrs and making sure they got their money up.
The worst part is you don't even need to be a fan of hip hop to understand why Drake looks like a clown here. Cause even at the most basic understanding of events, Drake is mad Kendrick did the same thing he was doing better than him. He called you a pdf file? Well, you said he beats his girl and that his kids aren't his. Both participants took some grimy shots and made some wild allegations, but only one told the teacher. Hence why no one but the most die hard Drake glazers are trying to defend his actions. Cause no one likes people who throw rocks and hide their hands.
Drake complaining about UMG when Spotify changes the photos of their playlists to pictures of Drake for genres he barely caters to is the definition of "rules for thee, not for me."
@darkstarmedia so drakes contract literally says he can't be pumped and dumped. Either both of them are pumped or both are dumped. This is why he's suing
Going forward we must only refer to Lawbrey's track as "untitled 4th diss track" or "the fart part shit". The Heart Part 6 is a beautiful record by Kendrick Lamar.
Drake always gave me the vibe of a massive dork in high school who kept trying to get with the popular kids. Then he finally became one of the popular kids. And now his popular kid status is being taken away from him and he just cant accept it. Hes still in Degrassi
As someone who was a teenager at the peak of his popularity, I always got THE EXACT SAME icky vibes from Drake as I did the “where’s my hug” guy lol. In fact, I’d bet money that drake was at some point a “where’s my hug” guy.
The crazy part is being a 'beta' is the reason a lot of people grew to love him, particularly women. The music was emotional and not overly aggressive, intimidating, or "strong"... but after a long time of being looked at as non-dominant/beta, his insecurities were reinforced which uncovered his incel behavior and it shows in real life and in his music.
This is the conversation I've wanted to have for a year now! Drake was doing great back we he was actively courting and catering to his female audience. His downfall began when that proximity to femininity became too much for his ego and he started dawning a this tough guy persona. He then did all the shit that men do when trying to perform (toxic) masculinity for other men and the the incel of it all became very apparent. The music suffered for it and now we're here. Also while were here we need to give Megan thee stallion credit for starting the drake pile on, and she did it with brevity! the boys just repeated she shit she said.
When you look really into it, Drake has always been an incel rapper. Songs like "Marvin’s room", "shot for me", "hotline bling", "Jaded" etc are extremely problematic and misogynistic. Go past the melodies and check and listen carefully to the lyrics you will see how Drake has always been an incel rapper. It just took the incel movement dedicated album "Her Loss" to drop for people to realize that he is really an insufferable incel rapper.
@@mohamedfahad2364 I hear songs like Marvin's Room & Shot for Me and although the toxic masculinity is present, it's more like begging and crooning. This was the era where he started collecting designer bags for his future wife. Jaded might be the turning point, because instead of begging it's more like he just gave up. Which led us to CLB, we got songs like Pipe Down (great song of blatant disrespect and disregard). Then honestly, nvm and then her loss... While on tour after her loss, we watched him give away those same bags he was collecting for his 'future wife' which I think is very symbolic for the way he's behaving since jaded.
Kendrick is what, in my opinion, what most ppl aspire to be. Someone who addresses their issues and takes time to work on themselves and to strive to have a fulfilling life. Kendrick is comfortable with himself and this is how he defeats Drake. Drake internally and publicly struggles to address and accept himself.
most people don’t aspire to be another person, they aspire to be the best version of themselves - you could assume i’m ’missing your point’ or being wilfully obtuse, but ultimately most people on earth don’t give a fuck about aspiring to be kendrick - YOU don’t even know him well enough to make a comment like this Lmao
@ I’m not aspiring to literally be Kendrick. I’m saying that how Kendrick maneuvers and the work he has done to become a better version of himself is inspiring and what most ppl aim to do. So you are in away agreeing with my comment.
@ beyond it being blasphemous (even drake himself too with the 6God tag) it’s just sacrilegious - worshipping him to the point of overlooking hypocrisy
He just keeps proving Kendrick, right. I've never been a Drake fan, but I've been wondering if he has any real friends. Does he not have anyone in his life to sit him down and say, "Take your L and move on. The further you take this, the worse you look." I may not like him, but there is no denying he has/had a successful music career. He's destroying his legacy and whatever impact he had on music.
Drake doesn’t have friends. He has yes men that kiss his ass and tells him what he wants to hear in exchange for a bag. He needs someone that has the balls to sit him down and tell him “Just take your L and go home bruh.”
"This is Biased. Everything is biased, Idiot" is going to live rent free in my head for years. It's not even going to have to pay for internet or electricity, I got that covered.
Drake is a beta. Elon Musk is a beta. Mark Zuckerberg is a beta. Steven Crowder is a beta. Ron Desantis is also a beta. They all unironically have so much in common
I don't believe in any way shape or form in the greek alphabet zodiac bs, but I agree that they share this ridiculously fragile masculinity on top of a hugely vast amount of insecurity, lack of self awareness and true, inner self value, masked as "success" which was literally handed to them I would also add to that list, Vladimir "scared of the Barbie Movie and a punk band" Putin, Donald "my parents never loved me because they were hateful soulless ghouls" Trump, Andres Manuel "if you give me less than 100% of your time and admiration you are a traitor" Lopez Obrador, and Javier "I don't have a single ounce of self identity and I just behave as an echo chamber for what all the other fascists are saying" Milei Yeah, I don't have any respect for them
You are so right, damn. Makes sense, the public right mostly consists of guys who were rejected from the entertainment industry and then got mad. Maybe that's Drake future too....
You’re right about be alpha/beta paradigm and how Drake and that redpill fanbase of his perceives these titles. Kendrick being a 5’4 dude who makes introspective music “shouldn’t lose” to the 6’1 dude who raps recycling ladies who are 15yrs his Junior. That’s not supposed to happen! Drake is supposed to be the alpha!! 😡😤
Exactlyyyy… he’s especially dumbfounded because he thought he had the formula. The formula isn’t working & it has him perplexed. He’s been educating himself on the formula his whole life. Unfortunately, he would never truly know the recipe because he doesn’t have the secret sauce. This absolutely kills him inside.
Since when did Drake have a red pill fan base??? Do yall realize how many redpill, incel fans Kendrick has? I really don’t think it’s logical to act like his entire fanbase is redpill, especially since it’s a lot of women.
@@SmollWrldbro Drake has a whole album-anthem dedicated to the incel movement. It’s called HER LOSS. The title itself is self-explanatory. He’s been actively courting that court for more than half a decade.
I know in the past you've said _"If Drake is your favorite rapper you must think vanilla ice cream is spicy"_ but at this point if Drake is still your favorite rapper non-flavored shaved ice must be pure capsaicin material.
That is pretty strange isn’t it. 🤔 I never knew the tattoo was LeBron in high school… Almost like Drake really does think he’s “The Boy”. He’s stuck in high school in his head.
@@sportel4644 that has to be what it is . Because how is he 36 y/o still moving like this? His behaviors & antics don’t match his age. Even the “Anita Max Wyn” thing… it’s all just weird.
I feel that drake accepted that he would never be as critically acclaimed as dot but more commercially viable. Once that was threatened, we see him crashing out
There's this theory that Drake had that many hits and that long of an album with Scorpion, specifically after DAMN beating More Life number wise, while having less songs and a shorter promo. Like he saw that Kendrick could take that commercial success as well. The funny thing is that both DAMN and GKMC are 8x platinum like Views And there's a big chance that the first 2010 artists with 2 diamonds albums from this decade might be Kendrick
Using the alpha beta sigma framework to understand people who legitimately believe in it is actually brilliant. Even if it’s pseudoscience it helps understand them. This is why I subscribe.
As a Jewish guy, Drake's tried so hard for so long to not be one of us, and it's embarrassing. Just embrace both sides of your family. If you can't be proud of who you are, nobody, black or Jewish, is gonna do it for you.
The theory checks out. He bought Pharrell's jewelry. He bought 2Pac's ring. He bought a mic used my the Clipse. That's not what Alphas do. He's a Beta. He's a fan. He imitates the game, he doesn't play it.
I really think Drake is mad at us (black Americans). I think he never felt like we ever truly accepted him, turned on him completely in this beef and collectively danced on his grave. Not to mention feeling abandoned and used by his black American father. He's so hurt he's willing to try to take down hip hop in retaliation
That’s what I think too. That this went a lot deeper than people realize. Because when he lost last time, he didn’t react like this, he started tootsie slide. This time he’s trying to take the whole ship down with him In a way I can’t blame. Seeing people who you thought was your friends betray, you does something to your mind.
He's in his own world. Dude had a hard time fitting here in Toronto as well, because many of us are from Jamaica, Somalia, Somaliland, etc. Kendrick said it best, he's very insecure about himself and identity.
You're absolutely right imo, he wanted to be welcomed with open arms without ever caring to respect the history, the culture or the generational pain that went into making rap what it is (or can be). He cant even respect an amazing artist like Tupac who's music continues to shape and inspire, even using an AI voice to disrespect him. He gained wealth and power and fame from puppeteering as something he wasn't, never caring to respect the culture it came from, and instead of helping the community that created it; immersing himself in the pain and oppresion and using his position to help empower the people that made that culture, he instead used that opportunity to serve only himself. He wanted to be accepted without ever giving back despite using an art form that he never cared to show his dues. And then, instead of introspection, lashed out at the same community that made his position even possible. How can he ever question why people don't like him?
Yeah, Drake is really a beta diddy ahh blud, while kendrick is definitely the sigma skibidi alpha boss. I think Tyler the creator is more of an omega ohio type tiktok rizz party tho💯⛷
Drake took that “I’m what the culture’s feeling” so hard and felt so much like hip hop at large was rejecting him that he’s fine taking hip hop with him on the way down.
Him withdrawing the RICO petition and absorbing the rest of the evidence into the defamation suit, one which implicated the NLU song of antisemitism proves that it was NEVER about protesting against the label system…
@@Aristocratic13read the actual lawsuit, Drake clearly states that NLU is antisemitic accusing him of not been like us. Yeah, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.
@@Aristocratic13it is in the lawsuit. His legal team is arguing that kendrick calling “not a colleague but a colonizer” alludes to drakes jewish heritage. You can find it on page 24 of the document if you actually care to look. It will do you better than leaving multiple comments under other people on yt.
Truly a pyrrhic endeavor by Drake... he is cementing the status of "Not Like Us" as one of the most important songs ever made through the lawsuits. The further he takes it, the higher up the list that song climbs when it comes to cases that will be taught in law school.
This lawsuit is a threat to writers and artists, as one of the biggest artists is being implicacted of DEFAMATION through the medium of rap lyrics, as if the music business doesn’t ALREADY see hip hop as a liability.🤦🏾♂️
Might not be the worst thing tho. Rap as a whole has gotten more money & more fans & the quality has only gotten worse. Maybe it's time to reset from scratch.
@@3001zz my point was decreasing the amount of money and influence coming from outside the culture. Responding to the part about the music establishment seeing rap as a liability. I don't exactly see that or them investing less into rap as a bad thing.
The lawsuit with Drake reminds me of this deleted scene in Mean Girls where Cady and Regina talked backstage or in the bathroom while prom was going on. Regina said that she had a huge dollhouse as a child and didn’t even play with it. Because of this, her parents wanted to give it to her cousin. But since Regina was so territorial and was extremely spoiled, she destroyed the doll house so nobody could have it. Drake is essentially Regina, being a mean girl in high school and losing a rap battle means he needs to take everyone else down with him to win. He will not accept anything else. He’s so fucking lame
This analysis really resonates cause it fits well with the “not like us” sentiment. True hip hop fans knew Dot was not to be trifled with when it came to the essence of the art (literally has rap battles on cam in Compton), but Drake could never let a world/paradigm where that was the case be true cause that’s a world in which he could never be the alpha he so desperately needed to be
The worst part of the aftermath of this entire saga for me will be the Black Americans, especially the OGs, who will continue to make excuses for ‘Fake’ and who will continue to support him. SMH
I think something worth considering is that a big part of Drake's early appeal was that he was insecure and emotional. Listen, let's stop with alpha/beta and think of it more in terms of "cold" and "emotional." Emotional isn't bad. Hell Emo is a whole genre. Drake's material on his first few albums was all about wearing his heart on his sleeve and he still even likes to throw that out there. It ONLY turned into an issue when he started pretending he was a hard thug, when he started cosplaying as a trapper or a driller. If all this had come out and we were still dealing with Marvin's Room Drake I feel like it wouldn't have been a thing, but he's tried so hard to pretend he ISN'T who he is that it caused the catastrophe.
Pretty much, his early image didn't even try to mask his flaws and that was even a selling point. You were hearing a guy talk about love and relationships who admitted he could suck at both. And then he got away from that and yeah...
Kendrick put it best in Euphoria "I like drake with the melodies, I don't like Drake when he act tough" I really don't know what made him pivot to cosplay as a hard rapper from the streets. I think his successful beef with Meek Mill really got to his head as well.
The thing is J.Cole and Kendrick also were like that. And their honesty was the appeal when come to these 3. But Drake betrayed who he was for something else. While J.Cole and Kendrick stayed the same but better artistically/lirycally and in their public image. ( IDK know them being close doors so ion talk about that)
I enjoyed “ No face” as well and I assumed he’d just drop a dope album and move on. Boy was I wrong! I am thankful for the beef because it opened my eyes to the greatness of Kendrick. I was just a casual fan before but now i really appreciate his artistry.
I'll be honest with you, as an OG drake hater, hasn't that always been part of his appeal? Whether conscious or subconscious...I always felt it's been there.
I personally believe he makes rap for girls. Don't get me wrong I'ma lady 💅🏾 and I know of no real men who listens to drake and will look up brotha lynch hung, matter fact, almost anything else than actively look up drake.
Drake is a ghost looking for a black father through american black culture. He floats soulessly through the world soul catching from atlanta to the uk fam.
It is incredible how much this beef is just the gift that keeps on giving. What’s crazier is I truly believe Kendrick prophetically knew all of this would happen the way it is.
@@MindfulMatters734 cause im from Toronto and we’re fighting between replacing this bum as a staple of our city & defending Canada’s integrity but i guess the law suit was the last straw 😭
I dont know how, as a fan of rap, Drake could be your favourite rapper. the fact he is using his legal team because he lost his SECOND rap beef is just sad.. That's not Hip-Hop, its not Rap. This is sad and Aubrey is just digging a deeper hole for himself
I liked Kendrick before the battle, but I wasn't a big fan. After he ended Drake's career and Drake whined and sued, I'm Kendrick's biggest fan. I've always hated Drake, always just felt that he was an unskilled actor that just can't fake it well enough to be convincing. I'm not 'in the culture,' and while I'm a hip-hop fan, it's casual. If I can't stand Drake after this, I can't imagine what others who really are deep in the culture are feeling right now. It feels good to see this happen to Drake after he fucked over the Weeknd and Kendrick back in the day. You get what you deserve when you act like a crook.
What I don't understand about his behavior lately is that with Pusha T, he publicly acknowledged that he took an L and then went on to release some of the biggest hits of his career on Scorpion. He's proven based on past experience that he can move on from losing a rap battle, but he won't do it this time.
Yeah I think what Kendrick did was much more eviscerating to drake. Doesn’t help that basically the entire rap world came to join Kendrick in clowning drake. Def doesn’t excuse drake’s behavior tho, he should shut up and lay low instead of throwing the legal equivalent of a temper tantrum
Because it's not about losing the battle. It's about UMG a label that Drake also belongs to choosing to help push a song that calls him a pedo. The story of Adidon isn't even on streaming services.
I would also like to submit, for your consideration. We saw him being so arrogant and cocky, to the point of "taunting" Kendrick to drop because he has had the label behind him in the past during these rap battles that he thought the same would be true this time around. I now truly believe all the rumors about Drake running to UMG and "demanding" that they make Pusha take down The story of Adidon, or him trying to issue a C&D for Like That , requesting these ppl to make public apologies to him, etc, after reading in the lawsuit that he sent 2 demand letters to UMG for them to take down NLU video and song. I also agree with your assessment that he is and Beta male and his ego is the reason why he can't get past this. He should've played sports when he was younger so he could learn how to take an L!
Literally that’s what happened and why he’s acting like this because the label supported him every other time so for them not to rally behind him he thinks it has to be a setup no Drake the song was just that big UMG would have to be insane and not a business at all to not support that song. Drake really thinks everything is all about him
And Em stans. After that leaked Eminem diss track against Ja rule and Suge Knight came out people were saying it was the "best diss ever". Idk what to say anymore.
@tedthecommenter5364 Huh? MAGA from my understanding does not fuck with Eminem much anymore due to his open hatred for Trump and his recent endorsement of Kamala Harris during the last election cycle. MAGA’s Eminem is Tom McDonald which is hell of a downgrade.
As a listener of Drake since 2010. Him doing this hurts. My dad passed away around the time “Take Care” came out and the album sounded amazing. I still was holding onto Kanye’s, album Graduation for dear life. Still do. Drake’s actions through this beef however, have grown me sour.
I gave up Kanye. And ye did way more for the genre. But drake, while I get it was tied to your father, you can let go of drake. There plenty of copy cat drakes
Yeah that fake AAVE affectation, that he didn't even grow up around. Same reason i cant take his raps seriously. Like bro i watched you whine abour your mom not buying you a tuna sandwich, AAVE isnt your thing
@@greenchilaquiles so true. It reminds me of the overdone, obviously phony blaccent that I always found especially grating about Iggy Azalea. We know where you’re from! You don’t talk like that!
Drake was at his best when he pandered to Black women. That’s actually what set him apart from most rappers. But he ruined it by trying to be something he’s not smh
Kendrick isn’t going to preform not like us at the superbowl. He made t.v. off. I think that song is a pretty clear superbowl replacement for the diss track
I was waiting for someone like kendrick to basically end drake. He was one of the few, if not the only one, who had the capability to do so. Calculated precise moves, chess vs checkers. Future opened the floodgates and ken finished it. He baited drake and now drake is further proving his point. The d riders still claim drake won and I cannot understand that. Look at how drastic his actions are after he lost. Drake is now a lolcow, and Kendrick knew he would do this. It took forever for normies to understand why we disliked drake and they would not understand our reasoning. As you said, the man is a ‘beta’. He is a goofy clown. As soon as he got fame, it was justification that he was something he could never truly be. His yesmen and his fans say so. But it was never enough.
Drake came out when I was in 8th grade & I was a big fan. Mainly because of how he used to pander to Black women. At the time I thought that was him really showing love & respect. It’s crazy because I didn’t start to side-eye Drake until he came out with the song One Dance. I liked the song but something about the weird accent made my face scrunch up a bit. Then I developed full side-eye with the Pusha-T beef. Everything that came out during that beef including him hiding his white baby with the soft-porn model… & the Black face… I was just like who is this man?
By chance I just dropped a Drake video 15 mins ago just in case we have similar takes no one can say I copied
Son 11:07 wtf I’ve never seen this clip 🫣😂😂😂
@JawnLouis did you search for the full clip? It's much worse!!!
Thank you for pinning this FD signifier. Always looking for other great black content creators ❤
@@JawnLouis "OoOoOh liTtle Wayyne"
@@blackbravobabeIve gotten multiple recommendations from him
The Aubracity to text Kai Cenat to stay on stream then name him in a lawsuit after you took an L is… surely something
😂😂 we saying Aubracity now fr lmfao
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@ Deleted said we ain't saying it now tho xD
@@spiridonrobert16 You see it 💯
@@Eattherich2025 😂😂îk but from what i see aubracity îs gonna get used even If he said that
it really is an extra crazy look that Drake was reaching out to a bunch of black creators like Kai to hype up his diss tracks, then only actually showed up for white streamers like Adin Ross and Xqc, and proceeded to only list black creators in his lawsuit. its like unbelievably tone deaf lol
Wow, I never even considered Drake’s stream record, but that’s absolutely a bad look when juxtaposed to the lawsuit.
Maybe Drake’s just more comfortable around White people considering how he grew up in an all-White Jewish community 😮
I didn’t consider Drake’s stream record, but that *is* a bad look…
I guess shaking off your cultural upbringing is way harder than it seems 😅
Yeah where tf is his team to help him navigate this type of shit? It’s been 1 bad move after another. The language in that lawsuit makes him sound so soft that I’m having a hard time believing his PR people didn’t warn him about the reactions.
He knew the white boys wouldn’t call him on his shit on stream.
Really gives credence to the “colleague/colonizer” narrative
Drakes not even a dumb jock. He’s the guy that made the team, brags about being on the team, shows off his letterman jacket, but rides the bench.
He's the jock who has the raw strength to play well, but refuses to listen to his teammates or coaches because he's "stronger than them"
100% the energy
This is so accurate holy shit
He’s a Karen.
he's the ball boy, eternally fetching gatorade or something
I like how drake was called a colonizer in a hip hop beef and his response was to retaliate with the legal system.
Huh ? He made the best song in the diss track .. what was actually funny was drake accusing kendirck of not showing his music and his response was to talk about his son 😂😂
@@tkbaku3036 you’re trying too hard to troll, spend your time doing something more productive
@@tkbaku3036yeah the defeat was too obvious to troll. It wasn't close
@@Dinglebearry😂😂😂
OOF
0:44 The amount of money black content creators have made off of this beef is most Drake has ever given back to the culture
What about all the rappers he gave boosts by features?
@@hegeliandianetik2009 the stimmy was real but let’s not get it misconstrued, save for a few artists every major smash Drizzy collabed on benefited him as much the other party. Be it future 21 Travis or anyone like them, bro got elevated in ways numbers alone can’t ever capture… but K Dot did 😭
And now his probably gonna take it away through the suit
@@JME1186exactly. These people acting like Drake was doing these Atl people a favor. This was mutually beneficial. Atl and southern rap been on top for a while. Drake benefited just as much from Nola and Atl and if you think he put those areas on, you for real a colonizer just like the Canadian pop star and you really ain’t like us at all.
@@hegeliandianetik2009 you mean so he could culture vulture off them?
I saw someone say on reddit "When has rap beefs ever been insults and threats" referring to Drake's lawsuit and I was dumbfounded.
Tellin on themselves, hahaha
EVER been insults and threats?? Uh, ALL OF THEM HELLOOO?!?!?
"since when have clouds been made out of water droplets" energy
Really makes you wonder wtf their concept of a rap beef actually is. And then how they could possibly think that they have any sort of accurate handle on what it is, when clearly they can’t have any real knowledge on it.
Lordy. Imagine a face to face. Wouldn't last 2 seconds.
The fact beta/alpha theory is bunk makes the metaphor more appropriate. He is chasing an illusiory signifier of success, and happiness. His methods are ill-concieved, relying on simplified understandings of culture and music. He is beta because he misunderstands the world as being simply categorized into people being either a beta, an alpha, or a sigma. If not explicitly then in a deeply internalized way. Thanks FD for the food.
Drake is definitely a psuedointellectual when it comes to so many things. He plays the part, can say the words, and give a shallow representation of rap and culture, but anyone who knows these things even on a slight deeper understanding can see he's just puppeteering. More than that, he's so entitled he gets *angry* at the very community that built the culture he benefited from because they rightly didn't accept him with open arms. And why should they? He propped himself on a community he had no part of, had no care to show respect by learning, listening and immerising himself on the oppression and pain that made it, and instead of empowering and helping that community, he used his positon to serve only himself. What did he think was gonna happen?
I've never been able to take him seriously because of his constant Nice Guytm behaviour when it comes to Rihanna and his borderline creep stuff with miners, and I'm glad he's being seen for what he is. But it still baffles me how fervent so many of his fans are.
@@fawnieee For real. I always say if Drake would have came to hip hop with that humble attitude, knowing he was an outsider. Wanting to learn and make challenging music, he probably would have been accepted. He wouldn't have been as big as he was, but hip hop would have loved him. Ironically took the opposite approach of white rappers like Em, Mac, Marlon Craft, etc.
He isn't a beta though, because that is nonsense. People are complex individuals, each unique and on their own personal journey. And that is the truth. I get that he said it was an analogy and you are saying it's a metaphor but I can't say I agree. I think it's better to avoid that line of thinking at all. Dude isn't a 'beta' because no such person exists. He is who he is. Labron isn't an alpha, he is just another person who happened to be born with a great aptitude that was put to good use.
Even if you are just using it as a metaphor, using these titles for people is reductive and not based on anything outside of this pseudo-science idea. What does it mean when you say "he is a beta", if not that he fits the pop culture, nonsense, toxic, homophobic, and misogynistic idea of what that means. There is a reason why I used so many negative associations there, because there is no other lens from which to view the terms. Unless you define it yourself as something completely distinct from the pop culture understanding, at which point why even use the phrase. You feel me?
Poetic justice is just chefs kiss for this vid
its not bunk just the wolf example was found as a family not an alpha and beta structure etc
idk if there a modern theory for it, but there was the people that got out and got the hunt and the rest
drake just takes most and isn't that
Hi F.D,
I am born & raised in Etobicoke/Toronto (now Toronto, not gonna get into Ontario politics)
I just wanted to add to your point, once Drake became big, he brought forth a caricature of our culture which birthed a bunch of white people copying said culture (which inevitably brought forth ridicule in the online space).
When he released "Started from the Bottom", we all clowned on it because he lived in Forest Hill making $50k in the 2000s, when Toronto (and Canada) faced the deepest recession in modern times; $50k was a lot. Forest Hill, is a damn rich neighbourhood. Today, the properties are around $4mil - $5mil.
The only times he'd talk about us is when he wanrs to look tough, which again, is stupid. The man barely lived in poverty.
You correctly pointed out in your "I'm what the culture is feeling" video that he's completely different than the black demographic in Toronto, but I also want to point out that the only time hes really used our culture, was to his benefit rather than boosting our sound here.
Thanks for the video, its just really depressing that Americans (and the world) associate us with Drake, when in reality, our culture comes from our parents & grandparents leaving war and trying to better their lives for us.
Boosting this
Thanks for sharing your insights. He seems to be on a right-wing heel-turn.
When your own city feel a way....😮😅😢
As a Londoner I always hated the way he wore our culture and borderline mocked it for clout with the American market. What sucked is the way that a lot of UK rappers ended up sort of backing drake in the beef for some reason. I can't imagine just how frustrating it must've been as someone from Toronto where he made that his whole career. What a rat.
Amen
Kendrick told us all this in Meet The Grahams. “Wanna be liked so bad it’s puzzling”, “no dominance, let’s recap moments you didn’t fit in, no secret handshake with your friends, no culture cachet to binge, just disrespecting your mother”. THATS why he can’t get over it. As Push said, Kendrick is a lyricist that speaks to your soul
Ye honestly just reading those lines gives me chills; im never gonna listen to meet the grahams again, that was too much
I just learned today that, Wren Drake was on the TV show Degrassi. He threatened to sue the show in order to get his character out of the wheelchair because he feared it would make him look weak as he was starting his rap career at the time. He's always been this way.
Nothing new. Just new to you.
What's funnier about that story to me is after the producer or whatever gets the letter from the attorney, he asks Aubrey about it and he lies 😂
Primo Beta behavior
JBP . Me too lol
The intellectual body bag I been waiting for
didn’t you say the heart part 6 was amazing ??? lmaooo
@@bagchaser326 which one?
@@KhairiHamed the Drake one. Scru was so caught up in the hype that he didn't notice how trash the song was
@@KhairiHamed there’s only one real heart part 6
React then.
Drake has always suffered from impostor syndrome in hip hop. He’s never felt like he belonged and it’s why Kendrick calling him “not like us” was his worst nightmare and he’s struggling to get over it.
Yes. But it's not imposter syndrome if you actually are an imposter. It's just fear of being exposed.
Imposter syndrome is right, why make up a term needlessly. Thank you
@@Gervais-l7x Imposter syndrome refers to someone feeling undeserving of their position when they actually are, usually felt by people who are minorities in the field or position that they're in. Drake felt like an imposter because he actually was an imposter in the sense that he was playing a character that was not actually himself, wearing all of these different Black cultures like costumes because he never actually lived in Black culture and didn't know how to be Black (which is technically the fault of his deadbeat father.) That is not imposter syndrome. That is just being an imposter.
@kaya7396 I stand corrected, agreed
If he listened to Wayne and didn’t pretend to be something he is not, he wouldn’t be in this situation. He is an imposter and a lot of people can smell inauthenticity a mile away and hate it.
My take is narcissistic collapse. Everything that Aubrey used to tell himself he was better than others, that he was part of the culture, that he liked himself, was taken away from him, and now he’s desperately trying to pick up the pieces. He needs the win even if he just keeps on losing. Like getting tilted playing video games.
That’s actually pretty sad. Pathetic but sad. There should be a psychology class created around this specific situation.
I mean he is a gambling addict and that is kinda how gambling addicts react to losses. “Even if I pretty much lost it all last time, the only answer is to risk even more”
I once saw a tweet along the lines of "guys who love drake want to get women but can't seem to figure out what they're doing wrong" and that description has been true for every man I've met who loves drake
I hate to generalize but a Drake Stan really is a unique type of person and this description fits it
WHOA. 😩
Those red 💊 dudes. Those Betas cosplaying as Alphas type dudes. Those “Most Likely to be a Serial Killer” dudes.
Oh most definitely, it's also one of those types of who ignore any real form of constructive criticism.
You guys are so ignorant! As a drake Stan that’s been in a relationship for over a decade y’all are just trying to hard to be a hater! lol
You may not have meant anything by it but using that Tyler clip is actually super appropriate. Tyler is kinda like Drake in that he has been wanting for years to be taken more seriously by the culture and audiences. But whereas Drake has done this by homogenizing the game and making it so that most hip-hop replicates him and churns out half hearted club bangers on the regular instead of innovating. Tyler has worked for years to evolve as an artist, rework his sound, improve his lyrical ability, all while keeping his sound distinctly his own. I would argue it’s finally starting to pay off as a lot of people mention him in the same breath as Kendrick and Jcole.
Also, Tyler doesn’t seem to give a fuck if people like him or not. He’s just doing his own thing and he’s being rewarded because people like his stuff. He’s not trying to make background music (the way most of drakes stuff feels like background music)
@uhdenuh8676 as someone who works at a store that plays a lot of Drake, it's definitely background music
"Everything is biased, idiot" just scratched an itch in my soul I didn't even know was there
For sure. There’s nothing wrong with being biased as long as you’re correct
@@LeoPavon-rl9fg correct. Proven and researched FACTS are not bias
Same here, wished that would stop so many needless arguments and getting away from the point in a lot conversations.
@@LeoPavon-rl9fg philosophically speaking...can you be biased and correct at the same time?
@@97HawksFly I feel like all people have at least a bit of bias within themselves, but the intelligent people learn to suppress it as much as possible
There's a reality where Drake stayed quiet after Not Like Us and released an emotional album for February
truly the only way he could've *somewhat* recovered lol
He’ll eventually drop an album and gain traction.
The only people as invested as Drake fans are Drake haters.
@@lordbauer5983So true. It's easy to forget that in our little bubble.
I don't think anyone is disputing the fact that girls will listen to Drake regardless of how creepy and mid he is. When they said recover, they were referring to recovering respect in the game. Going the lawsuit route he has lost that much more respect in the public @lordbauer5983
@@lordbauer5983 i mean you say that and you may well be right, but the stuff drake has put out since has been terrible, that freestyle he did the other day was some of the worst rap I've heard from a professional rapper ever, it's like since the beef he feels the eyes on him and its completely psyched him out
If this keeps up he may well not find that traction again
Letting Poetic Justice bang in the background is "poetic"
and drakes verse comes across as so weird and wrong in that song now not that it ever sounded normal for what rappers say in a sexy type of song but by god has it aged like milk
@@tamtam.59 lmfaooo i always skip the song when drake's part comes on
Their verses are on brand for both of them lol.
Ooooh, I got the joke!!!!
I CAME TO THE COMMENTS LOOKING FOR THIS xD
How come throughout this ENTIRE debacle has no one pointed out that Drake failed to take his mentor Lil Wayne’s advice EARLY in his career? Wayne LITERALLY told this man to NOT pretend to be this “tough guy,” & just be himself. Ladies & gentleman, this is what a crashout looks like.
& think about it, Wayne had enough foresight WAY BACK then to see Drake wasn’t cut from “that cloth” OR our culture, hence him giving out that advice. That’s very telling.
Yet he still gave Drake legs to stand on so that he could be who he is today. Actually kinda makes me look at Wayne (more) sideways…
Imo, it wasnt enough to tell him to "be himself" when both Wayne and Drake's worldview believe Drake's authentic self is "lesser" than the ideal. To me, it's similar to when wp tell Black people to "just be themselves", when authentic Black presentation is always penalised by mainstream antiBlack culture.
It's heartbreaking, when people have to chose btw being themselves authentically, which comes with the very painful cost of social ostracisation (we are a very social species) and assimilation, which is rewarded socially while creating an also very painful cognitive dissonance.
Im not excusing Drake, who has a lot more ressources to shield him from social ostracisation. He could have easily start his own counter-culture. Imo, he has no business being less brave than a random Black teen boy deciding to wear makeup in highschool.
🤷🏾♀️
@@moustik31 I don’t think Drake ever really knew who he was to begin with. Probably because of that thing a lot of biracial people go through all of their lives. So Wayne telling Drake to be himself was pointless since Drake doesn’t even know who he is. I love what you said about the Black boy in high school that wears makeup. Difference between them & Drake is that those people know who they are so they live in that expression. Drakes identity has always changed with the wind. Probably from a very very young age. I feel sad for him but I don’t feel sorry for him. He has used his power to hurt Black women & disrespect Black American culture.
Drake got you out here writing novels in the comments on some dear diary ish. Chill, big homie
you mean the colorist lil wayne?
Dude literally can afford therapy to fix his insecurities but he goes on and does this shit 🫢
He doesn’t believe he has them
@@Will-bn9kmhe has literally sang about them lol
Man bragged about his therapist getting tired of him it's pretty much over in that regard
Anybody who actually cared about Rap as an artform would NEVER do something like this, setting the precedent for rap lyrics to be used in defamation cases is the NASTIEST work. Like dude really is so butthurt he lost he wants to burn the whole genre down smfh. I personally will NEVER listen to a Drake song again after all this, & that's not even having to do with Kendrick.
W take. i used to love his music but after he showed us his true colors i cannot longer support his behavior. props to you for having principles
Your statement makes no sense
I fully trust the legal system to be completely unbiased in their treatment of one of the most famous aspects of black culture going forward, and won’t use this as an opportunity to hurt people for no reason.
@@Scowleasy That's the funniest shit I've heard all day.
@@Aristocratic13 seems pretty clear and on point to me. What are you having trouble understanding?
Maybe Drake’s 4D chess plan was to give internet hip hop critics, commentators, and reaction channels content for the next year. He was really looking out for UA-camrs and making sure they got their money up.
honestly 😂
"There's a bigger plan behind this. U just wait..."
What?! Lol.
We been told y’all drake helped y’all
LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 THIS FUNNY AF 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He died on the cross of 'Not Like Us' so that we may enjoy the content. blessed be the drizzy who crashed out for our lols
The worst part is you don't even need to be a fan of hip hop to understand why Drake looks like a clown here. Cause even at the most basic understanding of events, Drake is mad Kendrick did the same thing he was doing better than him. He called you a pdf file? Well, you said he beats his girl and that his kids aren't his. Both participants took some grimy shots and made some wild allegations, but only one told the teacher. Hence why no one but the most die hard Drake glazers are trying to defend his actions. Cause no one likes people who throw rocks and hide their hands.
Drake complaining about UMG when Spotify changes the photos of their playlists to pictures of Drake for genres he barely caters to is the definition of "rules for thee, not for me."
Had that boy in the bachata playlist 😂
@darkstarmedia so drakes contract literally says he can't be pumped and dumped. Either both of them are pumped or both are dumped.
This is why he's suing
Definition of “White man in America”.
The Heart Part 6 continues to reaffirm its status as one of the worst diss tracks of all time.
WDYM? The Heart part 6 wasn’t a diss, no such diss exists 😅
Nikki dropping Bigfoot and Drake dropping and retracting The Heart Part 6 in the same year is a historic run of ass 😮💨😭
Going forward we must only refer to Lawbrey's track as "untitled 4th diss track" or "the fart part shit". The Heart Part 6 is a beautiful record by Kendrick Lamar.
Kendrick really said “there is no heart pt 6 in ba sing se, the king has invited you to lake laogai”
The fart part 6
Drake always gave me the vibe of a massive dork in high school who kept trying to get with the popular kids. Then he finally became one of the popular kids. And now his popular kid status is being taken away from him and he just cant accept it. Hes still in Degrassi
This ^^
He's even said in an old video that this was the case lol
I feel so embarrassed for anyone who knows him personally
As someone who was a teenager at the peak of his popularity, I always got THE EXACT SAME icky vibes from Drake as I did the “where’s my hug” guy lol.
In fact, I’d bet money that drake was at some point a “where’s my hug” guy.
Only time Drake ever Crip walked was when Jimmy was rolling them wheels.
We plotted for a week and then we fed you the litigation 🤦😂
🎵He heard that one of them lil kids might be Dave freeeeeeees 🎶.🤦🏽♀️
This!!!!! No one is talking about him saying this. By his own words, he has no right to sue UMG. He's the one that put the pedo rumor out there lol
@@victoriamagee5577 "Talk about him liking young girls that's a gift from me"-Drizzy Pac, 2024
😂😂
The crazy part is being a 'beta' is the reason a lot of people grew to love him, particularly women. The music was emotional and not overly aggressive, intimidating, or "strong"... but after a long time of being looked at as non-dominant/beta, his insecurities were reinforced which uncovered his incel behavior and it shows in real life and in his music.
we were all gaslight by his “nice guy” syndrome
THIS‼️💯👏🏾
This is the conversation I've wanted to have for a year now! Drake was doing great back we he was actively courting and catering to his female audience. His downfall began when that proximity to femininity became too much for his ego and he started dawning a this tough guy persona. He then did all the shit that men do when trying to perform (toxic) masculinity for other men and the the incel of it all became very apparent. The music suffered for it and now we're here.
Also while were here we need to give Megan thee stallion credit for starting the drake pile on, and she did it with brevity! the boys just repeated she shit she said.
When you look really into it, Drake has always been an incel rapper. Songs like "Marvin’s room", "shot for me", "hotline bling", "Jaded" etc are extremely problematic and misogynistic. Go past the melodies and check and listen carefully to the lyrics you will see how Drake has always been an incel rapper. It just took the incel movement dedicated album "Her Loss" to drop for people to realize that he is really an insufferable incel rapper.
@@mohamedfahad2364 I hear songs like Marvin's Room & Shot for Me and although the toxic masculinity is present, it's more like begging and crooning. This was the era where he started collecting designer bags for his future wife. Jaded might be the turning point, because instead of begging it's more like he just gave up. Which led us to CLB, we got songs like Pipe Down (great song of blatant disrespect and disregard). Then honestly, nvm and then her loss... While on tour after her loss, we watched him give away those same bags he was collecting for his 'future wife' which I think is very symbolic for the way he's behaving since jaded.
Kendrick is what, in my opinion, what most ppl aspire to be. Someone who addresses their issues and takes time to work on themselves and to strive to have a fulfilling life. Kendrick is comfortable with himself and this is how he defeats Drake. Drake internally and publicly struggles to address and accept himself.
most people don’t aspire to be another person, they aspire to be the best version of themselves - you could assume i’m ’missing your point’ or being wilfully obtuse, but ultimately most people on earth don’t give a fuck about aspiring to be kendrick - YOU don’t even know him well enough to make a comment like this Lmao
@ I’m not aspiring to literally be Kendrick. I’m saying that how Kendrick maneuvers and the work he has done to become a better version of himself is inspiring and what most ppl aim to do. So you are in away agreeing with my comment.
@@ScriptShiftr he’s Black peoples new “Messiah”
@ beyond it being blasphemous (even drake himself too with the 6God tag) it’s just sacrilegious - worshipping him to the point of overlooking hypocrisy
He just keeps proving Kendrick, right. I've never been a Drake fan, but I've been wondering if he has any real friends. Does he not have anyone in his life to sit him down and say, "Take your L and move on. The further you take this, the worse you look." I may not like him, but there is no denying he has/had a successful music career. He's destroying his legacy and whatever impact he had on music.
Agree 👏🏾
Drake doesn’t have friends. He has yes men that kiss his ass and tells him what he wants to hear in exchange for a bag. He needs someone that has the balls to sit him down and tell him “Just take your L and go home bruh.”
"This is Biased. Everything is biased, Idiot" is going to live rent free in my head for years. It's not even going to have to pay for internet or electricity, I got that covered.
😂
Drake is a beta. Elon Musk is a beta. Mark Zuckerberg is a beta. Steven Crowder is a beta. Ron Desantis is also a beta. They all unironically have so much in common
And tRump in there too
And they are all far more dangerous than their alpha counterparts parts. Especially when in positions of power smh.
I don't believe in any way shape or form in the greek alphabet zodiac bs, but I agree that they share this ridiculously fragile masculinity on top of a hugely vast amount of insecurity, lack of self awareness and true, inner self value, masked as "success" which was literally handed to them
I would also add to that list, Vladimir "scared of the Barbie Movie and a punk band" Putin, Donald "my parents never loved me because they were hateful soulless ghouls" Trump, Andres Manuel "if you give me less than 100% of your time and admiration you are a traitor" Lopez Obrador, and Javier "I don't have a single ounce of self identity and I just behave as an echo chamber for what all the other fascists are saying" Milei
Yeah, I don't have any respect for them
I wish Elon and Fuckerburg could take four times as many Ls as Drake but their money is really protecting them
You are so right, damn. Makes sense, the public right mostly consists of guys who were rejected from the entertainment industry and then got mad. Maybe that's Drake future too....
You’re right about be alpha/beta paradigm and how Drake and that redpill fanbase of his perceives these titles. Kendrick being a 5’4 dude who makes introspective music “shouldn’t lose” to the 6’1 dude who raps recycling ladies who are 15yrs his Junior. That’s not supposed to happen! Drake is supposed to be the alpha!! 😡😤
Exactlyyyy… he’s especially dumbfounded because he thought he had the formula. The formula isn’t working & it has him perplexed. He’s been educating himself on the formula his whole life. Unfortunately, he would never truly know the recipe because he doesn’t have the secret sauce. This absolutely kills him inside.
Since when did Drake have a red pill fan base??? Do yall realize how many redpill, incel fans Kendrick has? I really don’t think it’s logical to act like his entire fanbase is redpill, especially since it’s a lot of women.
@@SmollWrldbro Drake has a whole album-anthem dedicated to the incel movement. It’s called HER LOSS. The title itself is self-explanatory.
He’s been actively courting that court for more than half a decade.
I know in the past you've said _"If Drake is your favorite rapper you must think vanilla ice cream is spicy"_ but at this point if Drake is still your favorite rapper non-flavored shaved ice must be pure capsaicin material.
Him getting Lebron tatted on him is weird but the fact that he got him tatted in his high school uniform is extra weird
Maybe he’s into high school boys too
That is pretty strange isn’t it. 🤔 I never knew the tattoo was LeBron in high school… Almost like Drake really does think he’s “The Boy”. He’s stuck in high school in his head.
@@laurenjackson2810that reminds me of that quote from Bojack horseman about how you stop growing up when you get famous
@@sportel4644 that has to be what it is . Because how is he 36 y/o still moving like this? His behaviors & antics don’t match his age. Even the “Anita Max Wyn” thing… it’s all just weird.
Y'all just weird 😂😂
I feel that drake accepted that he would never be as critically acclaimed as dot but more commercially viable. Once that was threatened, we see him crashing out
Yes especially when FM didn't get chance to stick
Exactly 💯 After all, what else did he have over Kdot?
There's this theory that Drake had that many hits and that long of an album with Scorpion, specifically after DAMN beating More Life number wise, while having less songs and a shorter promo. Like he saw that Kendrick could take that commercial success as well.
The funny thing is that both DAMN and GKMC are 8x platinum like Views And there's a big chance that the first 2010 artists with 2 diamonds albums from this decade might be Kendrick
Like I say all the time, Drake n Cole was all ab the Grammys til Dot started sweeping them 😂
That def happened a long time ago
Using the alpha beta sigma framework to understand people who legitimately believe in it is actually brilliant. Even if it’s pseudoscience it helps understand them. This is why I subscribe.
One of those etic/emic cultural framework moments
Honestly, it’s built into the art form that the streets determine who wins. Public opinion is the final word so what’s a court gonna do? He lost.
As a Jewish guy, Drake's tried so hard for so long to not be one of us, and it's embarrassing. Just embrace both sides of your family. If you can't be proud of who you are, nobody, black or Jewish, is gonna do it for you.
Underrated take
The theory checks out. He bought Pharrell's jewelry. He bought 2Pac's ring. He bought a mic used my the Clipse. That's not what Alphas do. He's a Beta. He's a fan. He imitates the game, he doesn't play it.
I really think Drake is mad at us (black Americans). I think he never felt like we ever truly accepted him, turned on him completely in this beef and collectively danced on his grave. Not to mention feeling abandoned and used by his black American father. He's so hurt he's willing to try to take down hip hop in retaliation
That’s what I think too. That this went a lot deeper than people realize. Because when he lost last time, he didn’t react like this, he started tootsie slide. This time he’s trying to take the whole ship down with him In a way I can’t blame. Seeing people who you thought was your friends betray, you does something to your mind.
THANK YOU. SOMEONE HAS SAID IT
He's in his own world. Dude had a hard time fitting here in Toronto as well, because many of us are from Jamaica, Somalia, Somaliland, etc.
Kendrick said it best, he's very insecure about himself and identity.
You're absolutely right imo, he wanted to be welcomed with open arms without ever caring to respect the history, the culture or the generational pain that went into making rap what it is (or can be). He cant even respect an amazing artist like Tupac who's music continues to shape and inspire, even using an AI voice to disrespect him. He gained wealth and power and fame from puppeteering as something he wasn't, never caring to respect the culture it came from, and instead of helping the community that created it; immersing himself in the pain and oppresion and using his position to help empower the people that made that culture, he instead used that opportunity to serve only himself. He wanted to be accepted without ever giving back despite using an art form that he never cared to show his dues. And then, instead of introspection, lashed out at the same community that made his position even possible. How can he ever question why people don't like him?
because HE never truly embraced black americans whatsoever. nobody turned on him, he turned on himself and his audience
Calling Drake a beta male is the only time that term is legit.
Every single album he's released has him obsessing over Rihanna on one or multiple songs. He's always had huge Nice Guy energy.
We always knew you guys were redpillers … drake always exposes the truth
Yeah, Drake is really a beta diddy ahh blud, while kendrick is definitely the sigma skibidi alpha boss. I think Tyler the creator is more of an omega ohio type tiktok rizz party tho💯⛷
@@Nee-vk7zzwhat did u just say?
Drake took that “I’m what the culture’s feeling” so hard and felt so much like hip hop at large was rejecting him that he’s fine taking hip hop with him on the way down.
"Everything is biased, idiot"
So many people just don't get this.
Drake is when you bite your tongue twice in one day
Drake the typa J00izh to raise his hand to talk at a mob meeting 😂
ooh on the same spot? oh god.
Drake is when you have a canker sore and you keep poking with your tongue and making it worse
@ I have one right now
Aubrey thinks he is the Hebrew Hammer with these antics.
😂😂😂😂
Insane there's a chance you have to make a "What The Cultures Feeling 2"
I'm here for it😂
I'll be there😁
and I would watch another 3 hours 😂😂😂
Yes PLLEEEAAASSE!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 part 2, 3, 4, 5, etc… 🙌🏽
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We can make that a series; like the heart series.
Him withdrawing the RICO petition and absorbing the rest of the evidence into the defamation suit, one which implicated the NLU song of antisemitism proves that it was NEVER about protesting against the label system…
Where’d you hear the antisemitism part?
@@Aristocratic13read the actual lawsuit, Drake clearly states that NLU is antisemitic accusing him of not been like us.
Yeah, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.
wow drake could not have reached further with that
This after drake told academiks he didn’t wanna be “the Jewish rapper” anymore…how embarrassing
@@Aristocratic13it is in the lawsuit. His legal team is arguing that kendrick calling “not a colleague but a colonizer” alludes to drakes jewish heritage. You can find it on page 24 of the document if you actually care to look. It will do you better than leaving multiple comments under other people on yt.
Truly a pyrrhic endeavor by Drake... he is cementing the status of "Not Like Us" as one of the most important songs ever made through the lawsuits. The further he takes it, the higher up the list that song climbs when it comes to cases that will be taught in law school.
13:45 Sigma theme playing behind while kendrick is hopping and unc mentioning kendrick as "sigma". Absolute cinema imo lmao
This lawsuit is a threat to writers and artists, as one of the biggest artists is being implicacted of DEFAMATION through the medium of rap lyrics, as if the music business doesn’t ALREADY see hip hop as a liability.🤦🏾♂️
What? No.
Yes it is. He's using lyrics in a law suit. That's dangerous @@Aristocratic13
Might not be the worst thing tho. Rap as a whole has gotten more money & more fans & the quality has only gotten worse. Maybe it's time to reset from scratch.
@@Wwattzthis isn’t the way to reset anything
@@3001zz my point was decreasing the amount of money and influence coming from outside the culture. Responding to the part about the music establishment seeing rap as a liability. I don't exactly see that or them investing less into rap as a bad thing.
The lawsuit with Drake reminds me of this deleted scene in Mean Girls where Cady and Regina talked backstage or in the bathroom while prom was going on. Regina said that she had a huge dollhouse as a child and didn’t even play with it. Because of this, her parents wanted to give it to her cousin. But since Regina was so territorial and was extremely spoiled, she destroyed the doll house so nobody could have it. Drake is essentially Regina, being a mean girl in high school and losing a rap battle means he needs to take everyone else down with him to win. He will not accept anything else. He’s so fucking lame
The epitome of “I’m taking my ball back” after you lose.
Drake thinks like a white girl😂😭😭
This analysis really resonates cause it fits well with the “not like us” sentiment. True hip hop fans knew Dot was not to be trifled with when it came to the essence of the art (literally has rap battles on cam in Compton), but Drake could never let a world/paradigm where that was the case be true cause that’s a world in which he could never be the alpha he so desperately needed to be
That’s a FACT
The worst part of the aftermath of this entire saga for me will be the Black Americans, especially the OGs, who will continue to make excuses for ‘Fake’ and who will continue to support him. SMH
15:57 UMG probably has more people promoting Drake's music than Kendrick Lamar's music, Not Like Us is just an undeniable BANGER!
Exactly. “Not Like Us” was playing in the clubs and at parties the same day it dropped. Drake is a sore loser.
Federal Deposition Signifier
When you out of bars, you hire someone who passed the bar.
it's over, Signifier has depicted Drake as the soy wojak and Kendrick as the gigachad
He kind of simply told it like it is
I think something worth considering is that a big part of Drake's early appeal was that he was insecure and emotional. Listen, let's stop with alpha/beta and think of it more in terms of "cold" and "emotional." Emotional isn't bad. Hell Emo is a whole genre. Drake's material on his first few albums was all about wearing his heart on his sleeve and he still even likes to throw that out there. It ONLY turned into an issue when he started pretending he was a hard thug, when he started cosplaying as a trapper or a driller. If all this had come out and we were still dealing with Marvin's Room Drake I feel like it wouldn't have been a thing, but he's tried so hard to pretend he ISN'T who he is that it caused the catastrophe.
Pretty much, his early image didn't even try to mask his flaws and that was even a selling point. You were hearing a guy talk about love and relationships who admitted he could suck at both. And then he got away from that and yeah...
Kendrick put it best in Euphoria
"I like drake with the melodies, I don't like Drake when he act tough"
I really don't know what made him pivot to cosplay as a hard rapper from the streets. I think his successful beef with Meek Mill really got to his head as well.
The thing is J.Cole and Kendrick also were like that. And their honesty was the appeal when come to these 3. But Drake betrayed who he was for something else. While J.Cole and Kendrick stayed the same but better artistically/lirycally and in their public image. ( IDK know them being close doors so ion talk about that)
listen to the song away from home. he knows he’s not tough, he’s well aware he didn’t come up in the ghetto like you wish he did
@misanthr0pic who wanted that Drake chose that image for himself
Kendrick is watching the party die, Drake is in the bathroom calling the cops because his crush danced with someone else.
I enjoyed “ No face” as well and I assumed he’d just drop a dope album and move on. Boy was I wrong! I am thankful for the beef because it opened my eyes to the greatness of Kendrick. I was just a casual fan before but now i really appreciate his artistry.
In summary: Oh you thought the money, the power, the fame would make you go away? 😭
COLD. 😮💨 Kendrick picked him apart like a damn surgeon. It was almost painful to watch this beef lol
Being supportive of Drake is WILD business, it’s lowkey anti-black (to say the least)
I'll be honest with you, as an OG drake hater, hasn't that always been part of his appeal? Whether conscious or subconscious...I always felt it's been there.
I personally believe he makes rap for girls. Don't get me wrong I'ma lady 💅🏾 and I know of no real men who listens to drake and will look up brotha lynch hung, matter fact, almost anything else than actively look up drake.
If the end all and be all of being black is hip hop then go right ahead
@@MindfulMatters734 he makes music for girls, not grown women.
That's why most of his fanbase is edgy yt boys
Drake is a ghost looking for a black father through american black culture. He floats soulessly through the world soul catching from atlanta to the uk fam.
This, to a T. Aubrey Graham was ruined as a person the day Dennis walked out that door.
That was poetic.
I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't a bad human being. He keeps soul catching but nothing OF SUBSTANCE sticks...
Drake's lawsuit is like when the C- student sues the university for affirmative action keeping him out.
Honestly, the biggest L he could take isn’t Not Like Us being preformed at the Super Bowl. It’s Wayne coming out on stage with Kendrick 🤷🏾♂️
Imagine JayZ trying to sue people after Ether came out
dude would've had to sue himself after he dropped super ugly lmfao
Kendrick turned this beef into wine and its just aging beautifully 😂
He’s pretty much dry aging A5 Wagyu beef at this point 😅
every courses just keep being served and it comes with a cup of tea. and every flavor is unique robust profile, tangy, sweet, smokey, sour and spicy
Unlike Drake, who somehow manages to stink more strongly of desperation every day even when you thought he reached the max humanly possible
Drake misunderstood that and made it into "whine" instead.
It is incredible how much this beef is just the gift that keeps on giving. What’s crazier is I truly believe Kendrick prophetically knew all of this would happen the way it is.
My neighbour just took the OVO sticker off his bumper, I think Drake’s legacy is over 🥴
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Why he had that?
@@MindfulMatters734 cause im from Toronto and we’re fighting between replacing this bum as a staple of our city & defending Canada’s integrity but i guess the law suit was the last straw 😭
@@wan.loveph lmaoo 😂 damn
I dont know how, as a fan of rap, Drake could be your favourite rapper.
the fact he is using his legal team because he lost his SECOND rap beef is just sad.. That's not Hip-Hop, its not Rap. This is sad and Aubrey is just digging a deeper hole for himself
I liked Kendrick before the battle, but I wasn't a big fan. After he ended Drake's career and Drake whined and sued, I'm Kendrick's biggest fan. I've always hated Drake, always just felt that he was an unskilled actor that just can't fake it well enough to be convincing.
I'm not 'in the culture,' and while I'm a hip-hop fan, it's casual. If I can't stand Drake after this, I can't imagine what others who really are deep in the culture are feeling right now.
It feels good to see this happen to Drake after he fucked over the Weeknd and Kendrick back in the day. You get what you deserve when you act like a crook.
We live in a world where Souja Boi was right, DRAKE DID THAT TO US!!😭
Jfc you're right and I hate that
Draaaaake?! Who, Aubrey?😂😂
What I don't understand about his behavior lately is that with Pusha T, he publicly acknowledged that he took an L and then went on to release some of the biggest hits of his career on Scorpion. He's proven based on past experience that he can move on from losing a rap battle, but he won't do it this time.
I think Kendrick broke him 😂
Yeah I think what Kendrick did was much more eviscerating to drake. Doesn’t help that basically the entire rap world came to join Kendrick in clowning drake. Def doesn’t excuse drake’s behavior tho, he should shut up and lay low instead of throwing the legal equivalent of a temper tantrum
Because it's not about losing the battle. It's about UMG a label that Drake also belongs to choosing to help push a song that calls him a pedo. The story of Adidon isn't even on streaming services.
@@cooleojordan they Push he was woman better and not the father NLU
@@cooleojordanbut didn’t UMG help Drake by pushing ‘Push Ups’ and ‘Family Matters’ in the same manner?
I would also like to submit, for your consideration. We saw him being so arrogant and cocky, to the point of "taunting" Kendrick to drop because he has had the label behind him in the past during these rap battles that he thought the same would be true this time around. I now truly believe all the rumors about Drake running to UMG and "demanding" that they make Pusha take down The story of Adidon, or him trying to issue a C&D for Like That , requesting these ppl to make public apologies to him, etc, after reading in the lawsuit that he sent 2 demand letters to UMG for them to take down NLU video and song. I also agree with your assessment that he is and Beta male and his ego is the reason why he can't get past this. He should've played sports when he was younger so he could learn how to take an L!
Literally that’s what happened and why he’s acting like this because the label supported him every other time so for them not to rally behind him he thinks it has to be a setup no Drake the song was just that big UMG would have to be insane and not a business at all to not support that song. Drake really thinks everything is all about him
17:28 Akademiks I think he’s talking to you 😂
guys will literally do a lawsuit instead of going to therapy
Ngl You and Fantano not being name in the suit felt like he's trying to hard to bully hiphop journos. Real Beta activity
The vin diagram between drake stans and maga has to be damn near a circle
And Em stans. After that leaked Eminem diss track against Ja rule and Suge Knight came out people were saying it was the "best diss ever". Idk what to say anymore.
@tedthecommenter5364 Huh? MAGA from my understanding does not fuck with Eminem much anymore due to his open hatred for Trump and his recent endorsement of Kamala Harris during the last election cycle. MAGA’s Eminem is Tom McDonald which is hell of a downgrade.
@@Babylauncher3000 r/whoosh
@@silversoulken people still use reddit in 2025?
As a listener of Drake since 2010. Him doing this hurts. My dad passed away around the time “Take Care” came out and the album sounded amazing. I still was holding onto Kanye’s, album Graduation for dear life. Still do. Drake’s actions through this beef however, have grown me sour.
You can still like his music especially if it takes you a special place.RIP to your pops
You're good. Most of the great parts of that album are 40 Boi 1da and The Weeknd. Lmao
I gave up Kanye. And ye did way more for the genre. But drake, while I get it was tied to your father, you can let go of drake. There plenty of copy cat drakes
This is an equivalent of "Never meet your heroes".
2/3 of that album is Kendrick and the Weeknd anyway. Sorry to hear about your dad. Hope youre getting through
I'm with you. Him mentioning the hip hop media is worse.
Are we gonna talk about Poetic Justice being the background to this 😭 nasty work 😭😭😭
Damn I wasn't ready for F.D. Sig to insult him with the pseudo science terminology. Lmao, my favorite take so far.
The “oOh LiL wAynE, oOh” part took me out!!! 😂😂😂😂
For the longest time I never actually knew Drake was a rapper... I used to think he was an RnB singer I just never listened to
Poetic Justice playing in the background was a great touch
Damn FD pissed he wasn’t name checked in the lawsuit he went off
1:14 his voice is so cringe right here like it hurts my ears like nails on a chalkboard
Yeah that fake AAVE affectation, that he didn't even grow up around. Same reason i cant take his raps seriously. Like bro i watched you whine abour your mom not buying you a tuna sandwich, AAVE isnt your thing
@@greenchilaquiles so true. It reminds me of the overdone, obviously phony blaccent that I always found especially grating about Iggy Azalea. We know where you’re from! You don’t talk like that!
You not feeling his blackcent?😂😂
Thanks 🙏🏻 came to the comments to say his voice is my version of “nails on a chalkboard” lol!!!
17:04 Its what a child does; cant win the fight you started? Start crying and screaming for an adult
Strangely enough, this video explained Elon Musk for me
Ngl my one joy in this darkest timeline is watching people realise Drake and Elon are full of shit
Insecurity is a powerful thing.
Also mark zuckerberg
Drake was at his best when he pandered to Black women. That’s actually what set him apart from most rappers. But he ruined it by trying to be something he’s not smh
11:09 “Ouuu little Wayne is just too good” 😂😂
Kendrick isn’t going to preform not like us at the superbowl. He made t.v. off. I think that song is a pretty clear superbowl replacement for the diss track
They sound similar , I agree
I was waiting for someone like kendrick to basically end drake. He was one of the few, if not the only one, who had the capability to do so. Calculated precise moves, chess vs checkers. Future opened the floodgates and ken finished it. He baited drake and now drake is further proving his point.
The d riders still claim drake won and I cannot understand that. Look at how drastic his actions are after he lost. Drake is now a lolcow, and Kendrick knew he would do this. It took forever for normies to understand why we disliked drake and they would not understand our reasoning. As you said, the man is a ‘beta’. He is a goofy clown. As soon as he got fame, it was justification that he was something he could never truly be. His yesmen and his fans say so. But it was never enough.
Drake came out when I was in 8th grade & I was a big fan. Mainly because of how he used to pander to Black women. At the time I thought that was him really showing love & respect. It’s crazy because I didn’t start to side-eye Drake until he came out with the song One Dance. I liked the song but something about the weird accent made my face scrunch up a bit. Then I developed full side-eye with the Pusha-T beef. Everything that came out during that beef including him hiding his white baby with the soft-porn model… & the Black face… I was just like who is this man?
My favorite thing has been reading lyrics from the beginning of "Euphoria" in every comment section about this beef.
“Everything is bias, idiot.” Thank u for saying the quiet part out loud
there was nothing light about this work - last sentence had me howlin
8:23 Let’s not forget that Kanye had a #1 single after all the Hitler stuff.
I still can't believe people want to listen to art from a person that said Hitler invented highways
@@chunkypufflover7102cause he’s the goat
The unmitigated gall for him to call anyone else his fragile opp when he resorts to this pettiness
the "kendrick is a sigma" got me dying LOOOOOLLL
This is like my 20th Drake video 😂 i can't stop! 😅
“What do you expect when you rhyme like a soft punk?” - KRS-ONE.