Drake is pathetic but also not fully wrong.
Added 2024-11-26 23:32:57 +0000 UTCgirl everybody use payola
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It is petty, but I'm living for it. He knows, he uses it, he also knows they won't admit publicly to using it. So where is this going in the courts. I think we should have a conversation about the double standard of how these labels treat successful white artists vs anyone of color. But then again, I'm TIRED
germaninatlanta
2024-11-29 21:43:44 +0000 UTCyou know that clip of margot clasping her hands and looking around at the end of the barbie movie? that’s how i felt lookin through that hashtag. i mean its foolishness but it felt like stan twitter a bit, and it’s good to see beyonce not getting dragged or breathing too hard!
risa kim
2024-11-29 20:41:24 +0000 UTCBron was singing Not like Us while he was warming up for a game... I think Drake is that petty that it pissed him off.
Dejavu
2024-11-29 20:30:18 +0000 UTCThat might be her wildest take
Dejavu
2024-11-29 20:25:27 +0000 UTCHive’s finally getting shit done on Twitter and making hashtag swiftieracism trending 😭😭 welcome back 4 hive ig
Danielle A
2024-11-29 00:58:31 +0000 UTCI do agree that if it was Taylor, UMG wouldn't do this. No she wouldn't get into the foolishness, but at the end of the day she's still a white woman with big middle America support and has a chokehold on the industry. BUT what's killing the argument (to me) is that Drake thought he was the golden child of UMG and bragged about his 400 million dollar deal at nauseum, but now he wants to be big mad. It's not giving Drake's camp wants to call out the unfairness between him and Taylor, but that Drake's upset he's not in Taylor's position benefiting from the system the most. It's just a proximity tantrum to me.
Lilac S.
2024-11-28 15:06:51 +0000 UTCHe said the buzzword colonizer, a made up tiktok rumor, mentioned YMW Nelly like he did in the other disses then proceeded to make sound effects to sway peoples emotions. Drake out rapped him on Family Matter.
Kanesha Underwood
2024-11-28 14:39:57 +0000 UTCV=
Dee
2024-11-28 14:06:05 +0000 UTCexcited for vlogmas!! 🤍
Erica Howard
2024-11-28 03:46:52 +0000 UTCthis can't be the same drake that was the cover of every damn playlist in 2018 calling out someone else for using payola 😭 pot, please meet kettle!!! sure, there was probably botting involved and heavy playlisting at the start of "not like us," but you can't deny that ppl just genuinely like the song. after a certain point, if something is a hit, it'll stick, no matter how inorganic its rise started
rudi!!!
2024-11-28 03:41:21 +0000 UTCit's so hilarious that drake decided to sue the label right as Kendrick dropped his new album, six months after the beef 😭 I think mostly everyone would've forgotten about the beef if drake just took the L in silence
rudi!!!
2024-11-28 03:30:21 +0000 UTCThat’s the thing, Drake’s music is more palatable to the mainstream and Kendrick’s music is not (at least not as much), which is why people say Drake has better music. We’re talking about two different types of “good“ music. Type 1 is the music that streams really well in mainstream media/outlets, has great beats and catchy hooks, and type 2 is the type of music where the lyricism takes center stage. The depth of the lyrics, symbolism, metaphors, and innuendoes are what brings the song to life, to the point where the beat doesn’t feel like it needs to be as important cause your actually tuned in to what’s being said.
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-28 02:00:41 +0000 UTCWe all wishes she would use payola, but she really doesn’t care past the first week. We should have been eating off Cowboy Carter the whole year!
Birdie Wolf
2024-11-28 00:48:00 +0000 UTCYeah....He can't compare himself with Taylor swift. They're on two different sides of the playing field. 😒
Nyesha C.
2024-11-28 00:44:11 +0000 UTCYeah… I’m pretty sure Kenya doesn’t really even like rap music if I remember correctly. Of course she thinks Drake makes better music and has better songs because she is a pop girlie, and Drake makes pop music.
Birdie Wolf
2024-11-28 00:44:04 +0000 UTCI wish Beyoncé used Payola
Danielle A
2024-11-28 00:21:43 +0000 UTCEveryone’s bringing up that Taylor doesn’t get in the foolishness drake’s dug himself in and yes but I fully get what you mean Kenya and you’re 100% right - the powers that be will protect Taylor no matter what because she just has that force
Danielle A
2024-11-28 00:18:29 +0000 UTCi just thought sbout this but since your a sports girlie like me lmao i would love a video about lebron always being on the wrong side of history and steph too if u let me tell it 😭
Eva
2024-11-27 22:47:50 +0000 UTCOn the contrary, he is saying everything. What “not like us” did YOU listen too??
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 18:02:31 +0000 UTCPpl only like not like us because of the beat let’s be real. Kendrick is saying a bunch of nothing on there
Kanesha Underwood
2024-11-27 17:28:27 +0000 UTCTaylor Swift would NEVER insert herself into a battle/beef like Drake did. He called out on Kendrick’s family (DV allegations against his wife, etc.) once you bring my family into it, all bets are off. Taylor’s too “nice” lol to be doing all of that. She could barely handle the Katy Perry dancer “beef” and that didn’t last long.
Dani
2024-11-27 16:55:46 +0000 UTCDrake needs to have a seat and take a couple years off from music. His post-beef songs have not stuck at all and he’s proven to be more butt-hurt about it. Suing UMG won’t help him. Also I fully disagree on Kendrick only having 3 good albums. His latest album is 10/10 all around!! I’m a “newer” fan because I wasn’t listening before DAMN. But his lyricism is so good and cuts deep. That’s why Not Like Us skyrocketed all summer and even now.
Dani
2024-11-27 16:44:38 +0000 UTCOMGGG YES!! that weird album popped up randomly on my iPod shuffle library like wtf 😳
Dani
2024-11-27 16:11:37 +0000 UTCbut wasnt the whole “scandal” that taylor allegedly gave her approval for that track? drake would have never approved of not like us
hydia steele
2024-11-27 12:43:16 +0000 UTCI hope Kenya talks about Beyonce ranking #1 on Billboard Top Pop Stars Lists!! As if we were all surprised, but I was ready to fight for my life if someone else was crowned number 1...
Matthew
2024-11-27 12:26:34 +0000 UTCKenya’s Payola speech was giving Miranda Priestley’s “Cerulean Blue” schooling, and I appreciate that.
carly gill
2024-11-27 12:22:01 +0000 UTCexactly, this wouldn’t happen to her bc she’s not in the business nor makes it a habit of making enemies with her business partners, drake clearly doesn’t gaf hence why he’s in this predicament, you can’t cosplay as a thug to get your way while also placating to the masses 😭
ceeitrus
2024-11-27 11:55:21 +0000 UTCIt gives Trump 'stolen election'... All the wrong people are going to get hurt if this flies.
Rainy Feathers
2024-11-27 08:07:08 +0000 UTCDrake needs to go sit down, a he such white man for this. He's liable to lose us for good one day but I can't imagine why he'd care.
Rainy Feathers
2024-11-27 07:59:55 +0000 UTCMight have to kick my feet a little too
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 07:27:28 +0000 UTCWe literally saw clubs around the world blasting the song. Sure Kendrick used similar tactic but it’s a fire song/diss track and it wouldn’t still have momentum if ppl weren’t genuinely into it. Drake is just salty one of his diss records didn’t blow up
Megan
2024-11-27 07:24:52 +0000 UTCIn the car, the gym the club, is a certified bop anywhere
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 06:55:57 +0000 UTCbut my thing with drake is: you said you fed kendrick the info. yet you’re suing for not only payola, but also for defamation?
Imani Branch
2024-11-27 06:35:09 +0000 UTCno like that’s the thing. not like us went platinum in everybody car
Imani Branch
2024-11-27 06:31:12 +0000 UTCi didn’t know where you were going with this so i was initially skeptical 🧐 but i agree. if kendrick used payola, so did drake. and so what? drake looks bitch made for getting the lawyers involved 😭
Imani Branch
2024-11-27 06:30:52 +0000 UTCWas fighting for my LIFE trying get that thing of my iPod, I needed every last GB on that 32 GB iPod lmaooo
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 05:53:38 +0000 UTCEven if Kendrick used payola to increase the streaming for not like us, it’s still a fire ass diss track. It would be one thing if Kendrick was pushing a terrible song, but no like this song slaps. On one of the stops during Kendrick‘s tour he played not like us I think like five times in a row and people were singing along to every word each time. Do you know what it is to have an entire stadium or arena dissing you and calling you a pedophile?? That’s crazy diabolical work.
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 05:44:11 +0000 UTCI don’t think you can simply just swap Taylor Swift for Drake and say that the outcome would be different. Taylor makes music in a completely different genre, she is not being accused of being a pedophile, she is a white woman that people everywhere adore, she isn’t making diss tracks, she is not texting little boys for “advice”. That comparison is kind of reaching for the stars if you ask me. Side tangent: I find it really weird that people swear that Taylor Swift is just protected against anything and everything thrown her way, but people don’t consider the fact that Taylor really doesn’t do anything that requires an immense amount of protection from the powers that be.
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 05:39:11 +0000 UTCHIII KENYAAA!!!!!!
diego
2024-11-27 05:20:04 +0000 UTCDrake shoulda never went against Meg. You getting whacked all year by HISS, Not Like Us, and the industry at-large and i have to giggle a bit.
Keith Primas
2024-11-27 04:23:12 +0000 UTCYou're definitely spot on about them protecting him if he was Taylor but either way this just reflects terribly on Drake because he's one of the main beneficiaries of payola and this is relating to rap music/beef. He's so spiteful I know that hate is stirring bad.
skylar
2024-11-27 04:22:21 +0000 UTCi just got war flashbacks
Keith Primas
2024-11-27 04:20:27 +0000 UTCIt would never happen to Taylor cuz Taylor would never do that.
Jocelyn
2024-11-27 04:03:03 +0000 UTCThis reminds me of Josie and the Pussycats.
Jocelyn
2024-11-27 04:00:24 +0000 UTCi love tidal i always feel vindicated when you talk about it lol
tay w
2024-11-27 03:42:32 +0000 UTCI don’t know why this video made me think of this, but do y’all remember that time when Apple forced that U2 album on everybody’s Apple devices?? Like you could not remove that album from your music library even though you didn’t pay for it or choose to download it, but it was just there and you couldn’t get rid of it.
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 02:43:37 +0000 UTCDrake and Kendrick are 2 diff tastes imo. If you want fun and easily likable songs then Drake is your man. If you want lyricism and depth then Kendrick is your man.
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-27 02:28:45 +0000 UTCOk now hold on Kenya, Kendrick doesn’t have 3 good albums?! Alright sister 🫣 also to be fair…….. I don’t think them niggas were really *friends* with Drake. Like you said, when he was up, he had ‘friends’ but never really fucked with him. He’s always been lame, and used clout to get the relationships he had, and now folks don’t have to pretend to fw him bc Kendrick cracked his mask
JT
2024-11-27 02:07:06 +0000 UTCpetition for you to do some book deep dives here in between the gossip segments 😁 “if you like this (movie/song/album/book), read this” or “books you should give a chance” something like that, idk
Dee
2024-11-27 01:59:57 +0000 UTCVlogmas idea: going through your whatever Tidal’s equivalent of Spotify Wrapped is
Sara
2024-11-27 01:49:39 +0000 UTCexactly. it's just hard to entertain "if it was taylor" bc it will never be taylor lol. There's no history of serious pop beef through music. Back and forth on twitter sure but that's it
Diana
2024-11-27 01:07:43 +0000 UTCIdk. Kanye said he got Taylor Swift famous and did all that bashing of her on his record, but he is also an UMG artist. I think they can easily argue they invest in he highest returns and ignore the detailed fautor - or can argue that they do not want to restrict “artistic freedom” or something, or just standard practice. I agree with this take but from a different angle. Just another L for Drake.
Keyvious Avery
2024-11-27 01:05:32 +0000 UTCEhh, cant give drake that taylor swift comment, it makes sense in theory, but taylor swift doesn’t voluntarily engage in beef calling ppl women beaters and that their kids were born out of infidelity by their best friend, drakes just bitter Kendrick’s song stuck and his didn’t, bc if he was able to get away with calling Kendrick a woman beater this whole ordeal would not be happening, and this wouldn’t happen to taylor swift bc taylor swift doesn’t do shit like this lol if anything it’s more indicative of drakes character bc what are you doing behind the scenes that’s making your own label not fuck with you lol
ceeitrus
2024-11-27 01:04:10 +0000 UTCSee the problem is Taylor Swift would never invite this type of foolishness on herself. Drake invited these problems onto himself then got mad UMG made a pretty penny off of it. I’m sure UMG thought it was gonna be another Back to Back situation, and he didn’t deliver the record, but Kendrick did! Like this was the biggest hip hop beef ever, in large part because of Drake. He was really trying to push the commercial aspect of this. We literally saw him engage with Payola in real time. He was in the streamers dms and coordinating with them. Kendrick literally outplayed him, he knows how Drake moves and used it against him. Now he’s whining and crying about why the system didn’t stop this from happening. Also we don’t know what is in that 360 deal Drake has with them. Taylor Swift has a different type of deal with UMG which is why they probably can’t play about her. But best believe if they could, they absolutely would. Plus the complaint is still pathetic. At the end of the day, he’s whining and crying about UMG picking and choosing is unfair and his complaint is literally, “they should have picked me over him!!!” Not sure if that gives him standing.
Birdie Wolf
2024-11-27 01:00:43 +0000 UTCSteph and Drake are besties?? Lightskin toxicity 🤢
Jenny
2024-11-27 00:55:08 +0000 UTCTPAB is fine?? As Told by Fantano 🫨🫨🫨🫨
Jenny
2024-11-27 00:53:43 +0000 UTCit’s just deeply unserious, not only is it not very hiphop (not that drake ever was) to sue your label by proxy of your rap beef opponent, but to sue your label for industry tactics you also participate in is just ridiculous, he’s basically suing UMG for doing their jobs and that’s simply just plain bitch made behavior idk, between nicki crashing out on Meg and roc nation, drake and his antics and Wayne bitching about the Super Bowl, young money has NAWT a had a good year 😭
ceeitrus
2024-11-27 00:45:49 +0000 UTCall of this is so white man of Drake im sorry lmaoo
India Barrow
2024-11-27 00:35:36 +0000 UTCIdgaf nothing drake going thru he said Meg ain’t got sh** knowing damn well that’s false.. and caused actual harm to hate campaign why he ain’t gaf about spewing bs then and If you let me tell it he paying bots to trend free Tory
Judith Ben
2024-11-27 00:21:58 +0000 UTCA friend told me about this earlier and I said that’s actually a perfectly plausible reason to sue UMG. It reminds me of when people were saying sabrina’s espresso was autoplaying on their spotify playlists that didn’t even have the song on it. The actual practice of labels pushing narratives and music isn’t shocking at all but I do wonder what he’s trying to prove by suing. I think it has more to do with image repair than actual concern over the practice being unethical. I can only imagine the discourse on X right now omg I deleted it on halloween and haven’t looked back.
Myles
2024-11-27 00:03:07 +0000 UTCDrake: If I were Taylor Swift, this would’ve never have happened. Y’all remember what Joseline said to Amber Rose…😐? Want to capitalize on the culture, but if it were up to him…
C
2024-11-27 00:01:59 +0000 UTCThe Taylor swift comment was such BS. Taylor Swift hasn’t voluntarily signed up for a rap battle/beef. He was okay with his song popping off, but the fact that Kendrick won that last round now he wants to be a Karen. I’m not giving him that either.
Ashley Woods
2024-11-26 23:58:53 +0000 UTCI can’t summon any empathy for Drake’s misogynistic ass tbh. Will never get over how he did thee stallion.
Phin
2024-11-26 23:56:15 +0000 UTCThis goes out to the “Drake has record breaking streams, therefore he’s bigger than Michael Jackson ever was,” crowd…
C
2024-11-26 23:52:28 +0000 UTCHow Drake’s fallout with LeBron went down: Drake: You posted a video of you vibing to Tory Lanez’ music during his trial. Why you can’t post a video with my music?
C
2024-11-26 23:49:55 +0000 UTCPeople in Hip Hop owe Gunna an apology after this. “Snitching” even though he had nothing to do with the mess, which is not snitching, has now taken a backseat to the very few things male rappers would actually get ridiculed for by other men.
C
2024-11-26 23:38:24 +0000 UTCHow does the Scorpio in you deal with the public opinion about you?
Danielle A
2024-11-26 23:37:25 +0000 UTC2 videos in one day weeeeee
jerome
2024-11-26 23:36:55 +0000 UTCSoft launching Vlogmas 🫶🏻
Danielle A
2024-11-26 23:34:41 +0000 UTCYouTube video upload and Patreon upload???? We’re well fed
Elisha
2024-11-26 23:34:32 +0000 UTC
