POP SONG REVIEW: Drake and Kendrick's feud to end all feuds
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He has the voice of an angel. Lucifer, to be specific.
Judgesaturn507
2024-05-09 08:20:58 +0000 UTCYeah I kinda feel like everybody's finally shaking off the post-pandemic dust a little.
Shiny Skunk
2024-05-09 02:11:27 +0000 UTCWhat, you didn't love Stu Cook's work on Mardi Gras? (That's one of Todd's best episodes.)
Beau Dure
2024-05-08 22:07:56 +0000 UTCCheck out FD Signifier, he's a genuine oldhead and he'd got an older Drake essay that really gives a lot of context to how the hiphop community has handled Drake over the years. Good stuff!
Clementine Danger
2024-05-08 20:52:49 +0000 UTCFWIW, hope you're doing ok IRL Todd. We all love and appreciate you and your work here.
Henry Kiley
2024-05-08 17:25:52 +0000 UTCTo me, the damning line is, "That ain't just me, that what the culture feeling." This beef wouldn't have half the impact it did if it weren't for the fact that the public is just TIRED of Drake. He's the biggest star in the world, but he's been coasting for years creatively and has been doing really shady shit in the interim. Someone needed to let him have it, and Kendrick was the only man for the job.
SPBurke
2024-05-08 16:52:01 +0000 UTCNot Gonna Lie, I almost thought that the title in the video itself was saying the video was 30 hours!
Joseph Adams
2024-05-08 15:26:29 +0000 UTC13:11 typo on "lied"
Rob Wilson
2024-05-08 14:28:15 +0000 UTCi'm surprised you didn't mention the shots Megan took at Drake in Hiss as well, she was the first person to bring up the BBL stuff
Rob Wilson
2024-05-08 14:19:04 +0000 UTCIt finally happened. Todd and The Melon collab, sort of
Harrison Bieth
2024-05-08 14:05:14 +0000 UTCMeanwhile, in Toronto, a security guard at Drake's mansion was shot yesterday.
Alina
2024-05-08 13:20:56 +0000 UTCError spotting: at 14:17 the cover art for Not Like Us disappears into an iStock graphic.
FunFawn21
2024-05-08 13:00:39 +0000 UTCOne of my first thoughts hearing meet the grahams was that Kendrick's main goal was to ensure drake can't just brush this off and keep going like he did with story of adidon. I suspect that if he has hard proof of anything, it's probably the human trafficking stuff and he's holding off as long as possible to maximize damage or for legal reasons, most of the other accusations on both sides kinda seem like informed guesswork based on old tabloid stories
Kompy
2024-05-08 12:58:05 +0000 UTCCouple things I noticed on first pass: 1) Whitney is Kendrick’s fiancee/partner, not his wife. Drake has a line about that in “Family Matters” “Proposed in 2015 but don’t wanna make her your actual wife” otherwise it would kind of be semantics, but since it’s part of the beef might be worth changing. 2) I think the Toronto shooting probably merits mention for the full version, or at least an edit in as B roll before the last gag. Great to see you put together an overview of the whole situation and give some thoughtful commentary, as per usual. I appreciate a video like this in a sea of hourlong line-by-line breakdowns.
Matthew T.
2024-05-08 12:52:20 +0000 UTCI'm such a lame white person that the first thing I think about when I see the name "Drake" is how much Jerry and Elaine dislike the Him.
Kristopher Bluth
2024-05-08 12:32:12 +0000 UTCUh, Todd? Nicki Minaj may have thrown herself on the Hiss grenade, but it was definitely aimed at Drake ( and Tory Lanez) for the most part? Not sure how you missed that, so just wanted to let you know.
Elizabeth M Hyde
2024-05-08 12:31:32 +0000 UTCThat's most likely related to the Weeknd's label XO, since his manager was shot recently most likely by someone affiliated with Drake's label OVO.
Manny Marmol
2024-05-08 12:30:48 +0000 UTCI think you said in the MC Hammer video that the problem with diss tracks is there's a shelf life of intrigue on them, and in retrospect they just seem whiny and counterproductive, especially when some of those beefs ended with someone dead. That's how I feel here - it's just a bunch of drama for people who want music to be more like Real Housewives. When it escalates to serious but unconfirmed accusations it is ugly and joyless, because it's neither funny nor do you want it to be true.
Cody Baird
2024-05-08 12:25:35 +0000 UTCSo did CCR (but a lot less successfully)
Judgesaturn507
2024-05-08 10:45:08 +0000 UTCTrue, it's a big departure since the charts have mostly been absent of 'conversation' (apart from racist country music) since the end of the pandemic.
Judgesaturn507
2024-05-08 10:44:00 +0000 UTCThis was supposed to be the year I stopped paying attention to pop music as closely to focus on my own life. You know when was the LAST time I tried that? 2019. Right around the time Old Town Road hit the charts. Following pop music is kinda like quicksand.
Judgesaturn507
2024-05-08 10:42:03 +0000 UTCSomeone pointed out that a lot of people write diss tracks at each other, but Fleetwood Mac members wrote diss tracks about each other. Christine McVie writing a song about sleeping with a crew member and having her barely ousted husband play bass on it — that’s OG right there.
Beau Dure
2024-05-08 10:40:06 +0000 UTCAt 13:10 the lyrics for "Meet the Grahams" say "you liked" instead of "you lied"; typo?
Chamois Chui
2024-05-08 09:06:33 +0000 UTCThanks Todd. I'll definitely check out more perspectives but this was a great TL:DR about all the moving parts of this fued. I was supremely out of the loop on this whole thing.
Bailey Vogt
2024-05-08 08:49:02 +0000 UTCShout out to the "Drake is owned by Kendrick Lamar" in the credits.
Castleknackers
2024-05-08 08:42:20 +0000 UTCYeah, that's... honestly how I felt? It was -interesting-, it felt like a serious, major event going on.
BloodyM
2024-05-08 08:11:29 +0000 UTCIDK.... I'm just glad that new music is interesting again? not to say that there weren't interesting things going on before or how this feud didn't go too far but I can't recall the last time I was this engage emotionally and mentally with what's is actually is actively coming out. Maybe that's just me and at the end of the day it won't be worth it (I really do hope that Kendrick isn't a wife beater and Drake isn't an open secret in the music industry that just no one did anything about) but I can't be mad for being drawn in like this for the first time in a long time.
Nir revel
2024-05-08 08:06:45 +0000 UTCConsidering there was an actual shooting outside of Drake’s mansion in Toronto just yesterday, it already feels like there’s more to add onto the end of this video.
James Zhang
2024-05-08 08:06:32 +0000 UTCDrake finally made me understand people shitting on Nickelback for a whole ass decade. Maybe if I could ignore him that'd be one thing but I fully saw that man's dick.
Clementine Danger
2024-05-08 07:53:04 +0000 UTC
