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Hi, everyone, welcome back to the Drake-Kendrick writeup. Previous posts can be found here, here and here. Following on from the last post, this post is going to be talking about and mentioning the following potential triggers: domestic abuse, pedophilia, sex trafficking and sexual assault.
Act Six: Salting The Earth- ‘Not Like Us’/‘Champagne Moments’/‘BBL Drizzy’
On the morning of May 5, 2024, less than 24 hours after the gauntlet of ‘6:16 in LA’, ‘Family Matters’ and ‘meet the grahams’, I woke up, decided that there was no point in getting up and went back to sleep for an hour. In that hour, Kendrick decided to prove me wrong by dropping his last diss track against Drake, ‘Not Like Us’.
I’m going to be honest, this song makes me happy, but I’ll explain why later. For now, let’s take a look at it. First off, Kendrick made his major message clear with the cover, which is a photo of Drake’s mansion covered in the red markers used to note the presence of registered sex offenders. So Kendrick was coming for Drake’s blood right out of the gate.
In ‘Not Like Us’, Kendrick:
1: Issues another threat to Drake while also alluding to his ghostwriters (‘Psst, I see dead people’)
2: Mocks Drake for his constant references to Compton (for example, Drake posted a photo of himself wearing a Compton Community College shirt after he took down ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’), which reinforces the idea that Drake is a culture vulture (‘What’s up with these jabroni-ass niggas tryna to see Compton?’)
3: Declares his intention to keep going after Drake regardless of any blowback he gets because of Drake’s industry ties (‘The industry can hate me, fuck ‘em all and they mama’)
4: Points out that half the industry just fucking hates Drake (‘How many opps [opponents] you really got? I mean, it’s too many options’)
5: Compares himself to NBA legend John Stockton, who spent a lot of his career playing alongside Karl Malone, who raped and impregnated a 13 year old when he was 20 in 1983 (‘I’m finna pass on this body, I’m John Stockton’)
6: Says that despite being a devout Christian, he’ll still beat Drake’s arse if he has to (‘Beat your ass and hide the Bible if God watchin’)
7: Says that he won’t let Drake try to flee from the feud (‘Walk him down, whole time, I know he got some ho in him/Pole on him, extort shit, bully Death Row on him’)
8: Says that Drake is a pedophile and child molester (‘Say Drake, I heard you like ‘em young/You better not ever go to cell block one’)
9: Again tells any woman who gets involved with Drake that by doing so, they’re endangering their young female relatives (‘To any bitch that talk to him and they in love/Just make sure you hide your lil’ sister from him’)
10: Takes direct shots at members of OVO- in particular, he implies that Drake has a better relationship with Chubbs (OVO’s head of security) than he does with his own son; that PARTYNEXTDOOR does cocaine, and asks why Drake signed Baka Not Nice after he was arrested and charged with sex trafficking (that charge was dropped because the victim refused to testify, but he was convicted of assaulting her and a weapons charge) (‘They tell me Chubbs the only one that get your hand-me-downs/And Party at the party playin’ with his nose now/And Baka got a weird case, why is he around?’)
11: Says that Drake is a pedophile and child molester (‘Certified Lover Boy? [Drake’s 2021 album]Certified pedophiles’)
12: Says that Drake is a pedophile and child molester (‘Why you trollin’ like a bitch? Ain’t you tired? Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A Minor’)
(For bonus points, as a chord, A Minor has no black keys in it, hence why it’s not a chord that's especially favoured by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney.)
13: Draws a line in the sand to make an ‘us vs them’ story where the opposing side are either pedophiles or supporting pedophiles (‘They not like us, they not like us, they not like us’)
14: Asks if Drake really thought that the West Coast rappers would just sit around and let him disrespect Tupac, and tells him that coming to California in the future is going to be a mistake (‘You think the Bay gon’ let you disrespect Pac, nigga? I think that Oakland show gon’ be your last stop, nigga’)
15: Says that Drake threw Cole under the bus by collaborating with him on ‘First Person Shooter’, but then dissing him on ‘Push Ups’ and ‘Family Matters’ (‘Did Cole foul, I don’t know why you still pretendin’’)
16: Insults OVO (the logo of which is an owl) and everyone associated with it (‘What is the owl? Bird niggas and bird bitches, go’)
17: Tells Drake that his attempts to shape the general story of the feud into a form that’s favourable to him won’t work because fans aren't stupid, though that's debatable (‘The audience not dumb/Shape the stories how you want, hey Drake, they’re not slow’)
18: Says that he’s got more to reveal if Drake wants to keep going (‘Rabbit hole is still deep, I can go further, I promise’)
19: Compares Drake to B-Rad, the protagonist of Malibu’s Most Wanted- a rich, sheltered white guy who wants to become a rapper despite being terrible at it and appropriates black culture (‘Ain’t that somethin’? B-Rad stands for ‘bitch’ and you Malibu’s most wanted’)
20: Says that Drake is better suited to being a menial than the person with any authority or power (‘Ain’t no law, boy, you ball boy, fetch Gatorade or somethin’)
21: Calls Drake a pussy (‘Pussy’)
22: Taunts Drake, telling him to stop spending his time posting stuff on Instagram and thinking of captions and get back in the studio to continue the feud (‘Tell the pop star quit hidin’/Fuck a caption, want action, no accident’)
23: Suggests that Drake slept with his mentor Lil Wayne’s girlfriend while Wayne was in jail- please note that while Drake did admit to having slept with her, she said that it had happened before she and Wayne dated while Wayne said that he found out while he was in jail, so I don’t know whether Kendrick got the timeline wrong or if he’s calling them liars and cheaters (‘Fucked on Wayne girl while he was in jail, that’s connivin’)
24: Tells Drake to not disrespect Serena Williams after Drake called Serena’s husband a groupie- like Kendrick, Williams is from Compton, but I don’t know if there’s any other link there, though Drake allegedly dated Williams in the past (‘From Alondra down to Central, nigga better not speak on Serena’)
25: Says that Drake is a pedophile and child molester who surrounds himself with other pedophiles and sex offenders (‘And your homeboy gon’ need subpoena, that predator move in flocks/That name gotta be registered and placed on neighbourhood watch’)
26: Compares himself to legendary wrestler Shawn Michaels, who had a notorious feud with Canadian wrestler Bret Hart (‘Sweet Chin Music [Michaels’ finishing move] and I won’t pass the aux, ayy’)
27: Says he’s got five more diss tracks ready to go in addition to the ones he’s already released (‘How many stocks do I really have in stock? Ayy/One, two, three, four, five, plus five, ayy’)
28: Refers to Drake as a ‘Freaky-ass nigga’ or a ‘fan’ and mocks his nickname of ‘the 6 God’ by calling him ‘a 69 god’, which may be comparing him to rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, who is widely considered to be a snitch after he cooperated fully with prosecutors and testified against his former affiliates (‘Devil is a lie, he a 69 god, ayy/Freaky-ass niggas need to stay they ass inside, ayy’)
29: Likens Drake to the white settlers in Atlanta who profited off slavery, and says that Drake is disconnected from Black culture and merely sees collaborating with artists from Atlanta as a way to make money, thus profiting off their culture (‘Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin’ railroads and trains/Bear with me a second, let me put y’all on game/The settlers was usin’ townsfolk to make ‘em richer/Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda/You run to Atlanta when you need a check balance’)
30: Starts naming Atlanta artists Drake collaborated with: first up is Future- Kendrick says that Drake collaborated with him to get his songs played in clubs (‘You called Future when you didn’t see the club (Ayy, what?)’)
31: Says that Drake collaborated with Lil Baby so he could refresh his knowledge of Black slang, in order to keep looking like someone who’s part of and in touch with Black culture (‘Lil Baby helped you get your lingo up (What?)’)
32: Says that Drake collaborated with 21 Savage, who’s a member of the Bloods, to give himself gang cred by affiliation (‘21 gave you false street cred’)
33: Similarly, he says that Drake collaborated with Young Thug to prop up his e...
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