r/MadeMeSmile • u/mcfw31 • Feb 10 '25

Wholesome Moments Kendrick Lamar and the whole Super Bowl stadium screaming “A Minor”

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u/God_Among_Rats Feb 10 '25

The absolute shortest version is that Drake and Kendrick Lamar were feuding and making songs about eachother.

Kendrick released Not Like Us, which among other things explicitly called out Drake for grooming underage girls, something that has been talked about but not proven for years at this point. The song rocketed to number one and was extremely popular, effectively ending their dispute with Drake's humiliation.

There's a fair bit more to it, including an ongoing lawsuit from Drake, but that's the biggest part.

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u/Oz1227 Feb 10 '25

The same amount of Grammys drake has won in his entire career.

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u/Toilet_Rim_Tim Feb 10 '25

It's sad someone thought that untalented hack is worthy of a single Granmy .....

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u/xXMylord Feb 10 '25

Sounds like Drake is a successful artist.

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

Drake hasn’t cared about Grammy’s for years, hence “I use my Grammy as a doorstop”.

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u/willyb10 Feb 10 '25

Well these days I don’t really think him caring about the Grammies matters. I don’t think he’d win one if he tried lol

Edit: To be clear I actually liked a fair bit of his earlier stuff

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

He’s been boycotting it for years. The Grammies don’t mean anything. Plenty of super talented artists have zero.

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u/pat_the_bat_316 Feb 10 '25

He's boycotting the Grammys because the Grammys "boycotted" him by correctly not giving him many awards for his music.

He's the Grammy version of "you can't fire me, I quit!"

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

False. Don’t spread misinformation.

He boycotted the Grammys because they nominated Hotline Bling as a rap song even though it’s clearly Pop.

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u/NovWhiskey Feb 10 '25

So. Much. Cope.

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

Facts are coping now lol y’all can’t get enough of this false prophet. Sheep.

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u/Notwerk_Engineer Feb 10 '25

Found drake.

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

You bots downvoting everything that doesn’t glaze Kendrick. Get a life.

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u/Havefunnightguy Feb 10 '25

careful now, if you keep talking you'll choke on that dick

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

Speaking from experience I see

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u/Notwerk_Engineer Feb 10 '25

Beep bop boop.

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u/willyb10 Feb 10 '25

I mean I’m not going to pretend like the Grammies aren’t pretty flawed. And yea plenty of talented artists don’t have any. But my point is that the quality of his music these days is far from what it used to be. It almost seems to me like he just isn’t even trying nearly as hard anymore. That’s not even considering his embarrassing response to this diss. He was one of my favorite artists when he dropped if you’re reading this. Just seems like he’s phoning it in at this point

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

He’s been boycotting since before the quality dropped. I’m not going to act like everything he puts out is great, but to sit here and say a song using grade school disses is amazing would be in bad taste. I get it, the world hates Drake. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to say Not Like Us is a top 5 diss track ever. There are people calling it the best, which is wild. I’d argue Pusha T did more damage to Drake, but the world would have you believe different.

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u/willyb10 Feb 10 '25

Eh I think you’re in the minority there. I also don’t hate Drake (and a lot of people still loved him before this beef). But I’d wager the majority of hip hop fans would put this in the top 5 list (at least top 10). I mean just based on the effect it had alone would put it there. This man took his ball home and took legal action.

And that’s not even considering the critical reception. No offense but it definitely sounds like you have a pro-Drake bias here. I mean let’s be real Pusha’s diss was lethal but the response was nowhere near what we saw here (to be fair much less prominent artist). But it’s just objectively true that Kendrick’s diss caused far more damage.

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

I’m not biased towards either side. I own all of Kendrick’s discography. I’m just trying to be objective. It was pretty obvious from day 1 that the industry was in this together against Drake. It was literally worse than 20 vs 1. And I won’t sit here and act like he seems like an easy guy to like, but let’s at least leave it at 1 on 1.

The effect Not Like Us had is forced in my opinion, you couldn’t turn any direction without hearing it. I’d have an R&B playlist on for Spotify and it would come on. What are we doing here?

People ate it up. I can’t lie. The thing is, now for the majority of people who discovered Kendrick during this beef he’s just the guy who dissed Drake. His entire identity is connected to another man. He even wore an a minor chain to perform. In my opinion, that’s weak as hell.

And before anyone says I’m leaning to Drake’s side. Let’s call a spade a spade and say Heart Part 6 was weak AF, and he got blindsided because he had moles in his own camp.

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u/ZookeepergameOk5547 Feb 10 '25

Yeah that’s what everyone says as soon as they win one. Everyone wants one and dreams about it but as soon they get one it’s “oh it’s just a dumb Grammy”

Stupid, transparent and predictable behavior from a guy of the same description.

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

Because anyone with a brain can see that the Grammys are biased and real artists fall to the wayside year after year.

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u/ZookeepergameOk5547 Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

What does that have to do with him voluntarily submitting because he wanted one and then getting 5 but because he kept losing after that it’s a door stop now?

How are they biased because they stopped giving them to him for making shittier music year after year? 😂

Edit: little baby blocked me lmao

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u/MythicalChewToy Feb 10 '25

This is the problem. Y’all just say anything that fits your narrative. Check the timeline dummy. Drake boycotted the Grammy’s years before he said the doorstop line, and the doorstop line was said in FPS which came out before the beef started.

And this is literally my last response to you overall because you’re clearly slow, but they’re not biased because they stopped rewarding Drake. Don’t be so obsessed. They just don’t reward good music. There are plenty of great artists without Grammys and plenty of shitty artists with them. Make sense? Good.

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u/Cullyism Feb 10 '25

I've never heard of the song before this, honestly. Different audiences, I guess.

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u/Jerry_from_Japan Feb 10 '25

I mean, I won a Grammy a few years back for a song I put out on soundcloud. Nobody care about Grammies lol.

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u/RhiBbit Feb 10 '25

Drake?Is that you ?

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u/Jinjoz Feb 10 '25

Feels like a pretty solid summary. Thank you

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u/anthrax_ripple Feb 10 '25

Not only was that song THE hit of the summer (year), to rub salt in the wound, Kendrick won 5 Grammys for that song (literally a week ago) which is as many as Drake has won ever.

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u/rynhardtenau Feb 10 '25

You’re forgetting one part, the fact that Kendrick’s record label are negotiating drakes contract this year and just dedicated the Super Bowl show to two of their clients. Lovely job the elite are doing of fucking America.

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u/bunny3303 Feb 10 '25

two of the girls he’s been accused of grooming was Millie Bobbie brown, who said in an interview when she was <18 that she texted him all the time and about boys. Billie eilish was another one he was texting, and she was seen at a party singing along to not like us

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u/that_one_bruh Feb 10 '25

Biggest thing is Drake’s the one the started the beef in the first place lmao

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u/CryoAB Feb 10 '25

You forgot that kendrick pulled a child groomer out on stage, dj mustard.

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u/frendzoned_by_yo_mom Feb 10 '25

You forgot that Drake was egging Kendrick to talk about how he’s into young girls. He did and then Drake sued lol