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How can she fake a pregnancy that she didn't announce… ?

My ONE critique is that she should have put in a fade-out instead of a cold ending… Just to really drive home the 1980s style A smash nevertheless

He wants to sue Kendrick sooo bad but he know that he can't do that without throwing away any remaining bits of his "cred", so he has to make a matryoshka doll of a lawsuit by throwing in botting accusations alongside the claims of defamation Somehow at the same time, I can believe and I can't believe that he's going through with this. Diss tracks have always been a mixture of battle rapping and humiliation. You are expected to take (to some extent) "creative liberties" when dissing someone. That's why "Ether" is still considered to be one of the best disses ever even though a solid amount of the bars are either false or unprovable. The point was that it humiliated and shocked Jay and his crew and made any possible response look like a bad idea (hence Jay releasing "Supa Ugly" and then apologizing on Hot 97 within literally 24 hours). With this in mind, to me, this does not just feel like a lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick's diss. This feels like a lawsuit against the entire genre. The diss track is an essential organ to hip-hop and rapping. The only thing Drake could do that's lamer than this would be, as I said, to sue Kendrick himself. I'm kind of getting second-hand embarrassment because all Drake needed to do was go lowkey for the rest of 2024 and pop out with a melodic R&B-rap album this summer or fall and people would have probably been over it. It really did not need to go here

What is wrong with people sjhfhjwjhskj

@Vermillion Updated OP and title for you, let me know if it's fine

Yeah like I can't help but think that most of the conspiracy theories about Mangione being the wrong guy are coming from a place of people hoping that he's the wrong guy because they don't want the killer caught. Of course CCTV footage makes anybody look distorted compared to high-quality pictures taken on a DSLR or a smartphone.

I thought that that manifesto was proven false because it didn't feature the quotes that the Altoona police released?

And honestly I'm not even sure if Drake's fans even want to listen to the singles from his recent albums like that. The new songs have been burning out like crazy People weren't gonna be talking about "Rich Baby Daddy" five years from release like they did for "One Dance", even before the beef. I am also very interested to see his first weeks from now on. I was interested to see how they'd look like with the public deeming him cringe and For All the Dogs being his lowest first week yet (if you ignore Honestly Nevermind). His albums actively slid down the Billboard 200 in the two months after "Not Like Us" was out. But now that he's actively warring with his label… Ppl only care when it becomes actually unbearable. Everyone already knew that nothing Drake has released after 2015 has matched the quality of If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Nothing Was the Same, and Take Care. Even For All the Dogs, in all its stinkerific glory, still had "Rich Baby Daddy" to please audiences. As long as Drake was just mediocre and not pumping out straight-up trash (it's a difference between mediocre music and sh*t music, lol), he was fine. As JBJT2786 said, what Kendrick did was expedite this decline. JT skated by only because he releases every 4–6 years, so the decline was not as noticeable But it's infuriating nonetheless bc Drake did so much damage to hip-hop culture in the process. Yea he was making bangers but the behind-the-scenes behavior and the fan culture created a rot within hip-hop. Hip-hop was partially a numbers game (at least since the majors started signing rappers in the late 80s and early 90s), but rappers weren't deemed untouchable just because "he has a #1 you don't". MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em had a diamond certification by 1991 and he was still heavily criticized for being a pop rapper (which only got worse the moment he danced in a Speedo). Numbers mattered only when two rappers were actively beefing, not in everyday discussions. Drake changed this dynamic by making sure they mattered the moment he blew up and it became apparent that he was beginning to outsell his peers. Then his fans followed. And then he became untouchable via those numbers, even when he began to phone in his music. That in turn maintained the hysteria surrounding him for the rest of the 2010s. We're only now exiting it . Took long enough

This is true! I keep seeing tweets finally discussing this including this one from Audiomack co-founder Brian Zisook: While I'm happy that the discussion is finally happening, I can't help but be annoyed that it took Kendrick (or anybody) humiliating Drake at the highest degree to start it. Every other time that people have tried to hold this discussion, it's been immediately shut down with "Oh but he got X million streams and Y number of #1s so you're just jealous" from both Drake stans and casual fans alike. It's weird, because while everyone (including Drake himself) noticed it, we were still "forbidden" from discussing it seriously because "you mad that he outsold ya faves xD". Meanwhile it's been acceptable to discuss artists' commercial decline in basically every other case in hip-hop. Very happy to talk about it, annoyed at the fact that the most extreme circumstances were necessary to finally talk about it lol

So this is how it ends? This story got me feeling second-hand embarrassment Maybe I'm too empathetic, but I can't stop remembering that there were several outs given to Drake throughout this saga to prevent him from embarrassing himself. We could go all the way back to 2013 to the "Control" verse that Drake took personally, because one could say that that verse per se was an out because it was just sparring. I don't think I have much to say about the filings that people in this thread haven't already said. Kind of crazy that Drake is upset that Spotify's algorithm promoted a hit single chosen by the people when he was on gospel and techno playlists the week Scorpion came out. But in terms of his brand… People talk about this as "the beginning of the end", but I would say that that started after 2020 with Drake dropping single after single and almost nothing sticking. People want his melodic stuff back—"Wait for U" is his biggest song since Scorpion and that's an R&B-rap hybrid song. It's still getting airplay on R&B, hip-hop, and rhythmic stations and is still charting on Spotify and Apple Music in the US. Instead he wants to go all in on this macho sh*t that only his suburban male fans want. I'm sure he's noticed that his new music lacks the same cultural capital that everything pre-2019 did. He didn't scramble over it because he was still posting big first-week numbers. But because this year has been the biggest threat to his legacy (and it's been effective), he's scrambling and operating out of pure spite. Drake knows that "Not Like Us" was an organic smash—we heard it at clubs, pubs, house parties, proms, quinceañeras, weddings, restaurants, and from people's cars driving past our homes The song has four Grammy noms, and the music video is also nominated Nothing is gonna happen, but if something did happen, it would not be able to take back the effect that that song has had on Drake and hip-hop as a whole.

I'm sitting here rereading these tweets thinking that I became illiterate or something

I keep seeing ppl online say Bernie's theory of politics was proven a failure on Tuesday night and I'm literally so confused because WHAT could they be possibly talking about

Maybe I'm misreading but like I feel like the right does the same exact thing? Right-wingers/Republicans who "stepped out of line" with regards to Trump either got laughed at or were straight-up excommunicated from the entire movement

I don't think I have anything to respond with, I agree with you. Thank you for even responding with this much let alone responding at all <3

I've been mostly offline this week bc I know I am too prone to doomscrolling and whew wasn't that a good idea? What does this thread think is behind Kamala's loss? What do we make of the discourse about young men? I know I'm being lazy but also I do not feel like scrolling through like 900 pages My hunch is that a lot of the discourse abt young men is somewhat overblown (i.e. there's a shift but idk how pronounced it actually is? Exit polls can be really messy) but I guess we'll see when Catalist does their analysis