Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been going back and forth now for over a decade. In this video I'm breaking down all of the issues that they have had, including their interviews and of course the music!
Everything you see in this video was carried out by myself. The topic, the research, the editing, the sound design etc. Do me a solid and please drop a comment! Thanks for showing all the love 💣
you say drake tries to Squash it but releases a diss immediately after kendrick drops all the stars? drake had that in the locker, i feel like drake doesnt really let shit go, like kanye...👀
@@sunnyboknow same! And learning about it now makes the music from the last 10 years sound completely new that I get to appreciate for the first time all over again from a new perspective. Thanks to his hard work on these vids. Best thing to happen to hip hop in the last decade.
Djead sx ck ad blws still killn. Jk just lookin for hate, drake gona kill Ken and barbie jf they dare respond....... I don't think he is going to... he's scrd, but might as well, we on the verge of ww3
This aged WELL! Bro was spot on and needs an update to continue this series tied in with Ross, Weeknd, Rocky, 50, etc. would be fun to also speculate whos potentially gonna join in the civil war.
Kendrick's bar on father's time was rather Kendrick's reflection on how he thought a beef should last forever, that's why he said he was confused when Drake and Kanye got back. Then he said "guess I'm not as mature as I think", indicating that Drake and Kanye squashed their beef was above his level of maturity. He then proceeded to say "got some healing to do", stating that his overly competitive nature may came from daddy issues that he's been having his whole life, which was the main theme of the song Father's Time.
But also if you look into the Kanye and Drake beef, they technically are still beefing so it adds to his thought on being confused because bygones will never be bygones.
Man I was skeptical on how this might turn out when it came across my feed but I got to say, you nailed it and didn't take a bunch of wild liberties to make things seem more than what they were. Pretty much each point is well on point.
Im not even worried about fact checking or going into debate about interpretations. This was it. Had me chained to the whole thing no breaks. Amazing storytelling, relevant content, well explained w/o doing too much. Also it felt neutral. Good job!
@@davidb516No, I agree. I watched this and wrote my comment after hearing ”gimme 50”, and even though that and metro/future latest is not covered, everything in this vid made sense.
You keep saying Drake is trying to be friendly. I don't see it that way at all and that’s probably why Kendrick doesn’t like him. He throws shots then plays nice. That’s strategy. Kendrick is saying he sees the chess moves and isn’t falling for them. He’s keeping the same energy
Kendrick started it drake tried to print it down let's be honest Kendrick wants it this way. The guy could have literally just stopped talking to Drake and keep it moving
@@jameslight4391 Drake literally could have just stopped doing sassy ass shit and pretending like he's showing love... but then throwing subtle ass bars about dudes in his songs. It goes both ways. Drake wants to pretend like he's ready for that smoke... but also tries to put on a facade for the public like he just wants to show love to everybody. That's some hoe ass shit. Why is he literally the ONLY person in the entire industry that took that "Control" verse so personal? He wasn't the only one mentioned on that verse... but somehow he's the only one to bitch about it. That's partly why Kendrick doesn't fuck w/ him. Kendrick made it a friendly competitive. Everybody Kendrick mentioned took it as a friendly competition. But Drake just had to be the one guy to go around bitching and moaning about it. Then pretend like he's not trying to get into that type of stuff... but still finds a way to take subliminal shots at people. Like Kendrick said... say somebody's name DIRECTLY. Don't throw rocks at people then stare off into empty space like you didn't just say some shit about somebody. Anybody real doesn't respect that shit...... at all.
@@thecraigtube322fr, push has taken one shot at drake since their beef 6 years ago yet drake hasn’t dropped a single project in the past 6 years where he hasn’t shot as push at least once. it won’t end no matter what kendrick does lmao
Drake says that the control verse will soon be forgotten. 10 years later everyone still remembers that verse without a doubt one of the iconic moments in hip hop.
iconic to who ? :D drake is not even a rap artist stop smoking crack people who actually listen to hip hop they dont care trash like drake exist hes just for kids idiots and media to talk about bro. no offence but dont put hip hop and drake to one sentence :D
Same here. I've heard about the subliminal disses from conversations with people throughout the past 6 or 7 years, but always thought they were reaching. I have always wondered who KD or Drake was talking about in their lines and this guy glued them pieces together perfectly! Job well done, got me intrigued on watching more of your dissecting videos.
Theres more to this and also this is a certain take were it paints drake as friendly buy i dont think kendrick would stand on the war unless he knows the real drake which is i dont think is a friendly nice guy.
Drake drops consistently and with a lot of success, but when Kendrick drops it’s always better than whatever Drake has out according to hip hop heads, journalists, and award shows. Kendrick has something that Drake wants and either can’t tap into or won’t because he’d rather be a mega pop star.
@@tysoncaves420He had great succes yeah, but artistry is no. 1, popularity just means people play your things more, and it don't gotta be good and it shows. Drake hasn't had a great project since 2015
Hadn't finished watching yet but wanted to tell you that you did great job framing the outline and giving us relevant details. One of the best videos I've seen as far as hip hop commentary. 😊
Its a difference between responding competitive and taking it personal. Alot of rappers responded to kendrick. None made it personal. I think drake was emotional unnecessarily
He thought bro was cool and then he went and did that dumb ass control shit. I feel like he burned a lot of bridges with that. “just give it time we’ll see who’s around a decade from now” was everything about Kendrick’s current state now. J Cole and Drake have surpassed Kendrick.
@beatbyknobodye1581 how have they surpassed him? You know he wrote all the stars ft Sza including the hook. When he dropped damn which is his most commercial album and outsold drake. If he wants he can slide on the mainstream lane but he's more worried about making art not chase clout. He has more accolade them both of them combined. Not everyone is fame hungry including j Cole.
Bra huh????? Surpassed and your calling the control first dumb?? I'm not going to take shot at you king but I think view is defiantly Bias af@@beatbyknobodye1581
Drake isn’t trying to be nice, it’s all a bunch of subliminals and authentic people see through it. He has secret obsessions with Kanye and Kendrick, people call Ye crazy whenever he mentions Drake but don’t realize Drake plays mind games all the time, he is a very strategic and extremely emotional individual.
@@J777__ he ain’t lying tho you can see the fake in drakes character. Ain’t no way if I hear you talking down on me all the time that ima kiss ass and congratulate you. We just gone leave it where it’s at
Everything shows with time. When. Drake was throwing subliminals at Kid Cudi when he was calling things out & I'm just like m.... Drake you were definitely in Kid Cudi pursuit of happiness video.
Great video but how could u not mention the Pusha-t diss tracks. I believed that it was relevant to the fact of Drakes shady character, ghost writing & the fact that Pusha-T gave Drake multiple L's. U mentioned Meek-mill
exactly...and everybody folded except for Drake....he said if it's real then let it be real....and they got competitive with each other, everybody else except j cole have faded away
@@Headahhpodcast Exactly he pushed drake and drake pushed him, while the rest of them tried to play nice. This is their profession, they both wanted to be number 1, and Drake was the only other 1 really willing to fight for it, friends come and go
CONTROL wasn't a diss. It was a reckoning. A call to arms to his peers. Let's step these bars up. Let's step our creativity up. Cole got it. Push got it. Others got it. Some just got sensitive.
@@priztucker No. Cole didn't have an issue. Mac Miller didn't have an issue. Pusha didn't have an issue. Rocky didn't have an issue. Krit didn't. They all under stood the CONTEXT.
@@Geezytunechidrake drops club music Kendrick drops a different type of music Kendrick is all about class drake is all about fame the drive is different the response is different the outcome is different….drake being more successful because he garners more clicks and plays in Jamba Juice and planet fitness than Kendrick does in some stoners car doesn’t mean he’s a better “Rapper” so
There’s multiple things to analyze between the Drake v Kendrick beef, but what’s always bothered me is how Drake moves the goal post once he realizes he can’t win. At first he wanted to be lyrical then he realized he could be the best at that then changed the metric to bodies of work. Then Kendrick dropped 2 all-time generation defining albums and he realized he couldn’t be the best at that so he moved the goalpost to Grammys. Then Kendrick tied Michael Jackson for the most nominations (& won a Pulitzer) then he changed the narrative to money. It’s a shallowness that has largely driven the trajectory of his career since “Views,” and you can actually see the steady decline of his work since he decided to be a profit-based brand instead of a true artist.
That's biased ASF because Drake has 51 nominations , and he has the highest and most billboard top 100 songs. Y'all meat riders just love making shit up. Drake been relevant hell of a lot longer than kdot. Plus kdot last album wasnt as good as his other shit. Granted drake on the decline but that's after what? 15 years?
Dam just say you don’t like Drake 💀 he’s better then Kendrick although it’s close , both are legends Drake and Cole are the best rappers alive right now
Kendrick wasn’t saying that Drake was better than him with that line lmao. He’s literally asking the girl “damn you listening to this dude, you think he better than me?!”
Not that it means much, but you sir have earned a new sub. The amount of research and callbacks in your videos is insane! And just one additional word on the Drake having ghostwriters topic. He told us all that he did since day one! Remember on his So Far Gone album on the song The Calm I believe, he says “and I could use a ghostwriter to even out my flows”.
yea it helped me understand that drake is a crybaby ahhhh biii. but a lot of what this guy was claiming were disses are HUGE stretches lmfao. him referencing kendricks song "GOD" as a shade towards drake is damn near schizo posting 🤣
I dont listen to much hip hop these days. Have never really been interested in any of the beef nor followed any artists outside of music. Just not a big celebrity guy. Appreciate their art but that's kind of where it ends for me. Anyways, this is so well presented that it has me interested. Really well done video. The amount or research, script writing, sourcing these clips, creating graphics and editing it all together is a ton of work. Good stuff.
Thanks for the video man, very analytic and the research is just top tier👌You're going far if you keep it up💯🎯But it's crazy how drake dissed K.Dot on Futures track to future dissing drake
Drake flip flopping like that bc he’s phony and Kendrick sniffed it out and stood on bidness! “F*** you and all your expectations I don't even want your congratulations”
I have watched all videos i can in your video tab keep making this content its good af format beautiful and the way you put the evidence in there whooooo you are cooking sir
He had issues with Chris Brown when he couldn't get Rihanna and went on to have issues with Meek Mill when Nicki said he takes him like a brother, Drake has an immature way of handling things and a history of taking things way too personal, in this one interview XXX said Drake left him hanging after contacting him about a feature before ghosting the kid and later stole his flow probably as a "power move", Drake also tried to push around Pusha-T, luckily Pusha found the perfect diss to put him in his place. You can't have a list this long of petty fights and still believe that you are the right one in all of this.
Drake tends to believe that when he puts people on that, they can't get bigger or become as big as him. He had this issue with two people now, Kendrick and The Weeknd.
What? Kendrick literally dissed everyone and Drake didn't take it the same as everyone else, what does his rise to fame have to do with anything? Did you watch the video?
If you’ve been listening to these two for all these years, to hear someone put the story together like this is legit mind blowing. Thank you so much for this video, the time, effort and quality is amazing. On a side note, ima put together a playlist of all these tracks on sequential order to listen to this epic back and forth lol.
Thank you!! When I made the video, I was hesitant on that part. I was nervous to put it in but I decided it’s a good thing to share it. I never expected that millions of people would see the video but I’m glad it worked out that way
Congrats on the DOUBLE success of this video! Very well chronicled, especially with how it ties into what we're currently seeing between the two of them.
Drake saying he cared about his body of work and not just moments, fast forward to now and its the complete opposite. Kendrick proved with Damn that he could go commercial if he wanted to without sacrificing on quality then went back to his artistry with Mr morale and I love that for him
@@morellif36You’re taking it the wrong way to fit a stupid narrative, he’s saying that DAMN is PROOF that Kendrick can easily go commercial without selling out his artistry. Not that “oh that’s the reason he did it” 💀
This was an amazingly written, edited, and researched video. I had no idea the beef lasted this long as I don't really listen to Drake and mostly just been listening to Kendrick. Excellent work on what would've been something that went over my head and also made me realize the growth Kendrick had on MMTBS. Not just artistically or lyrically but just as a person. Yet, on the flip side it also makes me realize how in these past 5 years Drake seems to have given up on being the best, deteriorating his mental, while having Kendrick rent free in his head. All the while Kendrick has been taking therapy, working on his mental health, and still striving to stay where his goal was from when he came in the game in the first place.
I dont know of you watch the whole video or you just a die hard kendrick fan but kendrick himself has Drake living rent free in his head. The start of the whole thing is definetly Drakes foult thus he took it emotionally and not only competitive
The early stages of this was all Drake. Drake taking offense when it wasn't intentional, Drake downplaying Kendrick's artistry, and drake running his mouth in interviews. You can say that Kendrick, at the end of the day, was going the subliminal route too, but his intention wasn't the same. We all know how a head to head battle would go. Drake might do numbers, but we all know Kendrick would body him. Kendrick's subliminals were more of a "hey, c'mon, you know you don't want to do this."
Really? How do you explain the fact that even though drake put him on during his comeup, Kendrick thought it was cool to laugh about DMX wanting to beat Drake up in public. Like that is enough to get anyone salty and it probably escalated from there. Just like how Freddie Gibbs laughed at benny when he got shot during a shootout and now they are enemies. It makes total sense but yall on Kendricks side because yall fake woke
Great video and loved the editing. I been keeping up with this beef since Control dropped and needed a refresher now that things are actually kicking off. Cole being the only rap peer to congratulate kendrick on an accolade at the time, getting in a scuffle with diddy for kendrick and telling Dre to sign him. Hes always looked out for kdot and i hope they patch things up But im all here for friendly competitive rap. Obviously drake and dot got something personal
I think you misunderstood a lot of drake's moves. None of his "squash" attempts that you name are genuine. They are sneaky subliminal moves. You're giving drake a lot of credit because you like him. But trust me, that man's reaches were all attempts to snake kendrick.
Facts. He trying to be historian but he’s letting his bias come thru when it comes to drakes motives and how he moves in hip hop. At the end of the day, Kendrick said it best “they’re two different artists”. And that’s true, whether or not Kendrick said it or someone else did.
On God 😂😂😂.... There are songs I've listened to that I didn't know were shots at Kendrick or Drake. Also, had to know what was the true foundation of the calamity.
Thank you algorithm. I never watched this before. Came on RU-vid because of the recent “Like that” verse and I’m glad to be recommended to this video. Amazingly well put together.
This video was great! Very informative showed me things I never picked up on before but now makes alot of since... I am kinda slow picking up on the subliminal stuff. Need a part 2 now for the to-date diss tracks recently released!?!?!
drake is being strategically nice. the consistent back & forth between respect & disrespect is not only a slap in the face to kendrick because kendrick knows for a fact that he doesn’t like him & that he is constantly talking about him as well as drake is almost being sarcastic. “ yeah i just dissed this guy but i would LoOoOoVeEeE to make i track w/ him !”
Literally only missed ONE: Kendrick’s response to Drake dropping an album on his birthday was with the song ‘The Hillbillies’ featuring Baby Keem. The song has a similar flow and melody of ‘Sticky’, the hit song from Drake’s Honestly Nevermind. In the song Kendrick says the line “Excuse me, but is that your girl? Didn't mean to possess your girl”. In the unreleased song with Lil Uzi, Drake says “talking like they took my bitch, you know that ain’t my only bitch”. It possibly could be the same girl that Baby Keem alleged that Drake DM’d on ‘Family Ties’, “number 2 DM’n my bitch, that’s cool I don’t ask why”. Great video tho dude, liked and subscribed 👍🏾 🔥
It's weird because Drake and Kendrick are in different planes of hip hop. Drake is the man to make party hits and big playlists, whereas Kendrick is into making concept albums (albums centered around a central theme/story). Both are respected but each needs to understand their lane. I am a Classic Rock fan and this would be like The Ramones beefing with Pink Floyd. They are in different subgenres with different sounds aimed at different people, peaking at different times. I know the hip hop world is competitive, but there is no need to beef with someone in a different place in the game. In terms of the Control verse, he proclaimed his love and his competition. I am a huge fan of the late Mac Miller especially in his later 2 albums, but I know that the verse was nothing but love. It was a call for everyone to come out strong
@@thiccboiofficial or Jay-Z and Nas. Nas was more on the conscious side historically but then again, Jay was also a huge fan of Biggie's, so the beef makes more sense in the comparison. I just feel like Drake isn't anywhere near the level of any of them. If it comes to serious beef, Kendrick would eat him alive
It’s cause drake took it the control personally hahaha the homies ego is so big that he can’t see what you’re saying. That control vs didn’t age well to the kind of artist Kendrick chose to become.
I like how you explain the situation about dissing and what this is all about. Guys normally understand these battles and competitions, but how you break this down is actually making a better understanding for women who don't understand the saga of hip hop and rap. The breakdown of Hip Hop and Rap and it's Origin. Women are interested and want to be informed and certainly you break it down 👇 in simple comprehension hopefully for all understanding. Thank you I've subscribed to your channel.
all kendrick and drake songs mentioned in the vid (this took so long lmao) 1:06; Determined - K-Dot 1:52; HiiPoWeR - K-Dot 2:09; A.D.H.D - K-Dot 2:18, 2:30, 2:40; Buried Alive Interlude - Drake (ft. k-dot) 4:11; 4PM In Calabasas - Drake 4:27; Black Boy Fly - K-Dot 4:46; Poetic Justice - K-Dot (ft. drake) 6:30; F**kin' Problems - A$AP Rocky (ft. k-dot, drake, 2 chainz) 9:09, 9:36, 9:47; Control - Big Sean (ft. k-dot, jay electronica) 11:40; Good Riddance - Drake 12:16, 13:15, 13:24, 13:44; The Language - Drake 13:38; Rigamortus - K-Dot 14:53; The Cypher - K-Dot 15:49, 16:50, 17:17; Sh!t Remix - Future (ft. drake, juicy j) 20:13; Pay for It - Jay Rock (ft. k-dot) 22:46; Used To - Drake 23:19; Alright - K-Dot 24:12, 24:36, 35:37; 100 - The Games (ft. drake) 25:14; 10 Bands - Drake 25:36; 100 Bands - Mustard (ft. meek mill, quavo, yg) 26:04; King Kunta - K-Dot 26:33; Back to Back - Drake 27:06; Energy - Drake 27:22; Darkside/Gone - Dr. Dre (ft. k-dot, marsha, king mez) 31:35; For Free - DJ Khaled (ft. drake) 31:46; For Sale? (Interlude) - K-Dot 31:57, 32:28, 33:05, 33:28; The Heart Part 4 - K-Dot 32:46; Gyalchester - Drake 33:15; Summer Sixteen - Drake 33:53, 34:17; ELEMENT. - K-Dot 34:59; GOD. - K-Dot 35:10; Do Not Disturb - Drake 35:21; Mask Off Remix - Future (ft. k-dot) 35:52; The Blacker The Berry - K-Dot 36:08; Bad Blood - Taylor Swift (ft. k-dot) 37:41, 37:48; All The Stars - SZA (ft. k-dot) 38:07; Diplomatic Immunity - Drake 38:29; i - K-Dot 39:25; Sandra's Rose - Drake 39:42; Mortal Man - K-Dot 41:15; Family Ties - Baby Keem & K-Dot 41:55; No Friends In The Industry - Drake 42:50; Wants and Needs - Drake & Lil Baby 42:58; Count Me Out - K-Dot 43:26; Father Time - K-Dot 43:55; Texts Go Green - Drake 44:25; Forgot That I Was Famous - Lil Uzi & Drake 44:39; N95 - K-Dot 45:08; Backseat Freestyle - K-Dot
This was an incredible breakdown. Most of this I was already aware of, but you pointed out a few things that slipped by me. This was also a great edit/watch as well. Great job. 🔥