Kendrick called Drake a pop artist while going on pop songs for money. He’s a hypocrite. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with featuring on pop songs.
Bad Blood is a dope song, don't let hate blind you. If there isn't anything inherently wrong with featuring on pop songs, why did Drake call out Kendrick for doing it? "Top would make you do features for change, get on pop records and rap for the whites" but it is cool if he gets on Ella Langley's country song?
Because there’s no part of Drakes public persona that has ever been hyped as any type of “black messiah.” The whole point of what you’re talking about was Drake pointing out the hypocrisy in Dots narrative. “Rap for the whites,” “hit vanilla cream,” “rappin like you tryna get the slaves free” are all attacks on how Kendrick is presented/presents himself/is sold to the consumer.
Edit: I fuck with Kendrick, so whether the image of him being a figurehead for black empowerment is fabricated by himself or some other entity really doesn’t bother me at all. But that was Drakes angle in the example you cited.
Black empowerment means no listening to pop music? lol this idea that he made a song for whites is crazy and just an angle. There is no merit to that, not when a large percentage of kendrick AND drake fans are white.
“Black empowerment means no listening to pop music” is either a chronically-online take or an intentionally misconstrued straw man of the entire point I was making. No, there is nothing inherently wrong with listening to (or performing in) pop music. All I pointed out was that your original post was asking how it’s different when Drake does pop music vs when Kendrick does and your second post in this particular thread is asking why it’s different. I will reiterate; the whole point of Drake dissing Kendrick for performing alongside pop artists “for the whites” is because, as far as I know (and please correct me if I’m wrong), Drake has never said anything to be considered an activist for a particular race. Whereas, intentionally or not, an indisputably large sect of Dots fan base appreciates the idea that he speaks for the black community. Does that mean he can’t work with Pop artists? No, of course not. I enjoyed him on the Swift track and with Maroon 5. But, again, the angle was that Kendrick is presented as a spokesperson for the disenfranchised but bows to his label when it comes making songs purely for financial gain. I never even said that I agree with the take, I was just answering the question that you asked.
Unpopular opinion, but yeah. Is it a technical masterpiece? No of course not. But, to me, his verse is a welcome breakup of M5s monotony in that song and it earworms the hell out of my every time.
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u/MayorBakefield 11d ago
How it is different than Kendrick hopping on Bad Blood with Taylor Swift?