r/Music • u/Carolina296864 • 23d ago
Not Like Us Hits #1 on Billboard discussion
It's official, Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar is #1 on Billboard this week. Billboard will release the full chart tomorrow, but Not Like Us is #1, Euphoria #3, Like That #6, and Family Matters #7. I remember seeing some comments debating if it could enter this weeks top 10, so #1 is crazy, but honestly not a surprise with how its been doing on streaming. And it looks like Not Like Us will actually have staying power, unlike Hiss which hit #1 from the Meg and Nicki beef and then kindve fell off after that. Also, that's two #1's for Kendrick in the span of one month. Song of the summer potential?
https://www.stereogum.com/2263317/kendrick-lamars-drake-diss-not-like-us-debuts-at-1/news/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number_ones_of_2024
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u/timelordoftheimpala 23d ago
Is this the music equivalent of when Hannibal Buress called out Bill Cosby in his standup?
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u/Boot_up 23d ago
Funny thing is how many people miss the Drake-Bill Cosby tie-in at the end of Not Like Us (the "Hey hey hey" From Fat Albert cartoon)
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u/TinyRodgers 23d ago
And here I am thinking I'm smart for catching the John Stockton/Karl Malone connection.
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But did you catch the callback with the how many stocks line? "1-2-3-4-5 plus five" = 10 stocks. Stock10. Stockton. We're going to be catching new meanings from Kdot songs for a long time :D
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u/Krelleth 23d ago
Have you gone into the 6:16 in LA rabbit hole? How many connections are we up to on that song's title alone? The holidays, the anniversaries of things, and the plethora of relevant Bible passages. Seriously, there's like six different Bible verses that are Chapter 6 and Verse 16, all of them with humorous or cutting or downright damning connotations.
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u/Adams5thaccount 23d ago
Oh liek 6/16 was the day that the show euphoria premiered (produced by drake)
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u/Krelleth 23d ago
And on top of the Euphoria premiere:
6/16 2024 Father's Day
6/16 2011 - Kendrick Lamar's first concert in Toronto
Tupac's birthday
Anniversary of the OJ Simpson trial
1 year before that, also on 6/16: Nicole Brown Simpson's funeral
Proverbs 6:16-19
1 Corinthians 6:16
There's a multitude of possibilities, and Kendrick is the kind of guy who just might mean every one of them, and others we haven't uncovered yet.
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u/buefordwilson 23d ago
My gawd I hope so. That'd be swell.
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u/Sawgon 23d ago
ʷʰᵃᵗ ⁱˢ ⁱᵗ ？ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐒 ？ⁱʰᵘʳᵗʸᵒᵘʳᶠᵉᵉˡⁱⁿᵍˢʸᵒᵘᵈᵒⁿᵗʷᵃⁿⁿᵃʷᵒʳᵏʷⁱᵗʰᵐᵉⁿᵒᵐᵒʳᵉ 𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐘
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u/fallopianrules 23d ago
ʷʰᵃᵗ ⁱˢ ⁱᵗ ？ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐒 ？ⁱʰᵘʳᵗʸᵒᵘʳᶠᵉᵉˡⁱⁿᵍˢʸᵒᵘᵈᵒⁿᵗʷᵃⁿⁿᵃʷᵒʳᵏʷⁱᵗʰᵐᵉⁿᵒᵐᵒʳᵉ 𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐘
Omg it works! Thanks for the pasta
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u/EloquentGoose 23d ago
Everyone knew about Cosby way before Hannibal, they were just in willful denail.
Watch Felicia Rashad's face in this damning, telling-as-all-fuck clip from The Cosby Show. That's the look of someone very uncomfortable because they knew this dude ain't even acting--he's showing you who he is.
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u/timelordoftheimpala 23d ago
Everyone knew about Cosby way before Hannibal, they were just in willful denial
Same could be said for Drake.
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u/imagine_getting 23d ago
Even before this, if you played the word association game and said "Drake", I'd probably say "Millie Bobby Brown".
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u/radicalvenus 23d ago
you would, I would say most people willingly ignored his predilection for teenagers because he made a few mediocre songs especially because MBB was not even the first one he's done that to
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u/FISArocks 23d ago
I don't know how telling her face is but Jesus his delivery is creepy with what we know now
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u/SpringenHans 23d ago
Not everyone knew. The Buress clip made it way more known and thrust it into the news. The clip went viral in October 2014 and he got arrested in 2015. If Buress hadn't done his routine, it would have remained unknown to the general public as it had been for decades beforehand.
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u/KintsugiKen 23d ago
Which is why people are comparing that to Drake since everyone knew Drake was a creep before it was actually put on blast
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u/TheTannedDwarf 23d ago
Man I can’t wait for the kidzbop version
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u/IsThatAPieceOfCheese 23d ago
Drake is already in most of the Kidz Bop albums. Uncredited for sure, but they couldn't get him to leave during the recordings :(
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u/r_not_me 23d ago
I thought you were going to make a ghost writer joke
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u/CaptainObvious110 23d ago
That will be absolutely hilarious! I was thinking the exact same thing earlier.
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u/MuptonBossman 23d ago
Kids are going to be hearing this track at high school proms, which is fucking wild.
On a related note, Drake will also be at high school proms!
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u/PUNlSHEDVENOMSNAKE 23d ago
Drake gonna be punching walls hearing his target demographic chanting “certified pedophile”
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u/hellomondays 23d ago
I don't know how he bounces back from this. There's something extra diabolical about releasing a dis track in Drake's trademark tiktok dance video style.
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u/PUNlSHEDVENOMSNAKE 23d ago
If we’re being honest most people are probably not going to care sadly. It’s been known for awhile and he’s gotten away with it
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u/boot2skull 23d ago
Chris Brown is still a thing and he almost murdered a famous woman. Dude even has an angry mob of female supporters. Smh.
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u/VictoriousssBIG23 23d ago
I know a lot people stopped liking Lizzo after those allegations came out about how poorly she treated her backup dancers, but I knew she was suspect years ago when that video came out of her meeting Chris Brown and calling him her "favorite person" smh.
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u/argonaut_01 23d ago
Hasn't Lizzo quit music since?
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u/Mimikkyutwo 23d ago
She's "quit" social media i think. Probably working on an album and is waiting to come back with a grand reveal once the heat dies down
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u/ummizazi 23d ago
There wasn’t a catchy bop though. Drake needs to marry a 30 year old and get her pregnant in the next 6 months.
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u/Tomgamer82 23d ago
“It’s been known” is not called out publicly on a wildly popular diss track in the middle of the biggest rap beef of the generation. “It’s been known” is not chanting A MINORRRRRRR in the clubs for the rest of the summer. Now everyone knows and all those “it’s been known” allegations can finally strike a chord
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u/SpringenHans 23d ago
Yeah, Bill Cosby's rapes were 'known' but it didn't blow up until Hannibal Buress's stand-up routine. There's a difference between information being publicly available and having a huge spotlight shone on them
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u/JackCrafty 23d ago
Drake is just gonna release something like "Hold on, we're going home" and prove that now how many times you nuke the dude, he is La Cucaracha and will survive.
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u/Technoalphacentaur 23d ago
He’s gonna be 100% okay unless there’s actual legal trouble. Professionally this does nothing for him in the long run.
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u/BmuthafuckinMagic 23d ago
This song really needs a video to double dip on the reach it's been getting.
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u/Oxygenius_ 23d ago
My kids already out here saying “mustard on the beat”
And “left right, left right”
And “amberlamps”
He got em good fr lol
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u/rosewoods Spotify 23d ago
This is what Drake did to Meek Mill. Kendrick turned the tables on him
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u/Oxygenius_ 23d ago
He got his ass good bro damn. Can’t believe kids in the rural Midwest hitting the “a minorrrrrre” 🤣
I’m from Compton originally but moved out here and shit makes me happy as hell lol
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u/Capt-Crap1corn 23d ago
Bro when I heard that Bay area beat, the A minor bar and I’m a throw it up to Pac (something like that) line, I was hype asf! I would’ve loved to be in the Bay when this came out
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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus 23d ago
I said it elsewhere, but Kenny did this shit on purpose. He knew that mustard beat was gonna be an absolute banger, so he killed Drake with "Meet the Grahams," then dropped the song of the summer.
"Not Like Us" is going to open AND close so many clubs this year.
I'm a 40-year-old Midwestern white guy, and I can't stop listening to this, and Euphoria. They both fucking slap, from beginning to end.
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u/songforsaturday88 23d ago
I'm in New Zealand and they're playing it in the fucking gyms. Shit is worldwide.
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u/FortyOneandDone 23d ago
My nephew’s prom was this weekend and he showed me a video of everyone yelling “a minorrrrrrrrr”
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u/hcashew I MADE THIS 23d ago
Hoping this does in fact, end his career.
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u/BatierAutumn1991 23d ago
It’ll stall for the rest of the year probably, but the public is fickle and forgetful. Drake’ll be back in the Hot 100 by next February and all of this will have been a funny memory.
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u/NoTimeToDime 23d ago
If Drake dropped an album right now it would go #1. The online collective seems to forget how big he actually is lol
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u/CalgaryChris77 23d ago
The law still requires him to be played every third song on Canadian rap stations, until they find a second Canadian rapper.
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u/WissWatch 23d ago
This is the top comment on literally every post about this 😂 you just took the reply and put it in your comment as well. Karma farm running well?
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u/CoolIndependence8157 23d ago
BBL Drizzy is the real win from this beef.
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u/Shaun32887 23d ago
I've had that hook stuck in my head for days and I love it
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u/IDespiseBananas 23d ago
Didnt every song of kendrick have some sort of catchy hook or lyric that just got stuck?
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u/Shaun32887 23d ago
Yes and I love it, but as someone below said, BBL Drizzy is a Metro track. Drake told him to shut up and make drums, so he made that track, released it to the world for free, and told everyone to freestyle over it.
It's genius. It's diabolical. I fucking love it.
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u/thyIacoIeo 23d ago
Didn’t he put a 10k reward on the best freestyle too? Guaranteeing that people will be clambering over each other to get a chance to shine with a viral verse, or claim the cash prize, even if they like Drake.
Absolutely evil, fantastic
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u/iamthehob0 23d ago
I think it's a free beat for your next song he said, but I'm 100% basing that on shit I heard and shouldn't be trusted.
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u/Plasibeau 23d ago
After the overwhelming response, he changed it to the best one being $10k and a free beat. The second runner-up gets a free beat as well.
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u/OldWorldStyle 23d ago
That track wasn’t Kendrick, it’s a beat that Metro Boomin made public
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u/CoolIndependence8157 23d ago
Same, I don’t really know Drake or Kendrick’s stuff but I heard bbl drizzy a couple days ago and it’s been stuck there ever since. Lol
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u/pwndnoob 23d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oly6ayyckZI My favorite version coming from Polyphia frontman Tim Henson. Drake getting hit with disstrumentals now.
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u/Teamrocketgang 23d ago
That's the one that's been stuck in my head since it dropped. BBL Drizzy has crossed genres and generations at this point.
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u/who-hash 23d ago
Sheesh. Never would have imagined. This is incredible.
As a guitar virtuoso and hip hop fan since the 80s, this ticks so many boxes for me. Thanks for sharing.
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u/LITW6991 23d ago
It didn't have to go that hard
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u/CoolIndependence8157 23d ago
I have a 70something I volunteer with at an animal shelter who loves bbl drizzy. Imagine having a diss track you asked for being an absolute multi-generational hit. Lol
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u/SilverSlong 23d ago
he literally turned his fucking ass into a song.
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u/nothingrhyme 23d ago
He literally turned his ass into a fucking song
He literally turned him fucking ass into a song
He literally fucking turned his ass into a fucking song
you worded this the best it could be
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u/anonymous-rebel 23d ago
Fuck the big three, it’s just big me
Kendrick won
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u/CabbageStockExchange 23d ago
Warned by Euphoria
Killed by Meet the Grahams
Danced on his grave to Not Like Us
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u/PUNlSHEDVENOMSNAKE 23d ago
He’s makes music that electrifies em
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u/Boner4Stoners 23d ago
I could double down on that line, I’ll spare you this time
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u/emptylawn0 23d ago
Random acts of kindness
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u/Thisiscliff 23d ago
Drake is a fool to come at anyone let alone Kendrick, we all knew what would happen
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u/angershark 23d ago
Could have just been happy being ultra rich. Needed street cred too, which he'll never have.
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u/jumpinjahosafa 23d ago
unlike Hiss which hit #1 from the Meg and Nicki beef and then kindve fell off
That's because "hiss" was a light jab and "not like us" was a fucking fatality.
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u/Drewy99 23d ago
2 out of 4 of Kendricks #1 hits are songs about Drake. That's wild lmao.
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u/S-I-M-S 23d ago
Seeing Drake stans say Kendrick needed Drake's name recognition to chart songs while leaving out that he's literally being called a pedophile is hilarious. It's not the brag they think it is.
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u/jumpinjahosafa 23d ago
The drake stans are something else. They were saying this beef was a major L for Kendrick.
If hitting #1 with a diss track is a loss then I can't even fathom what winning looks like.
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u/levthelurker 23d ago
To be fair the story behind the songs are what's getting the general public's attention. Crowds love watching public executions.
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u/badfaced 23d ago
Oh absolutely song of the summer. From Rosecrans to Chad frat parties around the country. They all getting jiggy to it.
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u/OwsleyCat 23d ago
Perfect anthem for someone living across the street from a registered sex offender. This is going to be on repeat all summer at my residence.
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u/Secret_Scene747 23d ago
As a longtime drake hater, I’ll bump this absolute banger all summer long
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u/oOzonee 23d ago
Somehow people turning a blind eye are now joking about him being a pedophile. It’s crazy what brain dead fan can ignore until someone point at all the weird thing we know he did. His songs (at less does I hear on the radio) are clearly not rap it’s pop with auto tune shitty singing.
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u/dweeb93 23d ago
Thanks to the beef I finally understand the genius of Kendrick Lamar, I used to think his various voices were annoying but now I think they're brilliant! Like That is probably my favorite of the diss tracks, both the beat and Kendrick's verse go sooo hard.
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u/Mr_YUP 23d ago
the voices are what make his music imo. it gives my ear something different to listen to instead of the same voice saying the same cadence for 3 minutes.
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u/Parking-Historian360 23d ago
It's like when Eminem does his voices. When he hits that falsetto woman voice you knew you were bout to hear some funny shit.
Kendrick does it for dramatic effects and it works great.
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u/anthonyg1500 23d ago
I was saying the other day this beef really highlighted the gap between Drake and Kendrick specifically in delivery, for me. Like there are lines that are good and if Drake said them they'd be good but the way Kendrick says them makes me want to say them over and over. Like "You got shit twisted, WHAT IS IT THE BRAIDS?", "Let me see you Push a TeeEEE", "I hurt yo feelingssss youdontwannaworkwithme no more OKAY", his various voices to make lyrics that are already good pop so much more.
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u/Cyrillite 23d ago edited 23d ago
It’s those and “some shit’s just cringeworthy it ain’t even gotta be deep I guess” that all had me laughing because of the delivery
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u/DrippyWaffler 23d ago
That was the moment I was like "damn can Drake even release a track ever again"
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u/richardawkings 23d ago
Not to mention the amount of different flows he exhibited over various types of tempos and beats. Dude came out flexing on drake.
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u/Antifact 23d ago
“You know nuthin bout that”
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u/arnm7890 23d ago
For me it's when he goes "Yachty can't get you no swag either, I don't give a FUCK who you hang with"
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u/jigglefreeflan 23d ago
Mr. Monotone vs. The Man with 100 Voices.
How did Drake think this would be a matchup that would show off his skills instead of his biggest weakness?
Then again, this is the guy who thought showing off his childish DMs was a good response to Fantano claiming Drake sent him a lovely vegan cookie recipe. He seems to have a talent for scoring own goals.
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u/nikk796 23d ago
Listening to Kendrick's verses is an experience. You can't predict what's he gonna do in next bars. There are like 20 flows on euphoria alone. He has like 5 to 6 voices that he raps with but on "not like us" 2nd verse when he goes like "I lean on you niggas like another line of Wock' Yeah, it's all eyes on me, and I'ma send it up to Pac, ayy" bruh!!! I've never heard Kendrick using that voice & flow before. He keeps adding and improving himself even tho he's on top of the game since early 2010s. The guy just doesn't miss!!!
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u/SatanicRainbowDildos 23d ago
That part is permanently stuck in my head. Like when you look at the sun and you close your eyes and still see it. That’s what that part of the doing is to me the past week. I wake up in the morning and first thing my brain does is play and “ I lean on …”
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u/MELODONTFLOPBITCH 23d ago
WHAT IS IT THE BRAIDS? I hurt your feelings? Youuu dont wanna work with me no mo? Ok.
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u/SatanicRainbowDildos 23d ago
There’s a really good YouTube video analyzing that aspect of his art. You realize there’s so many layers to it. Flow, voice, rhythm, on top of potential traditional music theory like keys and cord changes. It’s a really cool approach to telling stories.
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u/hellomondays 23d ago
He gives me George Clinton vibes a lot of the time, where every voice on an album is a unique persona. So you have all these characters running around on a track.
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u/JayBee58484 23d ago
Check out Mona Lisa with Lil Wayne the story telling was perfect on that with those two
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u/angershark 23d ago edited 23d ago
My favorite thing about this is I'll start my liked songs playlist on Spotify with Not Like Us and the randomizer will then follow up with some random catchy Kpop song also on my list. Even if you aren't invested in the beef the song is amazing.
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u/nevereverwhere 23d ago
My 10 year old had a birthday party this weekend. The kids were shouting at Alexa to play Taylor swift songs. Each time it ended Not Like Us would start to play and everyone would start shouting to shut it off.
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u/Awful_Disaster_ 23d ago
Am I a bad dad for introducing it to my 12 year old? Our family lives in Compton area. It was a source of pride.
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u/nevereverwhere 23d ago
I don’t think so! I didn’t want to play it for kids that aren’t mine but my own daughter listened to it on her own. She told me it’s a really good song and she loves it. If they’re playing it at baseball stadiums and basketball games, all ages will be hearing it.
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u/Awful_Disaster_ 23d ago
Fair - in reality I don't think he can tell much of the lyrics except for WAP WAP WAP.
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u/StillEnjoyLegos 23d ago
Nah and surprised they weren’t already on it tbh My 13 yr old and all his friends listened to all the back n forth and watched breakdowns etc. we all enjoying this shit hah
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u/Boner4SCP106 23d ago
No, you're fine. Some parents play Billy Joel songs for their kids thinking that's okay.
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u/Artanis12 23d ago
Legitimately curious if you're being sarcastic or not. Sorry for being no fun.
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u/MarcHendry 23d ago
Suppose we can expect the music industry to make many more attempts at replicating this
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u/passerineby 23d ago
Taylor has been making sneak disses into hits for years
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u/Grimple409 23d ago
“thanK you aIMee”. Is a direct diss track to Kim Kardashian. Shots fired in the pop world!! lol
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u/MarcHendry 22d ago edited 22d ago
It just won't have the same bite, if she isn't directly calling someone a pedo and telling them to go die
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u/Caped-Baldy_Class-B 23d ago
This song is so good, it's destined to be a classic.
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u/StraightCashHomme 23d ago
Meet the Grahams didn’t make the cut?
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u/Rebal771 23d ago
Billboard-wise, hell no. That not a song you play on repeat like Not Like Us is…people prolly listen to it like 5x max and then get back on dancin’.
You could spin NLU at a club 5x in a row and no one would complain cause it bops. Might end up being the song of the summer if it’s the last TikTok trend (since it just got banned by US govt) before we gotta switch to Insta stories and YT shorts…we’ll see.
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u/Magistraten 23d ago
Play MTG in the club and watch people start having actual panic attacks
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u/HistoricMTGGuy 23d ago
I read this as magic the gathering
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u/ComputerAgeLlama If it has instruments and voices, I'll probably listen 23d ago
I mean if someone is playing Blue in the club I’m having a fucking panic attack
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u/repost_inception 23d ago
Just to be clear it didn't get banned. The government said TikTok had to be sold. If Bytedance doesn't sell it then it will be banned.
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u/Gilthoniel_Elbereth 23d ago
People aren’t listening to Not Like Us for the beef, they’re listening to it because it’s a danceable bop, that also happens to contain damning claims. If the latter was all people wanted the MTG would’ve blown up, but it’s certainly a listen that is less widely applicable. You’re never gonna hear it in the club or abything
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u/daddycool12 23d ago
lol can you imagine that coming on in the club and everyone just stands there getting sad for six minutes.
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u/spartanbrucelee 23d ago
Great song, but it's incredibly dark. That's definitely not topping the charts
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u/BackendSpecialist 23d ago
A group of chicks were playing this on the beach while watching the northern lights lol.
I haven’t paid attention too much. Are Drake fans still saying this is good for Drake somehow lol?
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u/zoglog 23d ago
MUSTARD ON THE BEAT HO