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Another great take from me that you sensitive nighas going to hate..



Being that the Superbowl crowd is 95% white and adults over the age of 35. An artist like Kendrick wouldn't hit that well with that crowd BUT with that said those same whites know Drake because he's the bigger act.

The viewers at home that are KDot fans thought what they saw was the greatest show on Earth and it fits their narrative is an all knowing symbol dropping star. Meanwhile in reality from unbiased lover of hiphop and think KDot is nice. Without the Drake boost KDot wouldn't have gotten the buzz he's got now without doing Not Like Us in his performance.

Why? Because the hype of the song pushed him into the face or should I say ears of the white listeners. Because the song was being played NBA, NFL and MLB games that was being broadcasted. Also the inner racist / colonizer love "Mandingo fight" aka nighas hating on each other for monetary gain and entertainment for whites.

a minnnnnooooorrrrrr!!!!
 
So niggas really gonna act like Kendrick haven't racked up awards and acknowledgements long b4 this Drake beef?? Really? That's like sayin Drake didn't blow up until he got into this feud wit Kendrick. Now how stupid does that sound?

But naw why would they? B/c that completely goes against their narrative right? Gotta keep computer putin wit the hot takes. Despite factual information. Lol!
 
Drake had the charts and numbers on lock way before this supposed beef with Dot ... For over a decade and some


However Dot drops an 'Ether' like record in the beef and MFs running with excuses and hot takes... Which by no fault of Dot happened to be the biggest hit single of 2024


Sometimes in life we all take L's ... We can't win all the time... Drake and all the K. Dot haters/critics should hold their L and let Drake be great again by moving on and maybe reinventing his musical output
 
Bow to Royalty said:
He was at the game and he was talking about the crowd noise. How's that any different than @AP3.0 post saying how the crowd was at the super bowl he went to? But whatever you find hilarious...enjoy.
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My point is maybe the SB crowd as a whole just not going dumb over the halftime performance show regardless of who's there

You can't fake the amount of views his performance generated and call it wack

Everyone was anticipating him doing NLU and people are being wack to say his performance was all about Drake when it wasn't

One song don't make the whole performance about Drake.. Even if you add the first part of Euphoria.

Like come on. THINK

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Old Man Cain said:
whites know Drake because he's the bigger act.
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I'm not going to disagree that Drake is widely recognized, but I want to explore why this is the case. Drake is a talented entertainer—his ability to sing, dance, and cry while making pop music is undeniable. He deliberately crafts songs that are safe and broadly appealing, which makes him more of an entertainer than an artist. I don't connect with Drake music but if I'm drunk in a club I will spit a couple bars an maybe even dance. Drake makes the club anthems.

In the 50s-60s a lot of black records exclusively featured white people on the covers. Why? Because America is racist. Crazy right? Whites in the South were more comfortable purchasing music from these artists because of this safe imagery. That safe imagery is what Drake is for hip hop. Drake makes hip hop marketable the same way Justin Timberlake made The Clipse palatable for the MTV awards. Little kids twerking to a Drake/Sexy Red song is cute. It's not a byproduct of the guy being mixed it's his strategy. He makes music that will be played at clubs and cookouts. I don't want to take away from this because this shit takes skill.

The inverse is correct when you say Kendrick does not make music palatable for all swaths of whites, his subject matter for the most part is not marketable, little kids twerking to a Kendrick song is not cute and all of that is on purpose. The man prioritizes artistic integrity over mass appeal.

Eminem gets brought up in so many top 5 conversations. Em had 2 good albums (Marshall Mathers and Slim Shady) and bodied Jay on a feature...and is somehow in the top 5 greatest rap artists of all time. Niggas will disqualify Biggie because he only had 2 albums but Em gets a pass. Talented sure...but top 5? Em is not there in that conversation because of us...He's in that conversation because of Caucasians. Lyrically and subject matter wise Drake is pretty much as far from Eminem as you can get but where they are the same is a white stay at home mom is more comfortable listening to them on the radio than Nas or ( early ) Jay-Z.

Does an artist get points for not crossing that line where they "sell out"? Kendrick's "Mustard" line is in a Heinz mustard commercial and that shit honestly rubbed me the wrong way. For me that's a line that the nigga shouldn't be crossing. If it was Drake I wouldn't bat a fucking eye lash.

TLDR: Drake is a bigger Artist with a BIG fuckin asterisk.
 
AP3.0 said:
My point is maybe the SB crowd as a whole just not going dumb over the halftime performance show regardless of who's there

You can't fake the amount of views his performance generated and call it wack

Everyone was anticipating him doing NLU and people are being wack to say his performance was all about Drake when it wasn't

One song don't make the whole performance about Drake.. Even if you add the first part of Euphoria.

Like come on. THINK

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The Drake stuff was kinda heavy for some shit from spring 2024. Lower case a chain, running around with the flags of kids and the letter a, 2 diss tracks. It's over and it's been over... it's OK to move on a bit.

But I'm not knocking him as an artist. I think he put on a good show for a Kendrick concert. It was just underwhelming to me as a SB halftime show.

Like if Andre 3000 is performing. Mixing in some flute songs is probably cool for fans at his shows. And being able to play instruments and different types of music is cool. But I don't think mixing in multiple flute songs would make for a good halftime show. That's how I look at this.
 
Bow to Royalty said:
The Drake stuff was kinda heavy for some shit from spring 2024. Lower case a chain, running around with the flags of kids and the letter a, 2 diss tracks. It's over and it's been over... it's OK to move on a bit.

But I'm not knocking him as an artist. I think he put on a good show for a Kendrick concert. It was just underwhelming to me as a SB halftime show.

Like if Andre 3000 is performing. Mixing in some flute songs is probably cool for fans at his shows. And being able to play instruments and different types of music is cool. But I don't think mixing in multiple flute songs would make for a good halftime show. That's how I look at this.
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Brother, that flag with the kids and the "a" chain has been the official logo of pg Lang since it launched.

It has literally nothing to do with Drake. I can appreciate a mastermind and his efforts but there is no level of mastermind happenings that would make me believe that Kendrick and his camp thought of that with a Drake diss tour in mind.

I messed around with logo design for a hot sec and coming up with a concept and an actual image to be the logo of the concept ain't easy and that's even for people that actually went to school for the shit and the people that are self taught.

I'ma be honest but I think most of the reactions about the performance are performative. If you want to be entertained, go to the person's concert when it comes to a city near you. The price of game tickets have nothing to do with who's performing.
 
AP3.0 said:
Brother, that flag with the kids and the "a" chain has been the official logo of pg Lang since it launched.

It has literally nothing to do with Drake. I can appreciate a mastermind and his efforts but there is no level of mastermind happenings that would make me believe that Kendrick and his camp thought of that with a Drake diss tour in mind.

I messed around with logo design for a hot sec and coming up with a concept and an actual image to be the logo of the concept ain't easy and that's even for people that actually went to school for the shit and the people that are self taught.

I'ma be honest but I think most of the reactions about the performance are performative. If you want to be entertained, go to the person's concert when it comes to a city near you. The price of game tickets have nothing to do with who's performing.
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Fair enough. I don't even know what pg lang is.

That bomani Jones video stringer posted was pretty spot on. It just didn't hit like a super bowl performance. It was underwhelming from that aspect. A lot of people that like it even seem to think that...they're just cool with it for some reason. Some of the videos I see with people talking about it sound like people scared to just say he missed the mark. They'll say he didn't put on a good show, but they won't just say it. Like "Ya, usually artist come out and put on this big amazing show everyone will love. But Kendrick decided not to do that, and to do what he wanted instead and that's dope". That ain't dope, haha.


Like if you're at a wedding and the DJ's just playing fuckin Lupe the whole time. It's not "Yo, most DJ's would have played something for people to dance and have a good time. But this DJ played music that was true to himself, and that's dope". No! It's a wedding...DJ accordingly.

What's this mean? "If you want to be entertained, go to the person's concert when it comes to a city near you."
 
Bow to Royalty said:
Fair enough. I don't even know what pg lang is.

That bomani Jones video stringer posted was pretty spot on. It just didn't hit like a super bowl performance. It was underwhelming from that aspect. A lot of people that like it even seem to think that...they're just cool with it for some reason. Some of the videos I see with people talking about it sound like people scared to just say he missed the mark. They'll say he didn't put on a good show, but they won't just say it. Like "Ya, usually artist come out and put on this big amazing show everyone will love. But Kendrick decided not to do that, and to do what he wanted instead and that's dope". That ain't dope, haha.


Like if you're at a wedding and the DJ's just playing fuckin Lupe the whole time. It's not "Yo, most DJ's would have played something for people to dance and have a good time. But this DJ played music that was true to himself, and that's dope". No! It's a wedding...DJ accordingly.

What's this mean? "If you want to be entertained, go to the person's concert when it comes to a city near you."
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The halftime show is something to fill the dead space in between halves. The SB and bayou classic are the only two football events I can think of that you really not trying to go to the concession stand at halftime.

No one goes to the Superbowl cause of who's performing at halftime. Or rather an overwhelming majority don't go for that reason. It's just a bonus depending on the act.

You can't compare Kendrick to usher cause well.. Usher is a dancer, dude can legit skate, and it's a performer. The way people are talking you would think Kendrick mailed it in and looked like dipset did vs lox in that it looked like he just rehearsed the night before.

For the 5th time, if my "hits" are going to only get me 10¢ on the dollar for every stream, I'm not going to just gravitate to playing those when I just dropped a new project and I'm about to go on tour and I'm getting 80¢ on the dollar for those songs.

AND AND AND... It's not like the songs he picked were ass. Luther, TV off, peekaboo are dope as tracks. Mans had choreography with the dancers and everything. Niggas acting like he just held the mic towards the crowd. I still get people saying they just didn't get the performance. Cool.

But people are legit calling this the worst SB performance ever and I just don't understand that line of thinking at all. That's why I said if you want to be entertained, just go to their concerts if you feel certain songs are for certain places not named the Superbowl.
 
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