I was speaking specifically to the tweet that I quoted. Nobody ever held Jay up as some purist non-commercial entity that was solely in it for "the culture" but for some reason people are doing that with Kendrick when the reality is he's a goddamn pop star just like Drake.
I was about to say something similar but without looking I don't even know if Drake has that many collabs with white pop stars. This is what's funny too me about the attacks directed at Drake about him not being for the culture or even a culture vulture.
Then the way people are trying to flip that and question his blackness is what's really tacky.
No matter which way you look at it the main points people are using to go at Drake are very personal and false? considering he is Black and he hasn't appropriated hip hop culture.
I also can't stand when people try to police hip hop culture and try to hide behind it in some corny attempt to protect Blackness or Black purity when hip hop as a culture has been pillaged from day one and a lot of that was by the people who were put in position to enable it.
Like, this nigga Drake has been on a crazy run with Future and now he's a culture vulture and not Black? Nigga had mad collabs with the niggas he's beefing with but his status wasn't in question until Kendrick spoke on it? Also Kendrick is another example on why you can't make any one of these niggas some authority figure on hip hop in general.
The way that fans and media are pushing this shit makes it seem like Drake is the best hooper in the school and everybody knows that and they hate on that nigga for it. Kendrick is the best player in the neighborhood but he doesn't go to the same school as everybody else so niggas be happy when he comes around to hoop because they think that he's gonna serve Drake but in reality they're both on the same level and the question on who is better is subjective. Some might say Kendrick is better but y'all not hooping with that nigga everyday. You hoop with him every now and then. Meanwhile Drake has been busting y'all ass for years and it's gotten to the point that niggas will start to find anything they can use to go at that nigga to dim his light or knock him down a few levels.
That's why you see a lot of these hip hop purist and culturally conscience people trying to dissect this beef and try and pick apart Drake attacking areas that do not take away from the fact that he's been the best player for a minute and whooping y'all ass. They think Kendrick has somehow earned the right to claim the title as the best but they really don't know this niggas and he might not even be the nigga they're hyping him up to be. That's why it might not be the best idea to try and use Kendrick as some tool to get rid of or knock down Drake. Drake is a hooper too so it ain't like Kendrick is playing against a bum regardless on how much niggas hate Drake.
