the benefit was marketing promotion back when radio was where most first heard a new song
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the benefit was marketing promotion back when radio was where most first heard a new song
major news outlet having articles like this is wild; makes me think something bigger is going on
Kendrick Lamar owns the summer with 'Not Like Us' music video, continues Drake diss
Naledi Ushe
USA TODAY
Kendrick Lamar isn't done with his Drake shakedown. In fact, he's come for the Toronto rapper's song of the summer trophy.
On July 4, Lamar released the music video to his Drake diss track "Not Like Us" — a pointed release date after calling his adversary a "colonizer."
The music video, directed by Lamar and Dave Free, celebrates California culture from dance to landmark locations and has visual responses to some of the disses in Drake's tracks "Push Ups" and "Family Matters."
As Lamar warned in "Euphoria," he's the "biggest hater."
The "Not Like Us" music video opens with him doing push ups on cinderblocks in response to Drake's "Push Ups."
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He later uses owl symbolism in reference to the mascot for Drake's record label OVO Sound and makes it clear they're enemies. In one shot, Lamar smashes an owl piñata, while a disclaimer on the bottom of the screen reads: "No OVHoes were harmed during the making of this video."
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As the final victory lap, Lamar ends the video dancing with his partner Whitney Alford and their two children to the catchy tune. Drake alleged in "Family Matters" that the Compton rapper abused Alford and that Free is the father of one of their kids.
Everyone wanted a Drake 2016 summer. Now he's 'Not Like Us.'
"Not Like Us" released on May 4 as a catchy clapback to Drake, who has insulted Lamar's ability to make a radio hit.
The DJ Mustard-produced song calls Drake a "certified pedophile" and has everyone from children to adults drawing out the incendiary lyric: "Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A-Minor." Lamar also comes for Drake's industry friendships, his appropriation of certain aspects of Black American culture and shoots his lyrics back at him saying it was "God's plan to show y'all the liar."
Ironically, Drake once owned the song of the summer. "One Dance," "Controlla" and "Too Good" from his 2016 album "Views" created a holy trinity of sorts for summer anthems. There wasn't a party without them.
For a while it was Drake vs. Drake. In 2017, he came back with songs "Fake Love" and "Passionfruit." In 2018, he managed another song trifecta with "God's Plan," "In My Feelings" and "Nice For What." In 2020, he had a brief comeback with "Laugh Now Cry Later" and "Life Is Good" by Future. However, Drake's summertime success waned with his follow-up albums "Certified Lover Boy," "Honestly, Nevermind" and "For All the Dogs" leaving the gap open for a new successor.
Drake effectively became the victim of the music expectations he set with Lamar's "Not Like Us" becoming the millennials' "Hit 'Em Up" by 2Pac (a vicious diss to Biggie Smalls).
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"Not Like Us" (in addition to Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso") has replaced the yearning for summer 2016. We are finally living in the present, with a diss track calling the Toronto rapper a pedophile that has united different gang affiliations.
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The culture driven by Lamar's diss track rollout from "Euphoria" to "6:16 in LA" to "Meet the Grahams" to "Not Like Us" has proved that hateration in this dancerie is winning in summer 2024.
Will Drake win back his song of the summer title? He's got two months to try.
well if you heard the beginning song on they not like us video; then you know his next video is coming!!!They will be reviewing my posts like the Zapruder film and Kendrick's next video
well if you heard the beginning song on they not like us video; then you know his next video is coming!!!
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the song is fire!! I said this before; i think Kdot about to go full west coast party shit!! and if he does, look out ....I heard it and posted about it before it dropped.
Damn she bad
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kendrick gonna be exhausted whooping so many feet.
And they missed the triple entendre.All streaming is is digital radio play; that’s it! We as a consumer get to decide which music we want to hear from a digital radio. So it should be considered radio play. It’s not sells. It does a disservice to an artist that actually sells records and albums. And I think one of the reason why it’s not is because it’s a way to lower the income of artist. I think it affects their publishing and other forms of income. That’s why I don’t wanna hear that Drake and Micheal Jackson shit!! And that’s why kdot said I’m going digital and physical on all youll ehh … another subliminal Drake diss lol. I think that was on element. Oh and he keeps subliminal disses big Sean lol lol
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I could probably see drugs and weapons. But not human trafficking. But there is stories of bodies being found in truck containers. That were found in London, tracing back to Russia. A few years ago. A there was a story recently of bodies being found in a truck in Mexico.
Ummm
Her name is literally watermarked on the photo
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Yall ain't like us for real
@jack walsh13
Cuzzo you handle these jabronis.
Make him suffer like I do cuzzo.Ummm
Her name is literally watermarked on the photo
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Yall ain't like us for real
@jack walsh13
Cuzzo you handle these jabronis.
Make him suffer like I do cuzzo.
Did u notice DeRozan was dressed like Deebo from Friday? LolEdit: DeRozan was in one of the containers. Lol
Did u notice DeRozan was dressed like Deebo from Friday? Lol