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Are we just gonna forget that he literally collabed with Future on Like That ??
Kendrick Lamar is an amazing artist, incredible rapper, flawed human, and in this instance, he is indeed a hypocrite.
Kendrick is my favorite rapper and artist. But I won’t pretend I’m not conflicted thinking about it.
As a fan of him, I agree tbh, Drake could have went at Kendrick for his hypocrisy but for some reason he didn’t, and I don’t know why.
I love Kendrick as a rapper. He’s fucking amazing.
But those of you who think he’s some kind of super moral, really good person, need to get a grip. There’s endless examples of hypocrisies like this throughout his career.
I don’t think he’s a bad person, but some of the Stan’s in this sub need to realize he’s not perfect. He’s just a CRAZY GOOD rapper.
He’s just celebrating the 10 year anniversary of being the biggest hypocrite.
I’m not a fan of the do as I say but not as I do.
Whats weird is how drake and his writers had so much to talk about outside family stuf that he could have had a good diss.
Like how did he or rather his writers not think about questioning dots isrealite views. Featuring kodak on his album and having kodaks past in mind
Like you had so much there. Its so mind boggling from someone who also writes raps.
Like dawg you didn’t have to lie on bros family.
But i think drake knew that dot would have the upperhand either way because drakes skeletons in his closet were just awful to begin with.
Love Kendrick as an artist, he’s always been a hypocrite when it comes to what he preaches in his music though. I dont really care because I’m not looking at Kendrick as some messiah figure, and I’ll criticize him for this stuff easily, but it’s not really changing anything for me because it’s not really crossing a line he hasn’t crossed before, I’ll side eye him for it but it’s not personally something that’s enough to get me to not want to listen to the vast majority of his music.
The honest question is whether or not this sub, and even Kendrick Lamar himself, actually cares about harm done to women.
Some of you have to look in the mirror and honestly do some soul searching. Kendrick, too, I suppose.
I myself was criticizing Kendrick for this during the beef but honestly I don’t think it’s AS strange in reality.
Kendrick is a pretty sympathetic guy and consistently aligned himself to reform and support for people who have issues. He usually ties it to systems and bigger pictures.
Meet The Grahams was a scathing diss but he still is coming out of a place of “trying to help” Drake. I do genuinely believe Kendrick woulda reconciled before the beef went too far lol
But since he felt disrespected, he went and aired out Drake’s dirt.
If you’re beefing with somebody, you’re gonna bring up the dirt even if you are cool with people who have dirt too lol.
If somebody’s “opp” is a shitty partner from time to time you’re gonna bring it up when you’re arguing. But if somebody knows a coworker or friend who can also be a shitty partner, they’ll probably just talk to them about it or even just ignore it.
Also im using the “shitty partner” example as a general thing meaning like maybe they’re non communicative or argumentative. Not saying everybody hangs with people who beat their wives or something lol.
Also Kendrick seems very content with being hypocritical which sometimes is inevitable for everybody.. not defending or fully supporting it but that’s just my perspective. I do think it is very hypocritical but I think people would be surprised how hypocritical people are.
I understand anybody who criticizes Kendrick for it and I think it’s a fair criticism but it’s sometimes a humanity criticism
Life as a kendrick fan is amazing if you acknowledge that he is a massive hypocrite .
All this is ammo for Drake. But you know he won’t shoot🤣🤣
I would bet money every single artist in hip hop has worked with deadbeats because there’s a lot of them in this industry.
Y’all can’t pretend this ain’t hypocritical asf
Here come the “he’s not your savior” comments..
I tell my homies not to objectify women but if a nice ass walks by ima break my neck occasionally
ay he aint wrong
Does Pusha T not still hang with Kanye West?
Or make music with him?
Do people know that future has a lot of kids?
hiphop fans discover that the 95% of the industry has no actual morals
Jesus fuck this sub is bleak.
Working with a woman beater is a fucking huge L, no exceptions.
Silent hill had Kodak
drake is more than just a deadbeat father – he’s done paedophilic shit too, has sex offenders on his team, whatever else. but I’d like to hear anyone defending Kendrick or not defending him actually give a real shit about violence towards women. everyone only cares when there’s some kind of drama with it, like this.
edit, because far too many people keep replying to my comment with weird counter arguments: I’m not defending Kendrick. I can’t understand how my comment got misinterpreted like this.
I don’t care for ‘what about dre?’ or whatever other bullshit because that’s not good either. Stop worshiping celebrities and expecting that they’re all good people. Easiest solution to all of this is to separate art from the artist.
They’re right tho this comment section is bouncing on dots wood
dont worry guys its the 10 year anniversary of the blacker the berry so he has to be the biggest hypocrite of 2025
They are correct. I’m still listening to the song and all of Kendrick’s catalog tho. But yeah they are definitely right😅
He also works with Future who absolutely sees women as objects. At least Future and Carti don’t fake their images which is why the stuff about Drake still sticks
This is the reality of the industry. Lot of people who did bad/dumb shit and at the end of the day, everyone’s gonna collab with someone who did something bad at some point.
Kendrick can dislike Carti but see potential in his music. Collaborating with Carti doesn’t enable him or show that Kendrick supports him, it just shows that Kendrick supports his art.
Yes, it is hypocritical, but comparing it to Drake is stupid. Being a deadbeat wasn’t the main take, Kendrick was mainly ridiculing Drake for not being black enough and being a pedophile.
Being a deadbeat is a side-plot in the beef and only got a single mention in euphoria and was only focused on mainly in meet the grahams, where he also equally talked about Drake just being shitty. Plus, Pusha already talked about it. Kendrick just continued that point.
The Drake comparison is stupid, and doesn’t really check out, it only works on a surface level. However, I will admit that Kendrick just gives Carti more publicity by heavily collaborating with him, and it shows that they might be friends, in which case that’s obviously alarming. But there’s no point to prove that their interactions for this album are more than professional. (to my knowledge. If anyone knows anything about a friendship, please let me know as I’m curious)
Essentially, the hypocrite take is valid, and the “he is not your savior” take doesn’t work here, but people are making stretches just to discredit Kendrick because he’s popular right now. Yeah, he’s a hypocrite. But you never know what people are up to. Your favourite rapper/celebrity could be a vile, despicable person.
We don’t know. We kind of just gotta go off the limited shit that we see to judge them. And what I see is a collab with a deadbeat, after making fun of Drake on two verses and one bar throughout two songs released like two weeks apart from each other. Inconsequential hypocrisy in my opinion, but I do think it is important that Kendrick is held accountable.
I mean people can walk and chew gum at the same time. Can work with dude and also be honest/hold him accountable for being a deadbeat (as all associates, friends and family should). The beef with drake was layered and more than him just being a deadbeat and it was a rap beef of course you need talking points and insults.
mfers acting like rappers and the rap community is full of stand-up guys and full-time dads lol. If Kendrick micro-analyzed as much as yall he would never feature on anyone’s shit
Well they kinda… sorta…. have a point 😐… damn
bro almost every rapper is a deadbeat if u look at it that way
the songs were still fire idec
What does this have to do with lebron James legacy lol
Ok. He’s a hypocrite. What now?
Dunno about you but I’m listening to Good Credit right now. Lol.
I couldn’t careless. Everyone is hypocritical to something. Everyone on this talks about Anthony Edwards being a deadbeat but I guarantee they still mingle with deadbeats in their day to day life. Enjoy art for what it is and stop being so anal about everything. Not everything needs a think piece or “is Kendrick really the GOAT because he rapped with a deadbeat?”
They’re right, I just don’t care. He’s not your savior, who actually gives a shit
Kendrick’s music has always been contradictory, always been about balancing between good and evil. He saw a play that could win him the biggest rap battle So he made that play. Idk why niggas are acting like Kendrick as always presented himself as perfect when’s he’s literally presented himself as the opposite. That’s why people fuck with him
I’m a huge drake fan and a Kendrick fan at the same time. I honestly don’t care about the beef anymore because I listen to both of them still, but just like Drake, Kendrick does things that annoy me. In the last year I’ve seen his hypocrisy soar and all I ever heard was “bro bro he said he was a hypocrite before it’s fine🤓”. I can’t agree with that take, I’m a fan of MMATBS and I feel like Kendrick has contradicted himself a lot with how’s he’s carried himself in the last year. Imo he’s making MMATBS age poorly.
I’m tired of these takes. Kendrick had a beef with Drake and with every beef, you look for ammo to attack your opponent. Simple as.
Is he supposed to take a stance against all deadbeats to ever exist because he called Drake a deadbeat?