Deleted that from my post because it’s not a simile but this is real af you cooked

we will never get writing like Two Birds One Stone again

"Ever since the blue basement I found God and I lost patience
Between rocks and hard places of all places
Spotted everywhere like Dalmatian
Cops snoop around now cause all my dogs famous
Please welcome the October fall baby
Vaughan Road Academy star player, my mind's not all there
Used to carry a lot of dead weight like a pallbearer
People too scared to tell the truth so its all dares"

"You were the man on the moon, now you just go through your phases
Life of the angry and famous"

his writing is like this weird caricature of good writing now

I feel like if Mike switched out the glove for the pen like
This s*** just too enticing right now, you know?

“Used to carry dead weight like a pallbearer” how is this even that different? He’s improved on 2 birds so many times. The Make Them songs are way better than that

you have to put it in the context of the whole song

its not like similes are inherently bad writing lol its about how you use them

B. I. N. G. O

Yeah duh. And in 2016 when 2 Birds dropped yall didn’t get into this “similes are bad” bag yet

adds to list

And how do the similes on the Make Them songs fit worse? Yall saying a bunch of nothing because no one made this point yet, yall been clowning the lines themselves. Which are clearly good

U LEFT SOMETHING OUT:

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I HATE WHEN DRAKE USES LITERARY DEVICES IN HIS RHYMES

This a crazy one to add lol

hey, he was saying all that's been said, and that's NLU is the boy theme song

come to think about it...

do you call yourself the boy to get the "girl"

because you not man enough for a "woman" you know be with just "one" man

I dont really want to fixate on this whole similes thing because his writing is just generally really awful now

with Two Birds theres so much subtext and meaning packed into every handful of bars, and they all fit into some broader messaging

vs simile for the sake of showing you can construct a simile. its totally different lol. but again its not just about similes, the overall impression I get from his new music is that he doesnt really spend time rewriting anymore

like compare the "thats just how I feel" leak to janice STFU and he literally copy pasted some bars in a way that divorced them from the context that made them good bars. like the oui oui oui thing

there's a disconnect between true hip hop and pop that's all

Comparing upbeat records like Janice STFU and a leak to 2 birds seems like a weird comparison. Why not compare it to the Make Them songs instead? Those are littered with subtext as well, this is a weird argument.

Make Them Pay is mostly focused on gaining independence and the wordplay adds to that.

like you feel like he doesnt care about making music for hip hop fans specifically?

tbh it comes across to me like he still wants to be seen as the best rapper, but the focus/curation isnt there anymore

This is facts, Kendrick 2013-17 was in rare form lyrically, I don’t think he’ll top that time

I believe it's his fans,

His fans are so diverse he can't

For more context, Drake has been that type of artist Hip Hop gave a pass to.

He can visit but his visitation was over when NLU drop

I wasn't making a comparison between janice STFU and two birds. I brought up janice STFU as an example of the laziness of his current writing

And you did a wonderful job, I might add

…… in comparison to 2 Birds. Read your posts again and look up what comparing means

"the overall impression I get from his new music is that he doesnt really spend time rewriting anymore

like compare the "thats just how I feel" leak to janice STFU and he literally copy pasted some bars in a way that divorced them from the context that made them good bars. like the oui oui oui thing"

This is what I said verbatim. So I initially brought up 2 birds as an example of great writing on his part, then I made the generalization that it doesn't feel like he really refines and iterates on his verses anymore. And finally I brought up Janice STFU as an example of that second point. Like a concrete example of him not taking a good idea to fruition

At no point did I say "why doesn't janice STFU sound like two birds one stone"?

for god sakes

Tired of all of y'all tellin' me niggas is real, p****, I know when it's real
You only come home to pose and pop off a look, but you forgot how it feel
Chi-town, poppin' a pill, go on a drill, lookin' for someone to kill
White kids listen to you 'cause they feel some guilt and that's how your soul gets fulfilled
Handin' out turkeys on camera inside of your hood, then you go back to the hills
How many houses you build? How many souls did you heal off the back of your deal?

Difference between niggas gettin' you out of your deal and lettin' you out of your deal, damn??? like what

and the hook:

Reach me, baby
Call my phone and say you need me, baby
Thought they had me in a deep sleep, baby
I'm still scorchin' hot in these streets, baby
Pull up Maybach, beep-beep, baby
And my s*** came with the heat seats, baby
See-through shirt, I get a sneak peek, baby
Blow on me just like some green tea, baby

....

what are we talking about Drake...you want to continue to suck Kdot off..like wtf