I literally have the email saying parts of the song UMG is claiming rights to

aye wasnt you the one that was spamming whitney getting beat meme gifs in the beef thread

The game has really been headed in a terrible direction from all angles: cultural, infrastructural, artistic, economic, moral. Powers in position are taking advantage, figures who hold power are pushing questionable agendas to the youth in order to keep it

He would really diss Melle Mel if he had to

degenerate pieces of s*** who push false narratives and lies like these are what is wrong with hip-hop and the culture rn.

what you mean

Makes me question my intentions for participating in so much of the hype in the past

Yall let white Kendrick fans talk crazy to a nigga with 4 black great grandparents

Wild

This is interesting 🧐

Yeah I was pretty surprised

Big Fax

The hoe culture rap was the final straw for Kendrick

Facts, don’t remember ppl getting 6:16 flagged like that

So what angle y’all gonna go with when he gets another #1?

Thank god, I’m here for the “have you ever read a book era”

Only blocked in Belarus / Russia but the fact UMG claimed makes me think damn near this entire beef was just a UMG proxy stream war

Coordinated beef

Why UMG have rights to anything on this basic beat ?

wtf did drake do to that kid in the wheelchair man

What else makes sense that they would ping it and this happens after Super Bowl

This just Lucian trying to make money at this point

For all the good music and innovation that the 2010’s had, it was pretty bad in terms of exactly what rap as a culture was pushing yfm

The sound got gentrified for the back half of the decade, label heads were pushing/abusing self destructive loose cannons who needed help over artists pushing messages. A lot of the passion and intricacies were lost in the vapid and easy to reproduce SoundCloud era. A lot of vain and shallow imagery was sold to anyone who wanted it, including the c***kids

Once again, not a diss to the innovation and music itself of the time, but the industry and wider cultural trends of the time.

I remember saying all this in 2015 when mumble rap started taking over.
It was obvious if we put this s*** at the forefront of the genre it will basically spell the end of HipHop.
Now when we have artists that are all hype all gimmicks all violence all debauchery and no substance, people wonder why HipHop is rightfully on a decline.

Jail is not gonna be kind to Akademiks.

Didn’t forget y’all celebrating the 100 S***s songs having almost a million views each on IG. Flopping left and right