the biggest issue i have with the "hip hop is dead without drake" "kendrick era flopped" narrative is that people act like drake stopped releasing music after heart vi

he dropped a lot of songs and hopped on a lot of features but the only songs that had any impact in the charts were nokia and what did i miss. all the iceman singles he dropped flopped because they were not good it's simple as that it has nothing to do with dot era

People are going back to his back catalogue CLB and prior to feel what they felt in hip hop before this.

cultural dominance, collaborative moments and memories.

that’s my read on it at least. People are so excited for Iceman because they want to escape this moment (dot era or whatever you want to call it) to a better place in hip hop. Where it was represented culturally as the #1, where new innovative artists were put on by the biggest albums of the year

i could go on but you get the gist

You want some d*** or something?

I’m not in the mood for arguing right now, OVOJersey. Adults are conversing

You can’t read. Must be on another bender unc 💀

What point are you trying to make here

No, they’re revisiting his discography before his next album releases… which is what happens with basically every major artist whenever they announce a release date for a new album

When Kendrick says “big” he actually means “best”. Must be a triple entendre I missed

May 14th shambles in here are going to be PEAK cinema

people put that on kendrick, at no point did he say or indicate he wanted the commercial mantle for hip hop

the only think kendrick wanted was to be recognized as the best rapper of his generation and that he was a more superior rapper than drake.

everything dot wanted he has followed thru on. if Nas put out watch the party die no one would expect him to become the next commercial rapstar

I can’t go back and QRT each post cause it will take 30 minutes. Will do so when the album drops

just send over your twitter and i’ll send some links

Not me but way to deflect dork

Do you think the Big 3 means “three highest-selling rappers”?

people should be talking about iceman but this man drake just having the worst rollout of all time right in front of our eyes

I can’t wait.

Why can’t u just share the links here?

Chubbs is watching. Tread lightly.

I’m genuinely flabbergasted at the misreading of the text right now ITT

We have another kbot spiraling

I thought some news came out but yall in here arguing about non sense

Yes.

That’s literally what’s it always meant.

The three biggest, best selling guys of that generation.

That’s how it’s always been used. You think people were trying to replace Cole with Travis because of Travis’s ability on the mic?

I just told you… going through hundreds of post history individually and Quoting it into this current convo will take 30 min.

When the album drops I’ll do it but as of now i cannot be asked. hit me outside if you actually are curious and don’t just want an “own”

Again, this really isn’t the reality at all. Drake’s back catalog has always been a heavy streaming juggernaut…that was true before, during, and after the beef. It’s not a feeling that they miss if it never went away.

People are not excited for ICEMAN because they’re trying to escape Kendrick theyre excited for it because they want to hear a new Drake album.

Drake dropping a new album is also not going to magically make everyone else in hip-hop more popular. I don’t get that sentiment at all.