They already know it’s a culmination of a lot of things. It’s more eyes being on the song, it’s Kendrick first west coast sounding bop record, it’s him dancing on Drake, it’s also him uniting the coast.

They want us to focus on the Drake aspect because Drake lost. Only losers discuss the motivation of the winner lol.

yeah none of those tracks are only a hit bc of drake. kenny did his thing and it's kind of delusional to deny that.

but at the same time it's true that the biggest rap songs out rn are either by drake or about drake and that does stand for something. and it's true that beefing w drake has brought kenny back to major commercial success for the first time since black panther album (6 years ago).

the answer to the second half of ur post is kind of obvious. smaller artist beefing w bigger artist = boost for the smaller artist, not a boost for the bigger artist.

Mr morale was a success

took 5 years making the album. didn't even crack 300k first week. not what i would call a major commercial success.

It’s 2x plat and he did a world tour off it. The first week numbers it did wasn’t even bad

"yes im ignorant and incoherent, but im proud of it!"

u know as well as i do that kendrick tour success had more to do w the strength of his past discog and less to do w mr morale than u are letting on.

im sure he's eating good. kendrick is objectively successful. but in terms of major commercial success, and i mean drake level success, he hasn't had that since damn, maybe black panther album if ur generous. it took beefing w drake to get back there. that's just objectively true.

But for the type of music it was those are great numbers. I feel the same way about HN, It was a surprise drop house album, Doing over 200k for that is good

You don’t think Kendrick could’ve made something like Humble? Could’ve got some bigger name features? Or just overall made a more palatable album?

It did 100k less than FATD. Do you think if FATD didn’t have SZA, Yeat and Cole it still would’ve done 400k or would it look closer to Morale numbers?

You’re wasting your time bro.

No Drake diss has ever gonna number one. Neither has the song of any other person dissing him.

Let them believe what they want. Kendrick is number one now because he decided to make a bop the west coast could step to.

Kendrick has 5 diss records. Two went number one and one went number three
Drake has 7 diss records and none of them went number one or higher than 7.

Drake has about 6 diss records going at him and none of them went number one

The only difference between these scenarios is Kendrick being involved.

It’s his stimulus

ok first question. i gotta say i don't know. it's totally possible kendrick still has it in him to make another humble type track. like maybe he could have turned morale into a major success w different features and more palatable songs. but he didn't go for that so idk. and his only major success since then has come from this beef, so it's not like he's proven he still has that solo hitmaker ability.

second question. honestly, yes. I think drake is a very big name, and i think he's undoubtedly much larger than SZA, Yeat, or Cole. not to mention i only rly saw ppl complaining abt yeat and sza verses, so it would've been cole singlehandedly blessing the album w an extra 100k first week if ur theory was true. and that seems like a reach idk.

only 2 diss records? lol they pretending MTG doesn't exist

Had to block that nigga. He keeps trying to talk to me lol

You had me read that post like five times looking for the 2

blocked at the mention of MTG

kendrick stans rly memory holed that s*** omg

he edited lol

ppl were not buying those tickets to see any morale songs done live

Source trust me bro

u know im right lol

It was the tour for that album lmao

This thread really turned into the drake beef thread overnight

Ain't no one talking about the mid ass song lol

the album in question being mr morale...

Right.. he toured for that album lol. You think no one wanted to go to that for songs on that album?

Ok well idc if you saw people complaining. Those are objectively the biggest songs on the album

You’re also saying you don’t know if big names would’ve helped sales for Morale but if FATD didn’t have big name features it still would’ve done 400k. Lmao bro what?

Also why is Kendrick just talking about Drake enough to get him multiple hits but Drakes own actual solo songs ain’t doing numbers like that? Your saying Drakes name is so big that just dissing him helps get a hit but he himself couldn’t get a hit with his own music? Make it make sense

im not saying idk if big names would have helped w mr morale. like objectively i guess i don't know bc it didn't happen, so it's technically just conjecture. but yeah big features would probably have helped the sales. which is what i said right? am i tripping?

also the "FATD sales were carried by the features" angle is weak and u know it lol. drake is the most streamed rapper alive obviously an album from him w a good rollout will do big numbers.

for the last part of ur post, the answer is simple. Drake is obviously still a massive artist and celebrity, and still very talked about, but in recent years the trend has been to hate on drake. of course drake himself cant cash in on that negative attention as well as kendrick can.

yes lol come on now