Lyricism isn't the only thing that makes you a great artist. Kendrick is very well rounded. His delivery, his flows, cadences, his tonality, his willingness to experiment. You never know what you're getting when Kendrick is dropping. Lupe is trying to compare himself to a once in a generation artist. He's doing himself a disservice

IDF reprogramming

Idk bro

S*** brought tears to my eyes when I realized what it was about

Genius concept for a song, and the way it fit into the overall story of the album was genius

Might be the last album I heard where the ambition, creativity and concepts legit blew my mind if I'm being honest

"goes off on the crowd over people f*cking up his career by illegally downloading his debut album Food & Liquor"

Lmfao what. Dude crashed out on this one

Has Kendrick ever acknowledged one of Lupe’s comments?

Nah

Supposedly Soulo had a long phone call with Lupe and it was all love

This isn't really anything

But that’s Soul and TDE.

It seems like it’s just him having problems with only Dot.

I f***ing love that song. Album is still too bloated.

Lupe is a better rapper/lyricist etc
But it's clear he's got an issue with Kendrick

(Although to be fair, also the narrative around the discussion too.)
If you hate/diss/don't like someone but say 'but they are good though' or 'I'm a fan' etc it can still be backhanded/disrespect etc etc

I watch a basketball podcast (not Gil's Arena) & there's this one dude who will always be hating on Bron loads, derail a whole episode with it but then say 'I said he was one of the GOATs, so how am I hating?'

Kanye be in interviews saying 'I wish I made HOWGH' or 'then we go to the studio & listen to Drake' & then behind closed doors he's snapping on Big Sean/getting angry he wokrsd with Drake etc etc

Tbf maybe he's thinking about how B.O.B's debut song (debuted at #1 as a new artist too) could've been his or their many other marketing/A&R/management failures, that hindered his success etc etc

Bruh so f***ing washed it’s crazy

It's also the pattern. He's been doing this for over 10 years. Then says stuff like "These are things I've BEEN saying" and acts like people are crazy.

Like nah brother u also were saying that LOGIC is a better rapper than Kendrick

Bro don't tell me he was serious about Logic being better

True but the conversation (if we believe Lupe) was about the Kendrick slander and Lupe supposedly said on the phone that he had no issues with Dot and these were just hip hop critiques and everything was cool

I don't think this is serious. I don't think Kendrick will ever drop a head up Lupe diss. That's not really a battle I'm trying to hear anyways tbh.

Not too many lyricists exist who will ever say another lyricist is better than them

I know its hard to imagine with how awful Logic is now but there was a brief window from like 2011-2012 where Logic was dropping dope music and this sounded less crazy than it sounds now

You just sort of need to trust me on that lol

Obviously I disagree (now and then) but Lupe deserves a little bit of bail on this

Pretty sure he’s mad because he feels he should’ve been Kendrick level successful. Like he was on that same exact path to stardom with being a lyrical conscious rapper who could make hits and then his label f***ed him.

Thats why he says Kendrick got better label support so he can get great production and album quality. Honestly I think Lupe got a better discography than Kendrick even then

Probably the artists that make music in the industry themselves

Chill, some of us are still waiting for Skulls

There are deadass probably 10 other things hes done that came off a lot more salty than say hes a better lyricist than him, lupe is a contender for top 5 lyricist why would he himself say hes worse in that regard
Also the food and liquor clip was clearly in jest. Hes had a lot of bad examples but the ones in op are not some of them except the last one lmfaooo

It was crazy back then too

But I hear you

Lupe is, in fact, a better lyricist than Kendrick. Lowkey he's on a short list of rappers who can go album for album with Kendrick too

You niggas insane

he is bitter don’t get it twisted by not because of these particular clips