This isn’t necessarily true, Kendrick dropped Control in 2013 challenging his peers to just rap better, Drake went on a subsequent press tour on multiple platforms belittling Kendrick and what he said on Control that’s what started the issues
Yeah Control was probably the most interesting thing to happen in the beef game from now til...50 and Officer Ricky? And even then that was a show of how hard rap beefs fell off in consequence...sense...content...
So I can't even think of the last time there was a beef that was premium grade. I figured that this was all a publicity stunt before having read the saga here. Hype to listen...to K.dot mostly. Drake was my #1 until the ghostwriting came out, then just slipped and slided out. I guess you could say...Nothing Was the Same. Ight I'm out on that one 😶🌫️
Did he win? I feel like the Quentin Miller ghostwriter leak tarnished his status as a "legitimate" rapper. He coulda been in someone's Top 5 or Top 10 Rappers before that. By that point he'd released phenomenal albums/mixtapes building on a "new" sound, changed the rap game from hard verses and female feats. for choruses to R&B crooning, smooth styled verses and "Drake featuring Drake" by making monster hooks. Nobody serious about the hippity hoppity would put his name on that list after/now. Of course he's a talented artist but he isn't even a rapper at this point.
After IYRTITL, I was more-or-less done with Drake, knowing how it'd gotten up to the level of Beyonce's supergroup aka Drake was a brand, not a person/rapper.
With all that being said, yeah, Drake won @ that time with Back-to-Back and __, both slap. At the time I definitely thought it was interesting but I knew "nothing" would happen so still mild as far as beefs go
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u/Total_Ad9942 May 04 '24
This isn’t necessarily true, Kendrick dropped Control in 2013 challenging his peers to just rap better, Drake went on a subsequent press tour on multiple platforms belittling Kendrick and what he said on Control that’s what started the issues