I don't know if you I don't know if you've been following this uh maybe not I just realized how white this room is I mean this pop culture you probably heard about I mean I don't know if you've been watching this whole Drake and Kendrick my my my what a time to be alive all right so Drake and Kendrick they are rappers sir they're rappers I okay just I want to make sure everybody and I'm not acting like I know you might bump Kendrick all the time you might be a big pimpa butterfly fan you
know I'm just checking so Drake and Kendrick's relationship actually goes back way further than people realize because Drake brought Kendrick with him on tour when Kendrick was like just starting to pop but Drake was already a big deal right and it seemed like they were cool you see these old interviews they're in pictures together they have such nice things to say about each other and then along the line something changed something happened and we don't know what that thing is really but they both started to kind of like go at each other in small ways
and and some people take it all the way back to the control verse Kendrick did a verse in a song on uh it was actually a big sea song big sea is a rapper sir these are I just want to all of these are just names and I want to make sure that we're all up to speak so he did a a verse on a Big Sean song called control but it blew up so much it became Kendrick's verse it became the control verse which is crazy and in and in that in that verse he
went at everybody he said he called people out by name you know and he said I got love for you all but I'm trying to murder you I'm trying to make sure that your fans don't even love you anymore they love me so much I'm coming for the crown I'm coming for everything right and just about everybody thought that it was actually pretty dope it was actually like okay hip-hop as a sport like hip-hop as you know a fun thing a contest to see who's actually the best cuz everybody everybody calls themselves the best on
every song Eventually someone has to be the best you know every rapper believes that they're the best and they say so in their music a lot like how one city will have several First Baptist Churches when you look around you're like one of y'all has to actually be first right this can't how can y'all even all claim to be first this is confusing you know and so he releases the control verse now this is something maybe this is where it started it's where a lot of people say it started but maybe it was something else
but Drake seemed to take some sort of issue with the love Kendrick was getting for that verse with him being called out even though he's someone that helped you know uh Kendrick out in the beginning but even in interviews Kendrick explained himself he said like this is a this is a contest to see who's the best it's all love right but Drake Drake has okay Drake has I'm trying to be fair Drake has a lot of feelings and you can tell cuz he has a lot of albums and there are there are feelings on every
one of those albums and some people don't have several albums worth of feelings some people only have four or five albums worth of feelings you know and some people decide when to let it out and he just lets it out on a pretty tight schedule a pretty a pretty regimented schedule of release to let out all of his feelings you know and and he said he's like I just didn't like it it didn't feel sincere I didn't I you know I just didn't Vibe with the whole thing cuz then I saw him later and he
was all nice to me yeah he said in his interview it was all love it's just a contest and and then from there they had they had like a weirdness and then there's like little things you can listen to certain songs where Drake seems to be like digging right at Kendrick but in a way where you have to really look at it and wonder right not saying his name and then Kendrick even does a little bit of the same but even even after a little bit of this had kicked off they still work together one
or two more times right because Drake was on good kid Mad City Kendrick's album and Kendrick was on take care so there's there's still at least a professional relationship there to some degree right fast forward a few years and Drake's really big and when I say really big he's like what Bad Bunny is now he was back then like top top top top in the world right everybody wanted to be Drake everybody wanted to sing a little bit of Drake he was number one on Spotify every time he released it was a big deal and
so some people admittedly were very jealous of Drake you know there were people who started to go at Drake a little bit and Drake is a good writer he may he may have writers that he works with he may have but he's also good it's like when he when he's making music everyone in the room is good [Laughter] that's I'm trying to give him his Pro I'm trying to be objective and y'all trying to lean me into way this but he's good and so you know Meek Mill Meek Mill is a rapper sorry me Mill
cuz that one wasn't a name I just want to make sure that at no point you don't think that this is like punctuation or anything cuz the names are going to get weirder as I go right okay MC Mill came at Drake and Drake really truly even if you hate Drake Drake destroyed McMill he destroyed McMill so bad that MC Mill had to go back to jail just to just to level out some of that street crap because you if you remember MC Mill went back to jail for a while on like this weird this
this weird aspect of pro probation that they even tried to get changed as a law so then M Mill became this like face of of of of of changing incarceration and changing the criminal justice system everything cuz he could cuz he had to cuz he had to do something else for a little while because Drake really ate him up all right and so more time passes and there's still not much between Kendrick and Drake in this moment right and then then Drake gets into it and I I want to be clear because a lot of
people sometimes feel bad for Drake in a way that I want to be clear he does start a lot of this stuff he does like have a little thing in a song that implies that your wife is Unfaithful and then when you come at him directly he's like what's with all the hate I'm all love it's like no no the best way I can describe it is that Drake kind of fights like a cat and some rappers fight like dogs and so you know he'll do a little paw and he'll be like what's the issue
and so Drake went at push a te which was a true mistake this's a thing this's a thing about people like push a te right you don't want to mess with anyone who's actually had a hard life you know like you know Drake grew up in Canada grew up with like it's just this is my thing a lot of people come at Drake for you know they come in at a way I don't like they come at them in in this like colorism way where he's like you're not really black cuz you're half white I
don't roll with any of that I just I just truly think but you see you see what I'm talking about I'm not I'm not y'all trying to get me to do something I'm not doing I'm just saying it's very hard for a rapper to seem hard right when they have not been through what other rappers have been through like it's it's hard to go hard when everybody knows you had Healthcare cuz I'm not saying there aren't hardened criminals in Canada I'm not saying that at all I'm just saying that if somebody knows that anytime you
were sick you could call a doctor it just takes a little bit of the wind out of the sales of like I'll kill you it's like yeah but if I hurt you you go to a doctor immediately like so anyway kendri Kendrick is still off doing his thing releasing amazing music but Drake gets into it with push a t which was a mistake because he told push T he's like I got more money than you I got more women than you I'm more famous than you'll ever be and then push T said you have a
[Laughter] son he released the fact that Drake had a son which people didn't know on a track that's cover was Drake in blackface everything about what push did to Drake is why you don't get involved with people like push a t you're like like you know a part of me felt bad for Drake Drake was probably like John at the mouth and everything and didn't know he' do research like you know Drake is sitting there like guys I thought we were rhyming I thought that I thought we were making music what is this so anyway
now Drake perceivably takes care of a son and you know um whatever um and so fast forward some more and you would think that Drake had sort of learn his lesson of like man I shouldn't throw stones when I might have a lot of kids [Laughter] and for his part I will say this for for his part every time somebody comes at Drake he does come at them pretty hard pretty heavy and he does release music that his fans love and there are a lot of his fans I'm I'm saying that's something that I thought
about going into this thing where I was like he always does really try to like give you something but what he what he gives is is twofold what Drake is usually trying to give you that sort of earworm trying to give you that thing that takes you to a place beyond the beef so now people will still play back to back and and and songs that were responses to beef he's had in the past just as songs to enjoy you know um and so this year Drake and jcole started you know they started doing appearances
together like J.Cole would pop up at Drake's concert and jcole is also someone who I genuinely believe is one of the most talented phenomenal musically inclined artist that I've encountered I really enjoy his music I don't know him as a person and I don't I I'll I think he's amazing right so he is on a you know a couple of Drake song after they appear together last year and I and it it made me listen to those songs I was like oh J Cole okay you know cuz I I admitedly I hadn't listened to Drake
in a in a in a long time cuz I only have a certain amount of feelings I feel like I got pretty far I feel like I listened to several albums and then at a certain point I was like I feel grown like you know and and anyway they do a song together and then they do a song called first person shooter and in firstperson shooter they're going back and forth about how how great the era is and how great they are and first person shooter is a fantastic song right and then uh J Cole
in the song says uh like you forgive me if I'm getting it wrong but he says uh um maybe something like we the top who you know top top two three okay and then he was like he was like is it what is it is it Kendrick is it Aubrey or me cuz we're the big three like we started the league but right now I feel like Muhammad Ali right and I guess I guess Kendrick heard that and took it as a personal affront I I would I wouldn't have felt that like if if if
two people were like man we're the best ever and Josh is great too and I wasn't even there I would be like oh thanks but I'm not built like Kendrick you know and so then later uh later we would also find out that apparently Drake tried to get Kendrick on that track so he knew it was coming up and he didn't want any part of it and then I guess he hated that he was me so then Metro boomman and future Metro booman and future are rappers that cuz that could have been a label name
I'm not I'm not I'm not making fun of you at all I'm just making sure everybody is up to speed and you're right in front of me that's all that's happening right so Metro boomman and future you know uh they release an album called we don't trust TR you and on it is a track called like that now like that is uh where Kendrick does essentially the control effect on this song he does a verse that really made me forget it was a song I I don't know what anyone else said on the song right
and on the song he says [ __ ] the big three it's just big me right which is also which is also hey I've always said I want to be the best I've said it from day one as soon as people started interviewing me I said I want to be the best as soon as people started listening to my music I said I wanted to be the best this is not out of character for me this is the same thing I did 10 years ago right so just for me if it were me if I
if I was one of them if I was Drake and I heard [ __ ] the big three it's just big me I also wouldn't take it as a personal affront because there were other there were other things in the song where he came at at break specifically he didn't really have much for J Cole and and yeah it just sat for a while it sat and everybody was like o what are Drake and Cole going to do and then Cole was actually I think the first one to release he released this song that he's
since taken down called 7-minute drill and he and he went at Kendrick in the song and then he took it down and a lot of people clowned him for it but it's something that even I'm not I'm not being a revisionist here I said this when it happened I was like I respect the fact that he took it down because he it's not something he really wanted to do and the internet is all gas no breaks the internet will get you to mess up your life you me people you don't know are like I wouldn't
take that if I was you what you going to huh do something huh huh people who are very safe at home I wouldn't M if I was you if I was you oh I'd go at his neck I would oh I'd eat him alive if I was you do something Jermaine do it do it do it and so he took it down and and he even said he's like I didn't feel like doing it so it's not even good I kind of just went at him a little bit and it's true in the song he
doesn't even say anything that bad he's just like one of your albums was boring I won't even say which one and then he took it down cuz he said I don't know I this felt corny and I respected the hell out of that very few men grown men famous men powerful men very few ever apologize right very few ever apologize without being made to with the threat of losing their money losing their Fame losing something very few men so I respect that and and people clowned them to no end but then the actual beat between
Drake and Kendrick started and that was a lot because Drake released a song called push-ups and he didn't just go Kendrick he went to a bunch of people and you know implied that uh Kendrick's wife was unfaithful that his son might not be his and everything and people are like oh what's Kendrick going to do what's going to happen right and then you know he releases another song and this song is AI this song is is Drake and with the late Tupac and Snoop Dogg and it's going at Kendrick and some people had their feelings
about that but then oof oof oof oof oof on a random morning on a random morning I was you know it was right by the time I was supposed to say my prayers anyway you know your you know your morning prayers you know you're thank your God for waking me up this morning right and Kendrick dropped a song called Euphoria and I think when it happened a lot of people including me was like oh this is an actual like rat beef now in the way that we had in the '90s like these dudes do not
like each other and Kendrick says he hates them in the song he says I hate you he said it a lot he said I hate you a lot like he did artistically but he was like ooh I hate you ooh ooh I hate you ooh right and uh woof it was a lot right and [Music] then and then you know Drake released actually no Kendrick released one he released so many I actually lost count so then he released a song that I didn't even get to fully digest because he released and then Drake released his
response and this was like what Drake had been waiting for this was like all these I mean in my opinion all these years of like I was nice to you and then you came at everybody including me and all I'm doing is writing my feelings down in albums and making money and like I just want to be number one I just want to be the best with feelings I want to be the best and so he just took everything everything that he had and he put it in a song called Family Matters right and 20
minutes [Music] [Applause] later 20 minutes later Kendrick released a song called meet the grams which is a real was a real playoff Family Matters and he and and he had said in 616 before he was like have you ever thought about the fact that like people in your Camp are working for me that everyone hates you so much they feed me information about you and that there's no way that you're going to win this because I write so many songs cuz all I do is hang out with my wife and my kids and I write
right this is all that I do I enjoy this this is my favorite thing to do is just sit at home and hate you and write songs about you and how much I hate you so I can go forever this will never be over we can chill we can just go back and forth and I'll release 20 for every one that you release you keep saying that it's a 1 v20 and it is it's one of you and it's 20 songs of me every single day until the both of us died this is old black
man hate you got to understand this doesn't happen this doesn't happen with people under 60 almost ever this is old this is old old old we knew each other during the Civil Rights Movement hate that he brought to this battle and Drake was like guys I thought we were rhyming and in Meet the grams you know he laid it down he starred the song by talking to Drake's son talking to Drake's son being like I'm sorry that's your father genuinely I'm sorry that's your father cuz I can tell he's not raising you well because I
can tell he's not living a good life and he's not a decent man okay and so if you don't understand this right now because you're six play it back when you're 18 okay he said lots of things he said said very he said things that are illegal he said Drake was doing things that oh he's you can listen to it he woof I oh he even had this effect in the song at the end of the song when he's like you li he called him a liar several times and he's like you lied I was
like oh that's that's too much that and he tells him he tells him about himself he talks to his son he talks to his dad he talks to his mom and then he talks to him directly right he also talks to potentially a daughter that Drake is not taking care of which I was listening to her I was like not again I feel like I feel like once they find the first kid you got to just get all the kids you got to just have a whole gram family just so you know where everybody is
is you know and people go back and forth does he have a daughter does he not have a daughter some people think they've even found the daughter everything like that and I don't know I don't know I mean it's really bad it's so bad and and and honestly I never wanted to get to a bad place this is something I I'll talk about this more in the future and everything but I I have a I have a a deep love but a strange relationship with hip-hop because if everything is in music it's all good it's
when things leave music that things get bad you know and so as much as I I joke about Drake and I like Kendrick and I've liked some of Drake's songs I don't actually want them to do anything to each other you know I mean now if what Kendrick is saying about Drake is true we should we should lock Drake up we should lock Drake up and and if what Drake is saying about Kendrick is true we should lock Kendrick up all right cuz you know it's a is a rap battle two dudes that hate each
other maybe they're lying who knows but I'm just I'm just saying this this thing I didn't want to see anything bad happen to either one of them but when meet the grams got released I think I don't know what Drake thinks and I don't know what his life is like especially right now but I think back to those battles and those beefs in the 90s and I I wonder if Drake wasn't like I'd like to be shot please like like you could just plug me one time and then we can smooth the thing over because
then as if meet the grams wasn't enough Kendrick released a song called not like us which is the catchiest way to call somebody a I've ever heard in my life you'll be dancing to it forgetting what the song is about like you you know and then Drake released the Heart part six and I I I think that's when he lost I think cuz in the heart Park 6 he's like this was all part of my plan we fed you information about me for you to say so everything that you said is wrong and I don't
you feel dumb now that I tricked you and it just kind of felt like you know like what a you know like what a kid okay you know like when you playing rock paper scissors and you do rock and the other kid does scissors and you're like and they're like no actually these are [Laughter] lasers because I was like Drake Drake if it was part of your plan to feed Kendrick information about you for him to rap about very well by the way like like even if those are lies they do sound good and they
sound very true uh even if you f him all this information about you to rap about to then look dumb when it was wrong why' you send him that stuff that's that's the worst stuff you could send somebody hey tell them this thing about me that's not true but was true once and tell him tell him I'm a thing that no one wants to [Laughter] be so now that it's over cuz I do hope it's over I feel like Drake should just release some songs about some feelings [Music]
