Even the hip-hop world is catching fire over the ongoing beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, with media personality Rob Markman pitching in, saying all wars of fans should just end. Markman tweeted out that Drake’s run in hip-hop was making hip-hop itself, but all these back-and-forths are getting really stale. Well, when there is something controversial, there will be more than a hundred opinions expressed on the internet and the fallout in replies was nothing short of chaos.
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Rob Markman tweeted a link to a whole debate over his argument, but most of the spicy tea was on the comments. Some agreed while others just downright tagged Drake trash. Zenos_palace goes all out, saying, ‘Drake is objectively trash and never made a good album meanwhile Kendrick has 6 universally acclaimed albums’. Ouch. That’s an easy way to spark the hostilities in the comments section.
However, most of the hatred wasn’t directed at Drake but on questions like whether hip-hop is really better for Drake. __Peac3__ retorted with names of other A-listers who had taken the hype before and during his reign: Kanye, Jay-Z, Tyler the Creator, and all. We still got 🔥 music around Drake, they said. And honestly? Fair point.
Then there were all the conspiracy theories. ShawnDavis42565 started saying something about Drake’s demise being attributed to shady industry dealings; when pressed for proof, it went haywire. ‘It’s well documented,’ he said, while providing no documentation for anything. Classic Twitter moment. Meanwhile, Billedup2 bashed on Drake’s latest album saying, ‘This supposed to be our king? I only added 3 songs out of 20.’ Ouch! That was way too mean, but we get it; opinions are like… Well, you get it.
The heated exchanges, however, included people arguing that Drake was garnering way too much media attention. Before that Billedup2 accuses hip-hop pages of devoting the ink for Drake’s mirror selfies while serious releases from fans like Freddie Gibbs or Wiz Khalifa get less than a column. ‘Drake gets more coverage for mirror pics than others get for albums,’ they said. And honestly? They might have a point.
Bruno Saint Vil, however, was not taking any of that bye-bye talk. ‘Nigga trynna open Pandora’s box by suing for rap lyrics!!! Acting like a sore loser,’ he tweeted. Clearly, some people are still fired up about the legal drama surrounding the beef.
But not everyone was team Kendrick. RCG_AROB pointed out that Rob Markman actually predicted Kendrick would win the beef, even as a fan of both artists. And they called out the narrative that other artists couldn’t shine during Drake’s peak by saying that Tyler the Creator didn’t really blow up until 2017.
The wildest take? Probably that of IsWindz, who brought up the Hotline Bling issue and called Drake a ‘cancer’ to hip-hop through it all. ‘Are we really telling people to move on when you’re naming one of the reasons OVHOE is a problem?’ they asked. Now they did go there.
To crown it all, for either side of the debate, there will always be staunch advocates arguing until the end. Either way, one thing is for sure: people have their passion. Instead, this rivalry fuels more takes, more arguments, and more Twitter threads that pass it off as the rivalry people see between Kendrick and the king these days.
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And who gets to decide? Depends on whom you ask. But one thing’s for sure-making drama is the lifeblood of hip-hop, and this beef delivered that. Now if you excuse us, we will be on Twitter to witness the next round of hot takes.
