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The Groovy Files. A platform dedicated to highlighting hiphop, new artists and more.
Joined February 2022
I remember when you was conflicted. like?.
Ice Spice says she used to listen to Kendrick Lamar’s 'To Pimp A Butterfly' on repeat 🫡. “I was listening to To Pimp A Butterfly religiously everyday on the way to school…”
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Because Kendrick is able to do his brand of music on a massive scale which isn’t easy to or not a lot of artists have an opportunity to do. Kendrick got the big break alot of rappers wish they had.
Why Lupe don’t like Kendrick? lol.
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The G Herbo off beat narrative needs to be erased off the planet.
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This shit happened before GKMC even happened man.
Snoop Dogg to Kendrick Lamar ten years ago: "You better run with it." . In 2011 (just 1 month after the release of 'Section.80') a group of West Coast icons passed the torch to Kendrick. Since then, he has dropped 3 albums, won 13 Grammys, and received a Pulitzer Prize.
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Whoever told Kendrick to do that GQ shoot in 2013 ish need to be arrested.
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mixtapes used to be funny as shit bc what was lupe fiasco doing rapping on roscoe dash beats.
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What’s that one Earl Sweatshirt song? Y’all know the one.
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Serious question: Who rap better, Vince Staples or J Cole?.
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Yall are serious when yall say this too.
The Hip Hop industry is trying to make it without Drake and it’s just simply isn’t working….
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‘‘I’m not a rapper I am artist’’ all stems from people internalizing rap isn’t enough/they don’t see rap as versatile when it’s the opposite.
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I think Dot dropped at least two or 3 all time great disses this beef. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that.
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Listening to that beat switch for the first time >>>.
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Have no idea why y’all think Kendrick lyrical miracle when he’s actually quite easy to understand for the most part.
Kendrick can never out-bar Drake. Idc how many spiritual miracle lyrical concept albums he makes. Choose a beat and Drake is just rapping better plain and simple.
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I don’t think people fake like Lil B or Babytron tbh. I think there’s legit reasoning behind the appeal even tho the skill and quality of the music is one thing.
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Kendrick being so quiet outside of his music deadass won him a beef and that’s comedy.
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Man Kendrick got all these bloods on a Amazon stream im weak af.
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I think Not Like Us is great but Euphoria checks so many damn boxes.
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Kendrick boosted his all time resume I really think that. Idk what else is missing from his career now.
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Defending Schultz and calling shit slave music what are we doing.
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Album full of hits but we will talk about Gloria when yall ready.
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So, you want to get into Curren$y’s music…. here’s my listeners guide to one of favorite rappers ever and the embodiment of hard work paying off…✈️✈️✈️.
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Kendrick has buried like 3 narratives in the span of 3 weeks is what’s smoking me about all of this 💀.
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Juicy J and Project Pat are brothers.
In the mood for some random Black industry facts. What y’all got for me?.
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I’d show much more grace if he wasn’t a rapper and didn’t Make all these grand statements about the state of music.
Yachty was in what like the first grade when Black Album dropped? Lol come on dawg.
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To me… . 1. Lack of gatekeeping .2. Hiphop media not really being hiphop media .3. The OG and rapper disconnect .4. Not learning the history of the genre you are in. 5. People treating hiphop as too much of a side hustle .6. Streaming.
who really ruined hip hop is the question.
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You can critique rappers on politics but when we start critiquing them harder than politicians that’s where my disconnect is.
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Swizz Beatz instrumentals sound like if you dropped a bunch of random kitchen items at 2AM in the morning.
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Does Wayne have a right to be upset? Yes. Do people have a right to question Wayne’s ability to perform in 2024 on a stage such as the Super Bowl? To a degree, yes. Do people need to stop using Wayne as a proxy to get off their disdain for Kendrick and Jay-Z? Yes.
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I’m not gonna act like label management isn’t a big issue but how well rounded Kendrick is also plays a massive part. Especially with Hooks and how accessible he is.
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He literally just got off the Mr morale tour lmao.
Notice how Kendrick didn't perform anything from Mr. Morale. He's my guy but I BEEN telling yall about that album! Performing songs 10+ years old. It's his worst album.
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Yall def think conscious rap is rapping over a certain production style lmao.
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So much talk about milking a song and not enough about music should not have such a short lifespan cause streaming pulls attention everywhere.
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Kendrick is able to do successfully on a mainstream level what Lupe could not as successfully. Both extremely talented rappers with ones skillset and management have help him more commercially.
Why does Lupe have so much animosity for Kendrick?.
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This actually needs to be taken a step further. It’s not Hot Ones and Sneaker shopping that’s doing rap media badly. It’s shit like the breakfast club, these alt right media blogs etc. the people who are suppose to be doing the good stuff not doing it.
Tyler The Creator says artists need to stop going on Sneaker Shopping & Hot Ones and talk about the music during his interview with Nardwuar 👀 thoughts ?
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I don’t hate Trapsoul at all, but if any album has had a net negative impact, it’s that one. So many male R&B artists try to go for that template and it sucks.
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That nigga wanna be jay z, Nas and pac all at the same time lmao.
if only k****** was a socialist man he’d be the undisputed GOAT artist to me.
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Song? They not like us . Diss? Meet the grahams.
Question. No bias. What is the best song out of this whole beef?.
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Sometimes his flow can do a lot of the heavy lifting for mediocre bars.
drake is a really good rapper but the beef exposed how redundant his punchline setups can be. from 8am in charlotte to scary hours 3 to heart part 6, the style gets predictable.
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I’m really not rocking with the internet already decided against Drake angle because media and streamers were very much on his side.
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Him losing on the lyrical front was one thing but him losing when it came to the hits was something I didn’t even expect.
Drake was “never going to win” because he’s not the better artist. Like preferences aside if u don’t have wool duct taped over your eyes the shit is obvious. And u can get that direct from his recent music literally.
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Like this is hip-hop. What are we doing.
"kendrick raps over JAZZ SAMPLES" is not the roast some of you guys think it is.
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Chicago - Capital Steez (prod. MF DOOM) . RIP STEELO and Doom
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A solid jab that i would’ve respected more if he didn’t leak it first to test the waters.
Push Ups was really like that to y’all? Lmao.
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Nobody said Kendrick wasn’t talented. He’s a 1 of 1 rapper. But the amount of unity behind him/dr.dre and the lack of missteps in his early career got him to where he was at on top of being an incredible musician.
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Seems like the allure of Kanye’s music is fully gone I felt like Donda still had some legit curiosity behind it.
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People underrate how much video game soundtracks helped younger listeners get into hip-hop.
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BACK TO BACK I LIKE THAT RECORD LEMME GET BACK TO THAT FOR THE RECORD.
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TPAB is also a crazy risk to take off of coming GKMC but had incredible payoff, on the Spotify podcast they were talking about how everyone was kinda pressuring him to make sure to not move away from his core audience.
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Rap like WHO? And sing like WHO?.
HOV best rapper all time but Drake really the best artist ever. How you rap like HOV & sing like Mike.
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I’m so glad somebody finally touched on this. The 5 year span between DAMN and MMTBS and honestly Kendrick not dropping super often and being so quiet contributed to this. It was probably alot of people first time really tuning into him a music.
Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" not only won him his battle against Drake, it connected him with Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha in a way his music hadn't before. LINK FOR FULL STORY:
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What’s that one underrated Kendrick Lamar feature?.
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The whole appeal of Kendrick is his ability to make concept albums while also being commercially accessible. It’s a very hard thing to do.
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Yall are spiraling man.
Kendrick Lamar is being accused of stealing lines from battle rappers for his euphoria diss track
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Lol Kendrick just dropped like 3 songs with 3 verses and it don’t even feel like it.
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The ability to rap and produce at high level like this is kinda nuts. Also love the sample
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I don’t encourage younger listenters to explore older hiphop to sound grumpy, it’s just that it’s literally history.
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Slightly unrelated. But i feel like once niggas get out of that ‘’real hip-hop’’ phase they realize it’s a spectrum.
J. Cole admits that he once was hesitant to accept new generation rappers, like Soulja Boy at the time.
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AP English is so funny because if you listen those guys vocabulary isn’t some super complex thing you can’t understand 😭 like what.
Drake rap better than all you niggas man. ya say fake deep shit and use AP English words and swear ya real MCs. ya niggas SUCK.
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Yall pop fans trying to disguise yallselves as hiphop fans and it’s so funny.
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Hiphop should never revolve around 3 or 4 people but the media places an illusion to make it that way. Everybody has their place. Being apart of the genre and being THEE genre two different things.
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I really think what ATCQ brought to hiphop really gets undersold. Them not existing alters so much.
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To pimp a butterfly incredible but Kendrick hits another gear around the halfway mark.
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He ain’t attacking biracial he attacking Drake. He is literally telling him that he only black when it’s convenient and he isn’t secure in his blackness. Stop spinning it another way.
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My thing with Kendrick is that people are acting like the accolades pre-beef are made up. I think the only negative thing (outside of certain politics) people said was left on his resume was being battle tested. He already sold well, already was considering a all time mc etc.
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There were clear label missteps on Lupes side of the fence and it’s kinda interesting because he still got two classic albums and an incredible mixtape catalog: and is known as one of the greatest lyricist ever.
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Bruh this nigga rapping over this ominous ass piano he had enough 💀.
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Kendrick is much more creative than that AI diss floating around. I already know that nigga finna use a abnormal amount of Adlibs and tone changes.
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I think Kendrick 100% had more to gain than Drake had to lose in this beef and i said it earlier. The west is known for the hardest disses in rap history and Kendrick being battle tested needed to be checked off of his list.
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Travis literally got away unscathed for telling niggas to play that diss like 2 weeks before it dropped 💀.
Akademiks says a huge rapper, who people assume is a good friend of Drake, "hates him too" 🤔. Thoughts?
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I keep saying Niggas talk about rap like basketball instead of a art form and it hurts any discourse of the genre.
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Once again the fake mole shit does not make sense it the slightest.
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Because I don’t think many people know what that word means.
Meet the Grahams is so wild, Kendrick called that man a beard and it barely got discussed.
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Carti and Kendrick probably got the most anticipated rap albums on the planet currently. I’d put Clipse 3rd on that list after.
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- him bringing up the extortion talk knowing that can be easily flipped .- Taylor made and the AI voices .- the slave bar .- moving too fast imo and not really knowing his opponent that well. There’s more but that’s what i took from it.
Despite rapping at a high level, Drake made several crucial, head scratching mistakes tactically in this battle that I would love to sit down and ask him about.
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Hello?.
Your favorite rapper may be suffering from Ozempic Face ©️.
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‘’My Friends Went to War, I Walked Away All With They Blood on Me’’ this bar alone pisses me off for so many reasons man.
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Noname would 100% not be endorsing her lmao.
Noname was right there Kamala….
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Y’all aren’t mad at ‘’lazy sampling’’ y’all are mad at nostalgia fishing.
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Really don’t care how much people talk about this beef it’s probably the biggest rap battle we will ever see for a time.
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Kendrick makes it clear he doesn’t want to be stagnant and flexes the duality of his pen on GNX. Talked about GNX, and one of my favorite things about Kendrick his the duality of his pen and how much pride he has in his musicianship. Check it out 👇🏾.
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That nigga don’t fuck with everybody and if you take Drake out the equation for the economy of rap wouldn’t that force listeners to listen to other artists?.
The “culture” tryna kill off the nigga that fuck with everybody. That make every nigga some bread for a nigga we never see lol I can’t go for it dawg I’m sorry. And I fw both sides but that shit bad for the economy of rap.
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And then you got a sector of people who say ‘’you need to listen to more genres besides rap’’ but they rarely suggest other black music. yall know what I’m getting at.
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Future is literally a dungeon family product this why this 3K convo so funny.
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DAMN is Kendrick’s ‘’graduation’’ to a degree. Extremely accessible without sacrificing ‘’too’ much and it’s built for big stages.
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Too many of his statements either don’t match the work/his actions, or are just plain wrong.
Yachty tries so hard to come off as this eccentric genius lmao.
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That brother has a album with Mos Def he is not slept on. And it’s his own damn fault for being weird.
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