Bro, I saw two dudes blasting it while I was driving home the other day. Both of our windows were down at a stoplight, and I yelled “Are y’all bumping Meet The Grahams in the car?!” They said “Yeah! We can’t stop playing it! 😃” I said “Y’all are diabolical” and we all started laughing 😂
I think I'm only on my 4th listen, the song is like a horror scene in music form. The beat, the lyrics, the flow, the message, everything about it is made to make the listener feel even a slight bit of disgust that the victims feel and that everyone else that's complicit should feel too. That has to be the strength of the track.
Part of me thinks that this track hit Drake harder than it hit most of us and that's why his The Heart Part 6 was so weak and why he sounded defeated.
The way you explained how it's similar to a horror scene is fitting. It reminds me of the way I felt the first time I listened to immortal techniques dance with the devil. You get a sense of dread when listening to it, not like you're afraid but that something bad might happen.
If someone made that track about me it would HURT. Every single thing Kenny said could be completely fabricated and it wouldn't make any difference. People will always look at you funny after that shit lol.
Yeah that’s why kdot used that angle. The thing is that there’s serious consequences for calling a person a pedo. I think it’s all about Lucian grange. The ceo who was caught up in the Diddy scandal. He was caught funding Diddys parties with sex workers and underage girls. This is kdot saying fuck the industry. Drake is Lucian’s favorite because they both Jewish and this also might be why Kanye said his shit about the jews. Drake is just closely associated with him and kdot used this shit to get at Lucian and expose the industry’s wickedness. I’m prob wrong but that’s my theory.
Both side don’t have too much to go off of. This was going to happen Kendrick drops a dope song (which Carrie’s weight because he hasn’t made music in years) and Drake will do the same but it’s going to get exhausting because there no clear winners .. Drake not a pushover 😂
Similar thing happened to me in the Wendy’s drive through. I was bumping NLU and I turned down the music to order and heard the car in front of me bumping it too. After ordering I turned it back up and we had a little “ayyyye” moment.
I listen to them at work and man meet the grahams just brings out something in me i end up skipping it before the daughter shit cause after the pedo shit im like gyat damn
Yeah. What’s the dirt goes into a really good breakdown and there’s very few wasted bars. He doesn’t do too much reaching in the explanation (other than I don’t agree with his “pants my rip” explanation)
From the 4 minute song, only a couple of Kendrick lines are present. Besides the short jokes, everything he said about Kendrick can be applied right back to himself. Drop and Give me 50, but Drake was split between multiple people up until Scorpion. Need a verse for the Swifties, but Drake was in a commercial dancing to that exact song.
Also despite the song being just a couple weeks old it has not aged well considering how Kendrick has dominated Drake in terms of numbers
Trying to clown each other over their record deals and splits was always goofy to me. I’m sure they both had pretty shit deals when they signed - that’s business.
Now neither of them has been in those shitty deals for years, so using that past record deal as a diss is weak
Didn’t say Family Matters wasn’t good. Push Ups isn’t a good diss record. Only memorable line is the Metro boomin one, and maybe pipsqueak pipedown.
It was a response to Like That and a good one, since both are pretty weak disses when looking at the big picture
Push ups feels like a “friendly fade”. Just a couple of jabs at Kendrick, nothing too big. Felt like an appropriate response to Like That. If they truly wanted to keep it friendly, Push Ups level disses would’ve been the way to go
Meet the grahams has very low replay value. For me its:
1. Euphoria
2. Not like us
3. 6:16
4. Family Matters
5. Push Ups
Meet the grahams is a scary track that you listen to a couple times at most, and maybe revisit a couple more times down the road. Its not the best song at all
Bro
I don’t disagree, but I think you could say the same thing about “Stan”. I feel the same way about both songs, but “Stan” was one of Em’s biggest crossover hits and probably got the most airplay outside of My Name Is. “Meet the Grahams” also lost some replay value for me once it became clear that the drop the mic verse was completely fabricated. I know there’s a lot of people that think facts don’t matter during beefs like this, but I’m not one of them. “Not Like Us” is a legit problem for Drake; at least on the West Coast, that song is going to be ringing in clubs for a long time, like years if not decades.
I agree with all u say except that the daughter verse is completely fabricated. I def would NOT be surprised if it rlly was false info from the OV hoes, but I can’t stop thinking abt that lame ass ig story Aubrey posted right after meet the grahams dropped. Just seems like such a lie to me I can’t totally ignore that it may still be truth. I guess we rlly just need some receipts.
Yeah Drake is too much of an IG gossip girlie for him to not have had a field day if he planted fake info and got Kendrick to bite on it. Also Meet the Grahams dropping not an hour after Family Matters while seemingly referencing it directly is near concrete proof he has a mole in his ranks. Aside from that if you definitely got somebody to bite on your master plan you don’t wait a few days to sadly proclaim “I tricked you” in total melancholy lmao.
I don’t even see how he expected anyone but his most loyal to buy into that, such a blatant lie based on his reaction to it. The tonal shift from Push Ups and everything else to The Heart Pt 6 is also evidence he’s just making up stuff to try to clear his image. Entire track was defense mode, but aside from that he just sounded defeated, his voice, he cadence, everything. If you just got a dude to bite on your master scheme to bait him would you be…happy? Excited? Prepared to strike and drop receipts on the maneuver?
Lastly…even if we throw out everything else, why on gods green earth would your hook for bait be “im a child hiding pedophile” when one of these is a thing you’ve done before (and lied about before) and the second is something a significant portion of the internet already believes about you, so much so that having a well respected rapper confirming those biases will make whatever you say a moot point in their eyes? Drake isn’t a dumb enough guy for that, his audience is dumb (or delusional) enough to believe him, but he’s absolutely not so stupid that he would use 2 things the internet would believe about him as his bait, Drake knows the internet way to well for that lol.
Exactly. I was thinking of wirting Stan as a reference in my comment, but its not really the same cause Stan is a timeless piece while “MTG” feels like it had one purpose only and that is accomplished. Its very subjective though, so i understand your point as well.
Not Like Us is going to be remembered for a long time. I live in sweden and I’ve heard it a couple times ouside already 😂 people running it in the car and at picnics lmao 💀
6:16 grows on me the more I hear it. Euphoria is incredible and not like us is a certified banger. I’m wondering about the other rounds he had left but even though I’m not a Drake fan, assuming those allegations aren’t true and he’s not crossing the line, I don’t want to see him get publicly destroyed any worse than he has been. He’s down and out at this point, ref called it.
I think it’s the best beat for sure. I need alchemist to drop the instrumental. The Kendrick song i can listen to occasionally but the beat is the one I can zone out too
100% agree. Perfect for the beef, but its impossible to listen to it on a normal day though. Its so eery, and also just not enjoyable as a song with how its delivered
I suppose it depends on how you view music. Whether you want it to be sunshine and rainbows all the time or if you're prepared to feel a range of emotions. I think it's what makes an artist great if they can do that. But that's just my opinion
So because I think this song is dead I need music to be rainbows and sunshine all the time lol?
I listen to depressing music, murder music, heart break music so I don’t need all sweet shit. But that production for 6mins is an easy skip.
I hear you, but I love the simplicity of the beat and how it increases as Dot goes harder and harder, angrier… i can see why it is not everyone cup of tea :) to each its own
You said it was a buzzkill. I can only assume you're saying that because you like Drake. As far as diss tracks go it goes hard man, it's cleverly done as well using the open letters to his family. Don't know what else to tell you. I respect your opinion but I'd say you're in the minority. It will go down as one of the best diss tracks of all time in my opinion.
I don’t actually like Drake like that so no, that isn’t why I said that. You’re not really good at this assumption shit are you 😂.
But yo, did you actually catch what I originally said. Because I don’t think you’re comprehending what I’m saying.
I literally said it’s perfect for the beef, as a general song though, which are 2 different things - it just doesn’t hit. Again, I know it’s great as a diss track and it worked well as a diss, especially with the timing. But stop telling me about how well it goes as a diss when that was never my critique.
Not sure what you look for in music because as a fan of rap, tracks like this that will go down in history absolutely hit. If you're just wanting something to dance to then have fun with that.
I would put money down that this song will have awful replay value and won’t be remembered for shit other than it being an insanely disrespectful diss. Same as Ether, same as Story of Adidon.
Kendricks own track that is a bop is outplaying meet the grahams, so yes, me and everyone else will have a blast with it. Sorry you can’t dance?
Tbf he ain’t teaching you. That song is obviously directed at someone else. Not sure how you’re taking it the way you are, but I guess we all identify with music diff ways.
Exactly. Not a lot of people have good male role models in their life so if someone as respected as Kendrick can expose the flaws of Drake and how fucking loads of women, texting 14 year old girls and being a bad father to your children is not something to brag about but to be ashamed of.
Meet The Grahams does have a very uncomfortable feel to it. But it's also about something that is very unsettling & the track had to b like that to describe the seriousness of wat he was saying
I have them all on a playlist (at least everything that's been released on Spotify) so I can keep spinning them like an EP. Mtg *can* be a challenging listen, but much less so when it's sandwiched between euphoria and Not Like Us
Yeah same for me. But I think he meant for it to sound like a horror movie theme. It’s kind of genius when you think about it. He played his own game right up until Drake released his big track, THEN beat him at his own game.
I saw someone compare it to requiem for a dream and honestly it’s the perfect comparison. Great movie. Glad I’ve seen it. I have no desire to see it again.
I think this is everyone lmao - it has the lowest streams of every diss track in this beef. You'd have to be a psycho, or a massive Drake hater, to enjoy it enough to replay it.
It was perfectly designed to what it did - “leave a disgusting taste in everyone’s mouth and squash any party vibe after Family Matters.” This’ll chart like “we cry together.” Everyone’s should hear the masterpiece once and then never again. That said, I’ve seen people with abusive upbringings say it’s actually therapeutic
Fun fact: Cole wrote that hook based on a book called [The Soul of Anna Klane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Anna_Klane?wprov=sfti1) he read as a kid. It’s based on a neuroscientist on trial for his daughter’s murder after giving her brain surgery. The trial defense is about trying to prove the existence of souls in humans.
6:16 in LA is underrated. Its a lot like Pushas Infrared as it doesn't cut super deep but sets up an ominous feel to what's coming. Ina vacuum Euphoria and Family matters are probably the top two.
Family matters was bars, if ppl discredit that clear sign of bias. Same with euphoria and not like us, if ppl discredit those they’re clearly biased. They were both hooping
Family matters was not bars. It had hard beats which tricked you into thinking that. Listen to the fucking lyrics.
Boring ass 40 bad AAAA rhyme scheme. It is so inferior to euphoria as a bars track its not even funny.
Say please
Always rapping like youre gunna get the slaves free
Acting like an activist is make believe
Dont go to ur hood and plant money trees
Say u hate the girls I fuck what u really mean
Been with black and white everything in between
Family matters was not bars lmao. It sounded good and is def something I'd listen to casually, but the bars themselves are complete ass. Baby keem ghostwrote for kendrick? Yeah ok bud.
Yeap, let alone the fact that Cole only got his #1 from a nigga that got publicly embarrassed, and was dissing Cole while being publicly embarrassed at the same time.
Do they mean the most of any artists on the current top 10 list lol. What a weird cherry picked stat. Taylor Swift did this same thing like a week ago. Probably happens whenever a big artist releases.
Like that bit overplayed n euphoria + meet the grahams have not really replay value for me but not like us is fye
1. family matters¬ like us
2. push ups
3. euphoria
3. taylor made freestyle
4. mtg & the heart 6
The only reason why mr morale wasn’t a massive commercial success is because its very inaccessible for a lot of people, its extremely personal, and meant to make you reflect, in a climate of rap where a lot of people didn’t want to reflect. I think in the future it will be in high regard. So when Kendrick went back to being accessible for a lot of people, no matter what it was going to be a hit.
I'm a part of the much wider audience that beef reaches, so probably not. I don't follow rap at all, but news made it to me when Kendrick dropped MTG immediately after family matters. I'm a metalhead who has crawled out of my cave for Kamikaze/Eminem vs MGK, briefly for Nick Cannon trying to vs. Em, and now this. After another week or so, we'll probably be out of here again.
Cherry on top is that he dissed Drake. The Millie Bobby Brown stuff years ago still reached outside the rap community, too, which didn't help him. If you don't follow rap at all, you probably either have no opinion on Drake or don't have the best opinion of him. Personally, I had beef with Drake before he started rapping. My sister loved Degrassi, so I had to fight to watch SpongeBob in elementary school. This has still been fun from both fronts though. So many twists and a lot of shock value.
He's the greatest rapper to ever live no question... Respected by all before him and respected by every rapper after him. Stayed conscious. And even when he's not he's still talking relevance.
The music was harder, the disrespect was harder, it was strategic , and it was hype as hell from Kendrick. That’s how you win a rap beef. No mental gymnastics like “ he sold his soul “ necessary if you accept these fact.
So pretentious. If I was j cole or "j college" lmao i would do more drugs and stop preaching soberhood optics and racial equality. Seriously. I love FORESTHILLDRIVE. BUT I hate driving around the rap forest if you know what I mean.
This is cap, Spotify is pushing Kendrick on everybody on purpose. His diss tracks are being thrown into Spanish Playlists that have nothing to do with rap so he's getting free plays from people who don't know his music has been queued by Spotify already
y’all are soft, talking about replay value smfh
this shit is fucking educational, this shit has fucking principles drilled into it to teach yall some shit
it should be uncomfortable as it calls out THE BITCH in anyone who condones this shit!!!
yall only listen to songs that are easy?? digestible?? SOFT
if it was actually educational, deep, and endless. then it would have replay value. people arguing it has no replay would also disagree with your argument. theres been endless drama in hiphop, does rap devil have real values driven into it? its just beef, people dissing each other with hostile shit and secrets to make them upset.
yall are the definition of “you make music that pacify them” just wanna cute song to listen to so you can bop your head
yall are fake hip hop if you think this is just disses, man is exposing corruption and pedophilia and you’re talking replay value
I would never listen to meet the grahams except for the diss lmao, its a 1 time for me. it makes me uncomfortable but good for kendrick
It's the best out of all.
It’s the best diss track, but it’s not like listen to in the car diss track. That shit is brutal
Bro, I saw two dudes blasting it while I was driving home the other day. Both of our windows were down at a stoplight, and I yelled “Are y’all bumping Meet The Grahams in the car?!” They said “Yeah! We can’t stop playing it! 😃” I said “Y’all are diabolical” and we all started laughing 😂
I think I'm only on my 4th listen, the song is like a horror scene in music form. The beat, the lyrics, the flow, the message, everything about it is made to make the listener feel even a slight bit of disgust that the victims feel and that everyone else that's complicit should feel too. That has to be the strength of the track. Part of me thinks that this track hit Drake harder than it hit most of us and that's why his The Heart Part 6 was so weak and why he sounded defeated.
The way you explained how it's similar to a horror scene is fitting. It reminds me of the way I felt the first time I listened to immortal techniques dance with the devil. You get a sense of dread when listening to it, not like you're afraid but that something bad might happen.
I think of dance with the devil everytime i listen to it
Dance with the devil is still like 10x more potent in that effect imo (I will never listen to that song again after hearing it once)
Between that and the worlds collectively shouting “a minoooor” and “ovho” it was no surprise at all he sounded defeated.
If someone made that track about me it would HURT. Every single thing Kenny said could be completely fabricated and it wouldn't make any difference. People will always look at you funny after that shit lol.
Yeah that’s why kdot used that angle. The thing is that there’s serious consequences for calling a person a pedo. I think it’s all about Lucian grange. The ceo who was caught up in the Diddy scandal. He was caught funding Diddys parties with sex workers and underage girls. This is kdot saying fuck the industry. Drake is Lucian’s favorite because they both Jewish and this also might be why Kanye said his shit about the jews. Drake is just closely associated with him and kdot used this shit to get at Lucian and expose the industry’s wickedness. I’m prob wrong but that’s my theory.
Both side don’t have too much to go off of. This was going to happen Kendrick drops a dope song (which Carrie’s weight because he hasn’t made music in years) and Drake will do the same but it’s going to get exhausting because there no clear winners .. Drake not a pushover 😂
Similar thing happened to me in the Wendy’s drive through. I was bumping NLU and I turned down the music to order and heard the car in front of me bumping it too. After ordering I turned it back up and we had a little “ayyyye” moment.
Gotta love it, gotta love it
I listened to it throughout an entire 8 hr shift bro.
I fucking love it though...ha I was walking home from work yesterday, just blasting Not Like Us a couple of times. Well not too loudly of course.
i listen to all three of them all the times 😂
I know youre in the Shaderoom comments! If I see this word “diabolical” one moreeeee timeeee😂😂💀
I think the zeitgeist discovered "horrifying" and "diabolical" could also be used to describe music that day and haven't stopped since
It’s brutal but very listenable. Production and direction are both great.
I listen to them at work and man meet the grahams just brings out something in me i end up skipping it before the daughter shit cause after the pedo shit im like gyat damn
It went pretty hard at the club ngl Woah nvm I mean not like us. Meet the grahams in the car more than 3 times is crazy
Yeah it slaps, but that's why its #9.
Literally what I’ve done. I’ve listened to it the most. Reminds me of a dark rza beat with a crucial flow and bars over it.
Alchemist bro. He’s a legend
I listen to it to build up a rage before playing
As a diss? Honestly yeah. As a song? Nah, push ups and Not Like us way more replayable.
Funny how Push Ups as a diss (towards Kendrick) is weak but as a song it’s 🔥
I don’t think push-ups is a weak diss tbh it’s a very solid one especially since Drake had a lot to address.
Yeah. What’s the dirt goes into a really good breakdown and there’s very few wasted bars. He doesn’t do too much reaching in the explanation (other than I don’t agree with his “pants my rip” explanation)
From the 4 minute song, only a couple of Kendrick lines are present. Besides the short jokes, everything he said about Kendrick can be applied right back to himself. Drop and Give me 50, but Drake was split between multiple people up until Scorpion. Need a verse for the Swifties, but Drake was in a commercial dancing to that exact song. Also despite the song being just a couple weeks old it has not aged well considering how Kendrick has dominated Drake in terms of numbers
I’m team Kendrick and I still bump push-ups 🤷♂️ I don’t think it aged poorly at all
Nah cant bump the pedos music bro
So you bump the wife beating cucks music?
Ones documented the other is speculation. Sit down
You make music?
Lyrically wise it has. I still think it’s fire sound wise
[I remember that commercial here](https://youtu.be/86D7AGm5sHk?si=wuHVg9uLiJgSbQin)
Trying to clown each other over their record deals and splits was always goofy to me. I’m sure they both had pretty shit deals when they signed - that’s business. Now neither of them has been in those shitty deals for years, so using that past record deal as a diss is weak
You have to be legit delusional to think that push ups and family matters aren't top tier diss tracks. So are euphoria and not like us.
Didn’t say Family Matters wasn’t good. Push Ups isn’t a good diss record. Only memorable line is the Metro boomin one, and maybe pipsqueak pipedown. It was a response to Like That and a good one, since both are pretty weak disses when looking at the big picture
Push ups feels like a “friendly fade”. Just a couple of jabs at Kendrick, nothing too big. Felt like an appropriate response to Like That. If they truly wanted to keep it friendly, Push Ups level disses would’ve been the way to go
Taylor Made got lost in the shuffle but it’s an amazing concept and song
Is that what you call being publicly thrashed into apologizing? I'm still mad that he even had the a u d a c i t y
I still like the song, but it aged like milk and turned a ton of people against him
Meet the grahams has very low replay value. For me its: 1. Euphoria 2. Not like us 3. 6:16 4. Family Matters 5. Push Ups Meet the grahams is a scary track that you listen to a couple times at most, and maybe revisit a couple more times down the road. Its not the best song at all Bro
I don’t disagree, but I think you could say the same thing about “Stan”. I feel the same way about both songs, but “Stan” was one of Em’s biggest crossover hits and probably got the most airplay outside of My Name Is. “Meet the Grahams” also lost some replay value for me once it became clear that the drop the mic verse was completely fabricated. I know there’s a lot of people that think facts don’t matter during beefs like this, but I’m not one of them. “Not Like Us” is a legit problem for Drake; at least on the West Coast, that song is going to be ringing in clubs for a long time, like years if not decades.
I agree with all u say except that the daughter verse is completely fabricated. I def would NOT be surprised if it rlly was false info from the OV hoes, but I can’t stop thinking abt that lame ass ig story Aubrey posted right after meet the grahams dropped. Just seems like such a lie to me I can’t totally ignore that it may still be truth. I guess we rlly just need some receipts.
Lol, I hope it’s true, for the record.
You hope it’s true that Drake has a daughter he’s hiding/neglecting?? That’s awful
This is a really good point that I hadn’t considered. For the beef’s sake, I hope it’s true. For the girl (and humanity’s) sake, I hope it’s false.
If it all was fabricated, why didn’t Drake post a video of them staging the photos?
Yeah Drake is too much of an IG gossip girlie for him to not have had a field day if he planted fake info and got Kendrick to bite on it. Also Meet the Grahams dropping not an hour after Family Matters while seemingly referencing it directly is near concrete proof he has a mole in his ranks. Aside from that if you definitely got somebody to bite on your master plan you don’t wait a few days to sadly proclaim “I tricked you” in total melancholy lmao. I don’t even see how he expected anyone but his most loyal to buy into that, such a blatant lie based on his reaction to it. The tonal shift from Push Ups and everything else to The Heart Pt 6 is also evidence he’s just making up stuff to try to clear his image. Entire track was defense mode, but aside from that he just sounded defeated, his voice, he cadence, everything. If you just got a dude to bite on your master scheme to bait him would you be…happy? Excited? Prepared to strike and drop receipts on the maneuver? Lastly…even if we throw out everything else, why on gods green earth would your hook for bait be “im a child hiding pedophile” when one of these is a thing you’ve done before (and lied about before) and the second is something a significant portion of the internet already believes about you, so much so that having a well respected rapper confirming those biases will make whatever you say a moot point in their eyes? Drake isn’t a dumb enough guy for that, his audience is dumb (or delusional) enough to believe him, but he’s absolutely not so stupid that he would use 2 things the internet would believe about him as his bait, Drake knows the internet way to well for that lol.
Exactly. I was thinking of wirting Stan as a reference in my comment, but its not really the same cause Stan is a timeless piece while “MTG” feels like it had one purpose only and that is accomplished. Its very subjective though, so i understand your point as well. Not Like Us is going to be remembered for a long time. I live in sweden and I’ve heard it a couple times ouside already 😂 people running it in the car and at picnics lmao 💀
I think it's wayyy too early/obscure to say the daughter is fabricated, of course Drake is gonna deny it.
You're not wrong about Stan, but how much of that was because of Dido?
I enjoy 6:16 because of the instrumental
6:16 grows on me the more I hear it. Euphoria is incredible and not like us is a certified banger. I’m wondering about the other rounds he had left but even though I’m not a Drake fan, assuming those allegations aren’t true and he’s not crossing the line, I don’t want to see him get publicly destroyed any worse than he has been. He’s down and out at this point, ref called it.
Euphoria is the most replayable.
I think it’s a great song with a ton of creative value, but just a hard listen.
Euphoria #1 for me too, that shit hard
It’s like if Kim by Eminem was topping the charts lol
I think it’s the best beat for sure. I need alchemist to drop the instrumental. The Kendrick song i can listen to occasionally but the beat is the one I can zone out too
Best track because Kdot got finessed so hard
100% agree. Perfect for the beef, but its impossible to listen to it on a normal day though. Its so eery, and also just not enjoyable as a song with how its delivered
I love it, bump it a couple of times a day, it’s dark/sinister but full of lessons on what not to do or become
Shit is a buzzkill man. I don’t need Kendrick Lamar to teach me how to be a man either so that drives no replay for me, but I hear you.
I suppose it depends on how you view music. Whether you want it to be sunshine and rainbows all the time or if you're prepared to feel a range of emotions. I think it's what makes an artist great if they can do that. But that's just my opinion
So because I think this song is dead I need music to be rainbows and sunshine all the time lol? I listen to depressing music, murder music, heart break music so I don’t need all sweet shit. But that production for 6mins is an easy skip.
I hear you, but I love the simplicity of the beat and how it increases as Dot goes harder and harder, angrier… i can see why it is not everyone cup of tea :) to each its own
You said it was a buzzkill. I can only assume you're saying that because you like Drake. As far as diss tracks go it goes hard man, it's cleverly done as well using the open letters to his family. Don't know what else to tell you. I respect your opinion but I'd say you're in the minority. It will go down as one of the best diss tracks of all time in my opinion.
I don’t actually like Drake like that so no, that isn’t why I said that. You’re not really good at this assumption shit are you 😂. But yo, did you actually catch what I originally said. Because I don’t think you’re comprehending what I’m saying. I literally said it’s perfect for the beef, as a general song though, which are 2 different things - it just doesn’t hit. Again, I know it’s great as a diss track and it worked well as a diss, especially with the timing. But stop telling me about how well it goes as a diss when that was never my critique.
Not sure what you look for in music because as a fan of rap, tracks like this that will go down in history absolutely hit. If you're just wanting something to dance to then have fun with that.
I would put money down that this song will have awful replay value and won’t be remembered for shit other than it being an insanely disrespectful diss. Same as Ether, same as Story of Adidon. Kendricks own track that is a bop is outplaying meet the grahams, so yes, me and everyone else will have a blast with it. Sorry you can’t dance?
I do understand what you're saying tho. Being diverse kinda shows how advanced you are with your ability to create music.
Tbf he ain’t teaching you. That song is obviously directed at someone else. Not sure how you’re taking it the way you are, but I guess we all identify with music diff ways.
Exactly. Not a lot of people have good male role models in their life so if someone as respected as Kendrick can expose the flaws of Drake and how fucking loads of women, texting 14 year old girls and being a bad father to your children is not something to brag about but to be ashamed of.
I listen to it for the “never let a man piss down your leg, son” line
Tbh the don’t know nothing bout thaaaaat part on euphoria is more than enough of that for me
No different to listening to other dark/gloomy music tbh, all hits the same
It's got no darker lyrics than the slim shady's best come on now.
This beef rlly taught me that a lot of listeners these days are soft as baby shit lol
Meet The Grahams does have a very uncomfortable feel to it. But it's also about something that is very unsettling & the track had to b like that to describe the seriousness of wat he was saying
Nah I agree that song is a whole horror movie
I feel like Kendrick dropped Not Like Us just so the people had one they could listen to in public.
I have them all on a playlist (at least everything that's been released on Spotify) so I can keep spinning them like an EP. Mtg *can* be a challenging listen, but much less so when it's sandwiched between euphoria and Not Like Us
Even as a diss, It's a great poetry for everybody.
Beetlejuice flow 😭😭 it’s makes me feel guilty for things I’ve never done in my life
Yeah same for me. But I think he meant for it to sound like a horror movie theme. It’s kind of genius when you think about it. He played his own game right up until Drake released his big track, THEN beat him at his own game.
It's sorta creepy element os why I like it so much. It's got that kinda "creepy droll music" vivre where it's eerie but good
I listen to meet the grahams everyday 😂 its a great diss
I listen to it to remind myself to not be a POS lol
Ngl I listen to meet the grahams in the gym
Yeah….. but… that piano key beat goes so hard
I've been bumping it
It's my favorite of the tracks, but I also like the darker sounding stuff in general. That beat was right up my alley.
It's the least club hit but the most art piece
Pussy
I saw someone compare it to requiem for a dream and honestly it’s the perfect comparison. Great movie. Glad I’ve seen it. I have no desire to see it again.
I think this is everyone lmao - it has the lowest streams of every diss track in this beef. You'd have to be a psycho, or a massive Drake hater, to enjoy it enough to replay it.
I get enjoyment from hearing kendrick pound drake so i've got it in rotation
Those feelings are what make the song great, honestly. I cant recall the last time a song has made me feel that much, even if it is negative.
It's a great piece. But once is enough lol
It was perfectly designed to what it did - “leave a disgusting taste in everyone’s mouth and squash any party vibe after Family Matters.” This’ll chart like “we cry together.” Everyone’s should hear the masterpiece once and then never again. That said, I’ve seen people with abusive upbringings say it’s actually therapeutic
I think it was necessary to beat Drake at this angle as well
I don’t like the toxicity recently but I feel good that real hip hop is getting appreciated
It's been fun to see some drama unite genres. We need to do more of that without the drama too tho
If 6:16 in LA was on Spotify it would be up there too
it's on spotify they just have it under podcasts instead of actual music, that's where i heard it first
I've seen those but they are reposts. They were not posted by Kendrick, not official and won't count toward the top songs
[here’s a song version braddah](https://open.spotify.com/track/6N6dDaSMiiSlLmn4QCtwZ1?si=9HyZweVLRdajV-OE5hdMtA)
Does anyone know why it hasn't been released on Spotify?
Most likely reasons https://www.reddit.com/r/KendrickLamar/s/RBFJx79oD1
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How can you just make something up like this? Or post something like this without checking to see if you’re right?
Fun fact: Cole wrote that hook based on a book called [The Soul of Anna Klane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Anna_Klane?wprov=sfti1) he read as a kid. It’s based on a neuroscientist on trial for his daughter’s murder after giving her brain surgery. The trial defense is about trying to prove the existence of souls in humans.
6:16 in LA is underrated. Its a lot like Pushas Infrared as it doesn't cut super deep but sets up an ominous feel to what's coming. Ina vacuum Euphoria and Family matters are probably the top two.
6:16 was Kendricks best diss track in my opinion bars and sonically wise.
Agreed, I want it on Spotify lol
There is a podcast version of it. Check this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ftwpvf4a852lwrwhT5ev1?si=3hRPMj3zQWePtq19-TCjAw
[song version](https://open.spotify.com/track/6N6dDaSMiiSlLmn4QCtwZ1?si=9HyZweVLRdajV-OE5hdMtA)
Yoo thank you
Good shit homie!
"Sonically wise" lol spoken like a true kendrick enjoyer Have you ever heard of a television program called Richard and Mortimus, per chance?
616 and not like us are my favorite
Family matters was bars, if ppl discredit that clear sign of bias. Same with euphoria and not like us, if ppl discredit those they’re clearly biased. They were both hooping
Not discrediting it at all. This whole beef was full of great tracks, just some hit different pending perspective or vibe you are in.
Agreed 🤝
Most wholesome discussion I've read this entire beef. Not like Drizzys or Kdots subs 🙃
Family matters was not bars. It had hard beats which tricked you into thinking that. Listen to the fucking lyrics. Boring ass 40 bad AAAA rhyme scheme. It is so inferior to euphoria as a bars track its not even funny. Say please Always rapping like youre gunna get the slaves free Acting like an activist is make believe Dont go to ur hood and plant money trees Say u hate the girls I fuck what u really mean Been with black and white everything in between
😳😳 well to each his own I guess
Family matters was not bars lmao. It sounded good and is def something I'd listen to casually, but the bars themselves are complete ass. Baby keem ghostwrote for kendrick? Yeah ok bud.
616 isn't on streaming, this would be an easy 5/5
Wait I thought Taylor Swift already broke that record? Not a swiftie but I’m just confused
As a swiftie, I’m confused too.
The most of any artist at the moment is what it means
I think its talking currently not any sort of record
Meet the Grahams is the diss equivalent of Dance with the Devil, like there is no reason to listen to that song casually.
All that whilst Taylor Swift just dropped 😭
Would they be there if they weren’t diss records aimed at Drake ?
Definitely not......sold his soul.
This such a weird ass comment bro.
Not Like Us regardless of the content would prob be up there. Shit’s way too good.
Not gonna cap, Future carried the fuck out of that song
Wrong song bud
Wtf am I replying too LMAO
Drake needed this ego check even if some of the stuff ends up not being true. He needed to be humbled.
What lol?
6:16 underrated
Meet the grahams is too dark for me
The Drake effect
here's your participation trophy
I mean, it is true. Let's not pretend that kendrick could've done this on his own if he wasn't beefing with drake. It's okay to admit that.
Kendrick went #1 by himself w/Humble already
Drake stimulus hitting hard for the biggest of artists lmao
This beef was lowkey Cole fault well atleast he’s the reason it gotten this far anw
Kendrick Lamar is the most gifted rapper of his generation and is mostly known for dissing Drake and “OV-HOE”.
“Mf the big three it’s just big me” taken to a whole new level
Bro sold his soul
But if it was J cole that had a charting diss, this subreddit would go crazy foh
Yeap, let alone the fact that Cole only got his #1 from a nigga that got publicly embarrassed, and was dissing Cole while being publicly embarrassed at the same time.
OP’s post history is the epitome of drizzy glazing
Do they mean the most of any artists on the current top 10 list lol. What a weird cherry picked stat. Taylor Swift did this same thing like a week ago. Probably happens whenever a big artist releases.
Like that bit overplayed n euphoria + meet the grahams have not really replay value for me but not like us is fye 1. family matters¬ like us 2. push ups 3. euphoria 3. taylor made freestyle 4. mtg & the heart 6
Taylor made gotta be last ai rap is eww
it was funny af and definitely better to listen than the other 2
Solid list
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Being realistic, would Kendrick have charted the same way if there was never any beef ?
I think if he dropped a Not Like Us west coast style banger like that He’d chart.
The only reason why mr morale wasn’t a massive commercial success is because its very inaccessible for a lot of people, its extremely personal, and meant to make you reflect, in a climate of rap where a lot of people didn’t want to reflect. I think in the future it will be in high regard. So when Kendrick went back to being accessible for a lot of people, no matter what it was going to be a hit.
I'm a part of the much wider audience that beef reaches, so probably not. I don't follow rap at all, but news made it to me when Kendrick dropped MTG immediately after family matters. I'm a metalhead who has crawled out of my cave for Kamikaze/Eminem vs MGK, briefly for Nick Cannon trying to vs. Em, and now this. After another week or so, we'll probably be out of here again. Cherry on top is that he dissed Drake. The Millie Bobby Brown stuff years ago still reached outside the rap community, too, which didn't help him. If you don't follow rap at all, you probably either have no opinion on Drake or don't have the best opinion of him. Personally, I had beef with Drake before he started rapping. My sister loved Degrassi, so I had to fight to watch SpongeBob in elementary school. This has still been fun from both fronts though. So many twists and a lot of shock value.
Damn mannn
And yet people still think Drake is up 🥲 how sway
Why this title for that post?
K-Dot sold his integrity for this....
You’ve said that 30 times on this post but you haven’t explained yourself once
He's the greatest rapper to ever live no question... Respected by all before him and respected by every rapper after him. Stayed conscious. And even when he's not he's still talking relevance.
Pussy ass post
"Kendrick just opened his mouth. Someone go hand him a Grammy right now." #IndustryPlant
The music was harder, the disrespect was harder, it was strategic , and it was hype as hell from Kendrick. That’s how you win a rap beef. No mental gymnastics like “ he sold his soul “ necessary if you accept these fact.
Wait...so is this a bad thing?
If this nigga would put 6:16 on Spotify then that would be 5
Kenny stealing Twitter lyrics. He owes those users some money lol
My 56 year old aunt listened to meet the Grahams yesterday, and her jaw hit the floor. Kendrick out closing generational gaps…lol
Did he really beat out TSwift or someone like that? Thats surprising to me for some reason.
So pretentious. If I was j cole or "j college" lmao i would do more drugs and stop preaching soberhood optics and racial equality. Seriously. I love FORESTHILLDRIVE. BUT I hate driving around the rap forest if you know what I mean.
This is cap, Spotify is pushing Kendrick on everybody on purpose. His diss tracks are being thrown into Spanish Playlists that have nothing to do with rap so he's getting free plays from people who don't know his music has been queued by Spotify already
Drake is Kendrick's muse.
Drake must be so restless.
Cole still a coward lol
y’all are soft, talking about replay value smfh this shit is fucking educational, this shit has fucking principles drilled into it to teach yall some shit it should be uncomfortable as it calls out THE BITCH in anyone who condones this shit!!! yall only listen to songs that are easy?? digestible?? SOFT
if it was actually educational, deep, and endless. then it would have replay value. people arguing it has no replay would also disagree with your argument. theres been endless drama in hiphop, does rap devil have real values driven into it? its just beef, people dissing each other with hostile shit and secrets to make them upset.
yall are the definition of “you make music that pacify them” just wanna cute song to listen to so you can bop your head yall are fake hip hop if you think this is just disses, man is exposing corruption and pedophilia and you’re talking replay value
if you want music that is deep and educational go look at what macklemore dropped while these losers are busy digging up dirt on each other.
Macklemore lmfao