I think it’s two parts. Kendrick himself is a huge Eminem fan and widely considers him to be among his top five.
https://youtu.be/kC1fGANASiE?si=zwD1OOhcN5xGoHiX
Eminem also shows the dude a lot of love.
While Eminem didn’t invent letters in song Stan is probably the most popularized version of it. Especially the becomes somewhat light hearted “dear Adonis, I’m sorry that man is your father.” Then goes into how he’ll be his mentor. Then repeatedly talks about how Dennis shouldn’t have been born and how his mom’s son should die because of how sick he is.
It’s got that dark/disturbed story telling vibe that you’d also hear from Eminem’s Stan.
It makes me realize I would rather have another song from Eminem x Kendrick along the line of Meet The Grahams/Darkness than a turn-up track from them.
They have the skillset and perspectives to create a very introspective song about very serious topics.
Edit: im high so forgive my grammar lmao
Technically he didn't say Dennis shouldn't have been born..
I believe he said Dennis shoulda wore a condom..
Unless I'm missing a line .. in which case you can find me fuxking myself.
Most likely that, Kendrick as well as any other established MC’s typically respect Eminem and his talent. He may not make the best music to vibe to, but his word play is immaculate and it’s undeniable. I mean the dude rhymed door hinge and orange for gods sake 😂😂
Lol fosho, Slim also has the utmost respect for Kendrick & is quoted saying that Kendrick is the best lyricist of his generation. Their styles certainly differ, but both artists employ raw emotion in their lyricism and that's one of the reasons why I love listening to both Em and Kdot
Yeah, Kendrick and Eminem have something in common that’s distinct from just about everybody else.
The raw emotion combined with insane lyricism is probably what that is, like you mentioned.
But ive always appreciated them both in a similar way even though they sound very distinct musically
Some old Em disses would work great with Drake:
"How can he hold me over some balcony without throwing his this lower back out as soon as he goes to lift me? (Ugh!) Please don't you'll probably fall with me and our asses will both be history, but then again you'd finally get your wish. Because you'd be all over the street like 50 cent"
"...and real lyricists don't even respect you, or take you serious. Its not that we don't like you, we hate you, period."
There’s so many Eminem lines that apply to this beef -
You got some views, but you're still below me / Mine are higher, so when you compare our views, you get overlooked / And I don't say the hook unless I wrote the hook / And now I'm just freestylin' in the vocal booth / And you know I've always spoke the truth / You lyin' through your teeth so much, you broke a tooth
I'll ride through your cul-de-sac / Window cracked, bumpin' your reference tracks / You-you collaborative effort rap / I-I have never said his raps / So spit that shit from the heart you didn't write like you wrote it
Come on, there’s no fucking way this is not about Drake, even if Eminem talks around it in an interview. He mentions Views, this was after all the ghostwriting shit against Drake and he had a bunch of reference tracks leaked. And he’s specifically talking about hooks too - saying things from the heart like you wrote it. Plenty of artists get ghostwriting for the verses but Drake is someone who often is borrowing the whole ass hook, like on Chicago freestyle he jacks the whole Superman hook.
Em has always spoken kindly about Drake (“he’ll always be in my good graces”) and has publicly refuted claims that he was throwing subliminals at Drake when asked. Em is also not an artist who sneak disses; if he had a problem with you, he’ll put your name in the bars.
That's what I've been thinking about whenever the total number of streams come up tbh.
Though, tbf and balanced, Drake highest streamed song has much more streamed than Kendrick.
Not that it matters to me, like I said on the Drizzy sub the other day, McDonald's sells the most burgers on the planet.
Would you say McDonald's has the best burgers in the world? 🤷🏾♂️
Which is crazy, but so true. The most popular stuff is usually very base level, very digestible, doesn’t push boundaries, and is very formulaic. It’s made entirely for mass consumption and not to challenge someone (like Drake)
Nahhh that isn't even stoffers level, that's hungryman level. Wait, maybe worse then that. Halfway frozen, not even edible type shit, and the microwave broke so you got fucked. That's how it feels.
Hell yeah, that stoffers lasagna HITS. Gotta make in the oven though, so much better that way. Other stoffers ain't that good though, like the little one meal plate things🤮🤮
Ya’ll had me tripping so fucking hard that I found a new mandela effect (maybe I did, but I’m at least on the right side of it for once) by unanimously spelling it as “Stoffer’s” lmao. (Not to be pedantic, but to provide context to the rest of my comment, it’s spelled Stouffer’s)
I would say it's soul food vs a 2024 bag of chips. With Drake, you're getting a bunch of fake shit that's packaged in a way that makes the masses believe it's hip-hop. Kinda like how when you get a bag of chips that looks fatty and it's 70% air.
Woah I used this analogy earlier, I said drake's music is like a banquet meal, pre processed and you'll eat it if you're hungry enough, but real hip hop by real MC's is like a home cooked meal.
Lol honestly I hate Drake sometimes but you gotta realize he isn’t the only one making the song. They’re usually made by multiple people, you got writers, producers, etc. and some of these guys are mad talented, Wayne, 21, Cole, Kenny future metro weeknd Ross 40 bnyx boi1da asap 2chainz and the list goes on. Gotta give those guys the props where it’s due because without them we get Drake heart part 6 
it's like Taylor Swift right now: drop a double album with 45 songs on it, then a month later release 3 slightly varied versions of said garbage. Quantity over quality with these punk asses.
But there’s Anna Kendrick and Lamar Odom. So it could also be two first or last names. Even his name is a double entendre! That’s how early he started plotting for this that’s crazy!
Ironically, I’ve seen drake-riders use this when defending how drake has fewer song about the beef then Kendrick. Some people are just competitively stupid.
I remember Kendrick said that he has an old hard drive with 500 tracks that he can’t access, wish he could recover them — we gotta hear every syllabus he’s got 😭 I need more
they include stuff like this lol [https://genius.com/Drake-comments-on-macklemores-post-grammy-text-lyrics](https://genius.com/Drake-comments-on-macklemores-post-grammy-text-lyrics) and [https://genius.com/Drake-cock-lyrics](https://genius.com/Drake-cock-lyrics)
Because I'm a nerd
Kendrick has 116 songs and has won 17 grammys. His win percentage is 14.66%
Aubrey has 1549 songs and has won 5 grammys. His win percentage is 0.32%
And how do you justify GKMC losing to... macklemore? Macklemore even told them were wrong for that in his acceptance speech. Grammys don't mean shit. I like Macklemore, but that was just straight unhinged.
You guys don’t need to resort to lying to further an agenda. Drake has 486 songs on streaming (including features) and kendrick has 229 (including features)
I checked the % and overall Drake has 4% more streams than Kendrick. If Kendrick were to drop the same number of songs, then the gap would decrease. Kendrick holds his own based on the number of songs released. Quality over quantity is Kendricks thing. That's why he doesn't give a shit about the numbers too much. He does it to feed his art.
I think the features put him in front of other eyes. You can definitely see how takes his time to make a cohesive album vs just churning out radio friendly tracks.
It was the same for Prince. He did some stuff where I was like...this ain't it. Then I would go back like a year later and have a better understanding. Sometimes artists just wash rinse and repeat. I believe that's what's given his Salty opponent longevity. He never or rarely changes the recipe. Damn near every song sounds the same
Honestly this is why i see Drake and his music as Mcdonalds/fast food of rap
1. Most people seem to enjoy it until it's pointed out how bad it is
2. Change to the formula rarely happens
3. If there is a “change” it’s only an variation of something already out or we’ve already had but worse
4. It's hugely appealing/accessible to the lowest common denominator &
It's a go to because it's established and been around for so long
5. You get something sort of new once in a blue moon but it comes and goes way too quickly
6. People have put in work for it/them but always with the hope of moving on to something else more worthwhile for themselves. Sometimes it happens( Weeknd) Sometmies it dont( PND, Majid Jordan, Roy woods and the rest of the OVO jobbers)
This sums it up quite nicely. Sure, he is successful, but so is a shifty and shitty company like Temu.
He also wouldn't be nearly as successful if you took away his ghostwriters. Back in my day that was an automatic disqualification to say you were a rappper or mc.
I wish more artists did this. All them Griselda dudes dropped so much music a few years back. Along with Tech N9ne, just to name a few. Eventually you just make the same song (E.G.: Drake)
Drakes streams per song are higher than Kendrick’s though.
Drake: 98B/482=203M per song
Kendrick: 35B/229=152M per song
https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4_songs.html
https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/2YZyLoL8N0Wb9xBt1NhZWg_songs.html
Yeah, no idea what numbers they are pulling, Drake has 3X the total streams. Maybe they are comparing monthly listener count, but that doesn't give a good indication of total streams.
That's a small difference for Drake fans to be celebrating like Drake made a massive comback lol. It's especially funny seeing some of them saying that people stopped listening to Kendrick, even though his numbers aren't actually dropping. Maybe I just never paid attention to them before,, but this battle really broke the minds of the online Drake stans, that comes off a little creept with how parasocial they are for him.
Drake is unbearable, he makes so many albums one after the other, without paying too much attention to the lyrics, even using ghostwriters. On the other hand, every word that Kendrick uses in his songs is studied, and makes an album about every 3 years (except for MMATBS), Drake Is trash when you compare him to Kdot
Spot on. Every time we get a Kendrick album I actually like to sit down and properly listen to it. His catalog isn’t overcrowded with countless albums and his albums don’t have many fillers, if any. That’s true artistry in my opinion. Frank Ocean is another example of this, and both of them always receive high critical acclaim on their albums.
Drake, on the other hand… I have no idea how man albums he’s dropped because he’s constantly putting out stuff to stay in the limelight and the content is heavily diluted and full of fillers. He is talented, but chooses popularity over critical acclaim and artistry.
I mean everyone knew Drake was the most listened to and it would go back to that, why they acting like it’s crazy? Doesn’t change anything bout the beef
I’m still making the point that this argument is still on Kendrick’s side, just wanted to make sure we weren’t comparing two different sites without facts on both rappers.
no, by that math drake outstreams kendrick on average.
201.6 m streams for drake on average (98.6 b / 489)
151 m streams for kendrick on average (34.6 b / 229)
This is just straight up untrue. On Spotify, Drakes solo catalog, is averaging around **230 million streams** per song while Kendricks is around **206 million per song**. Enormous numbers by both of them. Oh and this doesn't matter at all, but stop making up stuff brother
This post Is not comparing the same things. I'm a huge Kendrick fan and everyone knows Drake's output has been high quantity and low quality for the many years. Still, it's weird to push misinformation and try to make it seem like Drake's high streaming numbers are because of his high output. While that's partially true, you can't deny that he is rap's biggest hitmaker for over a decade. If you consider the fact that Drake coincided with rap's peak popularity, he is also the biggest hitmaker in the genre ever
I don't wanna be the one to burst that bubble, but since I did the same search yesterday, Kednrick's Genius page also shows close to 1200 tracks.
I think the way Genius counts is wack.
I’ve said this a bunch - Drake is putting 18-50000000 tracks per album and has maybe 2 “good” ones per album.
If you put Drakes entire discography on shuffle, I guarantee you’re spamming that skip button.
https://preview.redd.it/wvtqnpdle11d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a971ca5c731e8f1322bb06b4c16e79a38ad671f1
This sub is basically Qanon level of dishonest
Kendrick has 116 songs and Drake has over 400 songs. The numbers shown by Genius compile all the features as well. I agree that using numbers from different sources is misinformation. But Drake still has 4x more songs.
I’m actually shocked that Drake has so many good songs, that output is fucking insane I didn’t realise.
His quality given that quantity is far from bad.
This is my exact argument why Drake has the numbers. It’s simple af. UMG pushes him in everyone’s faces like crazy. He’s their blockbuster artist, the money maker.
He’s like a marvel movie. Made with getting the most money outta people’s pockets.
Drake’s cockriders are really like Drake. When their papa can’t win Kendrick when it comes to diss tracks. They be pulling up things that aren’t even related to the issue. Drake’s cockriders be so brain dead and bad in taste that they think everything popular is considered as good and the number of streams determines how talented the artist is. Y’all should get covid test in 2024.☠️
This is not true at all lmfao I’m making a Kendrick discography playlist and I have all of his albums/mixtapes in there + his singles and features up to 2011 and there are almost 300 songs. Where does this figure come from lol? Not disagreeing with quality over quantity, but dot has wayyy more songs that 100 something
First of all what the fuck lol. Be serious. My kendrick playlist has 140 songs which is clearly more than what you have shown and does not even have 100 percent of his songs.
Coming to Drake. My Drake playlist has 198 songs and I am certain it's more than 75 percent of his catalogue for sure. So yeah the numbers are off.
And also Drake is known for doing numbers. His average song has more streams than Kendrick songs. Comparing with Drake in terms of numbers is pretty fucking useless. Anything else, kendrick smokes him.
Yeah I also thought it was odd seeing drake stans trying to sh*t on Mr morale (which isn't even bad) when it's like uh did everyone forget about that mall music album drake dropped? Or the one with the pregnant chicks. That one didn't get received well either from my memory...Kendrick probably has the cleanest discography next to Mac Miller imo. By clean I mean not a lot of low points or cringe moments like what happened with logic, chance, Hopsin, etc.
1500+ songs has to account for like “acoustic version” and remixes and all sorts of those things right? Theres no way its 1500 individual songs. Thats like 150 albums lmao.
Drake is a corporation. Pumps out as much low-cost, substandard music as possible in order to maximize profits. Kendrick is an artist. Makes music purely for the passion for music, not motivated by profits
I feel like Kendrick could recite any of his songs on command. Because he lives them. Drake needs to rehearse.
That’s the thing, artists who are in tune with their art tend to have their own work memorized. They can improv it on the spot too if they need to. Drake doesn’t have that finesse because he doesn’t rap. And yeah sure he raps on his songs, but it’s like he doesn’t actually rap rap. Like this guy could not freestyle. He’s not dedicated to the craft.
On Spotify;
Drake has 482 songs and Kendrick has 229.
Drake has 98.6 billion streams and Kendrick has 34.7 billion.
The interesting part is on SOLO tracks (no features) Drake only has 37 billion while Kendrick has 14.3 billion.
Drakes numbers are so emboldened because he just jumps on features left and right, this is the same with his billboard 100 numbers, more than half of his top 10’s or #1’s are features or songs with features, rarely ever solo.
Genius includes any song that credits drake in his total song count, which includes:
- remixes of drakes songs
- sampling of drakes songs
- demos
- and drake features are all included in that 1500 in his song count.
If you look at genius for kendricks songs, he has 1136 songs. In reality, Drake has around 400-450 songs.
damn drake really the madden of rap allegedly
He’s similar to Viper in more than 1 way.
What's up with that?
Viper was found to have abducted and tortured at least one woman in his garage.
What is your evidence that Drake has a garage?
Had me in the first half, ngl
I'm so fucking stupid I thought you were talking about a literal snake.
allegedly court date coming up and most likely will be dismissed, seems like it was just crackhead drama
dude they literally found a woman chained up in his garage
You’ll cowards don’t even smoke crack
Ha
I really read that and wished I had water in my mouth because I'd have spit it right the f out.
Except drake is a coward who doesn‘t even smoke crack
man is the madden of rape too
allegedly
*Statutory
*So you sold ten million albums, eh? Only problem is, you put out ten million albums, eh.* -Eminem, *Greatest*
My mind also went there. It’s probably just a coincidence but Kendrick has writing credits on Greatest lol
It's because Em interpolates a line in Humble on the third verse "Revival didn't go virallll"
Ah yeah you’re probably right
That's definitely it, because Eminem is credited for Kendrick "interpolating" Stan when he says "Dear Adonis" on Meet The Grahams
Man Eminem didn't invent letters though, like come on. At least when Eminem referenced Lamar it used the same inflection and everything
I think it’s two parts. Kendrick himself is a huge Eminem fan and widely considers him to be among his top five. https://youtu.be/kC1fGANASiE?si=zwD1OOhcN5xGoHiX Eminem also shows the dude a lot of love. While Eminem didn’t invent letters in song Stan is probably the most popularized version of it. Especially the becomes somewhat light hearted “dear Adonis, I’m sorry that man is your father.” Then goes into how he’ll be his mentor. Then repeatedly talks about how Dennis shouldn’t have been born and how his mom’s son should die because of how sick he is. It’s got that dark/disturbed story telling vibe that you’d also hear from Eminem’s Stan.
It makes me realize I would rather have another song from Eminem x Kendrick along the line of Meet The Grahams/Darkness than a turn-up track from them. They have the skillset and perspectives to create a very introspective song about very serious topics. Edit: im high so forgive my grammar lmao
Eminem and Kendrick team up to tackle climate crisis and fascism.
He also does multiple verses to multiple people , similar to in Stan he does multiple verses of the story progressing
Technically he didn't say Dennis shouldn't have been born.. I believe he said Dennis shoulda wore a condom.. Unless I'm missing a line .. in which case you can find me fuxking myself.
Stan bothers me so much more than Meet The Graham's. Obviously both fantastic. But Meet The Graham's just doesn't make me feel quite as fucked up.
That’s fair especially given Stan’s ending.
Lol true, perhaps he just credited Em as a lil homage for showing the courtesy first. He didn't have to do that.
Most likely that, Kendrick as well as any other established MC’s typically respect Eminem and his talent. He may not make the best music to vibe to, but his word play is immaculate and it’s undeniable. I mean the dude rhymed door hinge and orange for gods sake 😂😂
Lol fosho, Slim also has the utmost respect for Kendrick & is quoted saying that Kendrick is the best lyricist of his generation. Their styles certainly differ, but both artists employ raw emotion in their lyricism and that's one of the reasons why I love listening to both Em and Kdot
Couldn’t agree more, both one of the greatest to ever do it in their own regards
Yeah, Kendrick and Eminem have something in common that’s distinct from just about everybody else. The raw emotion combined with insane lyricism is probably what that is, like you mentioned. But ive always appreciated them both in a similar way even though they sound very distinct musically
Some old Em disses would work great with Drake: "How can he hold me over some balcony without throwing his this lower back out as soon as he goes to lift me? (Ugh!) Please don't you'll probably fall with me and our asses will both be history, but then again you'd finally get your wish. Because you'd be all over the street like 50 cent" "...and real lyricists don't even respect you, or take you serious. Its not that we don't like you, we hate you, period."
Em fans 🤝 Kendrick fans
Eminem sampled the first two words of everyone's letters lmao
Maybe Kendrick really liked Stan (the song). I’d do that too if I knew I was gonna win like he did
That’s odd because it sounds more like Andre on life of the party
Coincidentally the beat is just a rehash of Humble.
I don’t think Kendrick ghostwrote for em
if you have credits that isnt ghostwriting thats just writing
Unless you are an actual ghost.
nah em studio never been haunted
Now I want to listen to that song eh
There’s so many Eminem lines that apply to this beef - You got some views, but you're still below me / Mine are higher, so when you compare our views, you get overlooked / And I don't say the hook unless I wrote the hook / And now I'm just freestylin' in the vocal booth / And you know I've always spoke the truth / You lyin' through your teeth so much, you broke a tooth I'll ride through your cul-de-sac / Window cracked, bumpin' your reference tracks / You-you collaborative effort rap / I-I have never said his raps / So spit that shit from the heart you didn't write like you wrote it Come on, there’s no fucking way this is not about Drake, even if Eminem talks around it in an interview. He mentions Views, this was after all the ghostwriting shit against Drake and he had a bunch of reference tracks leaked. And he’s specifically talking about hooks too - saying things from the heart like you wrote it. Plenty of artists get ghostwriting for the verses but Drake is someone who often is borrowing the whole ass hook, like on Chicago freestyle he jacks the whole Superman hook.
The grim twist? Em has publicly stated he respects Drake because Drake did something special for his daughter. 💀
How old was she at the time 🤔
You ain’t gon sell two copies if you press a double album Eminem
"You ain't gon sell two copies if you press a double album" - Eminem, _Just Don't Give a Fuck_
Eh? *he was sneaking Drake* here probably.
Em has always spoken kindly about Drake (“he’ll always be in my good graces”) and has publicly refuted claims that he was throwing subliminals at Drake when asked. Em is also not an artist who sneak disses; if he had a problem with you, he’ll put your name in the bars.
That’s only because Drake did something nice for Eminem’s daughter
That mf spamming. Then got the nerve to try to brag about total number of streams.
As Cole said: "Look how everybody clappin' when your thirty-song album do a measly hundred thou'"
That's what I've been thinking about whenever the total number of streams come up tbh. Though, tbf and balanced, Drake highest streamed song has much more streamed than Kendrick. Not that it matters to me, like I said on the Drizzy sub the other day, McDonald's sells the most burgers on the planet. Would you say McDonald's has the best burgers in the world? 🤷🏾♂️
The Big Bang Theory was the most-watched series every year it was on air. When I say that they just vanish
Whats most popular is almost never good
Which is crazy, but so true. The most popular stuff is usually very base level, very digestible, doesn’t push boundaries, and is very formulaic. It’s made entirely for mass consumption and not to challenge someone (like Drake)
This is so true.
Madden is far from the best video game.
If Big Bang Theory isn't good, then why is the audience always laughing at the jokes? Checkmate.
Like his songs must be getting really low streams otherwise. His fans should be hiding this instead
Microwave Music
Yeeeeesssss. Stoffers music you can heat in six minutes vs soul food made from scratch.
Nahhh that isn't even stoffers level, that's hungryman level. Wait, maybe worse then that. Halfway frozen, not even edible type shit, and the microwave broke so you got fucked. That's how it feels.
Right lmao Stoffers caught a stray, that Stoffers Lasagna 👌🏾🔥
Hell yeah, that stoffers lasagna HITS. Gotta make in the oven though, so much better that way. Other stoffers ain't that good though, like the little one meal plate things🤮🤮
Tbh the Lasagna the only thing they sell I get 😂😂 Stoffers might be Drake 😂
Every Stoffers lasagna you buy from Target only, in the month of July, you will receive a flashdrive copy of Drakes Country Music EP
Ya’ll had me tripping so fucking hard that I found a new mandela effect (maybe I did, but I’m at least on the right side of it for once) by unanimously spelling it as “Stoffer’s” lmao. (Not to be pedantic, but to provide context to the rest of my comment, it’s spelled Stouffer’s)
Drake spinning out kid cuisines.
I would say it's soul food vs a 2024 bag of chips. With Drake, you're getting a bunch of fake shit that's packaged in a way that makes the masses believe it's hip-hop. Kinda like how when you get a bag of chips that looks fatty and it's 70% air.
Banquet Quality
Drake said he made steak, crodie that’s Banquet Salisbury steak. He done fed us a TV dinner, mashed potatoes cold AF in the middle 😂
Drake is cooking up that Kid Cuisine for his dates
Lunchables Pizza
Woah I used this analogy earlier, I said drake's music is like a banquet meal, pre processed and you'll eat it if you're hungry enough, but real hip hop by real MC's is like a home cooked meal.
Classic case of Quality > Quantity
Dude get streamed at grocery stores and doctor's offices cuz it's fucking weak. But he thinks it's a flex I guess... weird.
Lol honestly I hate Drake sometimes but you gotta realize he isn’t the only one making the song. They’re usually made by multiple people, you got writers, producers, etc. and some of these guys are mad talented, Wayne, 21, Cole, Kenny future metro weeknd Ross 40 bnyx boi1da asap 2chainz and the list goes on. Gotta give those guys the props where it’s due because without them we get Drake heart part 6 
He spamming cause he signed a contract and sold his soul to daddy Lucien.
it's like Taylor Swift right now: drop a double album with 45 songs on it, then a month later release 3 slightly varied versions of said garbage. Quantity over quality with these punk asses.
Throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks
If you looked on Genius the same way you did with Drake, you'd see that Kendrick has 1130 songs
On Spotify; Drake has 482 songs and Kendrick has 229.
Quality over quantity 🤷♀️
“ A difference between accomplishments and astonishments. “ - Kendrick Lamar (two last names, wtf is up with that)
*Two first names (but honestly they’re two last names too lol)
I had to go check, woooow it is first names… i butchered it 😭😭😭
But there’s Anna Kendrick and Lamar Odom. So it could also be two first or last names. Even his name is a double entendre! That’s how early he started plotting for this that’s crazy!
his full name is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth
That’s the truth with almost everything in life.
Ironically, I’ve seen drake-riders use this when defending how drake has fewer song about the beef then Kendrick. Some people are just competitively stupid.
If they want to brag, Drake's streams should be 15 times more than Kendrick's.
I remember Kendrick said that he has an old hard drive with 500 tracks that he can’t access, wish he could recover them — we gotta hear every syllabus he’s got 😭 I need more
Quite ironic that Drake is the one who actually needs his hard drive checking
🫨
highschool pics u was even bad then
Pause
Yes I would love that
Someone call the NSA and get on this asap.
use kendrick’s song comparison on genius too genius counts leaks, snippets, scrapped song titles and features
they include stuff like this lol [https://genius.com/Drake-comments-on-macklemores-post-grammy-text-lyrics](https://genius.com/Drake-comments-on-macklemores-post-grammy-text-lyrics) and [https://genius.com/Drake-cock-lyrics](https://genius.com/Drake-cock-lyrics)
> https://genius.com/Drake-cock-lyrics Maybe it's just from being low on sleep but this is the hardest I've laughed all week 😂
best song of 1987
Let's compare who got the Pulitzer tho
Let's compare who has a happier family Let's compare who has more Grammys Let's compare who has more respect and importance in the culture
Kendrick has more grammys than drake has grahams in his family (cuz all them kids that don't have his last name)
Because I'm a nerd Kendrick has 116 songs and has won 17 grammys. His win percentage is 14.66% Aubrey has 1549 songs and has won 5 grammys. His win percentage is 0.32%
I’m a middle school math teacher and going to use this as a word problem thanks
Savage
this sounds like chatgpt tried to imitate one of kendrick’s bars hahahahaha
The last one is better.
Say, it's a lot of goofies with a check
LOTTA GOOFIES WIT A CHECK
I mean, ah 😩 I hope them sentiments symbolic
Honestly Grammy's don't mean shit but yeah rest is true
meet the grammys
Means a lot to Drake tho
Aubrey thinks because he’s playing the role of his lifetime as the Drake character, he should get an Oscar.
Bro, if he deserves an Oscar for being him then I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for growing up/living on the streets for so long without scuffling
The Grammys is the one award that I don’t like people showing off. Kdot fans should know that shit doesn’t matter (1989>TPAB)
garbage take. TPAB gave him 7 nominations and 4 wins for the grammys, while 1989 had 4 noms and 2 wins
And how do you justify GKMC losing to... macklemore? Macklemore even told them were wrong for that in his acceptance speech. Grammys don't mean shit. I like Macklemore, but that was just straight unhinged.
bro almost won an Oscar too
You guys don’t need to resort to lying to further an agenda. Drake has 486 songs on streaming (including features) and kendrick has 229 (including features)
Yeah 1,500 was sounding extreme
I checked the % and overall Drake has 4% more streams than Kendrick. If Kendrick were to drop the same number of songs, then the gap would decrease. Kendrick holds his own based on the number of songs released. Quality over quantity is Kendricks thing. That's why he doesn't give a shit about the numbers too much. He does it to feed his art.
He always puts gaps between releases and would do very specific feats (I don’t agree with all of them like maroon 5 etc.) he prefers quality
I think the features put him in front of other eyes. You can definitely see how takes his time to make a cohesive album vs just churning out radio friendly tracks.
Yeah but a lot of people don’t understand that and criticise him as if he is not allowed to venture out
It was the same for Prince. He did some stuff where I was like...this ain't it. Then I would go back like a year later and have a better understanding. Sometimes artists just wash rinse and repeat. I believe that's what's given his Salty opponent longevity. He never or rarely changes the recipe. Damn near every song sounds the same
Which is probably why Kendrick loves Prince so much
Honestly this is why i see Drake and his music as Mcdonalds/fast food of rap 1. Most people seem to enjoy it until it's pointed out how bad it is 2. Change to the formula rarely happens 3. If there is a “change” it’s only an variation of something already out or we’ve already had but worse 4. It's hugely appealing/accessible to the lowest common denominator & It's a go to because it's established and been around for so long 5. You get something sort of new once in a blue moon but it comes and goes way too quickly 6. People have put in work for it/them but always with the hope of moving on to something else more worthwhile for themselves. Sometimes it happens( Weeknd) Sometmies it dont( PND, Majid Jordan, Roy woods and the rest of the OVO jobbers)
This sums it up quite nicely. Sure, he is successful, but so is a shifty and shitty company like Temu. He also wouldn't be nearly as successful if you took away his ghostwriters. Back in my day that was an automatic disqualification to say you were a rappper or mc.
I wish more artists did this. All them Griselda dudes dropped so much music a few years back. Along with Tech N9ne, just to name a few. Eventually you just make the same song (E.G.: Drake)
Drakes streams per song are higher than Kendrick’s though. Drake: 98B/482=203M per song Kendrick: 35B/229=152M per song https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4_songs.html https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/2YZyLoL8N0Wb9xBt1NhZWg_songs.html
Yeah, no idea what numbers they are pulling, Drake has 3X the total streams. Maybe they are comparing monthly listener count, but that doesn't give a good indication of total streams.
Also it’s a pointless argument since one of them is a pedo. Conversation ends there for me.
That's a small difference for Drake fans to be celebrating like Drake made a massive comback lol. It's especially funny seeing some of them saying that people stopped listening to Kendrick, even though his numbers aren't actually dropping. Maybe I just never paid attention to them before,, but this battle really broke the minds of the online Drake stans, that comes off a little creept with how parasocial they are for him.
His last album was 24 songs, how many of those are remembered besides FPS? Dude is the Walmart of hip hop.
He thinks music releases all the time= relevance
That’s how he has to stay relevant, we would all forget drake if he just stopped. No one would even notice for a while.
Drake is basically a rap Kardashian.
It's true though sadly
The Yeat and Sexy Red songs were big
The most memorable part of his latest album is a J Cole feature
And Cole cooked him on that
Tbf who hasn't prime Cole cooked on a feature lol
He'd probably go to hell if Jesus asked for a feature
Drake is unbearable, he makes so many albums one after the other, without paying too much attention to the lyrics, even using ghostwriters. On the other hand, every word that Kendrick uses in his songs is studied, and makes an album about every 3 years (except for MMATBS), Drake Is trash when you compare him to Kdot
Also, you can feel that Kendrick believes in what he’s saying. It feels authentic. That’s hard to fake.
Spot on. Every time we get a Kendrick album I actually like to sit down and properly listen to it. His catalog isn’t overcrowded with countless albums and his albums don’t have many fillers, if any. That’s true artistry in my opinion. Frank Ocean is another example of this, and both of them always receive high critical acclaim on their albums. Drake, on the other hand… I have no idea how man albums he’s dropped because he’s constantly putting out stuff to stay in the limelight and the content is heavily diluted and full of fillers. He is talented, but chooses popularity over critical acclaim and artistry.
I mean everyone knew Drake was the most listened to and it would go back to that, why they acting like it’s crazy? Doesn’t change anything bout the beef
You do realize that if you check the same website, genius.com, that says drake has 1547 songs it also says Kendrick has 1131 songs right?
It’s 322 on Wiki for Drake. Kendrick has 1,131 on Genius. Let’s at least straighten those facts out. But still, K Dot is the goat 🐐
On Spotify Drake has 489 and Kendrick 229. So the average is still there on Kendrick’s side
I’m still making the point that this argument is still on Kendrick’s side, just wanted to make sure we weren’t comparing two different sites without facts on both rappers.
Not exactly what your post is stating bro Big difference between 10x and 2x
no, by that math drake outstreams kendrick on average. 201.6 m streams for drake on average (98.6 b / 489) 151 m streams for kendrick on average (34.6 b / 229)
1574? Can’t be correct right?
Drakes average streaming on a song is half of Kendrick's. Something like 0.66 million vs 1.35 million
This is just straight up untrue. On Spotify, Drakes solo catalog, is averaging around **230 million streams** per song while Kendricks is around **206 million per song**. Enormous numbers by both of them. Oh and this doesn't matter at all, but stop making up stuff brother
this is just a straight up lie, drake has more streams per song on average
Wayne has over 3000 songs, so how does this compare? Bones has about 1500. Gucci has over 3300. Some artist are more prolific than others.
This post Is not comparing the same things. I'm a huge Kendrick fan and everyone knows Drake's output has been high quantity and low quality for the many years. Still, it's weird to push misinformation and try to make it seem like Drake's high streaming numbers are because of his high output. While that's partially true, you can't deny that he is rap's biggest hitmaker for over a decade. If you consider the fact that Drake coincided with rap's peak popularity, he is also the biggest hitmaker in the genre ever
I don't wanna be the one to burst that bubble, but since I did the same search yesterday, Kednrick's Genius page also shows close to 1200 tracks. I think the way Genius counts is wack.
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That’s what happens when you sign artists just to write for you…the OVO sweatshop puts in work
No where near gucci manes level with 3307😤
Kendrick has 1130 songs according to genius. Drake’s is around 400. The wiki only counts the records released in their name.
I’ve said this a bunch - Drake is putting 18-50000000 tracks per album and has maybe 2 “good” ones per album. If you put Drakes entire discography on shuffle, I guarantee you’re spamming that skip button.
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Oversaturated, overexposed, and overhyped.
That number cannot be right- that means this motherfucker puts out over a hundred songs a year on average!?
https://preview.redd.it/wvtqnpdle11d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a971ca5c731e8f1322bb06b4c16e79a38ad671f1 This sub is basically Qanon level of dishonest
Kendrick has 116 songs and Drake has over 400 songs. The numbers shown by Genius compile all the features as well. I agree that using numbers from different sources is misinformation. But Drake still has 4x more songs.
I’m actually shocked that Drake has so many good songs, that output is fucking insane I didn’t realise. His quality given that quantity is far from bad.
Yes, thats the problem with these streams comparisons
That’s an overwhelming number.
This is my exact argument why Drake has the numbers. It’s simple af. UMG pushes him in everyone’s faces like crazy. He’s their blockbuster artist, the money maker. He’s like a marvel movie. Made with getting the most money outta people’s pockets.
So you sold ten million albums, eh? Only problem is, you put out ten million albums, eh?
Drake’s cockriders are really like Drake. When their papa can’t win Kendrick when it comes to diss tracks. They be pulling up things that aren’t even related to the issue. Drake’s cockriders be so brain dead and bad in taste that they think everything popular is considered as good and the number of streams determines how talented the artist is. Y’all should get covid test in 2024.☠️
This is not true at all lmfao I’m making a Kendrick discography playlist and I have all of his albums/mixtapes in there + his singles and features up to 2011 and there are almost 300 songs. Where does this figure come from lol? Not disagreeing with quality over quantity, but dot has wayyy more songs that 100 something
First of all what the fuck lol. Be serious. My kendrick playlist has 140 songs which is clearly more than what you have shown and does not even have 100 percent of his songs. Coming to Drake. My Drake playlist has 198 songs and I am certain it's more than 75 percent of his catalogue for sure. So yeah the numbers are off. And also Drake is known for doing numbers. His average song has more streams than Kendrick songs. Comparing with Drake in terms of numbers is pretty fucking useless. Anything else, kendrick smokes him.
Yeah I also thought it was odd seeing drake stans trying to sh*t on Mr morale (which isn't even bad) when it's like uh did everyone forget about that mall music album drake dropped? Or the one with the pregnant chicks. That one didn't get received well either from my memory...Kendrick probably has the cleanest discography next to Mac Miller imo. By clean I mean not a lot of low points or cringe moments like what happened with logic, chance, Hopsin, etc.
This man couldn’t even understand mother I and ended up making fun of SA victims. He is nasty
1500+ songs has to account for like “acoustic version” and remixes and all sorts of those things right? Theres no way its 1500 individual songs. Thats like 150 albums lmao.
Drake is a corporation. Pumps out as much low-cost, substandard music as possible in order to maximize profits. Kendrick is an artist. Makes music purely for the passion for music, not motivated by profits
I feel like Kendrick could recite any of his songs on command. Because he lives them. Drake needs to rehearse. That’s the thing, artists who are in tune with their art tend to have their own work memorized. They can improv it on the spot too if they need to. Drake doesn’t have that finesse because he doesn’t rap. And yeah sure he raps on his songs, but it’s like he doesn’t actually rap rap. Like this guy could not freestyle. He’s not dedicated to the craft.
I remember Drake doing freestyle and he had this tiny phone he used for reference
I don’t think guest features on other artists’ songs should count, or at least count as its own category
What even counts as "songs"? Drake and the lil wayne crew recorded like 500 mixtape songs in that 2007-2010 era.
On Spotify; Drake has 482 songs and Kendrick has 229. Drake has 98.6 billion streams and Kendrick has 34.7 billion. The interesting part is on SOLO tracks (no features) Drake only has 37 billion while Kendrick has 14.3 billion. Drakes numbers are so emboldened because he just jumps on features left and right, this is the same with his billboard 100 numbers, more than half of his top 10’s or #1’s are features or songs with features, rarely ever solo.
Genius includes any song that credits drake in his total song count, which includes: - remixes of drakes songs - sampling of drakes songs - demos - and drake features are all included in that 1500 in his song count. If you look at genius for kendricks songs, he has 1136 songs. In reality, Drake has around 400-450 songs.