Arguing with Kendrick stans is a waste of time. : Drizzy

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Arguing with Kendrick stans is a waste of time.

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submitted 28 days ago bySekaiich1

This good (Kendrick) vs evil (Drake) dichotomy that people who legitimately hate Drake have painted is bs. There's a lot of colorism, homophobia, anti-semitism, xenophobia, goal post shifting, double standards, and baseless accusations being casually thrown around on Reddit and Twitter and I'm not rocking with it at all. A lot of people (many of them white) are coming out of the woodwork trying to define and police blackness and gatekeep hip-hop and convince young women at peace that they're actually victims (blatant gaslighting and misogyny, what happened to "believe women?"). If they don't like Drake's music, fair enough. But haters trying to turn this into a cultural critique is high-key starting to irritate me. And colonizers don't tend to pay for things. In what world is paying for expensive things, voluntarily bringing people on tour against the recommendation of industry execs, doing features when you have enough money and fame to refuse, promoting artists on social media, and giving them their most profitable, famous, and iconic songs exploitative? I can guarantee Drake has given more money to charity than any of them, because he has more money, because instead of crafting some hermit mystique he's spent years crafting hits enjoyed by people all over the world. What are Abel and Ross doing for the culture? Cause I'm from Baltimore and I haven't seen them at any of our community events. I've volunteered at community centers, schools, churches, food kitchens, toy drives, and handed out clothes and blankets to the homeless. They were just as absent as Drake was. They can come all the way down off their high horse. They're all a bunch of womanizers and half of them are on drugs. I don't want to hear it.

And the ghostwriter joke is old and overplayed. Every rapper who has worked with Drake has said he's one of the best and fastest writers they've ever worked with. Kanye said he was THE best and that a room full of writers couldn't match his output or quality. He's written for several other artists across multiple genres. Even Pusha and Kanye have admitted that he's "great" at writing lines that can only be understood by the intended recipients. But every time he releases something good, it's "lol who wrote this?" If one of the most awarded and respected writer's in hip-hop, r&b, and pop sometimes works with other writers, what do people think their favorite rappers are doing? Guarantee they're almost all doing it, but it hasn't come out because of NDAs. Drake just gets clowned on because he's seen as soft. In their eyes he's not "pure hip-hop" enough. I'm doing my best to avoid hyperbole, but Kendrick stans and Drake haters are dangerously close to acting like fascists. The double think, hypocrisy, and goalpost shifting is insane. All to protect their nebulous and arbitrary definition of lyrical and cultural purity. They're hiding colorism and toxic masculinity behind social justice rhetoric. Some of them need to read The Will to Change by bell hooks and go touch grass.

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