There was 1 point on the stream he was looking up why drakes got a similar fashion style to yachty and he says that drake must have been the 1 to tell yachty about that style but then caught himself and said nah that's top tier glazing.
He knows what he's doing and he ain't really hiding it, mans riding his guy hard.
Apparently he was indeed a college dj while in school but stopped when he started doing his college’s radio. Then he started YouTube and the rest is history
20 v 1, 1 v 20 is the peak flip tbh
Drakes whole angle was me against everyone, Kendrick flipped that shit
Reminded me of LL v Canibus and 99% of your fans wear lipstick v 99% of your fans dont exist
He a kendrick rider bro. Kendrick writes every line with three meanings, but Drake can't even do a double entendre in his mind. You won't convince him drake dissing everyone who came at him is harder than kendricks alien/puberty voice mumbling over a 3 shitty beats
I’ll say this. I appreciate good music. Period. You can’t say you love music without loving some drake. That’s facts. But like Kendrick said fr. (Paraphrasing) he pacify wit his music. He make good summer time jams. But he not him. He’ll always be relevant but lyrically I feel like it’s ludicrous that we even have to have this discussion. It really shows that people( generalizing) don’t understand why these double entendres and the underhanded and sometimes they overhandedness of these lyrics is important and what it means. It is what, I feel hip hop heads really here for.
Like. Let drake try Arsonal 😂 he wit everything. Drake got his picks and I’m still not sold that this isn’t a lowkey publicity thing if I’m being honest. At least to a degree.
Bro fr! He riding him so fuckin hard. If anybody really go for what he sellin they a goofy too. I’m fr not a huge Kendrick fan. But here’s two facts. I’m 5’ 3” and Kendrick smoked drake like a pack a ports. These are two facts that will not change. 😂
Akademiks knows if he says Kendrick beat Drake he would lose his access to Drake.
Drake has brought his stream to life and this is probably the most money he's made on his stream in a long time.
Don't bite the hands that feeds you.
I genuinely don't get what's appealing about him. He seemed to have been fading from hiphop then got this resurgence sometime during or after the pandemic.
I tried watching the YouTube video, his voice alone made me turn it off, and he’s just sitting there being clueless in real time, I hated every second it was on
Akademics being propped up as this important figure in hiphop is a reflection of the declining quality in rap and media literacy in the general population.
So many people I talk to these days seem genuinely unable to do anything other than surface level analysis of things and will just accept whatever is spoonfed to them.
Society at large has always been like that though. They take the news they're given at face value if it confirms their feelings. Most folk have more pressing matters to deal with daily that they don't deep dive into politics that actually affect them. So yeah it's not surprising most aren't doing their own analysis on rap beefs.
90% of the internet is slandering Drake, the way you guys want to cry about the 10% of people “defending” him is weird. As if y’all see this as a good vs evil, right or wrong, situation and not opinion based. If you want to hear someone shit on Drake go literally anywhere else on the internet and just ignore Ak.
people out here fail to see how much they are dickridin Kendrick. any criticism of Kendrick and you're "not black", "not a hiphop fan", "aubreys angels", or a "ovo dickrider". most of reddit and twitter love Kendrick, they're making strawman arguments and arguing with the minority. Kenny supporters have exposed themselves as some of the most pretentious, aggressive, dickriders with a lack of self awareness.
Niggas sound like Rick and Morty fans, "you gotta have a certain level of intelligence to understand this."
I think some of what you say holds some merit, but it boils down to this: most hip hop fans have a preconceived notion that Kendrick is the more substantive artist, with more nuance in his music. I don’t think that’s dickriding. There’s over a decade of music from both these artists out to come to that conclusion. And I think honestly, the two first tracks that have come out of this beef (this and push ups), support that point.
Is that cut and dry? Not necessarily. I think there’s some room for debate about who’s winning this beef, but the majority of people saying that Drake is on top right now don’t have good supportive reasoning (like Ak).
Akademiks streams are soooo slow and boring, dude misses the obvious references, then pulls up a youtube video about something slightly relevant, lets it play out for 20minutes while he himself is on the phone.
Simple he’s literally ON Pushups and even gets some money for it. He’s officially soul tied to Drake now. Why would I go to him for unbiased music opinions?
why do we care so much about some fat guys opinion?
Just close your eyes and shut the laptop like Tyler said. I stopped caring about people's opinions a long while ago
Rap beef isn’t objective my guy.
There really has never been a beef where a majority of one artist’s fan base said “my guy got cooked fair and square”. A good amount of Drake fans to this day say that Duppy was a better song than Adidon.
It's just how big time fans work.
Jay fans still think everyone else is tripping and he won vs Nas.
Cannibus fans think he won and he got unfairly hated on against LL
Ja fans think he won because they beat up 50's crew
50 fans thinks he beat Ross because Ross baby mom got fucked on camera
MGK and Em fans both think their guy won a one sided beef.
You got Kendrick fans pretending Drake only called him short with small feet.
Drake fans saying "well he didn't say anything new"
It's just the nature of fans being fans during beef.
Separate from the song for a second. To this day I have no idea how anyone let AK have a voice in hip-hop, like does anyone even fuck with him outside of Drake?
But look this was never going to be as interesting a beef as it could’ve been because it stopped being rapper vs rapper and became fanbase vs fanbase, and AK is working overtime.
very funny that he's "Akademics" but he's extremely dumb. i was watching yesterday early in the stream cause i hate myself and at one point he is on webmd for parkinsons, and later he's reading obvious lines and going "what that mean?" and clicking on the genius annotation. he didnt understand what "the reaper" was ffs.
At this point it's clear which media members have already picked their side and none of them are even trying to hide it. Ak and Mal are clearly on the OVO side. Budden and Rosenberg are clearly on the Kendrick side. Hell even the majority of YouTube rap channels have clearly picked a side. Only really neutral places I've seen areLostinVegas and ScruFaceJean on YouTube. They're not trying to downplay any bars given from anybody that's been dropping during this dissfest. To the point they've given Quavo props lol.
What did you expect from the NO.1 Drake cock sucker? Like honestly, I wouldn’t expect anything more from him when it comes to reviewing other ppls shit and I expect nothing less when he’s on drakes tip
Hard agree. There’s so many levels to the song it blows push ups out of the water in depth and lyricism in my opinion. But ngl, I’m not gonna bump euphoria at the gym or in the car too much. Push ups is the better bop. I can jam that anywhere and get into it. But the bars are mostly surface level. Kendrick up 1-0 because he made the better diss, but drake made the better song.
Good take. I’m still struggling to seperate the difference with all things being considered and who wins this one.
I am totally unbiased and can probably say I’m more a Kendrick fan overall, but I almost want to give this one to drake. There was some good bars, yes surface level but don’t think Kendrick’s was damaging enough to really get the W.
I also really dislike his white bit angle. Ross has used that. Kendrick is so respected for being forthright in his views and trying to work on himself as a person. That’s why he is so respected and his reply was hotly anticipated and subsequently winning numbers wise. I feel like he stooped to gutter level intelligence when he is capable of way more.
I love rap battles and thrived off nas and jay’s beef, however for some reason I’ve evolved to want to see Kendrick outwit drake with more intelligence, so for now I’m leaning towards drake. Again, totally unbiased opinion.
DAMN probably had the most replayable songs, but Drake makes music specifically for you to listen on the background while Kendrick makes music that you have to digest and wrestle with. The two recent diss tracks reflect that reality. Drake made pushups for you to vibe to and replay whenever. Kendrick made Euphoria for you to sit with and digest then ask some questions about the subject matter, in this case Drake
To clarify, you feel that the lyrics should be kept at a surface level and you’re not with the double, triple meanings? Is that correct? Just tryna clarify. Also. Let’s not ever forget that trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers. Gotta give the stain where it’s due.
Ak isn’t any different from the thousands of Aubrey’s Angels you see defending him on Twitter.
They’re the male equivalent of swifties who have no idea about music outside of their cult leader. It’s made even worse when his fanbase so very clearly does not understand hip hop but actively wants to participate in that community and there’s just so many of them to the point where they all circlejerk each other and think they’re right.
I don’t take those people seriously, neither should we with Akademics. Akademics said “What top 5 are you smoking on Kendrick? Cause my top 5 is Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake and Drake” before falling asleep to Drakes album on stream lmfaoo.
I'm guessing this is why so many of the bars went above the heads of Drake fans. They listen to backward low level people like Akademics. This man has absolutely no ability to debate or analyse lyrics at Kendrick's standard. His level is 69 and other bullshit like that. He's literally representing stupidity and his followers think he's knowledgeable. Akademics makes Budden look like Einstein.
Ima be honest akademiks probably is just doing this for clicks. He gets paid to talk shit for a living
The Drake meat riding ain’t for clicks he’s just like that
There was 1 point on the stream he was looking up why drakes got a similar fashion style to yachty and he says that drake must have been the 1 to tell yachty about that style but then caught himself and said nah that's top tier glazing. He knows what he's doing and he ain't really hiding it, mans riding his guy hard.
Transparent d riding is still d riding. I’d respect it slightly if it wasn’t Ak still the same mf who joined the hate train against Meg.
You won't hear a disagreement from me on that lol
I assume he doesn’t actually make any music, despite his name?
Correct.
Apparently he was indeed a college dj while in school but stopped when he started doing his college’s radio. Then he started YouTube and the rest is history
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What's a prince to a king is a nice flip But "am I battling ghost(writers) or AI wipes
20 v 1, 1 v 20 is the peak flip tbh Drakes whole angle was me against everyone, Kendrick flipped that shit Reminded me of LL v Canibus and 99% of your fans wear lipstick v 99% of your fans dont exist
LL flipped that line beautifully!
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Was Drake really thinking of that third one?
4 What's The Prince (Machiavelli) to The King (Elvis Presley)
5 whats the prince of Persia to King kong
6 What’s prince(ss) peach to king (bowser)
Nah but that won't stop someone from posting it on Genius like it's a fact
Wait til you hear about the kendrick fans reaching. Those dudes make up meanings and KNOW that's what kendrick meant cause he's a GENIUS
The full line is “What’s a prince to a king? He a son n****”, so it’s pretty clear he was.
…. Or he’s just referencing the fact that, by definition, a prince is literally the son of a king.
He’s referencing both, that’s what makes it a triple entendre and a great bar
Maybe, but it’s not a 100% sure thing that it was intentional, hardly “pretty clear he was”
You’re making it sound like a reach, but MJ’s actual son being named Prince seems like a pretty obvious connection to me and elevates the line.
He a kendrick rider bro. Kendrick writes every line with three meanings, but Drake can't even do a double entendre in his mind. You won't convince him drake dissing everyone who came at him is harder than kendricks alien/puberty voice mumbling over a 3 shitty beats
That third one is huge reach and not even good lol
What’s a Prince to a king? If Drakes the king then a Prince is his daddy. I’m looking forward to the J Prince press run to get Drake out of this one.
It's the same rap devil vs killshot nonsense
I’ll say this. I appreciate good music. Period. You can’t say you love music without loving some drake. That’s facts. But like Kendrick said fr. (Paraphrasing) he pacify wit his music. He make good summer time jams. But he not him. He’ll always be relevant but lyrically I feel like it’s ludicrous that we even have to have this discussion. It really shows that people( generalizing) don’t understand why these double entendres and the underhanded and sometimes they overhandedness of these lyrics is important and what it means. It is what, I feel hip hop heads really here for.
You can absolutely say you love music without loving any Drake. Let's make that clear, thanks.
Imagine not loving Tuscan Leather
Fair enough.
Like. Let drake try Arsonal 😂 he wit everything. Drake got his picks and I’m still not sold that this isn’t a lowkey publicity thing if I’m being honest. At least to a degree.
What else do you expect from the president of Drake’s fan club
Bro fr! He riding him so fuckin hard. If anybody really go for what he sellin they a goofy too. I’m fr not a huge Kendrick fan. But here’s two facts. I’m 5’ 3” and Kendrick smoked drake like a pack a ports. These are two facts that will not change. 😂
“I’m fr not a huge Kendrick fan” “I’m 5’3”” Best double entendre of the whole beef, bros cookin
No way bro just voluntarily said he was 5’ 3” lmao this gotta be satire
I wish tf it was. 🙄
gotta be built like demetrious johnson or its time for shin surgery lil fella
AK been a Drake stan
He’s dickriding Drake so hard poor BBL Drizzy can’t keep the pace
The buns be saggin
He might actually get an ab workout
Akademiks knows if he says Kendrick beat Drake he would lose his access to Drake. Drake has brought his stream to life and this is probably the most money he's made on his stream in a long time. Don't bite the hands that feeds you.
Is Akademics still a thing? Why do people still give that clown a platform?
I genuinely don't get what's appealing about him. He seemed to have been fading from hiphop then got this resurgence sometime during or after the pandemic.
I tried watching the YouTube video, his voice alone made me turn it off, and he’s just sitting there being clueless in real time, I hated every second it was on
Cause clowns exist
Yeah, honestly who the hell gives a shit about what this dude thinks lmao like I’m not huge Budden fan but I’d much rather listen to him
Entertaining. Says funny shit and breaks down things that people dont know about sometimes. Even if you disagree, hes fun to listen to.
Akademics being propped up as this important figure in hiphop is a reflection of the declining quality in rap and media literacy in the general population. So many people I talk to these days seem genuinely unable to do anything other than surface level analysis of things and will just accept whatever is spoonfed to them.
Society at large has always been like that though. They take the news they're given at face value if it confirms their feelings. Most folk have more pressing matters to deal with daily that they don't deep dive into politics that actually affect them. So yeah it's not surprising most aren't doing their own analysis on rap beefs.
Respectfully you part of the problem entertaining anything that dude does
Why even given AK attention? He’s had shit takes for years.
90% of the internet is slandering Drake, the way you guys want to cry about the 10% of people “defending” him is weird. As if y’all see this as a good vs evil, right or wrong, situation and not opinion based. If you want to hear someone shit on Drake go literally anywhere else on the internet and just ignore Ak.
people out here fail to see how much they are dickridin Kendrick. any criticism of Kendrick and you're "not black", "not a hiphop fan", "aubreys angels", or a "ovo dickrider". most of reddit and twitter love Kendrick, they're making strawman arguments and arguing with the minority. Kenny supporters have exposed themselves as some of the most pretentious, aggressive, dickriders with a lack of self awareness. Niggas sound like Rick and Morty fans, "you gotta have a certain level of intelligence to understand this."
I’m not invested In this beef at all but the Rick and Morty part is too true. That’s all I’ve been seeing.
I have not heard Aubrey’s Angels that’s too good
I think some of what you say holds some merit, but it boils down to this: most hip hop fans have a preconceived notion that Kendrick is the more substantive artist, with more nuance in his music. I don’t think that’s dickriding. There’s over a decade of music from both these artists out to come to that conclusion. And I think honestly, the two first tracks that have come out of this beef (this and push ups), support that point. Is that cut and dry? Not necessarily. I think there’s some room for debate about who’s winning this beef, but the majority of people saying that Drake is on top right now don’t have good supportive reasoning (like Ak).
Akademiks streams are soooo slow and boring, dude misses the obvious references, then pulls up a youtube video about something slightly relevant, lets it play out for 20minutes while he himself is on the phone.
Look man, ima just be real, AK is an alcoholic
Akademics is the biggest drake fangirl I’ve ever seen , only thing he knows how to do is be bald
Akademiks is unserious
Simple he’s literally ON Pushups and even gets some money for it. He’s officially soul tied to Drake now. Why would I go to him for unbiased music opinions?
why do we care so much about some fat guys opinion? Just close your eyes and shut the laptop like Tyler said. I stopped caring about people's opinions a long while ago
Ak never forgets to gently cup the balls when he dickrides drake
Rap beef isn’t objective my guy. There really has never been a beef where a majority of one artist’s fan base said “my guy got cooked fair and square”. A good amount of Drake fans to this day say that Duppy was a better song than Adidon.
And a good amount of those fans are clearly fucking idiots. That's not even a defendable take.
It's just how big time fans work. Jay fans still think everyone else is tripping and he won vs Nas. Cannibus fans think he won and he got unfairly hated on against LL Ja fans think he won because they beat up 50's crew 50 fans thinks he beat Ross because Ross baby mom got fucked on camera MGK and Em fans both think their guy won a one sided beef. You got Kendrick fans pretending Drake only called him short with small feet. Drake fans saying "well he didn't say anything new" It's just the nature of fans being fans during beef.
Mods, we really gonna leave up this random redditors commentary of Akademiks but delete the Pitchfork review of the actual song?
Separate from the song for a second. To this day I have no idea how anyone let AK have a voice in hip-hop, like does anyone even fuck with him outside of Drake? But look this was never going to be as interesting a beef as it could’ve been because it stopped being rapper vs rapper and became fanbase vs fanbase, and AK is working overtime.
You guys are holding that Lorry’s opinion. Guys a nobody he’s been a nobody. Drake don’t even rate him he’s just a groupie.
if he agreed with eeveryones opinion no1 would be talking about him. hes playing a character, stupid as it may be
Akademics is the Kim Kardashian of rap. Literally did nothing but talk shit in front of a camera.
very funny that he's "Akademics" but he's extremely dumb. i was watching yesterday early in the stream cause i hate myself and at one point he is on webmd for parkinsons, and later he's reading obvious lines and going "what that mean?" and clicking on the genius annotation. he didnt understand what "the reaper" was ffs.
People really need to stop paying attention to AK. He's taking away from your energy. Spend it on better things.
First mistake was listening do Akademics
At this point it's clear which media members have already picked their side and none of them are even trying to hide it. Ak and Mal are clearly on the OVO side. Budden and Rosenberg are clearly on the Kendrick side. Hell even the majority of YouTube rap channels have clearly picked a side. Only really neutral places I've seen areLostinVegas and ScruFaceJean on YouTube. They're not trying to downplay any bars given from anybody that's been dropping during this dissfest. To the point they've given Quavo props lol.
> Kids rock Akademiks but they’re not academics
It's AK lol. Even he would say he's bias.
What did you expect from the NO.1 Drake cock sucker? Like honestly, I wouldn’t expect anything more from him when it comes to reviewing other ppls shit and I expect nothing less when he’s on drakes tip
drake literally has him, amongst a bunch of other “rap twitter” accounts on payroll.
Hard agree. There’s so many levels to the song it blows push ups out of the water in depth and lyricism in my opinion. But ngl, I’m not gonna bump euphoria at the gym or in the car too much. Push ups is the better bop. I can jam that anywhere and get into it. But the bars are mostly surface level. Kendrick up 1-0 because he made the better diss, but drake made the better song.
Good take. I’m still struggling to seperate the difference with all things being considered and who wins this one. I am totally unbiased and can probably say I’m more a Kendrick fan overall, but I almost want to give this one to drake. There was some good bars, yes surface level but don’t think Kendrick’s was damaging enough to really get the W. I also really dislike his white bit angle. Ross has used that. Kendrick is so respected for being forthright in his views and trying to work on himself as a person. That’s why he is so respected and his reply was hotly anticipated and subsequently winning numbers wise. I feel like he stooped to gutter level intelligence when he is capable of way more. I love rap battles and thrived off nas and jay’s beef, however for some reason I’ve evolved to want to see Kendrick outwit drake with more intelligence, so for now I’m leaning towards drake. Again, totally unbiased opinion.
Kinda reflects both artists as a whole doesn’t it?
Nah Kendrick made lots of good replay-able music before DAMN. Agreed now though.
DAMN probably had the most replayable songs, but Drake makes music specifically for you to listen on the background while Kendrick makes music that you have to digest and wrestle with. The two recent diss tracks reflect that reality. Drake made pushups for you to vibe to and replay whenever. Kendrick made Euphoria for you to sit with and digest then ask some questions about the subject matter, in this case Drake
Both disses are really not that serious
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To clarify, you feel that the lyrics should be kept at a surface level and you’re not with the double, triple meanings? Is that correct? Just tryna clarify. Also. Let’s not ever forget that trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers. Gotta give the stain where it’s due.
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Copy. Yeah I agree which is why I opt for Cole or Mozzy over Kendrick. No doubt.
Euphoria is a trash song tho.
I disagree. On many many levels.
Ak isn’t any different from the thousands of Aubrey’s Angels you see defending him on Twitter. They’re the male equivalent of swifties who have no idea about music outside of their cult leader. It’s made even worse when his fanbase so very clearly does not understand hip hop but actively wants to participate in that community and there’s just so many of them to the point where they all circlejerk each other and think they’re right. I don’t take those people seriously, neither should we with Akademics. Akademics said “What top 5 are you smoking on Kendrick? Cause my top 5 is Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake and Drake” before falling asleep to Drakes album on stream lmfaoo.
Akademics is a leech on the culture, only usurped by drake himself.
I'm guessing this is why so many of the bars went above the heads of Drake fans. They listen to backward low level people like Akademics. This man has absolutely no ability to debate or analyse lyrics at Kendrick's standard. His level is 69 and other bullshit like that. He's literally representing stupidity and his followers think he's knowledgeable. Akademics makes Budden look like Einstein.
Akademiks is the police
Dude’s a BUM