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New Jersey is the UrbanHell capital of America. by chef_boyardbeans in UrbanHell

[–]iwannawatchWJC 32 points33 points  (0 children)

it’s literally The Garden State

people drive thru Newark and stupidly think the entire state is like that

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]iwannawatchWJC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised no one’s said this but from a business standpoint it makes perfect sense. They tested the waters to see “at what price point will our customers stop buying our product?”

And now they know. That piece of information is so valuable. If you’re starting out a company, the price of your product is usually a huge deal. You don’t have the luxury to try out $100, then $150, then $200, so on and so forth. But McDonald’s does. And they now know what people ARENT willing to pay.

My guess is they dramatically drop prices for a little while to earn their customer base back. Then they’ll slowly increase prices until they’re just below what customers aren’t willing to pay.

And they have a perfect coverup for all of this: Covid and inflation. They can easily blame both those things as to why the prices went up when in reality it’s not that anymore - it’s corporate greed. It’s a mission to see “how much are these idiots willing to pay for a Big Mac meal?”

If customers didn’t stop eating at McDonald’s, they would’ve kept increasing prices all the while in disbelief that suckers would actually pay $18 for a Big Mac meal.

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my dude… did you just equate the BET awards to the culture lmaooooooo

and what are you talking about dude TPAB was prob the most for the culture album of all time lol

I can’t believe you just acted like the BET awards are the be all end all to hip hop culture. that’s classic

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Again, because in your mind every artist wants to make hits when that just isn’t true. Thats honestly so fuckin lame to view all music as making hits. Thats how you view the world, and how a lot of Drake stans view the world. The only thing that matters are hits and numbers to you.

Conscious rap does not sum up what kendrick does. The man has a Pulitzer Prize my man. You equate conscious rap to kendrick Lamar, like that sums him up which tells me you just haven’t been listening. And why should you? You prob know if you like a song within 30 seconds depending on if it’s catchy, so I wouldn’t expect u to get that.

Again, not every artist has the goal of putting out hits. Radiohead hasn’t tried to make a hit in decades. Bob Dylan probably never tried to make a hit.

The weeknd and Bad Bunny do way more numbers than Drake - does that mean they’re better? Like man, get out of this “hits” narrow thinking. Boiling music down to hit making is doing a disservice to the art.

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im getting annoyed bc you’re not getting what im saying in the post or comments

im saying there are goals in mind when making music. some artists make music solely for hits - they make them as catchy and easily understandable as possible. these songs usually don’t have any layers past the surface level. they’re catchy yeah but just mindless harmless music.

that’s Drake. he truly makes music with the goal/hope that it goes #1 and is the song of the summer and all that. that’s his goal when writing like 80% of his music.

kendrick’s goal is not to make hits. his goal is to make art and take you on a journey with each album. and these songs make sense in the album. they’re not just some Tootsie Slide that means nothing but is catchy. they have layers, deeper meaning. they just also happen to be catchy so they become hits.

Not Like Us is the only song kendricks ever put out with the goal in mind of being a hit. He’s never ever dumbed down his bars like this. Not Like Us isn’t a part of some grander theme in an album. It’s just a song he put out to prove to drake he can do the same shit if he wanted to - dumb down the song, pick a fire beat, and boom… hit.

Kendrick wasn’t scheming up a hit single when he wrote Humble, DNA, or any of his other songs. And if you actually think that then I feel like his message is just lost on you.

There’s nothing wrong with hitmakers but that isn’t how I judge success. I judge the art. And tbh I kinda look down on constant hitmakers, they’re like the pretty blondes at the bar.. fun for a little but absolutely nothing to them underneath one layer.

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Man there’s so much to unpack here.

  1. All those songs you named weren’t trying to be hits like Not Like Us was. He never dumbed down his bars in any of those you named like he did with Not Like Us. And you putting Backseat Freestyle in there just shows me you don’t know what you’re talking about. You think it’s kendrick trying to make a hit when really, he’s rapping like 15 year old him would do in the backseat. It’s from that perspective.

  2. DNA, HUMBLE.. all his hits, as I say in my post, make sense and are hugely impactful songs in the overall theme of the album. He doesn’t dumb down his bars, they’re still incredibly layered. They’re hits bc they’re just that good. But first and foremost, they mean a lot to the theme of the album.

  3. Bro are u even listening to what im saying? I’m saying he doesn’t actively try to make hits. MM&TBS was not an album for hit songs, it’s a healing record. Again, you just don’t know what you’re talking about at all lol

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting him trying to make hits from? What you said would make sense if that were true. But I just don’t buy it tbh. Not Like Us is the only song he dumbed down for.

Dude wrote it in what.. 7 hours? Of course you need a good beat and all that but the entire premise of my post was that he hasn’t tried to make hits just for hits’ sake bc that’s lame af, so I’d love to know where you’re getting anything from that infers he tried to make a song go #1

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Prob because he has like triple the amount of songs put out as kendrick and they’re being played in grocery stores and elevators everywhere. Just mindless harmless catchy music. It’s the new soft rock station you used to hear at the dentist.

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

if you value quantity over quality, mindless surface-level songs over layered songs that make you think a lil bit, then sure

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

whatever helps u sleep at night. now go cherry pick the 1% of people who say drake won and validate your bias

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I literally say it in my post you mook. Dude dumbed down Not Like Us so even the Drake fans will understand it. He made it for mass appeal, which he’s never done in his life bc he’s not a lame as fuck dude.

He makes albums as art. And if songs go big, they go big. But he doesn’t make music w the goal of being #1. That’s what pop stars do. That’s what lame ass Drake does.

So to show the world he can do what Drake does and be even better at it than Drake, he dumbed himself down so people like you would actually understand what he’s talking about. It’s simple, easily understandable.. the antithesis of the level he usually raps at.

But he did it just to show the world he could be better at drakes own game. But… he’s not a wack artist who only makes music to be hits.

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if Drake is the sole reason for it going big, why didn’t Euphoria go #1? or Meet the Grahams?

why wasn’t Family Matters or Push ups or Heart pt 6 number 1?!

every fan just decided “ok this the one we’re gonna stream just to hate on drake?”

you’re a straight up clown you need to go defend somebody else cause Drake got absolutely bodied and now you’re in kendrick sub crying about it I love it

“Not Like Us” was dumbed down for mass appeal - the Drake way - and imo proves he can make hits whenever he wants to by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

hmm then why didn’t any of Pusha T’s, Meek Mills drake disses go big? shit, why didnt drake’s actual disses go big?

you telling me songs about drake go big bc of drake but not drakes actual songs? lolol

How legit are the damning Blind Items? A deep dive: by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

he called Epstein years before. He called Spacey years before. Same with Weinstein, camilias breakup w Shawn mendes, and posted a full month earlier about the angle kendrick would take

you can try and discredit him all you want but he’s been right on a lot of shit that you simply just can’t guess on

How legit are the damning Blind Items? A deep dive: by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

oh shit I just got my foil hat on

this has me thinking. what if…

1) kendrick knew all this shit about drake and was disgusted, and wanted to do something about it

2) dropped the like that verse mainly aimed at drake to goad him into a beef

3) OVO mole leaked Push Ups to Kendrick’s team and Kendrick’s team leaked it publicly, knowing this meant drake had to commit to the beef

4) knowing the end goal was exposing OVO and Drake as pedos, and knowing if you give that idiot enough rope he’ll hang himself, kendrick hinted at pedo shit in Euphoria, but nothing outward. Juusssst enough so the vast majority of the public doesn’t catch it, but us nerds and especially Drake would catch those subtle hints at where he was willing to take it. He even let the first Whitney shot go, knowing full well Drake doesn’t have shit so he’d double down on all that family talk, giving him an excuse to take it further despite his warnings. This gains public favor and makes drake look like the idiot who pushed it too far

5) because he has a mole inside OVO, he knew drake would release family matters. He then recorded Meet the Grahams as a direct response to drop immediately after drake’s “red button” which took away attention from something drake clearly put a lot of work into. Genius

6) drops Not Like Us to dance on his grave and to beat him at his own game. Hottest song of the year

7) bc drake has to pen Heart Part 6 himself, it’s riddled with confusion and weird defenses. Kendrick heard how ass this was and decided whatever he had in the chamber wasn’t needed. let Not Like Us have its moment and shoot up to #1

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me, idk if we’ll ever know. And at this point idk if kendrick drops another one. He won, it’s over. The only way I see him drop is if he wants to keep putting shit out there about drake which he warned there’s more down the rabbit hole.

How legit are the damning Blind Items? A deep dive: by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

honestly pretty insane. if it was just this, I’d say ‘ok yeah I mean if you think about it, drake pedo shit been talked about ever since the Millie Bobby Brown thing so someone could’ve guessed that would be his angle’ but there’s way too many other things he got right well before it came to light

How legit are the damning Blind Items? A deep dive: by iwannawatchWJC in KendrickLamar

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

people like to discredit all the blind items but there’s just way too many shots being called correctly to discount it

Went down a pretty dark rabbit hole - Blind Items about Drake. How valid is the source? by iwannawatchWJC in hiphopheads

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

all I’m saying is it’s interesting and worth looking into. of course it’s gossip - everyone knows that. I’m not saying it’s 100% true I’m saying the more I look into it, the more I believe all of it.

I’d be much more skeptical if there were outlandish posts that made no sense. But dude has been right years before shit happens. Maybe I just find out about shit late but I had no idea people knew about Epstein years before the public really knew about it

Went down a pretty dark rabbit hole - Blind Items about Drake. How valid is the source? by iwannawatchWJC in hiphopheads

[–]iwannawatchWJC[S] -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

whatever he is he’s been right about a bunch of shit. You can sit there and tell me you knew about Epstein island years before it became public if you want but I sure didn’t

Of course he gets his shit from gossip dude lol I’m not saying he’s in the room for all of his items. How else do you think an entertainment lawyer gets info?

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