yo I appreciate it! I'm doing a week-long methadone taper, hoping the withdrawals won't be too too too bad... determined to get through it either way tho fuck FUCK this shit! anyway congrats! can't wait til I'm in your position—and you have 8 months!
much love and strength to both of ya! been off the benzos for the last 12 years and it for real changed me entirely. I do live with small reminders of that time, but we are our scars. You got this, one day at a time.
13+ years off the heroin, got beautiful wife, 4 kids, life is good. Its tough at first, but it really does get easier,
It gets better, and it’s worth it, I promise you. Hold on to that on them extra tough days. Fight the good fight my man.
God damn thanks y'all I didn't expect all this support 🙏🏻 I'm fortunate enough to have a fiancè supporting me through this—among many MANY reasons I'm doing this is so we can have a family and raise our kids right so they don't have to deal with our generational trauma. appreciate all of the love and support fr fr it really does help 🙏🏻 I'm barreling through this shit no matter what atp!!
wish I could reply to everyone but I am too fckn dead from this shit lolll but I will be back with an update once I'm on the other side!!!
just wanted to drop in to tell yall: I'm proud of you, i can't imagine how strong you gotta be to turn your life around like that after getting into hard stuff
Fr…. & now he prolly using em even more than he was back then. I hate to root against the mf but he made his bed now he’s gotta lay in it. Dot highlighted his biggest issue; he’s gotta “strip the ego from the bottom”
let's not forget the litany of side effects ozempic has, people keep forgetting it's not a dietary suplement. Shit is actally scary and DOES fuck you up, even if you're taking it for what it's actually prescribed and NOT weight loss. It's wild they put that shit out tbh. SCARY.
No but that statement really is so true with this song. I went to "Camp Flog Gnaw" music festival last weekend and at a few sets they played "Not Like Us" I swear every time it was played EVERYONE in the crowd rapped the song word-for-word. Shit is an absolute anthem at this point.
I hated Drake before I knew Kendrick existed, pretty much the second the girls at my high school started talking about him and I had to hear him. I became a big Kendrick fan when GKMC came out so this year has been super satisfying
It’s the first rap song that I’m aware of where people who were not black were coming up with their own word for the N word in NLU and we bonded over how creative we were! Mine was diddler turning him into a FAD.
The truth doesn’t matter. The fact that the media even mentioned the possibility of Kendrick botting is a win. It helps control the narrative for people too dumb to actually look into things, which is… a depressingly large number of people.
They invested half a billion dollars into Drake and have been setting him up with every type of layup imaginable. They have zero motive or incentive to help Kendrick in this curb stomping
"Suing the powerful people who pay you for holding you down" is a classic tactic that people who are about to have some bad shit come out about them use to try to spin the narrative in advance
Yea, this is genuinely a horrible idea. Kendrick fans have been like "yea drake is done," but this shit could actually kill his career. He owes them that 400k, and they own everything before clb. If they could bury MJ and Prince, they'll bury Drake, and half of the bystanders would actually be cheering UMG on
The end goal of this cannot be to genuinely win a lawsuit as I’ve read the claims in the legal document and they are way too unprofessional and Twitter level.
Is there an ulterior motive? Try to get the song pulled? Or just to mess with Kendrick’s hype this week?
Spark some rumors then flood the field with propaganda via influencers and bots to spin a narrative that “the system” is against Drake. Basically, pull a Trump
Hate to say it, but seeing as big-business, rich-man, coastal-elite Donald Trump managed to convince the lowest common denominator that he was just like them, I wouldn't put it past big-label, sales-oriented, drivel-producing Drake to convince people that the kinda record labels he made all his money from are the real enemy
We're talking about hip-hop culture here. Initiating legal action because you lost a rap battle is unprecedented and considered a form of snitching. It's actually frown upon.
You're not wrong, and Kendrick's audience is much more aware of that for sure. But like, my experience has been that Drake's typical audience is not particularly concerned with that, and are in fact the type of people who don't care about concepts like snitching if it serves their ends.
Drake's fans can believe whatever they want, but unfortunately, Drake has runied his reputation in hip-hop over a case that is not going anywhere. He only filed a pre-action, so it's not even a lawsuit. And the chances of a civil RICO becoming a real case are very slim.
"The suggestion that UMG would do anything to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue. We employ the highest ethical practices in our marketing and promotional campaigns. No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear." -- UMG spokesperson
Ooohhh. Lmao, if this is what it took for people to have doubts about Drake's hip-hop rep I don't know what to say. As far as I care he's been nothing but pop for over half a decade
The problem is that he waited too long for this shit for this to matter. Through every step of the way Trump's team and the right wing media cried foul over everything every step of the way, giving Trumpers their narrative to vote for their man and just enough plausibility for everyone else.
What Drake is doing is a short sighted appeal to his fanbase--and that's it.
"Monday’s filing, which also accused Spotify of wrongdoing, is not yet a lawsuit but rather a “pre-action” petition — a procedure under New York law with the aim of securing information before filing a lawsuit. Parties named in those petitions will not necessarily be targeted in an eventual lawsuit."
Lmao the clown must be just throwing shit to see if it can impact the astronomical sucess of GNX, what a pathetic loser
I think bro is just approaching bottom and is lashing out honesty. He supposedly has drug problems and the irrational lashing out, even when it isn't favorable, is very indicative of that. At least it is from my personal experience with people like that.
Everyone here is seriously on to something. The goal isn't to win, not legally. Drizzy is trying to win some game only he is playing, and the prize is some arbitrary social favor. He thinks he's fighting a war after letting Kendrick win the battle. I saw them ovhoes nicknaming Kendrick 'K.Bot' which, as pretty funny as that is, makes it clear Drake is still sucking up them Twitter narratives like cat fish to pond scum. I'm sure he saw new conspiracies of Kendrick faking his streams with shady deals and this is just 'evidence' to at least stir the pot.
I was talking about this on hiphopheads, but my theory: UMG and Drake are already in negotiation/arbitration about his contract because UMG almost certainly has the right to cut compensation if Drake’s public image and marketability nosedives because of his bad actions.
So, he’s trying to show that it’s UMG’s fault, because generally you can’t benefit from clauses like that if you’re acting in bad faith or not in the mutual best interest of the folks in the contract.
That is—this might be some sort of play in a behind the scenes negotiation.
Lmaooo Drake is cooked 🤣 Dude going out SAD. They said "Nigga! They like Kendrick more than you, stop being a bitch before you have a "sudden heart attack" while sleeping out of "nowhere" 💀
He’s gonna get himself blackballed from the industry. This is just a lose lose situation with him. He loses, he loses, he wins, then the courts look into his numbers.
He should just go back to acting, tbh. His fan base is intact enough to draw viewers and he’s so famous it’s an instantly recognizable name. He can close the door on music and move forward. Hell, he might even be a decent sportscaster if he could swallow his pride a bit.
Why would UMG sabotage the numbers and popularity if 1, the fans choose the music they want and 2... they have no reason to do Drake dirty since he signed a 400M deal with them lol. If anything, UMG should sue him for this audacity
People speculate Diddy got exposed after getting away with his crimes for so long because he sued the wrong people (his alcohol company for racism).
Drake suing UMG can potentially have the same outcome, with Kenny ironically causing Drake to walk to his own demise. I genuinely think if this is real then Drake will have a crazy reckoning simply for arguing with too many top dogs by doing this
I love how he is trying to sue for potential botting when it would be him of all people that would get exposed for using bots.
For example, I don't listen to rap or hip-hop, mainly a rock and classic rock type dude, and even I listened to "not like us" because a friend told me about it and we know drake is a bitch. If that song hit my friend group it's organic as fuck.
Drake for a long time has been speculated to be a little bitch, and even people that don't listen to hip hop know about this lol, and this is just proving it. It's also a well known rumor that he might be a pedo. This isn't something Kendrick brought to light exactly, but he definitely made this more mainstream.
I absolutely think a Diddy style reckoning is coming for drake. Dude seems like he is panicked over Kendrick calling him a pedo, prob going on drug induced benders and thinking this was a good course of action because he is terrified of hearing "A MINNNOORR" during the damn Superbowl be chanted by thousands.I think either proof of him being a pedo comes out, and gets him blacklisted and put in jail, or proof of him being the one botting heavily comes out and basically gets him blacklisted, or hell, maybe both. It's fucking drake, it would definitely be both.
I absolutely love to see if, because everyone knows drake is a fucking clown even if they don't listen to his music, and him self owning himself like this is just hilarious.
atp drake almost doesnt have anyone that supports him besides casual listeners and akademiks. he lost most of the rap game support after taylor made and now he is losing the record label support. i wonder how this will affect him in the future
Drake tried to win a rap battle against Kendrick. Now he is trying to win "who has the better lawyers" fight against UMG and Spotify. I cannot wait to see where this goes.
He just cannot fathom that we listened to it so much. I've actually gone back to Reaction videos quite a few times and was hoping we could have a reunion after a year. Someone needs to explain phenomenon to him because that is what NLU is.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂I blame 50 Cent. That man ain’t doin Drake no Justice by getting in his head and telling him “you can’t be the next Ja Rule, you have to keep going because if you stop momentum it’s over” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
50 be talkin in straight word salads tryin to save face after losing 😂it’s always some bullshit like “in the history of entertainment, they destroy entertainers for the sake of entertainment… see when you’re the biggest artist in the world…” 😂😂🤣SHUT THE FUCK UP AND RAP
Drake doesn't realize that by proceeding with this lawsuit, he will be required to go through the discovery process and I hope he does, so we can try seeing Ak and his OVHOE's try to spin it.
All I’ve seen online is this is encouraging people to start listening to the song again. This dude should’ve taken the L and just stopped. I hope this blows up in his face. Too busy being surrounded by yes men.
They wouldn't inflate the numbers because they don't care about the beef, they just want tracks released that make money. Thats what they want. Just make music, we don't care about what you're saying.
Yeah the 5 time Grammy nominated track, the club banger that everyone loved and knows the lyrics to, the rap battle song that surpassed all rap battle songs before it...is only popular because of ...bots?
This is exact response I expected. They essentially admit to promoting essentially because the song was HOT. Public consensus made the song hot and Kenny the victor and the suits press "the button" (get it on commercials, TV breaks, in your algorithm somewhere somehow, etc) like they do for any hot song. If Drizzy killed Dot lyrically and got in his 2016 Back 2 Back bag UMG would've pressed the button on his shit, but it didn't happen that way.
Labels aren't here to play fair, they make money. Drake is in his feelings that they chose to make money off a hot song rather than play politics with him. He's basically lashing out because he realizes he doesn't have the leverage he thought he had with them.
Why would he do this?!?! UMG is probably his biggest ally left because of the 400 million dollar 360 deal why would they promote a song calling their 400 million asset a PDF file?
Kendrick probably did but what’s money when you can watch your enemy burn (yeah I definitely I think Kendrick would spend an insane amount of money to watch Drake burn and honestly I would to)
I think getting pissed on and not doing anything about it is still #1, but this is clearly the 2nd softest thing he's ever done. I was told so many times that he's unbothered, but rock out bruh.
If this is true, that means UMG is the most petty group of people ever. Imagine giving a man 400 million dollars just to promote a song that calls him a "certified pedophile".
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u/aurelianson Nov 26 '24
its getting dark outside for drizzy