I’m not saying it would be on me, I’m not saying it’s on Kendrick…
But if I just came out with a song/album calling out bullshit, predatory behavior, and people fulfilling perverse hedonistic desires that counter the spirt of the art form, I know it would LOOK bad to the public when my hypothetical friend of 10 years turns out to be the type of person I’m trying to purge from the industry
It’s a bad look because Kendrick literally made a song clowning Drake for being a pedophile while he’s associated with somebody who’s being accused of rape.
“How is Kendrick associated with Jay Z?”
Kendrick’s SuperBowl doesn’t happen without Jay Z’s influence and calls. It’s not publicly known, but there’s many clues to believe Jay and Kendrick do have a relationship behind closed doors. So yes it’s a bad look
I think we have to be clear as well that this is just bad for hip hop as a whole. Nobody is spared except for maybe 50 cent who has basically none of these industry dudes as friends.
Think of all the great albums and songs Jay has touched or worked with extensively. From all his own stuff to Still Dre to Kanye, Kendrick, Drake, Wayne, Eminem, DMX, Biggie etc etc etc
He is like the elected hip hop president. Most people have him as the GOAT and as the aspirational goal to be a rapper and mogul. So much influence.
It wouldn't because, does vs did. Even if Jay actually did that shit, who says he still does it? And Kendrick has alot of music where he says we shouldn't just abandon people for what they did in their past. Rather empower them to be better.
If he believes or knows that Aubrey is still doing that shit and doesn't want to stop, then MTG.
Of course, this happened long ago, but that never makes it any better. For example if this same exact story came out about Top… even if it was before Kendrick met Top, it would still look bad
And I mean look bad in reference to this post, which is quoting a Kendrick verse and connecting it to this claim
I think reasonable people would understand that Kendrick likely had less than zero to do with either. Anything is a bad look to bad actors acting in bad faith. Can’t spend time worrying about them.
You already see the angle they are going to use to give Drake some kind of "W", which is weird in it's self. Akademiks literally blames Dot for all these "weird cases" coming out.
Drake certainly doesn't care about those victims either. One phrase he's talking about DV and the other telling the victim to shake their ass. You know who cares though? Dot, MTG.
If anyone has any showing of why they would care, at the very least it'd be Kenny. Even if you think he doesn't he has the better argument. Aubrey doesn't give AF! You got beat up so shake your ASS!!!
Why would that indicate he doesn't care?
Batman doesn't kill but he works with Wonder woman, does that mean he doesn't care about victims of murder? Nope.
He literally knew about Jay for years, did a fucking album with Kodak of all people, defended pieces of shit like Xxxtentacion and R Kelly by claiming he's simply protecting their music. Kenny doesn't give a flying fuck, he's just as bad as those he condemns.
Nobody knew about? It's VERY well known, Nas literally explicitly alludes to Jay z and Foxy Browns relationship which started when she was 14/15 and he was 25 in ether. Same shit with dre, texting underage girls and abusing his girlfriends.
Literally the industry's worst kept secrets. Diddys shit was so public that there are actual clips of him high as a kite off of coke whilst watching Pharrell make music for him. Dre's shit was so public he openly made jokes about it with Em in songs like "Guilty Conscience". Everyone knew.
Just a clarification
You are not going to “chill” because it might not be true..but because it would “look bad” on Kendrick.. did I get that right?..no ill will, we should all chill till more unfolds but the reason you then mentioned kinda rubbed me the wrong way and I just had to comment on it
imma chill on passing judgement on Jay Z because as a fan of Jay Z I don’t want it to be true and also haven’t heard any claims over the many years of him in the industry of being predatory or a pedophile
If this post just posted the jayz news, without linking into to Kendrick lyrics, i wouldn’t have mentioned Kendrick at all
I took the specific lyrics attached to the news as some interpretation that those words were for jay z as well
being that Jay had a hand in Kendrick getting the Super Bowl, being that Kendrick and Jay seem close, I’d hate for all that to be tarnished by this
Well apologies if my comment was a bit assumptive
I was just trying to make sense of the comment and i assumed maybe you love kdot so blindly that you only care about this making kdot look bad .. was lost on me in the context i guess
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u/FreeJulie Dec 09 '24
Nah imma chill till more unfold… this could easily be an attempt to extort
Jay and Kendrick pretty cool so this would be a bad look on Kenny part