Hi, I am Needs to Read About A Rap Beef in the NY Times to Understand What’s Going On With Drake and Kendrick Lamar years old.
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I'm roughly the same age and I don't think we're aging up into NYTimes pop culture explainers as much as they've lowered down to reach a larger younger audience.
Well, for me it was more that I couldn't easily discern, from social media, who was saying what to who about what in which songs and needed an explainer that assumed little prior knowledge.
Ah gotcha. I think most people are in the same boat unless they were already following everything going on between these 2, regardless of age :)
If you really want to get into it, YouTube channels are where a lot of "conversation" is going on.
Check out fantano aka The Needle Drop (especially TND Streams for this weekend). And Dead End Hip Hop had a few reaction videos as well.
This is what I was doing all weekend, and eating it all up! :D
The best explanations I’ve found so far. Speaking of age, I can’t believe/I’m sorry for linking to TikTok, but he really does a tremendous job of laying out everything.
https://www.tiktok.com/@xeviuniverse/video/7365332691526569262?_t=8m9zKYKAgU3&_r=1
https://www.garbageday.email/p/lets-talk-drake
The best part about the Wikipedia article about the feud is that they used the war/conflict template. I wish that they would've used the term belligerents when listing those involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%E2%80%93Kendrick_Lamar_feud
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