Kendrick always had better flow but Drake has producers, pace, and beats to make you run through a brick wall.
Kdot is weirder, which would be a plus in any other genre of music but rap, which I like straight-on, hard, & boom-bap, because I grew up on 90s East Coast rap.
Kendrick is more authentic & angry in these diss tracks. He's vicious, honestly, maybe too much. Drake seems like he's putting on airs (and he is, I mean... DeGrassi).
@Rosey my zag take is that the whole thing is tedious, contrived bullshit and none of the tracks have lasting merit. Which is par for the course for Drake, the Ed Sheeran of rap, but should be beneath Kendrick according to his persona, which reads as increasingly false. So from him it's disappointing though he's been sounding old for awhile. In fact they're both getting old and are desperate to maintain relevance imo. Of course kdot is winning, he's easily the best rapper of his generation
@mrcompletely That's a fair assessment and I will have a tough time not seeing Drake as the “Ed Sheeran of rap" going forward.
I think this has been fun, but I watch from a distance. Best part has been the immediacy and back-and-forth. 8 songs in a week; that's an album these days. If this thing was contrived in advance (i.e., they end the beef by releasing all the tracks as a joint album or something), it will be very disappointing. Kdot certainly does not need Drake, unless for motivation.
@Rosey oh I don't mean contrived in that sense, I think there's real dislike at the heart of it. But there's also a deep silliness to two grown men writing mean poems about each other
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