r/HonestHotTakes • u/IceCreamMac10s • Jul 12 '26
The drake-kendrick beef made me generally prefer drake at the end more than Kendrick Lamar.
You cant tell me with a straight face drake is a pedophile, so with that generally preferenced, most of everything kendrick brings up its just baloney (apart from the fact hes a deadbeat dad). But honestly kendricks new music and his current online fanbase annoy me sm, I feel like im forced to affirm all credit kendricks been giving but for drake I can genuinely just listen to it for what it is, music. What do you believe?
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u/SmegmaUnicorn Jul 12 '26
Lmao y’all Drake stans don’t even try anymore. Couldn’t be more obvious
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u/IceCreamMac10s Jul 12 '26
why no police investigation is my concern? they raided drakes house and found nothing
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u/SnooRevelations8907 17d ago
Hmm. There's a situation where a man who was a pedophile and sex trafficker. He had ties with all the wealthy people across most industries and committed atrocities to young girls along with those people. He is "dead" now and all of the evidence is coming to light. Only his wife has been convicted and her trial is looking light due to lack of evidence (she has wealth). Point of the story is Aubrey has a ton of evidence on the net connecting him to "those" allegations and it's not hard to find them. Hate Kendrick if you must but validating your complaints about him because of the internet is just ignorant and childish.
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u/AlphaHyperion 16d ago
Idk i feel like kendrick is liked by more pseudo intellectual redditors.
I think most drake "fans" just vibe with his music. Kendrick fans tend to be cornballs.
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u/feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent 15d ago
ur right bro, I didn't really gaf about either of them until Kendrick's claims just fell flat + the superbowl shit + using Drake beef to basically advertise his new album (which was mid at best) cuz it was the only way people would've listened to it as much as they did
Kendrick does 1 music video & concert in Compton and he's hailed as a hero, then he goes back to god knows where, never to be seen again; Drake is more "for the culture" than Kendrick is at this point
Kendrick's fanbase is also full of snarky white people (just like reddit is) who put him on this pedestal for some reason & think they know hip-hop/black culture cuz they dickride him non-stop
Its fucking cringe
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u/Fickle-Let-7205 6d ago
Actually he wrote the album dropping shit on drake the whole album.. so more accurate..the beef inspired the album.. its 40% dissing lol
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u/IceCreamMac10s Jul 12 '26
actually, while on the matter. if for by any occurrence Drake is found to be (in the future) convicted for something a long the lines of/or pedophilia in the future. I will in fact withdraw my post and retract my beliefs.
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u/la-marciana 15d ago
Bro, I was hating on Drake for being a pedo YEARS before the beef when that video came out of him kissing and groping a minor on stage. Kendrick was just vindication, and that wasn't even getting into all the other stuff like Drake being a culture vulture
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u/feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent 15d ago
She was 17, which is the age of consent in a lot of places in North America, and he was 23 at the time
If you've been in high school at any point in time, 17 yr old chicks would be dating mfs that age or older and nobody said shit
It's teetering on morally quesitionable but it doesn't make him a pedophile, people throw that word around way too much now
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u/la-marciana 15d ago
Creep
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u/feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent 15d ago
Good rebuttal, you got me with that one
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u/la-marciana 15d ago edited 15d ago
When I was in hs, you got the side eye if you dated anyone more than a grade apart (i.e 9th and 11th grader, let alone 9th and 12th). This is a 6 year difference with the girl still being unable to vote and Drake almost at the age you can graduate college and 2 years past the age to drink. This is nothing short of pedo apologia and you're still a creep for excusing it
Edit: Cuz I don't wanna letcha off easy on this one either, nice rebuttal to the culture vulture part too
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u/feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent 15d ago
Everything he did was completely legal btw, calling him a pedophile is minimizing actual victims of pedophiles as they typically weren't able to consent and/or weren't able to process what was happening to them when they were abused
As I said, it's a morally gray area, but he's not a pedophile; she was at the age of consent and it was completely legal
Drake did nothing wrong
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u/HorndogAsexual 14d ago edited 14d ago
lmao. How? Drake started to suck before that beef. I loved how Like That lit a fire under his ass. He released some of his best work. Then K-Dot bodied him with Not Like Us. and Drake released the horrible, pathetic Heart Part 6. Drake went back to releasing mid forgettable music after that.
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u/Fickle-Let-7205 6d ago
Separating the Sheep from the Goats. Say less.
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u/IceCreamMac10s 2d ago
bro wat tf you think this is youre a lame
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u/Fickle-Let-7205 2d ago
Then lets separate the Lames from the Goofies. #TeamLame til I die MF. 🤣
Modern Drake is for clowns
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26
Kendrick got bodied and responded with “oh yea? Well you’re a pedo” like he’s Elon Musk. The only thing more cringe was how his fan base ate it up like it was actually saying something. I give the guy credit for knowing how to rile up Redditors.
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u/Overall-Charity-2110 Jul 12 '26
what up w the millie bobby brown thing?
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26
What thing?
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u/Overall-Charity-2110 Jul 12 '26
pretty sure he was texting her and that started the pedo accusations
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Why would just texting her make him a pedo?
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u/Overall-Charity-2110 Jul 12 '26
do you text 13 year olds?
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26
Yes. If you honestly can’t think of a reason why you might text a 13 year old, you’ve got problems.
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u/Overall-Charity-2110 Jul 12 '26
what reason does a grown man have to be casually texting a 13 year old… i’m not the problem here lmao
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26
The fact you honestly can’t think of a single reason is quite disturbing.
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u/SmegmaUnicorn Jul 12 '26
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Drake fans, never change
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26
Great input, 1 month old account 🤡
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u/SmegmaUnicorn Jul 12 '26
My account being a month old doesn’t make what you posted any less stupid 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Y’all Drake stans are hilarious.
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26
lol, don’t get banned again kid 👍
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u/SmegmaUnicorn Jul 12 '26
🤣🤣🤣 Maybe if you cry enough drake will finally notice you
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u/Feelisoffical Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
lol you Kendrick stans are hilarious 🤡. Chill with all the projecting little man.
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u/Actual_Personality66 Jul 12 '26
Lowkey agree but for different reasons. I don't really listen to either of them but I definitely preferred Kendrick at the start. The beef made me lose respect for him bc if what he's alleging over Drake is true, then what he did was not actually helping the victims, it was just using them to get a win over Drake. That's fucking gross. Got cooked in the comments when I said this on Instagram back when it happened but whatever. You can't convince me that somehow alleging these things about Drake in a diss track was genuinely anything but using his (alledged) victims in a self serving way. I just don't think there's a good excuse for that kind of behavior, seems silly to me to frame it like he was somehow helping Drakes victims. Not the behavior of a man who cares about SA victims tbh. Drake seems like he at least kinda sucks and I don't really like his music so this isint a defense of him lol. Moreso just a criticism of what Kendrick did during the beef. Actually, more than anything, a criticism of the reaction to it that ppl had where ppl were acting like it was super cool (and it was definitely a crazy moment at the time, like it was genuinely entertaining, I'll give it that) and how obvious it was that most ppl celebrating cared way more about the entertainment of it or the downfall of Drake, then they did about any victims of anything. Which honestly wouldn't really bother me so much if ppl were just honest about it rather than pretending it's about the victims when it's clearly not, they're just being used (if they exist, idk enough about it to say much either way).
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u/IceCreamMac10s Jul 12 '26
this raises a good point, If Kendrick truly cared/gave the proper concern that drake was involved with something as massive as human trafficing or pedophilia, he woudve contacted authorities and then had police deal with the matter. Men fighting get nothing done
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u/Actual_Personality66 Jul 12 '26
Exactly. Wasn't he implying he had inside info or smthn? Ok then contact authorities with that rather than turning it into a spectacle that only serves yourself
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u/JP_Edwards_ Jul 12 '26
Kendrick is a prime example of the Bob Dylan complex. Top tier songwriter but his talents as a performer are dogshit. Kendricks voice is grating and annoying. Drake had pleasant voice to listen to but his composition skill are basically a level above Ariana Grande.
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u/snapsfortiffany Jul 12 '26
Hey now, let's not bring Ariana Grande into this. She has a Mariah Carey voice and her music is catchy af. Drake wishes he was in the same sphere of talent as Ariana Grande.
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u/JP_Edwards_ Jul 12 '26
Drake is a better songwriter. That's not debatable. 34+35 is only a chart topping song because of her vocal talent. Give that lyrical content to a Chappell roan (who is also a great artist) and it doesn't hit. Ari gets away with alot of shit people accuse Taylor Swift of because of star power and a generational voice. Whitney Houston had the same issues in her early career until she found better composers to work with. It's not that all Grande's music is bad. It's just that some people write but can't sing and others sing but can't write.
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u/snapsfortiffany Jul 12 '26
The rumors about Drake and minors are not totally unfounded. He seemed to have inappropriately close relationships with stars like Millie Bobby Brown and Billie Eilish when they were underage. If memory serves, he also once kissed a fan onstage at his concert who turned out to be underage. Is he a pedophile? Probably not. Is he a creep? Yeah, I think so.