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Questlove says I’m viewing the Drake vs. Kendrick battle incorrectly

It’s terrible that Drake used Tupac’s AI to discredit Kendrick in “Taylor created freestyle” But it is also form of good. The line that AI Tupac said puts words into Pac’s mouth that he would never say. He would definitely be a member of Team Kendrick. And he would hate Drake (who filmed a whole TV industrial singing Taylor Swift, so using it to defame Kendrick is silly, but whatever). But that is a part of the joke, right? This is a totally different way Drake uses ghosts. It’s also a clever way of using modern technology to make his album attract attention. Some people liked it, some people hated it, but either way, we needed to speak about it, and perhaps that is what all of it comes right down to now.
“Taylor Made Freestyle” is an interesting strategic move on this battle. The point is to rush, Kendrick. We are waiting for you. What’s taking you so long? This draws attention to the proven fact that Kendrick didn’t respond quickly. But Drake knows exactly why it’s taking K-Dot so long. It takes Kendrick for much longer to jot down a song than it does Drake because Kendrick puts so much more thought into his songs than Drake does. (#Pulitzer.) McDonald’s can prepare 50 meals faster than Nobu. Does this make McDonald’s higher? I believe in some situations yes.
Giving Drake credit for releasing two songs before K releases one full song seems silly to me, but I hear it often. I hear so much too People say Drake is winning. To me that is comical. Isn’t the struggle to point out that you simply’re a greater MC and make higher songs and in addition say things that embarrass the other guy? Yes, except perhaps no.
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My man Questlove jumped on my IG page on Monday with an extended, thoughtful comment that made me rethink the battle. Quest said that the audience for tonight’s battle doesn’t have a look at it the same way as the audience that saw KRS-One as the winner over MC Shane or Ice Cube over NWA. “The audience is different here,” he wrote. “Remember a few years ago when you thought ‘meh’ after the Weeknd’s halftime performance?”
I do.
“And then,” Quest continued, “this A 2-second gif/meme of him running through a maze went viral? Now suddenly they seemed to “get the job.”
Quest says it’s about the attention economy and getting people’s attention. Even in case your design is “not good” by some aesthetic standard, if it succeeds on social media and attracts attention, it is a win.
Quest continued: “Drake is either just lucky or a genius along with his moves currently – we have ridiculed his dancing in “Hotline Bling” but he knew it was different.
His next sentence form of killed me, to be honest.
“I do know we wish this to be the blood sport of ‘who’s the most talented’ in our memory, but lol, NONE of them are about ‘talent.’
He just said there is no Santa Claus in hip-hop. Is life price living in any respect?
“Drake, whether he has quality or not, whether he is talented or not, remembers his way to victory.”
He says the old ways of judging battles are over. It’s not about winning the same way Eminem won when he fought in “8 Mile.” It’s about capturing the attention economy. From the old standpoint, Kendrick will undoubtedly win because he’s clearly the more talented MC. Much. How far, far, far. However, based on Questlove’s attitude, Drake is the favorite to win because he is far, significantly better at attracting attention. From Questo’s standpoint, he’s a prom king form of QB, fighting a monk in a battle where victory will probably be decided by his ability to govern the Internet. Drake knows learn how to manipulate him. Kendrick is practically not online. I feel sick.
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Keke Palmer shares his POV with a breakdown in the shady remix of Usher “Confessions Part II”
In July 2023, Keke Palmer and her dad and former boyfriend Darius Jackson caused one of many great debates in social media. After Palmer was noticed (great, I can add) at the Usher concert this summer, Jackson began to X to share his contempt for the mother of selecting his child, causing a discourse with the “equivalent” of her outfit.
Although Jackson was very open about this case, Palmer was silent about her feelings at a viral moment – to this point. On Friday, May 9, the Wielfenian star released a recent song entitled “My Confessions”, in which she spills all tea at this moment and her break with Jackson.
“This is personal.” My confession “is exactly as it sounds – whether giving the feelings I buried”, Palmer he wrote on Instagram About the song. “Sometimes we need a closure, it does not come from a conversation – it results from being honest with each other. This is this song. My room. My brightness. My way to let go.”
The record, which rises from the “Confessions Part Conmissiones”, was written by Palmer and her best friend for 22 years, Tayla Parx, who says that the star “no” saw her through every version of herself. Describing the song as “harsh, emotional and real”, Palmer takes the listeners back to July 2023 and lirially explains every little thing about how Jackson broke up with her at the time, which prompted her to the evening of girls.
“Summer ’23, we were in Vegas, on the right/we broke up with me and jumped to the flight/you were an attempt to find the way to” positive “/so I thought I have a girl’s night”, sings. “48 hours later online/I made me a villain, but you lied, mm/but the truth is that now we now have now already ended in Vegas.
In the whole song and the lyrical film accompanying her, Palmer refers to Jackson’s controversial tweets, and even reported tensions between her and his family.
“Your family, they don’t like me, that’s good / but when did you come back on the side? / When I met you, you hated them as if you hated me now.”
Similarly, he turns to the response and response to his criticism about her appearance at the Usher concert: “72 hours, now your feelings hurt/my fans were pulling you because you had a nerve/you almost turned me into a banality/thought that your child will make me want to stay.”
As the chorus notes: “F— Your projections / These are my confessions”, Palmer explains how difficult it’s to inform her the truth when she sings: “Telling that it was difficult for me / Telling only for my peace / truth hurts and it is mine.”
Since the breakup, Palmer has revealed her and Jackson toxicity and the way much she hated the attention of the media surrounding her relationship.
From his memory “Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your National”, to the upcoming album “Just Keke”, Palmer says that “not to play perfectly here”, but “honestly,” and tell her story.

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Paul Wall joins forces with Gracie’s Corner to get a fresh remix “Wheels on the Bus” and this is BOP

As a parent of 4 children and three who’ve 10-i-fund, my favorite music genre at this moment of my life are jams suitable for the age, which I can listen to without the desire to stab my eyeballs. So when “Gracie’s Corner” struck my awareness a few years ago to fill this void (and appreciating parents around the world) I knew that we found gold.
For example, while “Happy Birthday” Stevie Wonder will all the time be a birthday song of the black community, at this point he is commonplace “Gracie’s Corner” version at birthday parties For those of us who went to see “sinners” at the opening weekend.
“Gracie’s Corner” for many who have no idea (or should not have children) is a YouTube channel for youngsters. According to their side, YouTube provides “a combination of educational, funny and encouraging songs for children from various environments. Come and dance with the game when he chooses a funny journey with family and friends!”
More precisely, they take some rhymed rhymes, which everyone knows and love and put a bit on it. Which leads us to the reason behind the season. If you have not heard the “Gracie’s Corner” version “Wheels on the bus” You cannot have black children. Until now, heavy bass, hi-hat jam trap has 111 million views. Yes, you read the right 111 million views. These wipers are Swisków. Let’s say, Issa Bop.
Well, because people from the headquarters of “Gracie’s Corner” don’t play truthfully, they got here out and got Paul Walla-Tak, he has Houston rap labels, Swithahouse Paul Wall, “Master of the People”-to drop a part of what is dirty south.
Listen to me. I don’t understand how this cooperation was created by Paul Wall and “Gracie’s Corner”, but whoever played this thing must conduct seminars on synergy and creative cooperation for the whole family. I hope that this person is liable for planning a family reunion, because in that case, it is not only city trips and cooking in the city park for this family. The undeniable fact that the whole poem by Paul Walla feels like the one who was sitting, which could fit on the slow rhythm album of Mike Jones, or mainly every song during which Paul Wall has ever appeared – but still works for BOP of this children – is a nasty work of the most beautiful diversity.

Listen, I do not know if you may have a reason to pull up “Gracie’s Corner”, but in case you do it, move quickly to listen to this “wheel on the H-Town bus-to-remiks” with Paul Wall. And in case you didn’t know that “Gracie’s Corner” exists earlier, consider your life, and now you see how the life of oldsters will look and the way it differs from a lonely life. Because now I hit this remix “wheels on the bus” in a automobile with my children. This, my friends, is for all wines.
Indeed, the wheels are rolling.

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André 3000 wore a piano on his back to the MET gala – here’s why

André 3000 is currently and has been for the most a part of the last 30 years of one in every of the leaflets dressed at the planet. Since placing the whole generation of young black men to turban in stores with cosmetics supplies to blond wigs and kilos, there may be nothing that Atlien cannot break away.
So when he hit a haunted blue rug during the MET gala in 2025 in the entire piano on the back, even the most lost that they had to cut the thorn on the side of Mrs. Jackson a little bit of slack. By turning a single-piece black outfit with a red hat, which definitely has a specific name, only carrying what I can put on is a designer trash bag-good room one in every of the lithium at a goat level at the level of hip-hop also wore a piano … on the back. Yes. Piano. The entire 88-lake piano. I hope it was hollowed out for ease of movement; André 3000 is just not exactly a spring chicken at the moment. He doesn’t even rap by trading his notators on his famous flute collection.
Now it is extremely likely that me and your, your mother and your cousin, are wondering what can force anyone, and much more so André 3000, to cultivate the piano. Well, the answer to this query lies on Walking Promothal Exparit that André 3000 was at the MET gala. Just before he appeared in the Vogue channel for Met Gala Dwet Photo OP, group chats were in the news that André 3000 dropped the EP entitled “7 piano sketches”, while the biggest fashion night was half of the spring.
And don’t think that 3000 has returned to the bars, “7 piano sketches” is the most literal title of the album I’ve ever heard in my life; This is literally an album stuffed with piano sketches.
As you may see, the art of the album is comparable to the meta gala of the André 3000 outfit. This boy is coooooooold. This latest EP appears almost a 12 months and a half after André 3000 dropped, “New Blue Sun”, through which he began playing the flute, and never tell us more about Susa Screw and the Sasha Thumper crew. Despite the mixed reviews of “New Blue Sun”, this album was nominated for a lot of Grammy Awards during the 2025 ceremony, including the nomination for “Album of the Year”.
When everyone finally ends up talking about Met Gala costumes and a great discovery of Rihanna, prepare for the attack of dialogue about the André 3000 piano album.

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