Yeah,but that was before Take Care.
Drake's response
"I see you [......] having trouble going gold"
"No woman ever had me star struck or was able to tell me to get my bars up"
"No woman ever had me star struck or was able to tell me to get my bars up"
It's a weak diss but it's Drake, the boy has bars he just needs to make a REAL diss record, not some "How about now" type shite.
Meek is definitely going to respond with a hot diss track, so he is still very much alive lol.
Not a great diss track but, it is nice to see a rapper respond to another rapper by actually rapping. Not on a Twitter or Youtube rant.
There are a few warning shots on here, cf "Turn Off the Radio" by Ice Cube, "We Will Survive" by Nas, "Start of Your Ending" by Mobb Deep (at Redman and the Def Squad crew). Not enough meat for me to consider this a full diss track.
Edit: In light of recent events considering Ghost and Mr. Bronson, might as well add "Shark Niggas" to list of subliminal tracks. "Niggas bit off of Nas' shit!!!"
Edit: In light of recent events considering Ghost and Mr. Bronson, might as well add "Shark Niggas" to list of subliminal tracks. "Niggas bit off of Nas' shit!!!"
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Meek's instagram is going up in flames 
Crazy how Drake ever so quick to respond to Meek with a song but with Kendrick...
Kendrick dissed him?
Control was an open invitation that was politely declined by all semi-relevant rappers. Fabolous still looking for that studio as we speak.
Control wasn't a diss though.
Control was an open-invitation to go bar for bar with his peers and not one took it up, doesn't need to be a diss.
Drake on How Bout Now:
I used to always try and burn you CDs of my new shit
You be like "who's this?"
I be like "me, girl."
You be like "oh word, true shit?"
Then ask if we could listen to Ludacris
And car rides made me feel like I was losing it
Yeah, made me feel I ain't have it like that
Like I was average like that
Started drinking way more than I used to
But yeah no girl ever made you step ya bars up kid.
I used to always try and burn you CDs of my new shit
You be like "who's this?"
I be like "me, girl."
You be like "oh word, true shit?"
Then ask if we could listen to Ludacris
And car rides made me feel like I was losing it
Yeah, made me feel I ain't have it like that
Like I was average like that
Started drinking way more than I used to
But yeah no girl ever made you step ya bars up kid.
Not really a diss though, what? them not responding means Kendrick won or something? he just listed the names of his competition and told them it's time to make Hip Hop competitive again, how exactly is someone supposed to respond to that?
Kendrick would have eviscerated anyone who stepped up.
His girl was actually fecking Ludacris which is why she wanted to listen to him lol.
You don't have to be overly lyrical to make a great diss track (50,pac).
Are you being purposely dense here? He asked them to go bar for bar and not a single one stepped up. If Kendrick is telling them it's time to make rap competitive again where do you think he's trying to take this? Whether they replied in a diss song or whatever was up to them, no one won, we all lost because thanks to 50 Cent, Jay-Z and the internet rap beef is pretty much dead in the water now.
Big Krit did
Plus Drake had a few subliminal to Kendrick on the Language and the Shit Remix.
What if King Kunta was about Drake all along?
So were they supposed to start making diss records aimed at each other or at him? he named the top MC's in the game and told them he is trying to raise the bar high, that's cool, but what type of response were people expecting? he didn't even expect the verse to have that much impact.
They were.
How is beef dead because of 50 and Jay though?
Probably, but i don't see why he would waste a cypher on Papoose.
Dollars and Sense
No Vaseline
Exodus 23:1
Just saying. This doesn't compare.
No Vaseline
Exodus 23:1
Just saying. This doesn't compare.
But a rapper with a ghostwriter?
That's another one Drake didn't respond to.
Jay made this generation of rappers think it's ok to just get away with subliminals and 50 created an environment where beef was frowned upon and looked at like nothing more than marketing ploy, combine the two and an environment is created where diss songs pretty much no longer exist, I mean this Drake stuff is light at best.
Bars! Yeah Kendrick kind of disowned Control, in it's TPAB interviews he kind of doesn't really acknowledge on want to linger on that, which is weird but that verse was very disrespectful in tone and when a guy says he doesn't want your fans to ever hear a verb or noun from you ever again I perceive that to be more than friendly threat.
Why would Kendrick talk about Dre or Snoop (heck even Kanye), all of whom he's written for?
The internet killed the beef. Jay Smooth identified the problem a long time when talking about the Joe Budden/Ransom beef.
I did say internet too. Can you imagine Beanie Sigel tweeting the Lox?! Jay-Z @'ing Nas that he fecked his baby mama?!
Gucci Mane made the last good diss song in rap, probably:
Same Jay that released Takeover,Supaugly and BP2 ? same Jay that sent freeway to battle Cass and Beanie to battle Jada?, same Jay that went at Dipset? and Wayne on tracks and called out Drake by name recently? ok.
When you come out of a major beef (top 5 all time) with Nas,there's really no point responding to slight jabs by lesser artists (which he did anyway) the man was ontop of the rap game in his 30s and heading corporate so of course his moves became unorthodox, rappers have been throwing subliminals since the early 90s it's nothing new, you have to earn a diss record in the rap game, every rapper with studio time in the 00s came at Jay what was he supposed to do? respond to everyone? 50 built his career on beef it was the only way he could get attention and stay hot, 50 dissed everyone even Nas,50 actually kept the competitive nature of the rap game alive from 03-07.
The game has changed, Hip Hop is no longer territorial, no one is repping BK or Queens anymore the only thing people rep nowadays is $$$, rappers aren't shooters anymore so confrontations have also been reduced, and the internet has made it possible for people to communicate without travelling thousands of miles.
Rappers are all cool with each other, NBA players,NFL players, heck even the street gangs aren't as tough anymore and the Mafia isn't as powerful as it used to be, get with the times.
This wasn't even a diss record.