Common on the Drake and Kendrick Lamar Beef & What Makes a Great Diss Record
In his thirty year Hip-Hop career, Common has had his fair share of battles, and he shared his thoughts on the Drake and Kendrick Lamar diss records. #common #drake #kendricklamar
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"I'mma fight to kill, John Wick style" As a guy who actually fought John Wick, he has every right to say that 🤣
@mutepakabende3256
15 күн бұрын
😅
@JT863Media
15 күн бұрын
💯
@opinionladyy
15 күн бұрын
Hell yeah 💯
@Raynne32
15 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 💯
@Jon155mt
15 күн бұрын
Bro was giving Wick hell the whole movie too 😭🤣🤣
It's amazing how most people don't know that Common gave Drake that work as well. They try to sweep that under the rug too.
@dee27206
7 күн бұрын
You clearly don’t know hip hop, cuz Drake literally obliterated him.
@InnovativeWorship
5 күн бұрын
Nobody who has a ghostwriter can obliterate someone. We don't even know if Drake wrote that.
@brandonwatlington
5 күн бұрын
@InnovativeWorship plus it was nowhere near what Common did too. After Common's track, all of a sudden, it was all friendly between the two of them.
@danielmorris738
3 күн бұрын
People also fail to mention the short lived Joe budden beef in which Aubrey took an L to.
This wasn't a war. King Kendrick merely quashed a peasant revolt.
KRS 1, Common, Nas, and now Kendrick taught us all a hip hop lesson: NEVER go against a backpacker/conscious rapper
@MH-et4bo
15 күн бұрын
looool
@sahulianhooligan7046
15 күн бұрын
LL Cool J destroyed Kool Moe Dee and Canibus
@bjmcintyre5080
14 күн бұрын
Backpacker and conscious rapper is not the same thing
@khayeelwilson-el5370
14 күн бұрын
So true!
@Drakeunreleased894
14 күн бұрын
Stop glazin
The crazy part is Kendrick said “are you sure you want to go this route” then drake doubled down and Kendrick killed him
@lindsaymonroe567
14 күн бұрын
I went back and listened to Euphoria after this whole thing was over and there were a lot of little warnings from Kendrick throughout it about getting personal, he even says literally “we ain’t even gotta get personal, just a friendly fade” halfway through it, Drake still did it and Kendrick basically said “so you have chosen Death”
@mash_amba
13 күн бұрын
Reminds of an old Jay Z song where he kept saying: Dig a hole, dig a hole, bury yourself. Drake did just that 😂
@kameelahreese5317
13 күн бұрын
He said freely expedition!..and when he said you want to go there was about talking about family!..Drake came with disrespect first
@dejongrant27
12 күн бұрын
Keddrick was full of bs, he was always gonna release those tracks. Dude been plotting for years. He's had the advantage of watching drake in many beefs. So he knew how he'd come already. As far as the back to back, he did that from drake and meek beef. @@lindsaymonroe567
@moxmann
12 күн бұрын
What was Drake supposed to say? All of Kendrick's disses were aimed at him. He gave Cole maybe 1 or 2 lines and was like back to this mf I really don't like.
Common - The Bxtch In YOO is an all time diss record. The only rapper to hand Ice Cube an L in any form.
@wstcst4l
14 күн бұрын
I agree and I'm a big time Ice Cube fan and also from the West Coast
@hustlemanqumad
9 күн бұрын
krs we in there kilt cube too in response to cube saying some rappers are heaven sent
Common one of the greatest MCS of all time not many can go toe to toe with him on the mic
@yo3rdtier128
15 күн бұрын
No he not and yes they can
@mattd9758
15 күн бұрын
@@yo3rdtier128who can
@Drakeunreleased894
14 күн бұрын
Drake is better
@TBoogy3
14 күн бұрын
LMAO@@Drakeunreleased894
@gobot581
14 күн бұрын
@Drakeunreleased894 Commons a better rapper and actor and hes from the streets. Hes who Drake cosplays.
There’s rules in a rap battle……Kendrick vs Drake was a rap WAR.. there’s no rules in a rap WAR
@Kal-El207
13 күн бұрын
That’s literally what they said.
@closetfreakish
12 күн бұрын
1 rule, no ghost writing... which him and Nicki have capitalized off of. Kdot used their strategy and exposed them. Drake and Nicki NEED the features. And Kendrick has 3 song in the top 5 right now. Kendrick made a song, cause, Drake makes songs.
@chrisbogan402
12 күн бұрын
@@closetfreakishbro WHAT?? Drake features are Wht gets other artists poppin. He has like 10 #1s without a feature
@closetfreakish
12 күн бұрын
@@chrisbogan402 and he jacked everybody's cadence along the way
@AngeBiampandou
8 күн бұрын
@@chrisbogan402He only got 5 solo. And Rihanna gave him his first TWO number ones (What's My Name, Work). Drake couldn't get a number one without Rihanna or pre-streaming counting towards billboard either. That's why he will never be above MJ in the grand scheme of things bc MJ number one hits were ALL hits not songs that debut at number and fall down the top in 2 weeks like NonStop or Slime Out
Kendrick battled ghostwriters... and won.
I do love what Kendrick did. If it wasn’t for him as an old head, I probably wouldn’t even be into any modern day hip-hop. But hearing Common talk about that old-school beef with Cube just really makes me miss the 90s. Now most of the big rappers of the 90s are all huge celebrities and and actors and producers and writers. The man back, when Cube , Common, Snoop, Dre, Wu Tang, Bone thugs , 2pac, Biggie, Nas, DMX, Warren G, Scarface, Dogg Pound, Busta , Redman…… just back in that era I feel like that was just something special. it was just mainstream as far as an audience goes, but it hadn’t really gone mainstream on a corporate level yet, so it was the best of both worlds.
@user-rr7pk4er5z
15 күн бұрын
Kendrick comes out Corny to me
@bdr113080
15 күн бұрын
@@user-rr7pk4er5z ok user rr7pk4er5z 🙄
@PowderCoke-kc2wt
15 күн бұрын
@@user-rr7pk4er5zyou corny yourself if this what you came up with bozo
@Newportnews98
15 күн бұрын
@@user-rr7pk4er5zspotted the BBLdrizzy fan
@user-rr7pk4er5z
15 күн бұрын
@@Newportnews98 has none to do with that
It wasn't a war, it was a massacre
WHY is the conversation about "too far" and not the mentioning of someone's significant other if you don't want the skeletons in your closet to be revealed or allegations made up on you in a battle especially when your opponent asked multiple times to keep it between ya'll. THAT is when all gloves are off. Like Kendrick said... Drake mentioned his family because the metaphors couldn't reach him.
@JaredGivens1
2 күн бұрын
Yes! Isn't it weird how when Meet the Grahams dropped suddenly the beef was too personal like Drake hadn't been dropping baseless accusations about Kendricks family even after Kendrick warned him not to go there and keep it in rap. I think people have become too tolerant of Drakes bullshit antics. Knocking him down a peg was deserved. If anything it was overdue.
I was thinking that Kendrick was Sun Tzu during this entire back-and-forth. 😂
“The B In You” is a top 5 diss track of all-time IMO. Comm destroyed Cube and put the game on notice that he ain’t the one.
Common has STOPPED aging for real. Saw him at a show circa 2000... he looks the SAME. WOW!
Mero: "i see yall Freestyling in the comments"😂
As a huge hip hop fan born and raised in LA I have to admit Common bodied Cube. The Bitch in You hit super hard and has a great beat and sound. I’d like to be biased for the West Coast but Common shut him up. And it was unnecessary too. Cube just got butt hurt over I Used To Love H.E.R. lyrics. And that song has aged so well. Common is a great MC. 🎤
@godloveszaza
15 күн бұрын
Cube aint gaf about rap he was defending west hard at that time rightfully so knowing everyone else was hating on it so his anger was understandable just completely off. Prime Cube wouldve ate common.
@mikewil7571
15 күн бұрын
@@godloveszaza True, he ate the whole NWA. Ice Cube was different back then.
@opinionladyy
15 күн бұрын
He absolutely did
@heycasino
15 күн бұрын
Common was about to get killed and cube saved his life 😂😂😂 who really won
@166mreli
15 күн бұрын
@@heycasinoCube ain’t save him, he didn’t care what happened to him. Fat Joe did. Told him you not touching bruh. Common and Fat Joe verified this
SHOUT OUT TO COMMON A SMOOTH BRRUTHA AND A GREAT MC
the thing about ideas is they just have to be believable enough to stick. in a diss battle, the idea has to just be believable enough to cause damage. everyone is already mildly aware of Drake's weirdness with younger girls, even if Millie is the only example you know because she's so famous. so there's that idea. and then factor the people he shouts out in his songs and keeps around. that makes the idea stronger. even if the secret daughter was just a framing device (and another way to subliminally remind the listeners of Millie due to the Eleven connection), it is believable enough because Drake is literally confirmed the kinda guy to hide a kid because he is embarrassed of the baby momma. Kendrick pulled out all the weapons needed for a diss battle: pen game, timing, psychological warfare and his deep cultural cache. there are areas where Kendrick can be attacked, he is not perfect, but Drake is the exact wrong person to do it, even if he had the wherewithal to know those attack points (which he just barely did with the one line about giving Kendrick a Grammy as soon as he opens his mouth)
When a legend speaks... you listen. Common is battle tested.. he knows!
Sounds to me like common is saying Drake wasn't ready for this battle and that he should be working on his craft, but he ain't going to say that directly looks like he's trying to play more in the middle but he knows as an MC who got smoked
@jamevolve8380
15 күн бұрын
100%
@TripleSeven777Life
14 күн бұрын
Common went at Drake already in a beef back in 2011-2012 and won. So, he's not looking to beef with Drake again. The same thing with Pusha T when it comes to Drake.
@pringleo
13 күн бұрын
I agree Common is saying Drake wasn’t prepared, but to me it sounded like he was also giving Drake his flowers despite their history.
@tosin.o
11 күн бұрын
also no mention of "battling ghosts or AI" - keeping it peaceful. 🙂😀 as he should. Kendrick won. 😀
@dee27206
7 күн бұрын
@@TripleSeven777Life You clearly don’t know hip hop, cuz Drake literally obliterated him.
Im here thinking about RDC's skit.😂😂
@calmye633
15 күн бұрын
SAME LMAOO “How you got beef with Common?!?!?”
COMMON'S STAY SCHEMING REMIX: AUBREY'S FIRST LOSS, PUSHA T😁 SECOND LOSS, FINAL BOSS KENDRICK 3RD LOSS. SHEEEESH 🤦🏾😂 THAT ACTOR FROM TORONTO IS A JOKE🤣
@talklesslistenmore5578
15 күн бұрын
Yes he is
@Goodnightsrest
15 күн бұрын
You’re only as good as your opposition, he went up against the elite, that tells me he himself could be considered elite. For those type of MC’s to give him credence enough to battle against 🤔
@Milkers777
15 күн бұрын
@@GoodnightsrestHe don’t get no brownie points for goin up against real MC’s dats his fault for being an actor and cosplaying as a hood rapper from Toronto who don’t stand a chance😭👎🏽💯
@BigBlackCrypto
15 күн бұрын
You forgot to mention PDrizzy's loss to Joe Budden... if you listen to them again, they resonate true to this day.
@Whywe.lovegames
15 күн бұрын
@@Milkers777 real rappers and street dudes respect Drake. Like The Game and Schoolboy Q
He’s saying Drake lost and Kendrick did his thang
Enjoying the content fellas. Loving the range. Com always a favorite.
I remember when he diss drake saying: u ain’t wettin anybody you Canada Dry 😂😂😂
@dee27206
7 күн бұрын
Wetting anybody? Tf that mean? Stop tryna make fetch happen lmao 😂
@risinsun619
7 күн бұрын
Fetch happen bro go do ur research before u talk. Look up the diss track foh
First time tuning in. Love the whole setup and its nice to see Mero again. Missed him.
Stay patient 7pm pod It’s dope and there’s market feening for this just not aware. I wasn’t glad I found u guys Don’t change of course evolve as interviewers Dope combo 🤘🏾🤝🏾 cheers New fan
This is my first time ever hearing Common talk about one of the most underrated diss tracks of all times. He 🔥 Cube and I'm from the West Coast.
This a dope podcast
A KRS- 1 & Common full-length album would be super dope!!!!
Great breakdown
Look up … i used to love her… Some of the best metaphors to describe hip-hop and the people that have used it
Common & Black Thought is so underrated 🔥🔥🔥
Exactly - know your opponent. Know what you are up against before you continue. It was a slaughter.
Common destroyed Drake and Cube tho💯
@alexanderlilly2115
15 күн бұрын
No, no he didn't
@jaranameer2882
15 күн бұрын
When did he Destroy Drake? Don’t say the song “Sweet” cuz only the chorus was about him and it was subliminal. I’m a Common fan & I haven’t heard it.
@HellaEdward
15 күн бұрын
@jaranameer2882 Stay Schemin' Remix
@dapluva1
15 күн бұрын
@@jaranameer2882 😆
@dapluva1
15 күн бұрын
@@alexanderlilly2115 😆🫵🏾
One thing I feel people failed to realize with Kendrick in this is that he managed to treat this entire diss battle as if he was creating an album in real time between him and Drake. Think about it…. Let’s assume his “first” song was Euphoria, that song has 3 different beats, so pretend the first beat is the intro to the album, starts out calm but it plays an important part in framing and setting up the direction of the album, then when the second beat begins, that’s when the intro leads directly into Track 2, which gets more serious while also keeping its playful tone to a point, then the last beat switch was Track 2 transitioning into Track 3. Then you have 6:16 in LA as Track 4 which is also the Interlude, then after listening to Drake’s Family Matters and taking that into consideration, with its 3 beat switches as Tracks 5, Track 6 and Track 7, then you go to Meet the Grahams, aka Track 8, which connects directly back to 6:16 in LA that was also a few tracks ago, as evidenced with the picture from 6:16 in LA of the items stolen from the suitcase pulled back, and the album takes a VERY dark and serious tone, only to finally go back to the album’s high point, Track 9, which is Not Like Us, that is the penultimate track on the album that switches the tone of the album back with a bouncy, lighter sound and on a high note different from the deep and dark tone of Meet the Grahams, and the album ends with The Heart Part 6, aka Track 10, which shows Drake throwing in the towel to his opponent who you realize has been controlling this entire thing all along, and that’s Kendrick. The end even has Drake talking instead of rapping as if it’s the outro to an album. I do feel that there were more tracks planned from Kendrick and he was ready for any situation, so that was basically more of this “album” that would have been released, but for now this is how I like to look at what we got, and IMO it works great this way too
Heavy White! Lol I heard that Common
Go Pita!!! Lol.... U got part of it right. But I liked it.... See u on the flip side BRU... We got to collaborate....
Shout out to the Legendary #Common 💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
8:30-8:43 The foundation of emceeing 🔥🔥🔥
Going at you on rap city is crazy
remember when Common said he'll beat anybody's a** in NBA live?
@ronnierodriguez8395
12 күн бұрын
"In the best of 3 out of 5..." 😅
“Over H.E.R. I got into it with that N Ice Cube Now the fight move To in life Makin the right moves Besides God and family You my life’s jewel”
That rap battle was like the 2001 NBA Finals
My goofy self was like, "the lighter dude kind of sounds like Mero" only to see for sure at the end that it was Mero
I see kissing drake azz is apart of being accepted in the industry. Bcuz drake didn't deliver ish. Foh. The ppl have spoken
@heycasino
15 күн бұрын
The people who really run the industry lives thru Drake which is weird they are all white 😂😂😂 so basically you go at Drake then you going at white people so Kendrick really got some balls 😂😂
There’s a Havoc produced version of “The B in you” as well I wonder why he didn’t mention that?
You had to be 7nderground to even get that common battle. I didn't know Pete Rock produced it. That's crazy. Legendary track.
This really is an industry
Adults discussing things they know about👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
kendrick won
It sucks now that the generations are always going to be slept on when they think of common they need to go back to that black star the roots
@georgeguero6138
13 күн бұрын
Q tip
Drizzy w/ da win 🏆 When dat DAVE FREE news becomes FACCS its over for Dot.
He looks like he's wearing a bald cap 😂
@johnsmith-zh1iv
15 күн бұрын
Lol and if he has no hair by father time then he coloring his beard
I love Common. This man is the only artist I can listen to and genuinely feel hopeful for the future. This man is a huge inspiration to me fr!
kendrick vs aubrey is like rakim vs mc hammer this mfer got no chamce
The dopest thing common ever did was beef with the west
Kendrick said he wanted drake to die. He adressed is family. Bruh thats steaight up hate. Lol battle rap is different
Why everyone forgot he cooked drake on the common and drake battle
Should’ve asked common about recording “Sweet” 😂😂
5:50 Which Jay Song is Common talkin about?
@miocid31
15 күн бұрын
Takeover
@AngeBiampandou
8 күн бұрын
Takeover
Treated: I see y’all free styling in the comments!🤦🏾♂️
That Common feat Cee Lo song "G.O.D" is one of the best hip hop songs ever. Those who know, know.
I woke up this morning at 4am thinking damn minus Drake writers, and his voice... wait that's common's voice.... wait damn Drake commons voice... with new-age writers.... -DAMN
@mutepakabende3256
15 күн бұрын
Aswear
@talklesslistenmore5578
15 күн бұрын
Exactly
Common basically saying Drake got smoked without actually saying it lol
Common needs to go get his fuckin tony so he seals goat status with the agot
I used to love her is a hard diss
Did that man say “drake and dot went 12 rounds had to go to the cards??🤯” lmao no my brother it didn’t
Facts work on yourself …
Common slowly turning into suge 🤣🤣
@alexbmacca
9 күн бұрын
This is pretty fking funny !😂😂
I would have loved to hear his take on the Cole apology
KDot washed Drake
War? Ain't no war, Drake walked into the slaughterhouse
Mero sounds different
Drake not a battle rapper stop 😂😂😂
Why common ask "why he dissing me, i got love for the west coast"? Common clearly dissed L.A. in I Used To Love H.E.R.
@TBoogy3
14 күн бұрын
That wasn't a diss at all.
@johnsmith-zh1iv
14 күн бұрын
@@TBoogy3 "And on some dumb sh!t when she comes to the city Talkin' 'bout poppin' Glocks, servin' rocks and hittin' switches Now she's a gangsta rollin' with gangsta bitches".. Yeah bc saying dumb sh!t isn't a diss? @TBoogy3 your a dumb a$$, but don't worry that's not a diss 🤦♂️
Mero needs to slow down on the 💨
@gomezvmarcelo
14 күн бұрын
Ong I didn’t even realize it was him dude aged like milk
watching rappers being political about a diss is the saddest thing to watch.
Kendrick is better than Drake lyrically
Both cube and common kept it on wax and they told each otuer hey you was number 1 so we took shots
No one’s gonna comment on short shorts/robe jersey?😂
I m not hating. Do u honestly think I didn't know.... U are welcome!
We on Knox Hill and Scruface now boys. Catch up
@stankhollywood1794
15 күн бұрын
who you got winning?
@schsas7743
15 күн бұрын
@@stankhollywood1794 I think knox might take it
@micahjohnson138
15 күн бұрын
Drake vs kdot from wish 😂
@talklesslistenmore5578
15 күн бұрын
🤣🤣
@saintkartier5211
15 күн бұрын
Nobody cares about them G leaguers
we gotta stop selling this gambling to our people.
Go to the cards?? 😒
Say what you want Drake killed this guy with one line. "It bothers me when the gods start acting like the broads" 😂😂
@elliottwilson2352
9 күн бұрын
Huh
Common is being disingenuous He wrote a song called I used to love HER about how he loved a girl, hip hop, who moved to LA hooked up with the Boys N the Hood and got turned out and ruined. The song was about LA destroying Hip Hop, of course the West Coast responded just like the East Coast did when the Dogg Pound made the song New York New York.
@BriskettSkywalker
15 күн бұрын
Bruh the man himself said that wasn't what the song meant. You just tryin to recreate that same fkd narrative. FoH
@Slipcubusknight
15 күн бұрын
@@BriskettSkywalkergo read the lyrics and listen again…that’s EXACTLY what the song meant lol
@TBoogy3
14 күн бұрын
@@Slipcubusknight" "Afrocentricity was of the past" So she got into R&B, hip-house, bass, and jazz Now black music is black music and it's all good I wasn't salty she was with the boys in the hood 'Cause that was good for her, she was becomin' well-rounded I thought it was dope how she was on that freestyle shit..." There is not a diss in there. And he spoke of all the phases in hip hop up to that moment in the song.
Common was always nice on the mic and in boxing which is why beefing with him back in his prime was risky he wasn’t just talking out of his ass
Wasnt a battle since drake is nonexistent
First
@JayK923
15 күн бұрын
2 😛🥒
Kendrick Lamar won that battle tho. Let's just admit it
I like Common, always have, great MC(I used to love her was a dope creative song with a fire beat) but he needs to stop with the bs. He made a song as if hip-hop was a female that he loved as a kid. Then as hip hop got older with her transformation and with the different stages hip hop was going through especially when going out West, she changed (shes now not pro black and Aphrocentric) and "now she was with the boyz in the hood". But NY got props and cool point for fking her in the park..😂😂 (again difference between East vs West) So first shot was fired, us in Cali (we are the west coast) immediately knew Common was out of pocket. Especially since Historically, the black panther started in California in Oakland California, then LA was next. So again, to us Common kicked it off and need to be dealt with. So the Slaughterhouse song came out and that beat was a nod to the hip hop heads that said we can't rap. Historically, in hiphop beef, we never the aggressors or start it but we damm sure handle it. 😂😅😂
Y'all suck at the questions and when a guest start to explain please stop interrupting them.
People when from asking Drake for a feature to dissing him. Ross, Rocky, and even K. Dot got hits because of him but everybody forgets that
@sassiea36
11 күн бұрын
Get something straight Drake called Lendrick up. It doesn't matter. When you reveal your true nature then it's a wrap.
Rubbish, I can't believe I just watched that
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Am I the only person who thinks this beef is lame af. 2 people who live in different countries talking smack about each other online, it's no different than a troll in the comment section. The only consequences are they are both making each other rich, that not beef that a collaboration. KRSOne and MC Shan lived in the same city, doing shows to the same crowds repping two real hoods with real chances of real life consequences, so they had to come correct, not with made up lies and cryptic nonsense. Ice Cube and EazyE lived blocks away from each other and came correct or got, got. Real consequences for your actions and words, real beef over real life things. And a rap battle is 2 MCs on stage at the same time ripping each other to their face off the dome, not a team of writers in seclusion making up lies. What happened to the realness that is the currency of Hip-Hop? 🤔 I understand this from Drake he is an R&B singer from Toronto, but Kendrick is supposed to be a real MC from Compton he should rep Hip-Hop to the realest smdh 🤦🏾♂️
Made it about himself 😂 wasted my life watching this.
Drake > Kendrick