 The villain and the hero have a relationship that’s necessary. The hero wouldn’t be the hero without a villain, the villain wouldn’t be the villain, well the villain would still be the villain without a hero, but you get the just. But what about when the villain also meets another villain. Think Joker and Two-Face. “An enemy of my enemy is my friend.” And both hated Batman, much like both Puha T and Kendrick Lamar hate Drake. So, when The Clipse dropped their new single “Chains & Whips", it was like the beginning to the Legion of Dome, because an enemy of Drake, is a friend. As we’ll see. We all know the controversy. “Allegedly”, Drake's only losses came from Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick’s being most recent with the anthem diss track “Not Like Us”, while Pusha T’s track ”Story of Aidon” shocked the world. These weren’t just regular 'you’re broke' or 'I can rap better than you' diss tracks, these were shots fired. Headshots. The thing about both artists (Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar) is that they aren’t afraid to be the villain, the bully. In fact, during both battles these artists embraced being the hated one, and as we all know, Batman is only human, and obviously so is Drake. Enter the new track “Chains & Whips”. “Chains & Whips” is the second track on The Clipse new album “Let God Sort Em Out”. This album has been critically acclaimed because it showed that hip-hop was very much still alive that brought the two brothers back together and featured some of the game's best lyricists. But let's get back to the origin stories. I'm watchin' your fame escape relevance Pusha T starts off the verse and pulls out a reverse UNO card with a verse that isn’t directed a Drake, but at Jim Jones, who has been dissing The Clipse through the years. But Pusha T doesn't care who you are, from wheelchair Jimmy to Jim Jones, doesn't old back no matter what age or handicap the person has, especially when it comes to rap. The first 2 bars. Are literally like knockout punches. He takes what Jim Jones is known for and destroys him with it “You run from the spirit of repossession, Too much enamel covers your necklace”. The only thing he didn’t do in his verse was talk about Jim Jone’s chick, and we know Pusha T ain’t scared to do that. The verse is one of the illest dissections of a a rapper, these 4 bars alone should be enough to make Jimmy hang it up. "You'd think it'd be valor amongst veterans, I'm watchin' your fame escape relevance. We all in the room, but here’s the elephant, You chasin’ a feature out of your element". It’s like a samurai sword in a Quentin Tarantino film. He even snuck in a little mention of Drake of how Jim Jones is doing anything to get a feature from him. And if you watched The Clipse’s Tiny Desk performance it was like Joker talking to Gotham City on TV explaining that Jim Jones ain't gonna save them. Push even includes his infamous laugh, he's never been afraid to be the bad guy. And I'm not the candidate to vibe with Yea. That’s Kendrick. People wanted to hear bars about Drake, and Kendrick gave them that, “I son niggas, I am the general, where my gin and juice?”. He fully has stepped into being the King of the West Coast and of Hip-Hop. GNX proved he had a hell of a year, Kendrick in this verse shows that like Two-Face, that a Gemini is always ready to flip a coin. And in this instance, that means be the bad guy and kill hip-hop, because the villain isn’t afraid to flip the coin at any moment just like a true Gemini would. Kendrick’s been throwing rocks and they've all landed. It will be interesting to see where he goes next as far as his career. The only misstep he's had so far is not being in the actual video. Even though this may not be his mission, in this story I see Malice as the loyal brother. Right or wrong he inherited the beefs. But that isn’t just the beefs he’s taking on, he’s also using this moment to push his message. We all know that Malice left hip-hop to focus on his faith. But we were not expecting The Clipse to reunite, but hip-hop miracles do happen, and it’s been nostalgic seeing both back on stage, like when Jordan came back from retirement and was right there with Pippen to get another ring. I think also people didn’t know what to expect from him. Would he only be delivering God talk? Many people, when they think of God, only think of the good he speaks. Few talk about His wrath or how black and white he was when it came to doing the right thing, there was no one foot in with God. There’s no one foot in with Malice. He is his brother’s keeper. Bubbles was sick, he need medicine Chains & Whips. Two villains who have become friends took on the hero and now are thriving in the chaos. And admittedly the game needed to be disrupted, it needed to be destroyed, because for a while people were using hip-hop as an end to a means. The bag. But hip-hop is so much more, it’s the music of the people, and sometimes when the people get fed up, they side with the villains. Is Drake the vigilante hero in this case? Maybe not so much, but it’s clear that Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar are not afraid to be the bad guys, and they’ve earned the right because as the saying goes, “live long enough to see yourself become a villain". Then again, you need villains, because without them there would be no hero. Last but not least. The song is dope! Watch the video below and tell us what you think!
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 Over the past couple of years rap beef has occurred, but it’s mostly been a regional thing where artists from the same city beef over who’s the big dog in that city. There hasn’t really been a big rap beef since the Drake and Pusha T beef. Some might argue that the Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion beef is a major one. To be honest. Both didn’t really give the people what they wanted. The diss tracks seemed to be more like jabs that stung but didn’t really inflict any actual damage. So, I would say that the game has been relatively peaceful. That’s until Kendrick Lamar chose to shake up the game and drop a verse that broke the internet, again. I say again because this isn’t the first time that Kendrick Lamar has broken the internet with just one verse. Many remember the bombshells he dropped on the game in Big Sean’s song, “Control”. In the song he literally called out rappers that he had made songs with and are said to be friends with. It’s not personal. It’s just hip-hop. He even called out Big Sean on his song. And Big Sean’s verse was first, so it was like he just caught this stray bullet that he wasn’t ready for. Now looking at this new verse, ironically it dropped on the same day Big Sean’s new single "Precision" dropped, which is the first single he's dropped in two years, unfortunately it was overshadowed by the release of Kendrick's verse. Literally nobody was talking about Big Sean’s song. It was “Control” all over again:  Now we get to the new verse that shook up the world. I’m talking about “Like That” from Future & Metro Boomin’s new album “WE DON’T TRUST YOU”. But why did Future let this happen? Future and Drake have been long-time collaborators who dropped a joint project together called “What A Time To Be Alive”. Interesting enough, Future didn’t appear on Drake’s most recent album, “For All The Dogs”. On the other hand, Drake did appear on Future’s last album “I Never Liked You”, which may mean something since Drake’s album was the latter album to drop. When it comes to the new album, “WE DON’T TRUST YOU”, something to also note is that Metro Boomin’, who provided most of the production for the album, doesn’t rock with Drake, so this might’ve made it easier for Kendrick to drop the bombshell on this track. Am I my brother’s keeper? This might be the real question that Future may be asking himself as there has been another theory popping up around the internet as to why Future would let Kendrick diss his friend and long-time collaborator, Drake. The theory floating around the internet is that both Drake and Future are involved with the same woman, but Drake has been pillow talking to the woman badly about Future. This may be alluded to in his verse when he spits. “Stickin' to the code, all these hoes for the streets, I put it in her nose, it's gon' make her pussy leak, Pussy niggas told, ain't gon' wake up out they sleep”. Now let’s talk about what you’re really here for. Kendrick. He firs attacks Drake with the line, “Say, it's a lot of goofies with a check”. We all know that Drake is endorsed by Nike, and the check is the trademark logo. So, Drake is Goofy the dog and he's getting checks from Nike. OK Kendrick. Nice bar. Another bar is, ‘Niggas clickin' up, but cannot be legit, no 40 Water, tell 'em”. OK it’s getting hotter. This is another jab where Kendrick is talking about Drake and J. Cole clicking up, while also giving probs to E-40 and B-Legit, who formed the group called "The Click". and that the fact that their clicking up ain’t forreal or ain’t gonna help them be better than him. Also note that the beat used for this song E-40 also used on his song "Look At Me" that featured Juvenile, BG, Lil Wayne, and Birdman. Then Kendrick starts to point his aim more direct with the bar, “Fuck sneak dissin', first person shooter, I hope they came with three switches”. People know that "First Person Shooter" is the name of Drake and J. Cole’s track that was a great song and did numbers. Anyone that knows Kendrick Lamar knows that he is clearly a writer and master of his craft. He loves hip-hop but also like in the line he raps, he’s not afraid to go against hip-hop, “I crash out, like, "Fuck rap," diss Melle Mel if I had to”. Story time, Melle Mel from The Furious 5 (which is a classic hip-hop group) dissed Eminem for being on a Top 5 list but stating that it’s mostly to do with him being white. This made Eminem go against the hip-hop pioneer and drop a diss track calling out Melle Mel for possible steroid drug use. Kendrick Lamar is willing to do the same and go against hip-hop to prove he’s the best. That being both the pop rap that Drake is, or the hip-hop purist that J. Cole is.  Finally let’s break down the most direct bars. Remember Andre 3K was the set-up bar in the “Control” verse, well here it shows itself again. When he says Motherfuck the big three, this is a jab back to Drake and J. Cole’s song “First Person Shooter” where J. Cole says, “Love when they argue the hardest MC, Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?, We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali”. I think other rappers would've seen this line as a complement, but that's not Kendrick, who takes this more as a backhanded complement, especially since J. Cole ends the bar saying that he is "The Greatest" aka Muhammad Ali. But again, Kendrick Lamar doesn’t want to be buddy buddy, he says it’s him at the top and him only. "Your best work is a light pack". Kendrick is snapping. Then he says, “Prince outlived Mike Jack”. He is saying that he’s Prince and his career gonna last longer than Drake’s. Again, on First Person Shooter, Drake rapped, “What the fuck, bro? I’m one away from Michael, Nigga, beat it, nigga, beat it, what?”. I would argue thought that J. Cole is more like Prince because he can produce music as well as rap. But back to Kendrick with a direct hit to Drake again, “‘fore all your dogs gettin' buried”. Drake’s album is called “For All My Dogs”. Coincidence. I think not. Especially with this line “K with all these nines, he gon' see Pet Sematary”. Ouuuu!! That’s a crazy triple entre. First K stands for Kendrick who is saying that he is a 10 and with the nines, and that Drake and J. Cole are just nines. Second K with the nines, meaning K-9, which means dog. Then with the nines infers that they have 9mm guns and not the stick he says he has earlier in the verse. Also, in that same line he goes into Stephen King’s novel Pet Sematary to say that that’s where their careers are going to be if they keep fucking with him. And just to put the final nail in the coffin he calls them bums. You can see that there were multiple casualties in this verse. Kendrick went direct which many say First Person Shooter was filled with more subliminals than direct hit. Kendrick going direct. So, there you have it. The verse that shook up hip-hop. Kendrick Lamar is now known as one of those artists that doesn’t say a lot, but when he does, the world stops and listens. This verse is so hip-hop. We didn’t even talk about his tone, his delivery, the iconic sample that was also sampled by Lil Wayne. I wanted to focus on the words. Kendrick made a point in this verse. He kept it hip-hop. He kept it direct. But every action has an equal or in hip-hop’s mind a more powerful and deeper cutting reaction. Hopefully, that means J. Cole will respond. Drake too. 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