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LOL wait is the whole problem here that you just like Drake more than Kendrick?
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SUPER BOWL LIX & Ads and stuff
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Well I am sure you will be there guarding his balls from all of those fans.
Title IX. There has to be a balance between boy's and girl's sports. You can't add one without either adding another or taking another away.
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Just watched Stephen A, RC, and sterling agree that kl doesn’t have the Grammys and superbowl without “not like us”. They then said Dan couldn’t respond because he’s not like us. He did tend to agree.
Essentially, because Drake is actually good
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Why not advocate for boy”s flag football as well? It’s a different skill set. There are boys who can’t compete in tackle, but could excel in flag.
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I like Drake more as well, but he got clobbered in dis tracks.
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Throughout his career, Lamar has won 22 Grammy Awards (the third-most by a rapper in history), a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, 37 BET Hip Hop Awards (the most won by any artist), 11 MTV Video Music Awards (including two Video of the Year wins), 6 Billboard Music Awards, and a Brit Award. As a songwriter, he has received nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, Lamar received the most Grammy nominations by a rapper in one night, with 11. During the 65th ceremony, he became the first artist from any genre to be nominated for Album of the Year with four consecutive lead studio albums since Billy Joel (1979–1983).
Lamar has appeared in various power listings. In 2015, he was featured on Ebony's Power 100 list that honors leaders within the African American community.Time included him on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. He has appeared on Forbes' Celebrity 100 ranking (2019), and its 30 Under 30 list twice in the music category (2014 and 2018). Lamar was included twice in Billboard's lists of the greatest rappers of all time (2015 and 2023). Complex named him the best rapper alive twice (2013 and 2017), and included him in their list of the 20 best rappers in their 20s thrice (2013, 2015, and 2016). In May 2015, Lamar was declared a generational icon by the California State Senate for his contributions to music and philanthropy. He was a grand marshal for the Compton Christmas Parade, and was presented with the key to the city of his hometown for representing its evolution.
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, To Pimp a Butterfly, and Damn were featured in Rolling Stone's industry-voted ranking of the 500 greatest albums of all time and the 200 greatest hip hop albums of all time. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City was additionally featured in the magazine's list of the 100 best debut albums of all time, and was named the greatest concept album ever. It was named the seventh greatest album of all time by Apple Music in 2024. To Pimp a Butterfly was ranked by several publications as one of the greatest albums of the 2010s decade, while "Alright" was deemed the greatest hip hop song of the streaming era by Spotify. As of February 2023, it is the top ranked album on the online encyclopedia Rate Your Music. Damn is the recipient of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first time a musical work outside of the classical and jazz genres was honored. Its tour companion, along with Big Steppers Tour (2022–2024), are two of the highest-grossing hip hop tours of all time.
Insider and CNN editors have opined that Lamar is one of the most influential musicians of the 2010s decade, deeming him a paradigm shift in contemporary hip hop and popular culture.
Lamar's music has consistently garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, as well as support from artists who have paved the way for his advancement. His Pulitzer Prize win was considered a sign of the American cultural elite formally recognizing hip hop as a "legitimate artistic medium". Senior artists such as Nas, Eminem, Prince, and Madonna have praised his musicianship. David Bowie's final album, Blackstar (2016), was inspired by To Pimp a Butterfly, and its producer Tony Visconti praised Lamar as a "rulebreaker" in the music industry. Pharrell Williams called him "one of the greatest writers of our times" and likened him to Bob Dylan. Lamar has also been cited as a strong influence on the works of various modern artists, including BTS, Dua Lipa, Tyler, the Creator, Roddy Ricch, and Rosalía. Lorde regards him as "the most popular and influential artist in modern music."
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Title IX does not require high schools to offer the same number of girls' sports and boys' sports. Adding a girls' sport doesn't mean they have to eliminate a boys' team. It does obviously mean slightly less money available to all the other teams if they add a new sport that requires equipment, coaches, etc.
ETA: even if you were right it wouldn't make any sense to say adding a girls' sport means removing a boys' sport - if anything they'd have to remove another girls' sport or add another boys' sport. But again, that's not how Title IX works.
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It's just hilarious that you are on here being butthurt about Kendrick doing the halftime show just because you're big mad that Drake didn't get asked to do it instead.
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Title IX, in athletic terms, means that you have to show proportional opportunities for men and women in athletics. You don't have to have identical sports or participation rates.
Which means that if Women's Flag Football is implemented as a widespread sport, and given that schools are already in compliance with Title IX currently, that the most likely impact on men's sports would have to be more men's sports are added to remain in compliance with Title IX. So pursuing widespread Women's Flag Football would most likely mean more athletic opportunities for men, as well.
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Kind of a weird argument. I never thought popularity was a good way to measure the quality of music. And most of the highly streamed music out there either totally sucks or is mediocre. I mean, artists like Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Linkin Park have had the highest selling albums of certain years. Does that mean they were better than all the other artists who put out music those years, or that everyone liked their music?
Anyway, I think both Drake and Lamar suck, but Lamar does just fine without Drake and he definitely has more "cred."
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It’s the weirdest stanning I’ve seen on this site, since the summer schism. I understand the fascist stanning, but I literally cannot comprehend vociferously ridiculing one of the most awarded musical artists of all time, by claiming he’s “nothing” without a song that was released in the last twelve months.
And ftr, I literally only know what I know about Drake and Kendrick on the basis of Wikipedia from last night and this morning, and the education I received, as the eldest SB party goer by about 7 years.
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OK, an explainer from Slate about the KL/Drake thing that I was only vaguely aware of in the first place ...
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The world was waiting with bated breath to see if Kendrick Lamar—who has been embroiled in a months-long beef with rapper Drake—would perform “Not Like Us” during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. Why wouldn’t he perform the five-time Grammy-winning blockbuster hit of his career on the country’s biggest televised stage? Well, because the Drake-targeted banger essentially accuses the Canadian rapper of being a pedophile, an attack so vicious that it led to Drake filing a defamation suit against Universal Music Group—the label that has licensing agreements with both Drake and Lamar—last month.
While some legal analysts doubted that Lamar would perform the contentious song, and fans hoped that he would, the “Humble” rapper proved he was anything but by taunting audiences on the matter on Sunday night. Instead of verbally burning a Drake effigy for 12 minutes straight, Lamar decided to do what he does best: use his stadium-sized platform to deliver a political message when America needs it most. During Black History Month, with Donald Trump of all people in the audience, Lamar called out the streak of anti-Blackness that pervades this country’s past and present. All while, yes, viewers were on the edge of their seats waiting to hear the infamous lyric “certified lover boy, certified pedophile.”
With actor Samuel L. Jackson acting as “Uncle Sam,” Lamar performed some of the hits from his most recent album GNX—“gnx”; “Squabble Up”—alongside background dancers dressed in red, white, and blue. Between song transitions, he rattled off phrases like the “revolution [is] about to be televised,” and protested racism through defiance, continuing on as Jackson’s “Uncle Sam” interrupted his—in Jackson’s character’s words—“too ghetto” display. Instead of backing down, Lamar had his background dancers get into a color-coordinated formation that created an American flag as he launched into his hits “Humble” and “DNA.”
But Lamar was well aware of what we all really wanted to see, an elephant in the room that he spoke to directly with a callout of Drake during his first tease of “Not Like Us”: “I wanna perform they favorite song but you know they love to sue.” He then pivoted, introducing his frequent collaborator SZA to perform the more melodic song “All the Stars.” It wasn’t until Uncle Sam’s next retort—“That’s what America wants: nice, calm”—that Lamar, characteristically defiant, turned it all the way up.
Because you know what America actually wants? Feet on necks! A takedown so absolute, it’s awe-inspiring! Pure hateration and holleration in this dancery! America wants rap, hip-hop, and alllllll the grade-A beef. Kendrick asserted that the political message he’s trying to imbue in his performance is bigger than Drake’s hurt feelings—stating, “40 acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music”—before launching into, at long last, his actual performance of “Not Like Us.” At the end of the day, Lamar said Drake’s name and the famous “A minor” line, but refrained from saying the word “pedophile” at the most-watched event on TV. ..."
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As I noted before, I watched it with the sound down and got a dystopian vibe from just the visuals, but that kind of thing can be deceiving.
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The world was waiting with bated breath to see if Kendrick Lamar—who has been embroiled in a months-long beef with rapper Drake—would perform “Not Like Us” during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. Why wouldn’t he perform the five-time Grammy-winning blockbuster hit of his career on the country’s biggest televised stage? Well, because the Drake-targeted banger essentially accuses the Canadian rapper of being a pedophile, an attack so vicious that it led to Drake filing a defamation suit against Universal Music Group—the label that has licensing agreements with both Drake and Lamar—last month.
While some legal analysts doubted that Lamar would perform the contentious song, and fans hoped that he would, the “Humble” rapper proved he was anything but by taunting audiences on the matter on Sunday night. Instead of verbally burning a Drake effigy for 12 minutes straight, Lamar decided to do what he does best: use his stadium-sized platform to deliver a political message when America needs it most. During Black History Month, with Donald Trump of all people in the audience, Lamar called out the streak of anti-Blackness that pervades this country’s past and present. All while, yes, viewers were on the edge of their seats waiting to hear the infamous lyric “certified lover boy, certified pedophile.”
With actor Samuel L. Jackson acting as “Uncle Sam,” Lamar performed some of the hits from his most recent album GNX—“gnx”; “Squabble Up”—alongside background dancers dressed in red, white, and blue. Between song transitions, he rattled off phrases like the “revolution [is] about to be televised,” and protested racism through defiance, continuing on as Jackson’s “Uncle Sam” interrupted his—in Jackson’s character’s words—“too ghetto” display. Instead of backing down, Lamar had his background dancers get into a color-coordinated formation that created an American flag as he launched into his hits “Humble” and “DNA.”
But Lamar was well aware of what we all really wanted to see, an elephant in the room that he spoke to directly with a callout of Drake during his first tease of “Not Like Us”: “I wanna perform they favorite song but you know they love to sue.” He then pivoted, introducing his frequent collaborator SZA to perform the more melodic song “All the Stars.” It wasn’t until Uncle Sam’s next retort—“That’s what America wants: nice, calm”—that Lamar, characteristically defiant, turned it all the way up.
Because you know what America actually wants? Feet on necks! A takedown so absolute, it’s awe-inspiring! Pure hateration and holleration in this dancery! America wants rap, hip-hop, and alllllll the grade-A beef. Kendrick asserted that the political message he’s trying to imbue in his performance is bigger than Drake’s hurt feelings—stating, “40 acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music”—before launching into, at long last, his actual performance of “Not Like Us.” At the end of the day, Lamar said Drake’s name and the famous “A minor” line, but refrained from saying the word “pedophile” at the most-watched event on TV. ..."
Kendrick’s Super Bowl Performance Pulled Off a Double Whammy
Lamar gave us “Not Like Us,” but also a much-needed dose of something else.
As I noted before, I watched it with the sound down and got a dystopian vibe from just the visuals, but that kind of thing can be deceiving.
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Vanilla Ice - Over 15 million albums sold
Big L - Almost 1 million albums sold
ZZLPHeels: "OMG, Vanilla Ice is clearly a better rapper than Big L...look how many more albums he sold!!!"
Drake stans are the Swifties of the hip hop world.
Lamar's biggest hit was a song about Drake. Without Drake, Lamar doesn't exist. Without Drake, Lamar's halftime show doesn't exist. He's simply a pathetic little (literal and figurative) man who knows that the second he stops bashing one of the most successful male musicians of all time, his time in the sun is over.
You are assuming schools have enough money to add two new sports at the same time.
I don't care about Drake not doing it. Lil Wayne would have been better too. I think 90% of America would rather have seen an actual halftime show instead of a tiny little dude crying about Drake for 20 minutes.
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honestly an insult to Swifties