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The internet comedian Druski has long used hip-hop as part of his sketch comedy, and his proximity to celebrity has helped him reach millions. Did you think the appearances in Drake music videos and Kai Cenat streams were for show?
His spoofs continue in his "Coulda Been Records" videos. He plays a label owner who is hosting open tryouts for a record deal. It's hilarious. In the recent one, which takes place in New Orleans, a white woman comes and says "the doctor says she has three to six months of good pussy left" and Druski is rapturous, immediately signing her.
"I don't even want to hear no rap, I just want to wrap it up", says Druski, flanked by two Suge Knight-like security guards. Druski is one of the funniest people alive. His sketches burst with charisma and an eccentric and "black boys night out" sense of humor.
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for anyone not following hiphop, there is some entertaining and intense back and forth going down between drake and kendrick lamar. brief history:
- drake features j cole on a verse in last year’s First Person Shooter with the following line:
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
- in March, kendrick responds with a verse in future and metro boomin’s Like That:
Motherfuck the big three, n****, it's just big me
- j cole drops a transphobic response track, apologizes for it, and deletes it from streaming, cementing his status as a goofy and a loser
- drake replies with Push Ups, mainly trashing kendrick’s comparatively weak sales numbers, and saying he caters to too many white pop artists:
Maroon 5 need a verse, you better make it witty
Then we need a verse for the Swifties
- drake drops a second diss track called Taylor Made Freestyle which features "AI" voice clones of tupac and snoop dogg; tupac’s family compelled drake to take this song down, allegedly at kendrick’s behest
- kendrick replies with euphoria, absolutely tearing into drake from a multitude of angles. vulture has a breakdown of some of the sharpest bars:
That's ho shit, I got a son to raise, but I can see you don't know nothin' 'bout that
- kendrick drops another diss track back to back, putting out 6:16 in LA on instagram. kendrick enlists taylor swift collaborator jack antonoff for production and drops bars implying that drake entourage is filled with backstabbers:
Have you ever thought that OVO was working for me?
Fake bully, I hate bullies
You must be a terrible person
Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it
- drake gives a solid return shot with Family Matters, making some serious claims about kendrick’s personal life and beliefs, claiming he is violent with his wife, and going so far as to claim one of kendrick’s children is the illegitimate offspring of his business partner:
I heard that one of 'em little kids might be Dave Free
- within an hour of Family Matters, kendrick has already dropped Meet the Grahams. kendrick has taken the glove off, so to speak, and takes shots at every aspect of drake’s image, including a reference to an ozempic prescription pictured on the album art, allegedly really belonging to drake (here addressing drake’s son):
Don't cut them corners like your daddy did, fuck what Ozempic did
Don't pay to play with them Brazilians, get a gym membership
- not resting on his laurels, kendrick goes back to back AGAIN by releasing Not Like Us before drake has a chance to respond. dropping any pretense or vagary, kendrick spends a significant amount of time directly accusing drake of pedophilia:
Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young
You better not ever go to cell block one
this doesn’t really cover all of the barbs thrown or people who have been potentially roped in by stray lyrics, so i recommend hitting the links and listening through if you haven’t yet.
May 5, 2024
A bit typical but does the trick, consistently.
Here’s a playlist I made: Houston Shopping Mall Playlist.
(Name inspired by Yasiin Bey saying Drake makes music to shop to, specifically in malls probably in Houston.)
Feb 23, 2024
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i saw the video of kendrick drunk in the studio rapping old hot boys songs and thought he had a point. lil wayne was/is so good
Jul 6, 2024
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I'm often accused of being an "old soul", a categorization I vehemently dislike because it pretends as if my taste is because of nostalgia, as opposed to what is actually cool and compelling. (If something cool comes out now, I enjoy it, but we're in a down period when it comes to culture). But, something old about me, is that I do not care at all about TikTok ending, if does happen. If Elon takes it over from the Chinese, you might as well leave anyway, but I'm just worried at why this is a huge deal for people. It's just an app. Another one will be made. TikTok is not culture, it directly flattens culture into these ten second clips that take music, movies --- things that you need to process --- into something that is now consumed by everyone at a rapid pace, not allowing for the nuances, the style, the aesthetics to sit with us.
I have never watched something on TikTok and thought that this is something in that pushing American culture to deeper heights. I am sorry. Now I am sure they're good stuff on the app, but it's not really a necessity. Whenever I hear the words "it's blowing up on TikTok", my mind immediately growls.
I understood why X becoming overrun with Elon bots and right wingers is a big deal; X actually created things, made careers, made American life, and American events available to be seen by everyone. However, TikTok is a corrupt fantasy, chopping at the wires that make physical connection important.
Read a book! Go to the movies! Go to the restaurant of a cuisine that is unheralded, go to a baseball game. Who cares about TikTok?
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Like almost every morning, I make a big ol breakfast salad for myself. Eggs, greens, onions, tuna, spanich, olives. I never taste anything as filling as this. It's perfect. Great if you are looking for a big breakfast to hold you down during your work day. Get yourself a salad spinner; makes it easier.
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There's something quite startling about Martin Scorsese's 1980's period compared to the rest of his decades as one of America's greatest filmmakers. In the 80's, he was weird, strange, and making weirdly manic films that feel more New York than even some of his movies about the mob. They're movies about characters who aren't glamarous people that they want to be, but rather, are losers who can't seem to correctly fucntion in normal society. They're non-violent sociopaths. I saw The King of Comedy at Metrograph recently, and it's exhilarating, hilarious, manic, and scary. With Jerry Lewis, Bobby De Niro and Sandra Bernhard, Scorsese was able to create a world where incels who are bad at comedy are wishing for fame. Sound familiar?
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
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