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For years, Kendrick Lamar and Drake have rivaled in the rap world. This week, their fight escalated after releasing multiple diss tracks. As two of some of the biggest names in recent rap history, tensions between them have been mounting since Drake's "First Person Shooter" in October 2023.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/drake-kendrick-lamar-beef-diss-track-616-b2540125.html
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/kendrick-lamar-drake-j-cole-beef-explained-1235951318/
 
Timeline
10/6/23 - Drake ft. J Cole "First Person Shooter"
https://genius.com/Drake-first-person-shooter-lyrics
 
3/22 - Metro Boomin releases "Like That (Ft. Kendrick)"
https://genius.com/Future-metro-boomin-and-kendrick-lamar-like-that-lyrics
 
4/5 - J Cole releases "7 Minute Drill"
https://genius.com/J-cole-7-minute-drill-lyrics#about
4/7 - J Cole apologizes for calling out on "7 Minute Drill". 
4/12 - J Cole removes "7 Minute Drill" from streaming services
 
4/19 - Drake releases "Push Ups"
https://genius.com/Drake-push-ups-lyrics
 
4/19 - Drake releases "Taylor Made Freestyle"
https://genius.com/Drake-taylor-made-freestyle-lyrics
 
4/30 - Kendrick Lamar releases "euphoria" 
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-euphoria-lyrics
 
5/3 - Kendrick Lamar releases "6:16 in LA" 
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-6-16-in-la-lyrics
 
5/3 - Drake releases "Family Matters"
https://genius.com/Drake-family-matters-lyrics
 
5/3 - Kendrick Lamar releases "Meet the Grahams"
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-meet-the-grahams-lyrics
 
5/4 - Kendrick Lamar releases "Not Like Us"
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-lyrics
 
5/5 - Drake releases "The Heart Part 6"
https://genius.com/Drake-the-heart-part-6-lyrics
 
 
TLDR:
 
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I love the album cover so much, this was her chance to give us the psychedelic experimental pop album, this could have been her ray of light era.. oh well

i wish Flipside and Is This Happiness were released on ALLL platforms and stuff not some itunes exclusive from japan

her second best album tbh 

my darlin’ streamings are NOW 

Ok so I made a different version of the TTPD tracklist, a bit more chronological and easier to listen. 
 
1. TTPD 
2. Down Bad
3. Fortnight
4. Florida!!!
5. How Did It End? 
6. Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me? 
7. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 
8. Guilty As Sin? 
9. The Alchemy 
10. So Long, London 
11. Fresh Out The Slammer 
12. But Daddy I Love Him 
13. I Can Fix Him 
14. My Boy Only Breaks
15. loml 
16. The Smallest Man 
17.The Black Dog 
 
the first 4 tracks are a bit random- but i feel like they work sonically. I love TTPD as an opener, it's kind of a thesis statement for the record.
Next we have Down Bad- which is pretty ambiguous as a song, except if you count "like I lost my twin". I'm still deciphering this line, bc on one hand, Joe and Taylor *look* very similar, but Matty and Taylor are similiar, in the sense that they're both good songwriters, that have a large following and a big fanbase. I'll just put Down Bad there bc it's in the same key as the next song, Fortnight,so it sounds cohesive enough.
Fortnight & Florida are similar in a way that I feel like they're both fictional- Taylor has never actually been to Florida, like she has for tours, but she definitely hasn't been in the part of Florida she's talking about. Fortnight is interesting- it feels like she's making up a situation where she's married to someone (Matty?) but neighbours with an ex (Joe?)
 I chose HDIE as Track 5, even though it isn't the best choice it's still extremely sad, and tbh I see it as a Joe track. They're not officially ended, but it's over in her head. SLL is a amazing track 5 but I needed it later so it works chronologically.
Tracks 6 and 7 is a little interlude about fame and the eras tour, I feel like they're connected.
Track 8 is where it really starts cooking. On Guilty As Sin, she's fantasizing, she wants the rat, she NEEDS him. She wants to break free, and she doesn't care if she's crucified.
On The Alchemy, she has possibly hooked up with him, or something else has happened between her and Ratty. She realizes she can't fight it anymore, the universe is telling her that it's meant to be. 
On SLL she realizes she can't live a double life, she has to let Joe go. The spirit is gone, it's over, and she knows it. 
On Fresh Out The Slammer, she's out of Joe's basement, she is a free woman! And now that she's free she can do whatever the fuck she wants. Who will she be calling first? Obviously the rat, and now they don't have to be secret about it.
On the next song, But Daddy I Love Him, she's in full delulu mode, head over heels for Matty, and she's trying to convince everyone it's gonna work out, and she doesn't give a shit that the whole world is against this relationship. Truly a modern day Love Story. 
On the I Can Fix Him, she's still deluluing herself, I can change him, he's gonna be fixed, until the end of the song, where she's like WHOA um- maybe I can't. 
On My Boy Only Breaks, it's ended. Matty saw a future with Taylor, something longterm, and suddenly realized he didn't want that. I like how the previous song mentions that SHE can fix him, and now on this one, there's a line where she says "Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me". There's a lot of lines that mention they had a history (2014) so this feels like a Matty song
On loml, it's truly over. She realized that it's all fake, and that he was truly hiding the awful person that he is. The whole time he was manipulating her with the idea of marrying and having kids someday, and then one day he just left her, burnt the whole relationship down, the curtain dropped and revealed his lies and carelessness.
The next song, TSMWEL, is the anger that Taylor is feeling after it's over, asking herself if someone hired Matty to mess her up, truly questioning how someone could do something so awful to someone else.
The last song, The Black Dog, is a perfect way to end the record. She's bored on her phone, and she's getting updates about Matty's location, and her seeing that he's at another bar inspires this beautiful track about how even though he'll find someone younger and prettier, she'll never get his references and understand him like Taylor did. 
 
 
And that's the end of my delusions!! I really need to find more hobbies, but this was fun. I enjoy listening to the album this way, it feels a lot more balanced. There's more bops between all the soul crushing songs, and it really tells a story. The only track I removed was Clara Bow, I have nothing against it, I just feel like it makes more sense to end the album with a postbreakup song, since this is clearly a breakup album.
 
 

Im a Baby supporter.
the mv eats 

what is happening in the ldr universe  one day we're getting random neil pics, then nothing happens, then we're sure she'll announce smth at lanachella, but silence 
 
and now we're suddenly deluluing for an AKA rerelease? This is like being a swiftie except nothing ever happens 
 
I just want to know if Lasso is actually happening atp, so I can get on w my life 

"CHURCHELLA" 
we are insufferable  

Don't worry guys, she'll come out to the stage and sing a medley of jealous girl / coca colla / betty bop & announce the unreleased album with 200 tracks 

In My Feelings, When The World Was At War, God Bless America, Coachella, Lust For Life, Lolita, Summer Bummer, Groupie Love, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, White Mustang, Yayo, Guns And Roses, Jon Batiste interlude, This Is What Makes Us Girls, The Trio interlude...
(You ppl say Fishtail is hated wtf?? It's the Ocean Blvd song I replay the most atm!😭)

In My Feelings, When The World Was At War, God Bless America, Coachella, Lust For Life, Lolita, Summer Bummer, Groupie Love, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, White Mustang, Yayo, Guns And Roses, Jon Batiste interlude, This Is What Makes Us Girls, The Trio interlude...
(You ppl say Fishtail is hated wtf?? It's the Ocean Blvd song I replay the most atm!😭)

omg not me reading this at the exact time as I heard Billie Eilish sing "diamond mind" while listening to Ocean Eyes lol

In My Feelings, When The World Was At War, God Bless America, Coachella, Lust For Life, Lolita, Summer Bummer, Groupie Love, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, White Mustang, Yayo, Guns And Roses, Jon Batiste interlude, This Is What Makes Us Girls, The Trio interlude...
(You ppl say Fishtail is hated wtf?? It's the Ocean Blvd song I replay the most atm!😭)

In My Feelings, When The World Was At War, God Bless America, Coachella, Lust For Life, Lolita, Summer Bummer, Groupie Love, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, White Mustang, Yayo, Guns And Roses, Jon Batiste interlude, This Is What Makes Us Girls, The Trio interlude...
(You ppl say Fishtail is hated wtf?? It's the Ocean Blvd song I replay the most atm!😭)

In My Feelings, When The World Was At War, God Bless America, Coachella, Lust For Life, Lolita, Summer Bummer, Groupie Love, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, White Mustang, Yayo, Guns And Roses, Jon Batiste interlude, This Is What Makes Us Girls, The Trio interlude...
(You ppl say Fishtail is hated wtf?? It's the Ocean Blvd song I replay the most atm!😭)

Arcadia, literally one of her best songs

Amaaaazing, indeed. So much better than the old version, yup 

Imogen Heap did amazing on Clean TV though. I loveee that new production personally. I was hoping she’d do some vault tracks. 

i hope she at least talk with him once in a while because he is always interacting with her stuff

your phone is questioning the culture

Can someone explain why the tour guy would be mad about the motorcycles? Did he just not like the idea?

He took his time then! 

nah cause you ate for putting most of LFL in there. LFL is such an amazing album and it seriously changed my entire life. LFL title track so overhated. people think its overproduced, but its part of the theme. 

In My Feelings, When The World Was At War, God Bless America, Coachella, Lust For Life, Lolita, Summer Bummer, Groupie Love, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, White Mustang, Yayo, Guns And Roses, Jon Batiste interlude, This Is What Makes Us Girls, The Trio interlude...
(You ppl say Fishtail is hated wtf?? It's the Ocean Blvd song I replay the most atm!😭)