Kendrick - 1

The speaker discusses various topics, including his dislike for remixes with the same verses, his definition of a one-hit wonder, and his frustration with overplayed songs on the radio. He also mentions Kendrick Lamar's obsession with trolling Drake and how Kendrick's biggest song has become annoying due to its constant radio play. The speaker also comments on Kendrick's concert and his reliance on Drake for club hits. that you are now tuned into the most ignorant podcast in America. This is the Unemployment Line. I'm D-O-K and I'm sitting here with my main man, Larry P. What you got to say, my man? Honestly, man, I just hate when people remit songs. Oh God. So like, you know, you got a hot song that's out right now. And then all of a sudden they be like, it's the remits. And you, you may, you know, you may feature some other people on it. Feature Lil Wayne, feature Drake, feature Cardi B, feature it. You know, they come with a new verse. But the person whose song it is, they verse is the same. And I hate when you do a remit and you like put the same verses out. Like if the remits happen, I feel like everybody should come with a new verse. You know what I mean? Like, just imagine, just imagine back in the day, all them Touch It remits that came out. If all them Touch It remits just came out and Busta's verse was the same on every one. You'd be like, bruh, stop making this up. You can do a Trinidad James. Trinidad James, didn't you try to argue? There was a thing going around like, all right, who's the best one hit wonder out of this group? And they tried to say Trinidad James. And they was like, Trinidad James. Trinidad James was a one hit wonder? He had another song. I think y'all misconstrue what the idea of a one hit wonder is. Because in order to be a one hit wonder, you have to be able to define what is a hit. I'm not saying the man ain't had other songs. He had one hit. And when they did the remix to All Gold, everything, he jumps on the track and was like, oh, y'all thought I was going to rap again? Nah, I already killed it. It's because he didn't have anything else to rap about. He didn't have any more bars. He had no more bars. I think you could take that approach too. I think a one hit wonder, this is the way I determine, define a one hit wonder though. If Sean Kingston, for example, we talked about him weeks ago. We say Sean Kingston came out with other songs. We don't know those songs, but everybody knows the suicide. With Trinidad James, I'm not going to really call him a one hit wonder because he did have like one or two songs afterwards that he kind of rode that wave. And I'm not saying everybody knows those songs, but I am saying that a couple of people that was riding the Trinidad James wave are aware of the songs. I couldn't tell you the names of them, but if I played one of the songs for you, you'd definitely be like. I mean, I know one of them. My side chick, my main chick is my main chick, can't feel me no more. So that's my thing. That song was on the radio for like maybe a month. But that's my thing. That's my thing. He ain't no one hit wonder though. That wasn't a hit. It's not a song. It's not a hit, but I don't think we saying like one hit wonder is like the term of a hit. Cause then you got to define what a hit is. Well, that's what I'm saying. Because my thing about it is, my definition of one hit wonder is that you got your 15 seconds of fame. You got your chance to be out there. You know what I'm saying? Not everybody's going to be like Vanilla Ice and Ice Baby and you know what I'm saying? You know, set the world on fire with that one hit. But you would consider Vanilla Ice a one hit wonder, right? Yeah. Okay. Vanilla Ice had other songs. He did. He was in the Ninja Turtles movie. But can you name them? Go Ninja, go Ninja, go. That don't count. That don't count for no one hit. I'm concerned about Vanilla Ice saying, go Ninja, go Ninja, go now. I don't want him to slip in the studio. Nah. He do, what they call it? He flip houses now. Do you know that? What? You didn't know Vanilla Ice flip houses? No, I did not. Yeah, he had like a show on like HGTV and everything. See, that's the thing, man. People can put anything out here on social media, on TV and make it look like it's real. People can put anything out here on social media and TV and make you believe it. And we've talked about this before. Where are the drugs? Like, you mean to tell me Vanilla Ice have transitioned from rapper to all of these VH1 behind the music series about how he was like down and out and depressed after the success of Ice Ice Baby led him into a spiral of infamy but no actual support system around him. And now he flipping houses? Yeah. Where did the house flipping money come from? I mean, you get investors, I guess. So you think people was invested in Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice pull up at the bank and it's just like, hey, you know. No, not the bank. I'm saying like, you probably got, you know, like. He pulls up at a business. He knows some people, networking. Speaking of networking, what are we talking about this week? We are talking about, um, dang, which one are we talking about? Hold up, hold up. Boom, doo, doo, doo, doo. Oh, yeah, we talking about too much being, too much of a good, I forgot what it actually was. It falls in line with the One Hit Wonder conversation we were just discussing. And not in any way, shape, or form that Kendrick Lamar is in any way, shape, or form in One Hit Wonder. However, this is the biggest song of this man's career. Boom, boom, boom, boom. This is by far the biggest song of this man's career. Boom, boom, boom, boom. I hate this song now. And see, that's the issue. So that's really the subject matter. Let me tell you about this song. Let me tell you why I hate this song. Because when the song first came out, I was like, oh, that's a, and I was like, I was playing it whenever I could get a chance to play it. The issue with me hating this song now is that when the radio started playing it, then I'd be like, all right, y'all. Like, I got in the car one morning, one morning to go to the gym. And as I'm driving to the gym, They Not Like Us was on, on my ride to the gym. I was like, all right, cool. I work out in the gym for an hour. I get out the gym. I get back in my car to go home. They Not Like Us is playing on my ride home. So I get out of my car, come in the house, start getting ready for work. It may be taking me like, you know, another hour, hour and a half to get ready for work so I can drive, get back in my car, do drive to work. They Not Like Us on. I had cut it off at that point. I was like, no, every hour y'all play this song? Now, Larry, you have a degree in mass communication. I know that. Now, you know good and well how the radio works. But this is my thing. This is my thing. This is my thing. I know how commercial radio works. I'm talking to you about satellite radio. You have a plethora of music that you could play at this point, unedited, unfiltered, uncut. And you want to keep playing They Not Like Us every hour. And but this is not atypical of a very popular song. You know, we can probably sit here and recollect and think of a lot of like songs where it was just like, oh yeah, y'all done ran that one into the ground. And that's what the radio does. That's what people do. They will run things into the ground and they run it into the ground, not because it's bad, but because it's good. Kendrick Lamar just had a concert. He performed that song five times. Kendrick Lamar performed that, let's start here. He performed that song on Juneteenth, at his Juneteenth concert. And first of all, Juneteenth, still very new. A lot of people were alarmed when they realized that the banks were closed and the mail wasn't running. Yeah, I mean, like it's a federal holiday, guys. What y'all think? Yeah, but a lot of us still had to go to work. Like it ain't caught up to everybody yet. I mean, but a lot of federal holidays ain't really caught up to, you got things. Some people got to go to work on Labor Day. That's true. It's just certain federal holidays ain't a federal holiday for everybody, but usually it's gonna fall in line for all of the same. The banks, the postal, and the trash. You know, the usual suspects. The federal government, they're gonna be closed. Yeah, the usual suspects. You just gotta be like, all right, it is what it is. You know, like the DMV, closed. So the issue with that concert Kendrick did though is he opens it up with a diss against Drake. Like this man is so like obsessed with like trolling Drake at this point that he's like, if it's an hour and a half concert, he spent like half of the concert just doing songs about Drake. It's the training day effect, you know? Denzel Washington has a great career as being a great actor, as being just this outstanding person, but nobody gives him his flowers until he becomes the bad guy. So Kendrick Lamar, like, you know, everybody like, oh, I can't die. Oh man, y'all heard the Pimple Butterfly. Oh man, y'all heard Mr. Morale. And some people like Snooze Fest, Snooze Fest. And then, cause I can't really think of too many, the only other songs, it's funny. The only other song I can think of, I heard a lot of Kendrick Lamar in, in like clubs and lounges as a song with him and Drake together. So Kendrick Lamar doesn't usually have songs that are, hey man, throw in that Kendrick. We've had that conversation. Nobody was jumping in the car and saying, hey man, throw in that Kendrick. Think about this. Every song that Kendrick Lamar, every song that you probably hear being played in the club with Kendrick Lamar on it is because of Drake. Cause you got to think about it. He had F'n Problems. He had the other song with the Janet Jackson sample. The B Don't Kill My Vibe, is that it? Poetic Justice. Poetic Justice, that's right. Poetic Justice, he had that. Oh, like if you really look at the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef, and then you really look back at Kendrick Lamar and Drake catalog, you're like, well, y'all was on, like there's certain people that have beef and you're like, oh, y'all was never rocking with each other. There's certain people that have beef and you'd be like, I wonder what happened cause y'all was rocking together for a minute. Well, I still haven't been able to dig into the behind the scenes of it all. They said it's been going on for 10 years and I don't understand. Well, that's one of the things it was all talking about what the songs Kendrick chose to do. There was like, there's subliminals to Drake in all of these songs. And I'm like, first of all, y'all got too much time on y'all hands. Number two, we're talking about things being overexposed. It can't be overexposed if this many people are still interested. They're still wanting to hear more. There's still people sitting here waiting for another response from Drake. Now, Drake did release another response but I don't remember anybody ever saying, hey man, you gotta check out The Heart Part Six. And this is my thing. I think what a lot of people are anticipating at this point is a slow, gradual battle, I guess at this point. You get the beginning of Avengers Infinity War and then it's like, all right, cool. We're gonna put out all these Marvel movies until we give y'all Endgame. We'll give y'all Endgame in like two years. So I guess everybody's expecting the slow paced this thing at this point. But we at least got the big battle everybody's been waiting for. And then all of a sudden it's like, all right, y'all. Drake gonna come out with an album. Kendrick gonna come out with an album. And then all of a sudden they probably beef again. I don't think that's how it's gonna play out but that's what everybody's expecting. But what I wasn't expecting though is people out here dancing and calling the man a pedophile. You shouldn't be out here having little kids out here. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Little kids out here, get minor. Bam, bam, bam, bam. I'm like, what is this? Like this song is not appropriate for children. That's my other issue with it being on the radio so much. I know that was sad on that radio but it's on regular radio too. It's like, hey fam, do y'all know what this song is about? Let me tell you something. The Crips or the Bloods, whichever one it was on stage. Yes, they were all on stage. Whichever one Russell Westbrook gets down with. Which I believe is the Crips. How old is Russell Westbrook? He's got to be like 39. How old is LeBron? He's got 37. LeBron's like 37. So let's say Russell Westbrook is 34. I'm gonna go with that one. 34, maybe 33. Oh, now we're talking about real time. I know, I know. I always like to throw my guess out to see a spot on. 35. 35, I was close. But so what I realized, they do, they got like the Crip walk, Bloods got the B walk. They have a part of their dance where they hold each other's hands. Yeah, yeah. And then they start just, it's like some type of medieval. I was like, what was that? What is happening? And then I was like, all right, well maybe that's their thing. I was like, maybe that's just between him and him. And then Russell let his hand go and went to another dude. He held the other dude's hand. I was like, what type of curtsy, like what are y'all, ballerina? And I was like, you know what? I was like, look man, I ain't got no dogs in my fight. If y'all like it, I love it. But it's very interesting to see, you know? That dance move happened. So if y'all don't know what dance move we talking about, just go find some of the videos of the concert and focus in on Russell Westbrook. And you will see Russell Westbrook out there. Yeah, fast forward to the fourth time that Kendrick Lamar did not like us, which is the point. And I think Russell Westbrook was like the first one on the stage too. No, Mustard was the first one on the stage. And then when the parade of goons started getting on stage, Russell Westbrook was one of the first goons on stage. My issue was though, Russell Westbrook is 35 years old. And I know Kendrick Lamar is in his 30s too. But normally that energy, that type of dancing, the person like leading off all of the jigging and jiving that y'all are doing on the stage, usually it's somebody of the youth, somebody in their 20s. That shouldn't be Russell Westbrook. You are a father. You a grown man. You are closing in on the latter stages of your NBA career. Why are you out here swaying back and forth and slapping the ground? I don't see anything wrong with it. When we come back, I'm not sure where we're gonna take this conversation, but we'll be back. It's time to play more.