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It took three months for Nas to one-up Jay-Zs Takeover, releasing Ether on his frenemys 2001 birthday.
Morale & the Big Stepperss Mother I Sober, a song aboutKendricks motherfacing trauma.
His plan of attack involved volatile insinuations about the self-professedMr.
The success of Kendricks campaign is partly owed to exhaustion with Drakes combativeness and cultural saturation.
Hes nigh-inescapable, ever-present on charts.
He picks fights he doesnt need to.
His music revels in spite, stalking through lavish, private, lonely vistas.
Eighteen years into this career, youre either locked in and loving it or varying degrees of checked out.
Instead, the Boy peddled Ozempic rumors.)
Was this his political pundit play?
It was fun until it wasnt.
It was a race to design the most insulting sentence that succeeded beyond anyones wildest dreams.
Its all kayfabe until it isnt.
He could say that we instigated this because we wouldnt lay off him before the facial-hair and gangster parables.
He learned to adapt roast by roast.
Morales thirst for controversy.
And why wait till the seventh-inning stretch here to get into it?
The press that barely pushed back onMr.
What are we todo withall of this nastiness?
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