TORONTO — The ongoing battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar is playing out in superspeed on social media platforms and streaming services, exemplifying how...
TORONTO — The ongoing battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar is playing out in superspeed on social media platforms and streaming services , exemplifying how modern technology amplifies and accelerates the competition that lies at the heart of hip-hop culture .
"There have always been beefs — Tupac/Biggie, Nas/Jay-Z, Ice Cube/Common. It goes on and on. But in a social media era, everything is being amplified. People are literally sitting on their laptops and phones, creating memes, creating GIFs." And finally, he said, there are opinion posts from people who are responding to other people's reactions.
In decades past, for diss tracks to be shared widely they had to be released in a physical format — sometimes as singles, other times on albums. "It feeds into what attracts people to social media in the first place," Cowie said. "It's just a little bit messy." The real reason King Charles won't see Prince Harry during his trip to England has been revealed by sources.
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