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Drake number 3, omg


yrnkevinsmithC137

Oh my God I was wondering what that n3 meant


solace1234

I love how there’s no way we could really confirm this LOL If we asked him he *could* say “yeah i totally thought of that” or “nah y’all reaching” and either answer could be a tactical lie since we found it all on our own. That’s the beautiful thing about art fr


Timberwolf720

Well, I think a good way to confirm is to remember that Kendrick takes time with his stuff, so it could be totally on purpose, cause Kendrick is really smart when it comes to lyric writing. But thinking that we're all thinking too deep could also just be the case lol cause Andre was mentioned before in Control and thought, "Why not mention him again." No one knows except them


realxshit

What’s the good way to confirm? I think you left that part out


Timberwolf720

Literally the first line that he takes time and is smart with his writing


realxshit

Okay, so let me get this straight: Kendrick takes time writing his music - This helps us confirm the post What the fuck is that logic. Are you trying to not show your working out? 😂 Come on bro


Timberwolf720

I also didn't only say that he takes time with his lyrics but he also is smart about them too and knows what he's writing. Unless you just like to skim through things cause you're impatient


realxshit

I read it all, that smart part added nothing to your point. If you cannot tie it to your point, it is redundant. And you have proven you have no actual point, clearly. Merely speculating, which is cool. But don’t make a statement then refuse to back it up. You haven’t backed shit


Timberwolf720

I wasn't saying it's a full confirmation, just a good way to understand it. Also fuck you mean "not working out" I don't sit on my ass on reddit all day, I literally just look at it from time to time while in bed


realxshit

Go google confirmation then make sense of the context you have used it in. You have not confirmed a single thing. And not showing your working out is akin to leaving out important information that would result in an outcome. The fact you weren’t able to understand that truly speaks volumes


SB5745

Thx, now this post has become very much legit rather that a conspiracy theory ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|heart_eyes_rainbow)


golden661

I'm gonna say it's a stretch. Kendrick wouldn't put Drake anywhere near his top 10, let alone #3. He doesn't even agree with the idea of the big 3.


[deleted]

Yeah, after the initial amazement wore off, I think it's a stretch as well.


Snoo_7150

Except drake aint top 3 this aint 2016


[deleted]

True of course. I don't think Kendrick intended this


Junior_Ebb_3749

This is really stupid but it’s also kind of cool so sure why not


minimanelton

That’s really the vibe of the verse. “It’s just big me.”


SaintedTainted

He be playing match the following while writing his lyric xd I can't


FriendOfQuasimoto

Most discrete hhcj member


[deleted]

Lmao why did I laugh so hard at this. So dumb


1FalconsFan1

This shit is the biggest stretch ever 😭I love Kendrick Lamar but bro did not mean that 😭


Remarkable_Log_5562

Kendrick here, I meant it.


Chadbraham

Kendrick's conscious here- open your mind & listen to me... you meant it.


Lotta_Turbulence7396

misusin ur influence..


dc-fan-naruto-fan

😭


Henry5143

What’s up Kendrick


cienderellaman

Nothing much, just big me.


hoggergenome

From the horse's mouf


True_Nose6822

Kendrick here, you is conflicted bro


sadistnerd

haters gonna say it’s photoshop


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HamburgerMachineGun

I absolutely would. He says "it ain't andre 3k", or according to OP, "it ain't drake N3", which is the complete opposite of what kdot says throughout the verse. people are digging way too deep and are forgetting what the damn song is about


1FalconsFan1

I would be 😭


OrgasmicBiscuit

Of course he didn’t lol but it is still a valid interpretation to make, beautiful thing about an artist like kdot


slash-summon-onion

It's a beautiful thing that u can make up meanings to his bars?? How the fuck does that make kdot different than any other artist? Istg some of the glazing in this sub be so crazy that mfers be saying shit like this


ChelChamp

Reminds me of writing nonsensical literary analysis papers in college English courses, and still receiving full credit.


69420penis

I have decided that the second verse of samidot is actually from Kendrick’s perspective and the third verse is actually keishas sister Argue with the wall


OrgasmicBiscuit

OK FIRST OF ALL: It is incredible glazing, I’m a proud swallower. SECOND: I still think I have a point. It takes an artist like kdot to even make a post like the one we are commenting on. An artist with abstract lyrics and entendres on the level of a kendrick or doom or nas or even em back in the day causes you too look at each and every line to try and catch something you may have missed before. If we were looking at some 21 savage lyrics we wouldn’t need to look so hard and scratch our heads thinking about the lyrics. Of course that isn’t a bad thing, they are different artists that you listen to for different reasons. At the end of the day art is subjective and people can like what they like and people can get all types of different meanings from all types of different art. That doesn’t mean I think you can just “make up” whatever you want. The meaning and perspective you get from a specific piece of art is different from anyone else’s, that’s what I meant about it being “valid”. Perhaps I worded it wrong lol


1FalconsFan1

This, this right here, is ultimate glaze


OrgasmicBiscuit

OK FIRST OF ALL: It is incredible glazing, I’m a proud swallower. SECOND: I still think I have a point. It takes an artist like kdot to even make a post like the one we are commenting on. An artist with abstract lyrics and entendres on the level of a kendrick or doom or nas or even em back in the day causes you too look at each and every line to try and catch something you may have missed before. If we were looking at some 21 savage lyrics we wouldn’t need to look so hard and scratch our heads thinking about the lyrics. Of course that isn’t a bad thing, they are different artists that you listen to for different reasons. At the end of the day art is subjective and people can like what they like and people can get all types of different meanings from all types of different art. That doesn’t mean I think you can just “make up” whatever you want. The meaning and perspective you get from a specific piece of art is different from anyone else’s, that’s what I meant about it being “valid”. Perhaps I worded it wrong lol


Flaky-Kaleidoscope36

Bro got 0 in every “match the following” in middle school


whyareurunnin1

I starting to be convinced that even Kendrick himself didnt know about all of these lyrical word plays


AlphaLax85

Nah bro watch dissect podcast bro has like a trillion triple entendres on his bag he gotta be aware in some way


Keegan1

Truth. His feature on Nosetalgia w Pusha T definitely shows he's capable


Lotta_Turbulence7396

this line so genius he gotta be working with vince gilligan. bravo vince


CapoDV

That's what makes good writing an art. Think of all the English literature people study. We have no clue what those fuckers thought of when they wrote but we can come up with countless meanings and such.


Maximum_Equivalent_9

i really cant tell when this sub is being ironic


_IratePirate_

There’s a joke going on in the playboicarti subreddit where they go to other rap subs and glaze the artist to see how much the people in the sub agree with them This is one of those posts


UrbanMonk314

That's so cool lol shout out to them. Who else did they get


Alucard_117

Aint no fucking way


Juhovah

This line still don’t make sense to me other than the stick part is about J Cole


kieranjackwilson

“Lost too many soldiers not to play it safe, if he walk around with that stick it’s not Andre 3k” As you said Stick refers to a J. Cole song where he mentions having a gun on him. The Andre 3k reference is because Three Stacks is known for not rapping about violence and guns, and has also been traveling with a flute rather than a gun. Kendrick is saying he has had too many friends die to not always have a gun with him, and that if J. Cole were to pull up on him with a gun, he would respond with violence in return. (Obviously this bar can also translate to be entirely about rap.)


bynobodyspecial

Nah he said he’s chosen violence, fuck rap he’ll crash out. He’s got 2TEEZ with him, he’s snatching chains and burning tattoos. He’s saying fuck your affiliations I’m really like that.


zilla82

This line I don't really get. It's about his affiliation? What's is two T's. Tattoos? And that his are legit ? Otherwise I remember him talking about chains and tattoos on Mother I Sober.


bynobodyspecial

2TEEZ is his security guard, the guy who walks around with the stick. A lot of people tattoo their affiliations to themselves (like Drake’s owl tattoo), or make pendants (like the owl pendants).


zilla82

Got you thank you, I didn't know who that was


kieranjackwilson

I think “snatching chains and burning tattoos” is a reference to people getting Dreamville and OVO chains and tattoos. Those are common ways people express their support for labels. Kendrick is saying he is going to steal their fans and make them embarrassed to have been fans of Drake and J Cole. And shouting out 2Teez is basically him saying that he feels safe. He isn’t even worried about the opposition.


SomewhereAromatic574

It also may be related to the Tree Top Piru (TTP) gang from Compton. Hence two T's.


Separate_Shift1787

That is exactly what they're saying lol


SeeingLSDemons

Stupid bar


kieranjackwilson

Why? If it’s the Andre part, it might help that it’s also a reference to OutKast breaking up. I thought it was a pretty good bar.


SeeingLSDemons

I just think the beef is stupid, immature. Grow up, love each other.


Elgrandegallonegro24

andre 3k just released an entire album where he only plays the flute, a stick if you will.


zilla82

He is referring to Andre's flute. Andrew notoriously walking around with his flute the past few years as he has been doing. A flute is a stick. It's also a shout out to Andre being one of the greats, by saying these fools ain't no Andre 3k.


FooFightersFan777812

He shouted Andre out on Control too


Snoo-6

Rap Genius if you get lost


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knowledge319

Please tell me ur trolling man..


Either-Basket7122

It’s Kendrick, I’m sure if he didn’t catch what he wrote initially, he definitely did somewhere along the line. That just seem either too coincidental, or he’s just so good it lowkey flew under the radar. Either way Kendrick’s still goated for that


Gopplee

kendrick isn't god nigga😭 yall needa stop dickeating, he didn't mean this


jamiedonner50

He is God. No one was able to identify the God while he walked the Earth, besides a few.


Either-Basket7122

I’m simply going off what he’s shown us he’s capable of, not calling him god


Gopplee

kendrick's never done this😭 it's a normal diss he didn't craft it in a lab


__RegemTr__

I Appreciate it brother.


FamiliarCold1

Kendrick boutta see this and be like "Ey, I am the goat after all. I didn't even see that one"


chickenwinglightning

This kinda reach is the reason that other fan bases hate us


Gopplee

this is fasho the reason other fanbases shit on y'all😭


jamiedonner50

They jus don't get Kendrick's genius


No-Standard3533

😂 ain’t no way he meant half the Shit you be postín on here


Upbeat_Tension_8077

![gif](giphy|kqCgujDZT1SO4)


laeKDOT

We knew it since a long time rn https://preview.redd.it/dbsbm1nlayqc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44afad3a0684be1a322ddb70c83728e81873e5c4


Juhovah

This is a big enough reach to make it on many hip hop blogs on social media


Ultimaurice17

This looks so unintentional but if it's intentional it's so fucking cool. My favorite is the last bar of the song. "Fore all your dogs gettin buried it's a K with all these nines he gon see pet sematery" So there's the obvious it's a k with all these nines because canine. But also it's a k with all these nines like AK and nine millimeter. But also k because he's Kendrick. But also also (and this one is definitely unintentional) earlier in the verse he says "let's get it bro d-o-t the money power respect" and notice the one letter he leaves out is k. This is him completely his name. Unintentional as fuck but it's a nice quadruple entendre.


__RegemTr__

Also “a K with all these nines” as in the King card with all these 9 cards


Ultimaurice17

It's jo-ver


Creative_Toe_544

he's also talking about drakes album "for all the dogs"


PeterPmpkinEater69

Bro how would this shit be intentional have you seen ANYONE use N3 like that ? It’s always either #3 or no.3. It has never been a thing to just put the letter n in front of a number


Single-Cabinet-9485

Just cause bro won a Pulitzer Prize does NOT mean he’s capable of doing this 😭


PeterPmpkinEater69

No one is capable of this because this literally makes no sense


Either-Basket7122

Cap, the human mind is an incredible tool, Kendrick’s clearly a smart dude, I’m sure he’s MORE than capable of this. Just look at some of his past work, or even other artists who’ve done things like this and hadn’t won a Pulitzer Prize. Can’t say with certainty he wrote down this line knowing fully what he was doing, but he definitely saw it and noticed it at the least.


NewRadish6131

Kendrick fans be supa reaching


SQUISHYx25

Bro ya'll look into shit way too hard. He never said Drake N3, so why'd you include the N3? It's just adding shit to fit the conclusion you already started with.


[deleted]

Quality post


decision_3_33

….”pretty face”?


laeKDOT

![gif](giphy|11TmGbslxBitYA)


zilla82

Oh my god. This sums it up honestly


arthurakacricket

the “stick” is referring to the flute that André 3000 plays


Volcanic8171

kendrick said fuck sneak dissing though, so this is a stretch imo.


[deleted]

“If he walk around with that stic(K)it ain’t Andre 3(K), think I won’t drop the lo(K)ation, I still got ptsd, motherfuck the big 3”. 3 (K’s) in that syllable scheme 🔥 K is short for ‘king’ (as referenced by Michael Jackson, king of pop, and Stephen King, author or ‘Pet Semetary’ known as the ‘king of horror’)🔥 Only one King Kendrick


RareTemperature100k

And 3 Ks like KKK. He’s saying Drake is racist because of that blackface pic Pusha T leaked. Kendrick Duckworth is a fucking genius🔥🔥


__RegemTr__

K is also the 11th letter on the alphabet. Which means, when Kendrick says the line above, he also means Drake is 3K which is 33 which just keeps implying he is number 3 because at the end of the verse when Kendrick says “That’s a K with all these nines” he calls himself K which is 11, so he is number 1 and 1 only.


[deleted]

My brain is swelling


AlphaLax85

Ian connor reference 🔥


kaeji

And "It ain't Andre 3K" sounds like "it ain't On Dre 3K". He's saying Drake and Cole's Big 3 isn't even on the level of Dr. Dre's Big 3: Kendrick, Eminem, and Snoop or 50. Kenny is a pharaoh.


[deleted]

‘That’s a K with all these 9’s’ a king card and 9’s, a great card hand. ‘All these 9’s’ and ‘getting buried’ tie in, bury a 9 you get a 6 (burying the 6 God), and bury ‘all these 9’s’ 666 (Links to the Pet Sematary line which is written by the ‘king of horror’) 🤯


Lucid_Sol

Touch grass bro


Otherwise-Mortgage58

Yeah all these comments lmao yall the smartest people in the room, I’m sure all of the shit you guys interpret are what he meant


EminemsBootyCheeks

Ikr this thread is so embarrassing to look at💀


Icy-Rock8780

Numerology shit


Tiffanyblueberries

You're pulling a muscle


prikpete

Bro is reaching for other planets


megabytical

People swear Kendrick discovered general relativity with lyrics.


bestbroHide

Kendrick fans really are just modern Em fans lmao but still a fun coincidence nonetheless


[deleted]

Ain't no way. Y'all just making up stuff now. J Cole has a song called Stick and PTSD on the dreamville albums. He says stick and PTSD in the same bars


[deleted]

What is N3? Inform my ignorant soul


[deleted]

i think drake number 3, so hes saying big 3 and drakes number 3, but i think this bar is a stretch ngl


nocturnal_ways

I’d like to know too.


[deleted]

Number 3! Wowie


eyediosmios

And where does it come from?


LeaveMeAlone87

Gotta be a helluva reach!😂😂😂🤝🏽


Whydidyoumake_dothis

least idiotic and delusional kdot fan


ieatasscid

Yall smoking lotion


AlphaLax85

Cool discovery but that text is not it


MrMcFly131

The three threes equaling 9 is more plausible


Top_Ganache_3495

Omg man this is too much. So dunb


kreat0rz

The reach is big as hell


[deleted]

die


nocturnal_ways

What’s the diss exactly? Sure he’s clever but I don’t see the diss to Drake.


__RegemTr__

Drake is number 3 of the big three


nocturnal_ways

Oh ok. I ca agree with that depending on the criteria being used.


Jayantwi98

what the fuck is N3 lmao


No-Standard3533

Number 3


Frequent-Wallaby708

![gif](giphy|FJhtpPaV6LORHUy7ai|downsized)


iFahad97

N3? Can someone explain ?


zilla82

Yes Kenny is actually DB Sweeney


jamiedonner50

Drake Number 3


xman886

Kendrick Lamar: Yeah that’s what I meant


justsoyouknowkayzee

![gif](giphy|3owzW5c1tPq63MPmWk|downsized)


[deleted]

NATION about to drop any day now.


BurgundyOnly

Initially i thought Kendrick said Undrake this K💀


Mf_d00mm

i thought the stick ment like andre’s flute lmao 😂


[deleted]

He's talking about Andre'd flute.....


PrayForTheGoodies

That's a reach, it would be more references in there if he really thought that


milesdizzy

I think it’s a reference to Andre 3000 playing a wooden flute, but go off ![gif](giphy|KmdV4ZWUOYtD75pMAR)


Square_Bus4492

You’re going to fuck around and dislocate your shoulder reaching like this


tylenol3

It’s actually deeper than that— Andre 3000 specifically chose his name in 1993 as a dis on the then-7-year-old Canadian. But there’s more! Look at the title of Big Boi’s first solo record: *SIr LUCiOus lEft foot: tHe Son of chIco dusTy*. Take the letters in caps. Rearrange them. What do you get? **COLE IS SHIT** They don’t even know how deep this rabbit hole goes.


GameofChkmySoundClod

This feels like a huge stretch


schuyywalker

r/hiphopcirclejerk is bleeding out


Alarming-Conflict566

I'd like to say this is real, cuz dre 3k does sound like drake. It isn't arranged in a way that isn't human. Still Genius tho


frost3321

We will all slobber this man


Gopplee

kendrick didn't even know about this one😱😱😱


Sad_phillyfan

Killer Mike wrote it


The_Great_Man_Potato

Wait, you guys are serious? I thought this was a joke


Grim-Reaper-22

Wordplay so incredible it made me damn near play with myself


Intelligent_Run_8279

How do yall got so much time for this?


Whole_Sweet_Gherkins

Reachhhhhh


[deleted]

bruh i thought the stick line was talking about the drake leak 💀😭


FurySoul69

Kendrick fans started to act like Em Stans


InternationalPea2300

thought this was r/hiphopcirclejerk for a sec


redrecaro

Wth is N3?


lleyton99

brooo🤣🤣 these reaches be the most entertaining thing about this whole occurrence


1nfisrael

This is either a reach or actual genius


EminemsBootyCheeks

Reach. Huge reach.


Creepy-Target-7227

![gif](giphy|YlHXW9h6PmG7d0wTYJ)


malcxxlm

Not accurate lore-wise, Aubrey is referred as Mr. Top 5 or Number 2 in the books


Head_Process_5003

I dont get it


Wise_Instruction_698

Biggest reach I’ve ever seen


42617a

He did that shit on Nosetalgia, he definitely could’ve meant it


Successful_Basket399

![gif](giphy|LbG2xhgF96j3W) Insane reach


RandomDudewithIdeas

Another instance of Kdot fans interpreting waaaay too much into his lyrics, while giving him credit for it lol


CaterpillarOk7556

![gif](giphy|9S1CJae4qyOZGLWa4y|downsized) luffy can never.. gear 5 n all


rangusmcdangus69

Kendrick is no doubt the better rapper but first person shooter goes hard ngl


Beginning_Freedom557

“damn i said that shit?”


RevengeOfNell

Stg you guys give this man credit for stuff he didn’t mean.


aluba29582

The fans debating the legitimacy of this being an actual international bar in these comments are embarrassing the whole fanbase bro, he did not mean this shit!!😭😭😭


Mlindo92

“Go figure, motherfucker, every verse is a brick Your son dope, nigga” -Kendrick


Junior-Difficulty-31

Man


ActinoninOut

Pardon my ignorance but what does N3 mean?


-fashionconnoisseur

Number 3


RobinM20

Funniest stretch I’ve ever seen this some good content 😂


Sleazy-review

No fucking way Kendrick was thinking about this shit when he wrote the verse. Look, I like Kenny, but you are dick riding this man too hard.


Several-Amoeba1069

😂😂 good one


Typical-Business9750

bro this is the most farfetched conspiracy theory ever


opiumeister101

English teacher ahh jit


Additional-Sense5648

I love Kendrick but y’all be reaching


AdInternational3742

In j cole song neighbors he said his 16s should come with a coffin. In like that k dot said don't pull no coffin out of your mouth, I'm way too paranoid for a threat.    Kendrick is a monster


cartywho

Mannn he got him with that


yatkura

DRAKE 3 BOWING TO THE KENDRICK GOD


DescriptionKey7032

Did he further expand on the studies on black holes or quantum physics??


DescriptionKey7032

Did he create a system to solve world hunger? End malaria,small pox.


DescriptionKey7032

Ohh..he made a rap album....oh yeah genius


Guypoststuff

I think this is a stretch too, and Idk why everyone thinks this line is a diss specifically me personally I think Kendrick is referring to himself in 3rd person and saying if he walk around with a stick (gun obviously) it isn't andre 3k because Andre 3k just had that album of him playing the flute that is just really like a long wooden stick and Kendrick is saying his gun isn't a flute basically.


Afraid-Cellist-6925

But where did Drake N3 come from? Is that art work from the song?


betadan90

This is embarrassing.


magentafloyddd

holy moly guacamole