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Andrew Schulz Feels A Way About Kendrick Lamar

Andrew Schulz Feels A Way About Kendrick Lamar

Plus, J. Cole shared what he thought of K. Dot's rise to the top.

December 06, 2024

Kendrick Lamar’s GNX has now had over 500 million streams on Spotify. In other news:

Song streams & revenue 💰️
Andrew Schulz solidifies his weirdo status 😬
J. Cole shares even more unreleased Kendrick collabs 🙌
New Music Friday releases 💿️
Industry Insights 📈

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Songs Streams & Revenue

As reported by Hits Daily Double for the week of November 15 to 21.

It’s a new week and a new song revenue chart. As reported by Hits Daily Double, which tracks streaming revenue week over week, the above chart reflects the streaming period from November 15 to 21.

Tracks from Tyler, the Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA, are still bringing in big streaming and revenue numbers. Tyler’s old song “See You Again” is joining Big Glo and Sexyy Red’s collab “Whatchu Kno About Me” to make a steady climb back up the chart.

Andrew Schulz Wants to Do What to Kendrick Lamar?

K. Dot didn’t just come after Drake (once again) when he dropped his newest album, GNX, out of nowhere. He also decided to address the Super Bowl drama and those who didn’t give their congratulations, as well as his issues with today’s comedy.

On the album’s opening track “wacced out murals,” Kendrick said “Don't let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that's law, I know propaganda work for them, and fuck whoever that's close to them…” Fans immediately started putting two and two together and felt that the rapper was putting a spotlight on comedian Andrew Schulz.

With his podcasts FLAGRANT and The Brilliant Idiots with Charlamagne Tha God, he has made numerous “jokes” about Black women that have been deemed offensive. Now, Schulz is on defense, responding to Kendrick’s alleged shots toward him.

Schulz chooses the controversial route

On the latest episode of FLAGRANT, Schulz kicked off the show by addressing what K. Dot said head-on (with sarcasm).

“…We need to sit back and reflect. ... Listen, no one has respected women more through art than rappers. So I completely understand how a rapper could look at a comedian telling a joke and be like, 'Yo, you need to switch that shit up. How dare y'all keep saying your wives are annoying. Be more like us, b****** ain't nothing but hos and tricks, I beat my b**** with a stick,” he said.

His co-host, Akaash Singh, sarcastically pointed out how much K. Dot cares about protecting Black women through his craft — hence his work with contentious hip-hop figures like Chris Brown (they did the song “Autumn Leaves” together), Kodak Black (they did the song “Silent Hill” together) and almost pulling his music off of Spotify due to its “hateful content and conduct” policy, which took down music from artists like R. Kelly.

"Are you saying that Kendrick Lamar put it on wax that he is protecting Black women from white comedian's jokes, but not the kidnapping, molestation, and rape of R. Kelly…He would take his own music off Spotify to protect R. Kelly? Everybody gets these jokes over here,” Schulz said.

The comedian also decided to put on his Genius hat and interpret the track for himself, concluding that “technically speaking, if we're going off of grammatical English, he is saying I can talk about Black women."

This helped Schulz apparently understand better why K. Dot is working with the South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker on an upcoming comedy movie.

"He appreciates white comedians that make fun of Black people … They've done that brilliantly for decades, and he wouldn't want to break one of his own laws. I mean, didn't they have a character called Token on the South Park show? Which I'm sure Kendrick is a big fan of,” Schulz stated.

The most eyebrow-raising moment of the episode came when Schulz was asked what would happen if he ever ran into K. Dot solo-dolo.

“...Just Kendrick? I would make love to him and there's nothing he could do about it …Just Kendrick Lamar, I would make love to him. And the only thing that he could do is decide if it's consensual or not. ... I would go so far as to say he couldn't stop most people on the planet from having sex with him. ... He's talking a lot of s***, but if it came down to it I could put him on my lap, I could feed him a bottle,” he said.

Kendrick hasn’t responded yet to Schulz’s new remarks. Understandably, though, those online called out Schulz again for his weirdo behavior.

Did Schulz take it too far?

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J. Cole Unveils Two K. Dot Collabs — and Why He Felt Surpassed

J. Cole has been delivering all of November and keeps the streak going into December. He has put classic mixtapes, including The Come Up, on streaming platforms. He launched his new podcast, Inevitable, which is the gift that keeps on giving. The rapper recently shared more unreleased music with the people’s champ, K. Dot, while also expressing his past feelings about K. Dot’s achievements.

J. Cole felt surpassed by Kendrick

The two songs that were played during the latest podcast episode are untitled (with one of them produced by Oddisee). However, they were apparently recorded in 2012 while Drake’s Club Paradise Tour made its way to North Carolina. A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar were serving as opening acts for the show.

“[Lamar] came to Fayetteville and we worked on that studio bus for two or three days…Before, I had sent him joints, but this was the first time we actually got to lock in and work on shit. And that shit was so fun, dawg… It felt like when your cousin would come over to your house,” Cole said.

Despite the fun that they had, Cole still felt that he was getting left behind when he first listened to Lamar’s 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d. City.

“When Kendrick’s album dropped, the journey got harder, the mountain got steeper. Because similar to when [So Far Gone] dropped, where it was like, ‘Oh shit, there’s another person out there that has the same ambitions as me,’ it happened like that with Kendrick … “It was a feeling of surpassment. It was two indicators that told me. His first-week numbers were more than mine. The other thing was we had a show where we were both on the same lineup… and I went before him and he went after me,” Cole expressed.

A lot has gone down since between the two, from “First Person Shooter” to “The Big 3” controversy. Hopefully, though, the unreleased tracks can make their way to streaming services like J. Cole’s other previous projects recently have.

What do y’all think of the unreleased tracks?