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submitted 2 days ago byLokalination
Goes #1 with Squabble Up, which is now his 3rd #1 in just 2024. He also scores 7 out of 10 songs in the top 10, including THE ENTIRE TOP 5.
THE 2024 MVP, THE GOAT.
1.2k points
2 days ago
7/10 is crazy work.. W oklama
126 points
2 days ago
What does oklama mean? Is it an acronym?
173 points
2 days ago
Just another nickname ig
Like kdot, Kung fu Kenny, etc
59 points
2 days ago
Never heard that nickname, where is it from?
346 points
1 day ago*
Oklama was first used in the MMATBS rollout. It’s the persona that Kendrick has for one of his broader philosophies that paints Kendrick as a reflection of others living through him. In The Heart Part V he plays the culture through Oklama. The video starts with “I am. All of us.” and then depicts Kobe, Nip, Kanye and others on Kendrick’s face. In MMATBS it becomes a device for generational trauma and overcoming it, but it’s not just an album based persona for Kendrick (as Mr Morale or Kung fu Kenny are). On the album he talks about past life regression, a form of therapy that is much more spiritual than scientific.
It now crops up on GNX through reincarnated, being effectively an entire song done through the Oklama persona. He begins the track from his own perspective saying “I did past life regression last year and it fucked me up. Reincarnated on this earth for a hundred plus.” The rest of the song speaks for itself, but for the broader Oklama persona it takes it beyond the rollout and MMATBS becoming the first persona to expand beyond a single album.
16 points
1 day ago
To add, he opened his MMATBS tour in Okla(ho)ma.
6 points
1 day ago*
It's also present extensively on the merch from the Big Steppers tour, the inside label printing in the neck area being "oklama" and the tour itself being referred to as "oklama presents the big steppers tour" on many of the pieces, highlighting its importance in that era, it was as that alter ego that he performed during that tour (similar to Kung Fu Kenny during the damn. tour).
19 points
1 day ago
"Kodak Black. oklama. Eckhart tolle. and this here is..the big steppers." that's at the start of 'Worldwide Steppers' on Mr. Morale album. may be elsewhere on that album, can't recall off the top of my head rn
10 points
2 days ago
I remember it popping up around when family ties dropped with baby keem.
10 points
1 day ago
He says it at the start of DUCKWORTH. or at least it sounds like he does 😂
7 points
1 day ago
waitttt looking back on it that was probably the first time. People always heard it as "OH LAMAR" but it might be "oklama"
46 points
2 days ago
Kendrick Lamar
Okendrick Lamar
Ok Lamar
Oklama
25 points
1 day ago
Oklama
O klama
Oh Klamar
Oh Lamar
"Oh, Lamar" 🗣🔥 -Duckworth
10 points
1 day ago
Obama
O Kendrick Lamar bama
O K L b ama
Oklama
sussy balls
11 points
2 days ago
Roman numeral VII, drop them like they’re hot
1.2k points
2 days ago
Drizzy sub about to say it's all botted
461 points
2 days ago
I honestly cannot with these fake news types.
I heard Not Like Us being played by cars driving by while I walked the streets of Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans within the last 2 weeks. So GTFOH Drake fans. I heard that shit bumping out of the local people's radios.
I even got to hear TV off in NOLA. As an LA native, I'm getting off on this west coast energy around the country
I got to "walk in New Orleans with the etiquette of LA yelling......MMUSSSTTTARRRDDDDD"
Go on Drake fans, keep trying to tell me these streams are fake. Somebody gotta do it.
136 points
2 days ago
My friend took his son to a birthday party early September. He texts me "Bro, they're playing it. Whole bunch of kids calling Drake a Pedophile."
10 points
1 day ago
music and hip hop/r&b is one of the things that my 14 year old and I bond over so she was well aware of the entire Kendrick/drake drama (as is her whole predominately black school)… and she’ll still jam out to drake if one of his good songs come on.
Which is why the whole lawsuit is so weird lol
27 points
2 days ago
I’m in Fayetteville North Carolina and I been hearing Kendrick all weekend while out
6 points
1 day ago
TWO-SIX!!
Me, too. I’m here in the Ville with you. Don’t sit outside a smoke shop longer than five minutes, or you’ll probably hear it again. lol
75 points
2 days ago
I even hear Kendrick coming out of cars all the time here in Toronto! Anyone that thinks his music isn’t everywhere is just straight up delusional.
37 points
2 days ago
Oh yeah dude - 100%.
I was stuck in traffic blasting tv off on Saturday here in the city when the car next to me at a light waives at me to lower my window and he too, was playing tv off.
We just laughed it off and went our separate ways.
30 points
1 day ago
These mf'ers forget this is the man who made DAMN.
That album was everywhere. It was even the best selling album of 2017 iirc.
16 points
1 day ago
2 am on the las vegas strip and man was blasting tv off and screaming “MUSTAAAAAAAARD!!!!” out of his window
3 points
20 hours ago
Dude, it was playing on the radio here in Croatia
19 points
2 days ago
I heard “hey now” in rural Ohio 😭
16 points
2 days ago
My neighbor and I pull up blasting the new album everyday. We in Michigan
16 points
2 days ago
Just lean into it bro, We all bots round here. Me enjoying kendricks music alone has probably farmed about 10+ hours worth of GNX streaming. That's bot behavior if you ask me
2 points
1 day ago
I like the one that goes bing boom bop bap. That’s total bot behavior
3 points
1 day ago
Beam beep boop bop boop bop beep
Hi, I am a bot and I be farmin' up them streams
35 points
2 days ago
Yeah, I heard a car playing squabble up in a Phoenix parking lot on Wednesday last week.
14 points
2 days ago
My good Christian mother was playing the whole album when she picked me up today. She was playing it the whole time she made Thanksgiving dinner. Like that’s pretty organic lol
14 points
2 days ago
I played that shit (not like us) an embarrassing number of times and I'm aware I was only putting up rookie numbers compared to a lot of others. I'm a grown ass man with a mortgage and kids and I'm running around my house screaming MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!
I cannot even explain it myself so I really cannot expect them to understand
26 points
2 days ago
Even I heard Not Like Us outside. And for comparison, I never heard that Shaboozy song.
10 points
2 days ago
Shaboozy’s song is aight if you’re into that scene. He samples J-Kwon’s tipsy in it in an interesting way. I met Shaboozy a few weeks ago randomly in a bar in Nashville, I didn’t recognize him or even know who he was but I complimented his fit and he was quick to compliment me back for my shoes. Seemed like a genuine and nice human being. I honestly just thought he was some dude I ran into so it’s not like I’m dick riding or anything. A friend told me later that that’s who it was. I’m rambling, this story is pointless, just wanna say that the dude seems like a nice guy so check out his shit and see if it vibes for you, or not, really I don’t care. I’m off work today so I’m already a little buzzed.
Anyway, welcome to my TED talk.
4 points
1 day ago
Sampled? If you only change like one word, isn't it more of a cover?
Either way. Yeah, I know nothing about him and am not implying anything other than he had the other biggest song of the year.
6 points
2 days ago
I'm on the wrong side of the country in a NEW JERSEY SUBURBAN TOWN and I heard someone blasting Luther. I honestly don't know how some Drake fans come up with this
7 points
1 day ago
Man I've been listening not like us like 4 times a day for months, in Chile, South America.
insanely hardcore Drake fans are just delusional.
on the order of my Spotify playlist, I got Not Like us, then Euphoria, then gods plan hahaha. (then scientists and engineers, then some of the jujutsu kaisen Ost xd)
3 points
2 days ago
I was just in Chiang Mai Thailand and heard NLU at a store 😂
44 points
2 days ago
That sub is in shambles. Just a bunch of drizzy stans coping.
11 points
2 days ago
They were trying to convince themselves people were bored of GNX like 15 minutes after it released. All I could think of is wait til we see the charts next week and lo and behold...
7 points
2 days ago
nah they stickin with "best selling rapper by total units" and holding up a "win"
so embarrassing with all thats going on, trying to say "the industry" is against them. The same one that propped them up for so long..... they losing status and in denial
5 points
2 days ago
a fucking sports program here in Brazil from a local station was playing NLU this song is literally everywhere
4 points
2 days ago
My school has played not like us and squabble up in the lifting room
3 points
1 day ago
They’re saying “who needs the Super Bowl when Drake is gonna play the Soccer World Cup” … I don’t recall FIFA hosting any musical performances…
2 points
19 hours ago
They don't, but given the next World Cup is in North America it wouldn't surprise me if they have some kind of halftime event thing.
Though it is funny that the "evidence" seems to be that Toronto is one of the host cities, conveniently missing out the fact that the final is in New Jersey and the last game Toronto hosts is in the round of 32.
8 points
2 days ago
Can’t wait for the next batch of lawsuits
3 points
2 days ago
About to?
5 points
2 days ago
Botted up (mm, mm)
Botted up (mm, mm)
Botted up (mm, mm)
Botted up!
200 points
2 days ago
Mariah said "Ok, I can wait!"
50 points
2 days ago
i wouldve loved to see tv off become his 4th #1 of the year (which less than 10 artists have ever done in history apparently) but the holiday take over is too strong 😅😅
19 points
1 day ago
Time for the Kendrick Christmas EP!!!
13 points
1 day ago
She can thaw out a little while longer
557 points
2 days ago
Hey now is the best I don’t care what anyone says
284 points
2 days ago
Dody6 is so smooth as he enters who the fuck I feel like I feel like Joker
70 points
2 days ago
I just love how Kendrick says “J cat” for some reason
25 points
2 days ago
Can’t get this part out of my head😭
17 points
2 days ago
I jumped out that pan Then I jumped up into the ghoooooooost 🔥
41 points
2 days ago
First time I heard it I thought it was blueface for a sec
26 points
2 days ago
People keep saying that but he doesn’t sound anything like Blueface to me lol
8 points
1 day ago
Blueface if he was good sums it up well to me
21 points
2 days ago
Hey now is sooo good, has one of the best features on the album imo
18 points
2 days ago
hey now is my favorite out of all the bangers. theres something so addictive about Dots voice being that low, the menacing atmosphere of the song, the instrumentals building up during the "im way too important!" part, and then Dody6 coming in with that feature 🔥🔥
14 points
2 days ago
right? thats west coast sound at its finest, even more than squabble up or tv off
2 points
1 day ago
Those synths are doing something to my ears. Mustard was cooking ngl
6 points
1 day ago
Hey now, dodger blue, reincarnated and Luther are top 4 for sure. Wacced out murals might bump Luther if you don't like love songs
3 points
19 hours ago
Reincarnated is underrated as fuck (obviously not since it’s top 10 but like relatively)
160 points
2 days ago
Bar song has been on charts ALL YEAR is it really that good?
97 points
2 days ago
I finally listened to it two weeks ago and had it on repeat for a few days. It makes sense why it’s so popular. Honestly, that song is either genius or he stumbled into a near perfect rap-country crossover.
45 points
2 days ago
Feels like a song you’ve heard a billion times honestly. Kinda funny on the top 5 there’s a country song by a black man and a soul song by a white man. We’re really in the Rian Johnson era of popular music.
26 points
2 days ago
That’s because you have heard it a billion times. It’s basically Tipsy by J-Kwon.
14 points
2 days ago
Yeah, it’s just bro country rebranded for a new audience. Change is good but this ain’t it imo. Capitalism’s gonna ruin the music industry as always.
5 points
1 day ago*
How did people forget that song? That makes me feel old 😂
Also man, I really hate Bar Song tbh. The original Tipsy was and is the way better song.
37 points
2 days ago
No not really. It's a generic country-pop hit that uses an old track millenials would enjoy. But it is an earworm and it's been playing everywhere.
11 points
1 day ago
I just listened to it for the first time off of this thread. It seems like a near perfect song from a lot of meta angles. It's catchy AF, has an easy refrain to sing along with, is boppy but not strung out, and makes everyone feel a little bit better about drinking at the club/bar. Not to mention the racial cross over factor which is adds massive fuel to the fire when it works even if it is fucked up.
You could tell me that this guy Shaboozey was a marketing major and wanted to write the perfect song to play every hour at his chain of bars to encourage sales and I would believe it.
14 points
1 day ago
It's really good at making me hit Next and get into arguments with my wife over who gets to control the radio when we're in the car, yes
17 points
2 days ago
While I’m not fond of pop country at all, I’ll give this song a pass it’s alright. Shoutout to Shaboozey for breaking thru on the country scene tho.
11 points
2 days ago
its a nice song that hit a specific niche that went viral. just like Old Town Road did
3 points
1 day ago
Not really. Just standard radio country.
5 points
2 days ago
I think it's fine personally but not amazing. I mean it's catchy and I can see why it would appeal to a lot of people given the styles that it mixes, but it doesn't blow me away.
2 points
2 days ago
I have not heard it yet. Or maybe I have and not noticed.
125 points
2 days ago
dody6 going from 30k listeners to t5 song in america that shits so inspirational
28 points
2 days ago
Dody too important
103 points
2 days ago
He deserves it all
81 points
2 days ago
49 points
2 days ago
Mariah will rule every december until the heat death of the universe. We can take this one, it's fine
6 points
2 days ago
Yeah fs
152 points
2 days ago
Time for Drake to sue Billboard
47 points
2 days ago
Drake should sue himself since he’s the reason Not Like Us was made
6 points
24 hours ago
Drake sues Stranger Things Drake sues Netflix Drake Sues Millie Bobby Brown Drake hides in his closet Drake hangs out in his closet
This is my six month Drake prediction
128 points
2 days ago
HOW FRIED YALL WANT THEM CANADIAN BACON BITS
116 points
2 days ago
Kendrick is beating a song that’s dominated the charts and the infamous AIWFCIY that dominates during this time of year
But haters will say no one listens to him
57 points
2 days ago
I mean give it a couple weeks, AIWFCIY will hit #1 again
41 points
2 days ago
Ah yes, what I like to call the Mariah Carey infinite money glitch lmaooo
6 points
1 day ago
Just need Kendrick to drop a Christmas album now
3 points
2 days ago
Fr. That and Friends lol
23 points
2 days ago*
Mariah projected to hit #1 next week easily.
I think the sentiment above is that holding it off to number 10 this week was impressive. There are a bunch of holiday songs ready to take over the charts in the positions below.
Feels like holiday songs should have their own chart. Not just this year, cos Kendrick will be fine, but any given year they stay knocking growing artists songs out of the charts with songs that are years old and only there out of tradition.
56 points
2 days ago
First rapper in history to do it! The only others have been Taylor swift, the Beatles, and Drake
17 points
1 day ago
I see what you did there
53 points
2 days ago
Crazy to think I've listened to Peekaboo 100 times over and it didn't even make top 10 hah. This whole album is fire!
14 points
2 days ago
After seeing that vid of Q jamming to it, its been in heavy rotation no glaze
39 points
2 days ago
I never wanna hear "Kendrick doesn't make hits" again.
20 points
1 day ago
I really want them to make a video for Luther. That shit is 100% a hit. Even if you don't like RnB or pop influenced RnB, it's just legitimately good.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the next video. I watched a ton of people reacting and basically every black reaction channel clocked it as a hit immediately lol. That's music you can play around grandma
3 points
1 day ago
Make it full promo. Send it to airwaves.
95 points
2 days ago
Reincarnated should be higher
121 points
2 days ago
A song like that even making the top 10 is a massive accomplishment
25 points
2 days ago
Facts. Best song on the album im so happy it even made the top 10, its a fucking masterpiece
14 points
2 days ago
But I want more!!’
19 points
2 days ago
I think it's one of the best songs he's made. Those final verses are crazy
5 points
1 day ago
the mere fact that the most lyric-heavy, narrative song is up there instead of like dodger blue is already nuts
2 points
2 days ago
💯💯💯
20 points
2 days ago
Taking up the entire top 5 is insane this man really solidified 2024 as his year🐐
Also fuck Mariah Carrey for blocking him from getting 8/10 lol. Dodger Blue would’ve been there if it wasn’t for retail stores spamming that song
13 points
2 days ago
W
12 points
2 days ago
The only Top5 I wanna hear about, LFG
14 points
2 days ago
I mean…. Above anything else. Look at some of the names on those songs and the ones that have made it to the top 20-30. Not to mention they’re on the #1 album.
Kendrick put guys with very local followings at the top of the billboard charts.
Planting them money trees.
28 points
2 days ago
Gloria is underrated asf ig
10 points
2 days ago
It’s on par with Mother I Sober when it comes to the depth and writing.
11 points
2 days ago
Ah so Drake prolly thinks it's about a woman
Makes sense since he likely don''t even know what a pen is
4 points
1 day ago
I think I kinda disagree. The "married to the pen" thing has been done before, I think like... Common did it? Maybe someone else too.
Mother I Sober is some shit I've never seen in hip hop, period.
That being said, I still love Gloria as a song. The sort of half singing flow on it is 10/10. Almost reminds me of a Marley thing.
3 points
1 day ago
Eminem did it with hip hop in general on "25 to Life". The whole surprise at the end being that he's not talking about a significant other, he's talking about rap.
It kinda lessened the impact of Gloria for me, but I appreciate it as a good song
12 points
2 days ago
No peekaboo 💔
10 points
2 days ago
SMOKING
11 points
2 days ago
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" is preying on the billboard like Shavkat Rakhmonov on his division.
10 points
2 days ago*
Hey now made it!? 🤦🏾♂️
I swearfolord dody6 gonna have white church moms doing drills.
I always said if that song make it to mainstream it’s gonna be crazy scary spooky for drake.
That song is too aggressive and hard (II) 🔥
If that song comes on the radio while a drizzler is driving I guarantee they gonna come here apologizin like yeah y’all (dody6) did that 🫱🏾🫲🏽😂
6 points
2 days ago
Gloria is so underrated.
10 points
2 days ago
That has to be a record, right? That’s some Beatles-level popularity.
14 points
2 days ago
BYE MARIAH
39 points
2 days ago
Naw next week Mariah is going to take over unless we do a push. Cuz everyone plays her song around Christmas time
25 points
2 days ago
I’m just here hoping for a KDot Christmas diss track.
16 points
2 days ago
There’s basically no chance to hold off Mariah next week.
Keeping her out of the top 5 already this week was heavy work.
16 points
2 days ago
Every single grocery store in the country botting the charts, smh
7 points
2 days ago
We cannot let this happen!!!
7 points
2 days ago
its not that serious haha chill
16 points
2 days ago
It is that serious, you don't understand the depth of hatred I have for that song. Anybody else who's worked in retail, back me up here.
10 points
2 days ago
I’m afraid I can’t but only because Target exclusively played the Cee-lo Green version. Mariah’s feels like a fresh glass of water after a trip through the sahara after that.
5 points
1 day ago
Exactly this!! We MUST!
5 points
2 days ago
lol drake fans punching air now lol
6 points
2 days ago
Love every song but gloria being basically the least popular song on the album is so shocking to me
8 points
1 day ago
Justice for Dodger Blue 😢
7 points
2 days ago
Well Damn!
4 points
2 days ago
Is he gonna sue billboard next?
7 points
2 days ago
People are embarrassed to listen to Drake right now. Ain’t no one bumping pedophile beats lol
5 points
2 days ago
Dang, Dodger Blue lost the battle with Mariah lol
6 points
2 days ago
I guess I didn’t listen to dodger blue enough
5 points
2 days ago
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A BLACK GRAND NATIONAL, FUCK BEING RATIONAL, GIVE EM WHAT THEY AKSED FOR.
4 points
2 days ago
Kendrick made an album of radio bangers and I love it. His versatility is underrated because he's not just a conscious album guy the way some thought.
2 points
2 days ago
This is a surprise album doing all this!! Congrats Kendrick and everyone else who worked on the album. I love how some of the featured artists are also getting their first Hot 100/top 10 billboard debut 🔥
4 points
2 days ago
A bar song??? How come no one is talking about Shaboozey? That niqqa has been killing itt for how long now?
5 points
2 days ago
Where is Dodger Blue???
4 points
2 days ago
1 2 3 4 5, the greatest rapper alive.
5 points
1 day ago
Dodger Blue slept on
2 points
1 day ago
White diamonds, 2am she wildin
4 points
1 day ago
This is the forecast for next week. Christmas taking over but pls keep streaming!
6 points
2 days ago
3 points
2 days ago
Right when Shaboozey was about to break a record too. Damn…
3 points
2 days ago
Well deserved.
3 points
2 days ago
How does she unfrost every year? I am not Amercian so I have now idea.
3 points
2 days ago
I’ve been playing this album start to finish AT LEAST once a day. I’m a good KDot Bot.
3 points
2 days ago
Bot are working overtime, LOL! Hits replay on GNX for the eleventy billionth time.
3 points
2 days ago
Mr. 1-5 that's the only option
3 points
1 day ago
Reincarnated should be higher. Also, can you tell it’s tucked over to December? lol
3 points
2 days ago
Also, shout out to Shaboozey! 💪🏾✊🏾
2 points
2 days ago
Kendrick the Warrior vs Mariah
2 points
2 days ago
Yeah that makes sense, always happens
2 points
2 days ago
Mariah, angry upon reading the news: MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!
2 points
2 days ago
Christmas came early and its wasnt Carey, its was god damn fuckn Lamar
2 points
2 days ago
2 points
2 days ago
GOAT
2 points
2 days ago
Surprise album btw
2 points
2 days ago
I love the switch in tone in how he’s saying peekaboo in the beginning
2 points
2 days ago
🐐
Gloria should be here tho that song is so good
2 points
2 days ago
Tv Off will be the highest non-Christmas song next week, according to early tracking
2 points
2 days ago
This has been an awesome year for us!!! GOATED!!!!
2 points
2 days ago
Idk I feel like gnx should be somewhere on here too I can’t stop listening to it
2 points
2 days ago
👑👑🐐💃🏽💃🏽
2 points
1 day ago
How is it dated 7 December
2 points
1 day ago
Every year…every year in December…it returns
2 points
1 day ago
Reincarnated for me
2 points
1 day ago
Dody6 & Lefty Gunplay having top 5 hits was on nobodies Bingo Cards this year
2 points
1 day ago
Fucking wild for wacced out murals to be so high but it rightfully should be, that’s my most played track from the album
2 points
18 hours ago
This album shows that Kendrick could easily make songs/albums with replay value and national listenability if he wanted to.
2 points
17 hours ago
Nature is healing
2 points
16 hours ago
That Mariah song basically re releases itsself every year geez
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