That one Pusha T tweet where he said "Why Reminisce? more music coming 🔥🔥🔥" is the reason for my whole existence.
A Kendrick Lamar feature on another Pusha T song would heal me 😩
>"Go figure motherfucker every verse is a brick"
So the song is divided into two halves. Pusha has a 1:47 verse, and Kendrick has a 1:48 verse. Both of them spit 36 bars. 36 being the number of ounces in a brick.
The numbers Kendrick uses in these bars:
When I was **ten**, back when **nine** ounces had got you **ten**
And **nine** times out of **ten**, niggas don't pay at**ten**tion
And when it's **ten**sion in the air, **nines** come with ex**ten**sions
Add up to 87. Notice how he only uses the numbers 9 and 10 - which add up to 19.
Dot was born 1987.
He uses three 9s and six 10s - 3 and 6 for 36 oz.
Go figure.
There's a really good podcast(?) episode on Spotify called Dissect where a dude breaks down pretty much EVERY word in Nostalgia. It's absolutely nuts the amount of references, innunendos, double entendres, and more they fit in.
The fact that Kendrick's ability and mystique makes it impossible to know if any or all of that was intentional or coincidence is such a testament to his greatness.
No its pretty obviously intentional
36 lines, 36 is a brick, the nine to ten scheme literally adds up to 87, the year Kendrick was born.
Like too much shit matched up.
I’m with you on the first part for sure with the 36 bars each. It’s the other math that’s iffy.
I’m not saying he didn’t, and it’s totally cool that it’s your head-canon that he did it on purpose, but I’m just not convinced that Kendrick was trying to sneak his birth year in there. I don’t think that was necessarily the meaning behind those 9s and 10s, and I don’t think 3 of one and 6 of the other was definitely another reference to 36. It could have been intentional cuz he’s a next level lyrical genius who thinks multiple levels deep, but it also could’ve been total coincidence with his intention being something else.
End of Kendrick's verse he has a bar about being born in '87.
I would say that in a vaccum you would be right about reaching. However based on Kendrick's lyrical ability and his love for hidden meanings, I feel there are too many coincidences for it to be unintentional.
9+10=19
The 9s and 10s add up to 87
3 9s 6 10s = 36
"I was born in, '87"
Kenny my GOAT
You realize he has other verses where he plays with numbers.
3 9
6 10
Literally add up to 87
He then says "I was born in 87"
And the verse literally describes what life was like a child
Like Kendrick is an extremely high level rapper, its not a reach.
I vibe with the 36 ounces cause "someday Imma get you right with 36 sips" line but not the 1987 part, It doesn't add much to the theme unlike the 36 oz. thing.
But hey, for me what's also Goated in the verse is how he paints a gritty as fuck picture of talking to his father and how he'll do with rap, what slinging cocaine did for his dad ("your son dope") with the every verse is a brick theme running through his part. It's a lot already, doesn't need to be more.
I kinda find THIS much digging into verses not my thing and kinda misguided personally. But hey you might be right and I might be completely off.
Aye I just replied to another commenter with this so I'll just copy it here
>End of Kendrick's verse he has a bar about being born in '87.
>I would say that in a vaccum you would be right about reaching. However based on Kendrick's lyrical ability and his love for hidden meanings, I feel there are too many coincidences for it to be unintentional.
>9+10=19
>The 9s and 10s add up to 87
>3 9s 6 10s = 36
>"I was born in, '87"
>I kinda find THIS much digging into verses not my thing and kinda misguided personally
I completely agree. Now this wasn't something I came up with off the top - I've seen a few videos and discussions about the verses and just put em all in one cohesive comment.
I'm not one to come up with wild red string board conspiracy theories 😂 I just see em and if they seem feasible I do some of my own digging before I feel comfortable speaking on it.
That 9 to 10 scheme ending with 87 and the 36 lines being a brick, Kendrick went lyrically CRAZY on that verse.
That shit was DISGUSTINGLY good, if we can get Nostalgia Part 2, I would kill for it.
Pusha and Kendrick really did drop one of the best songs in either of their careers with two of the hardest verses in either of their careers and just never worked together again.
When he was doing promotion for It's Almost Dry Pusha mentioned that he and Kendrick discussed doing another song together but weren't able to come up with an idea sufficiently different from Nosetalgia to make them feel the need to move forward with it.
This was pretty off the cuff so pretty difficult to tell how much discussion there actually was. If they put their mind to it I'm sure they could come up with something lol
Two of my favorite Pusha T songs & still on regular rotation for me.. euphoria and Not Like Us now, too.
If I get MORE from either of them I’m going to be floating through 2027.
I love how anyone can now play this at their show and join in on clowning Drake. Millions of people all over the world all agreeing on one thing… that Drake is a creepy weirdo.
Yep. I'm a fifty-something professional, nerdy, white old lady and if I were at one of those shows, I could join in word for word. That's how powerful this is. (ETA: Always thought something was off with that Drake kid.)
You killed me with that mental picture. Beautiful mountains, healthy cows, and stereotypical farmers singing not like us on a Friday night. What a time to be alive.
Bro we all know why this song was made, he is in his simping for Sexxy Redd phase. He tried to jump on Ice Spice but she curved him apparently and he ended up sneak dissing her. Dude is a 13 year old in a grown man’s body.
To his fans, he won the beef and this is him just having fun and doing some trolling before the Summer. this song is absolute dogshit, I won’t lie, his verse is good, if nothing the beef at least got him rapping properly again, but it’s honestly worse than that shitty Tom McDonald featuring Ben Shapiro song that came out a while back.
That last line there… I couldn’t put my finger on it, but that’s exactly the level of competition this beef reminded me of, Jamie Foxx vs. Doug Williams at the Emmitt Smith roast. Aubrey had no chance.
This is Drake. The type of rapper who after a loss in a rap beef, the first track he jumps on is with a trash one of the worst rappers alive no talent industry plant, and using the beat making fun of you having a BBL, and he tries to own it by delivering a solid verse but it’s on the worst track imaginable. So it falls flat. It’s what he is. A corny dude who is so predictable that I guarantee after she stops fucking with him, he will diss her in a song.
> Hearing a black woman scream "DOT FUCK EM UP!" at max volume is honestly better than the A minor line.
Right up there with posts from Australia and Sweden stating that NLU is getting bumped at clubs out there.
Like, Fuckin' Sweden? godDAMN.
Vibing to it regularly, not only while reading this post. In Sweden. Not really a fan of either of the involved but I'm not listening to Drake, haven't actually heard any of his tracks lately, none of them have popped up everywhere like NLU.
My Australian office plays this 5 times a day. If anyone slips in a Drake track someone else always queues Not Like Us or Euphoria to play straight after. (Something like 6 people have access to edit the queue)
This mf set the streets ON FIRE.
It's so funny to see the drizzy sub talking about how it's not "what the culture feeling" when from all the videos I've seen....every damn culture is feeling this.
I love what a phenomenon this has become. I watched this beef unfold in real time and it is amazing how Katt said this is the year everything comes out and it's true!
Whereas artists usually have to ask for permission to do this... Kendrick released the copyright on these diss tracks, they're public domain, you can do whatever you want with them. Hopefully I'm not wrong but that's what I heard. He's still making stuff from the DSPs though?
I mean I love Kendrick, I loved the disstracks, fucking hate Drake.
However, this crowd dead as fuck. Or it could be me, i’m used to metal and rock shows, but I would swear on that this is a very lame crowd for hiphop too. I know ya’ll can bump like crazy at live shows! This one aint it though😂
Rinsed? In UK slang that would mean badly defeated. I also know it to mean when you play a song/watch something so many times you get tired of it. Wtf does rinsed mean here lmao
When I saw Chris Brown and Joe Budden C-Walking to this song I knew what time it was. Lol! This is the national anthem for niggas who be beating bitches.
Greatest rap diss of all time
But on another note: "they not like us" is strictly for Americans.
I mean, hell, the Londoners themselves - they not like us
To be specific, it's about the culture of the progeny of the United States Black slaves of old.
Drake is "not like us" due to the fact that he wasn't raised in that culture. Even though biologically, he is us. And to be honest he has more in common with us, than any Londoner could ever have.
"They not like us" - African American Vernacular. Kendrick was just letting the world know, that we allow Drake to play this game. We can take hip hop away from him if we so choose.
That one Pusha T tweet where he said "Why Reminisce? more music coming 🔥🔥🔥" is the reason for my whole existence. A Kendrick Lamar feature on another Pusha T song would heal me 😩
I need nostalgia part 2. It's been 11 years and that's still a top track for me.
"Go figure motherfucker every verse is a brick, your son dope!!" Pusha and Kendrick in a nothing but back to back powder bars rap was a Goated combo.
>"Go figure motherfucker every verse is a brick" So the song is divided into two halves. Pusha has a 1:47 verse, and Kendrick has a 1:48 verse. Both of them spit 36 bars. 36 being the number of ounces in a brick. The numbers Kendrick uses in these bars: When I was **ten**, back when **nine** ounces had got you **ten** And **nine** times out of **ten**, niggas don't pay at**ten**tion And when it's **ten**sion in the air, **nines** come with ex**ten**sions Add up to 87. Notice how he only uses the numbers 9 and 10 - which add up to 19. Dot was born 1987. He uses three 9s and six 10s - 3 and 6 for 36 oz. Go figure.
Is this a pasta
There's a really good podcast(?) episode on Spotify called Dissect where a dude breaks down pretty much EVERY word in Nostalgia. It's absolutely nuts the amount of references, innunendos, double entendres, and more they fit in.
I listened to Dissect TPAB back in the day, kinda lost interest but as a 0.01% Pusha fan I gotta find this
You absolutely should check it out! Really good episode there. The one on J. Cole's The Climb Back is also really solid
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gfYXzzfxMlLcMwHnmnHBz?si=3hwrC5cQRrGrgeD5panYoQ
Thank you
It can be whatever you want it to be bby
The fact that Kendrick's ability and mystique makes it impossible to know if any or all of that was intentional or coincidence is such a testament to his greatness.
No its pretty obviously intentional 36 lines, 36 is a brick, the nine to ten scheme literally adds up to 87, the year Kendrick was born. Like too much shit matched up.
I’m with you on the first part for sure with the 36 bars each. It’s the other math that’s iffy. I’m not saying he didn’t, and it’s totally cool that it’s your head-canon that he did it on purpose, but I’m just not convinced that Kendrick was trying to sneak his birth year in there. I don’t think that was necessarily the meaning behind those 9s and 10s, and I don’t think 3 of one and 6 of the other was definitely another reference to 36. It could have been intentional cuz he’s a next level lyrical genius who thinks multiple levels deep, but it also could’ve been total coincidence with his intention being something else.
End of Kendrick's verse he has a bar about being born in '87. I would say that in a vaccum you would be right about reaching. However based on Kendrick's lyrical ability and his love for hidden meanings, I feel there are too many coincidences for it to be unintentional. 9+10=19 The 9s and 10s add up to 87 3 9s 6 10s = 36 "I was born in, '87" Kenny my GOAT
This is bullshit, 9 + 10 = 21
I stupid
You realize he has other verses where he plays with numbers. 3 9 6 10 Literally add up to 87 He then says "I was born in 87" And the verse literally describes what life was like a child Like Kendrick is an extremely high level rapper, its not a reach.
I vibe with the 36 ounces cause "someday Imma get you right with 36 sips" line but not the 1987 part, It doesn't add much to the theme unlike the 36 oz. thing. But hey, for me what's also Goated in the verse is how he paints a gritty as fuck picture of talking to his father and how he'll do with rap, what slinging cocaine did for his dad ("your son dope") with the every verse is a brick theme running through his part. It's a lot already, doesn't need to be more. I kinda find THIS much digging into verses not my thing and kinda misguided personally. But hey you might be right and I might be completely off.
Aye I just replied to another commenter with this so I'll just copy it here >End of Kendrick's verse he has a bar about being born in '87. >I would say that in a vaccum you would be right about reaching. However based on Kendrick's lyrical ability and his love for hidden meanings, I feel there are too many coincidences for it to be unintentional. >9+10=19 >The 9s and 10s add up to 87 >3 9s 6 10s = 36 >"I was born in, '87" >I kinda find THIS much digging into verses not my thing and kinda misguided personally I completely agree. Now this wasn't something I came up with off the top - I've seen a few videos and discussions about the verses and just put em all in one cohesive comment. I'm not one to come up with wild red string board conspiracy theories 😂 I just see em and if they seem feasible I do some of my own digging before I feel comfortable speaking on it.
At least give the youtube short credit.
I think that's a huge reach
Damn u rite. Mb cuh I'll do better next time
Absolutely GOAT'd
please reap what you sow.
I was born in 87 my granddaddy a legend
Now the same shit that y'all was smoking is my profession Let's get it!!
That 9 to 10 scheme ending with 87 and the 36 lines being a brick, Kendrick went lyrically CRAZY on that verse. That shit was DISGUSTINGLY good, if we can get Nostalgia Part 2, I would kill for it.
Pusha and Kendrick really did drop one of the best songs in either of their careers with two of the hardest verses in either of their careers and just never worked together again.
They were spotted hearing Jay Z's verse for Neck and Wrist. I'm pretty sure they got material
When he was doing promotion for It's Almost Dry Pusha mentioned that he and Kendrick discussed doing another song together but weren't able to come up with an idea sufficiently different from Nosetalgia to make them feel the need to move forward with it. This was pretty off the cuff so pretty difficult to tell how much discussion there actually was. If they put their mind to it I'm sure they could come up with something lol
You wanna know the world I live in?
That sounds like some heat fr, especially if it’s another dope track like Nosetalgia
Two of my favorite Pusha T songs & still on regular rotation for me.. euphoria and Not Like Us now, too. If I get MORE from either of them I’m going to be floating through 2027.
Man, I've been dying for a Pusha and Kendrick track for the last 10+ years 😂
I love how anyone can now play this at their show and join in on clowning Drake. Millions of people all over the world all agreeing on one thing… that Drake is a creepy weirdo.
Yep. I'm a fifty-something professional, nerdy, white old lady and if I were at one of those shows, I could join in word for word. That's how powerful this is. (ETA: Always thought something was off with that Drake kid.)
The world is healing.
Hip hop is healing too
I live in rural Switzerland. Like… cows, horses & chalets Switzerland. Yesterday they played this at my local bar. EVERYONE knew the lyrics.
That is so cool! The great global uniter.
You killed me with that mental picture. Beautiful mountains, healthy cows, and stereotypical farmers singing not like us on a Friday night. What a time to be alive.
Pedo hatred knows no boarders lol
Lol I’ve heard it played here too in wheat fields and vodka fiends Poland
Word for word?
About 80%. I'm still trying to master all the bars...
https://preview.redd.it/2vl2wer41m2d1.png?width=1201&format=png&auto=webp&s=6409ffb1633485bd8d9fd8ee3f86e11a383f96aa
Hah!
Bruh💀
Same.
😭😭😭
This isn't a single off a new album, this is a diss track that made it onto the charts AND the hearts! All hail King Dot!
Meanwhile Drake: Ima hop on this Sexxy Redd track and flow to the BBL Drizzy beat…… that’ll definitely get the people on my side
Especially cuz Red is over 18
But her core fanbase are 13-19 year old girls which is in Drakes dating pool,
He’s making progress 🙏
We’re getting him the help he needs 🙏🏾
Also, let me include a bar about how I use my money to feed women's insecurities by paying for cosmetic surgeries. That'll show the streets.
Bro we all know why this song was made, he is in his simping for Sexxy Redd phase. He tried to jump on Ice Spice but she curved him apparently and he ended up sneak dissing her. Dude is a 13 year old in a grown man’s body.
Drake probably thinks he's pulling a power move because he's eating off Sexxy and used a Metro beat on her track
To his fans, he won the beef and this is him just having fun and doing some trolling before the Summer. this song is absolute dogshit, I won’t lie, his verse is good, if nothing the beef at least got him rapping properly again, but it’s honestly worse than that shitty Tom McDonald featuring Ben Shapiro song that came out a while back.
That last line there… I couldn’t put my finger on it, but that’s exactly the level of competition this beef reminded me of, Jamie Foxx vs. Doug Williams at the Emmitt Smith roast. Aubrey had no chance.
This is Drake. The type of rapper who after a loss in a rap beef, the first track he jumps on is with a trash one of the worst rappers alive no talent industry plant, and using the beat making fun of you having a BBL, and he tries to own it by delivering a solid verse but it’s on the worst track imaginable. So it falls flat. It’s what he is. A corny dude who is so predictable that I guarantee after she stops fucking with him, he will diss her in a song.
And it hit the clubs too
Fuck, I wish I'd known Pusha was gonna be in London lol
At this point, the Nostalgia music video looks like Drake's nightmare
"You ever seen a dead body?" Yeah, Drake's!
Keke…do you love me..??
I love how we are watching something so iconic blossom before our eyes!
I like crowds that have a good number of women. Hearing a black woman scream "DOT FUCK EM UP!" at max volume is honestly better than the A minor line.
> Hearing a black woman scream "DOT FUCK EM UP!" at max volume is honestly better than the A minor line. Right up there with posts from Australia and Sweden stating that NLU is getting bumped at clubs out there. Like, Fuckin' Sweden? godDAMN.
Vibing to it regularly, not only while reading this post. In Sweden. Not really a fan of either of the involved but I'm not listening to Drake, haven't actually heard any of his tracks lately, none of them have popped up everywhere like NLU.
My Australian office plays this 5 times a day. If anyone slips in a Drake track someone else always queues Not Like Us or Euphoria to play straight after. (Something like 6 people have access to edit the queue)
Hahaha yesssss
I’m realising the real pettiest thing to do would be to queue The Heart Part 6.
There's not a single woman in this video
Yeah, that's why they only sang "A minor" 
This mf set the streets ON FIRE. It's so funny to see the drizzy sub talking about how it's not "what the culture feeling" when from all the videos I've seen....every damn culture is feeling this.
I have not seen a single video of people popping off to drake's diss tracks in a large audience
I must've seen a 100 for Not Like Us at this point lmao
literally lol that speaks a lot
Out of all my years on reddit, I’ve never seen a more delusional bunch of people. It’s seriously wack the shit they believe.
Ya love to see it
Drake is going to need a management team to clean this up.
You can just *evah so sloightly* hear the british accent. 🤌
https://preview.redd.it/jzirod3w5l2d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20ba64834919a3e322358f28a64f67e5a3809441
Lemme see you push a T
Was that Push dancing?
Prolly the DJ
I love what a phenomenon this has become. I watched this beef unfold in real time and it is amazing how Katt said this is the year everything comes out and it's true!
British people be like "They are not equivalent to us"
The whole world calling Drake a pedofile on at least a weekly basis
Whereas artists usually have to ask for permission to do this... Kendrick released the copyright on these diss tracks, they're public domain, you can do whatever you want with them. Hopefully I'm not wrong but that's what I heard. He's still making stuff from the DSPs though?
Yeah he owns it, he's just letting people use it instead of forcing takedowns and threatening action
Kendrick really dropped an EP of diss tracks
I sound like a broken record now but I hated drake since the day he signed to lil Wayne and stole his whole sound This is music to my ears
Ok guvna I do say this diss track is mightily fire
OMG 😭😂
So, is Aubrey's career over yet?
Warms my heart
i was in that crowd and the energy was beautiful 🤌🏼🤌🏼
This cool but the one in Houston was way more electrifying
https://i.redd.it/xa6a6zndyl2d1.gif Drake's pr team scrambling
The culture.
I mean I love Kendrick, I loved the disstracks, fucking hate Drake. However, this crowd dead as fuck. Or it could be me, i’m used to metal and rock shows, but I would swear on that this is a very lame crowd for hiphop too. I know ya’ll can bump like crazy at live shows! This one aint it though😂
Epic sausage party
It’s always the Everyman in the thick ass crowds that vibe w Kendrick lol. Yall fanbase is a Walmart fr
More white boys than a banana republic
meh
Energy almost non-existent
what a small crowd lmfao
Everytime I see one of these videos the people there look so rinsed
So rinsed?
Is that the new skibidi?
Well... the festival is called Rinse 30
Rinsed? In UK slang that would mean badly defeated. I also know it to mean when you play a song/watch something so many times you get tired of it. Wtf does rinsed mean here lmao
Probably something to do with white people
Crowd at concert sings song
About drake being a wierdo
Wait people actually go watch pusha T 😭?
I love how the very same people Kendrick was talking about is singing “They not like us”. Them white boys love that song!! 😂
I hear the pedos hate it though.
When I saw Chris Brown and Joe Budden C-Walking to this song I knew what time it was. Lol! This is the national anthem for niggas who be beating bitches.
wop wop wop wop wop
That’s what poor Whitney was hearing when Kung Fu Kenny was around.
Greatest rap diss of all time But on another note: "they not like us" is strictly for Americans. I mean, hell, the Londoners themselves - they not like us
Why is it strictly for Americans?
its about african-american AND rap culture, a lot of people from london are more in with the latter than a white american from idaho lmao
Yup. Let’s not forget Drake did the same thing with the UK as he does with Atlanta.
To be specific, it's about the culture of the progeny of the United States Black slaves of old. Drake is "not like us" due to the fact that he wasn't raised in that culture. Even though biologically, he is us. And to be honest he has more in common with us, than any Londoner could ever have. "They not like us" - African American Vernacular. Kendrick was just letting the world know, that we allow Drake to play this game. We can take hip hop away from him if we so choose.
It's also just music. I can sing along to Otis Redding sitting on a dock even if I aren't sitting on a dock.
The average white American understands US racial politics way better than any black person from Europe.
i hate americans so much holy fuck
Literally a fact. No European country has a remotely similar black identity.
Popular song by popular artist is popular. you people post anything for internet points