Hot takes - Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is my favorite artist of all time, and he is also a hypocrite. Yes, he called out Drake's abuse of women, and that was a good thing, but yes, he also did just collaborate with Playboy Carti, a known abuser, on 3 different songs going as far as to call him Kendrick's "evil twin." Kendrick did not do what he did to Drake for a moral reason, it had nothing to do with Drake's abuse of women, those things just happened to be ammunition laying around. Kendrick simply hated Drake. Anybody with media literacy should be able to see that. Sure, Kendrick wants to push the idea that NLU was about morals in the SZA interview, but it wasn't. He despises Drake, and Drake dared him to do something. Simple as that. Kendrick has many moral failings, as do many artists. That doesn't mean that the art can't still provide value. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is my favorite album of all time, it changed the course of my life, but Kendrick isn't some savior we need to worship. He says so on the song Savior, it's one of the whole points of the album. Hell, this isn't the first time Kendrick has done this, he featured Kodak Black, a convicted rapist, prominently in MMATBS, and when Spotify threatened to remove music by R. Kelly and other controversial figures off of spotify, he stood against it. Stand for good art, not for the celebrity. We don't need to dick ride them.