Joe Budden believes that Joey Badass is winning the current rap beef and is ahead by a significant margin.

“call it New York bias. I I think Joey's up. He's up and I think he's up by a lot.”

Ishmael Butler contends that the hip-hop industry is actively conspiring against Drake, leading to his isolation in the current beef.

“I'm sticking to my theory that there's somebody outside of artist that are angry at Drake”

Kendrick Lamar is not the blackest rapper ever.

“not even close by far not even close not even close by far”

Parks Richardson claims that artists should avoid the streaming era mindset in cipher contexts to preserve the integrity of the format.

“with all due respect if there's one place I never want to hear the words streaming error it's in a cipher this ain't even streaming this ain't for that I I like your argument but it doesn't apply to this”

Drake's strategy of targeting his peers' romantic partners as a way to dominate them is alienating him from the music community.

“if you are that type of dude like and you're doing it specifically because there's it's it's a domination thing over the man yeah you're not going to Curry favor amongst the community”

Kendrick Lamar is the most authentically black rapper.

“Let me tell you why Kendrick Lamar is the blackest rapper ever I don't think it's ever been a rapper is black as Kendrick Lamar”

Ray Daniels maintains that artists from the West Coast should embrace and develop their regional sound in the wake of the recent Kendrick Lamar moment.

“Every time I go out like if you from the west coast take this Kendrick moment and create the sound because that's what TI did for southern music.”

Dave Portnoy believes that the Kendrick Lamar diss track cover featuring Drake's supposed belongings was likely a plant by Kendrick's team to create drama.

“there's a big back and forth Kendrick made one of those dis tracks the cover was all this stuff and then Drake's Camp was saying that that was fake they planted it”