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Our Songs of the Summer bracket is divided into four March Madness-style regionals, and the winner of the Main Stage regional was Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." Jordan Darville makes the case for why the song deserves to take home the chip ββ
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The vitriol fueling Kendrick Lamar and Drakeβs rap beef had a permissive quality β nothing, be it family or speculation over sex crimes, was out of bounds. Every kind of online denizen from multimillionaire streamers to broke Twitter addicts fed into the metastasizing discourse. And yet, improbably, βNot Like Usβ managed to escape the whirlpool that consumed the rest of the diss tracks. Lamar has positioned the song as a West Coast anthem that transcends beef, an angle that probably wouldnβt have flown without the rapturous joy of the Pop Out concert.β
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Canada was already having a miserable summer before βNot Like Us.β The cost of living crisis has expl...
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