# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-3aU10sK6l
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22414696-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-19T21:00:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

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It's 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥’𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 week, presented by Splice.⁠
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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 ↓⁠
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The vitriol fueling Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s rap beef had a permissive quality — 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, “Not Like Us” 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 wouldn’t have flown without the rapturous joy of the Pop Out concert.⁠
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Canada was already having a miserable summer before “Not Like Us.” The cost of living crisis has exploded to farcical levels, and the coming election in 2025 seems poised to sweep in a far-right prime minister with a supermajority of representatives. When I heard my teenage neighbor blaring “Not Like Us” from his car stereo, it sounded like the final nail in the coffin, hammered from the inside."⁠
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Read the full feature at the link in bio.⁠
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#SongsoftheSummer #KendrickLamar

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