Money Power Respect, The Last One Betta….Draaake

Welcome to this week’s Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence. I am your host Ms. Roni and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire Drake's spectacular fall from grace offers a masterclass in how quickly an artist can squander years of goodwill. What happens when one of hip-hop's most influential figures loses the respect of both peers and fans? The answer isn't pretty.

The recent spectacle of Drake screaming at his own audience to form mosh pits, only to have water bottles hurled back at him, signals a troubling shift in his career trajectory. This podcast explores how Drake's seemingly one-sided obsession with competing against Kendrick Lamar has morphed from friendly rivalry into something far more concerning. The prophecy in Kendrick's lyrics—"the money, the power, the respect, the last one's better"—now rings with eerie precision as we witness Drake struggling to maintain his standing in the industry.

Perhaps most telling is Drake's pattern of disrespect toward others. From dragging opponents' significant others into rap beefs to publicly ridiculing former partners in songs for years afterward, these behaviors reveal character issues that can't be obscured by commercial success. When compared with his earlier beef with Pusha T (which many felt Drake lost but recovered from), this latest chapter seems to be inflicting more lasting damage to his reputation. As the saying goes, it takes years to build respect and only moments to lose it.

The timing couldn't be more symbolic, occurring during the Lion's Gate portal energy with multiple planets in retrograde—a cosmic period that often forces reckoning with past actions. For artists at any level, Drake's situation serves as a powerful reminder that while money and power might come easily with success, respect must be continually earned and carefully maintained. Once lost, it proves incredibly difficult to recapture.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Music.
Welcome to this week's IndieArtist Music Hustle with Blonde
Intelligence.
I'm your host, ms Bronnie, andI always seek to give you
exquisite cranial repertoire.
Today is August the 10th.
We are still in that line gate,portal Energy.
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need to get in, now is the time.
If you know, you know.
But this week I want to talk alittle bit about how Drake lost
a lot of respect by screaming athis fans and I think that the
competition that he blatantlyhas With Kendrick by screaming

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at his fans, and I think thatthe competition that he
blatantly has With Kendrick andit seems to that he's having
this competition by himself Isbecoming very unhealthy for him,
because For a long time In thehip hop industry, drake was one
of the main players in hip-hopthat, no matter which way

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hip-hop culture went, he was apart of that culture.
So I will say that.
But it brings me to talk aboutrespect and how you lose respect
and how.
Even in that, like that verse,how Kendrick say the money, the
power, the respect, the lastone's better.
How is it?

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Don't talk about how the lastone is better here, rather after
the beef is what solidified himas a loss, not in this battle.

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You start losing in your career.
You lost respect from peoplewho were still standing beside
you.
So, yeah, the last one isbetter, because look how this is
affecting you.
When I talk about solidifyingthe loss now, I know as the AI

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versions of some contentcreators.
They call them pusha, pusha T.
Pusha T did have a surgicalsummer and at the time Drake had
the money and the power to kindof like dead the little beef
with him and Pusha T without itcosting him his career.

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But he didn't learn.
Why would you go and start abeef with someone when the last
one that you had kind of likeyou made people kind of look at

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you funny.
Then you came on to make moremusic and you know people liked
it or whatever.
But Then when you decided thatyou wanted to go Up against
Kendrick I don't know why hedidn't think about the verse
First.
He didn't even name you inthere like that At first, but he

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said Don't put no coughing outyour mouth, I'm way too paranoid
for a threat.
So he's saying hey, long as yourespect me, I do what I gotta
do and, as pusha t say, there'sno, too far, you're attacking
people.
So I think that the actions ofDrake after the as they said,

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that the funeral was meet thegrams and not like us was like
the repass, and then he justwent on a victory lap.
But I think that Kendrick Ithink I don't know Kendrick, I
can't speak for him but hasreally, like, moved past the
beef.
And then it's time to put youraction plan, your action plan

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hey, yeah, I got everybodyattention.
Let me go and drop some newmusic.
Oh, I got the Super Bowl.
Let me perform at the SuperBowl and I'm going to perform
the songs that I'm going to haveon this world tour.
Label is PG Lane.

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This is what it stands for.
People are going to find outabout it, people are going to
dig into this.
So it's like Drake becomes thein the past, the backdrop moving
forward, and it's like he keepstrying shenanigans to stay
relevant, but it's like thethinking has elevated to a
higher level.
So some of the things thatyou're doing don't make sense

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and, like I said earlier, Ithink that the competition is
unhealthy, because it got to thepoint that you're losing
respect in your professionbecause that's where you
dominated it.
So when he said the last one isbetter.
It's better to be respectedthan all these shenanigans such

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as um going on the the thestreamers liking the derogatory
post.
Um, why were you?
Why was he screaming at thefans to do a mosh pit?
Now, I know that might look fun, but for me that would deter me

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from going to a concert.
When I see people jumpingaround like that, I don't even
like to be in a club with peoplejumping around like that.
So, yeah, I look at it, butthat's not making me.
Ooh, I want to be him.
So it's like he is having a longlife battle with himself and
it's like the actions that he'sdoing.

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It's like he's not even haveany fourth worth out to think,
hey, this, where's the PR islike he's out there on a limb
and people are laughing about it.
But somebody needs torationalize with him and he's
lost respect from his label.
You got fans throwing waterbottles and tissue at you and

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when I first heard that, thefirst thing, now that's bad.
I'm going to say that's bad.
But the first thing that Ithought about was Showtime at
the Apollo.
Remember the early Showtime atthe Apollo?
A performer come out to performIf you didn't catch the
audience right, then they wouldthrow things at you and boo you

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and you would have to get offthe stage.
So that's what I was thinkingabout.
They would throw things at youand boo you and you would have
to get off the stage.
So that's what I was thinkingabout.
But then I thought about a wildbottle hurt and, if I'm not
mistaken, one hit him like inthe shoulder.
That's really not all right andI'm wondering is he going to
sue the venue?
You know?

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Because can't just say you knowthey like to sue, but no, I
just feel like that when itcomes to you losing respect in
your profession and it'sdamaging your legacy, because no
matter, like I said, which wayhe shaped his era of the hip hop
culture, he was part of thatand it's just terrible to go

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down or to tarnish your part ofyour legacy.
I don't even know what you wouldcall it now, because he has
lost so much respect by suingthe label, by always bringing
people's significant others intohis rap beef, and I just feel

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like if you haven't had arelationship or you know how
some people who've never beenmarried always can give you
marital advice, or somebody whohas been married several times
and the ex-spouse hates yourguts.
But you want to write books totell people how to act in

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relationships.
You know those type of peoplealways can give advice but don't
have the experience.
And I think that him speakingon others, significant others
and he really hadn't had, Iwould say, an adult relationship
, a healthy adult relationshipthat I've seen.

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And I don't look at whether ornot a person has had a lot of
relationships or if you knowthey were long relationships.
I look at how does a personfeel about you or how do you
treat each other after therelationship is over.

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And I haven't well, just bad tosay so that he maintained a good
relationship with anybody thathe publicly dated, because he
would go on for years and yearsand years ridiculing people on
rap songs, and the people don'trap.
So if they say something bad,it's like, yeah, they said

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something, that was a quote, butlike the music still lives on.
So I think it's a lot of unfairthings that he's done.
And back to the lack of respectnobody respects you, but they
got slapped up by puff daddy anda puffy a lover, whoever he

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want to be over a song, the yeah, the respect is better, but the
off side of it is and even withthis being lion gate portal,

(10:31):
the off the the off side of itis you.
You disrespected people so muchand I'm speaking when I say you
that drake disrespected peopleso much, and I'm speaking when I
say you that Drake disrespectedpeople so much that, yeah,
respect is better, not thedisrespect.

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And there's a Liongate portalevery year, but when you have so
many planets in retrograderight now, if some shit gonna
get fixed, then you gonna sitthere and you gonna take it,
because that's the way it'sdesigned.

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