Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Goes to No. 1, Does Cardi B Need Another Hit Record? | Billboard Unfiltered
Written by djfrosty on May 16, 2024
In the second episode of Billboard Unfiltered, Billboard staffers Damien Scott, Carl Lamarre and Trevor Anderson discuss the chart success of both Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s diss tracks, “Not Like Us,” “Euphoria,” “Like That” and “Family Matters” all reaching the top 10, whether Cardi B needs to produce another hit record to keep her rap legacy afloat and more.
Trevor Anderson:
These records are just swallowing the whole culture.
Damien Scott:
Bro, you’re gonna go to these parties two steppin’ with a drink in your hand, and then you’re gonna hear “wop wop wop.”
Carl Lamarre:
Cardi, we right there for you baby, take your time, baby. Go to Turks and Caicos. Hey, guys. Welcome to a fresh episode of Billboard Unfiltered. We gotta get right into it — the aftermath of the greatest hip-hop battle of all time.
Trevor Anderson:
We’re declaring it the greatest already?
Carl Lamarre:
I mean, I think so.
Damien Scott:
We’ve never seen anything like this before.
Trevor Anderson:
I know. You know, sometimes you gotta like, let you know, let … let it have like a … like a little tailwind or something.
Damien Scott:
This was crazy.
Carl Lamarre:
This was nuts. This was nuts. I mean, obviously, last week, we spoke about just …. we chatted about the craziness of that. This is now. We actually have numbers to back these disses up. We have a new No. 1 on the Hot 100, Mr. Trevor Anderson.
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