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MINI SCROLL: Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake + Harry Jowsey faces backlash for Rylee Arnold "relationship" · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  All right, let's get in to the stories for today.
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  I just have two quick stories for you guys.
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  So the first is I wanted to recap all of the drama that
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  happened this weekend between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
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  So over the past few months, Kendrick Lamar and Drake have
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  been dropping diss tracks on each other.
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  But things really escalated over the weekend when Kendrick
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  released 4 back-to-back tracks. Basically.
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  So Kendrick Lamar and Drake first collaborated in 2011 on
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  Drake's Take Care album. In 2012, Kendrick opened on
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  Drake's Club Paradise tour, and that same year they also
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  collaborated on Fucking Problems and Poetic Justice, which would
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  mark the last time that the pair would collaborate.
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  In 2013, Kendrick and Drake started releasing diss tracks on
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  each other and they've been quote UN quote feuding ever
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  since. OK, so there has been a lot of
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  back and forth over the years, but the most recent drama.
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  On April 19th, Drake released Push Ups, which is a diss track
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  on Kendrick mocking his small stature, specifically his feet.
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  Days later on April 24th, he released a second diss track on
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  Kendrick via Instagram called TaylorMade Freestyle where he
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  basically taunted Kendrick for not responding to his April 19th
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  track. On April 30th, Kendrick
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  responded to Drake with a 6 minute track called Euphoria,
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  Billboard writes quote. The six minute diatribe was
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  scathing, showcasing a bloodthirsty Lamar, calling out
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  Drake for using the N word, questioning his fashion sense,
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  his hip hop merits, and more. Now this weekend Kendrick
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  continued to release diss tracks, so he released one on
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  May 3rd called 616 in LA claiming Drake has someone in
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  his camp who is leaking information.
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  Hours later, Drake responded with a track called Family
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  Matters, where he accused Kendrick of being unfaithful to
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  his fiance. On May 4th, Kendrick responded
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  with Meet the Grams and it's in this track Meet the Grams where
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  Kendrick accused Drake of being a deadbeat father and having a
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  second daughter, he said. Quote or wrapped quote.
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  You lied about your son. You lied about your daughter,
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  Huh? You lied about them.
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  Other kids. That's out there hoping that you
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  come. So people really believed this,
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  and I feel like they might still believe it because A, Kendrick
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  already called Drake out for having someone in his camp who
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  leaks information. And B, as we know, Drake did
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  keep his son hidden for quite a while, but Drake responded to
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  this accusation on Instagram Stories that same day writing.
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  Nah, hold on, can someone find my hidden daughter please?
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  And sent her to me. These guys are in shambles.
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  But the back and forth has ended, at least for now, when
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  Kendrick released a fourth diss track on May 4th called Not Like
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  Us, accusing Drake and his team of being sex offenders.
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  Quite an accusation. So this has just been viral
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  everywhere. This is absolutely not our
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  normal content for infinite scroll, mini scroll, but this is
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  viral everywhere. And if you guys want a very
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  funny take on it, go watch Bila Delgado's TikTok.
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  They basically make like a diss track on Drake.
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  It's very clear they are on Kendrick's side, but it is
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  absolutely hilarious. Go watch it.
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  All right. And the last one that I have for
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  you guys is another personality that we have actually never
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  talked about on this podcast but is in very much in the
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  influencer world. So Harry Josie has addressed the
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  romance rumors between himself and Riley Arnold on his new
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  podcast, So too Hot to Handle * Harry Josie has finally
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  addressed his rumored relationship with Dancing With
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  the Stars partner Riley Arnold and people are not happy with
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  this. So Harry was paired up with
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  Riley during Dancing With the Stars season 32, and there was
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  so much speculation that the two were more than Just Dance
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  partners, basically. And they really leaned into
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  this. They would do interviews
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  together where they were like flirting and really coy about
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  what was going on. They made all these tik toks
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  together. They spoke so highly of each
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  other, they basically LED fans to believe that they were
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  something. But now Harry is setting the
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  record straight and it has people really pissed off.
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  So he just launched his new podcast called Boyfriend
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  Material where he teased that he would address Riley in the first
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  episode. In the episode, Harry called
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  Riley a cute girl but said that they were never a thing.
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  Quote. I'm sorry if this breaks some
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  hearts, but I'm here to confirm once and for all.
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  Riley and I have never been in any type of relationship.
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  We never leaned into it. We never were putting on an act
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  or anything like that. It was just organic.
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  What you saw is kind of how it was.
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  That was just amazing love and amazing friendship and just an
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  amazing bond that we had together Now in this episode.
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  Harry said that he was the one who turned Riley down.
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  And he said he made it clear to her that he is not the right guy
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  for her and that he set boundaries with her from the
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  start and that he wanted to like protect her from all of the
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  drama in his life. And he knew that if they started
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  dating that, you know, it would hurt her personal brand because
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  of what his personal brand is and that she's 18, he's 26.
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  Like, she shouldn't be wasting her time with someone who's
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  older like that, which I do agree with that.
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  But he basically made it out to be like she wanted to be with
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  him And he was this like, you know, knight in shining armor,
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  this really great guy that was like, no, I'm going to sacrifice
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  what I want for you for your greater good.
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  However, he then dropped a major bomb saying that he had a secret
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  girlfriend while they were filming Dancing with the Stars
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  and that all the news articles and the speculation about him
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  and Riley that that really, like, hurt his relationship.
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  So the reception to that has been quite bad.
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  Fans have flooded the comment section of his video on YouTube
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  with criticism, saying that Harry used Riley to promote his
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  new era of his career, this new podcast, this new project, and
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  then basically dropped her, one person wrote.
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  I can't believe he let me believe he was a changed man and
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  a good man. All to use Riley for views until
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  his next project came and then disrespected her.
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  You'll never deserve someone as beautiful and kind and sincere
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  as Riley. I hope she's OK, someone else
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  wrote. I'm afraid Riley got used for
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  views and promoting this podcast.
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  I'm so sorry Riley. You deserve better.
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  And someone else wrote the way he literally used Riley as
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  clickbait for this episode only to totally disrespect her.
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  Annoying. Hopefully your secret
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  relationship knows better than to take you back.
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  Won't be listening to this podcast again.
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  So this anger was furthered when fans noticed that leading up to
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  the podcast drop, Harry and Riley unfollowed each other.
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  So underneath a TikTok promotional video where it was
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  like clickbait. Like I said, he commented back
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  to someone. So somebody reportedly asked if
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  the podcast was the reason that he and Riley unfollowed each
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  other and he reportedly wrote. And when I say reportedly, I
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  mean I have not been able to verify this because it seems
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  like he deleted the comments. So take this with a grain of
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  salt, but he reportedly wrote she was liking shady comments
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  about me when we had discussed everything about the podcast
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  before I filmed it and what was going to be in it.
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  I have the camera footage from my living room to prove it.
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  Also, they get back with an X video is in collaboration with a
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  network to start a marketing rollout strategy which she was
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  also aware of. So he is confirming that a lot
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  of this promotional stuff for the podcast was clickbait.
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  Intentional clickbait because it was part of a marketing roll out
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  strategy for his podcast, which does make sense of course, but
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  he is saying Riley was aware of all of this and I think fans are
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  just really defensive of this because Riley is so young, this
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  is her first kind of brush with fame and Harry, Jesse has a very
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  bad reputation like as being a fuck boy but also just kind of
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  being like a bit shady. So I think people are feeling
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  protective of her because it does seem like he's been using
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  her image and likeness kind of to his advantage and it's
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  possible that she did not realize the extent of that while
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  it was happening. Anyways, guys, hopefully this
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  recorded. I'm going to check.
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