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It's pretty clear here on Too Hard for the Radio, Drake is trying to do a California rap thing.

He's intentionally aping the styles that Kendrick Lamar, who again is from California, deals in.

Kendrick's last album, GNX, released on the heels of this beef, was very indebted to this sound.

And this track, Too Hard for the Radio, is even produced by the artist P-Lo, who has crafted the California Bay Area sound on songs like Word is Bond by YG, who was also mentioned in these lyrics.

I know, I might have my tinfoil hat on a little bit, but I do think... No, no, you're in the music.

I do think it's intentional, though, because there's lines in Too Hard for the Radio that straight up call out Oakland.

It's both the call out to the bay and the sound.

But also, again, he's not unbothered.

He references Not Like Us and the line where Kendrick says that Oakland show gonna be your last stop.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the statement too hard for radio is an interpolation.

It's a reference to the hyphy rapper Mac Dre and his song too hard for the fucking radio.

And it's a direct interpolation.

Mm hmm.

Let me play the two.

Wow.

So ultimately, you know, the question is, beyond being petty 10 toes down, what is Drake trying to say with Iceman?

I'm kind of getting mixed messages.

When you hear Iceman, you think about someone who literally doesn't get heated, who's able to dodge things.

the bullets, so to speak, has the ability to easily cool off.