Mar 18, 2015 Fantano is woat because of his MBDTF rating but i f--- with his rating for this album. Kendrick the god
Mar 18, 2015 I think you'll revisit it down the line and it will click with you. I believe that happened with Section.80, maybe GKMC (not sure).
Mar 18, 2015 nah i just mean him in general, i haven't listened to his take on this album in particular.
Mar 18, 2015 although @Dew for the record, i was high on gkmc and section80 when they came out, just not the ultra-dickriding of these ex-KTT posters. and, if i'm not mistaken, i made the first kendrick lamar thread back on RB when OD came out.
Mar 18, 2015 Eh, I don't care about his rap videos because everything he reviews is already posted here most of the time and I never watch them, but he listens to a ton of different music. He's a good source for new (and old) albums, and many vids are on point, if you can get past the corny moments. Not saying he's a great critic or anything, but he manages to generally describe a record in a few minutes, its influences, similar records etc. A 5' vid in a busy day is fine for me
Mar 18, 2015 I found Kendrick through Cole and a year later Section.80 was being hailed as the greatest album from the modern era and it had just come out. It never clicked with me and I just brushed it to the side. I remember reading one of your threads about listening to S.80 in the airport and around that time I think everything came full circle. I fully agree with GKMC being a classic, but not necessarily a 'classically rated' album, mostly because after M. city the album struggles to achieve everything the first half had going for it. It loses the entire tempo and feeling the first half had. I don't know what it is, but To p---- a Butterfly clicked immediately. It was hitting all the right notes with me (coming from someone who hasn't cared about anything Kendrick has done since the release of Good Kid.) I think it's his most cohesive project to date. Not a single song besides maybe u, stuck out to me on the initial listen, but in the back of my head I remember all the things people said when Kendrick first came out. Better than Pac etc. That's why I don't understand why @Swizz thinks the Pac interview at the end is cringe. I think this album perfectly formulates something Pac failed to achieve through his music. Maybe I'm was just in the right place when the album came; I spent the entire week listening to random west coast albums. To p---- a Butterfly revives a sound that many of those rappers neglected, (e.g. opening of Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat [shout out to chief keef] Momma sounds exactly like a J. Dilla beat and as I mentioned earlier the entire D'Angelo vibe. When people think of West Coast sound, they think of hard drums, but with TPAB moves away from that and chooses a sound he feels best represents the culture as a whole. I just think there is a lot more to this album than the traditional rap release. I'm not even mad if people think the album is bad, I just hope they one day see what I see it in and hear what I hear in it. I think it's just going to be one of those albums that certain people will have to give time and that time may never come.
