Oct 22, 2015 Interesting.. I prefer Yeezus heavily for some reason... but i'm not anywhere near that age
Oct 22, 2015 What exactly are the messages/themes? Drinking lean? Being a Trap n-----? I think the themes/messages on TPAB are pretty clear: Don't give into living a superficial lifestyle of wants, represented by lucy/uncle sam. Some songs delve into different issues and messages, such as "Alright" and "The blacker the berry" delve into police brutality, the standing of blacks in America etc. But it all wraps back into the albums central themes as described in the poem, which ties everything together in a more articulate way than any other album I've ever heard. As far as how "good" they actually are, that is very subjective. One could argue that DS2 or IYRTITL have better individual tracks, which is reasonable, but I think TPAB is greater than the sum of its parts.
Oct 22, 2015 smh. look, i'm having a pretty fair, honest discussion of the albums here--and of what it means for an album to be successful on its own terms--and you're dismissing an album out of hand. have you even listened to it? this is my problem with people who become stans of popular, "respectable" rappers: they project these stupid rap genius-style triple entendre connections and hidden meanings onto their favorite rapper's music and turn up their nose at anything that sounds different.
Oct 22, 2015 kdot will win it because many people talk about how he got robbed before and the grammys aware of it
Oct 22, 2015 yeah but you gotta understand that a huge portion of the Grammy voting pool is far enough removed that they have no idea.
