Mar 16, 2015

@CoCo I'm a fan, but haven't been liking his recent music. Let's just put it as that because I still bump his old songs, mainly GKMC.

 

Mar 16, 2015

Fair nuff. Not a problem with disliking the album or anything like that. I just find it really strange so many people are saying things along the lines of "this is a s--- album for Kendrick" when in reality this is the music he has always been making.

 

Mar 16, 2015

do u not dislike anything i don't get it

it's absolutely not and if you believe this you're not listening

 

Mar 16, 2015

Have you deleted tracks off the album that you don't want to hear anymore? Just curious.

 

Mar 16, 2015

I dislike you

 

Mar 16, 2015

You guys might like this

 

Mar 16, 2015

Sounds like you're talking about Yeezus. But I agree. Guess there is a right and wrong way to break the mold.

 

Mar 16, 2015

I don't think its a s--- album, just not feeling the vibe to it at the moment. When Life Is Good by Nas dropped I felt the same way about it, but it grew onto me & I started liking it. Kendrick's music was totally different back then though, idk about that.

 

Mar 16, 2015

well this is wrong

 

Mar 16, 2015

I could of told you @WPG wasnt gonna like this album back in 2013 tbh

 

Mar 16, 2015

How dare u have a different opinion than me

 

Mar 16, 2015

i mean i wrote this about gkmc last year when i named it the third-best album of the decade:

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Two days before good kid, m.A.A.d. city was released (and three days after it leaked online), Kendrick Lamar let loose “The Heart, Pt. 3”, a desperate, autobiographical record. By the fall of 2012, Kendrick was the heir apparent to everything—Compton, the West coast at large, hip-hop itself—and “Heart 3” tracked his rise from the very beginning. At the end of the song, he poses a question about his looming debut’s commercial prospects: “Will you let hip-hop die on October twenty-second?”

It’s an exaggeration, to be sure, but Kendrick’s gravity at the time was such that you believed him. Buy the record, or fail the culture. This was the culmination of the year-plus hype train, the self-mythologizing, the famous cosigns. A precocious, preternaturally talented kid from one of the most famously destitute neighborhoods in America was at the precipice. Stakes was high, by Kendrick’s own design. This was an Event Record of the highest order. But it was funny—when you ripped the plastic off good kid, m.A.A.d. city, you would never know it.

good kid, m.A.A.d. city is, in almost every way, aggressively small. The first track has no orchestras, no horn sections, no self-aggrandizing. Instead, there’s a muted three-minute narrative about a high school kid with a crush. No one gets shot, stabbed, robbed, killed. There’s no hook. Of the two album cuts designed to rattle your car’s stereo system, one is called, simply, “Backseat Freestyle”. Kendrick’s TDE cohorts Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q—both burgeoning stars who make triumphant appearances on “The Heart, Pt. 3—are nowhere to be found. The only A-list casting calls are for Drake, who raps on a staid flip of a Janet Jackson song, and Dr. Dre, who is essentially window dressing while hawking his headphones.

What Kendrick Lamar delivered was not a blockbuster rap debut. Rather, the record is refreshingly narrow, a self-contained, cinéma verité take on the city of Compton. “The Art of Peer Pressure” and “Money Trees” make for a twelve-minute antidote to the after school special: no moralizing, no superheroes, no learning. On “m.A.A.d. city”, Kendrick taps MC Eiht to play the unfettered alpha he could never quite imitate. What he can do, however, is rap preposterously well. The color motif on “good kid”; the imagery on “Peer Pressure”; the flow that, on “m.A.A.d. city”, feels primed to come unraveled at any second, but never quite does. Of course, Kendrick Lamar harbored ambitions of being the next Great Rap Star, but good kid, m.A.A.d. city succeeds because he’s closer to the kid freestyling in his friend’s car, dreaming of living life like rappers do. By retreating within himself, Kendrick made the album he never could were he to mold himself in the image of his predecessors.




tldr i know i know

 

Mar 16, 2015

Lmfao Kendrick just sh---ed on everyone in rap right now

 

Mar 16, 2015

True, true
Mbdtf did find a perfect middle ground between the mainstream and the music heads, comparing music is just a really inaccurate way to determine quality imo, but idk, it's a pretty complicated subject

 

Mar 16, 2015

how can he have gone from good to great but put out a terrible album? o.O

 

Mar 16, 2015

Speaking of that album, I rarely listen to it compared to most of Nas' work, but I consider Life is Good to be one of his best. (Illmatic tho>>>>)

How though? Overly Dedicated and Kendrick Lamar EP Have that same jazzy/funk sound throughout them. The only major difference between the two is the content, because Kendrick grew as a person and artist so he talks about other things.

 

Mar 16, 2015

Lol ^^

 

Mar 16, 2015

Strange? Literally everyone ik personally, doesn't care for the album. You act like its a masterpiece when it's just a try hard 2 pac act.

 

Mar 16, 2015

sh---ed on everyone? I don't recall any tracks in the album dissing anybody.

Agreed.

 

Mar 16, 2015

hot take

you are listening through broken headphones. yeah, he jacks some roots beats on OD. yeah, there are brass instruments on s80. but those are, on the whole, absolutely nothing like this album.