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Kendrick Lamar Best Posts: Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers. OUT NOW

  1. joeyp363
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    May 26, 2022
    Can we talk about how incredible this album is?
     
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  2. YiT
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    YiT Kornrow Kenny

    May 26, 2022
    This album doesn’t quite reach the highs of d--- like DNA and FEAR but it’s lows are not as low as LOVE it’s consistently good. More replay value than TPAB. I still think it’s too early to say where it ranks in his discography but definitely not GKMC tier. Top 5 tracks in order: Count Me out, N95, Rich Spirit, Savior, Mr Morale
     
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    oklama estrogen burger

    May 25, 2022
    Ngl, not on some Joey type s---, but I've had this playing since my 2nd listen of last night. I'm a f---ing d-ck rider man this really did grow on me like a mf, it's good as h--- from start to finish. I could do without Die Hard and I don't see myself purposely listening to Auntie Diaries outside of a full album listen, but this is good s---.
     
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  4. CrimsonKing
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    May 25, 2022
    This album is amazing on 4th listen. The production and themes that run throughout it are the highlights. N95 is a top 5 Kendrick song easily.
     
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  5. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 23, 2022
    @Marsh
    https://www.complex.com/music/2020/08/rap-relevance-is-deeper-than-numbers
     
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  6. King Tadpole
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    May 23, 2022
    Hard for me to rank the albums because they're all great.

    GKMC is my #1. I'd rate d--- under TPAB. Mr. Morale is still in the air, but somewhere in the middle of lineup.
     
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  7. Packman
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    May 23, 2022
    We Cry Together least listenable song on here. Not necessarily saying it should have been excluded from the album because it fits, but it's the only song I skip
     
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    May 22, 2022
    Katy Perry does go kinda hard ngl
     
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  9. joeyp363
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    May 22, 2022
    Drake>Kendrick
     
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  10. Packman
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    May 22, 2022
    I keep coming back to this album every day and I love it more and more. Time will tell but the I think the replayability is gonna be up there with d---. for me
     
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  11. joeyp363
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    May 22, 2022
    Classic album, but yes I would consider this a flop.
     
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    oklama estrogen burger

    May 22, 2022
    bro how does a small artist flop??? they literally have no expectations???

    also to your other reply, yea Kendrick doing 280K first week makes sense to me and I expected that. It's 2022. Physical sales are non existent (especially when they don't even release in this instance), bundles that boosted sales previously were taken away, and streaming is a hellhole for album sales.
     
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    jankland In My Cringe Arc.

    May 21, 2022
    Please go on Twitter and stay there, you'll fit right in.
     
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    May 21, 2022
    Considering that people value and base their opinion of off his I'd say a lot of people care about Fantano lol
     
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  15. Michael Myers
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    May 21, 2022
    This except f--- critics. Nobody cares about what some fattano has to say about an album lmao
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 21, 2022
    ok let's try this: what is your definition of a flop? Is it numbers only? Critical response? Fan response? viral discussion on social media? All of those? Some of them? None of those? What's the metric?
     
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  17. Michael Myers
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    May 21, 2022
    It's impossible to listen to albums you love as much as you might want, let alone albums you just like. I mean especially if you have a life lol
     
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  18. DKC
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    May 21, 2022
    @TheBorgerShop I think that a lot of art probably strives to be timeless. not all of it succeeds. it's not even close. it's OK that sometimes an album drops and I listen to it a few times, enjoy it for what it is, and move on.

    there's a reason that an album like Doggystyle or MBDTF or Ready to Die or Aquemini stands out so much. it's because for every album that's a truly timeless masterpiece, there are 10,000 that aren't. some of them are pure dogshit of course, but many of them are just good albums, and I have fond memories of them and revisit every so often. or maybe they just served a purpose at that point in time/culture and can be appreciated as such. if you're looking to only listen to 11/10 game changing genre defining picks, you're going to miss out on a lot of great music.
     
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  19. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    May 21, 2022
    Yeah I agree with the sentiments here, comparing projects because the people that make them are as famous as each other can lead to problematic conclusions as every artist makes music with/for a different purpose. Plus to be honest, this has been my most replayed album of this year since The Weeknd dropped, others might not be the same, but I’m still enjoying this project a lot & it hasn’t ran out of steam, as it shouldn’t. I’ll be interested to see how it is viewed by me & others in a year & onwards time.
     
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  20. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 21, 2022
    Drake didn't release any singles that ended up on CLB before it dropped. post's single from last year that came out months after CLB already has almost as many streams as the most popular songs off CLB. People have short attention spans and forgot about the astroworld tragedy in like two weeks.

    Kendrick was out of the news for 4 years and blindly dropped an album that's for the most part not radio friendly and a lot of people aren't into and it still did great numbers. And post and travis and drake are more popular and have legions of pop stans behind them. In the streaming era everyone is going to check these albums out because it costs them zero extra money + rap genius will always put them on playlists
     
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