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Kendrick Lamar Best Posts: now that bad blood is #1

  1. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2015
    can we admit 1989 is far better than To p---- a Butterfly
     
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  2. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    May 28, 2015
    i guess its fitting pauls last post is in a taylor swift thread he created, never giving an inch on his tpab hatred. poetic

    @Narsh you killed him.
     
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    BrotherMan Y'all can catch me on the 5th flo

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    Peter Parker your boy

    May 28, 2015
    Good luck, have fun :emoji_thumbsup:
     
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  5. python
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    python in the nighttime

    May 28, 2015
    i like TPAB, but i don't like kendrick jerking off his own ego and wasting 5 minutes of an album explaining why his album is so deep and poetic, and pretending to be homies with a dead man who has nothing in common with him
     
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    poopdogg Retired

    May 28, 2015
    1989 > every eminem album
    #TIDALFACTS
     
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  7. white jesus
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    white jesus god's son

    May 28, 2015
    I think a lot of my issues with Kendrick come from the fact that he takes himself much too seriously (his music is humorless and moralizing). To me, that's a lack of self awareness. And I find that to be a gross (and boring) aesthetic.

    Just me?
     
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  8. Medici
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    Medici comin' for the top dollah

    May 28, 2015
    I don't think execution of TPAB was poor I think he took his audience for idiots and felt the need to spell out simple s--- like 5 year olds. In that regard his execution was near perfect.
     
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  9. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    May 28, 2015
    All I'm really sure of is that a players gonna play and a haters gonna hate but at the end of the day I'm just gonna shake it off tbh
     
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  10. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2015
    jk i was never leaving, i just wanted to show i wouldn't stick dogmatically to my convictions

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  11. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 28, 2015
    I think you really hit the nail on the head.

    For a brief time, TPAB got better for me as I unpacked it, and then once everything was out in the open, it started to get less rewarding with each listen. I don't blame critics for overhyping it initially—I was fooled too. Kudos if you saw through it at the beginning, but calling it a massive failure in every way is a gross exaggeration. It just turned out to be a 7-8/10 album, not a 9-10/10. There are some fantastic songs there, but I don't wanna slog through s--- like How Much A Dollar Costs and Mortal Man every time I wanna listen to the good songs (cuz I'm a person who listens to full albums 90% of the time).
     
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  12. Old Account
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  13. Goku187
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    May 28, 2015
    tha evils of Lucy all around me
    found myself reading another multi-paragraph Narsh rationalization of the 2Pac interview
     
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  14. Goku187
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    Goku187

    May 28, 2015
    Not just you at all. That's why I valued King Kunta so much - it's one of the only moments on the album that DOESN'T feel humorless and moralizing.

    I mean, the homeless man who turns out to be God after the big reveal? The repeated "hotel room" pseudo-poetry? The amateurish Lucy thing? The totally unsubtle, straight-faced spelling out of the caterpillar s--- at the very end of the album? Guys, this was not very well-executed lol
     
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  15. Narsh
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    Narsh

    May 28, 2015
    dont think its comparable, but yeah ive been embarrassed by plenty of rappers before -- including kendrick (tammy's song for example, which you apparently like lol)

    but i think you and @Swizz have set the bar for getting embarrassed pretty low.

    A lot of "TPAB" is "try hard" (but executed more than adequately, even if it's not to some magical perfection), and not nearly tone-deaf or off-base enough to be embarrassing for me. Even the Pac interview -- the idea of what was going on seemed to be acknowledged. That's all I need to give any artist some leeway -- self awareness

    It wasn't him having some tunnel-vision and creating a flop, which is what you keep trying to paint it is. The album came from the exact opposite place actually -- it came from his self-awareness, even if it wasn't executed cleanly.

    The more you unpack TPAB the more its flaws are accentuated but there is nothing embarrassing about it. Not "s--- dont change," not "the voice on "u"," not "lucy" (for sale is a gr8 song), not "democrips," not the pac interview (good intentions, decent execution), and definitely not the live version of i, or TBTB, or any of the highlights you deny the album of even having.


    so yeah stop getting embarrassed so easily. thug just said his girl's p----'s tighter than a baby. pretty embarrassing TBQH. maybe even trying to hard to be edgy. amazing song tho
     
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    cmmn.sns

    May 28, 2015
    @WPG can you next time compare Thriller and Ready To Die, srsly need to know which one is better?
     
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  17. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

    May 28, 2015
    Because high charting music is always the best. Right? Right??
     
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  18. pluto✰
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    pluto✰ where the opioids?

    May 28, 2015
    :popcornn:
     
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  19. Mano
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    May 28, 2015
    Hold this L, @Young Sinatra

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  20. python
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    python in the nighttime

    May 28, 2015
    kendrick lamar believes the government wants to murder him for making a s-----y jazz album about incoherent metaphors and racism that is also dedicated to tupac
     
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