May 16, 2016

 

May 16, 2016

i seen this live when he performed in my city and it was his first ever performance in Aus (i'm 90% sure, may have done another state first).

anyways it was a small venue and when this came one everyone went fucken ape s---, all the nang heads and pill brains were going absolute mental, people were jumping up on the rails of the second floor and s--- was fucken wild and like 8 people got kicked out by the end of the song.

such a GOAT song and seeing him perform it live like that was like best live performance (at a tiny venue) i have ever seen.

 

May 16, 2016

with gkmc, kendrick showed to the rap community that he could make a classic album. With tpab, kendrick showed to the music community that he could make a classic album.

Tpab is literally the only reason I consider him a potential goat.

 

May 16, 2016

If anything hes actually turning into that goat and transcending hip hop.

He has experimented fusing jazz and funk sound with his rap. Perhaps leaving some fans of simple hip hop who don't like that, but that doesn't make his last album any less great. If anything, he's actually evolving and progressing as an artist.

 

May 16, 2016

This is also fantastic

My favorite Kenny song live and one of my favorites of GKMC

 

May 16, 2016

He killed a set in LA like last year. I was pro-shooting a clip for these guys and he slapped my camera, lmao.

Guy can get a crowd lit. Respect.

 

May 16, 2016

That yawk yawk yawk part

d---

 

May 16, 2016

From an artistic standpoint, the album's strenght is the music: the composition, the production, kendrick's ability to incorporate variations forms of classic music in his rap (only pharoahe monch doing that, and now young thug). I know some old heads listen to jazz-poetry, but I'm not one of them.

However, Kendrick really went back to the various stages of black music and the poem was part of it. This album features both the rhythmic spoken word & classic/traditional poetry that were both used outside of mainstream jazz music few decades ago. Despite not being used by white artists trying to popularize jazz in the mainstream, these aspects of jazz music still influenced early hip hop. This album can really be described as a "black" album, all of it, and it was done extraordiry well imo

 

May 16, 2016

I'd add that the tpab's acclaim doesn't come from its experimentation of sounds because the album is definitely not experimental, it comes from the successful attempt at incorporating all the best aspects/elements of the different stages of black music, without compromising anything. In that regard, you could say it's more of a safe than experimental album and that doesn't make it any less great considering the fact that very few artists can do that.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not giving kendrick all the credits as if he was the only mastermind behind this work - I know the album had 71 contributors.

 

May 16, 2016

You've just proved that accessibility =/= quality. S80 had generic jazz influenced production. The only reason why someone would actually consider it as more accessible is because it was generic.

 

May 16, 2016

always been vocal about my love for pre-tpab kendrick, plus that was before tpab stanning got really cancerous

 

May 16, 2016

yeah half of western australia is desert lol

 

May 16, 2016

lucky c---- they only go over east