Kendrick Lamar Best Posts: Kendrick is one of the corniest rappers in the game (proof itt)

  1. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Aug 4, 2016
    TPAB is not "your generic conscious album" you r-----

    stopped reading there
     
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    Aug 4, 2016
    Bad troll
     
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  4. pronx
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    Op managed to convince me that kendrick was even better than I thought he was.

    Thank you, OP.
     
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  5. Volt Papii
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    1) it wasn't corny, it was actually dope as f---

    2) XXL the ones who wanted to do that.
     
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  6. shahidah
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    shahidah watch me work it JT

    Aug 4, 2016
    but its not his magazine...:wtf2wtf:
     
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  7. Groovy Tony
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    Groovy Tony Grandma's baby Eddie Kane

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    The half red half blue ones are clean what you mean
     
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  8. shahidah
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    Aug 4, 2016
    so if anything that was XXL trying to capitalize off of that iconic moment
     
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  9. tehparadox
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    bad troll
     
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  10. shahidah
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    shahidah watch me work it JT

    Aug 4, 2016
    He said in the video that the theme for the photo s---t was chosen by the XXL team
     
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  11. crlk
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    Aug 4, 2016
    "People have been using funk and jazz production on rap songs for years." and yet, like Dj Quik said, kendrick may be the very first rapper to successfully go back to almost every single stage of black music. This album goes way back...we may be talking about the past 50 years of funk and jazz
     
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  13. tehparadox
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  14. Kon
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    Aug 4, 2016
    Will you guys at least admit him re creating the Pac spitting incident was corny as f---? They had like a 5 min video of him trying to spit like Pac for a magazine cover lol.
     
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  15. The Gooch
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    The Gooch Gucci FlipFlops (aka Rap Game's Steven Adams)

    Aug 4, 2016
    The man tries to renegade every feature he's on, most of the time which ends up hurting the quality and cohesiveness of the songs.

    Ex. On Me, Autumn Leaves

    He says he does it out of competition but if that's the case then he's losing by making the song worse.

    His whole persona is nothing new, tpab is your generic conscious album but his fans ride him so much that they consider it new and innovative. People have been using funk and jazz production on rap songs for years.


    Now let's get into some of his corniest lines.

    "The head still good tho, the head still good tho"

    "I'm on the toilet when I rhyme"

    "Die from lead showers
    I pray my d-ck get big as the eiffel tower"

    "Head is the answer"

    "Sharing bars like you're in a 2 man cell" - s--- is so simple but he gets a pass bc hes Kendrick

    Anything to do with the "yams"

    The whole thing where he rapped in Spanish on collard greens. Any other rapper did that he would be a culture vulture.

    Could name so many more lines

    Not to mention how unbelievablely corny "Control" was, man said nothing in his verse until he decide to name drop a bunch of rappers then people jumped on it. Sean and Jay Elec were trying to say stuff in their verses but Kendrick once again had to try and steal the spotlight for "competition". Not to mention the impact he left on other rappers. Bc of that verse, the Chicago rapper Rico Recklezz thought he could do the same and call out every rapper from the Chi. Now he's getting death threats left and right.

    I could go on all day but I'll give y'all a chance to refute my facts
     
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  16. Insensitive
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    Aug 4, 2016
    "The head still good tho, the head still good tho"

    did op really say that goat line was corny? lol imagine if we were to hold other rappers by that standard.
     
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  17. PYT
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    PYT

    Aug 4, 2016
    Kendrick haters redefining the meaning of "corny". I have rarely seen that level of corniness in posts before.

    It's like they're trying hard to find something to discredit kendrick.
     
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  18. samcotts
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    samcotts New kid on the Block

    Aug 4, 2016
    The pac interview may be one of the greatest things I have seen in rap music in years

    I had the same reaction as quest love



     
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  19. lunyguist
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    Aug 4, 2016
    lol that guy kon acting like people are just trying to defend kendrick when he doesn't even know why kendrick, as a person, appears to be corny to him. What a comedian.
     
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  20. lunyguist
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    Aug 4, 2016
    It seems to me you're just trying hard to have a hot topic, nothing you posted appears to be "corny". Not to mention that kendrick's personality is often what most rap heads like the most about him. He seems like a genuine guy who knows where he comes from.
     
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