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Kendrick Lamar Best Posts: TPAB, an amazing album destroyed by its own praise

  1. mow
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    mow long live flippa

    Jan 20, 2016
    Why every time when the greatness of TPAB is brought up it is linked to it's jazz elements and why are the jazz elements objectively better than any other type of production. Answer me this question please
    gkmc works way better as an album and a story than tpab
     
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  2. Oldboy
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    WHAT

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  3. Aslatrri
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    Jan 20, 2016
    Soz but you can't ask m not to praise it as one of the best albums of all time when I haven't heard a lot of better albums in my life.

    Maybe thats because I'm a musician and I'm hearing things that most casual listeners can't hear... duno
     
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  4. JAKEMCCNASTY
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    Jan 20, 2016
    If anything I think the album doesn't get enough praise, s--- is a masterpiece.
     
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  5. stainzz
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    Like Musically, I think it really is the best thing I have heard these past 10 years, and I used to hate Kendrick :idk:

    In fact, I still hate his previous work prior to tpab :idk:
     
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  6. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

    Jan 20, 2016
    It's a pretty good album that has significant flaws
     
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  7. Aslatrri
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    Aslatrri

    Jan 21, 2016
    ^ yeah, honestly you can have an argument for tpab being top 20 in any genre
     
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  8. Thhuglife
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    Jan 21, 2016
    true...

    this alone really makes tpab special, album of the decade :sweatt:
     
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  9. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Jan 21, 2016
    They'll do anything possible to put TPAB on a pedestal, even if that means rubbishing other great albums.

    :shmurda:
     
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  10. Malvo
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    Malvo

    Jan 21, 2016
    Yeah I really liked the itunes version.. sometimes I want to put it at #2 right behind tpab
     
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  11. Malvo
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    Jan 20, 2016
    Yeah I think I ranked them based on my own enjoyment... I do agree that gkmc might be his worst album (but its still a great one)
     
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  12. Sizzza
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    Jan 20, 2016
    This. And by far his best album. It's outstanding.
     
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  13. Thhuglife
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    Jan 20, 2016
    best album of the decade... 10/10 and I'm not even kidding
     
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  14. Malvo
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    Malvo

    Jan 20, 2016
    greatest album of the decade after MBDTF.
     
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  15. Besky
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    Jan 20, 2016
    it does approach the same elements, but it doesn't mean there's no evolution. All the albums released these last few years feature elements that have been present in the game for years.

    Also I don't think there should be disagreements, a hip hop album is an album, hip hop is a musical genre. A lot of people say Atliens (its just an example) is a better album than reasonable doubt because the music is better... but it appears that Atliens is also a hip hop album so the outkast fans say Atliens is a better rap album than reasonable doubt. It doesn't mean atliens has better rapping though...but they key word here is probably "Album", a cohesive body of work and not just a collection of songs.

    But the rapping on this album is great, not top notch but great (kendrick was def a better rapper on sx80). Numerous flows, voices, rhymes (for those who care) but its all about the music. The beats are incredible and are arranged perfectly. The compostion is amazing, The features are all necessary and pertinent to the story. There's very rarely a moment wasted on the album. In my opinion what makes Kendrick great is that not only is he a great rapper but his "production" accentuates the ideas he's trying to get across and for me, this isn't an opinion I reserve for Kendrick it's what I use to measure every rapper by. When I listen to Jay-Z or Nas or Kool G Rap or with more more contemporary artists when I listen to Blu,J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Wale, Fashawn etc.
    I'm judging them by how they use the beat AND their pen, in Kendrick's case he's taken it a step further (in my opinion) and hired on some incredibly talented musicians and writers that can bring more to the table than the typical beat maker can.


    Good night btw
     
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    Jan 20, 2016
    Crunchy Black from 3 6 mafia been mumbling nonsense for years
     
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  17. Lil Squeed
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    Lil Squeed French Montana Stan

    Jan 20, 2016
    God d--- this album is so good
     
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  18. Immy
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    Jan 20, 2016
    Besky the dmx of the kendrick section
     
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  19. Thy
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    Jan 20, 2016
    Shut the f--- up
     
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  20. Thy
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    Jan 20, 2016
    So he got a whole squad of tpab d-ck manglers that he can summon with the press of a button :weebey:
     
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