Great Post
Can’t understand Kendrick hate.
He has no social media presence and is basically invisible unless you seek him out.
His music isn’t for everyone but is undeniably creative and different which everyone should appreciate.
Is it just because people don’t like the idea of people they don’t know on the internet preferring him to someone they like?
Tbh, I think several people on here champion that kind of stuff but only when it comes to artists they like.
Especially on TheColi.
We have to remember this is a website where Lupe Fiasco and Charles Hamilton and Childish Gambino all get burn
and are regularly considered great because they're "different" but this same love isn't extended to Kendrick Lamar at all.
In a fair world, bro would be recognized for collaborating with British Minimalist composers, Jazz Big Band arrangers, Modern Funk
Virtuosos and Electronica/IDM/Hip-Hop instrumentalists.
He gets knocked for weird voices, sound effects and rhythms while the rest of the package (concepts, videos, lyrics, album covers, song structure, mixing/mastering, sequencing, wardrobe etc.) Is just tossed to the wayside.
In reference to J. Cole vs. Kendrick Lamar:
TPAB has fukking RIDICULOUS mixing.
IDK how someone can love THE ART, like THE ART of Hip-Hop and have respect for
Dj Quik or
Dr. Dre but then turn around
and say:
MixedByAli didn't do his shyt on TPAB.
Kamasi Washington didn't do his shyt on TPAB
That
Anna wise,
Thundercat,
Flying Lotus,
Terrace Martin and
everyone else
who contributed to that album didn't do their shyt.
If someone is a real head, they should be able to hear the CLEAR DIFFERENCE in clarity between 4YEO or Forest Hills Drive vs. TPAB.
Like it's comical the amount of care that was put into that album.
I'd even argue pound for pound, team for team, Kendrick Lamar and his collaborators are hard to fukk with.
"Mez" is COOL but he IS NOT and NEVER WILL BE
MixedByAli.
It was a clear love of labor that's head and shoulders above most albums in any genre, not JUST Hip-Hop.