Kendrick has never said anything impressive

[NoHalfWay]

Ka is so boring tho. Its had a few cuts I like tho.

Dude has the most boring delivery ever but he's lyrically insane

 

[3rdWorld]

Post examples of what you consider 'impressive', so we can compare and contrast better..

 

[Dirty D]

Dunno about what's considered impressive since the opinions seem to vary wildly in here.

But I will say that the only Kendrick lyric I've heard people repeat IRL is:

Halle Berry
Hallelujah
Holla back
I'll do ya

 

[Nintendough]

He tries to go over peoples heads but ends up just sounding like an artsy weirdo who freestyles at poetry showcases

 

[Luke Cage]

5 stars
haven't heard any impressive rap lyrics since 2002

 

[SunZoo]

5 stars
haven't heard any impressive rap lyrics since 2002

 

[TheKang]

Ignorance is bliss

.....

don't even ask me how

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Irrelevant. I can get into that later in this thread when the subject has been exhausted. Right now I wanna hear these amazing Kendrick lines.

Highly relevant. If u like trash how can anyone impress you with good bars?

 

[thewiz]

 

[Versa]

Criticize Kendrick's lyrical ability but be a big enough ASAP Rocky fan to have him as your avi brehs.

 

[Mowgli]

Ka sounds like he's on anti-depressants.

kA sounds like he's rapping from the psych ward.

Like he's rapping in a jail cell at lights out

Like a kid rapping in his room and doesn't want to wake up his parents

He's cool but his beats are Trash.

Ka makes some great verses but his songs don't really be about ahit. Just freestyle sounding street raps

 

[EndDomination]

I hate using art comparisons, but this nikka @SirBiatch wants to look at 2 sq inches of canvas to judge an entire painting.
When a song is made cohesively, pushing one or more central ideas or themes, one line isn't going to cover it. Look at Ignorance is Bliss, or HiiiPower or Keisha's Song. You can't contain the entire message into one line.
That would be degrading for the artist. What he wants is to prove a pointless point, "My favourite rappers are better than yours because they rapped when I was 13 and it changed my life forever to the point where I judge them based on nostalgia and the opinions of a circle-jerking group of equally nostalgic hip-hop heads around the same age as I."
This thread is stupid, just like his complaints about most music.
He said Big K.R.I.T. wasn't remarkable, that let me know he doesn't have a legitimate opinion on hip-hop in this day and age.

 

[thewiz]

kA sounds like he's rapping from the psych ward.

Like he's rapping in a jail cell at lights out

Like a kid rapping in his room and doesn't want to wake up his parents

He's cool but his beats are Trash.

Ka makes some great verses but his songs don't really be about ahit. Just freestyle sounding street raps

Roc Marciano> ka

 

[Mowgli]

Roc Marciano> ka

They're both street battle rappers to me. Roc will come up with a sing about something occasionally but with them beats, that rhyme structure, that flow and those bars who caresb about making anew actual song

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Notorious thugs wasn't a landmark flow. That was a wack version of bones flow.

Mase typically uses a 10 syllable per bar format which is very simple and easy to follow

Kendrick uses a lot of words high syllable counts and metaphors that require thinking so his bars aren't usually sung along like that in comparison to simple minded lyricists like mase and notorious big.

Kendrick has a unique ability kinda like Ludacris did of being able to bring a unique approach flow wise to fit different moods or concepts. Kendrick stands out in this way because no matter what the beat sounds like he can ride and flow on beat which can breath life into a lackluster sounding track


Here are 2 great examples. the beat for buried alive us something a lot of rappers would Struggle to make flow but Kendrick did it. Drake could have never rapped over that.

catch a fade is also an unorthodox production that Kendrick shined on in comparison to the other people on the song.

Landmark flows are easiest to follow and sing along with when rappers use the most simplistic words possible.

Nobody cares about either verse you posted. The shyt i brought up can still be recited by even a casual hiphop fan nearly 20 yrs later.Now instead of finding flows you LIKE. Find me one flow that kendrick had the whole world repeating,JUST ONE