T.he I.nformant
1st Ballot HOF Teller
I'm saying, thread concept is like the Atomic Dog of tired coli threads. Again...Y'all still on this "Kendrick don't got quotables" BS
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Kendrick is a GOAT? Give me his top 10 universally known quotables...
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wingstop
Superstar
"Born in the bricks with the short end of the stick. Always runnin' late, quick to show up witcha bytch"
"Ya man got murked, but u squashed that"
It's funny how things change, funny how time fly
More than my feet travel, the more that I feel fly
More that I make now, the more that the chicks smile
She call me a local nikka, I opened a Swiss account
Nothing more influential than rap music
I merge jazz fusion with the trap music
I mix black soul with some rock and roll
They never box me in, I'm David Blaine-ing all you hoes
And for what its worth this is a shyt premise. A song is about storytelling 1st and 4most. Bars, 1 liners, punchlines ect are optional as they dont equal a good story.
I merge jazz fusion with the trap music
I mix black soul with some rock and roll
They never box me in, I'm David Blaine-ing all you hoes
And for what its worth this is a shyt premise. A song is about storytelling 1st and 4most. Bars, 1 liners, punchlines ect are optional as they dont equal a good story.
Is this a serious question? 
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
The reality is most of Kendrick's lines are not written with enough intention behind them to be memorable.
Take the first 8 bars of "DNA" for example...
"I got, I got, I got, I got
Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA
Cocaine cornerpiece, got war and piece inside my DNA
I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA
I got hustle though, ambition flow inside my DNA
I was born like this, it's sworn like this, immaculate conception
I transform like this, perform like this, to ? you a new weapon
I don't contemplate, I meditate then off your fukking head
This that put the kids to bed, this that..."
There's no emphasis placed on any of the words for a whole 8 bars, the delivery is monotone and the flow is monotonous. The lines themselves don't really lead into each other, they're separate thoughts and none of them stand out individually. These lines don't add up to anything greater and in fact sound and read like filler.
Most of the time his voice is not this monotone but on this song the lack of flair in his lyrics sticks out.
Take the first 8 bars of "DNA" for example...
"I got, I got, I got, I got
Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA
Cocaine cornerpiece, got war and piece inside my DNA
I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA
I got hustle though, ambition flow inside my DNA
I was born like this, it's sworn like this, immaculate conception
I transform like this, perform like this, to ? you a new weapon
I don't contemplate, I meditate then off your fukking head
This that put the kids to bed, this that..."
There's no emphasis placed on any of the words for a whole 8 bars, the delivery is monotone and the flow is monotonous. The lines themselves don't really lead into each other, they're separate thoughts and none of them stand out individually. These lines don't add up to anything greater and in fact sound and read like filler.
Most of the time his voice is not this monotone but on this song the lack of flair in his lyrics sticks out.
Every line from Warm It Up Kane more or less
Rembrandt
the artist
give me 10 universally known pac, rakim, nas, etc quotables.
Rembrandt
the artist
how do these lines not lead into each other?
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
They lead into each other in one sense (describing his "DNA") but there's no payoff for following the train of thought from one line to the next. One of the most basic ideas in Hip Hop writing is taking an idea in the 1st line of a couplet and building on it in the following line. None of those lines lead into each other in that sense.
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
"Ya bish"
"This dikk aint free"
"A senstive rapper got tucked in his pajama clothes"
"Show me something natural like ass with no stretch marks, still gonna take you down on your mamas couch in polo sock"
"I got loyalty, got royalty inside my dna"
"I pull up, hopped out, hair out, made it looked sexy"
"Aint nobody praying for me"
"What happens on earth stays on earth"
"Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it but ever since that day I was looking at him different"
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
"Sometimes the rap game remind me of the crack game"
"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death"
"Nas is like the afrocentric Asian, half man half amazing"
"Much success to ya even if you wish me the opposite
Sooner or later they all see who the prophet is"
"R-O-C get gunned up and clapped quick"
Piff Perkins
Veteran
So first you say they don't lead into each other, then you say they do "in one sense" and change the goal posts even more to wanting a payoff that satisfies your contradictory demands.
Oh no, a rapper not following BAR RULES.
I'd love to hear your opinion on jazz...
Rembrandt
the artist
isn't that a contradiction? each line is a description of what's in his DNA. they build on each other as he says he's gods new weapon.
and I don't know how true the second part is. free association has been around for a while.
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
So first you say they don't lead into each other, then you say they do "in one sense" and change the goal posts even more to wanting a payoff that satisfies your contradictory demands.
Oh no, a rapper not following BAR RULES.
I'd love to hear your opinion on jazz...
They don't. one could say that the point of those first four bars was to show the complexities of his DNA but the execution is lazy. Tying lines together is a simple concept that you hear pretty much every golden era rapper do from Cube to O.C. to Common and etc. the way you tie the ideas together is a big part of what makes the way you're rhyming it dope.
