Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)

[igottabaldhead]

Element my favorite

 

[GreenGhxst]

Wait til around June, when that Hov album drops.

Hov

 

[Poitier]

"you got doo doo in your face"


You can't be serious with this shyt nikka.

I can almost guarantee you're an idiot
That line makes sense in the context of the story (which you probably didnt get) and isnt nearly as ridiculous as Kendrick talking bout "let me put the head in"

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

"you got doo doo in your face"


You can't be serious with this shyt nikka.

If that's all you got out of what was practically a flawless verse it says more about you. Like Kendrick aint the same nikka with a hook talking about nikkas and bytches is boo boo lol.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I can almost guarantee you're an idiot
That line makes sense in the context of the story (which you probably didnt get) and isnt nearly as ridiculous as Kendrick talking bout "let me put the head in"

Breh, fukk Kevin Gates.

That nikka is a clown, fukk his music, fukk his fans that support him.

 

[Aba_juggin]

We will be giving a extensive review of this album on my podcast Dozin in the Mornin check it out!

 

[ynghova187]

DNA -
D&A?
Damn & A____?

lol just kidding, I dont think there will be a second album.
this album going plat in a week.

There is no chance in hell this going platinum in a week. 500 at most

 

[Poitier]

Breh, fukk Kevin Gates.

That nikka is a clown, fukk his music, fukk his fans that support him.

And you're a p*ssy, an idiot and most evidently a smart-dumb nikka.

Staff member? Who are you? How are you a staff member and no one knows you? bum nikkas do the most.

FYI the line is him talking down to a man he kidnaps as part of a hit and basically taunts his fear by saying he is shytting himself. Not some outlandish bar.

 

[GreenGhxst]

Kendrick exposing nikkas, its best if some of y'all keep quiet, especially y'all nikkas putting Gates over Kendrick, blasphemous

Putting a nikka that fukks his cousins and gets his dogs dikk slurped over a visionary, smh

 

[GreenGhxst]

Kevin Gates "pride" > Kendrick Lamar "pride"

Please tell me you're only talking about that one song

Gates ain't in Kendricks league

 

[Poitier]

Kendrick exposing nikkas, its best if some of y'all keep quiet, especially y'all nikkas putting Gates over Kendrick, blasphemous

Yup

Gates is 10000x the rapper Kendrick is
People will laugh at Kendrick's hotep raps a decade from now and clown fools like you who thought he was kicking knowledge

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Kendrick exposing nikkas, its best if some of y'all keep quiet, especially y'all nikkas putting Gates over Kendrick, blasphemous

Putting a nikka that fukks his cousins and gets his dogs dikk slurped over a visionary, smh

Blasphemous how? Do you got a counterargument to any of this?

Agreed with the bolded. Kevin Gates's delivery, songwriting and storytelling > Kendrick's. Kendrick is a little more wiling to experiment with complex conceptual songs whether they come together or not and he has a knack for weaving different concepts together and making them add up to a cohesive whole on his albums.

Kevin Gates doesn't really have a concept track to his name, he's very rarely abstract although he often uses wordplay that is pretty obscure in terms of Hip Hop in general but not when framed in Louisiana culture (i.e. his witchcraft wordplay on the first verse of "Sit Down"). He has topical tracks but they're always in the context of his personal life, his music is almost entirely introspective which works because he can communicate the emotion behind his experiences very well. I can't remember a single reflective track that Gates has ever made in his post jail (2011) career. To an extent it's one of the main conceits of being a "gangsta rapper"... your music is expected to never leave the trappings of your "reality".

Kevin Gates is more raw and better able to translate emotion into the punch of his music, in a lot of ways he's a more polished rapper than Kendrick. Kendrick such as he can though is able to make both introspective and reflective music which gives him a little more creative range than a rapper like Gates. I understand why somebody would like Kendrick more lyrically than Kevin Gates although I agree that Kevin Gates technically speaking (delivery, lyricism, etc.) is the most complete rapper in the game right now.

 

[GreenGhxst]

Yup

Gates is 10000x the rapper Kendrick is
People will laugh at Kendrick's hotep raps a decade from now and clown fools like you who thought he was kicking knowledge

You wilding

 

[Insensitive]

He already has a top 3-5 hip hop album of all time and he just keeps dropping great material

Love Jay, and he's my favorite artist. But I don't think that he has a TPAB in his catalogue.

You can respond with smileys but what he's doing right now is too much. Like on some next level shyt. Be grateful, Poitier. Be grateful.

If we're talking dope concept albums, I think Jay's "TPAB" is "American Gangster" and I personally
feel he has music right up there with Kendrick but then again, he's been at it longer and is already
solidified as a Legend.

 

[Suspicious Dingo]

Yup

Gates is 10000x the rapper Kendrick is
People will laugh at Kendrick's hotep raps a decade from now and clown fools like you who thought he was kicking knowledge

Bro people are laughing at Gate's raps NOW