Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)

[JCalli]

Feel is fukkin ridiculous!

Thats some powerful shyt there kenny good lord

 

[Peak]

Half through this and i'm like

Feel is the only standout here.

 

[Poitier]

Pride and Humble are great songs

Lust isnt believable and almost borders on parody looooooooool. Lupe did it better a decade ago.

 

[Prince Luchini]

I need to take my ass to bed:SpaceGhost_Facepalm:

but this shyt is too piff I can't stop listening :aww_noah:

 

[Poitier]

Love is mid........leave this to Drake and Future

 

[WickedGames]

Ahhh I knew i heard a UK accent on there. Rat Boy

 

[Lootpack]

I will give u a couple of reasons y there is no second album comming out sunday. Albums get released on fridays now. If he were to release one on sunday the album sales would be low because of a short week thats not a good look. If there was another album it would come out on a friday. Just like future did he had 2 #1 albums back to back weeks which was fukking brilliant

Yup.

 

[WickedGames]

You guys front on UK artists but trust me your favourite artists (Drake, kendrick, kanye etc) are forward thinking and are paying close attention to the talent here

 

[Poitier]

XXX is cool still spoken about hypothetically where as a politically aware street rapper could go way more in depth on the same subject

 

[Black Bolt]

1 track in, he's snapping on that D.N.A flip

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Pride and Humble are great songs

Lust isnt believable and almost borders on parody looooooooool. Lupe did it better a decade ago.

Thinking about it, what's hella ironic is that a lot of the same people who talk about Kendrick having a more sophisticated musical foundation than the rest of his peers are the same people who completely ignore some lowkey basic musical shortcomings he has such as his abrasive vocal tonality which rarely ever works in key with the music

These same people then go on to mock and criticize rappers who can not only maintain consistent vocal tonality in key with the music (Thug) but are also able to convey and control emotion in their delivery/lyrics (Gates) which is literally one of the most coveted skills for any vocalist regardless of genre

Most of these nikkas never actually laid vocals before so it's understandable, still funny though how the internet rap community created a lotta nikkas who think the technical side of rapping is strictly in the writing. I'll give Kendrick credit in that he has some songs where he effectively conveyed the emotion of his lyrics through his delivery but a lot of times it comes off as extremely forced.

 

[Lootpack]

Does anyone know what Kendrick track this is?

 

[Poitier]

Fear is cool and effective....also not shockingly one of the more personal tracks on here

 

[Poitier]

Thinking about it, what's hella ironic is that a lot of the same people who talk about Kendrick having a more sophisticated musical foundation than the rest of his peers are the same people who completely ignore some lowkey basic musical shortcomings he has such as his abrasive vocal tonality which rarely ever works in key with the music

These same people then go on to mock and criticize rappers who can not only maintain consistent vocal tonality in key with the music (Thug) but are also able to convey and control emotion in their delivery/lyrics (Gates) which is literally one of the most coveted skills for any vocalist regardless of genre

Most of these nikkas never actually laid vocals before so it's understandable, still funny though how the internet rap community created a lotta nikkas who think the technical side of rapping is strictly in the writing. I'll give Kendrick credit in that he has some songs where he effectively conveyed the emotion of his lyrics through his delivery but a lot of times it comes off as extremely forced.

Never forget it took @Matt504 a good 2 years to convince these dudes that Thug's flows and cadences were by design and complex.

Thing is Kendrick has good flows and cadences but it can come off as goofy when he goes over the top with certain concept i.e. Lust (that hook is one of the worst in 2017)

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Yall trying to take me out my element

 

[Roadie pipeher]

People come into a thread with minds made up...And gonna act like I'm criticing this from an objective standpoint, shyts a pointless exercise.