I don't wanna hear nikkas talking shyt about a Drake song and then big up Element though
I don't understand.
He shyt on Drake on Element.
Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)
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I don't understand.
He shyt on Drake on Element.
TheDarceKnight
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Inspect Her Deck
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Someone please pass the mustard. Eager to hear this.
DrunkerThanAMotherfucker
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He should've either said his name or kept that track in the studio because it looks like right now is a carbon copy
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i see the usual faces in here tryna downplay this greatness...
dora_da_destroyer
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feel 
element - "if a have to go hard ona bytch i'mma make it look sexy"
gonna keep this in mind on the days i need to check a bytch
god, dna, duckworth
element - "if a have to go hard ona bytch i'mma make it look sexy"
gonna keep this in mind on the days i need to check a bytchgod, dna, duckworth
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A carbon copy of what? It's a dope song, it's the song that made the album take so long for me to listen to in full.
And miss me with some "copy" of some Drake song when he's fukking Frankenstien....
Insensitive
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The both of you are talking about somethingtotally subjective and really up to
the listener to interpret.
There are people on here who get hits of nostalgia when Kendrick raps
from the perspective of his mother on "FEAR" others don't "get" it.
It ain't that deep.
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.
Brehs have no clue what "Vocal Tonality" or "Key" means but stay making posts like authorities.
1. What you're referring to is "Timbre" (pronounced Tam-Burr), you aren't not talking about
"Tonality" because rapping has damn near nothing to do with TONE or Notes, it's RHYTHMIC.
Even then we're talking about what you PERSONALLY find pleasing to your ears, there is no
one size fits all "Rap Voice" so we're veering in pretty plainly SUBJECTIVE territory.
If we're talking about timbre in Rap then it's obvious more high pitched vocals are and have been acceptable for a while now
and will continue to be.
Kanye, Jay-Z, Lupe, Kendrick etc. sound different from Scarface, Ice Cube, Rakim, Biggie, Pac and so on.
This isn't a hit against the their songs whatsoever IMO.
2. "Rarely ever works in key", breh let's be real. You have absolutely no clue what key these songs are in
and some of them don't even fit into traditional ideas of "Key", the first half of XXX and/or parts of songs like
DNA take "Hip-Hop" ideas to the extreme and focus almost entirely on Timbre, Sonic Texture and Rhythm.
Completely avoiding traditional song writing ideas like harmony and melody.
3.Thugs "Sing Song" rapping remains in key because of one fukking thing and that's Auto tune and even that's debatable.
oO J Smooth Oo
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Feel is something else 