Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)

[Barnett114]

replay value is personal, thats not an objective aspect of the actual quality

I bet you can't mention more than 2 albums better than mbdtf.

I rather listen to the Yellow Album from Dom Kennedy and Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's Piñata over that shyt any day

 

[derro13]

I'm drake biggest fan and can admit kendrick is a 10/10 writer

Drake though, even though I love him, I have no problem admitting he's just 5/10

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

i am surprised at Kid capri all over this album.. and not a west coast guy

you think kendrick wanted to do this as a mix-tape and punch was like nah ?

 

[Piff Perkins]

 

[Mr 18]

I really feel bad for carti, dropping a 5/.10 album when a 10/10 just dropped


damn kendrick killing everybody

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

and yeah, with how critics are already praising it as his best album, its def gonna be front runner for album of the year

and with how hes restoring u2 legacy, I can see the old white guys at the grammy giving him the ultimate award

Take white critics dikk out of your mouth and come up with your own opinions. This is what @Poitier is trying to tell you.

 

[Barnett114]

Dude, many of the posts you make and have made in the past make you skip-worthy fammo

Remember the Drake dikkeating during the Meek beef

 

[Insensitive]

Eh... tpab is a rnb/neo soul/funk/jazz/rap fusion... shouldn't be compared to a straight up hip hop album. Plus it has cringe worthy moments like ain't free, u, I, and the pac interview.

It's more neo-soul/Hip-Hop than it isn't though.
There's "For Free ?", "i", that just have Kendrick spazzing on instrumentals
that clearly do not fit the definition of "Hip-Hop" one is Jazz the other
is a nearly unaltered Soul Sample.

The rest are pretty blatantly Hip-Hop and they take clear inspiration from
ATCQ, Slum Village (more specifically Dilla), D'Angelo, The Roots etc.
There's some contemporary Hip-Hop there like "Alright" but a great deal
of it's heavily rooted in more traditional Hip-Hop or at least what is viewed as such.

The harmony might be on some other ish with the musicians modulating into
different keys mid-song or the focus on fusing acoustic instruments with
electronic instruments but without a doubt, it's a "Hip-Hop" album.


Put it up against somethin by Jason Moran or Hiromi Uehara or a name
more commonly seen on The Coli like Herbie Hancock and you'll see what I mean.

 

[jwinfield]

DNA and XXX at Coachella

 

[Triangularbirds]

Drake is a better song writer than Kendrick ever will be, his understanding of the English language far surpasses many of his peers. Kendrick gets away with way too much filler lyrics

This album is amazing, the outro
I am about to listen to this shyt a LOT of times

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I'm gonna keep it real..

This is one of the most varied, musically adventuring (psychedelic soul from the 60s, etc) albums I have heard in hip hop...and everything was well executed

How does he do that, dude knows music better than some already established goat musicians

Then y'all don't listen to rap. Or you're not black.

 

[Hum Alistair]

I wouldn't be surprised if nothing could beat this album for AOTY (any genre)

 

[Barnett114]

Woah whats going on here? The college dropout, late registration and my beautiful dark twisted fantasy are some of the greatest albums of all time especially mbdtf which set a new bar of excellence for hip-hop. You may not like him but kanye is an all time great. 808sandheartbrrak gave us a new era of artists. Objectively speaking Mbdtf is ths second greatest album of the 21st century after tpab and was originally the best album since ok computer until tpab dropped.

 

[JayBaldacci]

Few rap albums have transcended hip hip. Mbdtf and tpab included. Its makes them the best.

because they're not hip hop albums. If this was the case the goat rap album would be misefucation of lauryn hill. Not making hip hop doesn't make you a great hip hop artist.

 

[jwinfield]