Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)

[bigbadbossup2012]

I agree with you on that other than that Kevin Gates ain't really a "lesser artist" in terms of profile, fanbase, etc. In fact, Kendrick Lamar never had a single as big as 2 Phones or even Really Really which both came out almost exactly a year ago.

If you mean to say that his artistry is "lesser" I'd also say that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Kevin Gates is a gangsta rapper and exists in a different space than Kendrick Lamar. Did we stop giving gangsta rappers credit for rapping ability in the post Kanye wave? Like Scarface never existed? Like Cam'Ron never existed? Like Freddie Gibbs don't exist right now?

nikkas move the goal posts like a mothafukka when it comes to explaining why Kendrick is beyond criticism. I'm a fan of Kendrick but that doesn't mean I think everything he puts out is up to par.

exactly

Kevin Gates - 2 Phones (Official Video)
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Kevin Gates - Really Really (Official Video)
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[Insensitive]

This isn't a hip hop song.

Kick, Snare, Hi-Hat is some Hip-Hop basics when it pertains to Hip-Hop and drums.
Kick on the 1 and 3.
Snare on the 2 and 4.
Hi-Hats are 8th Notes.
Open/Closing Hi-Hat comes right after the second kick each time.

All I can say to that is listen to more Hip-Hop,

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

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

Tran didn't transcend anything. It's jazz funk throwaways with Kendrick rapping.

If he transcended then what did ANDERSON PAAK do????

 

[GoldenGlove]

You just described drake. Thanks for playing.

And now y'all giving Kendrick props for singing?

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Yet he has track called the blacker the berry yet on his new album he called out fox news. Lol.

fukk a song title.
He's never gonna go in,PERIOD.
He's scared

 

[Brandsdale]

no links?

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

No one care about that fruit stand thugger and his garbage voice... Numbers don't lie

Lol @ talking about basic musical short comings while bigging up a mumble mouth rapper who lacks clarify in the same paragraph.

Kendrick didn't use an abrasive voice his whole career either...

Young Thug ain't the first "mumble mouth" vocalist to find an audience before and be praised for it. Kurt Cobain often mumbled his lyrics which did not have a noticeable impact on whether you felt what he was saying or not.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Man the Kid Capri screaming is just fukking annoying. Kendrick wanted to reminisce on his favorite mixtape from 96?

 

[onelastdeath]

Tran didn't transcend anything. It's jazz funk throwaways with Kendrick rapping.

If he transcended then what did ANDERSON PAAK do????

Yo are you okay?

 

[CrimsonTider]

Actually I don't.

As for Young Thug, 6 months after Thugga drops that verse people won't
be quoting that shyt. Just like no one is really quoting all the tapes he dropped last year or
the several he dropped before that. And I like Young Thug, I've got pretty much every project
the guy has dropped but I also see that people move on pretty quickly with him just like they
did Rich Homie Quan, Trinidad James, Bobby Schmurda, Chief Keef and a dozen other
guys who have filled and will continue to fill those shoes.

This isn't true at all and every artist you name had a completely different career arch and reception

 

[CrimsonTider]

more quotable but cant succeed for shyt what a career

Define Success?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Be a greater writer than Kendrick will ever be yet have inferior writing and use ghostwriters brehs.

Jeez

Credited songwriters to take your ability to create songs that resonate is a bad thing now?

Kendrick NEEDS editors to his rhymes.

Some of the shyt on LUST should not have left the studio.

 

[The G.O.D II]

And why are fukking nikkas in a Kendrick album trying to convince people about Kevin Gates and Young Thug? Same 3 people from yesterday move the fukk on

 

[Majestic]

fukk a song title.
He's never gonna go in,PERIOD.
He's scared

And drake has went in right? Lol

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Y'all always lean on the fact that these white publications that get paid to write reviews rate the album highly.

It means nothing at all.

6 months from now Thugga verse on Sacrifices will be quoted more than any deep, layered, complex verse on this album

Bruh people are quoting shyt off MORE LIFE more than ever will from a Kendrick project. Freddie Gibbs got robbed. Sean will feel he doesn't get respect. Ross just gets ignored.

Kendrick is not playing on a fair scale.