Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)

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I've listened to the album 4 times now, including 3 times in a row on a short road trip :banderas:

This album is something else brehs.

We're truly witnessing Hip Hop greatness right now.

Appreciate it.

Emcees like this don't come around often.. :wow:
 

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I've listened to the album 4 times now, including 3 times in a row on a short road trip :banderas:

This album is something else brehs.

We're truly witnessing Hip Hop greatness right now.

Appreciate it.

Emcees like this don't come around often.. :wow:
I feel like they could if they could just see nobody gives a fukk about the famous dex and rob banks nikkas cause they music entertain not impact

If nikkas just tried to impact people, whether it's they grandma, they girl, school, anyone, they'd make music akin to this more often
 

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I feel like they could if they could just see nobody gives a fukk about the famous dex and rob banks nikkas cause they music entertain not impact

If nikkas just tried to impact people, whether it's they grandma, they girl, school, anyone, they'd make music akin to this more often

Old heads try to tell youngins something to this effect all the time breh, but youthful arrogance is a bytch.

The reason the majority of "stuck in the 80s/90s/'00s" nikkas can't fukk with a lot of today's hip hop is because it's obvious these nikkas ain't even trying, they're just vibing.

Any artist worth a damn can spit some cool sounding shyt when they're lit, over a cool beat, but we admired the nikkas we admired because we knew there was no fukking way we could say anything close to how fly they spit their shyt.

The artists were special because they perfected their craft by taking it seriously and giving their best effort at all times.

Kendrick (and the rest of TDE) benefit from the fact that their label heads (despite the hate they receive) are old school nikkas, that value making their mark by producing high quality Hip Hop music, over monetary gain.
 

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The general consensus is that damn is a classic. Kendrick is otherworldly. If that 5th album drops on sunday and its incredible he's objectively the best ever. fukk that one of the nonsense, lets be real here he's number one. Nas is the goat right now but Kendrick is right on his heels. Scary thing is kendrick is only 29. Thats 4th classics before 30. Simply outrageous.
This nikka has no classics and 29 is not young.
Ice cube's most revered albums were out by the time he was 25.
All of 2pac's music was recorded by 25
All of biggie's music was recorded by 24
LL,dropped Radio,BAD and Mama said knock you out in his teens and early 20's.

Kendrick aint shyt

shyt i named is legit.
Kendrick is cac media made
 

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Old heads try to tell youngins something to this effect all the time breh, but youthful arrogance is a bytch.

The reason the majority of "stuck in the 80s/90s/'00s" nikkas can't fukk with a lot of today's hip hop is because it's obvious these nikkas ain't even trying, they're just vibing.

Any artist worth a damn can spit some cool sounding shyt when they're lit, over a cool beat, but we admired the nikkas we admired because we knew there was no fukking way we could say anything close to how fly they spit their shyt.

The artists were special because they perfected their craft by taking it seriously and giving their best effort at all times.

Kendrick (and the rest of TDE) benefit from the fact that their label heads (despite the hate they receive) are old school nikkas, that value making their mark by producing high quality Hip Hop music, over monetary gain.
You hit the nail on the head for me and to be honest a lot of these newer nikkas be having some nice ass songs and good beats and videos and everything but it's like they vision can't look beyond that in the now feeling, but I guess they just young themselves, but they also getting put on with so little effort and time, it's gotta bottle neck sometime
 

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It would be one thing if Kendrick was just going left and putting out mediocre shyt...but this nicca is on a completely different vibe than everyone else AND putting out music that is soul grabbing. He's the only nicca who can jump on a trap beat ('God') and use trap ad-libs but make a song that is the furthest thing from a trap record.

This album takes me back to copping 'It Was Written' as a teen in '96 and knowing I was listening to hip hop at it's pinnacle. From beats to rhymes. This is the pinnacle of rap music in 2017. Nobody is spitting like this from a creative and conceptual standpoint...and over superb production.

I remember watching Kendrick perform on MTV2 when he was first getting buzz and thinking this lil nicca was wack. No presence, no charisma, mediocre music and he was Gary Coleman short. To see him evolve into legitimately one of the greatest hip hop artists of all time is both stunning and inspirational. Good dudes CAN win...music with a message CAN take hold of the masses. It's a beautiful thing to witness.
He's still wack,lacks charisma,makes mediocre music and isnt even close to being great. His music has very neutered vague "messages" and only way you can be that wack and still succeed is by
A. Have a ton of internet trolls all over message boards
B. A ton of trolls fixing the ratings systems
C. Pay to get slots on award shows even when the song you're performing didnt really work and was like the 20th popular song that year.
D. Show up at festivals so your lack of drawing ability is concealed
 

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On Feel Kendrick Summon Pac when he changed his voice on the track when he was used Pac emotional vocals, I wished he gave us more of that, nikkas feel that shyt
I feel like I'm boxin' demons, monsters
False prophets schemin', sponsors, industry promises
nikkas, bytches, honkies, crackers, Compton
Church, religion, token blacks, and bondage
Lawsuit visits, subpoena served in concert


That's that shyt we feel, that's what made Pac, DMX, David Ruffin, Sam Cooke so great
Naw,he wants people to believe he's doing something as great as the people you name checked.

He really was just biting
[Beanie Sigel]
When you live by the sword, you die by the sword
I'll probablly die in the vocal booth spittin' out raw
Die on stage, rippin' down tours
Die from age, trickin' out-a-town whores
Die cuz I didn't have one in the pipe
Might go out like Raymond, went out on his bike
And die on a death mission, two tec's spittin'
No vest section from my chest missin'
Die cuz the jewels in my necklace glisten
In a V twizzy in a wreckless collision
Or die in the streets over somethin' petty
Cuz a broke ass nikka tryed ta say I asked Betty
Die from a shot from a said war golck
>From a kid on the block while sittin' in the drop
Or die cuz I was on, ain't see 'em comin'
Too late, eight shots got my body nummin'
Die for fukkin' his bytch in his bed
Die cuz a nikka thought I snitched ta the feds
Die wit a knife six inches in my head
I could die on death row, sentenced to the chair
Or die cuz a nikka pulled his Rosco out quicker
I was high off vodka, hydro, or malt liquor
Die cuz I knew I shoulda laid that man
Die cuz the cops tricked me ta say that man
Die cuz I hesitated ta spray that man
Die cuz I hesitated ta pay that man
Die cuz my man passed me a empty tool
Die cuz I panicked, I couldn't keep my cool
Die cuz I mixed all them pills wit Hennessy
Or die cuz them nikkas was jel, they envyed me
Die tryin' ta seal the fate of my enemy
I could go out from a case of mistaken identity
Or die cuz the door wasn't open, it was locked
Die cuz the 4 was broken, it wouldn't pop
Die cuz a nikka wasn't focused on the block
Die cuz them nikkas thought tha coke was in the spot
Die cuz another nikka said I said somethin'
Die cuz that newsy bytch said I did somethin'
Die cuz a nikka was tryin' ta get a name
Or die cuz it was just my time ta feel the flames
Might get sparked, might not feel no pain
Might go out like dark-skinned Jamain
Take a couple shots ta the heart, ta the brain
Got all the dough, don't know the cost of the game
Young buck didn't wanna come off the chain
Couldn't handle the rock, got horsed in the game
I could catch a bad break like Big or Pac
I'd rather go out in the masjid makin' salat
 

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Lets see. he don't write, he dont produce, other nikkas hand him the flow, he literally doesn't do one thing during the entire artistic process. I don't think we can compare Drake to anyone :mjlol:
And yet your man bit all that wholesale :scust:
 
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