Albums Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Discussion Thread)

[jwinfield]

@ Big Quint shytting on the chair company because his big ass broke it twice

 

[Fani Willis fan]

Man I dunno but I do know they prob got the best in house producers in rap right now. Not to mention the best engineer (Ali). It's crazy.

Sounwave comes to mind first since he has so many standout tracks, including John Muir from Q's album last year. But Tae Beast crazy too. Ab Soul's album has some of the new producers TDE has and they gave him some fire.

I love how these guys CRAFT albums. It's not about singles with them. There have been a couple misses (These Days, Sun's Tirade) to me but overall TDE usually delivers at least a solid project.

Dj dahi
Thats the money trees guy. And he made Worst Behavior beat

 

[Izanami]

Been digesting the album since its release. I have to commend Kendrick for again stepping out of his comfort zone and embracing the willingness to try new styles, new flows, and new sounds. LIsten to GOD, LOVE and LOYALTY them shyts are groovy pychadelc 808s bangers. Radio attempts are just as good or better than his contemporaries while not sacificing his lyrical prowless.

Album starts off guns blazing with DNA, YAH, and ELEMENT. Best album start of for KUNG FU KENNY since Section 80 (fukk Your Ethnicity, Hol Up, ADHD). Kendrick going in on FEEL too. Not sure how I feel about the middle of the album. Too early to rate the album or compare it to previous releases but it's an excellent effort.

About 100 page back reading through this just dropping my thoughts.



Back in this bytch like AAAHHHAAA

 

[Aba_juggin]

Playboi Carti

Mozzy, Chief Keef and Thug all had better albums than either of these clowns looooooooool

Mozzy, Chief Keef and Thug all had better albums than either of these clowns

Just started listening to Mozzy.

Mandatory check

Fake Famous

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Kendrick Lamar Tells The Most Incredible Story On ‘Duckworth’ & Fans Love It

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  Alyssa Norwin
  
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If you haven’t heard ‘Duckworth’ from Kendrick Lamar’s new album, you need to listen STAT! The rapper tells an amazing story about his father on the track, and it has fans totally buzzing.
The final song on Kendrick Lamar’s new album, DAMN, has listeners talking more than any other track. On “Duckworth,” which is the rapper’s real last name, Kendrick shows off his incredible story-telling skills through hip-hop music, letting fans in on the connection between his father, known as Ducky, and his label boss, Anthony ‘Top Dawg’ Tiffith.


The story starts out with Top Dawg’s upbringing, which was clearly very difficult. “Hard times, momma on crack/A four-year-old telling his nanny he needed her/His family history pimpin’ and bangin’,” Lamar raps. He then delves into Top Dawg’s teenage years and early 20s, during which he had a major run-in with policemen and lost his cousin to a shooting: “Had a couple shooters, caught a murder case/Fingerprints on the gun, they assumin’, but witnesses couldn’t prove it/That was back when they turned his back and they killed his cousin/He beat the case and went back to hustlin’.”

Kendrick Lamar — PICS
After years of trouble, Top Dawg met a “light-skinned n***a that talked a lot,” who was working the window at KFC. The man, it turned out, was Kendrick’s father, Ducky. Ducky wanted to get on Top Dawg’s good side, because he knew this man had once robbed the store and shot a customer. “Anthony liked him and then let him slide/They didn’t kill him, in fact it look like they’re the last to survive,” Kendrick sings, adding that the decision “changed both of they lives.”




Why? Because after the men became friends, Top Dawg went onto sign Kendrick, and the rest, of course, is history. As the 29-year-old himself explains in the final lines: “Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence/Because if Anthony killed Ducky/Top Dawg could be servin’ life/While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight.” Incredible.

“Duckworth is such a crazy story and plot twist,” one fan commented. “Crazy way to end the album. Another added, “That Duckworth track is deep stuff…Kung fu kenny done did it again.” Listen to the song above!

HollywoodLifers, what do you think of Kendrick’s song, “Duckworth”?

https://www.google.com/amp/hollywoo...-lamar-duckworth-meaning-lyrics-new-song/amp/

 

[ReggieFlare]

Some of yall really feel like this is Kendrick's best? I'm not seeing it

Off one listen I think I may like it more than GKMC or TPAB to be fair

 

[Mowgli]

https://www.google.com/amp/hollywoo...-lamar-duckworth-meaning-lyrics-new-song/amp/

Why would he shoot Kendrick father. He shoots heroes that don't give up the money

 

[TEKBEATZ]

DAMN!!! @Duckworth

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Some of yall really feel like this is Kendrick's best? I'm not seeing it

Off one listen I think I may like it more than GKMC or TPAB to be fair

I still think GKMC is his best one. But creativity this album is his best

 

[Wepa Man]

We got another classic album

Unlike Drake garbage album

 

[Aba_juggin]

None of you guys are going back to this in 3 months time

 

[Izanami]

That second beat on XXX was some NWA west coast shyt

Legendary NY DJ hosting the album

 

[HiiiPower]

Dont know if it's been posted in here already but Damn is on pace to do nearly 500k in its first week.

 

[Izanami]

What's crazy to me is that Kendrick first two albums were creative concept pieces. Dude waited till after his sophomore effort to do a mainstream sounding album. Dude can hop in any lane and be just fine.

 

[riddlerap]

listening now.. i hated TPAB. lets see what happens.