Albums Kendrick Lamar - GNX (Official Album Thread)

[Paper Boi]

Kendrick is trash.

so is your existence

 

[S.W.A.G.]

Anyone else catch the andrew schulz diss?

Don't let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that's law

This is a potential reference to Andrew Schulz and his comments about black women on his comedy podcast Flagrant, airing July 17th, 2024: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QX7vGzjTwcU Schulz and his podcast guests James Duncan and Fuhad Dawodu from Shxtsngigs faced backlash after making...

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[Ziggiy]

Ironically I was watching the wood last night for the 100th time and here comes the Luther cover

Classic film.

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

I know Hey Now is gonna be a hit out West

 

[Smitty Belafonte]

So Wacced out Murder is about Kendrick telling us that he don’t fuk wit these industry nikkas? He has no friends in this game but the beat is from Friends by Whodini? I just caught that. This nikka is smarter then the rest of those dudes

 

[Cladyclad]

I was in San Diego and aint
heard shyt about this. I just touch down in Detroit at 12:24am. Get on the coli. this shyt got 2k replies

I thought this was a upped thread from years ago lol

This shyt crazy

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Nah I don't listen to mid

But you're a drake stan

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

That Super Bowl show is going to be up!!!

 

[Ol’Otis]

@Ol’Otis

I like that Debbie Deb sample

The album also reminded me we need more regional sounds back

 

[TheJet]

This shyt gonna have me C-walkin in the gym later

I still ain't been to Cali but that shyt hit different

1st time going to Cali was this year. Same weekend I was there "Meet the Graham's" and "Not Like Is " dropped. shyt was a zoo

Kendrick said he don’t wanna hear NOBODY EVER say he don’t draw for the west coast after this….

Call me crazy, but I feel Game gon jump out the window on some Stoopid shyt. He just can't help it

 

[Ziggiy]

We're in the same book but different pages.

I don't think Kendrick is uncomfortable on those beats at all...if anything the voice fuçkery takes a level of confidence and deliberation a lot of people don't have.

I'd also say the TDE heads if they nudge him at all would've nudged for exactly this album. We have to remember that TPAB was the direction Kendrick wanted to go first but he had to compromise on GKMC. I think they've encouraged him to play ball with the mainstream instead being the Lupe 2.0 he could've been.

At first I didn't agree with the pressure angle but upon your second post I kinda get it. But I believe this direction was still largely him. Even though I said I was let down by the missed chance to get on his cultural soapbox, I do think that boiling down to a Cali street sound is his personal defense/protest against where things are, as South Central LA is a Black American cultural nexus and he chose to wear it on his forehead.

I don’t know where ya’ll getting this “Kendrick had to compromise with GKMC” take from when thats literally the album he planned to make since he was 17-18 years old right down to the album cover.

Kendrick is one of the very few rap artists who haven’t had to compromise much , if at all on their creative vision, which is one of the reasons he made his way to the “big 3” of his generation and eventually surpassed everyone. Drake and his writers had to compromise on Thank Me Later. Cole famously had to compromise on Sideline Story to the extent he put made both Work Out and Can’t Get Enough under duress of being shelved indefinitely. Artists like Big Krit and Wale had to compromise so heavily it altered the trajectory of their careers. Kendrick was afforded MAJOR leeway by being insulated in the TDE camp and having Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine believe in him to the point where commercial songs like The Recipe were passed over for something like Swimming Pools and collabs with Lady Gaga were scrapped to allow him to do his thing and work with the likes of MC Eiht and Anna Wise.

Kendrick is basically the Prince of modern day rappers, where artistically he can do whatever he wants and the only thing he ever had to fight for was stuff like release dates and marketing.

 

[DaHNIC82]

Sounds to me he's putting Cube and Snoop on notice..

Cube been going around talking about No Vasaline is greater than Not Like Us, Then going around talking about He was Kendrick before Kendrick.. What does Kendrick do? Drop his album out of nowhere the same day as Cube's

Then he's checking Snoop ol both sides playing ass

 

[Animal House]

Certified banger, it’s been on repeat in the whip all day. I’m really feeling the vibe on this, he’s going in on a few cats on here

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

I know Hey Now is gonna be a hit out West

Definitely gonna need E-40 on a remix

 

[Jasonmask]

What bars (if there) is he talking about lupe in the intro