Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Discussion Thread)

[Harry Sax]

Crazy Kodak got the best 2 verses on here

 

[ineedsleep212]

Oooor MAYBE…..people LIKE the album and they don’t think like you :ohh:

I think you're confusing my post. I'm not saying that's how I feel. I'm simply stating the reactions I'm seeing in the thread that are all over the place.

I wasn't saying it isn't artsy as a knock against it. Just that the way Kendrick made it doesn't sound so different than a Damn nor are the themes that far from a TPAB nor are the story telling ideas and song structures that far from a Section 80 or GKMC even Damn. It isn't cryptic like a Tetsuo or have obscure references like Ab Soul's last album.

I'm saying to say that it isn't too different from other Kendrick albums and is accessible with all of these heavy themes. It's literally a strength of his to be able to make catchy shyt with the content he wants to rap about.

 

[Peak]

Crazy Kodak got the best 2 verses on here

Not really. nikkas just assume Kodak don't have bars cause of how he act.

 

[Busby]

I think you're confusing my post. I'm not saying that's how I feel. I'm simply stating the reactions I'm seeing in the thread that are all over the place.

I wasn't saying it isn't artsy as a knock against it. Just that the way Kendrick made it doesn't sound so different than a Damn nor are the themes that far from a TPAB nor are the story telling ideas and song structures that far from a Section 80 or GKMC even Damn. It isn't cryptic like a Tetsuo or have obscure references like Ab Soul's last album.

I'm saying to say that it isn't too different from other Kendrick albums and is accessible with all of these heavy themes. It's literally a strength of his to be able to make catchy shyt with the content he wants to rap about.

Ah i get you my bad. This album is pretty straight forward if you really look at it at the core of it.

He is basically saying “I ain’t shyt..and I’m cool with that. ”

 

[spliz]

When people are saying he’s a “true writer” I thought they were distinguishing him from Drake and others who utilize ghostwriters

Not at all. That wasn’t the context it was used when the cat was arguing with me.

 

[Piff Perkins]

The whole album is Kendrick dealing with his sex addiction and getting to the root of it aka dealing with the trauma he experienced in his life and mentions recognizing rappers who have been sexually abused. He also mentions cancel culture on N95 and in the hook, telling himself as well as the listener to confront themselves and stop being fixated on all the distractions in the world. The album is like his form of therapy and his journey overcoming that addiction and becoming a better person (Auntie Diaries being a clear example of him learning and changing).

He's saying we should offer that opportunity to change to Kodak and not throw him away.

Like it when they pro-Black, but I’m more Kodak Black -Kendrick on Savior

Literally identifying with Kodak and saying he isn't a savior. He's as flawed as Kodak and made a significant change in his life. Kodak hasn't exactly shown he's trying to do that hence why people feel a way about him being on it but thars obviously Kendrick’s intention. He's also clearly a fan.

I can’t accept this when Kodak has shown no remorse for what he’s done, on the album or in the past. It comes off as a weird contradiction to buildup to a climax about sexual molestation and rape of our women AND men, after having a literal rapist help narrate the album.

The question for me becomes when you say you don’t judge does that mean you don’t think anyone should pay consequences for anything? If your sister or family member is raped? I get the forgiveness factor, but do you think the rapist should go to jail? Be ostracized? Anything? That’s my question and concern about this.

 

[Gizza]

Just now finishing the album, had to digest it lil by lil. You can’t have an honest opinion within a day. Just the fact he can talk about “generational trauma” then tell his cult. “I’m not your savior” is then “Mother I sober” too real for many of us

Give this nikka his props

 

[jensyao]

I lowkey think Kendrick made this album just to stump Logic from trying to copy him on various songs

for example, people like Jay-Z use "The Game" to talk about the rap game but it's a double entendre talking about Game the rapper on various subliminal songs, but Kendrick like on N95 talked about "Logic" but may be a double entendre/subliminal as to "Take off the new Logic" and "who do you think they copy? they copy off us" and "you out of pocket, you entertain the mediocre, you need to stop it" because this new Logic has been copying Kendrick for practically years...kendrick can basically shoot himself in the foot on this album and still have fanfare, but if Logic copies this shyt, he's basically shooting his career in the head, which is probably what might happen if Logic is stupid enough to copy this evasive maneuver pulled by Kendrick, and may have had an hiatus or is sitting on unreleased music to see if Logic would copy anyone else and Logic fake-retired and shyt when Kendrick didn't have any new songs to copy from these last 5 years...so basically the rest of Kendrick's new album was making up artistic shyt and changing his voice inflections so that Logic can't easily distill and copy...instead of beefing and being fully confrontational about it, Kendrick is playing an elaborate chess game so Logic doesn't get any exposure, because in beef parody, both sides get attention, but Kendrick is downplaying his copycat opponent by not mentioning him but only for those who can figure out subluminals like we are back in the 90s as listeners

i may be reading too much into this -- kendrick could have really just made post-corona club bangers the whole album to get people out of cabin fever from staying indoors and it would have been lit, but he's too smart to not have a reason for all of this to be an album, strategically have singles with subliminal messages, and not just some throwaway songs for a mixtape...for example, Humble's "sit down lil bytch" from his DAMN album was directed towards Big Sean and partially Jay Electronica the whole song (read rapgenius annotations) -- it was fire but went above everyone's heads on who the lil bytch he is talking about to be humble the whole song...when kendrick is making someone take off their fake persona, it might be towards everyone in the industry or real life and also towards logic, we're just not certain at the moment until more details come out of kendrick's camp

other notes if this is true "take off the black and white" may be a subliminal at logic being biracial, "take off the flex" -- flex is logic's favorite word...and there are a lot of Quentin Tarantino type shots for the N95 music video, which may be another layer of the diss given logic claims he is the Quentin Tarantino of rap, so a bunch of collage type shyt was in the video almost mocking Logic to copy it, like "THIS shyt HARD" on the video may induce logic to come up with another 3 words and put it on his music video almost as a taunt because kendrick knows he's being copied. N95 is obviously talking about taking off the corona mask that people hide behind.."what would you do for aesthetic" and talking about sell your soul and sell your bro for leverage talking about hypocrites sounds like blatant Logic disses because kendrick is ticked Logic is copying him so much...look into this to see if any of this has any weight or merit

 

[MoneyTron]

9/10 for me. I really liked the second half especially.

Mr. Morale a 10/10 track.

 

[Thelonious Napz]

I wonder what year Count Me Out was recorded? This could have fit on DAMN. perfectly!

 

[Zero]

What's worse: this album or the pleas being copped for it?

 

[GoldenGlove]

I lowkey think Kendrick made this album just to stump Logic from trying to copy him on various songs

for example, people like Jay-Z use "The Game" to talk about the rap game but it's a double entendre talking about Game the rapper on various subliminal songs, but Kendrick like on N95 talked about "Logic" but may be a double entendre/subliminal as to "Take off the new Logic" and "who do you think they copy? they copy off us" and "you out of pocket, you entertain the mediocre, you need to stop it" because this new Logic has been copying Kendrick for practically years...kendrick can basically shoot himself in the foot on this album and still have fanfare, but if Logic copies this shyt, he's basically shooting his career in the head, which is probably what might happen if Logic is stupid enough to copy this evasive maneuver pulled by Kendrick, and may have had an hiatus or is sitting on unreleased music to see if Logic would copy anyone else and Logic fake-retired and shyt when Kendrick didn't have any new songs to copy from these last 5 years...so basically the rest of Kendrick's new album was making up artistic shyt and changing his voice inflections so that Logic can't easily distill and copy...instead of beefing and being fully confrontational about it, Kendrick is playing an elaborate chess game so Logic doesn't get any exposure, because in beef parody, both sides get attention, but Kendrick is downplaying his copycat opponent by not mentioning him but only for those who can figure out subluminals like we are back in the 90s as listeners

i may be reading too much into this -- kendrick could have really just made post-corona club bangers the whole album to get people out of cabin fever from staying indoors and it would have been lit, but he's too smart to not have a reason for all of this to be an album, strategically have singles with subliminal messages, and not just some throwaway songs for a mixtape...for example, Humble's "sit down lil bytch" from his DAMN album was directed towards Big Sean and partially Jay Electronica the whole song (read rapgenius annotations) -- it was fire but went above everyone's heads on who the lil bytch he is talking about to be humble the whole song...when kendrick is making someone take off their fake persona, it might be towards everyone in the industry or real life and also towards logic, we're just not certain at the moment until more details come out of kendrick's camp

other notes if this is true "take off the black and white" may be a subliminal at logic being biracial, "take off the flex" -- flex is logic's favorite word...and there are a lot of Quentin Tarantino type shots for the N95 music video, which may be another layer of the diss given logic claims he is the Quentin Tarantino of rap, so a bunch of collage type shyt was in the video almost mocking Logic to copy it, like "THIS shyt HARD" on the video may induce logic to come up with another 3 words and put it on his music video almost as a taunt because kendrick knows he's being copied. N95 is obviously talking about taking off the corona mask that people hide behind.."what would you do for aesthetic" and talking about sell your soul and sell your bro for leverage talking about hypocrites sounds like blatant Logic disses because kendrick is ticked Logic is copying him so much...look into this to see if any of this has any weight or merit

Maaaaaaan Kendrick is not thinking about Logic

 

[Zero]

John Waters

 

[Chip Skylark]

I lowkey think Kendrick made this album just to stump Logic from trying to copy him on various songs

for example, people like Jay-Z use "The Game" to talk about the rap game but it's a double entendre talking about Game the rapper on various subliminal songs, but Kendrick like on N95 talked about "Logic" but may be a double entendre/subliminal as to "Take off the new Logic" and "who do you think they copy? they copy off us" and "you out of pocket, you entertain the mediocre, you need to stop it" because this new Logic has been copying Kendrick for practically years...kendrick can basically shoot himself in the foot on this album and still have fanfare, but if Logic copies this shyt, he's basically shooting his career in the head, which is probably what might happen if Logic is stupid enough to copy this evasive maneuver pulled by Kendrick, and may have had an hiatus or is sitting on unreleased music to see if Logic would copy anyone else and Logic fake-retired and shyt when Kendrick didn't have any new songs to copy from these last 5 years...so basically the rest of Kendrick's new album was making up artistic shyt and changing his voice inflections so that Logic can't easily distill and copy...instead of beefing and being fully confrontational about it, Kendrick is playing an elaborate chess game so Logic doesn't get any exposure, because in beef parody, both sides get attention, but Kendrick is downplaying his copycat opponent by not mentioning him but only for those who can figure out subluminals like we are back in the 90s as listeners

i may be reading too much into this -- kendrick could have really just made post-corona club bangers the whole album to get people out of cabin fever from staying indoors and it would have been lit, but he's too smart to not have a reason for all of this to be an album, strategically have singles with subliminal messages, and not just some throwaway songs for a mixtape...for example, Humble's "sit down lil bytch" from his DAMN album was directed towards Big Sean and partially Jay Electronica the whole song (read rapgenius annotations) -- it was fire but went above everyone's heads on who the lil bytch he is talking about to be humble the whole song...when kendrick is making someone take off their fake persona, it might be towards everyone in the industry or real life and also towards logic, we're just not certain at the moment until more details come out of kendrick's camp

other notes if this is true "take off the black and white" may be a subliminal at logic being biracial, "take off the flex" -- flex is logic's favorite word...and there are a lot of Quentin Tarantino type shots for the N95 music video, which may be another layer of the diss given logic claims he is the Quentin Tarantino of rap, so a bunch of collage type shyt was in the video almost mocking Logic to copy it, like "THIS shyt HARD" on the video may induce logic to come up with another 3 words and put it on his music video almost as a taunt because kendrick knows he's being copied. N95 is obviously talking about taking off the corona mask that people hide behind.."what would you do for aesthetic" and talking about sell your soul and sell your bro for leverage talking about hypocrites sounds like blatant Logic disses because kendrick is ticked Logic is copying him so much...look into this to see if any of this has any weight or merit

 

[JulesMusic719]

Revelations from this new album make this song he made from his previous album more impactful/felt:



Haha