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

[Mike the Executioner]

All of this is possible. Artists start and scrap projects all the time for various reasons. Nas has an entire album he recorded for Def Jam that we’ll never hear because he scrapped it in favor of doing Nasir with Kanye. He’s also got an album with Swizz Beatz that Swizz has been waiting for damn near a decade to release. Kanye’s got like three scrapped albums. Ghostface has a Doom produced album we’ll unfortunately never hear. And so on and so forth.


With Kendrick we even got a peak into his creative process with Untitled Unmastered

It's crazy how many unreleased projects are out there, fully finished, that we're never going to hear.

Lauryn Hill has multiple unreleased albums.

When Eminem did Relapse, he recorded four albums' worth of material for it. Relapse 2 was supposed to come out the same year as Relapse, but he scrapped it because fans and critics didn't get Relapse and he made Recovery instead.

You could take almost every Michael Jackson album and replace the entire tracklist multiple times without repeating a song. That's how much material he has in the vault.

OutKast was supposed to release three albums in 2009: An Andre album, a Big Boi album, and a group album. I don't even know if they were ever finished.

Slaughterhouse had the Glass House album, which was supposed to be their comeback after their second album flopped and it never came out.

And apparently, Kendrick had an entirely different album prepared after GKMC, which would have been more similar to it sonically. Then he went on the trip to South Africa and made TPAB instead.

 

[Izanami]

I really want Kenny to make a modern day west coast soundscape album, similar to Vince.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

the more I listen to Mirror I think he's done playing the game. I think this was his swan song.

Really sounds like it

 

[winb83]

been listening a lot.

 

[CarltonJunior]

It's crazy how many unreleased projects are out there, fully finished, that we're never going to hear.

Lauryn Hill has multiple unreleased albums.

When Eminem did Relapse, he recorded four albums' worth of material for it. Relapse 2 was supposed to come out the same year as Relapse, but he scrapped it because fans and critics didn't get Relapse and he made Recovery instead.

You could take almost every Michael Jackson album and replace the entire tracklist multiple times without repeating a song. That's how much material he has in the vault.

OutKast was supposed to release three albums in 2009: An Andre album, a Big Boi album, and a group album. I don't even know if they were ever finished.

Slaughterhouse had the Glass House album, which was supposed to be their comeback after their second album flopped and it never came out.

And apparently, Kendrick had an entirely different album prepared after GKMC, which would have been more similar to it sonically. Then he went on the trip to South Africa and made TPAB instead.

It's not that crazy if you've ever recorded before or have been around studios. Every single artist you've ever heard probably has hundreds if not thousands of songs in the vault, and there's so many different reasons why they don't release.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

It's not that crazy if you've ever recorded before or have been around studios. Every single artist you've ever heard probably has hundreds if not thousands of songs in the vault, and there's so many different reasons why they don't release.

Artists recording a lot of material for their albums doesn't surprise me. I know that happens all the time. Michael used to record up to 100 songs for his albums. But I'm talking about the fully completed projects that artists were intent on releasing, then decided not to. It's understandable because they went in another direction, but it would be great to have a chance to hear some of those albums that got left behind.

Like the "Nas Album Done" album or Relapse 2 or the original version of Invincible, because from what I know, Michael scrapped most of what he had before and started over and that's why it took four years to make.

 

[TM101]

It's not that crazy if you've ever recorded before or have been around studios. Every single artist you've ever heard probably has hundreds if not thousands of songs in the vault, and there's so many different reasons why they don't release.

Will.I.Am said if you want to release 3 songs, you make 9 and pick the best 3 (i'm paraphrasing, not an exact quote)

 

[CarltonJunior]

Artists recording a lot of material for their albums doesn't surprise me. I know that happens all the time. Michael used to record up to 100 songs for his albums. But I'm talking about the fully completed projects that artists were intent on releasing, then decided not to. It's understandable because they went in another direction, but it would be great to have a chance to hear some of those albums that got left behind.

Like the "Nas Album Done" album or Relapse 2 or the original version of Invincible, because from what I know, Michael scrapped most of what he had before and started over and that's why it took four years to make.

Well it happens

Will.I.Am said if you want to release 3 songs, you make 9 and pick the best 3 (i'm paraphrasing, not an exact quote)

Yeah, that's pretty much how they operate.

Plus you gotta think about all this extra shyt like making a music video for the song, promotion, getting people who did features for you to be in videos, how the song sounds when performed live, etc. all this comes into play at some point

 

[Shadow King]

Kodak is and has been a great MC.

 

[Shadow King]

There is no objectivity when it comes to music. It’s all a matter of personal taste. In my opinion, TPAB is his best as well as my favorite album of his (and I like all his albums, so it’s not like I think Section.80 is some trash). The only type of opinions I might question is when someone is clearly trolling (like saying Nastradamus is Nas best album or if they felt Yeezus is Kanye’s best).

False, I wish people stop saying this.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

i fukk with this way harder than DAMN.

loved DNA, FEEL & Loyalty but a lot of the rest was just ehh and I stopped listening to it after about a month.

might end up as my second favorite kendrick album overall fter TPAB. no song as good as Money Trees tho, which is still top 5 kendrick

 

[dontreadthis]

idk where to rank it in his discog or what it is out of 10 but man this album got some songs that make me FEEL something. Count Me Out, Die Hard, Silent Hill.

 

[DapMeUp!]

I was DJ at a party on Sat.

N95 Went off!

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I know this album is dope because every 3-4 days I have new favorite song. Been bumping Count Me Out heavy this weekend. Hearing Silent Hill on radio is a vibe too.

I’m not saying Kendrick is the best of all time or is super deep but I really feel like currently he is in own category with these albums like listening to Mother I sober and hearing how all the themes and topics he talked about throughout the album tie into that song is just

 

[CarltonJunior]

I was DJ at a party on Sat.

N95 Went off!

Uggghh...you ugly as fukk!