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

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Either way its a true work of art and i’m happy Kendrick went this route. He really brought up some topics that black men and the black community on the whole needs to address.

yes. he's the only person to ever do anything ever because he's special and unique and rare.

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

Low key - I would have loved an actual track with Kendrick and Florence and the Machine

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

So basically he went back to non-commercial route like on TPAB.

this is way less commercial than GKMC.

Theres arguably like 3 singles on here. Maybe. Radio is gonna have to make a stretch out of some of these. It'll do fine on streaming.

 

[Harry B]

We cry together is fukking WOAT

She sounds like Em on KiM


Kendrick took too much time off. Wtf am I even listening too

You’ve been calling him trash for 8 years and yet you’re shocked that you still don’t like his music

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

He’s flowing his ass off on SEVERAL songs I really don’t get the complaint for this particular album. Its a majority rap album

Kendrick isn't rapping. He's doing spoken word slam poetry.

Thats why this sounds like the way it does. Thats why theres so few punchlines or witty bars. Its long provoking statements over beats.

Thats why its so hard to quote any of his shyt outside of overall themes.

He doesn't do concise delivery. He meanders and takes several lines to get to the point.

Its not music for consumption. It "audio for presentation"

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This gonna take a few listens to review fairly

The fact yall can't keep it real about this isn't surprising.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Truly great art challenges you. It shouldn't necessarily be an easy listen if it's a new sound or direction. This album is definitely left field

On the flip side, you know that you can criticize "art" right?

 

[wire28]

Die hard count me out mirror

These are all my vibe

TPAB is still the pinnacle for me but I love where he went with this.

Every time I listen to a new album from him I think about that old YouTube clip of him and Charles Hamilton where he looked raw and not confident and Charles ate him up. To see how he’s evolved is beautiful. He worked at his craft and took everything, nothing was given.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Kanye has one of the greatest discographies in all of hip hop. He fell off on the last couple but every album up to Pablo was undeniable.

Now if you were one of those people who was bytching about MBDTF not sounding like College Dropout or demanding he just make soulbeats for his whole career, then that speaks to your music preferences.

But Kanye is pretty much the best example of a hip hop artist evolving their sound in ways that were both artistically and commercially successful. He fell off eventually because all artists fall off.

I been around a long time. I've seen people in mass shyt on Stankonia, Hell Hath No Fury and Like Water for Chocolate for being too different or weird or whatever. These albums are now remembered as classics. Time reveals all in the end.

Now I don't even know how good this album is. It's too early. It could be his best or his worst. There's still a lot to marinate on, and there's things on this album that may not work or maybe it'll grow on me. But ya'll are fighting a losing battle if you expect someone like Kendrick to repeat himself or do some corny shyt like name his album GKMC II like these washed rappers trying to revive the past. And that doesn't mean you have to like it. I can totally get why people wouldn't like the stuff he's doing on this album. But it annoys me when some fans (not saying you btw) act like an artist is obliged to just make the same shyt time and time again. And then if they do that they get shyt on for being derivative or repeating themselves lol

tl;dr ;i think i like this album lol

Basically until Donda, Kanye was trending down.

Now he's rapping like its 2009.

 

[CrimsonTider]

You’ve been calling him trash for 8 years and yet you’re shocked that you still don’t like his music

I’ve never called Kendrick trash.

you going to pretend what you heard so far is good?

 

[Hood Critic]

"Writer's block for 2 years
Nothing moved me
Asked God to speak through me
That's what you're hearing now
The voice of yours truly."

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

This dude selling I'm out.

If only that were true Patel..

 

[Tetris v2.0]

On the flip side, you know that you can criticize "art" right?

Of course

 

[Harry B]

I’ve never called Kendrick trash.

you going to pretend what you heard so far is good?

You called Damn and TPAB something similar to trash, overrated and on.

Kendrick is like Pac, Big, Jay, Nas, Dr Dre, Wayne, Kanye, early Drake, Early Jeezy and Gucci. And on. But he does it with every album. Innovate, shyt you’ve never heard before and still manages to get it right. Even if you don’t like the music, just appreciate his strive to push music forwards.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Indian dude got 100000 posts in here. Make it stop