Exactly. Great way to put it in simple terms that I couldn't express
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly | (Discussion Thread) *Stream*
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WheresWallace
Superstar
Imo, the hook for hood politics? BOO BOO!
Minor blemish on an amazing album, but yeah that and the bilal hook for institutionalized ain't hitting for me. Snoop's part saved it though.
Minor blemish on an amazing album, but yeah that and the bilal hook for institutionalized ain't hitting for me. Snoop's part saved it though.
Camoflauge
6ix
I don't know, I'm a big GKMC fan but this album other then a few tracks just isn't doing it for me... maybe I need to give it another listen but on first listen GKMC>>
g-ice
aka #DiamondNightmare
That Boo Boo shyt...I take that as some sort of saying in the West. So shyt didn't bother me.
That Bilal hook man
Idk breh him singing that hook (while being Kendrick's grandma) was
Black Ball
Superstar
"The music itself" is only part of the equation.
"The music itself" isn't what has people making statements comparing him to the greats.
And frankly the music itself really isn't that special. As i said rap+funk has been done much better before.
I was speaking to the social commentary/impact of the album with my post.
So being that the music isn't special. The lyrics a aren't special and the songs are just rehashes of shyt that's been done before plenty of times. The album does nothing for me
Yes critics hand out bonus points for delivering on concepts & advanced lyricism in concert with actually having great sounding music. Like nobody would give a fukk about the political elements & lyrical execution of Death Certificate if the music itself didn't jam and sound good 1st. But how does what any critic say affect your ears & your enjoyment of music? Is anybody in the whole genre of rap music doing something that hasn't been done before? The only way it matters is if your project can be seen as copying another artists vision or formula.
It makes sense to say Kendrick aint saying nothing special but I can jam to this; or the music just don't bang at all and puts me to sleep. Some of yall treating music like you grading a math exam. What's your critique of the music or songs besides the fact that it didn't meet a checklist that could be determined without actually listening to the project?
DoubleClutch
Superstar
I dunno about being the best verse but i'm happy she got a placement on a mainstream project. I like her and her NBA reference lines usually leave a nikka like;
Yea her NBA references are
But I'm still trying to figure out the stu scott line
DoubleClutch
Superstar
Tetsuo and youth still gets played front to back.
I already skip a few tracks off this Kendrick album
Music is for everybody.
I also like that you're saying this about Mr.HiiiPoWeR/fukk Your Ethnicity who has a white rapper as one of his main influences and idols and uses a white lady as a singer on both of his albums on a few songs.
A.V.
reTIreMEnt: THE ALBUM (01/22) ALL DSPs
This is far too cryptic breh, he ain't have to do all that shyt
A Lupe stan calling THIS far too cryptic
Where do you find that level of fulfillment in music?
DoubleClutch
Superstar
Yea white people can't releate to this album at all
It's crazy cause his biggest fans a white.
I remember my first Kendrick concert was nothing but white people, it kinda ruined it for a friend of mine to hear them rapping along the lyrics and this album I can't imagine what a concert would be like
