Revolutionary
All Star
damn its the highest rated album since stankonia (2000)
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly | (Discussion Thread) *Stream*
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That last verse is
Walls telling you to listen to "Sing About Me"
Retaliation is strong you even dream about me
Killed my homeboy and God spared your life
Dumb criminal got indicted same night
So when you play this song rewind the first verse
About me abusing my power so you can hurt
About me and her in the shower whenever she horny
About me and her in the after hours of the morning
About her baby daddy currently serving life
And how she think about you until we meet up at night
About the only girl that cared about you when you asked her
And how she fukking on a famous rapper
Walls could talk
the ultimate
basically on that typical rapper "i fukked ya bytch" steeze over
instrumentation 
Revolutionary
All Star
people calling it album of the decade... they're so right 
Lol @ Lupe ever winning a Grammy again
Will go to either Kendrick, Cole, Drake, etc..
That last verse is
Walls telling you to listen to "Sing About Me"
Retaliation is strong you even dream about me
Killed my homeboy and God spared your life
Dumb criminal got indicted same night
So when you play this song rewind the first verse
About me abusing my power so you can hurt
About me and her in the shower whenever she horny
About me and her in the after hours of the morning
About her baby daddy currently serving life
And how she think about you until we meet up at night
About the only girl that cared about you when you asked her
And how she fukking on a famous rapper
Walls could talk
To me he's saying that its not a good idea to have a baby without financial security first.
SHAQAVELLI
We Are Penn State
Dawg, do you work for TDE? This is literally all you post about. The album is dope, but men don't care this much about other men's opinions :damedash:
Adam3000
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No it isnt
D'angelo had the same rating from just 3 months ago. And lets be real, a notably better album
Also, Brian Wilson and Loretta Lynn have higher rated albums after Stankonia
Maybe you meant just for Hip Hop......of course, why would anybody acknowledge other genres
And I'm sorry but this album is getting lots of fluff on its ratings due to carryover from GKMC. Critics afraid to be on the wrong side of history.
This is not a metacritic 95 worthy album, it just isnt. Thats a once-per-three-years-average type of rating. This may be worthy of that for Hip Hop only, but not across all genres
DoubleClutch
Superstar
That last verse is
Walls telling you to listen to "Sing About Me"
Retaliation is strong you even dream about me
Killed my homeboy and God spared your life
Dumb criminal got indicted same night
So when you play this song rewind the first verse
About me abusing my power so you can hurt
About me and her in the shower whenever she horny
About me and her in the after hours of the morning
About her baby daddy currently serving life
And how she think about you until we meet up at night
About the only girl that cared about you when you asked her
And how she fukking on a famous rapper
Walls could talk
I thought it's also a metaphor for the "hotel walls" or him feeling boxed in and depressed and the walls of the butterfly coc00n, etc...
Yea it's not my favorite either but I knew there was more to it than surface level.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Lupe knows what's up tho. He's not expecting a win, and he knows Kendrick won't win either. I think it's very likely that more Grammy voters will like TPAB than GKMC simply because of the production but he still won't win.
We're talking about 50-60yo while people brehs. They'll hand awards to Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock all day because they're into that shyt, but rap? Nah. Unless they HAVE to, like when Outkast won, they aren't gonna do it.
I will say this tho: from what I've heard the GKMC loss really shook things up amongst hip hop supporting voters. In the past a lot of those people simply didn't vote. But ever since Macklemore's win I've heard that the younger/more hip voters are more serious about the process. Not just black and Hispanic people, but also white people like Scott Vener (HBO), who is a Kendrick fan. They love the music and want to see it get some dap. But despite that, Eminem still won rap AOTY this year solely because older white voters automatically vote for him whenever he's nominated.
We're talking about 50-60yo while people brehs. They'll hand awards to Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock all day because they're into that shyt, but rap? Nah. Unless they HAVE to, like when Outkast won, they aren't gonna do it.
I will say this tho: from what I've heard the GKMC loss really shook things up amongst hip hop supporting voters. In the past a lot of those people simply didn't vote. But ever since Macklemore's win I've heard that the younger/more hip voters are more serious about the process. Not just black and Hispanic people, but also white people like Scott Vener (HBO), who is a Kendrick fan. They love the music and want to see it get some dap. But despite that, Eminem still won rap AOTY this year solely because older white voters automatically vote for him whenever he's nominated.
I think Kendrick actually has a chance this time. Unless Macklemore comes through with another gay anthem and shuts shyt down. Then you gotta factor in Drake, Cole, whoever else. Lupe is a non factor.
The lil outrage of Kendrick not winning last time plus Macklemore saying he wasn't supposed to win might land K.Dot votes this time around from the judges
It's still fukk the Grammys regardless
The lil outrage of Kendrick not winning last time plus Macklemore saying he wasn't supposed to win might land K.Dot votes this time around from the judges
It's still fukk the Grammys regardless
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B. Pumpaveli
All Star
Kendrick already "broke through" so to speak with his wins for "I" this year so he's definitely no longer a "black sheep" so to speak. He's a true critical and media darling in the vein of 2003-04 era Kanye West. His talent DEMANDS respect.
I'm still HIGHLY pissed that Nas got shafted in 2013 with Life Is Good. There's no goddamn way that Take fukking Care was a better album than LIG or that nikkas In Paris was a better WRITTEN song than Daughters. I'd truly hope that the Hip Hop voters are starting to awaken to the fact that our mainstream representation of the ART does in fact send a message to the overall culture. And I'm not talking in terms of "white acceptance" or that a Grammy "validates" you. I'm talking on a larger scale, the music that gets rewarded and gets the push shapes how the industry in turn promotes the genre. We're at a point right now, where it feels like we are entering an era where there is a renewed focus on lyricism and craft over stunting, trap, and bullshyt filler music. If we want to make sure that this current path continues its momentum we NEED to do all that we can as fans and Artists to show that this is indeed what we prefer. Whether it be with our wallets in purchasing albums or with our votes in rewarding the music that we deem superior