Kendrick = the New Pitbull/ Flo-Rida

[AtlasUnplugged]

people call him out for his weak features all the time. It's just that hip-hop fans don't care about these pop songs so they're quickly forgotten. What's the point in lingering on a stupid Taylor Swift song for weeks?

 

[Zero]

TPAB was a pro-black album for white people....and this confirms it

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

Once any rap artist makin those type a collabos...u done already jumped the shark anyway in my book...but I was never a kendrick fan no way so god bless em

 

[Supreme HD]

Terrible thread

 

[Numpsay]

r&b isn't what it used to be, commercially Kendrick just does these to collect quick checks. At the end of the day we all know about his music and what he stands for

no we don't

 

[big bun]

Q Tip( who had that same grassroots image that Kendrick has) didn't get any slack when he did this pop song

I don't remember Q-Tip getting criticized for this.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

@TruDatz who are your top 3 rappers right now

 

[Ghpstface]

Damn, he's making hit songs?

fukk him!

:sean_:

Seriously tho

 

[Shadow King]

He probably ain't excited to work with too many nikkas in hip-hop right now. But you know damn well Kendrick =/= Flo-Rida.

 

[Pool_Shark]

What happened Kendrick? You were supposed to be the one

 

[L&HH]

This is a hackneyed attempt at hurting Kendrick's image. He still cares about social issues, nothing wrong with a couple pop hits I mean, what's the issue? He isn't anti-white lol

I'm not trying to hurt his image nor do I care if he does or doesn't do these songs, like any other artists. I'm just referring to the hypocrisy on this board and possibly with people in the media. If Kendrick can do this with no backlash, everyone else should as well.

 

[George's Dilemma]

r&b isn't what it used to be, commercially Kendrick just does these to collect quick checks. At the end of the day we all know about his music and what he stands for

I remember years ago listening to the following, and B-Real said, "I never rapped on an R&B record and I never will."





There was a time when Hip Hop at least made an attempt to police itself, but somewhere down the line things got blurry. Blame it on the money, and me personally I especially put blame on Puff, Bad Boy, and what passed for Hip Hop journalism in the form of The Source and XXL magazines. Not everybody agrees with me, but the West Coast was putting a Chuck Taylor in New York's azz something fierce during the 90's.. Lets face it, East Coast boom bap, sample laden dark structured music couldn't compete with G-Funk and Gangsta Music. Puff found a niche doing that commercial bull sh!t, and although Biggie sounded great on R&B blends, they lost me when they tried melding the two officially. This ain't some revisionist history either, cuz some folks will remember on here BCC, Roots, Jeru, etc., throwing shots at Biggie and Bad Boy cuz they were watering down the culture. Had Biggie not been recently murdered by the time his second project dropped, he would have faced significant backlash. Some of that backlash would have been typical NYC crab in a barrel nonsense that we're accustomed to, but plenty of it would have been legit.

That era made it acceptable for rappers to do the pop sh!t they do now. Nowadays everybody's afraid to criticize anybody for whatever lane they chose. We've literally watched a beautiful art form deteriorate because of commercialism.

 

[Sidley]

Caught highlights of the AMAs last night and saw Kendrick looking like the token black nikka on stage with Maroon 5. I didnt even know dude was on that song. This shyt starting to get embarrassing. How you go from tryna sell some pro-black, I'm the rap savior image to jumping on every lily white pop song with forgettable ass verses and adlibs?

Kendrick getting the looks Flo-Rida used to get. He the go to rapper now. Factz.

In just one year alone:




The Sia song:




Kendrick's verse not even 20 seconds bruh smh





Any other rapper would be getting called out for this. nikkas even felt some type away when Wiz started doing this shyt but silence on Kendrick smh.

Instead of applauding Kendrick's versatility, people would just rather hate and call him a sellout

 

[Pitfalls0117]

Actually....



Fetty Wap is the new Flo Rida, or is about to be. He's had multiple family friendly radio features since trap Queen/again/rgf island/my way tapered off. It's going to work for him too, no one was buying his trap star image anyway, white people embraced him from the jump, and he has a great sound for pop choruses and hooks.

 

[Sidley]

Actually....



Fetty Wap is the new Flo Rida, or is about to be. He's had multiple family friendly radio features since trap Queen/again/rgf island/my way tapered off. It's going to work for him too, no one was buying his trap star image anyway, white people embraced him from the jump, and he has a great sound for pop choruses and hooks.

I'm glad you said this. Maybe you could say this about Fetty Wap because of the turn that his career took after his hype died out, but Kendrick still has a lot of energy yet to be seen. I do still think Fetty Wap has a few more radio hits under his belt though. He has to change up his style a bit though.