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[tweezy]

It was one of the rare rap albums during a period where sales were declining and people were doing gimmicks to survive. It was a B+ in a C- era.

It was BAD out there.

GKMC ain’t a classic IMO. Especially if you think TPAB is.

Tpab being a classic doesn't prevent his other albums from getting that status as well just because it's the highest rated album in his catalog doesn't mean it's his only reference album. Nobody in rap will ever get that kind of acclaim anyway, or that would make tpab the only classic album in rap music ever. Cuz that's the only rap album being ranked as the potential goat album in music, period.

But I agree that gkmc is far from being his best album. Matter of fact, it's not even in my top 3 Kendrick albums.

 

[tweezy]

"Its the album out of his catalog that matched the critique with the streets and commercial success."

That definition fits DAMN better as it checks more boxes than Gkmc when it comes to matching critique with streets and commercial success.

=> Stronger critical acclaim than gkmc, stronger commercial success, more hits, more love from the streets.

(95/100 vs 91/100 - more sales and more accolades, pulitzer, bigger hits including the only 2x diamond single in rap music, and ranked 2nd biggest rap album of the century as far as charts, streams and sales).

You can't take the merits of one album and blindly attribute them to another record, simply because that's the one you personally bump the most.

 

[Izanami]

Just stop, Cole!

“My style got a restraining order, don’t bothеr
I charter unseen territories in ordеr to push it farther than you nikkas had ever thought of
I caught a lotta murder charges, turned artists to martyrs”

Royce
Jeezy
JID
CHYHI
ASAP ROCKY
Ab Soul
Daylyt
Smino
BIA
Jay Rock
Lil Yachty
Lil Durk
Pusha T
Ye
Wale
Big Sean
Travis Scott
Benny The Butcher



Braggadocio rhymes about out rapping his peers. Nothing wrong with that

 

[tweezy]

Royce
Jeezy
JID
CHYHI
ASAP ROCKY
Ab Soul
Daylyt
Smino
BIA
Jay Rock
Lil Yachty
Lil Durk
Pusha T
Ye
Wale
Big Sean
Travis Scott
Benny The Butcher



Braggadocio rhymes about out rapping his peers. Nothing wrong with that

When was the last time Royce & Pusha had braggadocio rhymes after apologizing for a diss track?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

GKMC is the epitome of what a classic album is. It’s the album out of his catalog that matched the critique with the streets and commercial success.

You quote critique because you can’t make the argument yourself. The streets were NOT on GKMC like that. It was pure industry push.

I don’t rely on critical acclaim.

 

[spliz]

You quote critique because you can’t make the argument yourself. The streets were NOT on GKMC like that. It was pure industry push.

I don’t rely on critical acclaim.

nikka that was prolly the only album of Kendrick's that the streets WAS on. Ur buggin TF out.

 

[tweezy]

nikka that was prolly the only album of Kendrick's that the streets WAS on. Ur buggin TF out.

Nah...not sure where you're from but if anything that was the only album of kendrick that the streets weren't bumping

 

[Uchiha God]

coulda/woulda man

 

[Uchiha God]

You quote critique because you can’t make the argument yourself. The streets were NOT on GKMC like that. It was pure industry push.

I don’t rely on critical acclaim.

maybe not in Mumbai and Bangalore but GKMC and Damn were everywhere

 

[Jaguar93]

Oh O bruhs brought up the streets

 

[tysigna]

The only streets Spliz knows are the ones he sees on GTA

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

nikka that was prolly the only album of Kendrick's that the streets WAS on. Ur buggin TF out.

Bro. I was OUTSIDE when that shyt dropped. It was pure online hype. It was ATL/Young Money on the streets. Idk why you’re lying. GKMC was pure west coast and industry rallying efforts. They PUSHED those records. That’s why I hate swimming pools so much. They tried to hammer the fact that Kendrick is anti alcohol and with that basic message and hypnotic beat to program you into accepting how brilliant the project supposedly was. It was pure marketing. It’s not even section 80 good IMO.

 

[spliz]

Bro. I was OUTSIDE when that shyt dropped. It was pure online hype. It was ATL/Young Money.

I was outside too. So I don’t know what u trying to say. What Kendrick album got crazy burn in the streets if it wasn’t GKMC?

 

[tysigna]

I was outside too. So I don’t know what u trying to say. What Kendrick album got crazy burn in the streets if it wasn’t GKMC?

Damn was far bigger in the streets. Far bigger.

 

[Mr 18]

I was outside too. So I don’t know what u trying to say. What Kendrick album got crazy burn in the streets if it wasn’t GKMC?

obviously damn and gnx..