Now that the hype is completely gone, can we admit Kendrick Lamar doesn't have a classic verse

[NoHalfWay]

"Since my uncles was institutionalized
My intuition had said I was suited for family ties"



That's a Kendrick bar that impressed me, resonated with me, hits home too

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[wingstop]

Did @ThreeLetterAgency just seriously say that Kendrick played it safe with his 2nd album and is a safer artist than drake?

 

[Mowgli]

 

[hex]

Did @ThreeLetterAgency just seriously say that Kendrick played it safe with his 2nd album and is a safer artist than drake?

It's Napoleon, pay him no mind.

Fred.

 

[HoldThisL]

"don't call me lyrical. Cause really I'm just a nikka that's evil and spiritual · I know some rappers using big words to make their similes curve. My simplest shyt be more pivotal"

 

[B-Mint94]

"Since my uncles was institutionalized
My intuition had said I was suited for family ties"



That's a Kendrick bar that impressed me, resonated with me, hits home too

"Truthfully, I just started rappin’ to get away
I never thought that your favorite rapper would want a verse
My nikka got hit 25 times with a K
Make the decision, ride the beat or ride in a hearse"

 

[Afro]

How come hiphop fans only go by one verse? If the song isn't good all the way through, it's an ok song. I don't care if there is fire at the end.

But hell i'll play. I know some of these verses by heart. Others just make me go

I get down with the ignant shyt but I listen when it is about something real.

fukk Your Ethnicity-Section 80

[Verse 1]
Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life
Y'all be calling it hip-hop, I be calling it hypnotize
Yeah, hypnotize, trapped my body but freed my mind
What the fukk is you fighting for? Ain't nobody gon' win that war
My details be retail, man, I got so much in store
Racism is still alive, yellow tape and colored lines
fukk that, nikka look at that line, it's so diverse
They getting off work and they wanna see Kendrick
Everybody can't drive Benz's, and I been there, so I make it my business
To give 'em my full attention, ten-hut! Man, I gotta get my wind up
Man, I gotta get down with God cause I got my sins up
Matter of fact, don't mistake me for no fukking rapper
They sit backstage and hide behind the fukking cameras
I mosh pit, had a microphone and I tossed it
Had a brain, then I lost it, I'm out of my mind
So don't you mind how much the cost is, penny for my thoughts
Everybody, please hold up your wallets
Yeah man, I'm the mailman, can't you tell, man?
Going postal, never freeze up, when I approach you
That's starstruck and roast you, oh my

Keisha's Song (Her Pain)-Section 80

The whole damn song

Rigamortis-Section 80

[Verse 2]
I rapped him and made him Casper,I captured the likes of NASA
My pedigree to fly past ya, I pass the weed to the pastor
We all are sinners, won't you send us to bible study faster
Your hypocrite-esque reaction a blasphemy, I assassin my casualty
And it's casually done and tell 'em my salary come
A lump sum of hundreds don't talk to me 'bout no money
The sun is under my feet and I come in peace to compete
I don't run if you rather leap,my statistics go up in weeks
And I go visit the nearest creek and I get busy on many MC,really ballistic
Anybody can see any assistance,everybody deceased I'm persistence
Recognize I be really too vicious the permanent beast
And the demolition breaking up the streets, better partition,better dot your T
And I gon' mention how the far you see, putting my dikk in the rap industry
Everybody bytching, getting mad at me,recognize Kendrick in the battery
And I'm charged up and the catastrophe is charged up and the audacity
Of y'all fukks never could hassle me and y'all luck, just ran out you'll see

Kush & Corinthians (His Pain)-Section 80

[Verse 2]
As I open this book and then burn up some of this reefer
My plan is to figure out the world and escape all my demons
I'm dying inside,I wonder if Zion inside the heavens
A condom,a Rollie,pain,a fat bluntand a Mac-11
That's all I see in my life and they tell me to make it right
But I'm right on the edge of Everest and I might jump tonight
Have you ever had known a saint that was taking sinner's advice?
Well it's probably you, am I right? If I'm wrong, you a fukking lie
When I lie on my back and look at the ceiling, it's so appealing to pray
I wonder if I'm just a villain, dealing my morals away
Some people look at my face then tell me don't worry 'bout it
I give 'em back they deposit, no money, just total silence
I'm running, they say I'm wilding a young'n with lack of guidance
That's hundreds of us with problems:more money, more drugs and violence
Look at the soul of an out-of-control artist
That's dealing with life the hardest, that's on my life, but regardless

Ab-Soul's Outro-Section 80

[Kendrick Lamar]
See a lot of y'all don't understand Kendrick Lamar
Because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes
God and history all in the same sentence
You know what all the things have in common
Only half of the truth, if you tell it
See I've spent twenty three years on the earth searching for answers
'til one day I realized I had to come up with my own
I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on the inside looking out
I'm in the dead fukking center, looking around
You've ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man
That's an analogy for the way the world make me react
My innocence been dead
So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes
God and history all in the same sentence
Just know I meant it, and you felt it cause you too are searching for answers
I'm not the next pop star,I'm not the next socially aware rapper
I am a human mothafukkin' being, over dope ass instrumentation
Kendrick Lamar,now fukk 'em up Terrace

HiiiPower-Section 80

Already been said brehs

Black Friday
(Please Cole!)

Blessed-Habits and Contradictions
ScHoolboy Q

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]
Living in a premature place... wait
Never grow to see the pearly gates...break
Every time a bullet detonate... dates... of obituary carry crates
Of a scary picture with a family member that relate to ya
In December you was finna pin another case
On your record in a stolen Expedition, play it safe
As the record spinning, you was hearing angels entertain
Every pun intended, that was wicked, coming from your brain
Recognize you listened and you didn't hit the block again
That's because the minute after you had knew you would be slain
Open up another chapter in the book and read 'gain
Story of a gun-clapper really tryna make a change
Everybody ain't (blessed, my nikka)
Yes, my nikka, you're blessed, take advantage, do your best, my nikka
Don't stress,you was granted everything inside this planet
Anything you imagine, you possess, my nikka
You reject these nikkas that neglect your respect
For the progress of a baby step, my nikka
Step-step my nikka, one, two, skip-skip
Back-back, look both ways, pull it off the hip
Blast at anybody say that you can't flip
This crack into rap music every other zip is a track
Get used to it, get it off quick
Come back, give back to the city you've built
That's that, don't trip, see money, fukk nikkas, dog
It ain't nothing but a bunch of fukk nikkas, dog
In a minute everybody gon' be winning
Put a little faith in it then recognize that we all

Sing about me
Nah all of GKMC fukk yall. Classic album.

I could go on. Where are your artists quotes at negus?

I see the white girl behind yall like

It's all good doe. I love myself

"Too many nikkas, not enough hoes
And some of you nikkas, acting like hoes"

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Jay rock had the best verse on the album

 

[O.Red]

Let another rapper drop a song like "For Free?" and there would be a 30 page thread clowning them for it

But the internet's lord and savior "King" Kendrick Lamar?

"The imagery breh!"

"This song reminds me of those jazz albums my uncles used to play"

"He's pushing the boundaries of hiphop!"

"For Free" is actually one of my fav songs on the album but this post got me

 

[SirBiatch]

So the song is thematically "great" and well put together, great flow etc yet you're arguing the lyrics aren't good? Huh? And what does Hov have to do with anything? Hov has never been a memorable rapper when it comes to evocative lyricism and he is not the greatest storyteller. A better comparison would be Nas here.

This is not amazing lyricism now?

I wrote some raps that make sure that my lifeline
Reeking the scent of a reaper, ensuring that my allegiance
With the other side may come soon, and if I'm doomed
May the womb help my mother be blessed for many moons
I suffer a lot, and every day the glass mirror
Get tougher to watch; I tie my stomach in knots
And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats
That can come about, ’cause the tongue is mighty powerful
And I can name a list of your favorites that probably vouch
Maybe cause I'm a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death
Really stuck in the schema of wonderin' when I'mma rest
I think this thread should probably be re-named "Kendrick doesn't have any dope shyt-talking verses that I like." A sentiment I'd still disagree with but hey, do you.

I ask again, name some classic modern verses. As well as your definition of "classic verse" because "a dope verse I can quote" doesn't strike me as a good example. As I said earlier the word is thrown around way too fukking much. A classic verse is something like Rakim on Eric B Is President or Nas on NY State Of Mind. shyt that either marked a point where someone was saying crazy shyt no one else was saying at the time, or marked a moment where someone turned the dial on the previous way things were done lyrically/flow wise/etc.

Or something that seared the fukking earth. Like the last verse on Incarcerated Scarfaces (which btw isn't really "quotable"). I'm not aware of any new-ish rappers who made me feel like that in recent memory. I can think of plenty of dope ass verses that are quotable though.

Bunch of filler shyt that don't mean anything.

Want a semi-recent quotable? These aren't going to blow anyone's socks off (I don't listen to Rocky for quotables), but at least they're clear and a bit clever

My gold teeth, my french braids, getting throwed since 10th grade
Wealth is in the mind, not the pocket, if that's the case, then I been paid

"A weirdo but I'm real though"

Pretty nikka in some shyt you never hear of
Only thing bigger than my ego is my mirror

Real talk, Rocky got way more quotables than Duckworth if I start thinking about the shyt.

Again, Rocky's shyt is NOWHERE close to "Both hands clusty" and the type of shyt I'm used to. The new gen in general aint saying shyt. I accepted that years ago

Half of these haters think Future is God

99% of these duckworths think of Future when asked questions about Kendrick

Keep saying stupid shyt, breh

 

[SirBiatch]

nikka, I have a masters degree in a field 90% of the Coli would fail in and am pursuing a professional degree.

Stop it

This is the problem with you dweebs and that includes Cole acolytes.

You love these artists because you're idiots yourselves. These artists are "deep" to you.

No. They're pretentious. Only dumbasses don't know how stupid they are and cling to these fake-deep artists. You all never had role models or educated people around you so you cling to them as if they're doing something profound.

So what if he drops a few socially progressive bars? So what if he hamfists some generic "come together world" bullshyt.

It sucks as music.

Its precisely why his attempt at creating another anthem with Beyonce on "Freedom" was and will be an utter flop.

No one I know (and thats Drs, PhD's, MD's, DDS, JD's etc) listens to that pretentious shyt. We know its entertainment so we treat it as such.

If we want education we're getting books, going to lectures, listening to podcasts, etc.

We're not listening to some high school level bullshyt from some rapper who claims to be some smartass know it all with a fraction of the wisdom of actual rap GOATS who grew up in the streets but know how to entertainingly push the same issues in way more creative ways.

So no, i'm not impressed with someone who raps with a college degree...because i'm not reading dissertations...i'm listening to music first and foremost and if it fails to entertain me, regardless of content, then its failed.

Bruh, how old are you? And how tight are your backpack straps?

You LITERALLY just said the comment in bold.

You've spent this whole thread talking about one's intellectual capacity for preferring "hardcore" artists over someone like Kendrick then trying to assign some function of mental fortitude to that.

its the essence of elitism and its precisely why most of you all are ultimately insecure. You're projecting that you claim to have "good taste in music" when in reality, you're trying to signal to others you know more than you do.

Again. No one I know, and we're talking really successful people here, pretends to engage that fake deep shyt...because we're smarter than 99% of rappers out there, so we can enjoy the bullshyt as much as we can bullshyt movies, TV, and other forms of media.

Those who are really educated? They're out here enjoying life, not pretending to engage in what industry determines as "high culture"

E T H E R

For fux sake breh, stop going the fukk in on these Duckworths! They'll sui

Spoiler

I've said for years that Drake makes smarter music than Kendrick. I know the kind of people who listen to Drake, and those that listen to Kendrick. Usually, there's a noticeable difference in education level. For the most part, educated people can't stand fake-deep high school level bars about complex topics, especially if those bars are delivered with shytty voices and shytty beats (which is Kendrick to the tee)

 

[Kitsch]

I remember you was conflicted.

 

[NotaPAWG]

nikka, I have a masters degree in a field 90% of the Coli would fail in and am pursuing a professional degree.

Stop it

This is the problem with you dweebs and that includes Cole acolytes.

You love these artists because you're idiots yourselves. These artists are "deep" to you.

No. They're pretentious. Only dumbasses don't know how stupid they are and cling to these fake-deep artists. You all never had role models or educated people around you so you cling to them as if they're doing something profound.

So what if he drops a few socially progressive bars? So what if he hamfists some generic "come together world" bullshyt.

It sucks as music.

Its precisely why his attempt at creating another anthem with Beyonce on "Freedom" was and will be an utter flop.

No one I know (and thats Drs, PhD's, MD's, DDS, JD's etc) listens to that pretentious shyt. We know its entertainment so we treat it as such.

If we want education we're getting books, going to lectures, listening to podcasts, etc.

We're not listening to some high school level bullshyt from some rapper who claims to be some smartass know it all with a fraction of the wisdom of actual rap GOATS who grew up in the streets but know how to entertainingly push the same issues in way more creative ways.

So no, i'm not impressed with someone who raps with a college degree...because i'm not reading dissertations...i'm listening to music first and foremost and if it fails to entertain me, regardless of content, then its failed.

Holy fukking Ether, god damn! Why'd you have to do him like that

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

Cartoons and cereal

yeah gunplay had some good lines but what about kendrick