Kendrick Lamar Album Discussion 4-14-17

[Inglewood_Fatty]

Today was the perfect day to ride around LA to this album. DNA, Element, Loyalty and God sliding through the city with the windows down just felt right.

 

[Jonah 2.0]

Bought it for my road trip. I've listened to it for 5 hours of driving and I just keep letting it play from front to back. The only song I don't really mess with is Yah. Can't say where I'd rank it among his other works yet but I'm definitely a satisfied customer.

U played the album 5 times in a row bruh? 5 times!?

Indeed.

 

[Midwest_Journalist]

I'm in my 30s and grew up in Kanas City. The hate Kendrick receives sometime reminds me of 2Pac when he dropped "Me against ...," "All Eyez..." and "Makaveli." Dope projects and the majority of people liked them. But there was always a few people who couldn't give props and called everyone stupid for listening to it or said it was not real Hip-Hop. Instead, their idea of the real shit was some other dude that struggled to hit gold or some underground rapper

But years later, they're giving Pac props on Facebook. LOL!

Makes no sense at all Kendrick gets Hella praise for his music.. they praise him for being different in the Era of rap

I didn't say Kendrick was not receiving a lot of praise. Just pointing out that he got a lot of haters who always have something negative to say, although his music is dope.

 

[rip.dilla]

LOL... feelings

=)

 

[blue_london]

I'm in my 30s and grew up in Kanas City. The hate Kendrick receives sometime reminds me of 2Pac when he dropped "Me against ...," "All Eyez..." and "Makaveli." Dope projects and the majority of people liked them. But there was always a few people who couldn't give props and called everyone stupid for listening to it or said it was not real Hip-Hop. Instead, their idea of the real shit was some other dude that struggled to hit gold or some underground rapper

But years later, they're giving Pac props on Facebook. LOL!

Makes no sense at all Kendrick gets Hella praise for his music.. they praise him for being different in the Era of rap

I didn't say Kendrick was not receiving a lot of praise. Just pointing out that he got a lot of haters who always have something negative to say, although his music is dope.

There no middle ground here if you like it your a sheep if you dislike it your hating

 

[qawshun]

https://youtu.be/zQZnOmDq_e8

:joy:

Lmao facts

 

[mr.october]

I thought it was cool. Some people who aren't big fans tend to rate unfairly & those who are tend to overreact and make it seem like it's more than what it is. It was like that with tpab. I remember in that thread a lot of the same people saying the same thing then now. I don't subscribe to that NY hate shit tho. I bumped this in my Q7 late night there's a few tracks that I skip but I think it's solid. It got more replay value than joey shit n we from the same part of bk. I don't think it's hate. My homie think future dropped the best shit this yr & he from ny n live here too. People like what they like.

 

[rip.dilla]

Yeh not really fuckin with the "I'm an Israelite I'm not black no more"

Dead at that line skating past eryone in here.

I thought he was rapping in third person with that line... about his cousin? I could be wrong though but YAH. is amongst my favourite tracks on the LP...

 

[rip.dilla]

So on third listen... I'll upgrade my review from a 3/5 to a 4/5... I didn't initially get where he was going conceptually but I do now. The album basically deals with issues such as 'God', religion, race and human morality.. the production on this jawn is A1 too. Beats, mastering and engineering..

Favourites are

DNA.

YAH.

FEEL.

LOYALTY.

PRIDE. (my favourite jam on the record...)

LUST.

XXX. and

DUCCWORTH. (incredible production from 9th Wonder)

And niggas is asking... the relationship between BLOOD. and DUCCWORTH. What about DUCCWORTH. coming immediately after GOD. on the tracklisting?(Creator and creation)

 

[Nah Son]

Sooo where the other one at

 

[jazzybella]

Love was my soundtrack last night

 

[playmaker88]

Sooo where the other one at

Its droppin after Church soooooooooooo 6:45pm

 

[Midwest_Journalist]

I'm in my 30s and grew up in Kanas City. The hate Kendrick receives sometime reminds me of 2Pac when he dropped "Me against ...," "All Eyez..." and "Makaveli." Dope projects and the majority of people liked them. But there was always a few people who couldn't give props and called everyone stupid for listening to it or said it was not real Hip-Hop. Instead, their idea of the real shit was some other dude that struggled to hit gold or some underground rapper

But years later, they're giving Pac props on Facebook. LOL!

Makes no sense at all Kendrick gets Hella praise for his music.. they praise him for being different in the Era of rap

I didn't say Kendrick was not receiving a lot of praise. Just pointing out that he got a lot of haters who always have something negative to say, although his music is dope.

There no middle ground here if you like it your a sheep if you dislike it your hating

That's my point. People hate on popular artist so much, they put down other people who listen to it. It's cool not to like something, but that doesn't mean the other people are zombies. You can go to any post on Facebook about Hip-Hop and there's always comments from someone accusing people of being Stans, dickriders, etc. if they like someone's album.

And we all know haters exist. Let's stop playing. There was always a small group of dudes in high school and college who hated the star football player because he could fuck any bitch in the school he wanted. LOL!

 

[Nah Son]

So this Hot 97 vid pops up on my Youtube and Dickrodenberg says this album makes Kenny the greatest rapper who ever lived

I wanna knock that corny mf out so bad

 

[blacktux]

I feel where @"EmM HoLLa." coming from.

Lot of people giving the album love just based off who made it and not the effort itself. Thats wack.

Album has some jams on it, i like it; im glad i bought it. But its not better than GKMC or TPAB.

 

[achewon87]

It's a dope album from a top 3 current artist...

Only natural some people fall victim to the hypebeast...

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

Album is cool but not as good as his others but with that said fear and duckworth is one of his best tracks. Nothing really mind-blowing but those 2.They up there With sing about me, Mortal man and cartoons and cereal IMO

 

[HustleThaDon]

Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme some ganja!

 

[Stomp Johnson]

I took best to this album on first listen over TPAB & GKMC because of the absence of the fuckin helium voice effect he's overused in the past.

That's been my primary complaint of him. The other being, his super sped up flow that goes off beat at times.

Reminds me of T.I. and how he sounded all over "I'm Serious" vs when he returned more polished with "Trap Muzik".

 

[IceBergTaylor]

Yeh not really fuckin with the "I'm an Israelite I'm not black no more"

Dead at that line skating past eryone in here.

I thought he was rapping in third person with that line... about his cousin? I could be wrong though but YAH. is amongst my favourite tracks on the LP...

I been reading that there are some interludes missing that involves his cousin and it would made the connection throughout the album easier to understand. But who knows.... last album he was christian now he's an Israelite. All I know is we aren't cursed.