Kendrick Lamar - "To Pimp a Butterfly"

[Peezy_Jenkins]

I've sat with this album for the past couple of days...having each song on repeat, first feeling the groove of the beats and then intently digesting the lyrics by ear first and then seeking out rap genius next, I personally want to tell Kendrick Lamar, Thank You.

He took the complexity of being black in America and put into an album that makes everyone uncomfortable. He exposed our weakness of emotional/mental imbalances by shedding light on our frustrations of always having to live a life of survival. He repeatly stripped us of the victim badge and challenged us to take some blame. K Dot reminded us why others try so hard to emulate our culture, we effortlessly set trends and change the dynamics of fashion/music/art everyday. A black man...sat down with black influences to make a 16 track album filled with Blackness for black people intentionally.

So Kendrick thank you for a 79 minute reminder of why the melanin in my skin is beautiful....because the world reminds me every few seconds why its not.

Also, please stop comparing him with Cole...they both are great in their own rights.

WTF....... OK y'all niggas trolling now. Go listen to Public Enemy and you'll coming and flag your own post for saying this melodrama fuck shit you just wrote goddamn.

the irony of @cain hating on this funk influenced shit... didn't u used to rock fishtank platforms and jackets with fur collars and leather elbows to see Bootsy and them?

Nigga this fuck shit is a P-Funk and G-funk blasphemy if I never heard it.George Clinton lives in NC I'm smacking the shit out of that nigga when I see him for signing off on that fuck shit. @Meta_Conscious also cartwheel into a buzzsaw sir

Jesus Christ I hate the Reason @Stew what happen to this shit bruh

Yo old ass got public enemy and my young ass got Kendrick Lamar...go take your pills and go to sleep with yo old ass tryna stunt all on my post calling it melodrama...I'm tryna add substance to this thread and here yo AARP card carrying nigga wanna act up :-w

Pardon me sir, my bad go ahead tell us how the album made your teeth whiter and cleared your credit report. I'm done for now oh and for that old joke I pray your favorite boxers catch on fire while you're in them listening to Mortal Man.

lmao

thats a female, debo

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

welp, u got me with that one.

 

[JDSTAYWITIT]

I'm honestly trying hard to like the album but I just dont.

its never that serious Fam ... perhaps the new migos tape is more of your speed?

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

yall had me thinkin i went too hard for krit till i seen some of the shit about kendrick and cole in here, sheesh.

 

[StoneColdMikey]

yall had me thinkin i went too hard for krit till i seen some of the shit about kendrick and cole in here, sheesh.

Lupe thread worse

 

[JDSTAYWITIT]

i misquote the shit Outta the article but this is it
https://twitter.com/slate/status/578720968010522625

this shit is so contrived ... these CACs have 0 problem approaching the "overwhelming blackness" of trap music .. or any of that turn up shit .. yet the moment a nigga aint on none of that shit they suddenly become disillusioned and need to figure out ways to "approach" black expression not manifested in what they have been trained to understand ass stereotypical niggatry

i didn't see no whites talking about they needed time to digest the "blackness" expressed on GKMC when niggas was talking about "hittin house licks ya bish" ... or niggas gettin shot or any of their often fantasized about retelling's of black hood pathology ..but now they gotta step back because THIS is tooo black ...

LMAO... these muthafuckas are a trip

 

[YoungChamp]

i misquote the shit Outta the article but this is it
https://twitter.com/slate/status/578720968010522625

this shit is so contrived ... these CACs have 0 problem approaching the "overwhelming blackness" of trap music .. or any of that turn up shit .. yet the moment a nigga aint on none of that shit they suddenly become disillusioned and need to figure out ways to "approach" black expression not manifested in what they have been trained to understand ass stereotypical niggatry

i didn't see no whites talking about they needed time to digest the "blackness" expressed on GKMC when niggas was talking about "hittin house licks ya bish" ... or niggas gettin shot or any of their often fantasized about retelling's of black hood pathology ..but now they gotta step back because THIS is tooo black ...

LMAO... these muthafuckas are a trip

Preach

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

i misquote the shit Outta the article but this is it
https://twitter.com/slate/status/578720968010522625

this shit is so contrived ... these CACs have 0 problem approaching the "overwhelming blackness" of trap music .. or any of that turn up shit .. yet the moment a nigga aint on none of that shit they suddenly become disillusioned and need to figure out ways to "approach" black expression not manifested in what they have been trained to understand ass stereotypical niggatry

i didn't see no whites talking about they needed time to digest the "blackness" expressed on GKMC when niggas was talking about "hittin house licks ya bish" ... or niggas gettin shot or any of their often fantasized about retelling's of black hood pathology ..but now they gotta step back because THIS is tooo black ...

LMAO... these muthafuckas are a trip

 

[GetoBoy]

If the 2 albums of the decade are TPAB and MBDTF then this has really been one weak ass decade.....smh

 

[R.D.]

Let me sit with this for a while but MBDTF is an amazing experience

 

[trilladelic]

5 tracks in right now..

dope..but i ask..does it get doper?

 

[TheGOAT]

5 tracks in right now..

dope..but i ask..does it get doper?

i prefer the 2nd half so yeah

 

[trilladelic]

impressive to say the least..

better than gkmc imo. makes me wanna give section 80 another listen..

 

[Stew]

I've sat with this album for the past couple of days...having each song on repeat, first feeling the groove of the beats and then intently digesting the lyrics by ear first and then seeking out rap genius next, I personally want to tell Kendrick Lamar, Thank You.

He took the complexity of being black in America and put into an album that makes everyone uncomfortable. He exposed our weakness of emotional/mental imbalances by shedding light on our frustrations of always having to live a life of survival. He repeatly stripped us of the victim badge and challenged us to take some blame. K Dot reminded us why others try so hard to emulate our culture, we effortlessly set trends and change the dynamics of fashion/music/art everyday. A black man...sat down with black influences to make a 16 track album filled with Blackness for black people intentionally.

So Kendrick thank you for a 79 minute reminder of why the melanin in my skin is beautiful....because the world reminds me every few seconds why its not.

Also, please stop comparing him with Cole...they both are great in their own rights.

WTF....... OK y'all niggas trolling now. Go listen to Public Enemy and you'll coming and flag your own post for saying this melodrama fuck shit you just wrote goddamn.

the irony of @cain hating on this funk influenced shit... didn't u used to rock fishtank platforms and jackets with fur collars and leather elbows to see Bootsy and them?

Nigga this fuck shit is a P-Funk and G-funk blasphemy if I never heard it.George Clinton lives in NC I'm smacking the shit out of that nigga when I see him for signing off on that fuck shit. @Meta_Conscious also cartwheel into a buzzsaw sir

Jesus Christ I hate the Reason @Stew what happen to this shit bruh

Lmao I feel ya brotha. Shit went down hill when the music started going down hill. Get a good to great album that drops and muhfuckas don't know how to act.

 

[LEMZIMUS_RAMSEY]

Lol this shit is trash foh with the 2nd 3rd listen bullshit. Oh when I first heard it was trash but after my 6th listen its a classic ass niggas. Smh at this shit

I've sat with this album for the past couple of days...having each song on repeat, first feeling the groove of the beats and then intently digesting the lyrics by ear first and then seeking out rap genius next, I personally want to tell Kendrick Lamar, Thank You.

He took the complexity of being black in America and put into an album that makes everyone uncomfortable. He exposed our weakness of emotional/mental imbalances by shedding light on our frustrations of always having to live a life of survival. He repeatly stripped us of the victim badge and challenged us to take some blame. K Dot reminded us why others try so hard to emulate our culture, we effortlessly set trends and change the dynamics of fashion/music/art everyday. A black man...sat down with black influences to make a 16 track album filled with Blackness for black people intentionally.

So Kendrick thank you for a 79 minute reminder of why the melanin in my skin is beautiful....because the world reminds me every few seconds why its not.

Also, please stop comparing him with Cole...they both are great in their own rights.

WTF....... OK y'all niggas trolling now. Go listen to Public Enemy and you'll coming and flag your own post for saying this melodrama fuck shit you just wrote goddamn.

the irony of @cain hating on this funk influenced shit... didn't u used to rock fishtank platforms and jackets with fur collars and leather elbows to see Bootsy and them?

Nigga this fuck shit is a P-Funk and G-funk blasphemy if I never heard it.George Clinton lives in NC I'm smacking the shit out of that nigga when I see him for signing off on that fuck shit. @Meta_Conscious also cartwheel into a buzzsaw sir

Jesus Christ I hate the Reason @Stew what happen to this shit bruh

Lmao I feel ya brotha. Shit went down hill when the music started going down hill. Get a good to great album that drops and muhfuckas don't know how to act.

Dont tell me that you cosign that idiocy of argument Stew.

posters are analysing the album. After a first listening to GKMC and TPAB i was laughing at K LAMAR thinking it was super trash. After the third listening i changed my view.

There are alot of albums that ive dislike when i was young, not liked very much at the first listening in which ive changed my opinion later in my life or after numerous listenings.

And most of the time it happens with classics.

Can you appreciate a Busta Rhymes album after 2 hours of hard workout? No cause you will be so exhausted that you ll just cut it.

The Nas , Kendrick Lamar albums are not FAST FOOD MUSIC. You cannot appreciate them fully after a quick deconcentrated listening imo.

you need calm, like CLASSIC MUSIC.

 

[LEMZIMUS_RAMSEY]

I think that since we live in a high speed society, a lot of us dont have the ability to concentrate in certain things.

We are so accustomed to CHEAP , FORMATED , REPETITIVE MUSIC that the minute we meet a OUT OF THE FORMULA ALBUM most of us HAVE THE REFLEX OF REJECTING IT AT FIRST OR DEFINITIVELY.

And it s not a good look imo.

 

[LEMZIMUS_RAMSEY]

And when we lose our ability to listening to difference , we surrender ourselves to the INDUSTRYA. We give them the power to give us whatever they want , at the difference of us exercising our right to partially dictate what we would like to hear.

By example Who were the judge in battle ? The public

Ironically we are many that COMPLAIN on a daily basis. But if our musical taste if limited i dont forsee any change...

 

[KamPushMe]

I could listen to this album everday bruh. It is truly amazinf

 

[KamPushMe]

g

 

[LEMZIMUS_RAMSEY]

I could listen to this album everday bruh. It is truly amazinf

For real. I can understand if a club guy tells me ' its aiggt but its not my cup of tea im into club songs'.

When i was very young i used to act like that with my brother . I couldnt understand how he could pace Nas lyrical magic over Jay Z shit.

He told me that with all the respect he has for Nas he wasnt into Conscious rap . He was more into Jay shit. Bur no way yiu could hear him say NAS IS TRAH MUSIC.

Our opinion dont have to blind us to the FACTS. It important in life imo

Imo we should ban both dickriders and haters from threads cause they are a cancer to that shit.