Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

the fuck your ethnicity beat has been in my head for the last couple of days

yeah, i guess besides being really good it has sort of an embracing feel

i like this guy

need to finally download his album plus maybe a mixtape or two

Lamar has seen Tupac in a dream telling him to "Keep doing what you're doing, don't let my music die"

say no more

did i miss some era of pac's career when he was in freestyle fellowship or something?

kendrick is good... he def seems like a cool person, like hanging out w/ currensy & kendrick would just be really fun

"rigamortis" is really cool too, would like to see him do it w/ an actual live band

album is sneakily one of the better rap albums of the year too, certainly for a debut

Yeah, def. top 5 rap albums this year.

He has this knack for pulling off corny backpacker shit w/o coming across at all like a corny backpacker. But really, he's exactly the black hippy he claims to be.

Thing about this dude is he's not only a skilled rapper, obviously, but his beats/tracks are SO much more interesting (to me, at least) than, like, A$AP Rocky, Spaceghost, Mr. Exquire, and most of the other current, blog-buzzy hip-hop acts. And I like what Clams Casino is doing; I like the Rainforest EP. But I don't know ... I was trying to listen to that Spaceghost record the other day, and I didn't hate it, but ... just how dumb are we gonna allow the rhymes to be before we say enough is enough?

To me, this guy elevates up into the Shabazz Palaces / Serengeti realm rather than all the buzz stuff that just doesn't hold up.

(Tyler/Goblin/OFWGKTA left out of this post on purpose. Dig the beats, but overall, not for me.)

am i the only person who thinks "The Recipe" is kind of a shitty, awkward-sounding song?

yeah, i'm not really a big fan of it

it's okay, nothing really special

the part where dre raps is still just really ill fitting

I put it on my "faves of 2012" playlist without really listening to it and it really doesn't belong there

lol

the production is gorgeous enough to overcome the not-especially-memorable rapping imo

tho obv it's no "cartoon & cereal"

see it doesn't sound very gorgeous to me! drums are so clunky

hmm never noticed the clunkiness before, the strings are what i think of though

just listening to it now, Dre sounds like Kendrick's bored grandpa and Kendrick sounds like he's imitating Lupe Fiasco poorly

Man, you guys are jaded! This track doesn't fill you with joy? The stings? Kendrick's kinda weird sorta singing voice? His constant flow switch-ups? The no-hurry pacing? The shameless summeriness of it all? None of this does anything for you guys?

like I said, it's okay

and the Lupe Fiasco compare is just harsh! I mean, yeah, dude is in entertainer mode here, but the shit coming out of his mouth still makes sense

i had no concept of it being summery in any way until i listened close enough to figure out what the words in the chorus were. the flow in KL's first few bars is really really awkward imo.

I actually like how off the drums are, too. They're mixed to sound the way all drums do when you're driving really fast with the windows down and the radio turned way up

i didn't really get into it until i heard it on the radio driving down the freeway and then i decided i loved it

recipe is awesome

'drums are so clunky' this sounds like criticism for dummies type shit

recipe is one of the best songs of the year imo

i would like it way better if it just didn't have dr. dre on it

i dont see why this is the best he's sounded in years

ive said this elsewhere (or here maybe, too, i don't remember) but dre's parts on it sound 100% like kendrick karaoke, which makes sense since kendrick of course wrote the verses.

but idk i find it distracting and kinda embarrassing... not as much as "i need a doctor" but it def has the feel to me of an old baller trying to do a bunch of and 1 tricks or something

Yeah, I agree with that; the verse is not Dre's voice (in so much as Dre even has a voice these days). I give it a pass, though, just because his presence is so iconic and it's a key part of the song's Visit L.A. sales pitch

Dre's verses have always been karaoke

u sound young

he used to be better at hiding it

thats silly. ppl used to criticize his rapping all the time & they were wrong then too

xpost I dunno, 2001 was pretty much all Dre karaoke and it was awesome in part because of that (this was the beginning of his "so what if I use ghostwriter? no shame in it phase.") I think the problem is he's never had a ghostwriter with a voice as distinct as Kendrick's

i dunno, he used to seem less slavish in his imitation of his writers. i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.

eminem?

xp i don't buy that. jay-z, eminem, snoop, cube, doc?

yeah, eminem/snoop/cube were all strong voices too, obviously, but their personas heavily overlapped with Dre's in a way that Kendrick's doesn't. They all have their quirks, but there are a lot of interchangeable verses among the four of them. Kendrick is a real outlier

i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.

yeah, this is kind of true, but I give him a pass since I like the verse well enough anyway

i dont think kendrick is an outlier, its just a new voice
'forgot about dre' is super obviously a bunch of em verses in like every way, we just give it a pass cuz we heard it a bunch & its a dope song

yeah i don't know how you could consider kendrick's flow more distinctive than now "eminem" dre's verse in forgot about dre was

i dunno, maybe it's just that i didn't realize he didn't write his own raps at the time, but dre sounds way more "himself" on the chronic and 2001 to me.

totally agree; the ghost verses on "Forgot About Dre" were all angry and defensive, so they played on the popular image of Dre in a way that was believable enough

it must have been hard for eminem to channel than angry and defensive vibe dre wanted

for me it's less about the content than the rhythms

otm

some spin on the ball here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwamhuY6Yy8

i like this guy's stuff.

the whole thing

Fuck it, the full Kendrick Lamar pop out concert 🍿pic.twitter.com/riZm4mZgQY

— vids that go hard (@vidsthatgohard) June 20, 2024

this is an alltime character assassination you can only tip your cap

Not the kids singing “Not Like Us” bar for bar 😭
It’s gonna be a long summer… pic.twitter.com/aqAfoGX6ND

— Pweetty_b ⁷ (@Pwettybanz) June 13, 2024

lolz

i dont think drake is even popular with kids that age not like us is prob most of what they know about him

there were like 80 people onstage at the end, amazing

Tempted to make a how it started (“Poetic Justice”) / how it’s going (video of kids at a party calling Drake a pedophile) meme

lol

i wouldn't be shocked if Not Like Us retook the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100

Kids singing along to Drake-is-a-pedo verses >>> the choir in "The Living Years."

Drake will have to do a response concert in Toronto where he brings out, like, Bieber and Snow.

drake rounding up all the artists hes been holding captive writing songs for him

*Drake's Toronto concert ends*

*20 minutes late Kendrick drops new diss track feat. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson*

Bob and Doug McKenzie on the hook

geddy: there is magic at your fingers, for the spirit ever lingers
kdot: wop wop wop wop wop
*sick lifeson arpeggio*

it was cool to see performers and audience who were so into the music and of the culture knowledgable and passionate, kind of what made the beef so one sided, drake said some stuff about how LA wasnt really all about kendrick and he was wrong whole thing was just another ego game for him where kendricks really about it, big win for knowing what youre talking about

lol

And that’s for blocking have mercy from going top 10 btch! @Drake https://t.co/F1G6m2jFle pic.twitter.com/CJImfA0262

— Vannah💜| show me the way (@psavannahhh) June 20, 2024

Kunta seems like it would be a religious experience in that context also lol in 2024 about rappers with a ghost writer

Jay Rock fuckin killed it

https://i.redd.it/hrpz9j2faq7d1.jpeg

Has “Not Like Us” become “The Macarena”?

This is wild I really can't believe OVO Mark hopped off the porch like this. It's scary hours for Kendrick. Shit's gonna get real spooky for that man if OVO Thomas gets in the field tho. https://t.co/CIcRB6xt4R

— 🐿️✨America Is Musty✨🐿️ (@DragonflyJonez) June 20, 2024

Has “Not Like Us” become “The Macarena”?

That will depend on whether or not we get footage of it being blared at the DNC.

kind of hoping the concert is an indication that kendrick will stop exposing us to baby keem

Interesting that there was no material from Morale/Steppers

yeah, I guess that stuff didn't fit in with the mood of the concert

Kendrick track just leaked, samples Nick Drake!?!?

is amazon going to put this up for people who missed the live stream?

xpost Wait, that's the Drake he's been talking about?

looks like it's an outtake from Mr. Morale

Kendrick Lamar - Abortion Money (LEAK)
2019 Morale Sessions

Part 2 in comments pic.twitter.com/LQaPETd2pV

— Man-Man (@numnumjuice) June 21, 2024

well shit "abortion money" is a whole thing isn't it

Drake can't even watch the weather forecast anymore pic.twitter.com/5vokNK1uZE

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 21, 2024

Drake's next song is going to be called "I'm Not Owned!"

"Not Like Us" is a collection earworm lines, his delivery is such that somehow I have a bar like "1-2-3-4-5 plus FIVE" stuck in my head

the one that’s been rattling around my brain is, “say drake, i hear ya like ‘em young”

the voice he does that one in is so good

its kinda olde timey

same (xpost, re: they're not slow) ^

i am far too busy for such a task, but i am tempted to do a poll of this song's earworms some late night after everyone else is asleep

oh wait, i just realized i read that wrong.

"like 'em young" is good, too

but the one i can't stop saying is

"hey drake, they're not slow"

but honestly, there are like 30 of these in this one song

to me, the very best of the bunch is:

BEAT YO ASS AND HIDE THE BIBLE IF GOD WATCHIN'

my son immediately latched onto "Baka got a weird case, why is he around?"

The Atlanta verse almost sounds like KRS could have rapped it on Edutainment:

Once upon a time, all of us was in chains
Homie still doubled down callin' us some slaves
Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trains
Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game
The settlers was usin' town folk to make 'em richer
Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda

“Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game” = I know this is a diss track, but for the moment I’m taking you to school

yeah totally KRS

all eyes on me and I'mma send it up to PAC

first couple times I heard:

Pole on him, extort shit, bully, Death Row on him

as

Pole on him, extort shit, Willie DeFoe'n 'em

which i still like a lot

kind of wish there had been a 'let my little homies on ride on you' section to one of the track. Bring out Baby Keem for some absolute garbage.

He could do an extended version with three or four guest verses like that. Give Rick Ross one.

Baby Keem is definitely the Memphis Bleek of Top Dawg

Pull a "Dear Summer" on Baby Keem's next record