i like this guy
need to finally download his album plus maybe a mixtape or two
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
did i miss some era of pac's career when he was in freestyle fellowship or something?
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― turfin' bird (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― alpine static, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
am i the only person who thinks "The Recipe" is kind of a shitty, awkward-sounding song?
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i'm not really a big fan of it
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
it's okay, nothing really special
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
the part where dre raps is still just really ill fitting
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
I put it on my "faves of 2012" playlist without really listening to it and it really doesn't belong there
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
the production is gorgeous enough to overcome the not-especially-memorable rapping imo
tho obv it's no "cartoon & cereal"
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
see it doesn't sound very gorgeous to me! drums are so clunky
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
hmm never noticed the clunkiness before, the strings are what i think of though
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
just listening to it now, Dre sounds like Kendrick's bored grandpa and Kendrick sounds like he's imitating Lupe Fiasco poorly
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
like I said, it's okay
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
recipe is awesome
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
'drums are so clunky' this sounds like criticism for dummies type shit
recipe is one of the best songs of the year imo
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
i would like it way better if it just didn't have dr. dre on it
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
i dont see why this is the best he's sounded in years
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Dre's verses have always been karaoke
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
u sound young
he used to be better at hiding it
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
thats silly. ppl used to criticize his rapping all the time & they were wrong then too
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
eminem?
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
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
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
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
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
it must have been hard for eminem to channel than angry and defensive vibe dre wanted
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
for me it's less about the content than the rhythms
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
some spin on the ball here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwamhuY6Yy8
― Reg, Monday, 13 August 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
i like this guy's stuff.
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Monday, 13 August 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
This guy is the new Nas
Take that as you will
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krHJGimets
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
lolz
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:08 (six days ago) link
i dont think drake is even popular with kids that age not like us is prob most of what they know about him
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:24 (six days ago) link
there were like 80 people onstage at the end, amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:30 (six days ago) link
Tempted to make a how it started (“Poetic Justice”) / how it’s going (video of kids at a party calling Drake a pedophile) meme
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:44 (six days ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:48 (six days ago) link
i wouldn't be shocked if Not Like Us retook the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:49 (six days ago) link
Kids singing along to Drake-is-a-pedo verses >>> the choir in "The Living Years."
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:53 (six days ago) link
Drake will have to do a response concert in Toronto where he brings out, like, Bieber and Snow.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:56 (six days ago) link
drake rounding up all the artists hes been holding captive writing songs for him
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:58 (six days ago) link
*Drake's Toronto concert ends*
*20 minutes late Kendrick drops new diss track feat. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson*
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:00 (six days ago) link
Bob and Doug McKenzie on the hook
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:02 (six days ago) link
geddy: there is magic at your fingers, for the spirit ever lingerskdot: wop wop wop wop wop*sick lifeson arpeggio*
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:07 (six days ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:55 (six days ago) link
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
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 June 2024 16:01 (six days ago) link
Kunta seems like it would be a religious experience in that context also lol in 2024 about rappers with a ghost writer
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 20 June 2024 22:36 (six days ago) link
Jay Rock fuckin killed it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 June 2024 22:40 (six days ago) link
https://i.redd.it/hrpz9j2faq7d1.jpeg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 June 2024 23:24 (six days ago) link
Has “Not Like Us” become “The Macarena”?
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 20 June 2024 23:52 (six days ago) link
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
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 21 June 2024 02:59 (five days ago) link
That will depend on whether or not we get footage of it being blared at the DNC.
― MarkoP, Friday, 21 June 2024 04:30 (five days ago) link
kind of hoping the concert is an indication that kendrick will stop exposing us to baby keem
― devvvine, Friday, 21 June 2024 07:52 (five days ago) link
Interesting that there was no material from Morale/Steppers
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 June 2024 13:37 (five days ago) link
yeah, I guess that stuff didn't fit in with the mood of the concert
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 21 June 2024 13:49 (five days ago) link
Kendrick track just leaked, samples Nick Drake!?!?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 21 June 2024 14:35 (five days ago) link
is amazon going to put this up for people who missed the live stream?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 21 June 2024 14:46 (five days ago) link
xpost Wait, that's the Drake he's been talking about?
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 21 June 2024 14:49 (five days ago) link
looks like it's an outtake from Mr. Morale
Kendrick Lamar - Abortion Money (LEAK)2019 Morale SessionsPart 2 in comments pic.twitter.com/LQaPETd2pV— Man-Man (@numnumjuice) June 21, 2024
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 21 June 2024 14:50 (five days ago) link
well shit "abortion money" is a whole thing isn't it
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 21 June 2024 15:19 (five days ago) link
Drake can't even watch the weather forecast anymore pic.twitter.com/5vokNK1uZE— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 21, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 22 June 2024 03:03 (four days ago) link
Drake's next song is going to be called "I'm Not Owned!"
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 June 2024 03:08 (four days ago) link
"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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:26 (yesterday) link
the one that’s been rattling around my brain is, “say drake, i hear ya like ‘em young”
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:29 (yesterday) link
the voice he does that one in is so good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:31 (yesterday) link
its kinda olde timey
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:32 (yesterday) link
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
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:34 (yesterday) link
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'
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:35 (yesterday) link
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 chainsHomie still doubled down callin' us some slavesAtlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trainsBear with me for a second, let me put y'all on gameThe settlers was usin' town folk to make 'em richerFast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:36 (yesterday) link
“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
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:39 (yesterday) link
yeah totally KRS
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:40 (yesterday) link
all eyes on me and I'mma send it up to PAC
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:41 (yesterday) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:42 (yesterday) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:28 (yesterday) link
He could do an extended version with three or four guest verses like that. Give Rick Ross one.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:31 (yesterday) link
Baby Keem is definitely the Memphis Bleek of Top Dawg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:31 (yesterday) link
Pull a "Dear Summer" on Baby Keem's next record
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:34 (yesterday) link