Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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.

This guy is the new Nas

Take that as you will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krHJGimets

i really like him. take that as you will.

Doing a track with Lady Gaga apparently

i'm actually looking fwd to that quite a lot, doesn't seem like a natural fit

i like him too. i also like nas

This guy is the new Nas

Take that as you will

― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:34 PM Bookmark

This could mean practically anything.

ie maybe he is literally writing the songs on the new nas record

i dont see how that could mean practically anything; he holds a very specific place in hip hop

so specific, in fact, that calling anyone else "the new Nas" is utterly meaningless

well, you can take it as you will.. you must guess at D-40's own appraisal. and if you guess wrong, BAM in the dunk tank you go

lol seriously

i dont really see what's so hard to understand about that parallel

who's putting anyone in the dunk tank?

i mean, it seems evident to me Kendrick is a really talented rapper who's talent is so uncontroversial that he becomes a stand-in for 'quality rap' -- focus on skill above all, dry rap style, this kind of focus on purity of rap as a technical skill

you guys really cant figure that shit out on your own?

track in the OP = the new biddybiddybop

Section 80 was a lot weirder than that description suggests. Not too mention stuff like Cartoon & Cereal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTsKXc3Cixg

haha Nas is about 2 billion times weirder than kendrick

"Not too mention" christ

matt otm

i assumed deej's post was a comedy copy&paste due to the capital letters. guess not :/

anybody know the precedent for shortest amount of time a song took to get a billion streams?

gotta think they will be a marching band

superbowl generally a greatest hits thing, prince covering foo fighters notwithstanding, maybe swimming pools king kunta humble not like us with some guests doing stuff mixed in

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 8, 2024 7:37 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

That’d be my guess - maybe with a new song thrown in there.

Maybe “I” too

And Alright, though he already did that one at a Superbowl

So yeah, Weezy is not happy. Not that the NFL cares about the locals I guess.

https://pitchfork.com/news/lil-wayne-on-not-getting-super-bowl-2025-halftime-show-it-broke-me/

wonder if anyone getting excited about this has seen the state of lil wayne recently, not someone youd want to rely on for a big event like the superbowl

Yeah agreed, and even at his peak I’m not sure he was halftime headliner stature. But NOLA pride is fierce, given his Drake affiliation this feels like a double snub.

I don’t know. Does the halftime musician often come from the city the game is in? I know they had Dre in L.A. but also like Maroon 5 in Atlanta.

that LA one was the only time theyve had local performers, fwiw seems like this is mostly being revved up by people who arent arguing in the best of faith

I mean…Prince was rather famously NOT from Miami

And I don’t recall U2’s Super Bowl being in Dublin.

meanwhile things going about the same for drake https://www.hot97.com/news/drake-never-offered-super-bowl-nfl-sources-say

that LA one was the only time theyve had local performers, fwiw seems like this is mostly being revved up by people who arent arguing in the best of faith

That LA one was so good, I'd love it if that was the template for each host city. (Though what would they have done for Tampa? Limp Bizkit and the remaining Heartbreakers?)

it was cool but the superbowl isnt really about the host city in an any way and they basically cycle between the same five locations anyway

To be fair, there aren’t many cities in the country (the world?) as defined by their music as New Orleans. Per that Pitchfork article, sounds like Wayne started lobbying for it as soon as the host city was announced. I totally get not picking him, but I hope they find some way to honor New Orleans.

Yeah, but why would it have to be Lil Wayne? Why not Harry Connick Jr.?

arron neville original nola face tat legend

it makes me sad that this means so much to lil wayne. he could sell out the superdome whenever he wants. there was no similar outcry when maroon 5 was chosen as the headliner in atlanta … the idea that the super bowl halftime show is some coronation for hometown heroes has as lagoon says no basis in reality

unfortunately for wayne when he should have been headlining the super bowl the NFL was still in its post-JT/janet phase of treating mainstream pop culture like the plague & thus was booking i.e. tom petty, the who etc

Wayne and Harry Connick in a Super Bowl Doritos commercial

Sad thing is if it weren’t for rap politics and beefs, having Wayne do a bit would be a natural move. But seems unlikely under the circumstances.

It surprises me that people still think of Wayne as a huge artist. I haven’t really paid attention to him since before Kendrick’s career began.

He’s huge to NOLA, nobody’d be mentioning him if the game was somewhere else.

I feel like Kendrick, especially earlier, owed a lot to Wayne in terms of his phrasing and eccentric vocalizations. I’ll bet he brings him onstage at the end of the show as a surprise guest.

Da Drought 3 still rules

treeship 2 otm- i think kendrick brings wayne out for a feature. to pay tribute and to get another shot at drake (sentiment along the lines of, "even the people that put you on have realized their fuck up").

Trombone Shorty's band will play Not Like Us and it'll be great.

Trombone Shorty, Wayne, Juvenile & Mannie, eyehategod

Phil Anselmo