Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

"kingdom come" might be one of my favorite flips ever. that's a great beat. the song's drab but that ain't the beat's fault

this album is kind of amazing

leaked?

allegedly

damn

love this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYgGpUjz2A

yea, jay rock's verse on that is amazing

yeah album's highlight

Jesus Christ. Sorry for the skepticism, Kendrick.

after one listen it seems that the 1st half > second

i'd agree with that. i think the really long song at the end is great tho.

for some reason the Baltimore station only plays a weird mixtape version of "Swimming Pools" with Lloyd on the first minute or so of it. at least it makes the most tedious rap hit of the year more bearable, though.

why does he have to say "bish" like that? otherwise good song

this is pretty amazing guys

for some reason the Baltimore station only plays a weird mixtape version of "Swimming Pools" with Lloyd on the first minute or so of it.

this is very weird

This is awesome. The best boring album in forever.

tbf this is the same great but sometimes ass-backwards station that plays the EP version of "Adorn"

This is awesome. The best boring album in forever.

― Gelados n cream (longneck), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:00 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha i'm 2/3 through and this is exactly what i needed to read

it's very subdued, i think the vibe is dope. it's like an album for people who aren't lifestyle potheads that listen to wiz khalifa

why does he have to say "bish" like that? otherwise good song

― i dox in yellow gox dox socks (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

he is into weird vocal tics and pronunciations for w/e reason i.e. pronouncing "that" as "thot" on "adhd". idk, i think he can get away with it

He can get away with it, but it's kind of annoying imo

the way he overemphasizes the last letter of any word that ends with a 't' or 'p' is annoying as fuck

i dunno it's his thing, i don't it. he's a dork (in a good way), no weirder than other vocal things rappers do

Yeah his weird rapping style is the draw for me, although it was kind of wtf at first.

without investigating too far admittedly i hadnt hitherto found this dude especially engaging (even yesterday i thought he sonned himself next to wc ogs on the bet cypher tbh) but this is a great compelling persuasive proper album and what i'm not drawn into on radio / youtube / discussion / whatever i am here

likewise i really don't find "1st half > second" applies, it starts light, simmers, boils over, and finds peace and troubled redemption as intended. 'good kid' and 'maad city' are the heart of the album (somewhat obviously to say)

kinda maybe getting shades of a more expansive, feeling sitting on chrome although i guess that might just be the interludes talking

(also i havent heard s.o.c in forever so who knows what my imagination might have turned it into)

dre really did a hell of a job exec producing this

probably more than that judging by 'good kid' which i highly, highly doubt the neps came up with all by themselves

I like kendrick, I just think there needs to be standards about how rappers say bitch, perhaps a senior counsel chaired by too short could hand down rulings

dre really did a hell of a job exec producing this

― r|t|c, Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:28 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You sure it's Dre that should be getting the credit and not Kendrick himself? I mean, section.80 was all Kendrick, and that had a great flow, production choices, et cetera.

yeah ok fair point, i didnt say it to depreciate kendrick's input but i thought i heard some telling dre touches in there is all

i pray my dick get bick as the eiffel tower/so i can fuck the world for 72 hours

:|

does he say "bick" for "big" or was that a misprint?

i like that line lol

i like the idea/image of the eiffel tower fucking the world

i like that line too!

lil wayne has ruined every and all images of "fucking the world" for me

haha i was gonna say that's such a post-'08 wayne kind of pun

really though WHY is "cartoon & cereal" not on this? why?

i don't see the big deal about it being left off. i don't really get why in this era we really need songs to be on albums. we all have that song, it has its own, uh, legacy or w/e. it still exits & we can all still play it at our leisure.

even the duller songs on here... still worth it for his unpredictable flow.

I wish Cartoon & Cereal was on here in the place of Real.

i think i read somewhere that the cartoon sample in cartoon & cereal couldn't be cleared...

that would make sense

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would be easy enough to just sub in a different sample though?
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otm

Well it's not just one sample but many. All the little cartoon samples were too much work to clear and Kendrick didn't want to use it without them is what my guy tells me.

Do you guys think the concept/story thing lifts this or keeps it back though? I'm undecided. (Not that it matters much.)

it has a concept?

It has a story that evolves from track to track. There's this huge nerdy thing explaining it all that I could copy paste if anyone's interested.

develops i mean