Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

lol @ me he was even in the same crew as keith

wow if you said one of lolita/roxanne is her stage name and the other is her birth name...most would not have picked correctly

this is a good album but everytime i listen to it i start to get kind of antsy and end up waiting for it to be done or changing to something else before it's over

ugh i only have 200 words to review this nooooooo

oof that would be a tough album to sum up in 200 words

yeah i lobbied for 500-600 words but newspaper industry failing and so on...

can't decide if the lyric "You hired me as a victim" is classic or a little on-the-nose corny

His Al Sh1pley is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, fwiw

i had 300 to review this and actually found it kinda freeing

dm the link to your review j0rd

it's not running until tomorrow i think

ahhh fair play

is fairplay gunplay's new name?

help I keep listening to the Drake song

I'm sure this will be all on the radio in a couple months and I'll get sick of it, but I don't even care right now.

It's the most attractive Drake's been, like, ever.

yeah it's the kind of relatable drake we don't hear as much of lately in the midst of all his "no lie"-type gangster posturing

I've never found Drake relatable for one second. But he's not embarassing here.

the drake song is the one moment on the album where i cant help but tune out kendrick for some reason

like, the meaning of the words he's saying.

I don't find many artists relatable but it's one of the few times on innumerable collaborations/duets/appearances when he sounds buoyed by the company.

anyway, great record i probably wont play that often outside 3-4 tracks

:/

I'm furious that I likely will be buying an album with Drake on it because I really, really like this

:/

― boxall, Monday, October 22, 2012 11:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hardly a criticism its the nature of 'album-albums' like this

Yeah didn't mean it as 'u mad' more like 'it's sad' but prob not untrue, for now I love it and that's enough.

fwiw several listens in, this is a much more coherent and appealing "album of the year" critical orgasm candidate than either My Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Fantasy or Frank Ocean's album

agreed

at the risk of being crucified what is it about drake that riles everyone so much

he's pretty terrible for one

as a personality he can be really aggravating and as a pure rapper he's pretty average but in terms of vision for his music/sound he's kind of unparalleled in contemporary rap

but what do you mean by "pretty terrible"

i dunno i am pretty much a rap dilettante but stuff like "over" and "lord knows" is pure ear candy to me :|

9.5 p4k

I don't find many artists relatable

Interesting. I'd say for me, listening to music is primarily an empathetic experience, and if I can't relate on some level I don't have any interest in listening at all.

haven't had time to spend with this yet. i love that gunplay's POWPOWPOW still appears in the background on 'money trees'.

"lord knows" is not exactly a representative drake track

I don't find many artists relatable

Interesting. I'd say for me, listening to music is primarily an empathetic experience, and if I can't relate on some level I don't have any interest in listening at all.

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that in itself is interesting to hear from someone who seems to listen to a lot of instrumental or dance-oriented music (although to be fair i have brought in the katz many times in my own life).

hardly a criticism its the nature of 'album-albums' like this

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 05:14 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

idk i could just be a little burnt out on it now but it seems to me fair comment that this album's rescreen (<- i use this word deliberately) value may be pronouncedly more limited than most (not that this detracts from its quality or that longevity should be a part of a critical toolkit)

dunno why pitchfork invented themselves an unnecessary imaginary deadline for that review, if you aint got anything insightful to say yet then maybe chill out and wait?

5/5 from fact too

The Observer review is one of the most content-free reviews I've ever read. I know this is an impossible record to capture in a capsule review but it genuinely tells you nothing.

haha, love the illuminating quotes

isnt that one of dom's special admirers iirc

saw the fact reviewer and skipped it

i know that guy probably tries his best more than most but sorry, just burn him with fire

itt non writing man bitches everyone out

obs capsule rvw word length is 100, grau is 180. it feels like a lot more

if you aint got anything insightful to say yet then maybe chill out and wait?

this week has def been pretty awful for showing up the limitations of musicjournalism2012 - makes me a bit sad that we're getting these kneejerk encomiums/judgements on lamar and swift instead of more considered appreciations after people have lived with them for a few months

for a few months? how often does that happen in the business though

u guys lost me

idk i could just be a little burnt out on it now but it seems to me fair comment that this album's rescreen (<- i use this word deliberately) value may be pronouncedly more limited than most (not that this detracts from its quality or that longevity should be a part of a critical toolkit)

― r|t|c, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:04 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah i agree w this

eh months is a different kettle of fish, a degree of live squirming is still desirable

fortnight seems fair