Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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

so now that kendrick lamar is everyone's favorite rapper he'll kill himself for money, right?

^ like

one thing i like about this album is that there's not many guest verses, and really only one guest verse - drake - that would be seen as "marketing" type guest verse (but actually like ppl have said drake feels pretty organic to that track -- the other ones are jay rock, who's in the crew, and mc eiht and dr. dre who are kinda like west coast legacy hall of fame spots....

I love that he got Eiht for that verse.

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

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Monday, October 22, 2012 10:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love Frank's album still, actually think it's quite visionary, still, but always thought that 'Ye album wasn't as good as everyone was claiming it was at the time. But I should go back to it...

it sucks, it's like the aural equivalent of a guy that gakked out of his head on coke and WON'T SHUT UP

this album is getting a lot better for me...especially when i quit trying to think about how good it is and just vibe w/ it

My Overblown Ego Fantasy is a much, much better album if you don't try to listen to the entire thing at once; I really, really like pretty much every song on it in isolation but trying to sit down and listen to the whole thing generates a huge "SHUT THE FUCK UP" phobic reaction in me

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).

― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:43 AM Bookmark

Instrumental/dance music contains ~feelingz~ too! I mean, sometimes that feeling may be as simple as the desire to dance, but it's still there.

ehh i think you're stretching the idea of "finding the artist relatable" to its breaking point

can't wait to see what hilarious fake kanye album name you guys come up with next!!!

My Dark Beautiful Sarcastic Messageboard Post

KANYE WEST / BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO

I'm hearing more than 200k in first week sales.

wow

oh definitely, at a minimum

ok so i'll actually listen to this since it'd be silly to keep posting on the thread w/o doing so

this album starts on track 10 huh. not that i've ever heard a song from his that sounds like a 'track 2'.

the way this guy raps in triplet flows the same way over every kind of beat is kind of annoying and eyerolling imo, he's like a teenaged guitarist who just learned a couple eddie van halen tricks and crams them into every song they play. learn some different tricks if you're gonna show off, dude!

this album feels much more like Late Registration that ATLiens to me. that's not a knock, though, i'm a bigger fan of the former than the latter.

ok so i'll actually listen to this since it'd be silly to keep posting on the thread w/o doing so

― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:15 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

disappointed in you man

nah i'm not about to morb it up over here

fantastic review deej

this album feels much more like Late Registration that ATLiens to me. that's not a knock, though, i'm a bigger fan of the former than the latter.

― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he actually quotes from "we major" on it

xp thnx!

Agreed. Excellent review.

great review & the building it around "back in the day" by ahmad made me smile :)

yeah it's great

and because everyone here seems averse to actually linking things when they praise them

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/10/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-maad-city-review

yeah the Ahmad thing was a really good connection to make, as soon as i saw it i was like ahhh yes of course

damn deej -- that's terrific. Even the pullquote was well chosen.

how old is kendrick?

like some of the best rap albums this leaves me feeling slightly ashamed of my past (and current tbh) immaturity

i've listening to the album for hours now. so much better than section 80

He's 25.

ok that makes me feel a bit better

(not much tho)

well this is lovely

the skit/interludes are definitely immersive and scene-setting, if the dialogue is written/'staged' it works so much better than the usual rap skit m.o. of having dudes awkwardly recite lines in studio vocal booths

Heard a few tracks, is endearing

backseat freestyle is VERY kanye; i'm hearing a lot more college dropout than outkast on first listen too

xxp yeah definitely, i couldnt at all get my head around evan's beef about the skits being too heavyhanded handholdy

great review deej, your best work imo

o shit the janet sample

oh shit there's drake
ugh

wow preciate that rtc

Just read it, awesome work, nailed it, etc.

yeah definitely, i couldnt at all get my head around evan's beef about the skits being too heavyhanded handholdy

I'll be interested to see what people think of the skits once they've lived with the album for a couple of weeks. I think they gum the pacing of an already pretty slow album and seriously cut into the record's replay value