Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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

i just wish they were separate tracks so i could remove them instead of having to reach into my pocket every time

how long are the individual skits at most? 30 seconds? they feel pretty short and unobtrusive

There's a stretch of three songs in a row that each end with about a minute of dialogue (mostly leading into the next track). It gets overbearing.

no skits on this are as obtrusive as the biggie dick sucking / fucking skits on certified classic 'ready to die'

they're not obtrusive they're just not preferable to actual music

I ended up skipping them on my second play. Sue me.

it's really not a huge deal

i'll listen to good skits anyway some of the time

they're not that bad, and if it's really killing you there are edits floating around online with the skits cut off into separate tracks for easier rapp access

(excellent review by the way deej, one of the few really substantive pieces i've seen on this album so far)

Are there any reviews yet that discuss the religious motifs that run throughout the album? It's pretty upfront for a rap album.

These are some of the least obtrusive skits ever, they fit the atmosphere and flow of the album perfectly, so even though I've stopped paying much attention to the content I haven't once felt impelled to skip them.

Great job on the review Deej.

I love on the first skit that his dad is "where's my motherfucking dominos at?" then when informed that he's got kendrick's voicemail and not kendrick himself he's "oh..where's my fucking dominoes at?".