Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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?".

I really like this so far. I've spent all week respinning other recent-ish Black Hippy stuff and decided that Section.80 was my least favourite but I think I can come to love this once I really give it some time. The skits seem really quite immersive imo, esp. how they are murkily lost in the sound like you tend to get when rap/r&b albums do the tape machine thing (mjb's debut and hard to earn come to mind but this is spread out in small doses whereas they are one offs) and not totally in yr face like most rap skits.

so hey is there any meaning behind how the title is stylized or is 'm.A.A.d city' just an eyerolling affectation

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2012/10/the-meaning-of-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city-as-explained-by-kendrick-lamar

so, both

OK, this drives me nuts:

Next up, all we need is Kendrick or a literary genius to fully explain Sherene, the van and the storyline of the album.

Do these things really need MORE explaining? Do rap listeners really need Cliffs Notes for everything?

"I really love what Kendrick's going for, but if only he made some effort to explain the album's storyline, because I am totally lost!" - the dumbest human being ever, who I refuse to believe exists

Rap Genius is still working at furiously decoding The Who's Tommy

what is this "spinball lizard"

"How can there be a Sgt. Pepper without a Col. Salt?"

xxp that dumb person doesnt exist, it was just a tossed off magaziney closing zing chill out

tbh I think Kendrick Lamar thinks this person exists. He strikes me as a super smart dude who doesn't think much of his audience, the way he walks them through every self-explanatory plot point

whatever man

concepts are for suckers

i didnt even need the skits to tell me what was going on, it was all there in the smart marketing campaign

"I really love what Kendrick's going for, but if only he made some effort to explain the album's storyline, because I am totally lost!" - the dumbest human being ever, who I refuse to believe exists

― Evan R, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:59 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

complex did do a gallery where he essentially explains every song

NOoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUUUUUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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oops hey guys that wasn't meant for the kendrick lamar thread

wrong thread and yet the perfect thread

fans overanalysing lyrics and What Songs Mean is hardly a new or surprising phenomenon

though swift and lamar are tied together in this regard as well as leak and release dates

though swift and lamar are tied together in this regard as well as leak and release dates

― lex pretend, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink #askneil

Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/the_great_american_rap_album_has_arrived/

ok fuck that headline

it's a quote from another review

but matt think of how american is slacking behind all those other rap countries, like switzerland and uganda and uzbeckistan

i thought wilco made the great american rap album

didn't you mean Beck?

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Reminds me of "Kid A"...yeah like a rap version of RadioHead's "Kid A"...

Shyne chiming in

http://www.egotripland.com/shyne-kendrick-lamar-twitter/

ladies and gentlemen, the gangsta yankee hotel foxtro--

there it is

you mean the backpacker hotel foxtrot

huge lols @ shyne having the balls to say someone else's major label debut did not deliver on the hype

"collect calls" is absolutely stunning

lol at terrace martin on the making of 'real'

“It was kind of a special night, and we had cheap wine — like $2 bottles of wine and a bunch of girls that looked horrible and Brazilian music going on, but it worked out. It was Compton Brazilian music. Then we came back to L.A. and Dr. Dre mixed the hell out of the record. God, it was so loud."

in lamar's nardwuar interview, nard drops a wc and the maad circle album on him and lamar is appreciative and familiar; gotta assume he knows the connection

lol at terrace martin on the making of 'real'

“It was kind of a special night, and we had cheap wine — like $2 bottles of wine and a bunch of girls that looked horrible and Brazilian music going on, but it worked out. It was Compton Brazilian music. Then we came back to L.A. and Dr. Dre mixed the hell out of the record. God, it was so loud."

― r|t|c, Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

first verse on "maad city" is http://www.esreality.com/files/placeimages/2010/75958-headbang.gif

yup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gO0cFx0fVo

BDKMV

holy shit that was fantastic

nice

here's the studio version that was actually sampled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5D6FXE2dM

Yeah, I just prefer the live version.

realize this is probably too soon or too corny but just going to throw this out there & see if anyone else is willing to take the bait: this is the best rap album in years

i'd put it right up w/ take care, flockaveli & book of david for best of the decade so far

yeah, to me it's distinctly better than "take care," but that's also the most easily comparable of those three; doesnt really make much sense to compare it to something as monolithic as flockavelli. 2 me this takes a lot the things that blew me away about tc (lush production, bummed out introspective vibe, as youve noted the entire aesthetic package) but much more in step with rap tradition esp west coast rap albums, it reminds me of reasons that i love rap, some that i havenèt thought about or felt in years. whereas tc was more a rejection of a lot of these traditions