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?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
"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, 24 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Rap Genius is still working at furiously decoding The Who's Tommy
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
what is this "spinball lizard"
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
"How can there be a Sgt. Pepper without a Col. Salt?"
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
xxp that dumb person doesnt exist, it was just a tossed off magaziney closing zing chill out
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
whatever man
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
concepts are for suckers
― flopson, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
i didnt even need the skits to tell me what was going on, it was all there in the smart marketing campaign
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
― Evan R, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:59 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
complex did do a gallery where he essentially explains every song
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
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― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
oops hey guys that wasn't meant for the kendrick lamar thread
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
wrong thread and yet the perfect thread
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
fans overanalysing lyrics and What Songs Mean is hardly a new or surprising phenomenon
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
though swift and lamar are tied together in this regard as well as leak and release dates
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink #askneil
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Salon:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/the_great_american_rap_album_has_arrived/
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
ok fuck that headline
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
it's a quote from another review
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
but matt think of how american is slacking behind all those other rap countries, like switzerland and uganda and uzbeckistan
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
i thought wilco made the great american rap album
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
didn't you mean Beck?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Lupe Fiasco @LupeFiascoReminds me of "Kid A"...yeah like a rap version of RadioHead's "Kid A"...
― Number None, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Shyne chiming in
http://www.egotripland.com/shyne-kendrick-lamar-twitter/
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
ladies and gentlemen, the gangsta yankee hotel foxtro--
― don't trust the lil b in apartment 23 (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
there it is
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
you mean the backpacker hotel foxtrot
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
huge lols @ shyne having the balls to say someone else's major label debut did not deliver on the hype
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
"collect calls" is absolutely stunning
― lex pretend, Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
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, 25 October 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dying
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
first verse on "maad city" is http://www.esreality.com/files/placeimages/2010/75958-headbang.gif
― all mods con (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 October 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
yup
― Number None, Friday, 26 October 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gO0cFx0fVo
BDKMV
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Saturday, 27 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit that was fantastic
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Saturday, 27 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
nice
― We do live in a fallen, depraved world destined for the fire. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
here's the studio version that was actually sampled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5D6FXE2dM
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I just prefer the live version.
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
i'd put it right up w/ take care, flockaveli & book of david for best of the decade so far
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
prefer blaqkout (of /recent/ records) but this is still p.good
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
i think you could make analogies to both take care (sonically, point of view) & flockaveli (vision, singularity)
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol take care
― extremely loud and incredible hulk (some dude), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think this is anywhere near as singular as flockaveli. the miracle of the flock imo is that it's 70 minutes of relentlessly aggressive and repetitive music & yet is a total pleasure to listen to all the way thru the millionth time, good kid mad city is so cinematic
― flopson, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
I will absolutely take that bait
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Sunday, 28 October 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
so will I. This and The Book of David (my favorite album of 2011) easily in my top whatever.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 October 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
the voice is still a huge roadblock for me, dude sounds like Kirko Bangz
― extremely loud and incredible hulk (some dude), Sunday, 28 October 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link