Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

Have we talked about "the jig is up" yet

this is the Meek Mill thread now, the window has passed

The Meek Mill album is not fun at all

i bought the album. i love it. a couple of people left my store in a hurry while it was playing, but art sometimes creates casualties. middle school teacher who brought his photography students in didn't seem to mind it.

Meek Mill album is what I consider fun, nasty fun

the only 'fun' song on the meek is 'layup'

its also not a very immediate record although he's a very immediate rapper. but the songs arent v pop at all

still think its p good tho

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is pretty bad.

that song is def not what is good about the album but i actually like it & it only reinforces the intensely depressing feel of the record

he sounds so checked out and noncommittal on the pop songs, which is weird, since Dreamchasers 2 proved he could do the shameless pop thing pretty well.

the whole album strikes me as a little weird, actually. I can appreciate how austere it is, and it's all very competent, but "depressing" really isn't the lane that suits him best, or what anybody wanted to hear from a Meek Mill album

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People seem to forget that Kendrick's whole "from the LA streets but not OF the LA streets" was basically Coolio's lane in the 90s.

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You're pretty dumb, as usual. Coolio made some dope albums

But by all means point to another artist besides Kendrick and Coolio who had as much success with "I'm going to vividly describe LA street life, but will go on to say how it doesn't define me"

he sounds so checked out and noncommittal on the pop songs, which is weird, since Dreamchasers 2 proved he could do the shameless pop thing pretty well.

― Evan R, Friday, November 2, 2012 11:28 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't understand what 'shameless pop' means in this context

i think he's saying that meek mill will kill your pop-rap shame for money

like rtc upthread or somewhere, what i kinda wanted was a meekaveli, but more than anything else i feel like the album isn't sinister enough - it feels depressive in a more conventional way than his best stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEba1H_Dtd0

this was the first meek song i heard and it stopped me in my tracks and there's nothing like that on the album. beatwise or performance-wise

Depressive in a conventional way sums it up I guess.

Rass Kass?

http://vimeo.com/53053348#

Gaga's mix for BDKMV. I can see why it was left off imo

Definitley. Doesn't work at all. Good call from Kendrick & crew.

damn, I'd even go so far as to say the bish killed his vibe

i think it sounds good... if it was a gaga song i'd be intrigued. obv we're all used to the original, also that's probably unmixed and i'm sure the vocals wouldn't have been as prevalent if that version had made the album

yeah, i don't mind the gaga on it... like j0rdan says, we're all used to the album version now so anything else seems off.. then again, kendrick doing his own hook really does work on the track, especially in the way it doesn't seem that differentiated from the verses at first, i really like that

I actually kind of dig the gags version?

not more than kendrick's but i thought it was striking.

it's one of the most boring songs on the album to start with and she makes it neither demonstrably better nor worse

i can feel your energy from 2 planets away

I love that song. It's the only one on the album that I've regularly sought out since exhausting the record a few weeks ago

(I don't mean that as a knock against the record, which is littered with greatness obviously; I just don't think the album has great replay value)

the album has great replay value but there are a few i skip all the time. the hook is the WORST, dullest thing

hook is honestly like a top 5 moment from this album for me...

it's so lazy and whiny and irritating and fundamentally unvibey

Lol. And no.

def my favorite song on the album. this is another one of your weird hatred of "adorn" things, huh?

^^

Lex don't kill my vibe.

Still, the album isn't quite a classic: Lamar's depiction of downtrodden women is unnecessarily prurient and unconvincing.

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good thing that no classic rap albums have downtrodden women or unnecessary prurience

Thought I was downloading the Kendrick Lamar album, turned out to be a fake & is actually Skyzoo's A Dream Deferred. But it's pretty good!

lol

skyzoo fans will do anything to make that guy happen huh

I liked the one he did with !llmind

lex, of all the hooks to call out, why that one and not the atrocious hook on backseat freestyle? i find backseat freestyle and compton to be the weak points on the album. braggadocio doesn't suit kendrick, even the meta-braggadocio on backseat freestyle. the eiffel tower line is just painful; i don't care if the song is a k-dot retrospective

yeah "Backseat Freestyle" doesn't work for me at all

I love Backstreet Freestyle, inc the hook and the Eiffel Tower line, I like that the album has a banger on it. I don't know what anyone has against Real either. The BDKMV hook just brings to mind boring stoners whingeing

it's almost literally a "banger" in scarequotes though

i love "real", especially the earnest corniness, but i can see how it might not pop to people who aren't saps like me. speaks for how amazing this album is that "real" is a below-the-median track.

"bdkmv" is pretty stonery and contemplative... which is really what kendrick does? i'm perfectly happy to leave bangers to every other rapper. dislike the unchallenged idea that contemplative rappers must include at least one banger on every lp. i've been listening to aquemini a lot lately, and enjoy how they had the good sense to bring in raekwon for their obligatory banger to pop off. i rep for drake but he is really not the right sidekick to inject energy into that war-drum beat. i guess kendrick already made his track with gunplay, though.

"backseat freestyle" is not one that i listen to out of context but it makes sense in the arch of the album and sounds better up against all the other beats on the album

"backseat freestyle" is one of the less remarkable productions IMO but since it's the only banger it works more than it would if it was just on something like 2 chainz' album or w/e