Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

no one would have gotten sick of "Stan" if the beat had been built off of "Groove is in the Heart" rather than "Thank You"

"This is a serious album, ergo it is bad"

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, November 12, 2012 11:04 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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The whole point of Kendrick Lamar if that he can't be boiled down to easy emotions and expected rap "modes." He's not "the contemplative guy," hes a rapper who can be comfortable being contemplative and aggressive and like 50 other things. Stop trying to make him Tribe Called Quest just because Paste is riding for him or w/e

yeah ok this is true. I concede my original point, this is definitely my aoty.

there's a lot of flat-out nonsense being talked on this thread, the most egregious of which being the idea that Outkast, the group that did "Player's Ball", "ATLiens" and "Rosa Parks" among others, needed to bring in Raekwon in order to make a "banger"

ahahaha

Haha. otm.

jeez this thread

this album owns tho, back to front

live in Brixton last night:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8vg9r/acts/a5bp5v

"stuff ilx likes" - endless pop-guilt rabbit hole of theoretical clusterfucks

damn this dude

Jeff Wang says some things.

*Chang

this album and the discourse around it just exhaust me tbh. it's a good and 'important' album, but i do sort of wish it were a little more enjoyable

Kendrick's completely awkward and forgettable verse on "Fucking Problem" kinda reinforces what i feel about "Backseat Freestyle" just not being what i wanna hear from this dude

I just don't hear what others do in "Backseat Freestyle."

the discourse on the album is all i really need. and i think its totally enjoyable. maybe it just hit me at the right time of year. this month i've played this album a lot, a lot of brahms, and that awesome billy nicholls album, would you believe. and tons of soul 45s. october/november my power months though, so everything i play sounds better than usual.

wow, this meek mill album is NICE

*not trolling, just listening to a stream now*

the discourse around this album doesn't credit it with enjoyability enough. it's more enjoyable than ~important~ imo

Yeah

also blah blah false binary enjoyability vs importance blah

if you don't find it enjoyable it's prob not that important

also blah blah false binary enjoyability vs importance blah

if you don't find it enjoyable it's prob not that important

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:32 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

True. Rap becomes important through being enjoyable.

*breaks out Can't Touch This*

*breaks out U Can't Touch This*

anything can be important if its important to you.

http://www.idlehearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Anything-is-more-important-when-you-can-not-get-it.jpg

Not a diss, scott. It was just so sublimely nonsensical that I had to post it.

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the discourse around this album doesn't credit it with enjoyability enough. it's more enjoyable than ~important~ imo

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:27 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is why i dont like jeff chang's piece

The Art Of Peer Pressure I think might be my favorite track on this. Doesn't seem like that track gets mentioned much.

Given the right circumstance/mood, I can make an argument for any given track on this being the best song on the album except for "Poetic Justice" (lol)

you don't like sexytime? :(

I don't like Drake

I will admit though that he is okay on that song and I do love the juxtaposition of the sample and song title

basically the thing that slays me about this album is how immaculately everything about it is constructed, from the beats to the lyrics to the song structures to the running order to the skits to the everything

have a hard time even telling the two apart on that song tbh

dan otm

Drake is obnoxious most of the time but not on that song.

I don't disagree, I'm just a deeply unfair person

I don't really feel the need to be all "drake cooties" if he's not actively being a detriment.

i kinda do

haha my man

(guiltily sneaks off to secretly play "The Motto")

i love kalenna for doing a version of "the motto" so i don't need to listen to the original

i don't really mind drake on "poetic justice" though, he's kind of negligible

"The Motto" is the one song he's done that's actually really fun tho. Also it was completely unavoidable here anyway.

yeah that song is great and the kalenna version was pretty worthless esp compared to the funkystepz remix which does actually render the OG obsolete

i actually like drake more on poetic justice than kendrick, not that its super amazing but its more memorable

"the motto" is great and literally none of that is to do with drake because of his VOICE

drake is fine on "poetic justice" but the verse seems pretty stock & to me it cuts against everything that's great about the kendrick album. that's one of the best tracks on the album tho.

"the motto" is great and literally none of that is to do with drake because of his VOICE

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

so it's what.... just the beat i guess?