Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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.

swimming pooooooool full of liquor
and you diiiiiiiiiive in

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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?

After all these weeks the track I play most often is "Sherane." What a banger of an opener.

Drake is an infinitely shittier rapper than Kendrick Lamar, yet I like Take Care much more than M.A.A.D. City. It's a weird thing to reconcile.

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

partly, but it's all in the delivery too - the rhythm of the vocals and the rhymes. so any version with a voice i can stand and half-decent lines would be better than the original really, it just happens that the kalenna one is the first i came across.

Drake is an infinitely shittier rapper than Kendrick Lamar, yet I like Take Care much more than M.A.A.D. City.

what

Drake is an infinitely shittier rapper than Kendrick Lamar, yet I like Take Care much more than M.A.A.D. City. It's a weird thing to reconcile.

― Evan R, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:28 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark

hmm i agree w/ this tho i don't think it's that tough to reconcile

I am playing the shit out of "Backseat Freestyle", "The Art of Freestyle" "Swimming Pools (Drank)", "Sing About Me/I'm Dying of Thirst" and "Real"

next playcount tier is "Sherane", "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe", "good kid", "m.A.A.d city" and "Compton"

I play "Money Trees" and "Poetic Justice" the least but I enjoy them a ton when I do listen to them

I almost never listen to the bonus tracks

no I agree with Evan if he means "m.A.A.d city."

which fortunately has no Drake

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

otm

he also tries to unpack the appeal of the record through its narrative which i think is the Wrong Approach

hmm i agree w/ this tho i don't think it's that tough to reconcile

Maybe not tough. But it's always nice to identify with (or at least kind of like) the figure at the center of an album. So it's weird, or at least unexpected, that for whatever reason I connect more with Drake (who is really off-putting) over Kendrick (who I find very, very likable).

I almost never listen to the bonus tracks

i'm surprised, they're good! esp "collect calls"