Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

wait is that *the* some dude or

haha yeah the one & only

the way this guy raps in triplet flows the same way over every kind of beat is kind of annoying and eyerolling imo, he's like a teenaged guitarist who just learned a couple eddie van halen tricks and crams them into every song they play. learn some different tricks if you're gonna show off, dude!

― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:17 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ooh harsh

i don't know enough about "rap techniques" to comment

I think that's a stupid comment that ignores the amount of info Kendrick is cramming into all of these verses and also ignores that Kendrick has like 5 different tricks that he uses all the time

i liked "swimming pools" a lot at first but hearing it on the radio kind of ruined it for me maybe? like, not in an oversaturation way, more just that it sounds awful in that context for some reason

Ha I first heard "swimming pools"/lamar on the radio and it was a huge frickin 'damn this is awesome I must buy this album' thing.

first time I heard "Swimming Pools" I didn't get it

then I heard it in the context of the album and went "OHHHHHHHHH" and started playing it incessantly

xps well, it's misleading because every rapper relies on a relatively limited set of tricks, like that's part of what it means to have a distinct flow or style, but the reason it can be grating is because he uses it in a showy way, like there's this presumption that you're wowed by it--idk if u feel that but it's perceptible to me at least. still love the album tho, that part of swimming pools we were just talking about is a good example bc he's using it to give a dramatic pinch, u can feel your pulse quicken like

z-ro is the king of this obv, like around after 1:30 of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7p48IG2xA

^^^i love ro in general but this song still knocks me out like every time, dude was just a technically flawless rapper for a long time

i need to delve back into kendrick's record after reading the enthusiasm here, i loved it the first couple times listening to it but ended up listening to less demanding rap records that came out around that time--reloaded etc.

everyday haters CAN`T UNDERSTAND THE WAY I MOVE MY HANDS IN WAYS NOT KNOWN TO MAN ♫

this album is definitely great but i do think that it suffers from needing the context

just in terms of replayability

i liked "swimming pools" a lot at first but hearing it on the radio kind of ruined it for me maybe? like, not in an oversaturation way, more just that it sounds awful in that context for some reason

― flopson, Saturday, January 12, 2013 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it sounds like somebody flipped on the time machine everytime it comes on

poetic justice too

this album is definitely great but i do think that it suffers from needing the context

― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 13, 2013 1:24 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in what sense? i have read very little about kendrick's life or the album's concept and haven't had any trouble connecting to it as a piece of music (some parts far more than others though)

kinda love 'the recipe' even though it feel completely separate from the rest of the album.

in what sense? i have read very little about kendrick's life or the album's concept and haven't had any trouble connecting to it as a piece of music (some parts far more than others though)

― some dude, Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:14 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i just meant that i don't really pull tracks from this and just play them. sorta feels like a thing you gotta listen straight thru

oh ok album context vs. tracks, right. yeah i have tried to pull out tracks and listen individually and it hasn't fared well for me.

I think there are a lot of tracks that fare well individually. Cutting the skits off the end really helps.

I can't really understand what anyone's saying in the skits.

i think it works well as an album qua album but the best songs easily hold up in isolation (and i mostly cherrypick and skip around tracks when i listen now - though i do tend to listen to the most stunning run, "good kid" through "swimming pools", as a block each time)

^^^ yes.

Also, I've had no trouble putting "The Art of Peer Pressure" and "Sherane" on in isolation.

"swimming pools" is such a bad song

"art of peer pressure" and "money trees" are the ones to pull out

With the exception of Backseat Freestyle and Compton and one or two others it's all pretty downbeat and melancholic and it takes a bit of time to settle into the right mood for it - it's hardly surprising it works better as a whole.

"Backseat Freestyle" is prob my least favorite song on the album

I don't get why someone would think swimming pools is a bad song. Not your favorite, ok. But bad?

OPEN YOUR MIND UP AND LISTEN ME KENDRICK, I AM YOUR CONSCIENCE IF YOU DO NOT HEAR ME THEN YOU WILL BE HISTORY KENDRICK in gazoo the great voice is just the worst imo

oops i mean the great gazoo

although i guess rev can take solace in the fact that kendrick himself can't think of any words that rhyme with "kendrick"

I totally disagree (about that line being the worst)

also is "damage of vodka" a thing people say or just a weird flowery turn of phrase he came up with

a combination of shiplo railing against "swimming pools" and hearing it in radio rotation turned me from "eh this song is whatever" to "okay this song is borderline unbearable"

also t-minus is one of my least fav producers and the chorus is annoying

haha ruining kendrick for multiple people itt :)

lol

posts very much in character

swimming pools is awesome gtfo

well that settles it

swimming pools are awesome but that song kinda sucks

Listen to deej, j0rdan - just this once.

lol

curious to know if goons rate chief keef above this. obviously 2 very different beasts, but i think i might

i've played keef's album more but it functions that way. i wouldn't say it's better tho.

none of the songs on this are radio songs, get this album off the radio ASAP

well "swimming pools" was a pretty big radio song

also please get off the radio ASAP rocky

What was the consensus here about LongLiveA$AP?

easier to admire than to... i'll shut up

"poetic justice" is a good radio song (even if i don't like the way they shoehorn the title in the lyrics, the janet original is better, and drake adds nothing). curious what they'll try as a radio single beyond that.

"money trees" is the next one but apparently they cut the jay rock verse