Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

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

ha so they're gonna work the "ya bish" song w/ all the "ya bish"es taken out huh

First time I align with deej in weeks. Anyway urban radio here only started playing SP in the last six weeks, so I dont hate it yet.

Anyway urban radio here only started playing SP in the last six weeks, so I dont hate it yet.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

nah they were rinsing that when i was down there around halloween

jay rock verse totally best part of that song btw imo

ha so they're gonna work the "ya bish" song w/ all the "ya bish"es taken out huh

― some dude, Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:21 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

maybe "ya bish" skirts the censors?

ehhh doubt it

haha american saying "rinsing"

is that a british thing? i had no idea i def picked it up from ilx tho

lol

s@arge, now it's on overdrive. Power 96 picked it up too.

http://rinse.fm/

my fav part of "money trees" are those vocal gun sounds they brought over from "cartoons & cereal"

http://rinse.fm/

― 乒乓, Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:27 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark

hmm i never put two and two together

A posh upper class form of a gold digging. When a man showers a woman with expensive gifts and money for strictly no sexual flavors in return

quoting KL lyrics?

try rapping it in triplets

http://www.djklusta.co.uk/index.php?id=62