99% of his fans don't exist
― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1337/55/1337555274370.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
kendrick lamar will passively aggressively mention your favorite rapper for money
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
SEO rap
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, wait, sorry, I guess someone got there already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnSJBpB_OKQ
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry roger
― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2007/12/27/EI1109_Beef_Squash_Stew_lg.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
will totes guest on your next thread
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
waiting on a DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince diss response track. fingers crossed please please.
― bishop desmond youtube (sanskrit), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
TNC:
I should say from the jump that I think beef rap is overrated and mostly stands out on gossip points. I found "No Vaseline" amusing, but it was never transformative in the way "Bird In Hand" "Summer Vacation" or "Colorblind" (My God, "Colorblind") was. Likewise I don't think "Ether" makes my top ten of Nas' greatest, and I would take "Feelin' It," "You Must Love Me," "Dead Presidents II," "Neva Change," "Threat" and an assortment of other Jay-Z tracks before I got to "The Takeover." The only really dis song I truly love is the one that everyone else loves--"The Bridge Is Over."
So there's that. You are talking to man with significant bias. Nevertheless, I view Kendrick's verse as an epilogue for Good Kid, and (if he's lucky) a prologue for everything next. Even the idea of taking disrespect feels beside the point. In what creative field do artists not feel as though they are trying to end all competition, even the artists they are friendly with? Were the MCs of Wu not competing with each other? Did Busta not feel pressure to be the best when he ran the anchor leg of "Scenario?" Did he not basically obliterate everyone else on the track? I must think that Viola Davis was trying to blow Meryl Streep away. ("Sister you ain't going against no man in a robe and win.") I think Fitzgerald, Ellison and Hemingway were all trying kill every author in their vicinity. It's certainly the case in business. Only in hip-hop (where whole magazines are dedicated to who doesn't like who) is this disrespect
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
Nevertheless, I view Kendrick's verse as an epilogue for Good Kid, and (if he's lucky) a prologue for everything next.
Interesting that he says this, because I feel like "Cartoon & Cereal" played a similar role in tying together the generational themes of Section.80 and the environmental violence of GKMC.
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
In what creative field do artists not feel as though they are trying to end all competition, even the artists they are friendly with?
no this is actually the weird thing about "competition" in creative endeavours, because it's not like sports or even business where you can objectively be the best. rap beef (and latterly pop beef etc) is all very entertaining but
1) competition between artists is a flawed concept b/c people can easily be fans of more than one artist2) blah blah blah subjectivity
beefing about sales is tedious because businessmen and marketing are tedious
i mean it IS all amusing but it's also completely illogical
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
it's not really as illogical in hip-hop as it is in other creative endeavors though because literally "battling" and having competitions was inherent in hip hop culture from the very beginning, so it's always been viewed as part of it
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
& this took place before hip hop was a real commercial commodity or really marketed
Was the verse considered disrespectful? Most of the reactions I saw were in the lines of 'hell yeah beef is back' and 'pretty cool Kendrick now look at my verse' rather than outrage and controversy.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
it was seen as disrespectful by people in new york, mostly
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
<3 you for this
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
platinum
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Thursday, 22 August 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
kris ex's piece on this in NPR is good
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really bummed that this somehow made it onto NPR today. If this is the new "high bar," we should all be disappointed. Just another song about drugs and violence and other things that bring us all down. What a waste of time.
Want to set a high bar for lyrical aspiration? Try Saul Williams.
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Monday, 26 August 2013 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:19 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's pretty bittersweet that Kendrick just barely jumped over the million albums line ahead of Macklemore in a photo finish
― some dude, Monday, 26 August 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
word
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Monday, 26 August 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
great verse on Nosetalgia
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 October 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
^This
Also:
Beef, it's what's for dinner
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 October 2013 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he really shows up Pusha T
so sick of hearing pusha talking about whipping work in the pyrex and shit :/
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 October 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
i really like that song a lot... some of push's best writing in a while and i think he gets away with it since the song is called, you know, "nosetalgia"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 October 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
love that track and the video is great too
― max, Friday, 4 October 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://allhiphop.com/2013/10/15/kendrick-lamar-responds-to-rivals-in-tdes-bet-hip-hop-awards-cypher-video/
thread title came true.
man, he's really operating on a high level right now.
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
He's very confident right now. Love it
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Rich Kidz, m.A.A.d. city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1nHBX58SdE
― Evan R, Monday, 25 November 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
Super disappointed he appeared on Love Game, Eminem's track, terrible throughout.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 December 2013 03:29 (ten years ago) link
yes
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 December 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
Truth be told, I didn't even give this a chance until people started talking about the Grammys. So maybe it's not so bad to be the spurned runner up.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
What was the reasoning behind that? Did you think it was overhyped or did you dislike his mixtapes?
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
I don't even like rap that much and I thought this was a brilliant album. very disappointed that Kendrick didn't win Best Rap Album.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
xp It was nothing that well thought out! I think honestly it was just a very snap thing where (1) I was a little put off by his voice, and (2) I really fucking hate this thread title, which was one of the first places I saw his name.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:01 (ten years ago) link
really is a bad thread title.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
looking forward to when he announces a new album and we have a good excuse to start a different Kendrick thread
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
why wait?
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar - I Will Kill Your Favorite Rapper For Money (2014)
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:32 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:33 (ten years ago) link
also now playing the Rigamortis video again though I now remember that I just didn't like that track much, and I still don't.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
maybe it's just time to admit you like it
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link
just wait til it sets in
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link
ah what how did that post 3x
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:56 (ten years ago) link
Rigormortis grabbed me instantly, and is the track that put me onto him.
I still would rather listen to Section 80 than GKMC most of the time. I wouldn't say it's better, but I go to it more.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 07:58 (ten years ago) link
Actually the track that grabbed me was Backseat Freestyle
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 08:03 (ten years ago) link