Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

kris ex's piece on this in NPR is good

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.

platinum

― 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

word

great verse on Nosetalgia

^
This

Also:

Beef, it's what's for dinner

yeah he really shows up Pusha T

so sick of hearing pusha talking about whipping work in the pyrex and shit :/

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"

love that track and the video is great too

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.

He's very confident right now. Love it

Rich Kidz, m.A.A.d. city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1nHBX58SdE

Super disappointed he appeared on Love Game, Eminem's track, terrible throughout.

yes

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.

What was the reasoning behind that? Did you think it was overhyped or did you dislike his mixtapes?

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.

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.

really is a bad thread title.

looking forward to when he announces a new album and we have a good excuse to start a different Kendrick thread

why wait?

Kendrick Lamar - I Will Kill Your Favorite Rapper For Money (2014)

lol

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.

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.

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.

maybe it's just time to admit you like it

just wait til it sets in

ah what how did that post 3x

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.

Actually the track that grabbed me was Backseat Freestyle

HURTING 2 HAVE A DREAM!

xp http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3s3q13I3t1r8cxu5o1_500.png

ha i didn't know the context. makes it a little better tbf

so now kendrick sounds like he's parodying himself?
http://youtu.be/T9B3z-8P_7s
pretty weak beat too imo

like alicias timing though :)

I applaud the decision to put his part in the front so I can turn it off when Keys starts.

haha, it can all be so simple :)

anybody know if he's any good in concert? rap shows are a mixed bag for me and he's playing at UCF Sunday but last time I saw a show there, I watched Meek Mill lazily rap over tracks that didn't even have the original vocals removed and silently DJing other MMG songs, soooo....

Freddie Gibbs/Tech N9ne (yea ok probably the only fan of the latter on this board) are here Thurs but part of me would rather see Kendrick.

He's fantastic live. Go

track's terrible, much like the tame impala one. he's not above soundtrack dross, which, whatever. he can do that.

it increasingly seems like he didn't do much of anything embarrassing before his first major label album simply because he hadn't been offered the opportunity yet

idk colin munroe is on section.80, we should've known

i dunno who that is but his name is colin so point taken

Context matters here—this is a song from a Spiderman soundtrack, and "shitty Spiderman soundtrack music" is almost its own genre at this point. But yeah, I pretty much hate every growled verse Kendrick has done since "Control." Feels like at at some point he stopped understanding what it was people liked about him.

he's jumped very quickly from the early eminem to late eminem stage in his career, much like lady gaga was madonna in fast forward

:(

i actually would kinda like to hear what a really aggro ego tripping post-"Control" Kendrick album would sound like, as long as it doesn't have any Alicia Keys or Imagine Dragons hooks.

I think it would sound like Kendrick's answer to Pink Friday: Reloaded. "Control" is really starting to feel like his "Monster" moment to me, an exciting verse that shot him to new heights of acclaim, but that in hindsight fucked up his career by sending him down a really goofy, one-note lane as he kept trying to repeat it and top it.

I mean, out of what I've heard, his track record for guest spots on things that are not on terrible soundtracks is still p damn spotless. Whatever.

i actually would kinda like to hear what a really aggro ego tripping post-"Control" Kendrick album would sound like, as long as it doesn't have any Alicia Keys or Imagine Dragons hooks.

― some dude, Monday, April 14, 2014 2:14 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

does anyone here really like "maad city"

it was one of my least favorites on the album but i think it's ok now, his voice is super weird on that track tho