First single features Imagine Dragons and Drake.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:13 (twelve years ago)
Haha loving the 1998 Public Enemy album title
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:34 (twelve years ago)
Oops, it's fake. Thanks, Rap Radar.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:34 (twelve years ago)
First single features Imagine Dragons and Drake
I read this as Advanced Dungeons & Drake
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:50 (twelve years ago)
don't give him any ideas
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 10 May 2014 21:52 (twelve years ago)
https://twitter.com/suicideyear/status/509137024558043136
― schlump, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:56 (twelve years ago)
https://soundcloud.com/topdawgent/i-1
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 12:47 (twelve years ago)
look yeah, but don't touch
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:16 (twelve years ago)
Can't wait for the Glee version.
― longneck, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:40 (twelve years ago)
It's basically a Brother Ali song, but tight.
― longneck, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:44 (twelve years ago)
i really wanna like this but the beat is rubbing me the wrong way and there's not really much of a chorus there
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:46 (twelve years ago)
i sort of admire him for making a "happy" grab
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:47 (twelve years ago)
it feels like talib kweli ft santana. i'm down
― schlump, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:53 (twelve years ago)
that's a good argument in favor
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:54 (twelve years ago)
Wish the whole song was like the last third.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:38 (twelve years ago)
i thought i'd hate it but its sort of great. very early-mid 90s vibes.
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:49 (twelve years ago)
Kendrick Lamar will hug your favorite teddy bear for enlightenment
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:56 (twelve years ago)
Don't hate it, but I won't be mad if it ends up as a bonus track.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:33 (twelve years ago)
Overrated artist.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:41 (twelve years ago)
you like travis scott
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:52 (twelve years ago)
anyway its easy to be cynical abt this record and i'm getting arrested development vibes but i still kinda dig this, it'll sound fun in the mix if it gets some radio traction
Arrested Development otm
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:13 (twelve years ago)
lol oh dear
― dyl, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:14 (twelve years ago)
it's... okay? bonus track seems about right.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:43 (twelve years ago)
Do we know who produced it?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:44 (twelve years ago)
as much as like the song, i hope this isn't the 'cartoon and cereal' of his next album
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:45 (twelve years ago)
waiting for an artist to record a track so that he gets the inevitable "Posdonus ft. Eric Clapton" vibes
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:48 (twelve years ago)
It's produced by Rahki.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:50 (twelve years ago)
The second half of the song is immeasurably superior to the first
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:51 (twelve years ago)
the "jesus walks"-y bridge is kinda cool
i don't really mind this
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:40 (twelve years ago)
Thundercat!
― ban raccoon tanuki (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:44 (twelve years ago)
yeah i don't dislike it, sounded aight on the radio when i heard it just now (although they cut off like the whole last 30 seconds, which was a shame).
still, to take a year plus to release a new single after "Control" and come with this seems just asking for backlash from the exact audience that got him to platinum last time.
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:52 (twelve years ago)
i think the slightly but not hugely polarized response will work in his favor ultimately, and radio seems to be eating it up (heard it twice in 30 mins)
― dyl, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:05 (twelve years ago)
xxp it's gotta be him right? Haven't seen any confirmation anywhere though.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:06 (twelve years ago)
yeah i feel like strategically this is smart, it's a bold move rather than a measured one
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:20 (twelve years ago)
The guitar sound the Isleys used in the original is one of my favorite unique tones in all of music, so even if it's a little corny I don't mind hearing it here.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:31 (twelve years ago)
xp Yeah the audience for huffy, real-rap gymnastics is pretty much the same as the audience for happy late-'80s/early-'90s throwbacks, so this probably isn't too much of a risk. But it feels like a huge shift anyway, and the upbeat outlook (even if just on this one track) will help distinguish the album from GKMC's sober moralism
― Evan R, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:32 (twelve years ago)
There was a kind of corny 3 Feet High-ish Kendrick track on the last Eminem album that seemed like a lark at the time but now seems like it laid the groundwork for this
― Evan R, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:33 (twelve years ago)
From what I gather almost everyone is enthusiastic and it would take a real clunker to end the public's honeymoon with Kendrick.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:34 (twelve years ago)
And you live for Gucci Mane, shall we continue?
Kendrick is just plain mediocre. Give me Eddie Kendricks, or Kendrick Jeru Davis.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:53 (twelve years ago)
you forgot Anna
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:03 (twelve years ago)
i will take gucci & kendrick over travis scott, yes
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:05 (twelve years ago)
http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2010/09/kyle.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:08 (twelve years ago)
http://nbchardballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/350x146.jpg
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:11 (twelve years ago)
makes me think of something from those early kanye mix-cds, or his 'touch the sky' even. the last third is very fly-lo/thundercat.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:29 (twelve years ago)
Yeah first part definitely made me think of early Kanye too. It's the obvious soul sample x once-patented Insane Conga Rolls
― ban raccoon tanuki (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:04 (twelve years ago)
Touch the Sky is a good comparison, upbeat, famous soul sample. There's some Stankonia thrown in there as well.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 04:22 (twelve years ago)
Snap judgement it's better "Touch the Sky" but not as good as Stankonia
― ban raccoon tanuki (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 05:25 (twelve years ago)
also this was brought to my attention and is nuts awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Oz8UmUXbg
terrible whiny/kiddy voice on that new single, maybe it's supposed to show versatility but I really can't listen to it, too annoying... enjoy the beat though
feel the same way abt his verse on "m.A.A.d city" though it's a different whine
― niels, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 07:37 (twelve years ago)