Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

"i debuted at #19 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, which is a really unusually high debut for that format

Congrats, some dude. I'm happy you're doing so well.

lol

hmm from what i saw it was being added to even more rhythmic stations than HH ones ...

don't see it anywhere on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart yet. don't really have any stations in that format that i know of in my area, whereas i listen to 3 rap/R&B stations and i've heard "i" on all of them in the past week.

seems to be getting a little bit of play at pop stations too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8

Eh, I'm not seeing the whole voice change point. This track seems more like an extension of something from Section 80.

I've also liked this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5yb2H7Fqi8

http://instagram.com/p/vAPN8OjvPb

the discussion upthread was not about his voice on "I" being a change from earlier material, just that he generally does rap in several voices that differ from each other and his speaking voice.

damn i care for this track even less now it cuts off that nice sa-ra style intro in the video

or is that some other track of his i havent heard

idk if i love this song but i think its very interesting and am curious if it will be a huge hit

i like his new look too

I kinda flopped, didn't it?

it stalled on the rap airplay charts last week after a high debut and a few weeks of rising. might be losing momentum but I wouldn't count it out yet.

i'm pretty into this, i think it works -- the video helps imo

they used it for the opening night bumper music for the nba on tnt

unsurprisingly it is doing better at rhythmic radio (#7 right now, might rise some more). somewhat more surprisingly it's his first song to chart at pop radio (#31 right now). but yes in general its momentum seems to be faltering.

i like it better than i did before but i still have mixed feelings on it. and radio around here seems to cut out the parts i like best toward the end :\

Kendrick Lamar dances like Michael Stipe

idk if i love this song but i think its very interesting and am curious if it will be a huge hit

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 8:28 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya

this is a little too BEP for my taste

his colbert report performance was so good http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/guests/Kendrick-Lamar/pjrqsj/kendrick-lamar---debut-of-untitled-track

his new music is weird as hell not sure what to make out of it

it's a bit backpackery, musically speaking, but the rhymes/his delivery are still 💯, and he's clearly doing whatever the fuck he wants, which is ultimately better imo than him doing section.80 pt 2 or GKMC pt 2

that was....different

that was downright early Saul Williams-y. into it

it totally seems of a piece with his past work, if not as 'good kid 2' as people were probably expecting

Liked this. Sounds angry.

Tell em we don't die, we multiply.

I just have to get this out of my head, but I keep imagining a Christmas viral parody video of "I" but it's Santa rapping at his workshop about how much his elves help him and have his back "I love my elfs"

ahahaha

:D

Kinda feel like Kenny is inching towards the free jazz album I called for on twitter a while back.

the close-out breakdown on "i" is so ridiculously funky

it's from something else, isn't it? it reminds me of some classic break that i can't quite place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AhXSoKa8xw

Surprised to hear something so straightforward after the more serpentine last couple of tracks. (Apparently the still-untitled Colbert song will probably not be on it, which seems a shame?) Sounds like a solid album track.

That Colbert song reminds me of Saul Williams or Guru. Hope it makes it. Has the new album leaked? I'm curious to see if the full thing sounds like that?

Also the last minute of 'I' is lovely, I'm hearing some dilla/flylo undertones might be just me. The guitar on the chorus sounds badly dated, though. I hate it... hope he had sticked to the Isley brothers sample without adding that obnoxious electric guitar on top of the mix... not sure how to feel about that single but the whole album could be interesting.

The guitar is part of the Isleys sample.

just some of the sickest guitar ever

Nbd

a whole lot of the guitar on the song, particularly the lead guitar on the chorus, is definitely re-played and not directly sampled. would love to hear the crazy Ernie Isley phase shifter guitar tone on the track but it might sound really messed up and out of place, for better or worse, on a modern track.

really dug "i" and the unnamed colbert song that might not go anywhere but this is def the best of the new tracks so far

angry kendrick is angry but yeah, this is more interesting than anything else i've yet heard from him post bad city

I dig it
Burn down Babylon

feel like kendrick high voice is low key one of the most controversial things in the world of art

all three of these tracks are fucking incredible, though "i" is still head and shoulders above most anything, ever

where's a ratanuki when you need one?

The electric guitar that appears on top of it all in the chorus is most definitely not an Isley sample. The other guitar parts are a sample.

yeesh

http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/02/michael-chabon-annotates-kendrick-lamar-blacker-the-berry-lyrics

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