Does anyone know why TPAB has more critic reviews on metecritic than every other album?

[Broke Wave]

So are you claiming that critics reviewing TPAB more than any other album isn't weird?

For whatever you are claiming TPAB is still hiphop which is no where as big as white folk making music.

It isn't wierd because TPAB is supposed to be the type of album that critics are supposed to proclaim as classic etc... It's not a pop album. The number of reviews on an album =/= how big it is. It shouldn't even be that way. Indie movies that are supposedly groundbreaking have more reviews than these billion dollar blockbuster cookie cutter movies.

 

[Harry B]

Why would indie heads feel Kendrick? He's pure mainstream.

Frank Ocean has 1 more review from a super hyped album where he closed the Grammys on the day it dropped.
RTJ doesn't have more reviews unless I'm looking wrong.

I'm not looking up that white shyt you referenced.

Most reviews are dropped when the album drops, not 8 months later when the Grammy's is on.
RTJ2 by Run the Jewels, not more than Kendrick, I said any album on your list. 35.


Why indie heads feel Kendrick? They feel everything that receives nice reviews from their publications (or perhaps it's the other way around who knows). Kendrick is the 2nd artist in Pitchforks history with two albums of the year, after you know who (MBDTF and yeezus both have more reviews that TPAB).

Why don't you look up the white shyt? When you put Adele on the list.

I'm just giving your artist of the top of my head

Kanye West
Arcade Fire
Daft Punk
Beach House
Vampire Weekend
Frank Ocean

All have more.
There's probably a couple of more artists I don't listen to, but those 6 artists along with Kendrick are superstars among the indie cats. Then we have the next level of indie favorites who also have 40 plus reviews

Tame Impala
The Knife
The war on drugs
Sufjan Stevens
Bon Iver
Asap Rocky

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Anyone who is into the music scene know critics hate pop albums. Views, Anti and Lemonade are pop. Plus tpab being funk, jazz and incorporating live instruments is bound to catch the attention of music enthusiast. Every music hipster I know prays to people like Miles Davis.

facts

 

[mr.africa]

Don't mean shyt.

More critics ≠ A higher score.

THIS!!
more critics usually should mean a lower score
cause the more you ask a question, eventually you'll find someone with a different opinion/answer.
in this case though, everyone agrees that the album is great

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Why would indie heads feel Kendrick? He's pure mainstream.

TPAB wasn't a mainstream album

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Anyone who is into the music scene know critics hate pop albums. Views, Anti and Lemonade are pop. Plus tpab being funk, jazz and incorporating live instruments is bound to catch the attention of music enthusiast. Every music hipster I know prays to people like Miles Davis.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

TPAB wasn't a mainstream album

Kendrick is a mainstream ARTIST period. And has been over the past 5 years.

 

[Kaypain]

It's 2016 just stfu and listen to the music YOU are accustomed to

nikkas talking about brainwashing and shyt

how is that non-Kendrick fans.. talk the most, fret the most, sweat the most about that nikka?

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

How is it,Kendrick fans attack posters instead of dealing with the matter at hand. We're here to discuss hip hop not posters

 

[Piff Perkins]

Oh look another trash thread hating on Kendrick.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Kendrick is a mainstream ARTIST period. And has been over the past 5 years.

There is a difference between being a mainstream musician and making music with intended mainstream/crossover appeal. There was nothing "crossover" about TPAB.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Cause its the most musically ecletic piece of hiphop to emerge in damn near 20 years?

 

[NoChillJones]

Smh...guessing you dont know what ecletic means...

 

[Hood Critic]

Be surprised a critically acclaimed album is reviewed often brehs....

Y'all n*ggas man.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Smh...guessing you dont know what ecletic means...

I'm guessing you don't.

Eclectic would be a bunch of different styles/sounds.

TPAB was mostly influenced by jazz and funk. It was a very cohesive album. Nothing "eclectic" about it.

I believe you were using the word to denote an "unconventional" sounding hip hop album.

But even then you were wrong. There have been plenty of more "unconventional" hiphop albums in the last 20 years and jazz/funk isn't really new or "unconventional" to hip hop.

Try again buddy