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I'm dying at how garbage this album is:
I knew I would lose time investing in this shyt. That's why I've been putting it off for so long.
This bullshyt album doesn't deserve a detailed review, but I'll give some receipts anyway. They didn't take the time to make something of depth so I'm not gonna waste my time going into track-by-track depth.
Kendrick is a sophomoric babbler. Always has been. But TPAB is next-level sophomoric. "For Free" and "For Sale" come to mind. The king of sophomoric is the chorus for "Hood Politics". I think this is why Kendrick is a hit with the young nerd community. You wanna feel smart but you have a cursory knowledge of the subject you're speaking on, yet don't feel the need to explore the material deeper. It's better to reference it casually than to actually know what you're talking about. Or even better: bring some new insight to the conversation.
"Blacker The Berry" - has Kendrick delivering his vocals like Eminem. With a rapgenius explanation on the Trayvon line from a cac. That says it all.
Best beat: "These Walls"
This album is full of corny sexual innuendos for the nerds. overuse of the word 'nikka' to seem Black and authentic. and of course, overuse of 'the homies' to prop up all the babbling. Babbling award goes to "I" (two interludes, really?)
Do you know what's ironic about this entire album? I only took away TWO jewels. Just two.
And they both came from dead Pac
In this country a black man only have like 5 years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that’s right now while you a teenager, while you still strong or while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. Cause once you turn 30 it’s like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man in this country. And you don’t wanna fight no more. And if you don’t believe me you can look around, you don’t see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafukkas
^that's real talk. It's clear. Not the abstract topic-less "the homies" rambling from Frauderick.
The last one jewel, which has been said by others not just Pac (but is worth repeating anyway) is:
Because the spirits, we ain’t even really rappin’, we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us
And so Frauderick decides to reframe himself as the guy who's letting Pac speak through him. Stans will deflect and pretend like this isn't the case, but it's obvious to anyone with a brain that Interscope is trying to align Kendrick with Pac to sell this shallow, meandering trash. Now I see why @bigbadbossup2012 has been so offended.
There's more sincerity, beauty and clear observations in a troll rapper. That's where we're at with modern hip hop.
I wonder how many negs I'll get for this
EDIT: I forgot to mention the biggest flaws of this album by far. I fell into the same trap critics have been paid to fall into.
fukk all the content analyzing. The beats are dull and more jazz/funk than anything else. There is almost no hip hop here. Kendrick's voice is woat and his flow is woat. That's the real problem.
A White (EDIT: Black, OP corrected me) user who doesn't act like a cac about Kendrick? Are you Albino? Man, thank you for not encouraging Kendrick stans to gang up on here, Genius is bad enough as is atm.
Sad is, I love this nikka as an emcee (anyone who makes West Coast Mainstream except Tyga, puts a biased smile on my face)., and he is creative but man his flaws always overlooked...
It's that fukking Aftermath label bro, not kidding it's all his stans know and care about.
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? Allow me to edit my comment with parentheses, idk why they were calling you a cac earlier then, damn...
