:ehh: I'm actually surprised at how good this Kendrick album is

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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? :mjlol:)

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 :deadrose:

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.
 
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Whether someone agrees or not, they cannot front on OP for actually giving logical reasoning.

I don't care for the album anymore, enjoyed it in the beginning, knew that Kendrick wouldn't strike me the way a Cube or KRS could, and just moved on with my life.

Good post OP!
 

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I'm dying at how garbage this album is:

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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? :mjlol:)

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 :deadrose:

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 barely hip hop. Kendrick's voice is woat and his flow is woat. That's the real problem.
This is a great analysis. And being in Jr. Highschool when Pac first came out and 17 when he died. I seen first hand how he legitimately moved the people and did it organically. Watching this guy be handed the position many have earned through Spitting real shyt and doing real things,I have to condemn him.
He's much worse than master p in this regard. Yes P was a biter, but p really did take over the streets and had the hood on smash. It wasn't a situation of media pushing him and proclaiming him. He also practiced and preached black empowerment.

Kendrick has zero street power and is only discussed due to his push.
This man in his late twenties, has the personality of a mid teen.
He's weak and meek and really isn't saying anything that benefits black people. He's just a selected sleeper candidate for the militant rapper throne.
Similar to the people the U.S. places in countries they conquer .
He'll continue to pretend until they pull the plug.he's a clown
 

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Album is so bad it's tainted Section 80 & GKMC to me. Kendrick is awful.


But I began to notice he was trash when the 'Control' verse happened and it was basic as fukk. Then he had the worst feature/song on Ab Soul's 'These Days' album that sounded like slam poetry (an all around awful activity) & gave that gay ass hi five to ScHoolboy Q on BET (i forget, did he have to jump?) cipher when they debuted that other cornball brother Isiah Rashad.

TPAB is the feather in his wackness cap for me. Stick a fork in him. He sucks.
 

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Album is so bad it's tainted Section 80 & GKMC to me. Kendrick is awful.


But I began to notice he was trash when the 'Control' verse happened and it was basic as fukk. Then he had the worst feature/song on Ab Soul's 'These Days' album that sounded like slam poetry (an all around awful activity) & gave that gay ass hi five to ScHoolboy Q on BET (i forget, did he have to jump?) cipher when they debuted that other cornball brother Isiah Rashad.

TPAB is the feather in his wackness cap for me. Stick a fork in him. He sucks.
His stans are nothing but hypebeasts they think control is some out of the world diss. They must be new rap fans cuz that trash don't compare with ether, takeover, backdown, the truth etc.
 

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His stans are nothing but hypebeasts they think control is some out of the world diss. They must be new rap fans cuz that trash don't compare with ether, takeover, backdown, the truth etc.

not just new rap fans. Also old heads desperate to align themselves to something, for whatever reason (mostly financial when it comes to industry guys).
 
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