His best album and most replay value
I just relistened to TPAB and..
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Mastamimd
Ain't shyt
Every Kendrick Lamar album is and wasand have aged terribly
He only exists because people wanted to hate Drake and needed an alternative....
Nah that's Cole
And his albums aged incredibly...no idea watz wrong with your ears. Damn is his worst album and it's still in the 8-9 range
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
That's my problem with this album and Kendrick himself ever since. The entire rollout was centered around
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Make Em Say Ughh ... Silk da Shocker
You Ain’t Gotta Lie and Hood Politics is mid??
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
Wesley's Theory
Alright
u
Hood Politics
How Much a Dollar Cost
King Kunta
Complexion
The Blacker the Berry (arguably the best song Kendrick's ever recorded)
You Ain't Gotta Lie
This album is fire.
Alright
u
Hood Politics
How Much a Dollar Cost
King Kunta
Complexion
The Blacker the Berry (arguably the best song Kendrick's ever recorded)
You Ain't Gotta Lie
This album is fire.
TPAB gets hated for these reasons;
1) If you're under 30, you fukk with Drake/Future/Lils/Babys/Boogies and Kendrick is the antithesis of that materialistic yodeling. Production was too organic.
2) If you're over 30, the album is too "safe" because he's not not channeling '91 Cube and Chuck D and spending 50 minutes telling you white people are devil crackers and we need to get machine guns and take the nation.
1) If you're under 30, you fukk with Drake/Future/Lils/Babys/Boogies and Kendrick is the antithesis of that materialistic yodeling. Production was too organic.
2) If you're over 30, the album is too "safe" because he's not not channeling '91 Cube and Chuck D and spending 50 minutes telling you white people are devil crackers and we need to get machine guns and take the nation.
Do ya'll get paid to make this thread monthly?
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
Where on that album does Kendrick sound like the best RAPPER alive to you? Where does he even sound like he's trying to claim that title?
You called it a "lyrical disappointment" and "skating"
If he was '99 Canibus y'all would say he's doing too much. How is any of this "skating" on the album when 85% of nikkas calling themselves rappers right now don't even rap?
Do you have an example of him or anybody current living up to that title?
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Make Em Say Ughh ... Silk da Shocker
Are u big mad or lil mad my nikka?
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
We're not talking about 85% of the game right now, we're talking about the top 5% all time, which is where he's supposed to be. There have been 3 rappers in modern history to specifically claim "Best Rapper Alive":
Jay did it on The Black Album
And Wayne did it on Carter II
the entire rollout of TPAB was centered around Kendrick taking THAT title. Combined with the Control verse/hype, Kendrick was supposed to prove he was bar for bar the best out. He was supposed to be hungry for that spot like they were. It was supposed to be a whole album of Look Out For Detox/Rigomortus/Cartoon and Cereal-level spazzin out on the mic. Instead he dropped an amazing album that he as an MC was pretty much the worst part of and the people accepted it as "proof" of him being the best RAPPER in the game when he didn't and really made no effort to prove that. The music didn't match the rollout and the hype at all, even in its greatness. I don't blame him for that, I blame the Aftermath/Interscope Machine and nikkas for buying into it.
Coli classic