Is Kendrick Lamar Overrated?

[The Ruler 09]

thats wrong.. a lot of old hip hop heads have gkmc in their list of favorite albums

Who's got GKMC in their top 10 Hip Hop albums of all time? Maybe a few I guess, but not most. Most people I know don't even think it's classic, most people I know do think it's good though.

 

[Zero]

Killah Priest's double album from last year kills everything Kendrick has done thus far


now disagree

 

[The Ruler 09]

breh im one of the more deeper hip hop diggers on this site and i still think gkmc is golden.
If kendrick dropped section 80 to NO buzz whatsover - youd be on his dykk guaranteed.

That's bullshyt though, which is typical of you. How does that even make sense? Nas has dropped albums with big buzz that I've rated, Jay Z too. It's just a bullshyt incorrect point. I listened to the album to listen to the music and that's what I judged it on. Was let down. No your not though, your a nerdy fake clown, and a bytch, so don't take what you say or think seriously anyway...

 

[Yoda]

That's bullshyt though, which is typical of you. How does that even make sense? Nas has dropped albums with big buzz that I've rated, Jay Z too. It's just a bullshyt incorrect point. I listened to the album to listen to the music and that's what I judged it on. Was let down. No your not though, your a nerdy fake clown, and a bytch, so don't take what you say or think seriously anyway...

But i am, tho.
I do extensive digging (Online and off) and i usually dont judge something if it has buzz or not.
Plus, im a respected poster on here because im usually putting on music (well not the past few days because i been trolling your dumb azz)
I am hip hop - dont get that twisted.
Your the DEFENITION of a nerdy fake clown.

 

[Number21000]

Who's got GKMC in their top 10 Hip Hop albums of all time? Maybe a few I guess, but not most. Most people I know don't even think it's classic, most people I know do think it's good though.

its one of the best albums of the last 4 years (in any genre) by consensus.

get your facts right.

You'll always find some people hating on an album but facts are facts.

 

[The Ruler 09]

But i am, tho.
I do extensive digging (Online and off) and i usually dont judge something if it has buzz or not.
Plus, im a respected poster on here because im usually putting on music (well not the past few days because i been trolling your dumb azz)
I am hip hop - dont get that twisted.
Your the DEFENITION of a nerdy fake clown.

Lmao. I wish you'd have just stuck to agreeing not to speak, you just waste time, not interested in anything you have to say. Can tell you're a bytch, nothing you say can change my mind.

 

[Yoda]

Lmao. I wish you'd have just stuck to agreeing not to speak, you just waste time, not interested in anything you have to say. Can tell you're a bytch, nothing you say can change my mind.

so , your just gonna run away when a REAL poster is tryna coversate and debate with you?
But reply to the blackslashes and the AVs of the forum? ok

 

[The Ruler 09]

its one of the best albums of the last 4 years (in any genre) by consensus.

get your facts right.

You'll always find some people hating on an album but facts are facts.

I don't care about consensus, I don't let that dictate my opinion. A lot of people think Kendrick is overrated.

 

[The Ruler 09]

so , your just gonna run away when a REAL poster is tryna coversate and debate with you?
But reply to the blackslashes and the AVs of the forum? ok

You're an admitted troll.

 

[tehparadox]

and a lot of people think Nas, jay, pac, biggie and (insert rapper's name) is overrated.

gkmc is the illmatic of the new generation. get over it

 

[Yoda]

You're an admitted troll.

Your a closet troll tho.

 

[tehparadox]

don't entertain the ruler 09 though, dude is the worst poster of all time


hes mad because kdot is the baby goat

 

[Insensitive]

Kendrick has plenty of songs I didn't have the desire to play once, only listened for research purposes. There's a bunch of people who play K-Rino's albums all the time too, even going back to his old school shyt. Infact the 93 album seems to be quite a few of his fans favourite on here. In regards to Kendrick I'm going off official albums as I've heard both his official albums. Every K-Rino album isn't perfect, but I think he has masses of albums better than both Kendrick albums. Possibly all of them in all honesty. In regards to his mixtapes I can't comment on that because I don't think I've heard the every single mixtape project, but hear both official albums and at least 1 or 2 of the mixtapes. It is certainly isn't quantity over quality, but if you compare the work and artistry on some of K-Rino's best projects in my opinion it is vastly superior to Kendrick's. I haven't evaluated my ratings of K-Rino's work but I know he's got at least 2 albums I rate 5 mics, 2 at at least 4.5, 2 at 4 and his weakest to me at 3.5. And that's leaving out A LOT of his work. I rated GKMC a 3 mic album, and felt I was being generous to do so. So we might just to agree to disagree on this 1. This isn't really about Kendrick vs K-Rino anyway, that only got brought up cause people were trying to troll.

Well I usually judge an artist AFTER I've listened to a sizable amount of their
work. Generally when I chime in on rappers I tend to do my research, I don't
see why a person would only listen to two albums and decide that the artist isn't
dope.The only reason I can even speak on BOTH artists is because I've listened
to both regularly.

Also both the Kendrick Lamar EP and Overly Dedicated are/were available
for purchase much like section.80 so they're in fact "official" releases.

Now I'm certain there are people who regularly play K-Rino's music but if
I'm being honest here then K-Rino has a lot of middling production and lyrics bent on
SOUNDING complex but not really BEING complex. Especially if you have a dictionary at
hand or a vocabulary like I do, at that point it's just a matter of trying to understand what he means.

Kendrick has one edge against K-Rino in my opinion and it's a mark I have against Canibus
and Papoose as well. They're all so hell bent on delivering their well constructed verses
that emotion is lost. It comes off more as a technical showcase and less of an attempt to actually
write a song, unless that song is in a format where they excel like the rapid fire punchline track.

When Canibus,Papoose or K-Rino can just hurl punchlines they hang with the best of them
with ease. It's once they expand OUTSIDE of that, that they start to break down.
Now that isn't to say that K-Rino hasn't attempted different songs nor am I saying he's failed
at all of the different songs he has attempted. I just feel that as great as he is as a rapper, he can be better.
For example he has a song where he's supposed to be expressing "worry" about cheating on
someone he's dating but the actual verse itself isn't performed in a way that expresses that.
And is a fan of Hip Hop I'm certain you know that performance is the other half of being a rapper.

I think he's great, hell as a rapper I'd put him ahead of Lupe Fiasco , a dude that's touted on
here as the end all be all of lyricism but as a song writer I think he could come harder and in
some ways Kendrick and several other rappers I could name do it better

Kendrick is the most talented mainstream rapper (although that's not saying much.) He is overrated by people who refuse to dig through records and/or youtube videos searching for unheralded rappers.

I completely disagree with this, dude is a NICE rapper PERIOD, it doesn't
matter WHICH arena. Mainstream or Underground, which I might add is in no
way a descriptor of how dope someone is, just how well known they are.
Youtube is filled with chief keef clones AS WELL AS Canibus wannabes.

I'll also say I give just about everyone a chance whether I come across
them on youtube, bandcamp,soundcloud,twitter or some blog.
Or if I'm intentionally looking for a certain type of music, it's the reason
I have 2,000 and something albums on my hard drives.

 

[Number21000]

I don't care about consensus, I don't let that dictate my opinion. A lot of people think Kendrick is overrated.

you're an idiot.. the same can be said for EVERYBODY. An artist will always be overrated to those who don't like him.

more people voted "yes" in that "is nas overrated" thread?

 

[NoHalfWay]

Killah Priest's double album from last year kills everything Kendrick has done thus far


now disagree

That shyt got like 40 joints on it and the majority are all fire.

But Priest is underground so you won't even find an argument with anybody on here.