Kendrick Lamar Just Recieved The Prestigious XXL

[oO J Smooth Oo]

He does deserve it but xxl dikkride aftermath

 

[erker]

2min in. Song has not changed my opinion at all. Song is not convincing and sounds very corny.
4 min in still not impressed
Song over,opinion not changed.
I dont feel him,mainly his voice and flow take away from what he's trying to say.
Link me to a masterpiece ala Regulate,str8 up menace,how to survive in south central,welcome to the ghetto, etc. That song is microwave music.

Please check this one :
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[Rominati]

2min in. Song has not changed my opinion at all. Song is not convincing and sounds very corny.
4 min in still not impressed
Song over,opinion not changed.
I dont feel him,mainly his voice and flow take away from what he's trying to say.
Link me to a masterpiece ala Regulate,str8 up menace,how to survive in south central,welcome to the ghetto, etc. That song is microwave music.

No offense gramps but you sound like a fukkin hater. Music is self expression and is meant to be felt by who it is felt by. K.dots purpose in life was not to make music that appeals to the standards of "bigbossman"


If u don't feel the music, that's fine.



Now kick rocks

 

[Rayzah]

No, not at all
I like the album for the most part, I deleted a few songs but I kept a lot of them.

It does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Illmatic, The Infamous, or 36 Chambers

And this album aside, his skill as an artist and his overall persona/image is not deserving of all this hype that he's receiving. There are quite a few "new" artists that are more skilled technically and stylistically - Freddie Gibbs first comes to mind. Kendrick's raps aren't special, his production is average, and his personality as an artist is

There's no reason he should have this much hype to be on all these music shows and gettin all this critical acclaim. It's one of the most obvious example of what good marketing can do for an average artist

You said what I have been saying about this dude.. fact if it wasnt for THIS website I would not know who he was or that people liked him. I think yall are secretly part of his team lol.. But seriously yes he can rap and has a little more to say than the average artist out now. yes its good to hear a artist that doesnt sound like everbody else and is coming from a different point of view. But take for example the BET cypher I liked all them other westcoast niggs verse over his, his personality is boring as shyt he doesnt make me want to listen to what he has to say, and no he doesnt belong on that list with the othe XXL albums because his music only appeals to certain audience (backpackers)

 

[Rayzah]

2min in. Song has not changed my opinion at all. Song is not convincing and sounds very corny.
4 min in still not impressed
Song over,opinion not changed.
I dont feel him,mainly his voice and flow take away from what he's trying to say.Link me to a masterpiece ala Regulate,str8 up menace,how to survive in south central,welcome to the ghetto, etc. That song is microwave music.

This is my problem with him..

 

[HendriX]

lol wrong thread

 

[Ohene]

2min in. Song has not changed my opinion at all. Song is not convincing and sounds very corny.
4 min in still not impressed
Song over,opinion not changed.
I dont feel him,mainly his voice and flow take away from what he's trying to say.
Link me to a masterpiece ala Regulate,streiht up menace,how to survive in south central,welcome to the ghetto, etc. That song is microwave music.

 

[Gunshi]

im sorry just not a fan of his wackness... he got a nice song here n there but overall his shyt is not for me... i cant vibe with dude.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Seems like Kendrick is bringing out a difference between old heads and young bloods.

That's star quality right there

its more of a 'knowledgable fan vs easily impressionable fan' argument. its not a generational thing at all. young cats out in the world arent listening to kendrick lamar. hes an internet rapper being pushed as some sort of superstar.

and be clear, most of the people that are pegged as oldheads in here, are really in the same age group as kendrick as well as the guy accusing them of being old. sometimes theyre younger than the accuser.

cosign
All of a sudden magazine ratings are legit and now artists get ratings they "deserve"

We gon act like this nikka ain't have one of the lamest and most obvious marketing push in recent hip hop history? This nikka was literally on nobody's radar for years but he drops Swimming Pools a few months ago and now he's on BET and MTV and getting all these awards and accolades?



it's sad when the supposed "real hip hop" fans start supporting manufactured hype

the problem is, most of these "real hip-hop fans" on here, really dont have a hip-hop bone in their body. thats why its as if we're speaking a foreign language to them right now.

real heads see thru the bullchit. they can ostracize us, make us seem crazy all they want, but theyre really just doing that to feel better about themselves after getting geesed & falling for the okie-doke.

 

[WeInHere]

section 80 only got a XL, and i think that is better.

agreed

 

[rapbeats]

Havent heard the album. However kendrick's money influenced buzz >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> his real buzz amongst the street word to mouth etc.
What i dont like about j.cole,drake,k dot and recent others is that when i 1st start hearing about accolades and supposed greatness it was via,award shows,tv personalities that i'm very confident were paid off and people of that world. I'm 33 and i've bared witness to artists who didnt have a major industry push,yet were being talked about heavily by people despite and had very popular music on a street level.
i'm not impressed. i remember when brother lynch dropped season of da siccness and EVERYONE was talkin bout "it's ebk everyday all day to the day i die,i'm creepin through ya hood....." I'm in cinci,dude is west coast but every whip had this shyt bumpin despite zero/very limited radio play/video play nationally.
I expect young nikkas to be impressed but i'm not. I've seen too much. I havent heard his full catalog,but i've heard songs. He can rap good. But i dont believe him. The songs are not convincing to me like a pac,cube,nas,eminem,P.E., Face and geto boys,paris,dmx.
Just havent heard anything powerful. Send me a youtube link if you're a fan and think i missed something.

not true about J.cole. Jigga cosigned him early early on. and if you heard him spitting in the booth before he was even official. you could tell the dude could spit for real. Drake was a complete industry plant setup. lol.

 

[rapbeats]

its more of a 'knowledgable fan vs easily impressionable fan' argument. its not a generational thing at all. young cats out in the world arent listening to kendrick lamar. hes an internet rapper being pushed as some sort of superstar.

and be clear, most of the people that are pegged as oldheads in here, are really in the same age group as kendrick as well as the guy accusing them of being old. sometimes theyre younger than the accuser.


the problem is, most of these "real hip-hop fans" on here, really dont have a hip-hop bone in their body. thats why its as if we're speaking a foreign language to them right now.

real heads see thru the bullchit. they can ostracize us, make us seem crazy all they want, but theyre really just doing that to feel better about themselves after getting geesed & falling for the okie-doke.

Here's where you and the poster you quoted are wrong.
i am an old head. and if you've seen in the past how i rate hiphop music from this site to sohh in years past. you know i dont play. i personally listened to the album. i'm on the westcoast. so i know a dud or a wack rapper, when i hear one. especially if they from here or repping the coast.

what i'm hearing is a poet. the guy is a poet. you can hear it. we dont have many of those left in main stream hiphop. in addition to that. you have an album where the dude is being honest. whether thats about self or he's reppin for other people out there with this lifestyle. the reason its honest and the reason honesty is a fresh approach. because its not being done in hiphop. the labels usually wont let that out. not in hiphop. if its hiphop. its rick ross lies and floss city. or its 100% strip club music.

You have lupe who was in full preacher mode. which is needed in this generation of hiphop.

and now you have KL speaking His truth as he's seen it.

he didnt make up coke tales, he didnt make up lies about having all the women, he didnt make up lies about having all the chains, he didnt make up lies about having all the cars. he didnt make 10 songs with a strip club beat and a strip club repeat southern hook.

the dude made music about life of a young nucca from the best coast. i'm here. been 15, been 21, been 25 before. so i can attest. the dude spit the truth down to the interludes. this is something i have been asking for, for YEARS. go check my history on here and sohh. how many times have i stated that i dont have a problem with dreamscape rap as long as there's some truth involved as well. the 2nd half of it almost never happens nowadays. thats why this album DESERVES the props its getting from these outlets. now granted it may be getting the industry PUSH. i dont care. its GOOD hiphop. it deserves it. Drake was not good hiphop yet it got a major push and shoved down our throats.

LUpe was good hiphop early on, even though i wasnt feeling dude yet. that got the critical acclaim just like this. why? honest hiphop is respected.

i know its been awhile since the industry allowed 2 albums to drop in the same year that are spitting a lot of truth. but it happened. stop crying about who pushed what. and recognize what the album is. more TRUTH then 90% of mainstream hiphop today. IS IT NOT?

if you cant say NO. then shut up and hop on the bandwagon and support. dont get caught up in semantics.

if XXL gave a 20 year old Nas a XXL but before that they gave some clown wack rapper a XXL. i wont say i think XXL is relevant. i was say that i believe they finally gave the XXL rating to the right mcee.

thats what we're saying with this one.

one last thing. i aint white. i'm black. i do hiphop. i am hiphop. i dont look at charts then go buy it based on what is trending. i only put my money on something that deserves a listen.

 

[rapbeats]

DID YOU SAY XXL?


Did we really need THEIR recognition.

NO. but they have to jump on the bandwagon as well. so people can think they are relevant.
see what people dont understand is this. if these wack mags and sites dont hop on a SOLID album like KL's. they will be left behind as being out of touch. so they have to jump on it quick.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

the album is ill, too bad I'm not a fan of kendrick's voice and I think he's got a lack of charisma on and outside of the mic. But he makes good music. I just wished they were less skits, (I know there's a story) I don't like skits no more, that was great in the late 90's but this is too much. That remind me of college droupout that was a little bit ternished by the skits. I also wished that they had separate the skits from the tracks cause that the type of record that's hard to play on the whip because it's annoying to skip the skits since they don't have they specific tracks (I woulda made a skitless version for the car in that case)
And also ther's a lack of a certain cohesive sound, a lot of tracks don't really fit together, it's like KL still on a underground/mixtape mode.

Oh and to me LIG still AOTY

 

[DaChampIsHere]

I think people are just jaded on giving him his props because we are in a time period where good albums are not 90% not probable. I do have to say that it's hard to believe that such a young dude could create this CD and have it be this good in comparison to what his peers are putting out.
I give it 3-5 years before people are ready to give him his just due. XXL ratings are iffy, but shyt is really that good.