Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Discussion Thread)

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Might've been posted before

And I think the acapella was leaked and this is somebody fitting the verse to the instrumental.

Still, this verse is :wow:


Hard but was this the original beat? Like do we know if the OG had a different beat. Sounds a little choppy but a hard verse none the less.
 
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The J Cole album made me revisit this and wow what an introspective, emotional rollercoaster of an album. Classic imo, I see why it didn’t do well financially but the themes resonates so much with me, and it still has bangers (N95, Rich Spirit, Silent Hill)
It did over a million in true sales ( physical & digital ) by the end of its release year. It did fine financially, online sentiment was just lower than usual.
 

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Oddly enough the intro might be his best and to me it’s his best pure rapping performance on here
 

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The J Cole album made me revisit this and wow what an introspective, emotional rollercoaster of an album. Classic imo, I see why it didn’t do well financially but the themes resonates so much with me, and it still has bangers (N95, Rich Spirit, Silent Hill)
Yes classic

Imo his 2nd best album

And it did well commercially, it even birthed the best selling rap tour ever at that time.
 

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Crown really is a musical masterpiece. For a non singer, Kendricks ability to stay in tune with the music is immaculate. And that's not an easy beat to stay in key with. It's pretty much a straight up classical song. Dude really is a modern day genius. The true definition of a prodigy.
 
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This was easily his second best album, I still dont understand the hate it got on release. Maybe the culture wasn't ready for that conversation at that time, people wanted party and bullshyt music and Kendrick was rapping about generational trauma.
 
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