Kendrick Lamar voice is horrible

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Cyph the Prynce is somewhat bearable with the raspy voice but damn Kendrick....:what:
 

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I usally dont mind his voice (quite like it sometimes), or the diffrent voices hes doing. But on this album some of the voices is just awful.

Compare his voice on this. Kendricks verse starts at 2.44

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(Imo he disorts it in a cool way while combinding it with his flow. It makes you keep your intrest)

To this:

The hook on dont kill my vibe (the verses on that song is flawless tho but still kills it with that weird hook.)

/Last verse on backseat freestyle (and people is saying eminem is forcing his angry vocie? cool flow on hook tho)

/The crying flow on maad city ( I dont mind it that much, but it seems like ever since heart pt2 where it was so powerfull it got so much hype he keept it and over used it so much lost its orginal feeling, ex of this. His pain 2 on BJs album)

The album is great, dont get me wrong. But "small" things like this kills the vibe.

You dont have to agree with me but respect my opinion. If you cant understand why i feel this way and try to play it of as hate, you DONT belong on a messageboard DISCUSSING music.
 

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His voice is fine to me, but I actually think he made a concious effort to change his voice on this album a bit as it was a lot more nasally in some section.80 joints.
 

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well, i find it funny how people b!tch his voice but yet can sit around and tolerate the voices of drake, nicki, wayne, kanye, cudi, khalifa, montana, or mills. if you can bare any of them for a good amount of time, then what the f*ck are you complaining about? hell, the biggest complaint nowadays are how annoying rappers voices are sounding.
 

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i dont have a problem wit any rappers voice outside of mexican rappers

im bumping kdot album and i cant get past the first 2 tracks cause i keep going back and running them back, i love them, and im on this freestyle and that shyt is heatrocks, this dudes music is great

"all my life i want money and power, respect my mind or die from lead showers" the way he says it is just so great to me
 

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who does everybody think has a nice voice then :youngsabo:
When do you ever hear someone praise an album for the voice of the rapper. "Yo you hear the new Kanye? His voice be having me like :noah:".

I'm just saying if people are hating on his voice and saying they can't listen to him because of it, how come I never heard the exact opposite? I have never in my life heard someone say they listen to a rapper because of his voice. Delivery yes. Flow yes. Never the voice. People like Silk already have a wack flow and everything so it doesn't even matter and one of the people mentioned when a wack voice or whatever is brought up.
 

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but i knew this thread was coming, same nikkaz did it to cole, wale, and every other nikka, nikkaz just love crying like hoes
:whoa: don't get your panties in a bunch

I'm a fan of Cole and some others that I've seen people hating on here. And i think Kendrick is talented, but his voice and the filters he puts on it are distracting and they take away from his music. I like the album but his voice prevents me from loving it.
 

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I'll never understand this voice argument. It's rap not singing. Different nikkas have different voices. It is what it is. Some nikkas have southern drawls (take K.R.I.T for example), some nikkas have higher pitched voices (take Jay-Z or Freeway for example) some are nasaly (take Malice for example) some have a ton of bass in their voice (take Scarface for example), some are loud as hell (take Memphis Bleek or Meek Mill for example), some sound like straight nerds (take Lupe for example), etc. I find it feminine as hell when cats say I can't stand a rappers voice. I could see if it was R&B, but I only ever see women complain about a man's voice outside of if he's singing. It's all about how an MC utilizes his voice to do what he's trying to do. Kendrick flows his ass off and actually changes his voice at times to great effect. I've said it before but when an MCs voice is the first thing a nikka complains about I tend to not take their opinion seriously.
 
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