Lessons From To Pimp A Butterfly

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His overrating makes me judge his music harshly. IMO KDot is just a B teamer. The push to make him elite artist is :scusthov:

I understand what you're getting at but if Kendrick isn't elite (in this era) then who is? B teamer out of what pool of artists? J Cole is a fukking tuna fish sandwich and Drake is a pop tart. He's the perfect medium between boring and vapid.

Cats will consciously or unconsciously try to sandbag a rapper just because they don't like his "stans". That's kinda ghei.
 

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No matter how deep or introspective a artist gets the more backlash he'll receive. Glad he went a different direction and created layers within a cohesive album kinda like Lupe did. If he woulda went the safe gkmc 2 route he wouldn't be getting this much shyt. I learned that this era of fans can never be happy.
 

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I understand what you're getting at but if Kendrick isn't elite (in this era) then who is? B teamer out of what pool of artists? J Cole is a fukking tuna fish sandwich and Drake is a pop tart. He's the perfect medium between boring and vapid.

Cats will consciously or unconsciously try to sandbag a rapper just because they don't like his "stans". That's kinda ghei.
It's just when u hear some1 supposed to godly on the mic I expect more. KDot get a lot of points along with Cole for their diverse subject matter. Drake is the only star of this Generation. Dats sad as hell but it's da truth.
 
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He overthought it.....plain and simple.....great concept and idea, however, back to the "gym/studio" we go.
 

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fixed. If we're comparing Kendrick to great rappers across the spectrum of hip hop, Kendrick is a D level artist.

For modern hip hop, C/B- level. There are lots of rappers in the underground that attempt to make songs just as 'deep' and spoken-wordy as Kendrick, but don't have any push whatsoever.

You call Kendrick a D level but have ASAP Rocky as your avatar.
 

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You call Kendrick a D level but have ASAP Rocky as your avatar.

Because Rocky is a better rapper than Kendrick in every single way one can judge a rapper.

The only thing D-level about Rocky are his actual rhymes. Everything else about him, the important shyt: beats, flows and charisma, is executed at an B+/A- level. And anyone who doesn't notice this is being nearsighted.
 
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