kingdarius
Wtf u talkin bout? Ya Bish
GKMC and its not even close....sonically it was 5x better than LIG 90s boom bap and it was put together so perfectly, plus LIG had skippables imo GKMC didnt imo and the bonus tracks were pure piff
One year later.... Life Is Good vs. Good Kid Mad City
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GKMC. When Kendrick dropped the big commercial single it was catchy while fitting in with the album's overall concept(Swimming Pools). When Nas dropped the big commercial single we got Summer on Smash
Summer On Smash as never released as a single. His "big commercial" single from that album was The Don
JuvenileHell
Veteran
Hard to choose between the GOAT and the future GOAT 
But I'll roll with GKMC...felt more cohesive than LIG. That's not saying that LIG isn't a good concept album either, but there are one or two tracks on there that don't really fit. GKMC is like a well built machine...all the parts fit and do what they supposed to.
But I'll roll with GKMC...felt more cohesive than LIG. That's not saying that LIG isn't a good concept album either, but there are one or two tracks on there that don't really fit. GKMC is like a well built machine...all the parts fit and do what they supposed to.
Tie vote 
Itzdadiabolical
Rookie
At first I thought LiG was better, but then I listened to it after the hype and realized it wasn't all that great. Still a good album, just nothing special mentioned among other great albums
That being said, GKMC is super-overrated mostly because people stand by its "concept". GKMC had no concept musically, the skits were the whole concept, without the skits it's just a random collection of songs just like Section.80 (which is a better album) was. Additionally, many of the songs on GKMC had MAJOR hiccups:
Sherane - forgettable
BDKMV - rudimentary lyrics, production had overused sample with very little actual production
Backseat Freestyle - same^ except the sample, but forgivable due to the excellent flow display
Art of Peer Pressure - 2nd part of the song is boring on all fronts, and the topic is beyond cliche
Money Trees - Good song, but his presence on it wasn't supplementary at all.
Real - Terrible, awful, unbearable chorus. Great song otherwise.
Compton - Very meh song in general, doesn't do anything for me or the album.
Then he didn't put his best song Cartoons & Cereal on the album on top of all that. Again, I'm not saying it was a bad album in the slightest, easily one of the best of 2012, but it's not as great as people make it out to be.
That being said, GKMC is super-overrated mostly because people stand by its "concept". GKMC had no concept musically, the skits were the whole concept, without the skits it's just a random collection of songs just like Section.80 (which is a better album) was. Additionally, many of the songs on GKMC had MAJOR hiccups:
Sherane - forgettable
BDKMV - rudimentary lyrics, production had overused sample with very little actual production
Backseat Freestyle - same^ except the sample, but forgivable due to the excellent flow display
Art of Peer Pressure - 2nd part of the song is boring on all fronts, and the topic is beyond cliche
Money Trees - Good song, but his presence on it wasn't supplementary at all.
Real - Terrible, awful, unbearable chorus. Great song otherwise.
Compton - Very meh song in general, doesn't do anything for me or the album.
Then he didn't put his best song Cartoons & Cereal on the album on top of all that. Again, I'm not saying it was a bad album in the slightest, easily one of the best of 2012, but it's not as great as people make it out to be.
You just said half of GKMC was average to below average yet you still say its better then LIG
both top 3 albums last year but i gotta go with gkmc.
LIG but it was close to me.
nah man, Kendrick makes references throughout the album to stuff that happened in past songs or in those skits, you ain't listenin breh. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but Real and Compton are bonus songs.
CapitalOne
Do You Believe...
they're not
GKMC is better.
LIG is very good, but some of the hooks are just cringe worthy.
GFID was better than both of them though.
LIG is very good, but some of the hooks are just cringe worthy.
GFID was better than both of them though.
don't really like the real song but compton is ok, though I see how it's not really a standout track. The Recipe more than makes up for it tho
Just imagine a Kendrick/Lupe collab. Stans would be 
Itzdadiabolical
Rookie
Where on the post did I say that. I said the songs have "hiccups", then listed them... LiG had its bad moment too though in Summer On Smash which is an awful song in general. The rest of the songs just aren't really new or amazing. Nas is too seasoned to have hiccups, but he didn't reinvent himself, LiG had great songs, but didn't possess enough ingenuity.
@Sensitive Blake Griffin: Those references were not exactly difficult to do are particularly profound to me. I rarely have issue missing stuff in rap songs.
Real and Compton are on the regular version of the album as well.
@Sensitive Blake Griffin: Those references were not exactly difficult to do are particularly profound to me. I rarely have issue missing stuff in rap songs.
Real and Compton are on the regular version of the album as well.