So Did Kendrick Flop?

[eerieBell]

If it was so great, why is no one listening to it? Why can't I find one song on there to keep in my summer playlist? No song on radio? No song in the club (King Kunta was supposed to be the big hit)? Album ain't going platinum in the US maybe worldwide, but America spat that shyt out. How you have 8 Million streams of your album in the first 24 hours and you can't sell a million copies? That's what you call a great album? The reaction to this album compared to GKMC is like night a day. People were talking about GKMC for like 1-2 years after it dropped.

Did it ever occur to you that people are talking about GKMC even two years after because it's been out for 2+ years

To Pimp a Butterfly hasn't been out even for half a year

Whatcha sayin doesn't make sense

When it's out as long as GKMC and people still don't talk about it, then you'll have a point


I don't see how u missed that, you can't compare longevity when one album was out way longer than the other

 

[UpAndComing]

i dont know who you listen to, but atleast kendrick is better than j cole.

 

[B. Pumpaveli]

would you rather have artists try too hard and give you love it or hate it art or not try at all and give you shyt that gets called old and corny in one week?

no i'd rather kendrick just be himself and let the music come naturally. this album just sounded forced, like he was trying real hard to make something artistic.

 

[bouncy]

Flop? It is consistently selling number in the five digits. Him and drake are the only rappers on the top 20 charts. He only put out one single for this album, and considering its not a club album like drake, its doing real good.

This slow gain is how G.K.M.C went platinum, and he put out more singles for that album. The real way to tell if its a flop is if he recouped his budget, if he didn't then its a failure. If he did, the label will celebrate, and put out another one. The real person I'm worried about is Drake. He is under a foul company(cash money) and they might find a way to keep him from getting away, and that kills an artist. I don't see Kendrick going through this because TDE seems to let their artists breathe.

BTW, GKMC is back on the charts. Kendrick is doing it.

 

[bouncy]

If it was so great, why is no one listening to it? Why can't I find one song on there to keep in my summer playlist? No song on radio? No song in the club (King Kunta was supposed to be the big hit)? Album ain't going platinum in the US maybe worldwide, but America spat that shyt out. How you have 8 Million streams of your album in the first 24 hours and you can't sell a million copies? That's what you call a great album? The reaction to this album compared to GKMC is like night a day. People were talking about GKMC for like 1-2 years after it dropped.

Most people streamed the album, physically sales are not the thing it used to be, especially for rap music. This has been proven.

 

[Ohene]

I dont even listen to J Cole like that but his album trumps Kendrick easily

Ive listened to both. And while I respect Kendricks effort and emotion...the shyt was simply a snoozefest. I need drum as and bass regardless of the album being funky, jazzy or whatever. There's no excuse for the lack of bass and drums.

Forest hill drive is far more enjoyable

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Did it ever occur to you that people are talking about GKMC even two years after because it's been out for 2+ years

To Pimp a Butterfly hasn't been out even for half a year

Whatcha sayin doesn't make sense

When it's out as long as GKMC and people still don't talk about it, then you'll have a point


I don't see how u missed that, you can't compare longevity when one album was out way longer than the other

Did you read my post breh?

I said people were talking about GKMC up to 2 years after it dropped. It's been 2 months and no one is talking about TPAB.

Were you on the coli or the innanet when GKMC dropped? Threads for months about it.

People have been very quiet about TPAB already and it ain't even been a year. No threads. No songs being played anywhere. So you're trying to say in a year people will suddenly start talking about TPAB again and I'll here i and King c00nta on radio?

That shyt is done breh. Whens his next shyt dropping?

 

[SoulController]

flop commercially? no

as far as connecting with fans? possibly, its a strange record with some bright spots that get overshadowed by wtf moments. I really only go back to 4 songs, not close to the front-to-back completeness of GKMC

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

considering its not a club album like drake, its doing real good.

IYRTITL isn't a club album. Those were his first 2 albums.

 

[UpAndComing]

This has been a strange year for Kendrick. I feel like that (was it VIBE magazine?) interview where he came off sounding real dumb about that Mike Brown shyt hurt him in the long run. It's like once people discovered he was an imbecile politically, he lost the Good K.I.D and became the Good c00n.

As a result, he's forced into this ideological box for the second album which should have been a victory lap (remember "Control" verse?) and comes off trying to throw shots at white supremacy and scold the homees for being too ignorant at the same time

Unfortunately, you can't be all things to all people so his musical triumph is simultaneously dulled by his immature rhetoric. All things considered the record is still incredible and deserves the praise it got for the most part. I don't really play it that much anymore tho

Sooooo mean

 

[eerieBell]

Did you read my post breh?

I said people were talking about GKMC up to 2 years after it dropped. It's been 2 months and no one is talking about TPAB.

Were you on the coli or the innanet when GKMC dropped? Threads for months about it.

People have been very quiet about TPAB already and it ain't even been a year. No threads. No songs being played anywhere. So you're trying to say in a year people will suddenly start talking about TPAB again and I'll here i and King c00nta on radio?

That shyt is done breh. Whens his next shyt dropping?

There's threads about TPAB made daily on coli


You just made one


Youz a lost soul breh

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

The only song I have ever heard anyone bumping in public from TBAB is Ain't Gotta Lie To Kick It from some dude playing ball at the gym that was playing his iPhone through a speaker.

Literally have never heard it coming from a car, or in a club, or at a bar, or anywhere else in public except for that one time.

 

[SchoolboyC]

I still bump it . I prefer GKMC & Section.80 but that doesn't automatically make it a flop

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

There's threads about TPAB made daily on coli


You just made one


Youz a lost soul breh

You know I just went through like 10 pages of the booth and found NOTHING on TPAB right.
You'z a fukking liar.
And stop bullshytting everyone.

 

[bouncy]

IYRTITL isn't a club album. Those were his first 2 albums.

To me albums or songs that cater to women by having subject matter that they love like buying expensive stuff, going to expensive places, and singing over whatever type of music is popular, is club music.

In other words its just the same as most of the stuff out. Its still good but nothing major or puts you in a different frame of mind like TPAB. It isn't very different in subject matter or sound as his stuff right before IYRTITL.