So Did Kendrick Flop?
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ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
Drip Bayless
Superstar
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He said something stupid in an article, that isn't even remotely close to the "message" behind the album. That'd be like me saying "I won't listen to Tetsuo & Youth because Lupe conflated trayvon's death with Hip Hop and said he isn't making music for "Black people" just "People".
Don't lie to yourself homie. That shyt is littered throughout the album, institutionalized, the blacker the berry, i, the list goes on. I'll admit the message behind i is good but the rest can 
Insensitive
Superstar
People will believe what they want to believe but even the most ardent kendrick
hater wouldn't find "respectability politics" in a song like "i" or "institutionalized", hell even "The Blacker The Berry"
is a stretch.
That's exactly what I was thinking!
People will believe what they want to believe but even the most ardent kendrick
hater wouldn't find "respectability politics" in a song like "i" or "institutionalized", hell even "The Blacker The Berry"
is a stretch.
Drip Bayless
Superstar
The fukking hook is I love myself
People will believe what they want to believe but even the most ardent kendrick
hater wouldn't find "respectability politics" in a song like "i" or "institutionalized", hell even "The Blacker The Berry"
is a stretch.
Whatever breh dikkriders gon dikkride
211somelliere
Taste maker on the get money gut diet
How could being considered one of the greatest in a genre essentially universally be a flop?
Not an artist signed to one of the biggest labels in the genre with a huge backing.Artists make music for reasons besides money all the time moron
Yes, even Interscope artists have goals with their music besides making money
Ridiculous
You're living in an alternate reality.Yes, even Interscope artists have goals with their music besides making money
Exact OPPOSITE. It Was Written was celebrated commercially from jump out the gate, selling 2+ million, enormously successful singles, and being Nas' highest selling album to date. But it wasn't received critically in the beginning
To Simp a Butterfly is not celebrated commercially, and critically. Kendrick stans grasping for straws tryna align themselves with Nas
While TPAB is reverse from IWW in that regard it seems the same cause both albums were polarizing and makes nikkas wonder what route Kendrick will go next time, or at least I am. Go back to having radio capable/accessible shyt on albums or stay on the path TPAB has him on?
Insensitive
Superstar
The fukking hook is I love myself
Whatever breh dikkriders gon dikkride
How does "I love myself" directly translate to "Respectability Politics" ?
And it fits in with the concept of the album, he was coming to terms
with "loving himself" after feeling so conflicted, he kinda talks about this
through several songs.
"u","Alright" and "institutionalized" bolster my point
I mean you could definitely take it that way but when you look at the work as a whole and
look at the lyrics in the song outside of it's hook then I think "Respectability Politics" hardly factors into the overall point he was trying to make.
I mean read these lyrics it doesn't reflect "Act a certain way so that society will
respect you". It doesn't say that...at all actually
The lyrics (no hook included here):
I done been through a whole lot
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
The Devil wanna put me in a bow tie
Pray that the holy water don't go dry
As I look around me
So many motherfukkers wanna down me
But an enemigo never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
They wanna say it's a war outside, bomb in the street
Gun in the hood, mob of police
Rock on the corner with a line for the fiend
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scheme uh
These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation (Come to the front)
I duck these cold faces, post up fi-fie-fo-fum basis
Dreams of reality's peace
Blow steam in the face of the beast
Sky could fall down, wind could cry now
Look at me motherfukker I smile
(Crazy)
(What you gon' do?)
Lift up your head and keep moving, (Keep moving) turn the mic up
(Haunt you)
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company
What do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
How many times my potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises?
So I promise this, nikka
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
I'mma do it till I get it right
I went to war last night (Night, night, night, night, night)
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message
I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave
From a negative and letting them annihilate me
And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed
Finna run into a building, lay my body...
Call people dikk riders when you don't have leg to stand on brehs
Drip Bayless
Superstar
Breh, "gangbanging made me kill a nikka blacker than me", the whole damn album is littered with lines like this. I'll admit, sonically I fukks wit a good number of songs, but I'll be chilling, than this nikka say some shyt like that and it ruins it for me. How you gon make an album about the black experience, yet 80% of the songs is telling black people to do better?
How does "I love myself" directly translate to "Respectability Politics" ?
And it fits in with the concept of the album, he was coming to terms
with "loving himself" after feeling so conflicted, he kinda talks about this
through several songs.
"u","Alright" and "institutionalized" bolster my point
I mean you could definitely take it that way but when you look at the work as a whole and
look at the lyrics in the song outside of it's hook then I think "Respectability Politics" hardly factors into the overall point he was trying to make.
I mean read these lyrics it doesn't reflect "Act a certain way so that society will
respect you". It doesn't say that...at all actually
The lyrics (no hook included here):
I done been through a whole lot
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
The Devil wanna put me in a bow tie
Pray that the holy water don't go dry
As I look around me
So many motherfukkers wanna down me
But an enemigo never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
They wanna say it's a war outside, bomb in the street
Gun in the hood, mob of police
Rock on the corner with a line for the fiend
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scheme uh
These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation (Come to the front)
I duck these cold faces, post up fi-fie-fo-fum basis
Dreams of reality's peace
Blow steam in the face of the beast
Sky could fall down, wind could cry now
Look at me motherfukker I smile
(Crazy)
(What you gon' do?)
Lift up your head and keep moving, (Keep moving) turn the mic up
(Haunt you)
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company
What do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
How many times my potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises?
So I promise this, nikka
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
I'mma do it till I get it right
I went to war last night (Night, night, night, night, night)
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message
I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave
From a negative and letting them annihilate me
And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed
Finna run into a building, lay my body...
Call people dikk riders when you don't have leg to stand on brehs
