the new kendrick album is weak

[thernbroom]

@ nikkas paying for this def poetry jam shyt

 

[InstantKlassik]

I kinda agree. I keep listening to it and I wanna like it but for some reason it's just not resonating with me personally but there are a few tracks that I like.

 

[kingest_kong]

I thought complexion, how much a dollar cost, alright, these walls, institutionalized, and you ain't gotta lie were incredible songs.

Granted, I'm older so I appreciate the album from a music standpoint versus the direction hip hop is going now as a whole.

Lyrically he's put out a very positive message. Something that us as black people should be embracing...

 

[IVS]

Oh damn! The Kendrickistanies are about to come out in full force.

 

[doublenegative]

Man that shyt fire.

 

[TM101]

I ain't even gon lie, I haven't heard the album but it's because I heard GKMC and I really hate the artsy style of Kendrick's rapping, I like rappers with nice flows and word play like 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Snootie Wild and Soulja Boy.

 

[Beerus]

I call myself a Drake stan and all, but nikka that fukking smiley is atrocious of the 6 god the fukk is fukking wrong with you nikka?
DO you see any other shytty pics like this?
U dont see fiddy stans doing shyt like that with his smileys.
nikka you fukking making us look like shyt outchea

 

[chosenaledge13]

One of my favorite albums of all time due to how it influences and inspires me, it can't do that for everybody so you're entitled to your opinion breh.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

To each his own

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Musicians make better Rappers.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever come back to this album. Can't really think of any quatables or gems he dropped.

Beats are good, but I heard it all before.

Alright is my jam though

 

[War Word the Arch Angel]

the album plays like a big sophmore slump. kind of like when oasis dropped 'be here now'

 

[TheBeigeBomber]

shyt is 10 steps backwards from gkmc

this is the album coli fake militants would love but nobody in real life fukks with it

 

[Mac Casper]

wit all that doo wop and note runs.

it misses the point of sampling, which is to either take a cool line or melody and turn it into an even cooler song - or to take a few cool sounds and work it into a cool song. kendrick has the instruments and musicians, but he is missing the cool part!

In theory yes, but most sampling in hip-hop has resulted in a watered down version of the original with cheapened content. There's seriously very few examples where rappers have expounded upon original works. Dr. Dre's The Chronic is a perfect example of this and before you respond go listen the originals