Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

Anyway I like this song.

What's his beef with Big Sean? He seems like a guy who can be safely ignored (by Kendrick, but also by me)

I like the song, wonder if it's a little bit of a headfake in the vein of "i" -- leading with a straightforward track and following with a more complex album.

Yeah, I like this but I'm not bowled over by it.

i think its liable to take off as a club record which means ppl will come around on it a lot

what does he have against Bismack Biyombo

― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Friday, March 31, 2017 1:52 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't un-hear

deej otm

Yeah, deej is right. Kendrick doesn't really do club songs but when thevibe is right, Allright will tear down any venue. This tries to do something with that same energy. I haven't heard it out yet but I predict it could be huge.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/album/id1223585496

I guess he's making up for Butterfly coming out a week early by making this one come out a week late.

Track 1: K. Duckworth, D. Tannenbaum & Anthony Tiffith
Track 2: K. Duckworth & M. Williams II
Track 3: K. Duckworth, M. Spears, D. Natche & Anthony Tiffith
Track 4: K. Duckworth, M. Spears, J. Blake & R Riera
Track 5: K. Duckworth & M. Spears
Track 6: K. Duckworth, D. Natche, M. Spears, Anthony Tiffith & T. Martin
Track 7: K. Duckworth, S. Lacy, A. Wise & Anthony Tiffith
Humble: K. Duckworth & M. Williams II
Track 9: K. Duckworth, D. Natche, M. Spears, C. Hansen, A. Sowinski, M Tavares & L. Whitty
Track 10: K. Duckworth, Z. Pacaldo, T. Walton, M. Spears, G. Kurstin & Anthony Tiffith
Track 11: K. Duckworth, M. Williams II, D. Natche, M. Spears, Anthony Tiffith, P. Hewson, D. Evans, A. Clayton & L. Mullen
Track 12: K. Duckworth & D. Maman
Track 13: K. Duckworth, R Riera, M. Spears, D. Natche, D. Tannenbaum, Anthony Tiffith & R. LaTour
Track 14: K. Duckworth & P. Douthit

I'm out

lol

I'm hoping it's something off Zooropa that's been sampled, rather than The Joshua Tree ...

"My Mami" feat Anna Wise

The U2 thing is apparently not a sample, but a track he sat down and co-wrote with them. Urgh.

That's a really, really bad sign for this record.

Or is it? Another news article says it's a sample. Hmmm.

Settle down everyone it's gonna be ok

I don't like "Humble" much – some of the rhymes sound second-tier to me and his flow awkward.

Remember how Elton John ruined that ATCQ album?

maybe it will be like a U2 album because it will be in my iTunes as soon as it comes out

I hope it's a five minute interlude of bono dissing big sean

god forbid a rapper samples/collaborates with somebody uncool

what a game-changer that would be

"humble" is great imo

i dig it a lot

was telling my wife the other night that career-wise, I think Kendrick Lamar needs a huge hit with his next record. Guessing the U2 collab is efforts towards that. Somehow.

I would have guessed the G. Kurstin credit on track ten would be his effort towards a huge hit.

he just sold 277K of untitled, unmastered which is more than a lot of rappers with hit singles sell and that's just an odds and sods comp

not really meaning in terms of sales alone, but breaking through into the next level of pop stardom a la Kanye, Adele, superbowl halftime, popular culture awareness stuff. ie the level at which my mom can hum a Kendrick Lamar tune from memory

don't think the Hot 100 is set up to allow a hip hop guy that kind of cultural ubiquity anymore

can your mom hum a Drake tune?

did hotline bling get to that point?

my mom only listens to her Pandora Eagles station

what if the u2 joint is good

xp
maybe, I haven't asked her

not really meaning in terms of sales alone, but breaking through into the next level of pop stardom a la Kanye, Adele, superbowl halftime, popular culture awareness stuff. ie the level at which my mom can hum a Kendrick Lamar tune from memory

― Dominique, Friday, April 7, 2017 2:53 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hope this never happens.

Like, seriously, Kendrick Lamar is above all that kinda shit, IMO.

the only way to get to that level is to suck on some level imo

"Swimming Pool" only peaked in the top 20 but was pretty inescapable that fall

Tribe + Elton was somehow great so one never knows

"Bennie & the Jets" was a hit on R&B radio in the early '70s, which helps.

U2 had a few tunes in the 80's iirc

but yes, reasonable point. U2 has not yet done a live collab with eminem tho so i call a draw.

‘Cause we need a little controversy
‘Cause it feels so empty with or without you

i guess i don't feel like anything is inescapable anymore

of course it isn't we're all gonna die before 2020

but hopefully not before we get to hear this album

I like the song, wonder if it's a little bit of a headfake in the vein of "i" -- leading with a straightforward track and following with a more complex album.

Yeah, that's kinda my feeling, that To Pimp a Butterfly was such a burst of creativity that I'd be very surprised if he followed it up with something more "complex" (for want of a better term) ... I'm very interested in where he goes from here, of course, but I'll be very surprised if the new record goes above and beyond what he's done so far.

(I am expecting it to be good, though)

so weird to read ppl write about kendrick like hes some underground star instead of a mega celebrity

damn. is really the proper follow-up to TPAB and the release of “humble” was way more of an event in the immediate than either of the two singles that preceded TPAB. (it also only preceded its associated album by two weeks, so momentum was huge)

xp interesting article

not sure if this is because "its true size is being more accurately measured" or because it's growing in size?

that is, if streaming is driving "sales" and young people stream more than old people and young people prefer contemporary genres (not rock) then this would make hip hop bigger, wouldn't make it retroactively bigger tho (unless the argument is that urban genres were always bigger but didn't have sales to match because they were either radio or DJ genres or in some other way their popularity was not sales drive)

our local station plays the radio version of Element and Loyalty a lot in addition to Humble

not sure if this is because "its true size is being more accurately measured" or because it's growing in size?

that is, if streaming is driving "sales" and young people stream more than old people and young people prefer contemporary genres (not rock) then this would make hip hop bigger, wouldn't make it retroactively bigger tho (unless the argument is that urban genres were always bigger but didn't have sales to match because they were either radio or DJ genres or in some other way their popularity was not sales drive)

― niels, Wednesday, December 13, 2017 7:36 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a chicken & the egg kind of argument. There was very popular rap music that was largely ignored by industry gatekeepers until streaming allowed them to measure it, and once they did measure it & have something verifiable to base decisions on, they proceeded to magnify its popularity further

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfCqMv--ncA

bad

this is kind of boring but it's alright. it sounds like a good song to rollerskate to.

It sounded great at the halftime show last night, he really amped it up. The whole performance was strong, just him alone on stage totally commanding a huge crowd.

Watch Kendrick's full Halftime Show performance for the CFP National Championship. pic.twitter.com/zGgzU3pKRA

— DUCKWORTH TDE (@DuckworthTDE) January 9, 2018

hmm I'm happy for Kendrick but I don't find it a particularly convincing performance, not interested in an mp3 of this...

but then very few concerts on American tv from the past 20 years have made much impression on me, don't know why they all have such bad sound when there are hundreds of radio stations with amazing live recordings (w video footage too!) on youtube

kendrick over classic dre beats, hell yeah

https://audiomack.com/album/dj-critical-hype/the-damn-chronic

yeesh that Don't Kill My Vibe mashup is terrible off though

BREAKING: Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for "DAMN" the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the award.

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 16, 2018

should post it here tbh

one album too late, but holy shit, congrats k dot

I started a thread about it: Kendrick Lamar Wins 2018 Pulitzer in Music

new album 05/13 - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers

https://oklama.com/step

my excitement is immeasurable and my day is made.

until you see Biebs + Dua Lipa in the "ft." credits

hey if i sat through u2 on the last album, that's nothing.

Fucking made my day.

"Deep Fake: DEEP VOODOO"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPUkgeiFVY

also ??? at him thanking the South Park dudes in the notes

anyway, good song

sounds like a barry white song and i mean that with the most enthusiasm bc barry white is the god

it's a marvin gaye song.

oh looool

i knew it sounded familiar, right time and genre at least

also ??? at him thanking the South Park dudes in the notes

he announced he's making a film with them earlier in the year

kendrick lamar - mr. morale & the big steppers (2022)

but we should use the new album thread