Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

Like pull up pop off make it look sexy

If LOVE isn't the next single, somebody's not doing their job.

Love and Loyalty are really the only possible choices

love the vibes on the chorus of PRIDE

re: virtuosity, to me the rap equivalent of Steve Vai would be the last few Em records, pure technicality with no worthwhile vision. Kendrick is technically a great MC of course but he's also just versatile as a vocalist generally and knows not to go full-bore syllable-crunching all the time. not to mention his actual lyrics are not shit. and he is very canny about using his voice - his sung hooks are rarely if ever embarrassing and he blends nicely with his collaborators. he sounds very natural trading bars and singing along with Rihanna for example (which is also in part because she's a seasoned collaborator as well).

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/steve-lacy-iphone-producer/

Steve Vai isn't that bad imo

I don't think Kendrick ever comes close to abusing his chops, he's just really good at rapping which I know can be a Scarlett Letter in these days of schmoodlebob, but yeah this isn't like recent Em or fuckin Chino XL or Canibus or some shit like that

Steve Vai isn't that bad imo

New board description?

We're through the lookin' glass, people

Steve Vai has some jams. (Originally wrote "hams" which I am going to assume is also true.)

yo where's the second album!?

Wait another thousand years

So it looks like Humble is the official NBA Playoffs theme.

Steve Vai played a big role in Eat Em and Smile by David Lee Roth which is great

Steve Vai's right hand tapping just went viral

And PiL. Careers have exceptions built into them.

Steve Vai doesn't really even play that fast Alfred you should have invoked Yngwie or the Great Kat instead imo

upper mississippi otm, people who hate on Kendrick mainly do so because he can rap at all, weird shades of old school indie rock distrust of technical proficiency in that whole dynamic but w/e

Steve Vai has a song with horse whinnies in it YAH

Jesus didn't die for a Kendrick Lamar thread to be defaced by Steve Vai smdh

Yeah dude's flow is great IMO. Way more dexterous/smooth than a certain other megastar rapper who allegedly makes more "fun" music

ELEMENT. and XXX. endings are album highlights too gotta say, calm after intensity. the latter doesn't even sound particularly U2-ish although maybe it's comparable to a certain era of 'em I'm not familiar with

XXX to me sounds like maybe Larry Jr. is doing some drums and then all of them are doing some vocals and basically did whatever Kendrick told them to do. They can't write stuff like that.

First listen here, it's fucking amazing. Peak of his game surely, long may it sustain. I'm on holiday in Kyoto and it's pelting with rain but FEEL. transforms it into magic.

upper mississippi otm, people who hate on Kendrick mainly do so because he can rap at all, weird shades of old school indie rock distrust of technical proficiency in that whole dynamic but w/e

uh no nobody here hates him. Mentioning how cluttered a few of those tracks are has nothing to do w/old school indie and distrust of proficiency.

Confused at how anybody could think this is anything less than brilliant - like, working out which of this and TPAB is better will take some actual thought imo

It's very good and sometimes excellent.

Alfred you played the Vai card, don't be surprised when Satch shows up to boogie

no longer vai-able

DAMN Good.

trigger warning: pinch harmonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YADEU3FG5ZQ

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/kendrick-lamar-debuts-damn-songs-kills-the-coachella-stage.html

it'll get yanked since it's just a rip of the coachella livestream, but kendrick's entire set from the weekend is on a few sites for the minute

it's good :)

People who hate on Kendrick mainly do so because he has a very peculiar voice and he goes all self-righteous with it and it sounds awkward af. He sounds like a parody imo.

no u

did you confuse him with j cole on the self-righteous part

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Sorry, will remove bookmark.

I'm hounding everyone off ILX this week. Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Don't go. Your interpretation is valid

kinda nice to see some slander itt tbf.

altho the steve vai derail was better

Element sounds like Drakes back 2 back to me

guys guys let's not criticize the dude with a song that contains the line "let me put the head in" multiple times

that's one of my faves on the album so far, even if that's the most awkward repeated lyric since whatever j cole last did

i'm really angry about j cole existing again this week, sorry

has my enthusiastic support for this album triggered a backlash

yes, as usual everything is a reaction to you

Second half is better than first. And also, Blood is bullshit, and it's now second album in a row the devil is a woman, and after Sherane it's his third album in a row where the narrative thread revolves around a deceitful woman. And compared to How Much a Dollar Cost, why was the homeless man God, while the homeless woman is the Devil?

Just wondering Gospodin, if he sounds like a parody to you, what is it a parody of?

i'm really angry about j cole existing again this week, sorry

― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Monday, April 17, 2017

bitch be humble!

surprised u can't recognise a parody of self righteousness ;)

That a dig, or...?

oh, reply to NA!