Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

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!

wait no let me exercise my new found power. get out lbi, i hath commanded it ^_^

xp He goes for the prophet vibe which makes him sound like a 2Pac tryhard (and Pac was already a tryhard himself). Also, a major source of frustration for me is that he has a very similar voice to James Brown but he is definitely not a James Brown. Even when he gets to work on something worthy like King Kunta he mucks it up with some corny shit like annie are you ok and baby woo woo. It comes down to yabish being probably my least favorite piece of slang ever. Like, just the way it sounds is awkward af to me. So I'm basically completely at odds with Kendrick's cadence.

Failing to be James Brown seems like a high bar

I can kinda hear it but that comparison would never have occurred to me

Mystikal sounded like Brown too but with him it seemed like a virtue.

It kind of sounds like you've only heard King Kunta

I've listened to everything he's done sans mixtapes. Whatever he tries to do with his voice it always sounds corny to me hence parody. It might be partially due to being from Eastern Europe where the "ish" sound (as in yabish) is very common and has a clear infantile ring to it. Basically Kendrick sounds like a toddler to me.

how do you feel about skee-lo?

wish he was a little bit taller tbh

Love Skee-Lo!

Dude upthread is right about that part of the LUST hook being not-so-great, although imo a certain lyric on the falsetto part is worse. Rest of the song is cool tho.

Possibly just subject matter dude comes across awkward with for whatever reason, I've read people make that observation before

wait I like the vocal hook on LUST, reminds me of George Clinton
but I agree Kendrick sounds like a secret virgin when he raps about sex

wtf happened to this thread

It got all Vaiied out

Yes the "bag of sand" observation about Kendrick has been made before

Kendrick has no conception of cadence. He's as bad as Macklemore. Just jam as many words in a song as you can with no regard for meter or cadence. Ive tried twice with the new album and it's just not clicking.

so kendrick lamar has 1) a bad/weird voice and 2) doesn't know how to rap

good thread

p much ready to bully everyone off ilx

Kendrick's cadences are amazing. urs,a cadence fan

damn you, difference in taste!

this is more important than taste

I've no doubt Kendrick is smart, hugely talented and doing great work - it's just not really my cup of tea. But it's not uncommon at all for a distinctive, trendsetting stylist to be divisive.

It's not really my cup of tea either, but saying that Kendrick has no conception of cadence is weird. If that's the case, then 'cadence' doesn't meant what I think the word means.

Kendrick has no conception of cadence. He's as bad as Macklemore. Just jam as many words in a song as you can with no regard for meter or cadence.

This is 100% wrong. Also, for all the problems Macklemore has (and there are a lot), "no sense of cadence" isn't among them.

It has nothing to do with "taste", it has to do with understanding what the words you're using mean.

1.
a modulation or inflection of the voice.
"the measured cadences that he employed in the Senate"
synonyms: intonation, modulation, lilt, accent, inflection;

2.
MUSIC
a sequence of notes or chords comprising the close of a musical phrase.
"the final cadences of the Prelude"

Honestly, hiphop could do with more cadences. And cadenzas, for that matter.

lol just wanna point out I was not the one arguing "kendrick has no conception of cadence" (a nonsensical statement)

Oh I know.

If you want to take down every dumb statement on this thread you'll be here a while.

I had a hip-hop credenza once. It was fabolous.

I am so mad at you right now

mission accomplished!

EZ that was glorious

a post that needed to be made, for sure

If Fabolous is the Credenza of Hip Hop, Is Drake the Costanza?
(just helping out headline writers)

EZ recovered this thread from the car wreck it was turning out to be.