Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

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.

I like that in the same thread Kendrick has been knocked for his virtuosity (like he's Steve Vai) and that he has no sense of cadence. Like wut

"Humble" is something I'm not sure Kendrick has ever really had: a beat that people are gonna use for freestyles

http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/ak-be-humble-freestyle-new-song.1973711.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmzg4lY24ak

(the 1st one is ak of underachivers pretty good, next one is youtube dork)

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.

― gospodin simmel, Monday, April 17, 2017 3:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

celebrating 15 years of batshit ilx hip hop posts

:)

what's on yr ipod

back to our regularly scheduled programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRYQMLDW4

nice

wtf these dorks on about kendrick's voice and how he raps to much or some shit gtfo

this is definitely the point in his career where screaming OVERRATED is the maximum au courant challop/clickbait opinion

kendrick if you could not be such a good rapper and be more accessible to me that would be great,thanks !

smh

Dorky is another good word for his voice actually.

DNA is indeed a banger

DNA.
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https://youtu.be/NLZRYQMLDW4

Kendrick is a long way away from James Brown. He doesn't dance, he isn't a born showman, he isn't a ruthless bandleader, and he's not crazy afaik. He's kind of a beta-male superstar with something to say, and his most endearing "voice" communicates vulnerability, not braggadocio (even when he's bragging). For me, this record is a slight letdown in the sense of its of production ambition and album-concept from what came before, but performance-wise, he's at the top of his game. IMO he doesn't actually need to produce "bangers" to have huge hits, he could do that with social commentary and love songs/raps. (guess I'm saying either Loyalty or Love should be a single)

this album is great!

so so great

both the video and the album, just f'in' great great stuff

no..... kendrick is definitely like james brown...

wait there's a video for humble too! gah where have i been

It might be partially due to being from Eastern Europe

https://i.giphy.com/VFYJXIuuFl6pO.gif

the posts itt are so off the wall dumb im agreeing w/ joan crawford and ulysses in an ilx rap thread

or kendrick is that good, however you want to spin it

m8 you're agreeing with me

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-kendrick-lamar-damn-album-w477376

BITCH I DID THAT

fantastic whiney

He's kind of a beta-male superstar with something to say, and his most endearing "voice" communicates vulnerability, not braggadocio (even when he's bragging

wth

smashingly good, cw

Good read yeah.

tunesmithery :D

http://i.imgur.com/GUhGgyZ.jpg

Whiney that is a fucking superb review

in tune with that classicism vibe I keep thinking of DAMN. related to Illmatic, the steady bang-bang-bang directness of both albums' flow

I've seen several comments about the blind lady in the opening story being Lady Liberty, which makes a ton of sense and fits his previous allegories.

or justice, which would make a lot more sense, no?

nice job wgw

Excellent review Whiney. The part about 'xxx' feeling like Rodney King-era revenge fantasies like Geto Boys etc so otm, too.

can we ban the phrase "beta male"

I'm sorry, I meant Lady Justice

xp we certainly can, and it doesn't even really apply to Kendrick, who can command a crowd of tens of thousands of people to his will. "He's short and has a high voice, so therefore he's less of a man." Just dumb.

The bag of sand quality of his sex raps is what makes him beta.

jesus christ

dude gtfo already , you aren't adding anything here xp

Yeah, true. Just being an asshole at this point.

BUT maybe don't get so defensive that even a (well meaning, in Whiney's article) "slight" like beta needs to get reconstructed as to not apply to Kendrick.