Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

i went from "ha, corny but not that bad" to outright hatred approaching "happy" levels within about 5 listens

not a fan of rappers who change their voice to rap.

here's my rap voice

this is another reason he sucks. great rappers have already interesting voices, which is why they sound good. nas, 3000, prodigy, biggie, ghost, ugk, g rap, rah digga, lil kim, slick rick, jigga, snoop, common, to project pat to bone thugs to jeezy to wayne to whomever don't need to put on a all new rap voice. Kanye got away with it through force of personality although it took a long time for people to stop saying he shouldn't be rapping.

im not hating on drick for changing his voice it might be his thing but question is why does he do it? Madlib went Quasimoto becuase obviously he knows his voice isn't a rap voice.

Sadat X.

http://i.imgur.com/gCi60.gif

omg i need that shirt

It's gonna be embarrassing when Talib Kweli reveals in an interview that he tried to join in on ILX but kept getting mocked and rejected.

tempted by a "Racoon Talkweli" dn tbh

i forgot its not cool anymore to care about stuff i feel like an idiot now.

i thought you were arguing you DIDNT care about this

i like talib kweli

I do too! That's what will make the reveal sting.

#peteypabloisracoontanukigoodrapperbadposter

i know you want dih drick

haha

I was on a Rawkus bender a few days back.

posting for dn posterity

"i debuted at #19 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, which is a really unusually high debut for that format

Congrats, some dude. I'm happy you're doing so well.

lol

hmm from what i saw it was being added to even more rhythmic stations than HH ones ...

don't see it anywhere on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart yet. don't really have any stations in that format that i know of in my area, whereas i listen to 3 rap/R&B stations and i've heard "i" on all of them in the past week.

seems to be getting a little bit of play at pop stations too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8

Eh, I'm not seeing the whole voice change point. This track seems more like an extension of something from Section 80.

I've also liked this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5yb2H7Fqi8

http://instagram.com/p/vAPN8OjvPb

the discussion upthread was not about his voice on "I" being a change from earlier material, just that he generally does rap in several voices that differ from each other and his speaking voice.

damn i care for this track even less now it cuts off that nice sa-ra style intro in the video

or is that some other track of his i havent heard

idk if i love this song but i think its very interesting and am curious if it will be a huge hit

i like his new look too

I kinda flopped, didn't it?

it stalled on the rap airplay charts last week after a high debut and a few weeks of rising. might be losing momentum but I wouldn't count it out yet.

i'm pretty into this, i think it works -- the video helps imo

they used it for the opening night bumper music for the nba on tnt

unsurprisingly it is doing better at rhythmic radio (#7 right now, might rise some more). somewhat more surprisingly it's his first song to chart at pop radio (#31 right now). but yes in general its momentum seems to be faltering.

i like it better than i did before but i still have mixed feelings on it. and radio around here seems to cut out the parts i like best toward the end :\

Kendrick Lamar dances like Michael Stipe

idk if i love this song but i think its very interesting and am curious if it will be a huge hit

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 8:28 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya

this is a little too BEP for my taste

his colbert report performance was so good http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/guests/Kendrick-Lamar/pjrqsj/kendrick-lamar---debut-of-untitled-track

his new music is weird as hell not sure what to make out of it

it's a bit backpackery, musically speaking, but the rhymes/his delivery are still 💯, and he's clearly doing whatever the fuck he wants, which is ultimately better imo than him doing section.80 pt 2 or GKMC pt 2

that was....different

that was downright early Saul Williams-y. into it

it totally seems of a piece with his past work, if not as 'good kid 2' as people were probably expecting

Liked this. Sounds angry.

Tell em we don't die, we multiply.

I just have to get this out of my head, but I keep imagining a Christmas viral parody video of "I" but it's Santa rapping at his workshop about how much his elves help him and have his back "I love my elfs"

ahahaha