Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

This video is great, but I can't imagine ever listening to the song.

song is great. classic bay mobb beat >>>>

I like it. Obviously I would love another album of live band jazz weirdness, but this reminds me he sounds great over a str8-up banger. And it's only three minutes! Really succeeds at hyping me up for the new album.

Kendrick is in at least three of this decade's ten best music videos.

he cares way more about drake than he should, and manage to make tracks caring about drake sounds really really good.

"The Heart Pt. 4" was definitely aimed (at least partly) at Drake, but I think this song is aimed more at Kendrick's competition as a whole. Though Drake will probably take it as a singularly personal affront...

The line "Watch my soul speak, you let the meds talk" could be directed at a number of rappers (Future?), but not Drake. Anyways, this video's been on repeat for me; favorite thing he's done since GKMC.

I like this. I don't love it.

The video is awesome tho

Wu-Tang

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was excluding groups like NWA, Wu-Tang, Goodie Mob because I guess I feel like they are groups not crews

(even tho marley did the juice crew all stars album but i don't feel like that counts, the Juice Crew were perceived as solo artists first and foremost)

rad video, bland song

song is great. classic bay mobb beat >>>>

― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Friday, March 31, 2017 2:41 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah love the beat, was thinking it could be an E-40 beat

humble def feels aimed at the rap market more than anything he's done since gkmc

UMS otm. Great video too

people who like this otm

The line "Watch my soul speak, you let the meds talk" could be directed at a number of rappers (Future?), but not Drake. Anyways, this video's been on repeat for me; favorite thing he's done since GKMC.

― Handsome Bookor, Friday, March 31, 2017 7:54 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Idk about this like but some of this is directed at big Sean. He even parodied one of his videos w the weird camera effects at the end

*idk about this *line**

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.

Yeah, while the previous two (three if you count Untitled Unmastered) were big hits with hip-hop heads, critics and music obsessives, this has been the first album where I've started to notice people getting into Kendrick Lamar who perhaps would have found some of his previous work hard going.

yeah his first album sold 250k in its first week

weekly reminder to check out Section.80 everybody!

"major label debut"

also, did section.80 release on CD before GKMC came out?

this is a stupid stunt, what is the point of it.

Sell more records

i think it's a cool stunt. i'd buy physical if i could.

and yes Section.80 came out on CD before GKMC was out. i saw a bootleg vinyl copy, too, i'm pretty sure.

i mean if he really wrote this thing to go both directions, this is a *much* cooler reason to buy another copy than the "reloaded" reissue w/ 2 extra trax just in time for Xmas or w/e

you guys, the obvious difference is the advent of streaming ... hip hop in general is literally bigger (because hip hop's foot print is bigger) but its true size is also being more accurately measured ... this is true across the genre

that's interesting, do you have an article or smth to back it up?

it's been written about many times

Here.

You can turn on Hot 97 almost anytime and hear a song off Damn within ten minutes and that’s been true for months.

"i think it's a cool stunt. i'd buy physical if i could."

you can, go to a store and buy it. will you? i won't. I already bought the normal album. again, what's the point other than a rerelease?

Yes, Hip-Hop is more accurately measured now, but it still feels like Kendrick raised his status this year. His number way outsold and outstreamed More Life, which nobody would've predicted before the year

re: the "reversed" version, it would have been cool if they'd mixed up the transitions to make it run a little smoother.

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