Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

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.

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