Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album - DAMN

"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.

Like, seriously, Kendrick Lamar is above all that kinda shit, IMO.

the only way to get to that level is to suck on some level imo

"Swimming Pool" only peaked in the top 20 but was pretty inescapable that fall

Tribe + Elton was somehow great so one never knows

"Bennie & the Jets" was a hit on R&B radio in the early '70s, which helps.

U2 had a few tunes in the 80's iirc

but yes, reasonable point. U2 has not yet done a live collab with eminem tho so i call a draw.

‘Cause we need a little controversy
‘Cause it feels so empty with or without you

i guess i don't feel like anything is inescapable anymore

of course it isn't we're all gonna die before 2020

but hopefully not before we get to hear this album

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, that's kinda my feeling, that To Pimp a Butterfly was such a burst of creativity that I'd be very surprised if he followed it up with something more "complex" (for want of a better term) ... I'm very interested in where he goes from here, of course, but I'll be very surprised if the new record goes above and beyond what he's done so far.

(I am expecting it to be good, though)

so weird to read ppl write about kendrick like hes some underground star instead of a mega celebrity

what if the u2 joint is good
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, 7 April 2017 15:07 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/UP5GqgW.jpg

lmao

more Ezra pics plz

Lamar launches at No. 2 on the Hot 100 with "Humble.," marking his fourth top 10 and first in a lead role. (He's tallied one No. 1: as featured on Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" in 2015.) "Humble." blasts in at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (49.8 million), the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart (33.2 million on-demand U.S. streams) and Digital Song Sales (111,000). The track is Lamar's first No. 1 on the two streaming tallies and second on the sales chart (following "Bad Blood").

Impressively, "Humble." is the first rap song to debut as high as No. 2 on the Hot 100 in nearly seven years, since Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie," featuring Rihanna, also bowed at No. 2, on July 10, 2010.

those stats are meaningless

most chart stats are. in short the single is catching on and fairly quickly (tho surprise surprise, radio is going to lag far behind)

It's not that they're meaningless - more that meaning is changing. The fact that Kodak Black has had the most streamed song after Ed Sheeran for two weeks only to be replaced by Kendrick surely tells us something about the new market. It's more that we'll probably see a new record set every week, more or less, as the new chart era consolidates itself.

yeah this is why i hate billboard chart 'records' that are almost never evaluated in the context of how the data is (and used to be) compiled wrt major market shifts that have occurred. sadly tho that kind of trivia has been a fixture of the culture surrounding chartwatching since like the 80s afaict? and it's the kinda shit that gets lots of rts/shares on social media now so billboard will prob keep churning those factoids out.

i came around on humble over the weekend

I forgot he was on Bad Blood.

So did he.

http://pitchfork.com/news/72459-kendrick-lamar-enlists-rihanna-and-u2-for-new-album-damn/

hmmmmmm

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