big boi-ass album name
― na (NA), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
the whole thing is actually a collab with inflo.
one song includes tony allen's final performance.
there's a spoken word cameo from bill withers.
a significant part of the album is just kendrick reading the constitution in a real whiny, mocking voice over "more bounce to the ounce."
it's only about twenty minutes long.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
^Big if true
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
I'm actually surprised that this was announced with still about a month to go. His last few albums were announced two weeks or less in advanced of their release date. Granted, To Pimp a Butterfly was pushed up from it's initial announced release date, and that could still possibly happen.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
This name is still hilarious to me
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
he's a troll haha: https://oklama.com/theheart
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
huh.
in any case, this is an exciting time to be a hiphop fan.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
new song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPUkgeiFVY
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 May 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
So this is maybe/probably not on the album, right? Great track either way.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 9 May 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
well my eyes sure bugged out!
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 9 May 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
almost definitely not gonna be on the album, if he follows the pattern of the previous “the heart” releases. they’re the amuse bouche
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 May 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
also ??? at him thanking the South Park dudes in the noteshe announced he's making a film with them earlier in the yearkendrick lamar - mr. morale & the big steppers (2022)but we should use the new album thread― ufo, Monday, 9 May 2022 03:35 (one hour ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 9 May 2022 03:35 (one hour ago) link
also learned earlier that the deepfake tech in the video is from the SP dudes
― Murgatroid, Monday, 9 May 2022 05:18 (one year ago) link
glad that it seems to be a double after getting us to wait so long
― ufo, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:34 (one year ago) link
new song is really great, very promising if the album's vibes are anything like this
― ufo, Monday, 9 May 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
I'm looking forward to the album and looking forward to dissecting it with my son. Kendrick is one of our biggest shared enthusiasms, we went together to see him in 2018 in Atlanta. He's the one who came bounding down the stairs last night going "There's a new Kendrick track!"
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 9 May 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
so this is gonna be a return to the adventurous jazz-ish rap of Butterfly, right?
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
More U2 collabs please
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
I've held off on saying anything about this so far because what can you say? The expectation going in is that possibly the best rapper of all time is about to make his most important statement yet — and the new song is right in line with that.
Having difficulty putting the magnitude of my excitement into words at this point.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link
possibly the best rapper of all time is about to make his most important statement yet
fucking hell
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 05:55 (one year ago) link
do people really think that?
you don't understand, there is music and then there is music royalty
― imago, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:34 (one year ago) link
easy to forget as well that this is a classic rock forum, and that kendrick is classic rock
(he's great though so I am excited to hear it, just as I am unexcited by ILM's response to it)
― imago, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:36 (one year ago) link
I'm sure some people think so, and in general I'm very happy for the phenomenon of Kendrick Lamar, wish him all the best, great that he's getting so many young people into rap. Tipsy's story really made me smile.
But just to balance the thread a bit, I've never really loved his style, and I don't find the single amazing.
I did find this couplet witty:I said I'd do this for my cultureTo let y'all know what a n**** look like in a bulletproof Rover
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:38 (one year ago) link
I think I'd be more excited for a Kendrick Lamar album if I was still listening to any new hip hop, which I have stopped about the time of Untitled Unmastered. I don't think I remember anything from Damn except the annoying "Bitch, be humble" line. His number of features was also ridiculous at some point. But will be happy to listen to the new one about 15 weeks after everyone else because I still love everything he did up to TPAB.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 09:49 (one year ago) link
“I did find this couplet witty:I said I'd do this for my cultureTo let y'all know what a n**** look like in a bulletproof Rover”
This is a Jay-Z verse originally, I think.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link
yeah, from Izzo - just a funny interpolation
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link
He's verging on becoming Too Important. I miss the fun, a little.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
yeah that 3rd verse is---not my kinda conscious
it's not that it's pretentious but more that it's vague, abstract, generalistic, missing the quotidian profundities that would make it fun and real
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:30 (one year ago) link
I think I'd be more excited for a Kendrick Lamar album if I was still listening to any new hip hop good news, that’s a quality you share with a large percentage of the people who are excited for this album
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:39 (one year ago) link
I am excited to hear it, just as I am unexcited by ILM's response to it
this is so dumb lol, if you think that ilm is gonna be unduly hyped about this album, then i invite you look literally anywhere else on the internet and see what hot air really looks like
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
“this has nothing on the new quelle chris album” - imago, in two days
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
quelle chris is mad underpraised!! but this will probably be better, let's see lol
― imago, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
within seconds of release other parts of the internet will be picking apart lyrics for clues and easter eggs like it was a season one episode of True Detective
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
do people really think that?― groovemaaan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:55 PM
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:55 PM
do people really not think that?
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 5:30 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
the video helps–he's rapping from nipsey hussle's perspective and forgiving the man who killed him.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
additionally, there's a ton of references to nipsey's neighborhood.
also it's funny to me-
(lifelong hiphop fan gets excited to hear highly anticipated new material by one of the music's acknowledged virtuosos.)
some of ya'll: ABSOLUTELY NOT
the collective listening experience is overvalued and if you've lost your enthusiasm for an event album like this, well . . . as a smarter person than myself once said: i can't do nothin' for ya, man.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6:07 AM (seven hours ago)
i think this is the discourse suffocating the actual art a bit. damn had some fun moments! "loyalty" was a great pop single, "DNA" and "element" are banger type songs. i don't love "humble" but it's a pretty fun single. he's obviously a serious and ponderous artist at his core but there's always a balance w/ his albums, even to pimp a butterfly there's "king kunta," "alright," "hood politics" etc. i wouldn't necessarily take the new song as some sort of strong indicator of where the album is going to go
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
his guest verses on the baby keem album were definitely offbeat, and "range brothers" especially had lots of goofy moments ("top of da mornin'", k dot's ad-libs)
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
A crown or frickin’ thorns?
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
Wait is this the Jack Harlow thread?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
i like how the cover echoes good kid maad city. he was the baby then, the father now.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
kinda cool this hasn't leaked (or if it has don't tell me)
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
we don't even have a track list & he only just revealed the cover art
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
i'm sure it'll leak whenever ufo and the rest of the aussies get it in full
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
Billy Woods has been my go to rapper since DAMN along with Ka. Very much looking forward to this, but indeed Kendrick is considered royalty, and the expectations had on this record and anything he drops is going to be up there with pre Yeezus Kanye or any other all timer you can name.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
I mean the dude won a Pulitzer ffs
― octobeard, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
idk sometimes with these very big albums they hold them back for a worldwide release aligned with the usa
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
xps we’re not sharing
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
It’s one thing to come into an album thread after listening to it and saying “eh, I’m not feeling it” but the mad dash a couple of you are making to let everyone know how over this as-yet-unreleased album you are is virtuosic ass-showing
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 12 May 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
otm. also maybe kendrick is having tons of fun. sure sounds inspired on the new track.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 12 May 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
and crowd surprisingly not shit
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 26 June 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
3 tracks in a row from Good Kid... killing me here.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 26 June 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Could do with being louder tbh.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 June 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
OK, I think they've sorted that.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 June 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
I'm just glad people are raving over someone at Glasto who isn't Guy Garvey. Not heard the new KL album yet.
― calzino, Sunday, 26 June 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
"Rich Spirit" is my favorite song in here and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite songs of him in general. Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being my most listened song of 2022 come eoy on spotify.
I don't think I had noticed the production of his previous albums as much as this one. It might be one of my favorite produced hip hop records in years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 June 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
yep
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 June 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
"rich spirit" instant classic― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, May 12, 2022 10:35 PM
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, May 12, 2022 10:35 PM
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Monday, 27 June 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
definitely my favorite song of the year. beat is the sci-fi synth funk of the promised land and verse 3 especially is very rhyme of the month/hiphop quotable-
Frat brother, real n/gga, that brotherWe just upped the score, give me dap, brotherSpirit medium, I don't rap, brotherWe headed there now, are you strapped brother?Ayy, peacemaker, but I'm not naive, brotherAyy, gotta watch your homies and police, brotherAyy, clout chasing hell of a disease, brotherI'm fasting four days out the week, brotherI pray to God that you realize the entourage is deadI pray to God that you not lackin' when you off the medsI pray to God she know them Cabo trips don't last foreverBet she argue with her momma, go and get them kidsI pray to God you actually pray when somebody diesThoughts and prayers, way better off timelinesFalse claimin' not cute, I'm mortifiedThe new Earth in hot pursuit, two-hundred lives
the little mannerism he takes on in the section i emphasized still makes me giggle. his charisma and ability to deadpan such convincing satire remain unmatched. sounds like paul mooney the rapper sometimes. love love love.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Monday, 27 June 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Once I took "We Cry Together" out of the track listing, this album is very very very good. "Father Time" and "Purple Hearts" probably my favorites but there's a lot of songs near that level, like "Rich Spirit"
― Vinnie, Monday, 27 June 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
literally just now realizing that the song is called "mother | sober" not "mother i sober"
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
hahaha I also thought it was mother i sober
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
real n/gga
― JackMyFruit, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
flagged
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
Father Time is killing me tbh
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
I need to come back to this again soon, but right now kinda stuck in TPAB mode because of Sequoia Maner's new 33 1/3 book about it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
I have been playing this on headphones a lot and it's really, really satisfying
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 1 July 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
This often leaden mess is my favorite Kendrick release since 2015.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
Basically a double LP (running over 73 minutes), at minimum there's enough for a really good 50 minute LP, maybe even a great one.
― birdistheword, Friday, 1 July 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
I no longer believe in trimming double albums, sorry! Keep everything.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
I actually agree with that sentiment in principle - unless they were simply clearing the vaults or the scraps off the floor, an artist (usually) puts out a double album for good reason, like this is everything they want to say and every piece has its place. But in practice, that still doesn't stop me from hitting the arrow on my remote.
― birdistheword, Friday, 1 July 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
somebody better tell these musicians that people out here can press arrows
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 1 July 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
ghostface's verse on "purple hearts" is just too good. he's the best rapper ever.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 July 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
xp for better or worse, it's like a presidential veto in button form
― birdistheword, Friday, 1 July 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili),
The way he folds "Elohim" into the verse.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
it's a beautiful, ecstatic moment, and ghost does the "my voice is cracking because i just can't handle all the things i'm feeling" delivery better than anyone.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 July 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
otm!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
This album is astonishing.― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
OTMFM
I am not here for any take that doesn't start with "we are lucky to be alive when a talent like Kendrick's is around"
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
Pretty much yeah. I haven't listened to GKMC in a couple years now, but Mr. Morale might honestly top it for me - hard to believe. Maybe it's just that I haven't played out the new one yet
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
this is me and i'm blessed.
anybody fightin through the stress?
― ミ💖🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💖彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
I guess this isn't the thread to admit that I think the album is mostly astonishing with a few significant flaws that I'm having a hard time dismissing as easily. Will wholeheartedly cosign the "we are lucky to be alive when a talent like Kendrick is around" part though, absolutely.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
jon that's disappointing that you feel like it's not appropriate to discuss music on a music discussion board. sorry if i did anything to make you feel like that.
i.e. i would like to hear your criticisms and i welcome them with open ears. i like listening.
― ミ💖🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💖彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
(also: yes, this album has some major problematic elements. that's part of what makes it so engaging.)
― ミ💖🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💖彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
xp - no worries, I was being a little sarcastic wet to JCLC's line drawn on takes.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
This guy's run right now is like Radiohead's run from The Bends up to Amnesiac.
Which reminds me - is Radiohead the biggest, most canonical band without a double album? Kendrick joined the club with Morale... might make a good thread.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
No need to be insulting.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
saying "we are lucky to be alive when a talent like Kendrick's is around but this album could be edited down a bit and be better" would fit with JCLC's parameters ha
― octobeard, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
true
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, i'm total fanboy for this album but skip certain tracks every time, for reasons.
however none of those tracks has ever been, is not now, nor will ever be "rich spirit", which i find to be just as delightfully classic presently as i did the instant i heard it. i suppose you could say it was an instant classic.
― ミ💖🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💖彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
It’s a double album? 78 minutes is like a Redman CD in the late 90s
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
yo shoutout to redman, pioneer of longass albums😄
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
When Helen Mirren said "you texted me at two o'clock in the morning" there were a couple ways it coulda gone and honestly I wish it'd gone the other way.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
"United in Grief" is such an an amazing song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:33 (six months ago) link
it's nice to go back to these type of "event" albums and listen to them after all the discourse is over
seemed like the discourse was over with this one a few days after release
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:36 (six months ago) link
"Rich in Spirit" is still such a jam, one of his all-timers.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:41 (six months ago) link
yeah that's great
"Father Time" sticks out to me more now, the way that jazzy beat keeps morphing is really cool
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:51 (six months ago) link
the Kodak Black part could still go though
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:55 (six months ago) link
Man did I sleep on this. Got this email at 10:30 am but didn't see it until now:
KENDRICK LAMAR LIVE & IN PERSON AT ROXY CINEMA, TONITE!
Kendrick Lamar will be joining us TONITE for a Q&A after an exclusive screening of his documentary THE BIG STEPPERS TOUR: LIVE FROM PARIS. Get your tickets now for what promises to be an unforgettable evening!
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:59 (three months ago) link