thats kind of how i hear the pronouns thing, him speaking in character as someone who is having a series of realizations, not speaking with wisdom from the present but as an imperfect character within the story in the past. but idk, i could be being overly generous so i dont have to be bummed about it.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Saturday, 14 May 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
I agree with OEO’s take on it.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 14 May 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
"n95" video.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 14 May 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
Popping in to say “Crown” is quietly stunning
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 14 May 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
thats a wow video
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Saturday, 14 May 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Quality video as usual with him.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 14 May 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
I think someone upthread (or was it an article?) mentioned there’s no discernable radio singles but “Rich Spirit” is super addictive.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 14 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
“rich spirit” is probably the song on here that most resembles/is most influenced by current sounds in l.a. street rap
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Sunday, 15 May 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
it's the album highlight for me.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, 15 May 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
X2
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 May 2022 06:01 (one year ago) link
rhetorical question: is this what we meant when we used to say "keep it real"?
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 16 May 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link
Heard it, still processing the words, but the production and beats are probably my favorite so far. This run he's on is pretty incredible - I am already on the side of this being a career highlight, but that just puts it on similar terrain as everything post Section.80
Duval Timothy is to MMATBS as Thundercat was on TPAB, right?
― octobeard, Monday, 16 May 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
Can we have a version of "Purple Hearts" with only Ghostface
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
i think "purple hearts" as a whole is one of the highlights
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
otm. i was so happy when ghostface showed up
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Summer Walker softens the track way too much for my taste.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
"purple hearts" is good. feels like a classic "chipmunk soul" beat. definitely caters to vintage ghostface / wu-tang aesthetic.
also it can be added to everyone's favorite new playlist: songs that mention anilingus.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
and Elohim.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Ok “Die Hard” also has hit single potential.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
yep if there's any mainstream hits from this album, it's that or "mirror."
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
“n95” will likely have the highest chart peak, considering that video just came out
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
bizarro world chart action.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
re: cry togetherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpO4V57pWM
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
I feel like that song has a lot of antecedents in hip-hop but most reviews have acted like it's a skit
― erasingclouds, Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
If this album had been the first three tracks, We Cry Together and the last four tracks it would have been so good. Maybe throw in one or two of the others from the middle. The big event tracks stand out so much from the others though imo
― imago, Thursday, 19 May 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
Both in terms of compelling lyrics and production
i straight up removed We Cry Together and Crown from my playlist
― Heez, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
by far the worst thing on this album are the citations of that fraud Tolle
― imago, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
yeah those bits are pretty dumb
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
at least it wasn't Jordan Peterson
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
"We Cry Together" is the only misfire for me, everything else is interesting in some way. I couldn't recall many of the hooks yet, and I doubt I'll ultimately think this album as good as GKMC or Butterfly, but it has the same compelling quality those albums had. Need to listen more
― Vinnie, Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
we cry together is good imho
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
it, auntie diaries, mother i sober and mirror are the best things on here imo
― imago, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
purple hearts >>>
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
starting to come around on some of the ones i wasn't crazy about the first listen, like "savior" and "crown." "auntie diaries" and "worldwide steppers" are the only ones i'm still not feeling.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
I love worldwide steppers now and auntie diaries might have been my favorite song first pass.
"It ain't love if you never eat my ass" that line still fucking keels me over when I hear it on Purple Hearts though lol
― octobeard, Friday, 20 May 2022 07:25 (one year ago) link
I’ve been listening to the album 4 or 5 song increments and “Crown” really jumped out at me when I listened this way. Easy to get lost amidst the bigger tracks but it’s become maybe my favorite thing here
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
That's how I've absorbed it too
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
We cry together is by far the worst thing on it, and for me will be skipped every time just like For Free was.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 20 May 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
Tickets for the tour went on sale today. Barclays got cleaned out fast, wound up settling for the Long Island show, which was far easier to get into. Plenty of good seats available too.
― birdistheword, Friday, 20 May 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Got some for Oakland. Missed out on the DAMN tour so looking forward to this
― octobeard, Sunday, 22 May 2022 07:16 (one year ago) link
had to take a rest from this album. with some distance, i really do like it a lot more than DAMN. i love that his message to the audience is ultimately: "everyone needs to take a good, hard look at themselves." the magnified caricatures, the problematic kodak black feature, the blurred lines between is this a projection or his real feelings? — dense and summed up brilliantly in the intro on "we cry together": this is what the world sounds like. do you like what you hear?
and also the actual beats and music are fucking stellar. 4.5 mics. goat candidate status confirmed.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
I know it's old news at this point, but holy shit at ticket prices.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
DAMN. was an amazing tour. (I only wish I had caught the one in Chicago, just to see Chance the Rapper join him on-stage.) Considering what a shitty time it was to be in the U.S., it was probably the only concert that I saw that gave me real hope for the future. Not to hear like-minded people complain or commiserate - all things I do and all things I would have expected from a like-minded audience - but to be surrounded in an arena packed with mostly high school age and college age students going out of their minds and repeating virtually every word of Kendrick's songs. And to see one single guy all by himself on stage with that kind of command and having that effect on his audience, that was ridiculously impressive.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
prepare for even more of that\m/
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Hey Josh, I'm not sure if this is what you're dealing with in Chicago, but I noticed that in NY, some venues like Barclays switched to SeatGeek as their primary sales agent but kept Ticketmaster as a secondary one. That is, if you go to SeatGeek, tickets are MUCH lower than what's being displayed on Ticketmaster.
Also if you can travel away from the city (like say go to Long Island rather than Brooklyn here in NYC), they're not selling out at all - in fact, it's driven down their prices due to dynamic pricing. I got good seats for a good price at UBS Arena (which uses Ticketmaster as its primary sales agent) and prices have gone down even more since then.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin)
Agree, the beats and music on this one are probably the best he has worked with yet. The whole album sounds great on decent headphones / soundsystem.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
rolling sevens i aint read for no coffin
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
This album is astonishing.
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
The track I've played most is "Rich Spirit." It's aqueous and beautiful.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link