"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
3 tracks in, this glastonbury headline set is GOOD.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 26 June 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
and crowd surprisingly not shit
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