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
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