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Kendrick Lamar Best Posts: Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers. OUT NOW

  1. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    May 21, 2022
    Music is to be enjoyed as its own entity, not just used to compliment an activity. People would listen to this when they feel like stopping the world & putting an album on, just like you would a book, a movie, a show etc. This is a very normal circumstance for music consumption.

    This is the double edged sword with this era, streaming has brought us with a playlist mentality along with instant gratification tendencies. It gives you the ability to expand your horizon with ease but at the same time put something else on immediately. Hearing 5 seconds of a concept album all interconnected & thinking “nah this won’t b--- in the whip, skip” lol. Which also leads to market dilution.

    People used to have albums on rotation for 6 months to a year, used to study everything they purchased, sitting down & reading the lyrics till they memorised them, the record’s became integrated into their lives, their routines. Now it’s clowned upon to take time to understand a project that’s been worked on for years.
     
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  2. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 15, 2022
    After listening again its obvious Kendrick was influenced by curtain call
     
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  3. jankland
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    jankland In My Cringe Arc.

    May 13, 2022
    Why you salty for no reason my man? Everyone understood that you hated it by the second time you said it.
     
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  4. Yeez
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    Yeez Yeez 5.0

    May 13, 2022
    TOUR ANNOUNCED

    @KendrickSXN
     
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  5. RG9
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    RG9

    May 13, 2022
    I enjoyed the first listen but there’s no way I can fairly judge it after one spin - but also wasn’t as great first listen as GKMC, TPAB & d---

    I think this album will be appreciated more in time, and people are overreacting now. It’s incredibly difficult to live up to the plaudits of his previous releases. That’s why it took him 5 years, and he probably overthought it.

    Definitely a grower; some really great tracks
     
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  6. Dorian
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    Dorian Certified Chart Boy

    May 13, 2022
    People trying to justify this as being a "masterpiece" or that you need a musical degree to critique it remind me of Revival.
     
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  7. The Mandalorian
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    The Mandalorian This is the way

    May 13, 2022
    MFers forcing themselves to like new Kendrick be like:

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  8. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    May 12, 2022
    Realised a couple of hours ago, I was a teenager when he last put out an album. That’s disgusting.
     
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  9. RG9
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    RG9

    May 11, 2022
    Don’t listen to the clowns on here lol. This is one of—if not the—most anticipated hip-hop release of the past 5 years. If this really is a double album then it’s gonna do some seriously crazy numbers.

    Whilst I like the mystery surrounding this release, I really hope he drops a tracklist to build even more hype. The cover art is great, but doesn’t tell us much.
     
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  10. poopdogg
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    poopdogg Retired

    Apr 18, 2022
    Sorry kendrick fan but his music after gkmc is weird and boring
     
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  11. poopdogg
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    poopdogg Retired

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  12. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    May 21, 2022
    Speaking of dust, you’ve been making the same joke for over a decade now.
     
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  13. Chrollo
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    Chrollo ✟

    May 13, 2022
    Kendrick just wanted an excuse to say fa----
     
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  14. rapmusik
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    rapmusik 4

    May 13, 2022
    I will say one thing I can’t stand about Kendrick stans is that they always say if you don’t like something he drops, you just “don’t get it”… like no, sometimes sonically he makes some pretty terrible decisions… as do most artists.
     
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  15. rapmusik
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    rapmusik 4

    May 13, 2022
    I really don’t mind Kodak being all over the album. Honestly it doesn’t feel out of place at all. It fits beautifully. I’m gonna give the album another spin and hopefully more clicks with me.

    I do think the long wait after d--- was a detriment to this project. Expectations were way way way too high
     
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  16. David26
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    David26

    May 13, 2022
    i can picture Eminem listening We Cry Together thinking that is the best song of the year and top 10 on hip hop history.
     
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  17. Marsh
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    Marsh Rosi Season Coming

    May 11, 2022
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  18. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 9, 2022
    shortys love it when I play them 'u' in the whip
     
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  20. Intel
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    Intel

    May 3, 2022
    https://oklama.com/master

    DOUBLE ALBUM :kdotcry:
     
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