Kendrick Lamar TPAB - 3 Months Later..

Started by Jaba24, Jun 29, 2015, in Kendrick Lamar Add to Reading List

How you rank?

  1. 10/10 (Classic)

    29 vote(s)
    33.7%
  2. 9/10

    17 vote(s)
    19.8%
  3. 8/10

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    12.8%
  4. 7/10

    9 vote(s)
    10.5%
  5. 6/10

    11 vote(s)
    12.8%
  6. 5 or lower/10

    9 vote(s)
    10.5%
  1. zbd
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    Jun 29, 2015
    You like one song out of 16 but it's a 7/10? Grow some balls mate.
     
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  2. Narsh
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  3. Narsh
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    Jun 29, 2015
    listned to the whole album again just like an hour ago...not nearly as "boring" as da haterz wanna make it seem tbh, but my eyes almost fell out of my skull cuz of how hard i rolled them at certian parts

    wesley's theory still >>

    institutionalized still >>

    u, momma, i, tbtb still >>>>

    u aint gotta lie, these walls, alright, hood politics are all solid too
     
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  4. Groovy Tony
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    Groovy Tony Grandma's baby Eddie Kane

    Jun 29, 2015
    People who say this album is a 6/10 or below need to get their music taste up foreal foreal. This album showed just how closeminded and shallow some "hip hop purists" are. It's ok to listen to music that provokes thought. And that replay value s--- is played. High replay value to some of yall is Young Thug and Rae Sremmurd. No thank you
     
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  5. Jimmy
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    Jun 29, 2015
    This, THIS the album I'll show to my grandkids !
     
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  6. Jaba24
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    Jaba24 Merry Christmas!

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  7. Brubbels
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    Jun 30, 2015
    The album is a 6/10 at most lol.
     
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  8. Jehovah
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    Jehovah SB3

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  9. Tha_Goat
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    Tha_Goat A man got to have a code

    Jun 30, 2015
    TPAB is a unreal album. To put a number on it or any other project is just to hard. We need to take art and music especially for that matter at face value. To say this track is better than that or it has zero replay value is just personal opinion. Ill say this about the album. TPAB is near flawless and executed to perfection. The instrumentation is very 2pac/Outkast hence why its very jazz funk esque (90's style) if you don't like these style of beats or have outgrown them due to the s-----y uptempo music that has infiltrated pop culture in the past decade or so i understand why you say this tape has zero replay @Narsh. But we all have to be in agreement the lyrical content, cohesiveness, and execution is d--- near perfect. Its very hard for certain people to relate to this tape or certain tracks for that matter so i understand "the hate" it gets but the social impact of this project is astronomical. Plus Kendrick wrote one of the best songs across any genre with How Much a Dollar Cost. If i had to put a number on it id give it a solid 9.
     
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  10. Narsh
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    Jun 30, 2015
    But the problem is we are all NOT in agreement here m8

    I love the album but it is NOT "near flawless." People are being so uncritical when it comes to this album that it's kind of nauseating. We have to "treat it like art?" What does that even mean? It's an album ffs just like the millions that have come before. It's just that it covers relevant topics in a poignant manner but doesn't make the album immune from criticism. I've already mentioned how so much of be rapping is incredibly heavy handed, how kendrick sounds absolutely soulless on a lot of these tracks (almost robotic), how the album is a bit bloated, etc

    It's a great album. People are shi--ing themselves for no reasons though. There have been better albums just this year
     
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  11. Tha_Goat
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    Tha_Goat A man got to have a code

    Jun 30, 2015
    Music is art... The album has some issues I agree but nothing that is so obvious or deserving of universal criticism. The biggest issue I see via forums and the internet overall is the instrumentation and reliability... Like i said before if you don't like these style beats your clearly no going to enjoy playing the album in its entirety.
     
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  12. Narsh
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    But none of my complaints just now were about the beats............
     
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  13. Tha_Goat
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    Tha_Goat A man got to have a code

    Jun 30, 2015
    Your only complaint was really that its a "bit bloated" and "poignant" i don't see how its bloated
     
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  14. Lil Squeed
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    Jun 30, 2015
    I hated the beats....

    ...which is probably why I hated the album.
     
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  15. mow
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    mow long live flippa

    Jun 30, 2015
    I personally loved the beats on TPAB, but i understand why some people dislike them
     
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  16. Big Dangerous
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    Jun 30, 2015
    Still a great album indeed. Haven't found myself bumping it much lately, but that's due to it's valuable taste.

    You don't go around enjoying delectable steak everyday, but you pop pizza rolls in the oven like nothing. See my logic here?

    Kendrick still winning.
     
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  17. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 30, 2015
    so much wrong with this post i barely know where to begin.

    first of all, the people staunchly defending this are the "hip-hop purists" you're railing against.

    second, "hip-hop purists" don't listen to rae sremmurd.

    third, you're slandering young thug, who is very clearly one of the two or three best working rappers at this point.

    fourth, let's focus on "taste" talk about that for a second. one of the reasons i find it impossible to sit through To p---- a Butterfly is that it's a microwaved version of similar-but-superior albums, musically speaking. why would i listen to this when i can listen to Quik is the Name? or aceyalone? or even f---ing mid-period Roots?
     
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  18. Peter Parker
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    Peter Parker your boy

    Jun 30, 2015
    <(^_^)> Because you like political music when it's dumbed down for apolitical people, and discovered rap and all that jazz last year <(^_^)>
     
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  19. Peter Parker
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    Peter Parker your boy

    Jun 30, 2015
    Looks like Kenny is the first person in the history of music to make an album about a) his journey from his nadir to his zenith (u -> i), b) socio-political commentary (apparently punk music doesn't exist, not to mention countless other examples) and c) speak about his "demons" like they're women.

    s--- like this is why I haven't posted in the kendrick section lately, despite being a huge fan. Some of you are dismissing / ignoring everything else and overrate this album way too much
     
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  20. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Jun 30, 2015
    I still think it's a pretty great album. The biggest beef I have with it is that it's unnecessarily long and overly self-serious at points, which isn't a good combination and makes it hard to listen to the whole thing upon repeated listens. Still, I think there are some undeniably great tracks on there. As I've said before, removing a few songs (Momma, How Much A Dollar Cost, Mortal Man, maybe These Walls) would make it much better. I'd also put You Ain't Gotta Lie somewhere else on the tracklist (maybe after Institutionalized instead of These Walls) because I think "The Blacker the Berry" --> "i" is much better. I've always thought it was kinda weird having You Ain't Gotta Lie in between.
     
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