Kendrick Lamar Best Posts: TPAB VS UU

  1. crlk
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab is a lot better. But UU is great too
     
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  2. crlk
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Ttbh UU was never gonna be as great as Tpab... it's basically a bunch of throwaways that didn't make it on Tpab, but its great nonetheless
     
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  3. derro13
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab...probably my favorite from kendrick, along with section 80.
     
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  4. JAKEMCCNASTY
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab by a large margin. It's his most diverse album stylistically and sonically so there's more to dig into and discover with each listen.

    UU is really good but it's kdot's worst project so far, and I'm not even sure if I would consider it as a standalone project.
     
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  5. kezno ten
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    Aug 2, 2016
    UU can't comapre to tpab, but I like it a lot.
     
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  6. lunyguist
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab since its kendrick's magnum opus.
     
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  7. Vitaqua
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab. I love untitled but even though it has more radiofriendly songs, I just haven't played it as much as I did Tpab.
     
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  8. pronx
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  9. Swizz
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Even though I was always a vocal TPAB detractor, I actually think it's held up better than I expected. All of my original complaints still stand, and it's far from being a perfect album, but it's a good listen every once in a while.

    UU doesn't have the highs or lofty ambitions of TPAB, but in some ways its rougher edges give it a charm that's totally lacking on TPAB (whose primary problem in my eyes was its eagerness to please at any cost).

    So in other words...while I would suspect most people would choose TPAB in a landslide, I personally think it's a draw, and my answer depends on when you ask me. Today, right now, probably UU.
     
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  10. tehparadox
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab. s--- is timeless music, great album from beginning to end, probably kendrick's best work to this day.
    UU was good for what it was, but had too many songs with unnecessary endings.
     
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  11. Vitaqua
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    I don't know if they're throwaways songs. They fit the album but at the same time they don't. The albums have the same ideas but the feels are different. They just feel like 2 completely different projects to me.
    Still, Tpab is a lot more layered, amore polished, it's just better to me.
     
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  12. PYT
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    Aug 2, 2016
    To p---- is a lot better tbh, that's not really a fair fight.
     
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  13. zeerax
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab lol, you can't compare an above average EP to a classic album
     
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  14. crlk
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Topping Tpab is such an impossible feat to do, this album is perfect in many ways.

    From an artistic standpoint, the album's strenght is the music: the composition, the production, kendrick's ability to incorporate variations forms of classic music in his rap (only pharoahe monch doing that, and now young thug).
    Kendrick really went back to the various stages of black music. This album features both the rhythmic spoken word & classic/traditional poetry that were both used outside of mainstream jazz music few decades ago. Despite not being used by white artists trying to popularize jazz in the mainstream, these aspects of jazz music still influenced early hip hop. This album can really be described as a "black" album, all of it, and it was done extraordiry well imo
     
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  15. 133minky
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab is a masterpiece

    Gkmc is great

    S80 is amazin

    UU is dope
     
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  16. h Allu
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tbh I feel like kendrick is never gonna top Tpab
     
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  17. DouBle
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Tpab is one of the best projects of the last few years (its near flawless musical composition probably the reason for this), UU is just a dope compilation of songs
     
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  18. Meero
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    Meero Ay ay ay

    Aug 2, 2016
    UU


    GKMC still kendrick's best project
     
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  19. crlk
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  20. Groovy Tony
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Basically this
     
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