Kendrick Lamar The only d--- review that is not delusional, BS and the most honest

Skippy · May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017
>uses "mumble rap" as if it's a real term
>"not delusional"

The Unseen · May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017
Kendrick's most balanced album to date & my personal favorite.

attila · May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017
What a loser

Slyk · May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017

Loser said

On the topic of d---’s better songs, when ‘HUMBLE.’ dropped, Lamar’s lyrics were rightly criticised for being patronising and misogynistic and I’ll add to that. The line “I’m so f--king’ sick and tired of the Photoshop, show me somethin’ natural like afro on Richard Pryor. Show me somethin’ natural like a--- with some stretch marks…” ends with the little addition of “…still will take you down right on your mama’s couch”, however the word “still” denotes a negative opinion of so-called “natural a---” therefore nullifying the entire sentiment. So despite a woman having stretch marks, Kendrick Lamar will “still” f--k them, was he expecting congratulations for that bullshyt?
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Inland Empire Rapper · May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017
Hot Pockets anyone?

It'll save people from the ego trip this writer is having, what a waste of time I read.

icecube · May 14, 2017

May 14, 2017
His whole basis of his argument is wrong though.

He literally bases everything on the fact that people over-enjoy Kendrick because they are not presented with anything better in this generation.

2 arguments against this:
1. Least importantly, who cares how he gets listeners? Fans are fans and let's just let them enjoy Kendrick for themselves. There are also people who have equal or better skill than Kendrick but they aren't as popular because they don't have the marketing package he has.
2. There are plenty of people (admittedly Millennials rather than Generation Y) who place Kendrick near the top and they would've grown up through the 90s and 00s eras. Kendrick has skills there's no denying that. How you feel about that is up to you.

Cyreides · May 14, 2017

May 14, 2017

Skippy said

uses "mumble rap" as if it's a real term
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I mean, it is

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean the term is like, not a thing, or that a s--- load of people don't use it when they totally do

lol

Skippy · May 14, 2017

May 14, 2017

Cyreides said

I mean, it is

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean the term is like, not a thing, or that a s--- load of people don't use it when they totally do

lol
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I'm not denying that ppl use it, but that doesn't make it a legitimate term and it doesn't stop anyone who uses it from sounding like a f---in idiot.

Pixel · May 14, 2017

May 14, 2017

Loser said

when your only exposure to Hip-Hop is some twerp like Lil Uzi Vert, of course you’re gonna love Kendrick Lamar if Mumble Rap is your only source of rap music, but that kind of comparison only serves to bolster this mythic sense of godliness that surrounds Kendrick Lamar, an accolade and attribute that is largely undeserved.
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Nice strawman argument, when does mumble rap even automatically equal bad, let's talk close mindedness....

Loser said

(I hope Producer and Harvard Fellow 9th Wonder added ‘Soul On Ice’, ‘Let’s Get Free’, and ‘Revolutionary Vol. 2’ to the library too, otherwise he’s a mainstream fake like everybody else).
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Im gonna ignore the elitist "mainstream fake like everybody else" but ignoring that how does naming other good songs suddenly make kendrick underserving? And how is this related to d---'s quality specifically?

Loser said

My point is that the mainstream media and the public at large have acted for years like the sun shines out of Kendrick Lamar’s arse, like everything he makes is flawless, I mean c’mon, his first two albums were decent enough (although his second contained some Poppy crap like ‘Swimming Pools’ and ‘Poetic Justice’), his third album was a complete mess,
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*gives no reason to think this*
Oh okay so swimming pools and pj had a pop style to them, why is this necessarily bad? SP was praised for its simultaneous pop sensibility whilst talking about a deep subject like alcoholism, which is great btw that he can take a subject like that and make it as accessible as possible

Loser said

If you turn on the radio or TV and hear Drake or Taylor Swift umpteen times a day, of course Lamar is going to blow your tiny mind but the incessant overrating and flattery aimed at Kendrick only comes from people who either listen to Pop, missed Hip-Hop’s golden era entirely, or whose idea of Hip-Hop is the likes of Migos and Lil Yachty (or all of the above).
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More straw man arguments to feed your own ego and show your elitism

Loser said

Mainstream, studio-backed albums 90% of the time follow a carefully crafted plan to attain recognition, fame, and longevity; the first LP showcases a new artist’s credibility (Section.80), the second crosses over with hints of credibility and maturity (Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City), the third denounces the previous crossing over and affirms its credibility once again, all-the-while “experimenting” with “new” sounds (To p---- A Butterfly). From that point onward if you have the media on your side and a major studio behind you, you can do what the f--k you want, you can apparently even piss about in the studio letting kids play on instruments and the doormats in the upper-middle-class mainstream critic brigade will tout your bronze s--- as gold (Untitled Unmastered).
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Yes lets talk about UU without giving examples or any sort of reason behind our thoughts, UU was extremely flawed, but you discuss none of its problems so your argument here is newt, how is it average in the context of the current music scene? You give no reasons just describe it as so

Loser said

‘d---.’ is no classic, far from it, it’s more like a mixtape masquerading as an album, as though a couple of new songs have been combined with a few left-over tracks lying around in the studio. The tracklist seems like a jumble with songs placed in random order resulting in a jumping between moods. The slower songs for example, such as ‘YAH.’ and ‘FEEL.’ should not have a song between them and instead should be closer to the song ‘PRIDE.’. The confused grouping gives this LP a sense of disorientation and disarray, the album jumps all over the place, changing its tempo from slow to fast and switching genres from Trap to Soul.
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Yes the album has problems with its sonic and tone consistency, it doesnt flow well, the first half decent point made here

Loser said

There are two or three decent songs which prop up the weaker ones. ‘DNA.’ and ‘HUMBLE.’ are examples of this, the production is still hackneyed but these tracks are somewhat enjoyable and re-playable (but they both end too fast for my liking). ‘FEAR.’ and ‘DUCKWORTH.’ are two more half-decent songs, they’re not brilliant, they won’t be held in the pantheon of classic Hip-Hop songs but in ‘d---.’ they do stand out (‘FEAR.’ is only memorable if you ignore the many other examples of mesodiplosis in Hip-Hop).
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Oh another opinion that doesnt give any reasons to justify its opinion, its great you feel that way dude, i cant argue since i have nothing to argue against

Mesodiplosis (lol look at me and my big words) is rather prominent in hip hop but rarely described as clearly as this, if you know better give examples dont just throw the word around trying to confuse people

Loser said

There’s lots of mediocrity and radio-friendly dross on this LP. Songs like the easy-listening, radio-fodder ‘LOVE.’ sounds like some Pop producer is channelling Cam’Ron’s ‘Oh Boy’ (it’s produced by Greg Kurstin who worked with the sh-- Ellie Goulding so that’s not a bad description). The Rihanna track ‘LOYALTY.’ is out-and-out Pop garbage (typical of Robyn Fenty I guess) and Lamar’s opening verse on this song sounds like he’s rapping with a clothes peg on his nose. There’s also the the crappy ‘GOD.’ with its contrived Trap flow and lame chorus and there’s a trash chorus in ‘ELEMENT.’ too (and Lamar bites a bit of Juvenile in one of the verses). For ‘---.’ (which sounds like two songs welded together) Kendrick Lamar seems to have dragged in U2 for singing duties like A$AP Rocky did with Rod Stewart for his second album – bringing in old, past-it, white singers will always appeal to mainstream critics I guess. All this forgettable and throwaway “filler” unfortunately takes over this album, and that’s not the only thing wrong with ‘d---.’.
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Oh what is an opinion? Well i know now. Once again a bunch of baseless accusations, give me something to argue with and i will, why does popular automatically = bad?

Loser said

Production-wise, this release doesn’t contain anything memorable, the overall sound is nothing to write home about. For me the production is the worst element of the album, in fact some tracks are so amateur, they sound like someone pressed the “demo” button on a drum machine and just let Kendrick rap over it. There’s also the strange concept of making this release sound like a mixtape with DJ shoutouts and abandoned and then repeated verses… “new s---!”… “new Kung Fu Kenny!”… please no.
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I could argue that the mixtape screams are there specifically to create that kind of vibe, but its such a tiny part of the project who cares?
The rest of it is once again baseless without anything to argue, too bad you feel that way man

Im not gonna touch on the good friday theories cos that has nothing to do with the music

Loser said

With the DJBooth review for this album reading “d---! d---! d---! d---! I’m at a complete and utter lost [sic] for words” (I assume he/she means “loss for words”) you know the overrating is set to continue. Misspelling aside, a review that ends with this paragraph…

“Kendrick delivered. He gave us a rap album unlike anything he’s ever created and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. By now this is what we should expect from the King. He is a king and the crown on his head is immovable.”

…it goes to show that the first page of a Google search will only offer you a mainstream view of things. That first page, the holy grail of search results will try to convince you up is down, left is right, and that ‘d---.’ is a classic, but sane, free-thinkers know this is bullshyt especially when praise is coming from all sides. Only some tween raised on Disney will be saying “d---!” when they hear this album (in a valley girl accent no doubt) everybody else will hear what I hear; a mishmash of Hip-Hop, Soul, and Pop cobbled together hastily with a sense of mixtape amateurishness. But I guess the truth will have a hard time getting through all the bullshyt praise.

All that being said, this isn’t the worst album out right now, it isn’t even the worst Kendrick Lamar album, but it has to be pointed out (again and again if necessary) that Lamar isn’t the only one releasing credible Hip-Hop – both Joey Bada$$ and Your Old Droog dropped better albums in the last few months and both LPs despite their many flaws are more well rounded and contain more satisfying songs. But it seems that Ken Duckworth, whose name sounds like some reject Coronation Street character, will rise to the top because of all the corrupt mainstream praise he garners. He’ll continue to be called “the king” and “the greatest” even though he hasn’t come close to matching those that have come before. These days everyone bandies the term “G.O.A.T.” about but these fools seem to be people who don’t listen to Hip-Hop, if they did, they’d acknowledge that “the greatest of all time” really does mean “all time”. Kendrick Lamar hasn’t come close to overthrowing the best of the best from ’87-’97 and if he can’t dethrone the golden era greats then it’s impossible for him to be the frigging G.O.A.T.
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Lol of course theres gonna be people who over hype an album, anyone who isnt f---ing stupid can figure this out, writing a whole article on how a particular artist is over hyped will not bring down that hype, or make people see the truth, if you wanted to talk about this you should've made an article about hype itself rather than attacking a paticular artist and trying to deligitemize their music to prove a point, what are you going to do with all that salt?[/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

homeless bitch · May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

VR46 said

still feel bad for how earl put kendrick to shame on really doe and he wasnt even tryinh
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Charlie Work · May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017
Sounds like some s--- @EminemBase would write

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