Kendrick Lamar TPAB, an amazing album destroyed by its own praise

Started by Oldboy, Jan 20, 2016, in Kendrick Lamar Add to Reading List

  1. Oldboy
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    To p---- a Butterfly is probably one of the best conceptual albums i heard in a long time, and it has great music pieces all over the album like WT and Institutionalized ... i feel the ridiculous praise it received made the casual fans flip on it, its very hard to resist not to

    i usually flip on it every now and then just outta pure hatred when i see how much praise it gets..then i re-listen..and realize its actually a great CD

    now, i must ask the fans of Kenny who adore this CD, to please calm down...calling this the best CD of all time is laughable..calling this the best CD of the decade is laughable....pls help the CD by being humble

    @KendrickSXN
     
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    Koolo stating facts
     
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  3. Mr Rager
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    Jan 20, 2016
    As a whole, it's the best thing released in years

    But as far as individual songs? For a majority of the tracks, it's not something I would go out of my way to listen to
     
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  4. Oldboy
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    your welcome @BigCountry .. just gave your blog the next story
     
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  5. Oldboy
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    but thats how concept songs usually go...once you listen..and relisten..and relisten...you usually done with concept songs...bad guy is the best mmlp2 song, but its my least played one
     
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  6. Thy
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    Jan 20, 2016
    For anyone who's interested in tpab's whole concept explained in one song -

    Minus the corny tupac s---
     
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    Would you consider gkmc a concept ?
     
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  8. Flacko
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    Jan 20, 2016
    It's a pretty good album that has significant flaws
     
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  9. Oldboy
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    yea but really loose one compared to tpab
     
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  10. eddie313
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    eddie313 MUSIC TO BE MURDERED BY

    Jan 20, 2016
    Yah ppl forgetting its conceptual...Notice all the untitled freestyles hes been droppin...Dope album
     
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  11. Mr Rager
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    About to take my EMR certification exam

    Expect a good debate in about an hour :uzi:
     
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    Jan 20, 2016
    it's in my top 5 of all time, and I think it deserves every bit of praise
     
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  13. Sav Stanfield
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    FACTS. such a great album but no one seems to be able to just enjoy it for what it is.
     
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    Jan 20, 2016
    heard it not so long ago and tbh, I feel like its one of the best things I have ever heard.

    Tbh I don't see whats wrong with people calling it the best album of the decade when they give legit arguments as to why its one of the best albums. You cant be mad at that.
     
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    welcome to the 80s bro
     
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    Like Musically, I think it really is the best thing I have heard these past 10 years, and I used to hate Kendrick :idk:

    In fact, I still hate his previous work prior to tpab :idk:
     
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  17. Proto
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    Proto drippin so pretty

    Jan 20, 2016
    It's weird how much i despise kendrick now (mostly due to his fanbase) cause when I first listened to Section.80 I thought it was great and I still enjoy some of the songs like Ronald Reagan Era. When GKMC came out I could not get through it at all. The songs just bored me and felt so different from S80. Then he realized TPAB, an album with such a pretencious title and the praise it got was so obnoxious and lacking of self awareness that I want nothing to do with his music now.
     
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    If anything I think the album doesn't get enough praise, s--- is a masterpiece.
     
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    Jan 20, 2016
    I think the reason why it was overpraised (and yes it was), was because no one thought he could top the greatness of GKMC, and he did. Now, I'm not gonna argue over which album was better, because I adore both of them, and its like choosing with a parent and their child. However, this album was not perfect, and did suffer in replay value. But Kendrick never set out to create a GKMC2, he wanted to make an album for his parents generation, not the kids from today. The only songs that we could b--- to being "Alright" & "Hood Politics". but the best thing about this album...is that its so much more then that. We NEEDED something different, even if it was a turn off.
     
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    Jan 20, 2016
    Soz but you can't ask m not to praise it as one of the best albums of all time when I haven't heard a lot of better albums in my life.

    Maybe thats because I'm a musician and I'm hearing things that most casual listeners can't hear... duno
     
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