Music Kendrick Lamar

I need to give it a few more listens, but so far I don't love it.

As far as jazzy, funky hip hop goes I don't it's anything special. There are equally good albums in the Hectic thread. Hopefully it's a grower.
 
Dante said:
I need to give it a few more listens, but so far I don't love it.

As far as jazzy, funky hip hop goes I don't it's anything special. There are equally good albums in the Hectic thread. Hopefully it's a grower.
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Agree, first half of the album is even boring at times. Its underwhelming as a whole so far, for an album that's been hyped up so badly. I wish that Colbert song made it, would've been much better than some other songs.

I do expect Hood Politics to be a hit. I also loved the songs that followed it in the album. I'll give it another listen later.
 
There are loads of download links available too, but most seem to be for the clean version of the album. The explicit version is just a quick google search away, if that's your kind of thing.
 
Thank feck I visisted this thread before running, going to be much more pleasant. Wonder what Dangeroo means though, Interscope released it on iTunes without TDE's knowledge or something?
 
Goddamnit, I have a day full of meetings. Itching to give this a proper listen!
 
Well shit, nearly done with the first listen and I still think that The Blacker The Berry is the best track there. This album is just different, GKMC didn't grow on me at first as well so there's hoping. Can't take away all the jazz/soul vibe in it but still.

Album version of 'i' is great by the way, infusing with power.
 
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The sound of the album is pretty different to what I was expecting but hopefully like others have said it will grow on me. I enjoyed the first listen but not sure it's up to standards of Section.80 or GKMC though.
 
First listen. Take a while before K drops a real "verse"
Real soulfull vibe, and quite funky.
Lyrics and concepts are good, and it really seems like an album, not just collection of good songs.
So for me the songs one by one is okey, but i prefeere the songs on GKMC, but as a album in whole i like this more.
 
First listen and it's decent. Not as great as I expected, and at the moment I prefer GKMC & Section.80. Think this will grow on me the more I listen.
 
BootsyCollins said:
First listen. Take a while before K drops a real "verse"
Real soulfull vibe, and quite funky.
Lyrics and concepts are good, and it really seems like an album, not just collection of good songs.
So for me the songs one by one is okey, but i prefeere the songs on GKMC, but as a album in whole i like this more.
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Yeah thought it was really lacking in this.

It'll probably grow on me but I'm not blown away by it by any means. Blacker The Berry is easily my favourite track at the moment.

Also Kendrick talks/raps like an Adam Sandler character in For Sale?
 
It looks like Run The Jewels 3 is going to have a clear run at best Hip Hop album of 2015. TPAB isn't doing it for me, unfortunately.
 
His best body of work, there are some phenomenal raps underneath it all, to me this is his first album where I feel like he hasn't made any allowances for the type of rap music everyone would want him to make. Section.80 lacks the focus of TPAB and GKMC for all it's brilliance does feel like Kendrick made concessions for label pressure, songs like Poetic Justice, BDKMV etc don't really follow the narrative but he found a creative way to make them fit.

This is as much of a Kendrick Lamar album as you will get, the sound and the raps show progression and growth. Kendrick is always suited with slightly understated production that lets his lyricism and songwriting shine through. I wish Dilla was still around man, he would have been all over this album. I have to sit with the album and assess it critically over a longer period of time but my overriding feeling from listening to it all day at work is that this is his best work.
 
I bought it straight away as soon as I heard it dropped.
I'm making my way through my first listen - in comparison to GKMC, this doesn't immediately grab me but I appreciate and relate to the lyrics much more.
It will grow on me though I've liked every song so far but I haven't loved them yet.
The album version of i is miles better too like someone said earlier.
 
Really average. 'i' is the standout, of course. It's like an ode to the blandest parts of black musical heritage. Boring.

Might need to give it a few more listens.
 
Not sure how people are enjoying every track. 'u' sounded like a total mess when I listened to it earlier.
 
TooBias said:
Really average. 'i' is the standout, of course. It's like an ode to the blandest parts of black musical heritage. Boring.

Might need to give it a few more listens.
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JP77 said:
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I'm loving it each time I listen to the songs now, each track has it's own appeal
But I do love the contrast and transition between The Blacker The Berry to Complexion straight after
 
Does anyone know why the feck a song can play on my iPhone but can't on my iTunes?
 
I'm beginning to warm to it a bit more now, but I'm still not a huge fan.

It's more beat-poetry, spoken-word narrative than hip hop album. Ironically, I think Kendrick owes a bigger debt to Gil-Scott Heron than 2-Pac... that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it means there's not a lot of replay value once you've listened through it a couple of times. The production is nice, but the music is mostly bland. I'm not suggesting that every song should be a club banger, but it should at least be as memorable as an average D'Angelo track.

This feels like a vanity project with Kendrick trying to prove how clever and original he is. It's his Yeezus.
 
Dante said:
I'm beginning to warm to it a bit more now, but I'm still not a huge fan.

It's more beat-poetry, spoken-word narrative than hip hop album. Ironically, I think Kendrick owes a bigger debt to Gil-Scott Heron than 2-Pac... that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it means there's not a lot of replay value once you've listened through it a couple of times. The production is nice, but the music is mostly bland. I'm not suggesting that every song should be a club banger, but it should at least be as memorable as an average D'Angelo track.

This feels like a vanity project with Kendrick trying to prove how clever and original he is. It's his Yeezus.
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Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
 
dxadel said:
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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Bit of both. I wasn't keen on Yeezus. TPAB is a better album, but still not great imo.

I admire Kendrick's vision, just like I admired Kanye's. But that doesn't mean I think it works over the duration of a whole album. More power to the people who think it does.
 
JackXX said:
Cmon its not close to being THAT bad! :lol:
I'm actually really liking it now it just wasn't what I was expecting.
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But that's the thing... Yeezus wasn't actually bad, it was just misjudged. It was Kanye's attempt at a Magnum Opus but it fell short because it tried too hard to change the musical landscape. I think Kendrick's trying to do the same thing with TPAB.

Both artists are guilty of believing their own hype though, admittedly, KL has produced something with oodles more artistic integrity. It's an album that I find thoroughly engaging whilst I'm listening to it, but largely forgettable after the last track ends. And this is coming from somebody who usually loves music that's literary and pretentious.

To Pimp A Butterfly works on maybe a couple of levels, whereas my favourite albums tend to work on about 5 or 6. I don't hate it, but I don't think it holds a candle to GKMC.
 
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