Don't give Kendrick or Kanye more credit than they deserve.
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly |OT| It's The American Dream
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PhoenixDark
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You Ain't Gotta Lie reminds me of Sing About Me, hook wise. Real nice, and sounds like it was meant for Badu.
you right they suck
Syphon Filter
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potam what is that on your avatar?
Mortal Man got me like....and I don't even smoke anymore...
You gotta appreciate a song like this.
c'est un potam
Glitchfire
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Bangers made him famous doe
Not saying its better, just saying its what made him famous.
Everyone and their dog singing "yak yak yak."
No body even wants bangers. We'd just not like to wade through shit like U and for free while we put up with mediocrity like institutionalized.
A 16 song album and you're going to complain because of an interlude and one track that is obviously a one off? Album is fantastic overall and was a huge risk for Kendrick to put out after GKMC. Hopefully he gets the kind of credit and reception he deserves for this, we need more guys going against the grain like this.
Album so good 2pac came by the studio to talk to Kendrick.
That being said...To Pimp a Butterfly is more of a personal album than a typical album which hits me the most as a fan of music. One thing I appreciate about Kendrick is how dude manage to bring diversity in his music, meanwhile deliver a banger or two for the radio.
This album is going to be treated the same way Me Against the World, It Was Written, Reasonable Doubt, The Truth, and Soul on Ice got treated, Overlooked and misunderstood at first...but as time progress it'll be respected.
That being said...To Pimp a Butterfly is more of a personal album than a typical album which hits me the most as a fan of music. One thing I appreciate about Kendrick is how dude manage to bring diversity in his music, meanwhile deliver a banger or two for the radio.
This album is going to be treated the same way Me Against the World, It Was Written, Reasonable Doubt, The Truth, and Soul on Ice got treated, Overlooked and misunderstood at first...but as time progress it'll be respected.
haZethew0rld
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But that's a Schoolboy Q adlib
I can see this getting amazing critical reception. No idea about how your average joe is gonna take it.
...I need to give Section.80 another chance.
Is it more like SNL?
Pretty amazed that the Colbert track was made just for the show. It's too good to not show up somewhere in the future, imo.
metalslimer
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Considering the number of tracks that have never shown up on an album it wouldn't surprise me.
Not surprised the track with James Fauntleroy is one of the best on the album. His work is always fantastic.
I imagine the general masses will be shitting on this, there's no commercial bangers really.
This is the biggest disappointment for me, that song was amazing. If we never get a studio version, that will be pretty disappointing.
PhoenixDark
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MORTAL MAN
Magicgamer101
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I'm the biggest Kendrick fan boy and so far I'm not feeling it all that much and it's destroying me.
Gonna listen to it all day and pray to God it grows on me, cause I can't imagine not liking a Kendrick album
Gonna listen to it all day and pray to God it grows on me, cause I can't imagine not liking a Kendrick album
Phrynobatrachus
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u is too real
equippedwithtowel
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It's really good. Dense, weird and sure not everything works but it's a fucking capital A album.
Kendrick knows how to land an ending..
Kendrick knows how to land an ending..
I'm liking it so far, but it's like that sometimes when Lupe leaves people like this after Tetsuo and Youth:
the shift in tone after u is pretty crazy too.
PhoenixDark
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last song is beautiful and stunning
CassidyIzABeast
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This is dope.
General consensus will be don't nobody wanna hear that shit, Sharif though
General consensus will be don't nobody wanna hear that shit, Sharif though
a fucking masterpiece of an endcap
Magicgamer101
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Yeah I got to Momma and the album completely changed for me. Hood Politics is banging
equippedwithtowel
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But why? Kendrick only gave Jay Rock a feature on GKMC which although ironically (being autobiographical) is also a lot more universal compared to how off center this is.
It's his show.
Discotheque
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i actually like dying of thirst more than sing about me even though both are legitimately great.
but i'm thinking mortal man is even better. these lyrics are what i needed to hear from rap tbh
I don't see the comparison at all except both are long songs lol.
I would say this is more on a Real comparison because both ended the album perfectly and had some reflective type of moments.
I wouldn't personally.
As much as I like an artist.
It kept me from going to see Kendrick in Arizona over the weekend.
But that's just me. If it was the Black Hippy crew, I'm THERE. Saw Kdot perform in 2013. It was sweet. everybody yelling yawk yawk yawk yawk together was fun as hell lol.
The conversation of 2Pac automatically makes it a better song.
Both of probably some of his best songs overall.
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