Rastafarian42
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Most slept on post tbh.
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GAF-Hop |OTXI| Five Year Nation
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Most slept on post tbh.
PhoenixDark
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Exactly. Chalk it up as a testament of hyper partisan views on everything these days; something either sucks or is awesome. It's a mediocre pop song. The groove is undeniable, just like the groove of Mo Money Mo Problems is. But the result is an average, mediocre pop rap song.
Check the other thread and see how many people are basically saying "rap is meh but I like this." Not a coincidence.
The Return of
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Can we stop excusing shit songs just because they fit on the album? Thanks.
an album nobodies heard yet too.
PhoenixDark
Banned
No one said that. I said Backstreet Freestyle fit GKMC thematically, and I'm curious to see how this will fit the next album.
The Return of
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You are defending it though still. Backseat freestyle honestly could have been pulled from the album and the overall story wouldn't have lost anything of value.
Swimming Pools also had a "positive" message but it had a nuanced delivery of the idea, was catchier, didn't reek of dad-rap, and had a nice moody and interesting feel to it production wise. This is wack sauce on every possible level. Ruined a classic song by chopping it up to sound like a Sugar Ray b-side, bad Andre 3k imitation. Completely screws itself over mid track with that srs bsnssss fast rapped interlude. This is that shit you play in your car with your parents. This is the shit you send your white girlfriend that stans String Cheese Incident who's interested in the rap you listen to one day. This is the shit you play at Democratic National Convention recruitment events.
It's okay to admit it's wack, guys.
It's wack.
It's okay to admit it's wack, guys.
It's wack.
The Return of
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Upbeat songs are just simply the hardest songs to get right. They often come off incredibly cheesy and such.
I mean in rap*
This is literally the only song we've heard, but his features as of lately have been...eh (and he has been screaming a whole lot as well). Just judging from the features, this album could have the potential to be an amazing follow up like "It Was Written" or it'll just be a disappointment
Storm Chamber
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just wait, Dre is a master craftsman, once he gets his hands on this, presumably some time after washing the smell of counted money off his hands, this album will be a masterpiece on par with Horowitz plays Chopin.
I'm just having fun outchea
PhoenixDark
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Nah he's too busy exposing his limited music palette lol. :trollbron:
Where are the 90s comparisons coming from? That's a 70s funk groove...
I realize that but none of this is cheesy unless you think sampling of popular songs like this one is cheesy. It literally sounds like Kendrick's take on an Aquemini song.
Storm Chamber
Banned
Man yall are really taking that Outkast comparison to the moon
PhoenixDark
Banned
I wonder what Punch/Top Dawg/etc would think if Drake had released this track with slightly different lyrics. They'd probably call it weak lol.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Tbh...
Y'know, if all of this build up for this release wasn't even done, we probably wouldn't even be talking that much shit about the song, but since it was basically hailed as "the song", we are at where we are now
We have a lazily done beat, a Kendrick Lamar that no one really likes (for real man, stop the chipmunk voice bullshit and the screams), and while the verses are decent, no one is going to give a shit about them whenever every other aspect of the song sucks
If this is a bonus song like "The Recipe" was, then I guess that's a good thing, but this really should had not been the first single for the album that is either going to make Kendrick "the king" or just some bum like the rest of his label mates
We have a lazily done beat, a Kendrick Lamar that no one really likes (for real man, stop the chipmunk voice bullshit and the screams), and while the verses are decent, no one is going to give a shit about them whenever every other aspect of the song sucks
If this is a bonus song like "The Recipe" was, then I guess that's a good thing, but this really should had not been the first single for the album that is either going to make Kendrick "the king" or just some bum like the rest of his label mates
The Return of
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This is the best post btw. Imagining Kendrick driving his minivan with his family in it bumping this
The Artful Dodger
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lmao
Yeah it definitely did, it was supposed to be this absurd and explicit track that was basically representative of his immaturity at the time.
Well, of course. There really has not been any major build-up for a hip hop song in a year or so
PhoenixDark
Banned
Exactly. You could take the song off the album sure...but thematically you'd lose something IMO.
no theme is going to save that piece of shit tune.
Doesn't even need the theme for me. Dope song.
The Return of
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The album is already filled with traces of this tho. My point is if you took the song out would you not have been able to make the assumption of how immature he was? It's like watching a movie that's subtle for majority but this one scene sticks out like a sore thumb all in your face
Storm Chamber
Banned
It may still be conveyed but that song drives the point home. Has a way greater effect than the songs preceding it. It also serves as a nice contrast to The Arts Of Peer Pressure.
spindashing
Banned
need singles to move units.
The Return of
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I hope you love yourself
You should had read our impressions before you gave it a listen
But there's a new Hemsworth single to calm you over
Complex Shadow
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