Just got Spotify for the new Kenny. Where's the 7 day theory though? It's like the only PAC album missing.
How is Ferg forever?
Damn that chick is fine
Had to bump this biz post because I've been listening to it all weekend. Really nice.
Yessir.
Pac didn't release that album, it was some elusive dude Makaveli who lives by himself in Jamaica or so I hearJust got Spotify for the new Kenny. Where's the 7 day theory though? It's like the only PAC album missing.
Yessir.
I think I fuck with more Alc shit than any other active producer right now, dude's consistency is on point and has been for more than a decade. And nobody flips old rock and 80s pop samples like him.
the only pink ranger recognize
Any one have the link to that noir Parisian rap bandcamp album someone posted
Just got Spotify for the new Kenny. Where's the 7 day theory though? It's like the only PAC album missing.
Bronson: This album is a bit like licking the back of your knee lmao. This interview is fantastic.
T-Pain ft. OG Maco - Wait A Minute. Kind of generic, doesn't help when a new artist channels his breakout single in subsequent songs either.
I swear Mike Will keeps those dudes on lock down 24/7 as if he's afraid they might call protective services (or Perverted Justice). They can't do shit without him being there.
Mike Will doesn't feed them. Keep the teen crowd.why are they so small
aren't they supposed to be like grown dudes or whatever
Nothing to do with them getting caught up in self-destructive shit, or end up being taken advantage of.
This is 100% how I feel, I love this album, I've gone through it in full over a dozen times. I don't have the urge to skip skits or songs, I listen to it fully as a complete album. I love all the musical genres it borrows from and showcases, it covers the gamut. Funk, Soul, R&B, Free and Fusion Jazz, G-Funk, hard, bassy beats (almost bangers), etc.I feel like To Pimp A Butterfly is the album I wanted in 2014 as I watched so much racial fuckery explode across the country. Instead of directly addressing a laundry list of the things that have happened over the last few years, Kendrick turns his focus inside. Much like Richard Wright and a host of other black writers he's concerned with understanding his own soul, his vices, his weaknesses, and how they relate to his community as a whole.
It's an ambitious album that could have easily missed its target with overly preachy lyricism or a boring narrative. Kendrick avoids this by putting his contradictions on full display, refusing to provide direct answers to the questions he raises, and rocking over some truly amazing production. The album touches nearly every aspect of black music with effortless precision. The funk of Wesley Snipes, the slam poetry of For Free, the r&b vibes of You Ain't Gotta Life...you can't pull this off without being a great, versatile artist. Throughout the album he displays near perfect control of his voice as an instrument, bending and strangling it to whatever emotion is required.
I genuinely don't think there's a bad song on the album. More impressively, the standout tracks aren't just standouts - they're some of Kendrick's best songs. These Walls (which reminds me of Stevie Wonder), the Dilla-esque marvel that is Momma, Hood Politics, and How Much A Dollar Cost - Kendrick's best song, period. The depressing u, the rage of The Blacker The Berry...there are too many standouts here.
And then he tops it off with Mortal Man. I've been a 2pac stan since I was a kid, I cried when he died...and I have no qualms about admitting Mortal Man brought water to my eyes. As with GKMC I haven't really found any urge to skip the skits throughout the album, or the long dialogue on this particular track. And each time it hits me in the gut.
After GKMC I reserved my expectations for its followup. I figured it would be good, but didn't expect it to surpass or match GKMC. Yet the more I listen to TPAB the more I want to declare it superior. I'm not there yet, but I strongly believe its standout tracks are better, and the songwriting is better. And I prefer the organic production. Regardless both are two of the best rap albums of the last decade. Kendrick could have easily given us GKMC 2.0, and I doubt fans would be disappointed in that. Instead he gave us the rap Sign O The Times.
9.5/10
why are they so small
aren't they supposed to be like grown dudes or whatever
I consider 19 to be above armrestWouldn't consider 19&20 "grown".
I think almost every point PD made in his TPAB review is a negative for me ATM.
Gonna let the album sit a bit longer before I give it a proper breakdown, but c'mon PD you know you're bugging with some of those points on his voice as an instrument and there not being a bad song on there.
I consider 19 to be above armrest
Look at the picture breh, he's an armrest. That's small.
IMO the weakest song is Institutionalized, mainly due to Anna Wise's "massa take the chains off me." It improves when Snoop shows up and Kendrick starts spitting more conventionally.
You don't SMH when Travis Scott continue to ape Future's ad libs do you? Because he sure does it a lot. Just sayinMike WiLL Made It brings out Miley Cyrus Future, Rae Sremmurd, Two-9, RiFF RaFF & more @ FADER Fort. SMH @ Two-9 aping 2 Chainz' ad lib.
He's definitely not incorrect here, I agree 100% Kendrick has always done some good things with his voice, and he takes it even further here. Much better than simply angry rapping bars that a lot were worried about.I think almost every point PD made in his TPAB review is a negative for me ATM.
Gonna let the album sit a bit longer before I give it a proper breakdown, but c'mon PD you know you're bugging with some of those points on his voice as an instrument and there not being a bad song on there.
They buy it from Cheddahz off eBayHow are some of y'all getting blood borne early?
CHEDDAHZ
lol I see you CheddahzCourage told me he doesn't have the courage to play the game now, so I'm not selling it anymore
Nah that's one of those things when an artist breaks out and does his thing and it's okay and cool, but then another artist perfects the formula after years of the originator not really doing much with it. Goes without saying for pretty much every Future-esque artist bar PARTYNEXTDOOR.You don't SMH when Travis Scott continue to ape Future's ad libs do you? Because he sure does it a lot. Just sayin
How do you have Daylyt in your video and not have him do some fuckshit