No narrative but there is a concept. Going for another narrative wouldn't have worked tbh, it would be too similar in his approach to his debut major.
Cohesiveness is still there.
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Cohesiveness is still there.
No narrative is a plus.
THE ENDING OF MOMMA LMAO
oh god the accuracy.
Up to Momma so far, love KK and These Walls, rest are meh. Not sure about the love for Alright.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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I was talking about 3 pages ago when the thirstiest of the thirsty were listening to em.
Badu curse is real then?
fuck
already feeling the effects of 3 hours of sleep, brehs
Same breh, Kendrick has fucked us over on so many levels today.
There's always room in hip hop for more story telling IMO, but I understand the possible criticism he might have gotten for doing it again.
The Artful Dodger
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The next day, album's better than I initially thought. It still has plenty of misses to the point where I don't think it's a classic. Some of the songs go and will be fun to hear live.
Yo
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Alright is dope though. Kendrick flowing on there.
Hahaha,
exactly.
Album has intense moments of
and intense moments of
Jesus, some of you guys. What, did you want GKMC 2? S.80 2? What if OutKast hadn't done ATLiens? Electric Circus is great, too.
Definitely one of those records that needs several listens to grow on you. Loving the Soulquarians-esque sound.
Someone in Kendrick's position daring to experiment is always commendable. He could have easily made more of the same. But then again, no matter what he had done he would have never met the expectations after GKMC, anyway. Classic Illmatic situation.
I can see a lot of his casual fans be driven away, haha.
I want to check KTT, right now, but I fear for my sanity.
Definitely one of those records that needs several listens to grow on you. Loving the Soulquarians-esque sound.
Someone in Kendrick's position daring to experiment is always commendable. He could have easily made more of the same. But then again, no matter what he had done he would have never met the expectations after GKMC, anyway. Classic Illmatic situation.
I can see a lot of his casual fans be driven away, haha.
I want to check KTT, right now, but I fear for my sanity.
Preach my brother
Funny enough, KTT was way more positive than GAF-Hop (when I checked it this morning), and the OT thread digs it way more as well
runlikehell
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My second listen is a little more positive, I can appreciate the instrumentation more but still think it's generic when compared to other jazz fusion artists out right now. I prefer this type of music solely as instrumentals, or with a free-flow style like D'Angelo.
Once again, I feel a lot of the ideas are hampered by his insistence of trying to spruce it up vocally, when it doesn't come across as anything but corny. You can't sit here and tell me his "LOVE IS COMPLICAAATEEEED" intonations convey any type of emotion effectively. It just sounds ridiculous. However, I do feel it fits in Hood Politics. He takes on a more sarcastic and somber tone. Other than that, mostly misses.
Who knows, maybe it's just a different side of Kendrick I'm not used to. This can totally grow on me if I can get over the idiosyncrasies. I don't see it ever growing into anything great for me, and as of now it's around a 6/10ish. Disappointing but expected.
Once again, I feel a lot of the ideas are hampered by his insistence of trying to spruce it up vocally, when it doesn't come across as anything but corny. You can't sit here and tell me his "LOVE IS COMPLICAAATEEEED" intonations convey any type of emotion effectively. It just sounds ridiculous. However, I do feel it fits in Hood Politics. He takes on a more sarcastic and somber tone. Other than that, mostly misses.
Who knows, maybe it's just a different side of Kendrick I'm not used to. This can totally grow on me if I can get over the idiosyncrasies. I don't see it ever growing into anything great for me, and as of now it's around a 6/10ish. Disappointing but expected.
theignoramus
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Sonically, this album reminds me of Hi Tek and Kweli's Reflektion Eternal with some west coast g funk thrown in, thematically, it reminds me of the social awareness, self examination and emotional ups and downs of Me Against the World, though less well executed.
i just don't think Electric Circus is "great" per se, a hit miss affair like To Pimp a Butterfly is. I don't think either album is bad.
Every artist should have a couple albums like this where they try out some shit and some of it is real interesting and some of it is poo
Nabs
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I fucks with Electric Circus, but I can't stand that the final 2 songs combine for like 20 minutes of play time. I just can't deal with long songs.
On EC, Common was spitting. Experimenting with his flow like he used to. The music had a warmth to it. I dunno. Give me EC over the safe/boring stuff like Be and FF.
On EC, Common was spitting. Experimenting with his flow like he used to. The music had a warmth to it. I dunno. Give me EC over the safe/boring stuff like Be and FF.
If I'm quite honest, though, I was talking more about the beats (in general Be is my most favorite Com album). I remember a fun interview with Dilla where he talked about how Common practically forced him to make the beats even crazier for Electric Circus and so he jokingly sped up one of his beats and Common actually liked it, haha. Think it was somewhere in this interview, not sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGm3wc3qOE
This is the most interesting Dilla interview, btw. Obligatory watch!
EDIT: Here's the part about Electric Circus:
https://youtu.be/UqFhmYDDrMU?t=2m
SyenceLabb
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How much a dollar cost...... Beautiful. Thank you kdot.
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The Artful Dodger
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It got pushed. Mine downloaded last night.
Ray Wonder
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It got taken back off of iTunes.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6502232/update-kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-gets-accidental
Which I think is a terrible, terrible idea. They should've just let it stay up. People are going to pirate this shit out of this.
What.
It's on spotify. It's on all the torrent sites.
This is the opposite of how to sell records.
Ray Wonder
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The Artful Dodger
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haha, least I still have it on my phone
god this release is so fucked up lmao. its out. Just let it be out.
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