It's not that someone can't like money trees, criticising it is fine, hell if anyone else posted a criticism of it I'd be cool with it. But you're posts in the thread and the lyrics you quoted from money trees to prove kendrick is a wack rapper, just show to me that you want to hate this album and you're open admittance to not even listening to the damn thing despite being so ready to trash on the album, makes it clear to me you're just here to troll.
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city |OT| No Beats By Dre
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NinjaBoiX
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Fixed.
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Picked this up based on Gaf
And it's the first hip hop album I've purchased in a very long time ( Cuban Linx 2 being the last)
After one go through - I really love the production
The flow and rhymes will have to grow on me though
And Money Trees is def quality
As someone who doesn't listen to modern rap, I like it
Now I'm eagerly awaiting Madvillainy 2
And it's the first hip hop album I've purchased in a very long time ( Cuban Linx 2 being the last)
After one go through - I really love the production
The flow and rhymes will have to grow on me though
And Money Trees is def quality
As someone who doesn't listen to modern rap, I like it
Now I'm eagerly awaiting Madvillainy 2
Also to be fair a lot of those services aren't available worldwide (I.e. Canada gets the shaft on most of them even and were usually second on the list).
TBH you have to listen to the entire album for it to sink in how good it is. Backseat Freestyle isn't one of my favourite songs, but it's there for a reason. Stuff really gets heavy around The Art Of Peer Pressure. Really though I'm not hearing valid criticisms, dude is arguably one of the best lyricists in the game and GKMC shows that. And the production is fine too, perhaps not as eclectic as Section80, but I wouldn't call any of the beats on there wack.
If you haven't listened to the entire album in order first, don't bother, it loses much of what makes it unique as a relatively cohesive concept album in today's age of what people like to call high budget mixtapes.
NinjaBoiX
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OK, so I'm streaming the album on YT, and it's actually been really good so far. It sounds nothing like Backseat Freestyle, it's got a really smooth sound, like 90's hip hop. The first track is fantastic, then the Domino skit is pretty funny! Money Trees is much better than I initially gave it credit for too.
But...BF has just started...gah! That chorus is awful!
So yeah, you guys were right, it needs to be listened to in full apparently!
I'll be sure to post my "tail between my legs" admission of its worth in an hour or so. (deluxe edition)
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But...BF has just started...gah! That chorus is awful!
So yeah, you guys were right, it needs to be listened to in full apparently!
I'll be sure to post my "tail between my legs" admission of its worth in an hour or so. (deluxe edition)
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NinjaBoiX
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Yeah, I was just about to edit, what's the track before BF? That's the one I meant, it sounds a little similar. Money Trees is on now, I dunno, it's OK, but that one before BF is better.
Dre is crying somewhere reading this post after spending probably tens of hours sequencing the project.
Don't just listen to it in full, listen to it in order.
NinjaBoiX
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Yeah, those are my favourites so far, only up to Good kid. That vocal sample in PJ is lush.
Yeah, I am, I'd only heard money trees on the radio in the van, I had it confused with BDKMV. I dunno whether listening to the deluxe edition will spoil the flow, are the extra tracks just on the end?
Edit: good kid is cool. Not really feeling mad city, the production is a little "gansta" for me, dare I say it, fiddy-esque. Just the music.
Swimming pools just started though, sounds decent! Is that Dre I hear?
Black Boy Fly is more thematically relevant than the other 2 deluxe edition tracks, and was probably initially meant to be somewhere in the sequencing. None of the deluxe tracks are essential or applicable to the story though, and since they're on the end anyways it doesn't matter much, the flow in the rest of the project is still there.
If you get a chance after listening to the album though, go listen to Westside, Right On Time, which was initially supposed to be the final track on the album. It works quite well and IMO better considering certain references throughout the album which would culminate in that song.
It's okay, this is one of the few albums that really requires a full listen. That's why we were being pushy...
NinjaBoiX
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So yeah, it's pretty cool. Track 1,2,6,7+9 were my favourites. The skits were great too.
BF is definitely a taste I've yet to acquire, and mad city was a little too gansta for me, but I enjoyed the rest.
*holds hands up*
Also, he is a fantastic rapper, I just wish BF wasn't the lead single, it seems a strange choice, as a lot of the album is smooth, loungey hip hop.
The cohesive story element was well done too, seemed like a crazy night out!
BF is definitely a taste I've yet to acquire, and mad city was a little too gansta for me, but I enjoyed the rest.
*holds hands up*
Also, he is a fantastic rapper, I just wish BF wasn't the lead single, it seems a strange choice, as a lot of the album is smooth, loungey hip hop.
The cohesive story element was well done too, seemed like a crazy night out!
Heard Section.80? If not, go check it out. It's also consistently good and I prefer it over GKMC.
i don't really feel like BSF is the lead single though. Swimming Pools is. And it's still top 5 on the album too.
maad city is more paranoid than gangsta. It's pretty great to see the antithesisof between the traditional gangsta rap of MC Eiht (I'm still in the hood / Loc yeah that's cool / The hood took me under / so I follow the rules) and the new generation (Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out / At the same burger stand where beep hang out / Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it / But ever since that day, I was lookin at him different)
BTW, how can you call gangsta a song that ends with:
"If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you believe me?
Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the street
With a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat
If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat?
Would you say my intelligence now is great relief?
And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep
With dreams of being a lawyer or doctor
Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the cul de sac hostage"
The spiteful chant is required listening, godamn that track is powerful. I actually think section 80 is a little more inconsistent (still great overall), but the highs of that album are fantastic.
No Yelawolf?
Oh God yes. Listening to Spiteful Chant while walking out of work after a long shift =
Also, Hol' up followed by ADHD never fails to put a smile on my face.
Other favourite tracks: HiiiPower, Ronald Reagan Era, No Make-up, Keisha's Song, Poe Mans Dreams and Ab-Soul's Outro.
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this album is good but the more I listen to it the more I dislike like the whole christianity saves the kids thing.
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But does christianity really save him when the story repeats itself?
Lol. Damn it Macca.
Same here, rigamortus was actually the first song I heard from him, but adhd made me a real fan.
8 doobies to the face
Fuck that
Yeah I listened to GKMC first and Section 80 was ok but it didn't sound like nothing great. Maybe I'd need to listen again. GKMC is one of the best rap albums of all time. At least top 20.
Hmmmm
Yeah deal with it. lol
Top 20? I agree actually : )
GKMC is flawless as a major label debut. It keeps Lamar at his most cunning while finding a narrative thread in which Lamar can inject more street-smart singles (see: Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, Freestyle). It's one of those albums you could just listen to the hook and nod to, but that would be doing the album a disservice. Amongst all the flippant misogyny and over-emphasized gang-banger attitude is Lamar at his most inquisitive, questioning the social engineering that Compton has. It's so much more than the stale "rep my city" callbacks that have dominated hip-hop for decades.
CountBlack
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1. Money Trees
2. Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe
3. m.A.A.d city
4. Swimming Pools
5. Sing About Me
Money Trees is already my most played song on iTunes..would have more if I didn't skip it everytime the skit played
2. Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe
3. m.A.A.d city
4. Swimming Pools
5. Sing About Me
Money Trees is already my most played song on iTunes..would have more if I didn't skip it everytime the skit played
Syph Medwes
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Cosign. Although the gap between the top 3 is minuscule and changes often.
Lol, kendrick's dad is the true star of the album.
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