Proof that the best musician of the 21st century is Kendrick Lamar

>Kendrick Lamar frequently refers to himself as the world’s “greatest rapper.” He might be selling himself short.

>Quartz analyzed data from the website Metacritic to identify the best-reviewed albums of the 21st century, and found that Lamar is on an unparalleled critical run. According to music critics, Lamar might not only be the best hip-hop artist, but modern popular music’s greatest artist in general.

qz.com/980875/kendrick-lamar-is-king-according-to-an-exhaustive-analysis-of-21st-century-music-criticism/

"Proof that the best musician of the 21st century is Kendrick Lamar"

Apologize Sup Forums. The absolute best musician of not this year but this entire century (the 21st) is a black man.
None of your WE WUZ jokes.... We not "WUZ", we ARE kings now. The kings of music.

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Well, there isn't much competition now, is there?

You got that backward. There's more competition.
There are more musicians alive now than at any point before in history combined.

>art "critics"

How about I determine my own tastes in music

What about good musicians?

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No real pride in being the smartest retard on the short bus.

yeah sure (((music critics))) say he is the best. my own fucking ears say he is shit and I can even tolerate that genre of niggerdom.

this is based on metacritic. it takes thousands of qualified reviewers, it's not just a handful of critics. if u actually listened to Kendrick Lamar, YOU would agree.

PLUS remember, Kendrick Lamar didn't get famous till around 2010, and that's only in the black rap seen. he didn't become famous with white people till around 2012 or even 2014.
So in just 7 years, or 5 years if you include white people too, he was able to gain more acclaim than musicians who've been making music for even longer periods.

nobody called beethoven "musciian of the century" when he was living back in his day, much less at the beginning of his career.

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Define "great"

Weird ears

Nas is better.

music is better today than it ever was. music is like technology, it keeps getting better (in general). if you really dont think there is good music left, you must have shit music up in Norways.

Listen dude, I'm a big fan of him, but the thing I don't get about him is that his entire subject revolves around black lives matter, racism, and etc. He made his art easily predictable and that's not what great artist supposed to be...He has the talent, but he needs to widen his subjects. Fucking Kanye West is a great artist that keep people guessing what's gonna drop next. From Jesus walks to I'm a God, from goldigger to marrying one. Thats my nigga

>nobody called beethoven "musciian of the century" when he was living back in his day, much less at the beginning of his career.

That's because people were more intelligent and not social media whores back then.

what are newspapers? They had those didnt they? believe it or not, they had music critics too.

You are a stupid fucking nigger. Its sad you niggers today are getting duped by this guys kike overlords.
Wu-Tang, Biggie, Tupac, Nas, Eminem, Big Pun, KRS-One, Geto Boyz, hell fucking Ice-T are all superior to this shit.

Even j Cole is better

And how many multi-platinum or diamond albums does he have?
None?
Okay.

hes just a pop musician

>Black rap seen

I'd say with tpab he focused more about talking about his perspective on the world and how he felt the media was trying to force him into a box. I think that's why he was so critical of black people on songs like blacker the berry and institutionalized in order to show that while he has pride in his race he's not going to ignore the fact that there is shit the black community has to change in order to become successful.

All his albums have gone platinum in an era when music sales are at an all time low.

>not posting the best one

>we ARE kings now. The kings of music
Then why is your music so terrible?

Yeah lets decide Musician of the Century 17 years into the century
He makes great music no doubt, and might be one of the greatest rappers in the mainstream scene today.
But by no means the best overall musician.
Review culture needs to go and stay go

Why should I give a fuck if some nobody labels this nigger as best musician?

Pic related is my favourite musician. Suck it OP.

>Why is your music so terrible now?
>posted article that shows "Proof that the best musician of the 21st century is Kendrick Lamar"

objecitvely, you are wrong as you can see if you would read the damn article. i am willing to bet if you listened to some lamar, you would change your mind.

>music is better today than it ever was

You crack me up

Kendrick Lamar is a progressive media engineered phenomenon. His music is shit and the only reason anybody thinks it isn't is because they listen to the most brain dead trash imaginable and the moment somebody comes along with a "message" they hail them as a visionary. Every liberal faggot music critic sucks him off because he is a liberal faggot who speaks their language. He literally checks every box for retarded millenials who look to pitchfork as their tastemaker and love to virtue signal through consumption of the proper media. He is just the right amount of uncle tom to appeal to white hipsters while also being enough of a we wuz kangs to appeal to blacks.

there is good music being made

it's not pop, though. pop in the UK in the 90s was good in places, with the encroachment of acid techno, jungle, and oasis into the charts. pop now is very bad and is pretty much just a combination of trap and rihanna and EDM.

Never listened to his music and never will. Go ask him if he'll let you suck his cock, you clearly want to.

I didn't say now, it's always been terrible. And I'm not wrong, you are trying to to prove a subjective thing, that was my point.

Sometimes I look in the mirror
And ask myself: Am I really scared of passin' away?
If it's today, I hope I hear a
Cry out from Heaven so loud it can water down a demon
With the Holy Ghost 'til it drown in the blood of Jesus
I wrote some raps that make sure that my lifeline reekin'
The scent of a reaper, ensurin' that my allegiance
With the other side may come soon, and if I'm doomed
May the womb help my mother be blessed for many moons
I suffer a lot
And every day the glass mirror get tougher to watch
I tie my stomach in knots
And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats
That can come about, ’cause the tongue is mighty powerful
And I can name a list of your favorites that probably vouch
Maybe 'cause I'm a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death

>critics opinions are worth something
And quantity =/ quality.

omg deep #thinking

Alright, Sup Forums.
Name your own, personal Album of the Decade.

>the best musician
>musician
I thought musicians were supposed to actually make their own music

my german nigga, that's the shit im talking about right there, finally another K. Lamar fan is in the house.

Joanna Newsom is the best musician of the 21st century so far

Get that nigger shit out of here

watch your mouth

It's shit.

Please, my wise overlord, I invite you to give me the Socratic definition off beauty that enables (((critics))) to formulate their official and objective scores.

Drank x 1000

Wow recycled lyrics from 90s golden era rap

Which one is it niggers?
>hurr durr he's so dumb just repeating words
>hurr durr he's fake deep muh purple prose

That would be Arvo Part, but I bet you have never heard of him.

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THIS DUDE HAS ZERO TALENT WRITING! Seriously do you think this guy or his shit head producers have any talent in music theory? No? Good because that beat he is using has probably been used by like 5 other rappers before he got to it. Same with all of his girlfriends. I'd put money down he's never taken a girls virginity.

RIP

i actually ignore lyrics unless they really jump out for some reason

the craft is in the music

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>nigger
>best
.... we're a little over one decade in to the 21st century, that's a pretty big call to make regardless of it being a black dude.

Kendrick sucks. Maybe not technically, but I don't like his music at all.

>she will never stroke your hair as she sings you to sleep
Tis a cruel world

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His lyrics are propaganda, Christian referencing (not even good biblical references) and fake anecdotes about his crimes. This dude really doesn't have talent. He isn't a talented singer, his producers aren't skilled or original. I've never heard anything from this nigger you can't make in fucking Fruity Loops.

I bet you think Eminem is a good artist aswell.

that's why it's so impressive. he's the musician of the century despite only being around since 2010. hes so good that nobody else could compare to him even with perfect scores. they also are probably projecting his future career, and if hes already this good, hes gonna keep pumping it out till he retires. not even classical musciaians were able to gain as much acclaim in as short a period of time in their day as lamar is in our day.

>muh lyrics
DG drops a fucking black hole on his lyric.

In Sup Forumss opinion who was the most influential person in music for the twentieth century?
Seeing as its over?

Kendrick Lamar.

I never heard of him

Jimi Hendrix

>rap
>music
Closest thing you can get to music from the studio is electronic/techno.

Kendrick Lamar is an interesting character. I first heard his music back in 2013 , it does have a symbolic meaning.. But it started to revolve around black culture after they began getting shot in like 2015.

>twentieth century
>1900-2000
>"PLUS remember, Kendrick Lamar didn't get famous till around 2010"
are you fucking braindead you stupid nigger

Implying Kendrick Lamar wouldn't just be chanting sounds at a sacrificial goat ritual in Africa somewhere if it wasn't for white people

I didn't know this was a conversation, blacks have always been unparalleled musical geniuses and invented the only worthwhile genres.

Muddy waters basically made modern music. I'd probably say 2pac, Jimmy and Nirvana.

rap isn't music m8

>>metacritic
>> thousands of qualified reviewers
>>metacritic
>> qualified reviewers
No your right a bunch of teens like his music therefore he's the greatest ever

>rap more like crap amirite :>)

>musician
>Kendrick Lamar
Oh, Sweetie

>listening to nigger music
gas yourself

I always find it funny when black people say nigga. It's literally a reference to how anally fucked the middle easterns and white people africa.

>reviews are a sign of quality

Kek 20th century, son he didn't start making music till 2004

edgy

Hard to say considering how much music changed in that short time
Elvis, MJ, Hendrix, B.B.K, McCartney, the list goes on

>blacks invented Satanic black metal
Ok.

Too bad they lost that too with the whole racism agenda. I swear if they would just stop talking about niggers and fucking women black people could produce some astounding shit.
MJ is a perfect example.

no, just white

Everything after section .80 fucking sucked

Listen to this futur summer hit
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You CAN'T tell me that it's shit

its interchangable if you are around the millenia mark.
21st/20th century = confusion. my professor mixes them up all the time..

lee perry

What he does isn't music. The artists in the charts these days are really taking the piss. They know they're gonna sell loads of records no matter what they do because the record company is only gonna bankroll so many artists so if you're in you're guaranteed a shitload of sales from all the plebs without any taste. That's why they do such shitty music that sounds like it was thought up whilst taking a piss in between smoking their crack pipe and fucking their aids infested ghetto gfs.

My money is actually on Les Paul, didn't make great music but did invent the electric guitar. So definitely had the biggest influence in my opinion.
Hendrix comes in close second though.

This.

It comes from the word negus meaning king. Slave owners stole it

Dead Kennedys r the best!

They're all overrated shit lmao get with the times grandpa

He's not a fucking musician. Ever see him playing an instrument? Didn't think so. Rappers aren't musicians.

So what is? If not popularity and not reviews from music critics, what constitutes good music?

it's literally both you fucking nigger

>music
>good now
Music sounds like shit and because of technology advancements any shitty fast talking nigger/whore pop star can tune their voice and get famous.
That isn't even touching on how dumbed down popular music is.

Being the greatest rapper isn't the same as being the greatest musician, being good at sculpting statues out of shit doesn't mean you should be compared to Michelangelo, King of the Monkeys he is but big deal, don't put jungle music next to Frank Sinatra or anything though.

This is like the shit they used to make us write in year 10 English

He actually stole the electric guitar from an African instrument known as the nigtar.

Alright, your infallible logic and superior wit has won me over.

His music is literal dogshit.

The only reason people even know about him is he keeps getting pushed all over the radio by (((you know whom))).

>I haven't listened to Kendrick Lamar

>objectively
hahahahahahaha