Now that the dust has settled

Now that the dust has settled...

What do you HONESTLY think of this album?

solid 6/10

Love it

fuck white people

Deserves 100% of the praise it gets.

Everything but B O O B O O is a good track.

Thought it was a 10/10 when it came out, now I think it's a 9/10. Mortal Man is a bad ending to a great album, although I do think the message of the actual song part is nice. Kinda sad though, knowing that Kendrick probably wont be able to live up to this album.

>Brainlets can't even understand Kendrick
Damn....

Thought it was a 9-10/10 when it came out. I basically have no time for it now and would go as far as a 6.

Muted

Not as memorable as Good Kid MAAD City

Best album of the last ten years

JUST GOT MAH DICK SUCKED

>Best album of the last ten years
But Kendrick released GK/MC in 2012

we/10

Your opinion, BOO BOO

The word "hype" wasn't enough to describe the media assault on the sprawling 80-minute To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), another meticulously crafted album that employed legions of writers, producers and musicians (including jazz pianist Robert Glasper and jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington). Six people wrote Wesley's Theory, including George Clinton, and four produced it, including Flying Lotus. Nine people are credited as writers for the funk-fest King Kunta, making it de facto a collage. The producers threw in more live instruments, resulting in a sound that is more revivalist than innovative, but also a sound that helps the general theatrical atmosphere. For better and for worse, The Blacker the Berry is the epitome of this emphatically pointless but fashionable avant-jazz-rap music. I begins as an olf-fashioned synth-pop hit of the 1980s before it begins to sound like a James Brown parody (with the lyrics "the number one rapper in the world" and "i love myself") accented by a jovial piano figure. The best psychodrama is possibly one of the simplest songs, the melodic funk-soul These Walls, and the best political sermon the equally straightforward funk ditty Hood Politics. But the music is secondary to the histrionics and it doesn't matter that the catchy and danceable Alright stands in opposition of the industrial beat that derails Momma, a fact that could account for at least eclecticism. This is a superficial and, ultimately, middle-of-the-road album from an artist who lacks the visceral energy of Public Enemy and Tackhead while also lacking the poetic depth of Kanye West and the musical genius of El-P. He tries to be all of them at once, but maybe he would be most credible if he were just himself: a brilliant script-writer of fictionalized real-life stories: the Christian parable How Much a Dollar Cost presents God disguised as a homeless man, and Mortal Man interviews the ghost of dead rapper 2Pac. 6/10.

A little preachy but a good overall experience and has some great tracks

>poetic depth of kanye west
kys scaruffi

8/10. Love it

It's an incredible album, both production and rap wise. I really like how Kendrick melts the beat-rap separation you usually have and allows for his voice to shift and blend with the rest of the sounds in various ways.
I actually think the social message it attempts to create is the weakest point about this album - but it doesn't really ruin it as much as it ruins people's perception of it.

for sale? interlude is weirdly my favorite song

I've seen both positive and negative reviews of this album on RYM that were less fucking vapid and condescending than this, which is saying a lot.

Never listened to it and don't plan on ever listening to it. I'll stick with Souls of Mischief, Pete Rock, and Tribe if I want to listen to hiphop.

overrated trash

Plebs can't handle based Scaruffi.

Mine too m8. It's just has a very calm and relaxing sound to it, which is funny as it's literally about the devil

Kendrick Lamar is the Christopher Nolan of rap.

He made the quintessential rap record with GKMC, but this will go down as the greatest album release since OK Computer.

this reads like a dunkey video

this

No that's Kanye
>increasingly popular despite blunders without doibg anything different from his contempories but nailing a couple of fun ideas
>overrated material that holds itself up only
>very little, if any, artistic merit but knows the right people to shine as if he did

i like it a lot 8/10

I hate Nolan but he's one of the few decent mainstream auteurs from this generation. Also Memento is a pretty unrivaled movie

Best rap album of my lifetime

Really? I thought that was the exact problem of Section 80. When you listen to all three in a row, TPAB is a pretty logical next step that cohesively tries to ask (and succeeds) what it means to be a black man, while exploring the expectations and resposibility of fame AND delivering an experimental art project that sets himself even higher above his contemporaries.

And the release of untitled unmastered. was genius. Because it had all the hallmarks of a typical rap mixtape with the substance that comes with thinking like Kendrick Lamar does, AND the knowledge that these sessions helped crafter TPAB.

Oh, don't me wrong, I'm a fan of both. It's just they're 8/10 acts that people treat like legends because they happen to stand on their egos a bit higher, but they both have clear visions that are better than most.

honestly listening to this for the first time. got up to institutionalized and had to turn this fucking shit off, holy fuck its bad

I think it's great, minus a few guest spots.

It should have ended on i, with Mortal Man somewhere in the middle. But that' s just me.

institutionalized is one of the best rap songs I have ever heard

It's a meme to like Kendrick on this board, right? I can think of TWENTY (20) different rappers I'd rather listen to.

it has aged like milk
also this

Your choice mate. I also like those guys but give it a listen. I don't think you'd be disappointed.

IMO Good Kid, M.A.A.D City did the best to portray the life struggle of a black person in the US. How the ghetto pulls people down to it's level as that's all they know. Of course that doesn't apply to every black but this music is obviously made with those kinds of people in mind. TPAB feels a bit too much 'in the now' while I think GKMC's message will still be relevant in the future.

Good kid mAAd city was better. RTJ shat all over it

It has some great songs but also a lot of filler

Overall a good album but worst Kendrick album

ok i was like i should give it another chance, played These Walls and i shit you not I LITERALLY have a fucking headache now. its just awful man wtf.

this isn't old Sup Forums metal head

UGH im like literally dying right now i cant even kendrick is soooo bad lmao

i hate metal, i don't listen to anything else besides rap
haha xD right?

>which is funny as it's literally about the devil
Temptation is suppose to sound pleasing which is the devils entire schtick

What's so bad about both these songs

I think good kid, m.A.A.d. city did everything that Illmatic did, but better and I think in one stroke, showcased the synthesis of east and west coast rapping. It's focused and polished but, honestly, Section 80 was more about being black, while GKMC is about growing up (concious in the modern crime environment). I think TPAB dives deeper and tries to look for where those problems come from and why ultimately being black can be cause for absurd concern.

Please tell me what you think is filler. If it's Complexion, fuck you. If you think it's the interludes, fuck you. If you think it's Hood Politics, You Ain't Gotta Lie or Alright, seriously fuck you. I've never seen an argument against other track.

But Complexion really is a dumb song. I wouldn't call it bad or boring but it just doesn't hold up to other tracks. The message as well just makes me wonder if he ran out of ideas. Is light skinned niggas hating on dark skinned niggas such a problem it needs to be addressed? I wouldn't know

I didn't enjoy them. I really only enjoyed u, king kunta and alright. All the others I thought were just forgettable

all of these

people who say it rips off funk outfits like Parliament have never given two minutes to listen to funk in their entire lives

It is maybe the best produced jazz rap album ever. the way actual recorded instrumentation gives it a notch of professionality that I've hardly ever heard on a hip-hop album. Most classic jazz rap loops are funky percussion with a cool sax sample and this just goes way beyond

also, I think the lyrical content has become underrated. People like:
still think at first listen that it criticizes the establishment and white culture but he actually seems to be criticizing this exact mindset of blaming others by trying to delve into the black American experience from multiple perspectives. Kendrick has never been one to claim helplessness. He's a one in a million success story of a hood kid receiving unanimous critical acclaim.

It's got some contentious material and I think a handful of tracks are too in your face but this is a 8.5-9/10 for me. One of the best of the decade.

Take some time with it. I wrote off a few songs but it's legimately one of those albums that asks you to come back and rewards you for it. u is my favorite song of Kendrick's so you're alright.

8/10

Helped me understand the plight of black Americans on a few songs and feel on the rest of it. Might drop to a 7/10 but it's unlikely to go higher.

>Wesley's Theory, The Blacker The Berry, THIS DICK AINT FREE, Institutionalized
>Forgettable