Why does the indie music press think this guy is god's gift to earth every time he releases something?

Why does the indie music press think this guy is god's gift to earth every time he releases something?

White guilt, lack of knowledge in music, or perhaps because it's the norm to accept him as a good artist to gain more audience.
Frankly it's all nothing more than a laughable cult following without any good content to justify it up.
But that has always been the case, I mean the Eagles were pretty popular in the 80's as well despite being quite mediocre. At least they fell a little bit genuine sometimes.

I meant 70's*

Because Kendrick is a talented guy in an industry full of other rappers that really put no effort into what they do. If you've ever listened to TPAB, you'll know that he's an extremely creative person.

hes pretty good

TPAB is nothing more than another bloated, forgettable pop rap record created by legions of producers and writer which uses the "jazz and soul" elements only as a gimmick. Kendrick has little to do behind the music outside of the rapping and some of the lyrics anyway.

Tpab was good
Damn was absolute shit
Now that hes fucking rich he has no struggle to use in his writting, that being the only thing he depicted

He's black and we're in current year

The second track on it is such fucking shit I don't know how you can take the album seriously after that

I mean, his previous two albums were great. The issue is just DAMN. being overrated.

How're the chemtrails doing today, m'sir?

they dont anymore. Damn really fucked his reputation. I don't know why everyone was on his dick anyway.

Rap becoming an """essential"""" part of the indie rock scene was a fucking mistake that has ruined music publication

Name one good Indie Rock album of the year that wasn't Just redundant garbage

Indie babby's first rapper.

He a good boy

Then why does j cole get slandered every time he drops a project?

Kendrick actually makes interesting music and that's why he stands out. The music is about him and he has a very compelling story to tell.

j cole or big sean have dropped so many albums yet i can't really tell you anything about them.
Even drake did a better job making the audience interested in his life, with his sappy love shit.

It's hip and progressive.

kendrick lamar allows white bourgeois music journalists and white people that live in gentrified areas to feel like they are hip.
He allows gen x wine moms and cool dads to name drop someone to make their kids think they are cool

The same type of people who ask you if you have seen Hamilton.


The last thing bourgeois people want to do is be reminded they are bourgeoisie.

If lamar made an album shitting on rich white liberals they would fucking turn on him hard

>If lamar made an album shitting on rich white liberals they would fucking turn on him hard
pls do

Kendrick is the MC Hammer of the late 2010s

Basically this. He's the hot new guy, who actually isn't shit, the hope for new school and all that.

Did he even have actual struggle before? Sure, he's from Compton and black but his life was relatively cozy from what I recall.

omg sit tf down poc ALWAYS struggle in this hellhole called capitalist america

I keep having this dream where Kendrick releases a new album. Its not NATION. and no, its not a follow-up to DAMN. Its a completely separate album, called DIVINE AUTHORITY, and is Kendrick's 6th and final album. It has 8 tracks, but none of them are shorter than 7 minutes. The tracks feature hard-hitting breakbeats, in fact the whole album is not even hip-hop but straight-up big beat that sounds similar to The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land, and the track "Diesel Power" in particular, except the album has tons of distortion and Kendrick's rapping is much more aggressive, making it more similar to Dalek and Techno Animal's track "Hell". And speaking of Dalek, he appears as a feature on the second track, the main single. Other features include Vatican Shadow, Dedekind Cut, Lil Uzi Vert, and the last track is an industrial jazzfunk cacophony composed by Kamasi Washington, and ends with a piano ballad featuring Frank Ocean that evolves into the beat from the beginning of the first track, making the ending a prelude to the first track of the album, thus making the whole album a circle of sorts, similar to J Dilla's Donuts. The lyrics have tons of calls for black superiority and digs against the alt-right, with lyrics like "Yo red pill is a lie/ constructed by the Zion's eye/ Yo idol slayed the innocent jews/ so true manipulators could rule them sacred views/ now you too fall prey to their sinister lies/ ay, I say hi to yall inner demise". The cover has Kendrick, naked and covered in tatoos and looking like a tribal shaman similar to the black guy in The Prodigy video for "Breathe", standing in front of a concrete wall with graffiti saying "DIVINE AUTHORITY".

(1/2)

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The album is met with a mixed reception, its panned by Pitchfork, and is a commercial failure. One week after the album's release Kendrick dies in a mysterious car crash. The album is proven so controversial that all of hip-hop completely disappears from the mainstream's view, and all the radios and televisions start playing post-grunge revival instead.

6 months after the album's release, Trump is assassinated and the United States fall into a new Civil War. The war culminates with a mass massacre directed against the South, and ends with the North reuniting the US as a Communist Socialist Federation, ruled by a pawn of the CPR. Kendrick is hailed as an artistic and poetic genius, similar to Mayakovski in the Soviet Union, and DIVINE AUTHORITY is hailed as his creative magnum opus.

Just thought I'd share. for

Im serious.
If he made an album that was pro socialism and shat on the status quo they would be btfo pretty hard.

Ask yourself why there is a MLK day but not a malcom x day