new Kendrick Lamar single

[oats]

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don't know how to post just the soundcloud link. I dig it.

[PancakeBrah]

Blech.

I say blech, oats.

[Split]

awful. wouldn't be surprised if that born again faggot Pharrell helped with the production like
"Yo this song good but the beat is too dope, try scrapping it and putting on a stereotypical Santana guitar riff. Maybe some backup vocals by Michelle Branch. And I like the lyrics, but they'd be better if you deleted all the content and made yor delivery more cookie cutter. Word it's got potential tho"

[PancakeBrah]

I can see why some people would like it. It seems purposefully polarizing. There's nothing horrible about it. Just not for me. Not the direction Id like to see Kendrick go. But whatever I'm sure the album will be good. It is a single, after all. But much worse, to me, than his singles off of gkmc as a comparison. Doesn't portend anything. But as a radio friendly unit pusher I don't rank it highly.

[Certain]

I love it. It's so Daisy Age. I can't remember the last time an act as big as him tried to recall early De La Soul/Arrested Develoment (yes, more than Beastie Boys despite the sample).

[Greed]

Pharrell cool

This was 2 niggas that might have done a little too much coke.

I never really liked kendrick tho.

[Certain]

Originally Posted by Split

awful. wouldn't be surprised if that born again faggot Pharrell helped with the production like
"Yo this song good but the beat is too dope, try scrapping it and putting on a stereotypical Santana guitar riff. Maybe some backup vocals by Michelle Branch. And I like the lyrics, but they'd be better if you deleted all the content and made yor delivery more cookie cutter. Word it's got potential tho"

Yeah, like imagine if Pharrell got his hands on trap rap or something and totally made good rappers consider a pop audience. The result would be terrible.



(Just to be clear, Pharrell did not produce this track.)

[Fart]

just when i thought kendrick was bad, he gets worse

[PancakeBrah]

Snarky Certain is snarky

[Certain]

Originally Posted by PancakeBrah

I can see why some people would like it. It seems purposefully polarizing. There's nothing horrible about it. Just not for me. Not the direction Id like to see Kendrick go. But whatever I'm sure the album will be good. It is a single, after all. But much worse, to me, than his singles off of gkmc as a comparison. Doesn't portend anything. But as a radio friendly unit pusher I don't rank it highly.

Worse than "Poetic Justice"?

Y'all are underestimating the complexity of this track. There's a lot going on, more musically than anything on Good Kid, M.A.A.D City other than perhaps "Swimming Pools."

I mean, if you don't like 3 Feet High and Rising, maybe I get it. But I also question your soul.

[Split]

Originally Posted by Certain

Yeah, like imagine if Pharrell got his hands on trap rap or something and totally made good rappers consider a pop audience. The result would be terrible.
(Just to be clear, Pharrell did not produce this track.)

I was gonna say this song was surprisingly fresh for something Pharrell got his hands on

Trap rap is like Gucci/ Waka/ old 2 Chainz and old Juicy J?

Cause (minus Gucci) all their stuff that wasn't pop was dope... 2 Chainz and Juicy J very much sold out.

So yeah I fully agree

It just sucks that all the true talent is what big labels and pop producers usually manage to convince to try appealing to larger audiences

It's like if college ball was actually just an amateur league that wasn't limited to college athletes. All the top tier players go to the NFL with the other talent, and they are still super talented, but the atmosphere of the game just isn't as appealing as it is in the Pro-Am leagues. All the people that make the league worth watching are sucked up in a couple years and a new class of young talent fills their spots, so you only get to enjoy watching a couple years of your favorite players careers. Everyone that stays is like the people who couldn't quite make the cut and stay on the verge of dopeness, never quite achieving it.

[Certain]

Split, just stay away from talking about rap from before 2012.

[Da BattleMasta Patrick]

Shit banging to me yo.

[dead man]

It's ok

[Izzy Reef]

It's garbage.. It might have a message but, this ain't fuckinSing About Me had one of the strongest messages on that album imo..

This is just ridiculous.

[Clayray]

Ehhhhhh.

I wouldn't listen to it again.

[kannon]

I dig it, aside from his weird alien voice.

[Split]

Originally Posted by Certain

Split, just stay away from talking about rap from before 2012.

Stfu and get off your high horse?

Music is highly opinion-based.


I, too, could find a database of every rap album review since 1980, compute the average weighted by the critic's popular appeal cross-multiplied by their objectivity factor and then create a Certain's Top 2000 Albums of the Decade so I could scoff at everyone not in line with the general consensus & masturabte furiously to my self-righteousness.


But I'm not a fucking douchebag so I don't

All your opinions are so 'safe.' Do you listen to anything without immediately evaluating its worth in the grand scheme of pop culture?

[Split]

fuck you

[Certain]

Originally Posted by Split

Stfu and get off your high horse?

Music is highly opinion-based.


I, too, could find a database of every rap album review since 1980, compute the average weighted by the critic's popular appeal cross-multiplied by their objectivity factor and then create a Certain's Top 2000 Albums of the Decade so I could scoff at everyone not in line with the general consensus & masturabte furiously to my self-righteousness.


But I'm not a fucking douchebag so I don't

All your opinions are so 'safe.' Do you listen to anything without immediately evaluating its worth in the grand scheme of pop culture?

Music is highly opinion-based until you think that when I made a reference to Pharrell producing trap-rap and LINKED TO "GRINDIN' " I was talking about Gucci Mane.

I don't care about your opinions on this song. Many didn't like it. But your lack of knowledge is not a matter of opinion.