really really hard to compare to tpab yeah. Also less ambition yeah
feels like he breathed new life into mainstream hip hop with this tho

Album Rating: 5.0

It's also the better album

Album Rating: 4.0

This album just won the Pullitzer Prize.

Album Rating: 3.0

Well, how bout that shit

Out of all of his albums it should have been TBAP or GKMC

Album Rating: 4.0

For sure, but the people on the Pullitzer staff are like ninety years old, and realized that Kendrick is on that real shit a bit too late.

Album Rating: 3.0

It's a very blatant and misguided attempt to appear 'hip'

Album Rating: 5.0

no but your comment is ironically an attempt to appear hip

Album Rating: 4.3

well deserved

Album Rating: 5.0

Indeed

He should've gotten it for To Pimp a Butterfly instead but this will do

Also he's the first non-jazz or classical musician to ever win it, if it was just an attempt to look hip or whatever they probably would've done it much sooner with a much fatter target like Tpab or Mbdtf

Album Rating: 3.0

"no but your comment is ironically an attempt to appear hip"



Shit you caught me seeking validation on sputnikmusic.com



Historically significant, sure, but this feels like something that could have happened earlier on a better album (even by the same artist). It's a symbolic gesture to me.

Album Rating: 3.0

And on today's trivia round-up questionnaire, we've got "Who's that Alt?"

'alright' is a black lives matter anthem how is that not important to hip hop or black culture lol

that assertion would make sense if fox news were the ones who sold the song as an anthem but it's regularly sung by actual black people in actual black lives matter protests so like... do those black people not know the struggle and they just think they do or??? i don't get what you're saying at all lol

Album Rating: 3.8

lol

Album Rating: 2.5



kendrick is a 16-year old white girl's brain trapped in a black midget's body, rapping to the small, fanatical subset of HRC's voterbase'





hahhahahahahaaha So true

Album Rating: 4.0

"kendrick is a 16-year old white girl's brain trapped in a black midget's body, rapping to the small, fanatical subset of HRC's voterbase'"



I like two of Kendrick's albums, but you nailed it with this description. I think his music has merit outside of his political messages though.

Album Rating: 3.0

i actually agree pretty hard with April, but im sure we differ in that i think he lost it after GKMC when he tried to be the voice of the entire black culture including the extremely povershed/gang types, pretty much acting like he was absurdly caught up in that shit. GKMC is from the pov of a lower income black kid but one thats trying to live a typical life and that has the privilege of being able to remove himself from gang/drug culture. thats a legitimately large representation of an often alienated group and i think thats why it carries so much weight. later albums lost the voice for them specifically and started to try to represent too big of a culture that even he doesnt really seem to have a full understanding of

You don't help mend any kind of division by making such staggeringly presumptuous (not to mention completely baseless) generalizations about the kind of people Kendrick's music has positively affected. I know you an internet rando who don't have millions of people listening to you but practice what you preach.


Secondly this supposed commonality by wealth is a method of lampooning american perception of black people being obsessed with riches while failing to understand the historical and systematical context as to why this might be the case. The song uses this wealth to return the negative connotation back and say that it's perfectly fine to enjoy and give in to your vices so long as you understand your place is society, but most of all it's supposed to serve as a way for black people to embrace their own flaws even if they're stereotypical. It's a simple message of self-love, you are going harder with the twisting than a contortionist.

Also "you won't hear people bumpin alright (And i'm assuming you wanna imply also any Kendrick song) in the hood, and honestly i think that there sums up how far removed kendrick is from the realest struggles of his culture" - This isn't true, and how would you even know this when you're in Australia