cornrow kenny > kung-fu kenny

Album Rating: 5.0

"music can't be objectively perfect, that's an oxymoron. plenty of highly regarded albums are dogshit - look at guns n roses appetite for destruction"



That album is kind of exactly what I'm talking about. Completely unknown to the top of the world because the songs are so undeniable (though obv that's not entirely applicable to Kendrick). Not saying you have to enjoy everything like that. I'd probably fucking hate folklore in fact. But the proof is in the pudding to some extent when it reaches Appetite of Destruction/DAMN. levels

That’s bullshit tho, because practically no one cares about this album anymore, least of all big publications

def had some hype when it came out but it fizzled fast.

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah cause its beyond mid from the "best rapper alive"



ok best rapper alive drop more music if u the goat

all kendrick is average if im being honest

tpab has a much stronger claim for solidifying his legacy, regardless of how it sold in comparison to damn

It’s def high time Kenny released some more music, something to put this in perspective. Almost 5 years old.

Album Rating: 5.0

"That’s bullshit tho, because practically no one cares about this album anymore, least of all big publications"



That's just how it's gonna be with everything now though. Nothing is gonna stick like an Appetite of Destruction these days when we can just scroll through spotify and pick a new album out that we can deem a classic. Much different than when you buy and you listen to that over and over because you're only able to own a very finite amount of music, and regularly listening to the radio where you are exposed to those songs over and over again.



The GMKC/TPAB/MBDTF/Yeezus generation of "classic" albums is I think the last one that'll really stick around like that. Everything else will be a classic for a year or two and then fizzle out because it's been replaced by the new classic. Maybe not here on sput and other similar that really cares about keeping track of those things, but in the grand scheme, with Damn. being the perfect example as you stated. Top of the world to nobody really caring anymore and begging for the next album overnight.

that’s not true lol

if anything albums get overhyped these days. Which is exactly what happened with DAMN. People moved on cuz it’s not worth sticking with.

i think a big part of what that is is market saturation at this point. a lot of classic records from the past were innovative, with new genres popping up. kind of curious how some of the albums we currently regard as classics will hold up in 10 or 20 years from now. will people still be looking back on albums like mbdtf the same way we do with stuff like pink floyd dsotm or radiohead kid a

I think what’s happening is a lot of our fav artists are learning that pandering makes them more money in the digital age than longevitous classics.

They get lots of hype at first because everything the artist has done prior to this was dope, so we have no reason to believe it would be bad, and are lenient to its faults. Then two months later it kinda hits you that, yeah, they were pandering. Last year’s Tame Impala was the latest example.

You want to like it so you do, then rationality takes over when it’s not the album you’re focused on anymore. Taking a step back always helps imo.

Album Rating: 5.0

That's me with Ohms lol

I was legit gonna put that, but Gore didn’t exactly set em up for a Grand Slam lol

Album Rating: 3.0

kendrick forgot that he nearly perfected the "banger" formula with several songs on section.80

Album Rating: 5.0

"i think a big part of what that is is market saturation at this point."



Completely agreed. The internet has kinda destroyed any semblance of mono-culture, and it's gonna become increasingly harder and harder for something to be universally liked/known by everyone.



The Weeknd is performing at the Super Bowl and my parents had to ask me who he was. I told someone on r/nba "they're living under a rock if they live in the US and don't know who Patrick Mahomes is" and I got like 20 angry replies about how my comment made them look him up for the first time. That would've never ever happened with Michael Jackson or Prince or Joe Montana in the 80s by comparison. Everyone just has their own bubble now and can be completely oblivious to things that seem wildly popular to others.

The verses on DNA couldn’t be worse, but DAMN. is that beat clean and infectious

I wanna hear some other rappers take on that beat, because kungfu Kenny squandered it.

Album Rating: 4.5

No he didnt you clown.