Album Rating: 4.0

can't beat a decade where ready to die, the infamous, aquemini, illmatic, ridin' dirty, cuban linx, liquid swords, 36 chambers, etc. all came out

Album Rating: 5.0

I guess I was lucky in that I really never heard anything off this unless I was listening to it by myself lol, except Swimming Pools. That was the only kendrick song at the time I ever heard out and about or at parties

Album Rating: 4.5

first party I ever went to, I remember walking down into the basement and Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe was playing. Brings me back every time I listen to it

Album Rating: 5.0

The late 80's saw hip hop coming into its own for me. De La Soul found MAGIC in '89. Public Enemy was killing it too. The 80's did have a lot "hippity hop and the rock don't stop" cheesy shit though lmao.

Album Rating: 5.0

Okay, backstreet freestyle too



I tend to forget that song is on here. Easily the weakest link to me

Album Rating: 5.0

Is NOW a party song? lmao Swimming Pools was ALWAYS a party song. People literally just don't pay attention to the lyrics.

Album Rating: 5.0

Well the fact that the radio edit just didn’t have the third verse had a lot to do with that. The third verse ties the whole thing together.

Album Rating: 5.0

No, that's for sure a shitty bar.

Album Rating: 4.5

I get what you mean Jeffery about people assuming Pools is a drinking song when it's actually anti-drinking but honestly it works well as a party song

Album Rating: 4.5

Can't expect people at a party to really be listening to lyrics

That kinda gatekeeping has been constant here since he released DAMN. He released one bad album so that means his previous ones can’t hold up either, right?

People try so hard to find reasons why TPAB isn’t a good album. Newsflash, it kicks ass. It’s not flawless, and it’s certainly got better and worse tracks. But at it’s best it’s a compilation of an absurd amount of absurdly good musicians (there’s gotta be 100 tracks at least per song, all of which add to the experience). It’s something that will never again be achieved, at least not in the same way.

Album Rating: 4.0

i was in a dark room loud tunes lookin' to make a vow soon that i'mma get fucked up fillin' up my cup i see the crowd move

Swimming pools was always supposed to be a party song.

Album Rating: 4.5

"backseat freestyle" is great. hot hit-boy beat, and the rap fits well within the context of the album...that may be an "excuse" for bad rapping but for me it's an excuse that works because it's funny and clicks with the narrative machinery of the album...which is certainly loose on this album but the first part of the album is especially thrilling because of that continuity, the coming of age theme, etc.



I suppose it comes down to whether you listen to it in context of the album or at parties and idk what to say about that, I suppose I think you gotta just take what you can get, the best from each artist, but I get it if you get sick of hearing kendrick lamar say "bioooootch". I just think kendrick lamar is an album guy through and through I guess, it's m'bias

Album Rating: 5.0

"Newsflash, it kicks ass"



Yeah, I don't drink the kool-aid often but somethings are widely acclaimed for a reason and TPaB is definitely one of them. Some people will call anything overrated just cause it's big. What if people started calling Prince overrated???

Like for all the people who say TPAB is shit, I’d love for a suggestion of a project that has a similar sense of scale yet is better and more consistent, from the 2010’s.

people will call anything overrated

You’re overrated

jk

Album Rating: 5.0

robertsona, I definitely agree that backseat freestyle works in the context of the album. And yeah, the context is lost without the concept around it and then it just becomes another early 2010's braggadocio song.