Album Rating: 4.0

potential hot take: this album has not aged very well and i kinda understand why kendrick says he only has four albums



i don't even mean the beats either. kendrick's bars just feel so amateur to me, honestly straight up bad at points here... and his delivery just isn't there yet. dude took a huge jump in that department between this and gkmc



still like quite a few of these songs because nostalgia but i'm not sure any of these tracks belong in the same conversation as anything he did after

It's okay but I feel like his work afterwards was a huge leap in artistry. ADHD is the one song on here that really showed a flash of just how brilliant he can be though.

Album Rating: 4.5

Some of it is more juvenile in content and less well thought out for sure, but idk it has some of my favorite Kendrick songs on it too.

Album Rating: 2.5

Youngest Head Ni**a in Charge is actually pretty cool I've been enjoying it a lot

Album Rating: 3.5

hearing a track like poe mans dreams compared to one of the unhinged songs from the new album is incredibly jarring

Album Rating: 3.0

I burned a cd of this back in 11th grade and gave it to my hs crush

Album Rating: 3.5

should've burned her a woodie cd

Album Rating: 3.0

It's definitely his worst work imho



But it has its moments. Sad that Kendrick doesn't acknowledge Overly Dedicated as one of his albums. It's so fucking good.

Album Rating: 3.0

I still prolly have a few of those in storage somewhere….

that album had a grip on my middle school, same with a tale of two andres. Legendary stuff.