Album Rating: 4.5
"Sometimes the credits are live musicians, that was definitely the case on a lot of TPAB"
tpab is very similar to gkmc credits-wise after accounting for the live musicians and the heavy sampling. every song is essentially a kendrick / sounwave / terrance martin / thundercat creation at its most basic level.
his later stuff isn't really like that though. like for instance, wacced out murrals which has no discernable live instrumentation, samples, or features besides the spanish vocals in the intro... has 10 writing credits. a song where kendrick just raps for 6 minutes over a pretty barebones beat.
contrast that with a way more elaborate song like swimming pools that's just kendrick and t-minus.
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Album Rating: 4.5
dropping this and tpab back to back in the 2010s is wild
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Album Rating: 4.5
a writing credit can mean any kind of contribution to the track. it does not mean they were literally writing bars for him lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
I wrote his bars
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Album Rating: 4.5
@colton since you're completely glossing over what i already said i'll restate it: nobody is flat out writing kendrick's bars for him you fucking numbskull.
but kendrick assuredly gets a lot of advice on word enunciation, vocal delivery, flows etc from these people. you can totally hear it just in how his vocals are produced and edited to death. and especially on the pop leaning stuff like luther, i'm sure a guy of jack antonoff's stature in that space probably is spit-balling lyrical suggestions with kendrick. dude's whole job with every other insanely huge pop artist he works with is to make sure everything is as polished as possible. why else is he there? does jack antonoff make rap beats?
i'm hardly even trying to discredit kendrick i even have gnx on vinyl. its just facts that kendrick works with an entire ensemble of writers and producers on almost all his songs now. nobody else does that in hip hop except for the drake and jack harlow types. it just is what it is and it is perfectly okay.
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Album Rating: 4.5
wow thanks alex i had no idea kendrick’s collaborators contribute to the creative process or that he, Drake and Jack Harlow are the only 3 people who implementing this technique. maybe all of Kendrick’s collaborators can pitch in on a copy of FL Studio 12 for Jack Antonoff so he can move away from his role of chief idea polisher and learn how to make beats. a guy I know from high school can teach him how to click in the hi-hat
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Album Rating: 4.5
my whole point in saying that in the first place was to point how overwrought the drake ghostwriter discussion is when kendrick and drake's tracklist credits look identical at this point. i'm sorry you feel i'm trying to threaten kendrick's authenticity tho lmao
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah i would just maybe google what a writer credit actually means on a rap song before you continue with this theory
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Album Rating: 4.5
you don’t listen to hip hop
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Album Rating: 4.5
you listen to jay-z. your opinion doesn’t count
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both you idiots think gnx is good
checkmate
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Album Rating: 4.5
fuck you!!!!
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lmao
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Album Rating: 4.9
GNX is good but its easily my least fav of his.
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Yeah what we all wanted was Kendrick to sound like every other modern rapper
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Album Rating: 4.0
Theres better modern hip hop being released anyway
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Album Rating: 5.0
Someguest got a hate boner for GNX for sure
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Album Rating: 4.5
Boldy James and Chuck Strangers new project is great
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Album Rating: 5.0
Top 5 Boldy for me probably, really great stuff
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Swimming Pools is fire and i'm not even a hip hop guy
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