Album Rating: 4.5

no no you don't get it real kdot fans want a setlist full of YNIC and training day songs

Album Rating: 4.5

They’re gonna be real fucking disappointed in this tour, whatever tho, I’m gonna have a good time screaming gnx lyrics and calling Drake a pedophile

Album Rating: 3.5

lol at acting like people are crazy for wanting 1 gkmc or tpab song

Album Rating: 4.5

i feel like the setlist for the Pop Out represents the future a little better than this, because that was a lot more balanced

Album Rating: 4.0

I was pretty surprised he didn’t do Alright with the themes of the show

Album Rating: 3.5

What was with the Playstation layout though?

Album Rating: 4.5

You guys are cooked if you think his newer stuff touches anything pre-damn.

Album Rating: 3.5

[2] That's been my main problem with him. Ever since Damn., the thematic/artistic cohesion feels lesser and the albums feel more miscellaneous. Which isn't terrible in itself, but the quality of his songwriting is definitely less consistent on average. At least to my ear. To his credit though, he set such a high bar in the 2010s, it would be hard to maintain. Most artists never get there, period. Maybe I'm just salty because I wanted more of a tpab-ish sound when Damn first came out. But it's not just that it isn't neo-soully, jazzy, funky shit anymore, more that his beat choices are just not as good these days. If we're talking strictly modern sensibilities, I hear much worse newer rappers on cooler beats quite often. Mustard's current beats really suit him though.

Album Rating: 3.5

"imagine if every artist just played the old hits instead of their very good and very relevant new material.



Like, that applies to legacy acts that have been putting out dogshit, and even tho Kendrick is not in his prime anymore the dude is still literally top of the game and Not Like Us is by far his most popular song so idk what anyone expected. You want him to play Poetic Justice or something lmao"



i mean sure kendrick is a bit more contemporary than who they usually get but idk if you can't wrap your head around people wanting to see him play money trees or maad city or swimming pools or king kunta or especiallyyyyyy alright at the super bowl after being fans of his for 10-15 years then idk what to tell you. i mean there's 35 year olds out there who were bumping ADHD in their college dorms.



like idk was including 16 random out-of-order bars of euphoria and fucking peekaboo really that essential? my buddies didn't even remember euphoria and thought it was a whole ass new song

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This thread keeps getting sillier lol

Album Rating: 4.8

I get people being bummed he didn't play his older stuff, but I'm happy he didn't.



I wish more artists treated the halftime show like a specific show and not just a career run down.



Peekaboo is essentially if for no other reason than I started laughing my ass off at the deliberately stilted camerawork of all the dancers. It's a banger of a song, and I'd rather an artist lean into where they currently are. Would it really have made the show that much better if we had thirty seconds of Money Trees instead?

Album Rating: 4.0

I wanted the first half of poetic justice so bad but I got the end of euphoria so I’m still happy

Album Rating: 3.5

"Would it really have made the show that much better if we had thirty seconds of Money Trees instead?"



yes. yes it literally would have. and i don't see how this is at all controversial.

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GKMC and TPAB are still his best albums but realistically all those hits have been played out to death. I'm with you Odal and happy he kept it current to where he is today. It's a much more accurate representation of him as an artist. If you wanna hear those songs live, buy a tour ticket

Album Rating: 3.5

nah i think the exact opposite. if you wanna play all new songs play them on the gnx tour.



the super bowl halftime show is a career achievement award. you didn't get there off one viral song/album (and especially not one that didn't even exist when you were announced as the halftime performer). you got there by building 15 years worth of goodwill with your audience. especially for a blog era rapper like kendrick who many of us grew up alongside, who listened to s80 and gkmc and tpab religiously way before he became the true crossover artist he is today. so much of the weight of not like us and this entire victory lap comes from the fact that he'd been jabbing drake as early as king kunta.



i respect kendrick's refusal to legacy-act himself when many of his early career contemporaries are already doing 10yr anniversary tours and such... but that halftime show leaned on the here-and-now to a fault... especially when you're trying to shoehorn what felt like 15 songs in a 10 minute performance.

Album Rating: 3.7

I didn't even watch and I'm glad I didn't lmao.

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I don't get the logic. Of course he's gonna play GNX shit to promote the tour. I can't fault him for not wanting to rely on the old shit and for me it made the performance that much more impactful. In an age of fast food hip hop music, it's nice seeing Kendrick move w intention and purpose even if its somewhat simple

Album Rating: 4.0

i don't think any of this should go deeper than "would've liked some stuff from TPAB or GKMC, oh well"

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All in good fun! Everyones entitled to their opinion (:

Yeah I would've liked some of GKMC or TPAB, but I do kinda get why he didn't. Frankly, I'm surprised he even got as political as he did, I didn't think they would've let him get away with that at the Super Bowl. I loved the halftime show personally, me, my gf, and my gf's brother were all losing our minds watching it.

Also, shoutout Serena Williams, and shoutout Kendrick for continuing to prove that he is, in fact, the biggest hater