nah bro you missing the point
how can you pontificate about a culture you’ve only peripherally (if even that) been involved with (easily — but with nil value)
it’s like rich people trynna tell the poor how to live
you can advocate but it’s only ever gonna be that: advocation
a lotta lyrical rappers act like they’re a part of changing the culture when in reality they have no real capacity to make change; only to wax lyrical about it and highlight the things that need to change
and when your appeal is limited to a demographic entirely removed from it, you’re not going to achieve anything of substance

in reality street rap is never intended for a wide audience as much as to hype up the close circle (read: gang)
it’s popularity enables perpetuation of, and is positive reinforcement of, negative behaviours
but ultimately it is ingrained in the culture — the cycle continues with its success
these guys (kendrick and drake) are removed and think (self-importantly) that they have a role to play
it’s never going to achieve anything other than inflate their ego-masturbatory feelings of worth

Album Rating: 4.0

i'd like to give a shoutout to bono

Album Rating: 3.3

I wanna frame that and put it in a museum, you know Kendrick was raised in Compton right?

Compton is the Beverly Hills of poor hoods

Album Rating: 3.3

I don't know enough to argue the Beverly Hills bit, but watch out for the 'no true Scotsman'



And yeah shit its almost like Kendrick did what rappers have been doing for the last thirty years and used his music to escape his situation and used his platform to speak very openly about it. Of course he hasn't solved insititutional racism or remained a gangbanger, but his origins come from gang activity in a way Drake didn't but flouts that he did. It doesn't seem ridiculous to me.

All of the discourse I see around these tracks off of this site is by Black fans, so kind of a weird hang up, lols.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Wait that lyric breakdown from the Kendrick sub is insane lol

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

yeah i totally thought they were filler bars at first but it's maybe the most scathing diss on the entire song lmao

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Don't consider myself a Kendrick superfan -although I love his work- but he's earned enough benefit of the doubt for me to kinda assume that he's cooking something with every line lol

Yeah it's a way better diss than push ups imo and I was kinda into push ups

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

kendrick is totally my goat lmao i can't even lie.



even album quality aside, there's straight up nobody i enjoy listening to rap more than kendrick. especially when he's really going for it. i've heard the family ties verse dozens of times and still pick up on new things.



that being said he's been showing early symptoms of eminem-syndrome these past couple years... his beat selection is mixed at best at this point, he's almost always rapping in some sort of voice, he tries to sing all over this album despite having an awful singing voice. hope this is the extent of it.

Album Rating: 4.0

Kenny would make my top 10 probably, but if someone thinks there’s filler lines in here some of it just went over their head which is fine

I want the federal government to look into these allegations that Drake is pedophile

like if he is put him in jail stop making rappers have to be vigilantes lmao

Album Rating: 4.0

Release the DMs

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

millie bobby brown openly said her and drake have been "best friends" since she was like 15. drake was 32 when she was 15.



drake was openly dating some 18yo model a couple years ago. the internet found pictures of them together from two years before that.



then there's that video from like 2011 of him bringing a girl on stage, asking the girl her age (she says 17), drake being like ahhhh man that's crazy you're so sexy thoooo you can't be seriousssssss, and then kissing her anyways.



dude's at the very least a groomer why else would a man in his 30s constantly be hanging out with teenage girls like that.

Album Rating: 2.5

The Kendrick from 2009 - 2016 is probably in my top 5. @Alex, I totally agree with everything you’ve said. His singing voice totally works for the more soulful stuff, like it has a charm to it, but he can’t make it work for pop shit like what Drake, Carti, or Yachty do.

@alex I believe you but that’s why the feds should get involved

Album Rating: 4.0

One of these men is authentic, the other is not. It’s as simple as that for me.