Album Rating: 1.5
Stay away from the HGH, it'll shrink em
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Album Rating: 4.0
Idk who’s 5s they are but they aren’t terrible, there’s way worse on here. We can’t even post someguest’s 5s bc he keeps getting them wiped by 1 bombing shit lol
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Album Rating: 4.8
Man, I would rather have Auntie Diaries slur discourse than what is going on in this thread. We gotta do better, people.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I bet someguest looks exactly like his profile pic lol matter of fact that's probably him
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can we have discourse as to why it’s inherently racist for white people to view black art and claim it’s contributing to the dumbing down of America just because they don’t like how it sounds or is that too real for sput
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Album Rating: 4.5
>conversation man to man
>references balls
sounds kinda gay ngl
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Album Rating: 1.5
Yes, I am Anthony Bourdain
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Album Rating: 2.5
I listen to tons of hip hop, is my opinion important now??
What a stupid talking point
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Album Rating: 1.5
Idk who’s 5s they are but they aren’t terrible, there’s way worse on here. We can’t even post someguest’s 5s bc he keeps getting them wiped by 1 bombing shit lol
We've both been here a long time. I haven't rated albums in a good ten years. But it helps for new discussions sometimes, like here.
Can we have discourse as to why it’s inherently racist for white people to view black art and claim it’s contributing to the dumbing down of America just because they don’t like how it sounds or is that too real for sput
Never said it was black artists. Most popular music is dumb as shit. But this country did just reelect a wannabe dictator. We're definitely running on peak stupid right now.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I just think it’s reductive to say that my guy., I know you’re obviously not racist, but just be careful with the terminology you use when talking about stuff.
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Album Rating: 4.8
I don't really see how slapping a fairly reactionary and attention-seeking rating helps spur discussion, but maybe that's an entire other topic entirely.
I also think it's fairly myopic to reduce what Kendrick has done on GMX as merely dumbing things down for no apparent reason. He has demonstrated time and time again that he can be high-concept and explore deeper topics in a more thought-provoking way, and he even does that in a few spots on that very album. Pigeon-holing your perception of him into only needing to do this expansive, meditative TPAB-level stuff is the very reductive thinking that you're accusing this album of. People have multitudes, and sometimes you just want to turn up.
Agree with botb, I'm not saying there's anything intentionally nefarious at play here and it's totally fine if you honestly don't like the record -my rating is higher than most and I happen to really like it- but let's also not act like this is being done is service of more thought-provoking discourse when it's functionally been little more than "TPAB 2 wen"
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I just don’t wanna listen to a rapper that sounds like Steve urkle
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Album Rating: 4.0
Idk why with hip hop in particular people always think it’s appropriate to talk about how it’s intellectually beneath them. There’s absolutely “dumb” records, but that’s true in any genre of music. Don’t see the generic complaints here, definitely don’t see the “this is dumbed down” complaints. If anything I could see someone complaining that this has Kendrick’s old “3rd verse explodes and changes the context of the whole song” trope on several songs but he’s been doing that since GKMC and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, yknow?
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Album Rating: 4.8
And honestly, I get that lol His weird voices took me a minute to warm up to and definitely aren't everyone's cup of tea.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"I love it when people who clearly only casually listen to rap but have heard all the Sputnik classic rap albums so they think they know so much. Adorable"
he's right. maybe not against who he said it to cause idfk but it is a real thing that happens everywhere on the internet
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Album Rating: 4.8
@botb
honestly, the (c)rap still has some latent effects even in the year of our lord 2024. Some of it is bigotry, intentional or not, but I also think a good deal of it comes from hip-hop being on the forefront of a lot musical movements from the last few decades, and truly pioneering works often get clowned (cloud rap, draingang, trap, etc.)
But you're right in that this absolutely isn't generic. West Coast hip-hop isn't exactly popping off right now with the sole exception being "Not Like Us." Generic rap would be, like, Drake or Cole offshoots like G-Eazy or something.
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Album Rating: 2.5
It’s no run the jewels
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Album Rating: 1.5
Pigeon-holing your perception of him into only needing to do this expansive, meditative TPAB-level stuff is the very reductive thinking that you're accusing this album of. People have multitudes, and sometimes you just want to turn up.
Well he is the one that set that standard, and I'd argue it's the reason he has so many fans. The general public is always hungry for more from him because of it.
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Album Rating: 2.5
This is okay. That’s it. Has some good points, but his schtick is worn out for me. He doesn’t do anything revolutionary here, and a lot of the songs fall flat to me.
Rating it near perfect is wild, but art is subjective blah blah
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Album Rating: 4.8
If the general public only wanted research papers from him then his most commercially successful songs wouldn't be from DAMN. lol
There's a lot that goes into Kendrick's appeal and his capacity for deep and thoughtful subject matter is most definitely a feature, but it's not the whole pie like I think some people like to think.
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