Album Rating: 4.5

C'mon Lambs. That then makes you just as worse as the people you're criticising for exaggerating/proclaiming this as an 'all-time classic'.

interesting

Album Rating: 3.5

why cuz i consider Doctors Advocate a 5?



no i just think not enough people played it enough or gave it enough of a chance to realize how good it actually is (or how it excels, which is mostly in candidness, honesty and energy), not that im irrationally rating it based on personal subjectivity.

Album Rating: 4.5

Nah man, I meant how you lowered your opinion of this album just because it's receiving critical acclaim from all corners (paraphrasing of course).

This isn't a classic yet. A classic is something that has influence, its only been like 2 weeks so people who say this is a hip hop classic, don't know what they are talking about. Kendrick even said this isn't a classic, you have to see if this stands the test of time and has influence on others going forward, or people look back and see this as a milestone for a genre. Like Illmatic or Straight Outta Compton or The Low End Theory or Strictly Business or Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) or The Chronic/Doggystyle or Eric. B & Rakims stuff or Run DMC (you get the picture) . classic albums don't have a number rating for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hip_hop_albums_considered_to_be_influential

Album Rating: 3.5

it's not just other people's opinions, its what those opinions have done to Kendrick's attitude, he hasn't handled success well at all, hes using his voice to divide people while he is pretending to be some great unifier like 2pac, and now hes making albums about how well he handles success.



theres a lot of shit that bothers me about this album, thats just one example of many of the phony feel I get at times from kendrick, sometimes im in a mood where I don't really care and can just enjoy the talent he puts in his music, but other times his personality annoys me and i have to drop my rating cuz of that

Deltron 3030 it ain't

Album Rating: 4.5

@Ritvik, I love how you mentioned 'Strictly Business'. Props.



Fair enough Lambs. For me, I tend to leave personal stuff like that out of the music simply because I don't actually know the artist from that point of view. What do you mean by 'using his voice to divide people ' tho?

Album Rating: 3.5

@pappy He is perpetuating an anti-white racist mentality where he describes modern day US discrimination as racist, when that view is counterproductive, and is much better described as classist or crony-ist.

Album Rating: 4.5

Hmmm, I'm not quite sure about that.



Obviously I'm an outsider (the U.K. has its own problems with racial discrimination), but recent years have seen several high-profile cases/instances in the U.S. with regards to race-relations/discrimination and I think Kendrick is well within his right to address this from his point of view. Things are not really getting better, right?

Album Rating: 3.5

high profile cases -=- the cases actually being instances of racism, and not just the media being sensational. Race relations have gotten drastically and continuously better since the 70s



but anyway iive been warned about talking about this on the music forums so if you want to talk about the politics of this album do it on PNWI forums here for me please



http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=635323



but yeah its not even the subject matter by itself that bothers me with this album, listen to MF Grimm - AMerican Hunger, its about the same things but he puts it in context a lot better

Album Rating: 4.5

Fair enough man, we'll leave it at that.



Yeah, I've been meaning to get on that Grimm album for AGES.

Album Rating: 5.0

Kendrick and Kanye collaborative album announced 2016

Album Rating: 3.5

damn im gonna spin that now... the first disc doesn't have a lot of playback value but the second two are pretty consistent and some of the tracks are godly





best way ever to kill 3 hours at work or something

Maybe it needs to grow on me but i think you ain't gotta lie is kinda filler tbh

you ain't gotta lie to kick it my nigga you can post about literally anything no need to make stuff up just to join the conversation b

Album Rating: 3.5

you aint gotta try so hard.

Album Rating: 4.0

you ain't gotta lie to kick it my nigga you can post about literally anything no need to make stuff up just to join the conversation b

Album Rating: 4.0

chill man gnarly is gnarly ya dig

Album Rating: 4.0

"@pappy He is perpetuating an anti-white racist mentality where he describes modern day US discrimination as racist, when that view is counterproductive, and is much better described as classist or crony-ist."



i decided to actually look at one of these threads since its been like a week and this is the first thing i see and tbh i think im good for like another week