Actually pretty pumped by this. TPAB was my first foray into rap so this'll be cool for me

Aww man

More like Kendrick LAMEar

*dabs*

more like kendrick lamASS

more like kendrick BADA$$

Moar lyke Kendrick Cuckworth

dear lord already?

KENDRICK CUCKWORTH LMAO

We just gonna ignore the fact that track 11 is crediting U2?

Watch the album just be called ALBUM

it does seem too soon tbh but Overly Dedicated, Section.80 and GKMC were all released within a year of each other and all of them were pretty solid

These names mean nothing to me

Mike Will Made It has production credits on track 2 and 11 as well as Humble.

If you're gonna gonna drop a cryptic date in The Heart pt 4 I expect more than a preorder with no tracklist, album name, or album cover when that date comes.

J. Blake hype tho

I wish the leaked tracklist was real but the credits don't list D'Angelo, Kanye, Andre or Anderson
Regardless, I'm excited for the possible James Blake (most likely a sample) and Steve Lacy (check out his demo EP) feature.

I wanna believe it was supposed to drop today but he postponed it till next week just to not overshadow Joey, but realized that date was already out so he had to tease SOMETHING

A guy from BadBadNotGood has a credit on 10

j. blake is def gonna sing

Sorta disappointed yeah, maybe (hopefully) he'll drop another single

Based on some of these credits, I can tell this album is gonna be way more straight forward then TPAB

U Talkin K-Dot 2 Me?

Track 11 has... U2?

This is kind of unnecessary. I can look at the track credits when the album drops.

sorry, I'll make sure to not report the whole story next time

fucking lol

@mycarandmyguitar
If you're gonna gonna drop a cryptic date in The Heart pt 4 I expect more than a preorder with no tracklist, album name, or album cover when that date comes.


sure the dates here now but we got this before the date was here technically. hard to say what could come once the day really sets in.

if it was going to go on spotify or itunes, most likely it would've been up already. besides, it's the 7th already.

lol Humble actually made the cut? Guess this album isn't going to be on par with good kid and TPAB then.

@FrozenVain
lol Humble actually made the cut? Guess this album isn't going to be on par with good kid and TPAB then.

That's what people thought when King Kunta came out. I mean still a shit song but the rest of TPAB totally slaps.

Can somebody actually explain why king kunta sucks?
Honestly such a classic track, never understood the backlash it seems to get around here...

HYPE

Humble could be this album's i

will have 3-4 absolute bangers and 10 trash songs like all his other albums

Well I just found out there are no absolutes in music appraisement so it might be difficult to explain why you enjoy elements that I do not. I prefer my hip hop super srs though

calm down socrates it's just music

Could be an 11

I feel like this'll be a hard 3.8 album

"Track 11: K. Duckworth, M. Williams II, D. Natche, M. Spears, Anthony Tiffith, P. Hewson, D. Evans, A. Clayton & L. Mullen"

kinda interested to see how this turns out now. of everyone to appear on this album i would not have guessed u2

Pretty shitty album rollout tbh.

rollouts are overrated now

yeah wtf you literally finish a song off with the words "April 7"...and you just give us a pre-order? Something mustve happened, doesn't seem like Kendrick planned for that.

Track 9: BBNG
So fucking hype.

I am just ready for more Kendrick music! Be humble, sit down people

@Bozilla

I freakin' love King Kunta. Superior to Humble in every way.

https://twitter.com/danielmontij0/status/850213687902191616

'Track 9: BBNG
So fucking hype.'

OH FUCK

Not even a single
So sad

@Frozen King Kunta and I are my faves

This is absolutely pretentious.

omfg

^^^

wait does this legit just come out next week wtf why announce preordering a week before

Watch it leak tonight. It would make sense since our guard is technically down now.

"This is absolutely pretentious."

what?

@onionbubs because the hype is strong

thats fair

im hype so

Humble. was supposed to drop today, that's what the y'all got till April 7th shit was all about. For some reason it dropped early.

To pimp was a pretty homogenous album. Hoping this is a lot more like good kid

Shit, I was all excited about BBNG track on here and then I remembered how shit Kendrick is with jazz and how hit and miss BBNG was on their last lp. It better not fucking suck, I swear.

ugghhh BBNG? After having fucking thundercat on the last album? Christ.

Those that don't know BBNG called out their Humber professors (incredible musicians) who basically told them theyre shit at jazz (which they are) and they now piggyback on alternative and hip hop artists because they can't do shit in the actual jazz community cause theyre posers

just noticed wikipedia uses a quote from a Sputnik user on their wiki page loooool

Idk, I hope it works out. Their collaboration with Ghostface, especially their contribution, was dope.
Their blend of hip hop and jazz has mostly been working out great for them. I don't know what they said about their professors, but there's a reason they're the professors and BBNG are the students. Sounds like you've got a personal problem, homie.

I just can't stand them. I have a ton of friends in the Toronto/Hamilton jazz community and a lot of them fucking hate BBNG for thinking theyre better than their Humber professors, so that definitely taints my perspective. Also theyre sloppy af.

lol the ignorance, their Humber professors are on a WHOLE other level than them, professors aren't just teachers, theyre semi-retired prominent NA jazz artists that put BBNG to shame

They've got their own style. Not sure they're trying to rep the Toronto jazz community as purely jazz musicians, but you'd probably know better than me.

And as far as them being sloppy, I can see that complaint on their earlier releases and even at times on their newest, but BBNG III is pretty tight, imo.
I'm not educated in jazz or music theory at all, but I see a difference in that one particularly.

It wouldn't even be a big deal if they cut out the jazz, theyre awful at it.

I disagree. If they cut out the jazz there would be nothing special about them at all. I'm not a huge jazz fan though so I guess I'm not as critical about their writing/performing.

^ I can understand that.

I'll give you something else we can proabbly agree on lol and that's that BBNG is basically 'jazz' for non-jazz fans.

I mean yeah lets just completely ignore the very noticeable jazz influence on Section 80, the album that all the jazz-kendrick haters say is waaaayyy better then tpab

It's not even in the same league dude. Not even close. I don't remember any slam poetry on s80 lol.
And if it is close and I'm just wrong, it's done way better and not a showcase.

I don't remember a track anywhere near as bad as No Makeup on TPAB either

I do. Half of the album. K maybe not. That song does blow hard.

Its funny because Robert Glasper was all over TPAB. And BBNG are on record saying Glasper is shit (see how stupid they are?).

Lol I hate TPAB, maybe they're right ; ) Let's see how they stack up when this drops haha.

Kamasi Washington and Thundercat were also on it, incredible musicians that BBNG will never touch. Glasper is on a whole other level than BBNG. But ya I get it you don't know jazz, I'm not even jazz trained I just hang out with so many jazz artists for so long I've absorbed a shit ton through osmosis.

I tried a bit to get into jazz more after I started listening to BBNG, but mostly it isn't for me. Gonna try some different types sooner than later though. Not into the super busy stuff. Gives me anxiety.

Yo, listen to Explorations by Bill Evans. Or Everybody Digs.

I'll give them a shot, thank you.

wow lame
maybe he'll drop it midnight eastern, not sure
EDIT: ah ok 4/14 release date hmmmm

The tracklist was just released on Kendrick's Instagram. Album titled "DAMN."

no way

DAMN.

that's hilarious

Offical Album art and name and tracklist is all lol

youre a fewllll