Also, as someone who was massively down with the slow build of the poem throughout TPAB, I really wish Kendrick had spent more than five seconds coming up with a recurring motif/catch phrase for this
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 03:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah UU is good but things like "pimp pimp hooray" make me think yeah this is definitely the judicious editing that made TPAB as great as it is
― ODD FUTURE WOLFGANG VAN HALEN ON BASS (some dude), Monday, 7 March 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
My reaction was basically:
1st time: lol that's funny2nd time: oh god he's going to keep repeating it, nooooooo
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 03:58 (eight years ago) link
Gotta say that I found that cringeworthy as well (haven't spent enough time with the whole thing to have an opinion on it yet).
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 March 2016 03:59 (eight years ago) link
i really wanna take some time with the lyrics? he's moving fast as hell for most of this and i need to relisten to properly parse
― ulysses, Monday, 7 March 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
Definitely not talking shit about this album. It just feels like outtakes w a couple of keepers in there.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 7 March 2016 05:57 (eight years ago) link
untitled 5 - i love when they stop singing "head is the future"
and the bassist comes in with this super tricky, crawling 80s jazz fusion bassline
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
Carl Wilson
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
this doesn't sound unmastered
― micro brewbio (crüt), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
punch gave an interview where he seemed to insinuate that "unmastered" may not refer to the actual practice of mastering a recording:
The second part of the project’s name, though, isn't just a label for the raw recordings. "Everything that we do is deliberate so if you hear something that says Unmastered, we absolutely did that on purpose,” Punch explained. “There’s more than one meaning behind that."We’re definitely trying to break chains musically and socially," he continues. "The whole thing to me just represents breaking the chains, whatever those chains might be, whatever chains society puts on you. We’re trying to break those and be free.”
"We’re definitely trying to break chains musically and socially," he continues. "The whole thing to me just represents breaking the chains, whatever those chains might be, whatever chains society puts on you. We’re trying to break those and be free.”
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
given the subject matter of kendrick's music it wouldn't surprise me if the subtext was really the more important implication there
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/19852-kendrick-lamar-untitled-unmastered-review
The truth is that people project on Lamar whatever they want him to be. For many, his music provides a corrective to what they see as the vapid vulgarity of trap, a belief that persists despite his repeated references to women as "bitches". His willingness and aptitude for talking seriously and relatably about the black American experience, Lamar is forgiven for unvarnished lyrics we'd scoff at were they delivered by Lupe Fiasco, or that we'd tolerate from Talib Kweli.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 11 March 2016 11:53 (eight years ago) link
......
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
the worst music writing thread is thattaway, man
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 March 2016 12:04 (eight years ago) link
ive not heard the new album/ep/tape/whatever yet so who knows if hes right, but kendrick doesnt seem prone to 'unvarnished' lyrics like talib is, even if he does rap about dicks and skyscrapers from time to time, but even that one seemed to fit, whereas talib often blurts out gauche lines that seem to come out of nowhere.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:12 (eight years ago) link
were you not making excuses for kanye recently on the life of problo thread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 March 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
why? are you about to make excuses for kendrick?
― StillAdvance, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
lol sorry I am projecting my loathing of that quietus piece onto you
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 March 2016 12:29 (eight years ago) link
"relatably"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 March 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
i like talib kweli! :)
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 March 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
so when is he gonna make another "swimming pools" plz
― stanley krubrick (rip van wanko), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Maybe never?
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
thank god
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
well wait a second, "Swimming Pools" is a great song. I don't want him to do 500 iterations of it but I'm super glad he made it.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
i don't know what "another swimming pools" means in this context? he's certainly done songs as catchy and immediate since then
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
"Alright" and "King Kunta" are as catchy imo. I mean, I'm surprised "Swimming Pool" hit the top twenty.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
Neither is as brooding/moody, though, which may be the mood being sought here.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 11 March 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
i assume "another swimming pools" means a radio hit
― ulysses, Friday, 11 March 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
he could even call it "(Another) Swimming Pool"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
this one's filled with white tears
― ulysses, Friday, 11 March 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
i thought king kunta would be huge hit what do i know?
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 March 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
you had a bone to pick!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 March 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
Are there official credits for this? Phys. copy is very edgy and does not have liner notes
― nova, Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 11, 2016 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
god it should have been, it's just such a massive tune and a classic video too
― nomar, Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:15 (eight years ago) link
lol so embarrassed that I'm crying at this bullshit rn https://twitter.com/FACTmag/status/710369338318934016
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 17 March 2016 08:16 (eight years ago) link
Aww, that's cute. Imagine being a 14 year old kid in there when he walked in.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 March 2016 08:44 (eight years ago) link
if i LOVE this album what else should i listen to? i heard the tracks from it on some spotify chill r&b/hip hop type playlist and i dig the low key, unfinished vibe, now i want to hear more like it.
― musically, Friday, 25 March 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Are you familiar with the rest of Kendrick's output? If not, I'd work backwards through that (To Pimp A Butterfly, Good Kid, mAAd city, Section.80, Overly Dedicated) then look at some of his labelmates (Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul).
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 25 March 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
or alternatively: http://miloraps.bandcamp.com/album/so-the-flies-dont-come
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 25 March 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
i listened to good kid maad city and it didn't make much of an impact on me...listening to TPAB is a no brainer though, will def listen to that and try out his labelmates
― musically, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 02:14 (eight years ago) link
fwiw GKMC didn't do much for me either when I heard it a couple years ago; it's only after adoring TPAB that I was able to go back and appreciate it
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 06:57 (eight years ago) link
Not rap but obv D'Angelo - Black Messiah is sort of linked with TPAB in my my mind
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
is Untitled 07's 2'30'' little break a famous nursery rhyme with changed lyrics? i'm trying to find out what it is.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 27 May 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Untitled 06 has emerged as my far-and-away favorite from this
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
I’m a little late to lamar but I got untitled, damn, pimp, heart 4 and black panther. Other than good kid what am I missing?
― Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
section 80
― devvvine, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
overly dedicated is worth checking out too
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
cool thanks
― Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Love the voice pitch mutations on this record Super effective and low key
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
I can understand why a lot of this material ended up on the cutting room floor, and it has nothing to do with quality - there's a lot of very good to great stuff on this. Rather, it's hard for me to picture exactly where in the tracklisting of To Pimp a Butterfly any of this stuff could have slotted, and I wouldn't want to bump anything from To Pimp a Butterfly to make way for anything here because it's perfect as it is and the album is already long enough as it is.
I think Untitled Unmastered works well as a standalone listen, but it's also impossible for me to see it as anything other than an extension of To Pimp a Butterfly, kinda like a P.S. to that album but also giving a broader picture of what Kendrick was up to creatively during that time period.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 11 August 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah fair.
The hip hip hooray vocals are cloying
But there’s some seriously great low key material here. Are there any guests on this record or is that Kendrick pitch shifting himself throughout?
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
hip hop hooray is a great song
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 11 August 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
Jay Rock shows up on number 5, Cee-Lo on number 6
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Saturday, 11 August 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
I love that Cee-Lo track, but I think (without looking at the tracklisting) that was the only one to be finished off after To Pimp a Butterfly was released?
(I thought it was "pimp pimp hooray", myself)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 11 August 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
It’s both I think? Pimp as well
Thanks voodo
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link