Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBvngg87998

This has got to be the flow of the year and I figure he deserves a thread of his own like Lil B.

Wiki says Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Game crowned him the "New King of the West Coast" in August and also that Lamar has seen Tupac in a dream telling him to "Keep doing what you're doing, don't let my music die".

I'd like to see if this goes somewhere!

the fuck your ethnicity beat has been in my head for the last couple of days

yeah, i guess besides being really good it has sort of an embracing feel

i like this guy

need to finally download his album plus maybe a mixtape or two

Lamar has seen Tupac in a dream telling him to "Keep doing what you're doing, don't let my music die"

say no more

did i miss some era of pac's career when he was in freestyle fellowship or something?

kendrick is good... he def seems like a cool person, like hanging out w/ currensy & kendrick would just be really fun

"rigamortis" is really cool too, would like to see him do it w/ an actual live band

album is sneakily one of the better rap albums of the year too, certainly for a debut

Yeah, def. top 5 rap albums this year.

He has this knack for pulling off corny backpacker shit w/o coming across at all like a corny backpacker. But really, he's exactly the black hippy he claims to be.

Thing about this dude is he's not only a skilled rapper, obviously, but his beats/tracks are SO much more interesting (to me, at least) than, like, A$AP Rocky, Spaceghost, Mr. Exquire, and most of the other current, blog-buzzy hip-hop acts. And I like what Clams Casino is doing; I like the Rainforest EP. But I don't know ... I was trying to listen to that Spaceghost record the other day, and I didn't hate it, but ... just how dumb are we gonna allow the rhymes to be before we say enough is enough?

To me, this guy elevates up into the Shabazz Palaces / Serengeti realm rather than all the buzz stuff that just doesn't hold up.

(Tyler/Goblin/OFWGKTA left out of this post on purpose. Dig the beats, but overall, not for me.)

am i the only person who thinks "The Recipe" is kind of a shitty, awkward-sounding song?

yeah, i'm not really a big fan of it

it's okay, nothing really special

the part where dre raps is still just really ill fitting

I put it on my "faves of 2012" playlist without really listening to it and it really doesn't belong there

lol

the production is gorgeous enough to overcome the not-especially-memorable rapping imo

tho obv it's no "cartoon & cereal"

see it doesn't sound very gorgeous to me! drums are so clunky

hmm never noticed the clunkiness before, the strings are what i think of though

just listening to it now, Dre sounds like Kendrick's bored grandpa and Kendrick sounds like he's imitating Lupe Fiasco poorly

Man, you guys are jaded! This track doesn't fill you with joy? The stings? Kendrick's kinda weird sorta singing voice? His constant flow switch-ups? The no-hurry pacing? The shameless summeriness of it all? None of this does anything for you guys?

like I said, it's okay

and the Lupe Fiasco compare is just harsh! I mean, yeah, dude is in entertainer mode here, but the shit coming out of his mouth still makes sense

i had no concept of it being summery in any way until i listened close enough to figure out what the words in the chorus were. the flow in KL's first few bars is really really awkward imo.

I actually like how off the drums are, too. They're mixed to sound the way all drums do when you're driving really fast with the windows down and the radio turned way up

i didn't really get into it until i heard it on the radio driving down the freeway and then i decided i loved it

recipe is awesome

'drums are so clunky' this sounds like criticism for dummies type shit

recipe is one of the best songs of the year imo

i would like it way better if it just didn't have dr. dre on it

i dont see why this is the best he's sounded in years

ive said this elsewhere (or here maybe, too, i don't remember) but dre's parts on it sound 100% like kendrick karaoke, which makes sense since kendrick of course wrote the verses.

but idk i find it distracting and kinda embarrassing... not as much as "i need a doctor" but it def has the feel to me of an old baller trying to do a bunch of and 1 tricks or something

Yeah, I agree with that; the verse is not Dre's voice (in so much as Dre even has a voice these days). I give it a pass, though, just because his presence is so iconic and it's a key part of the song's Visit L.A. sales pitch

Dre's verses have always been karaoke

u sound young

he used to be better at hiding it

thats silly. ppl used to criticize his rapping all the time & they were wrong then too

xpost I dunno, 2001 was pretty much all Dre karaoke and it was awesome in part because of that (this was the beginning of his "so what if I use ghostwriter? no shame in it phase.") I think the problem is he's never had a ghostwriter with a voice as distinct as Kendrick's

i dunno, he used to seem less slavish in his imitation of his writers. i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.

eminem?

xp i don't buy that. jay-z, eminem, snoop, cube, doc?

yeah, eminem/snoop/cube were all strong voices too, obviously, but their personas heavily overlapped with Dre's in a way that Kendrick's doesn't. They all have their quirks, but there are a lot of interchangeable verses among the four of them. Kendrick is a real outlier

i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.

yeah, this is kind of true, but I give him a pass since I like the verse well enough anyway

i dont think kendrick is an outlier, its just a new voice
'forgot about dre' is super obviously a bunch of em verses in like every way, we just give it a pass cuz we heard it a bunch & its a dope song

yeah i don't know how you could consider kendrick's flow more distinctive than now "eminem" dre's verse in forgot about dre was

i dunno, maybe it's just that i didn't realize he didn't write his own raps at the time, but dre sounds way more "himself" on the chronic and 2001 to me.

totally agree; the ghost verses on "Forgot About Dre" were all angry and defensive, so they played on the popular image of Dre in a way that was believable enough

it must have been hard for eminem to channel than angry and defensive vibe dre wanted

for me it's less about the content than the rhythms

otm

some spin on the ball here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwamhuY6Yy8

o snap

Are post malone and morgan wallen beefing?

if a tree falls...

More like if a chair falls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvtCNC_VkEg

#keepitcanadian

buddy gotta keep it canadian

keep it canadian by apologizing

Drake Off, eh

"Not Like Us" is gonna have a fight on its hands going forward what with Richman nipping at its heels and that Morgan Wallen/Post Malone track doing crazy numbers.

yeah, MDB is streaming ahead of NLU globally. The Post Wallen song had a big first day then dropped to 4th in succeeding days.

a Kidz Bop version of Not Like Us.... wtf pic.twitter.com/JD3iDX4Q4n

— SOUND (@itsavibe) May 18, 2024

Cute but needs to go the extra mile and pitch shift his voice to sound like a kid

that's what she said

certified crocodiles

Heh, was listening to Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" and the Spotify algorithm follows it up with "Not Like Us."

spotify is always queuing it up when i am listening to other stuff. someone over there must hate drake lol.

it's a great song. i think the verse comparing drake to slave traders due to his collaborations wtih atlanta rappers is kind of a stretch though.

he went wikipedia on his ass

was having a joke that drendrick has so fully eviscerated krake that the only next logical step for drendrick is start wiki editing beef. drendrick's so thorough that he's probably been a lurking wiki megamod editor since like 8th grade or smthg idk. fucken drendrick, go figure.

i like the atlanta verse. might be a stretch, but it sounds cool *shrug*

the Atlanta verse rules rap is about saying some fly shit not a history class

fr

also Kendrick otm re Drake trading in authenticity, colleague vs colonizer is...a catchy way of putting it

and it responds to drake saying “you’re rapping like you’re trying to free the slaves” in “family matters”

honestly still one of my favorite Drake zings came from the Drake thread here many years ago (not trying to blow smoke, ums, it was funny!)
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Drake takes a reasonably decent looking suit and still manages to make it look dorky by way of the exposed tie end.

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:00 PM bookmarkflaglink

yeah but aren't you never supposed to button the bottom button of a suit jacket?? i struggle with these issues too, that's why take care resonates with me

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:03 PM bookmarkflaglink

lol

Hahaha

hah

I was being a dork the other day and was pondering whether carpetbagger would be more accurate than colonizer but nobody outside of a high school history teacher is going to get that ref and colonizer is in the current vernacular and also hits harder

Also Drake is a foreigner

he’s no dirty white boy but I tire of people trying to make him a juke box hero

not like us is great obv, both as a bop and as a chess move, but good lord euphoria just keeps getting better and better

it's come to my attention that Thomas Chatterton Williams has weighed in on this, and the ATL colonizer bit is, it turns out, antisemitic ;_;

he has a personal stake in this since rap music made him abuse his girlfriend

god I hope he doesn't start colonizing now that he's heard this song

Why can’t it be read on more than one level?

— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) May 19, 2024

kendrick please get in a beef with thomas chatterton williams

thomas got a weird case, why is he around?

Chatteron will beat him with 15,000 books

I saw a clip of Joe Budden (the worst person you know made a good point onion hyperlink) where he pointed out that "Not Like Us" tailor made to be a HBCU marching band classic this fall

omg

(the worst person you know made a good point onion hyperlink)

lol what does this even mean?

if you're implying joe budden is a terrible person, yes definitely.

ephemera- potential move for kendrick:
commit so fully to the whole thing that he relocates to atl permanently. the proper lead single for his next album is yet another knockout blow, this one written specifically to be played only by hbcu marching bands and ends up like the "tusk" of morehouse or smthg idk we're in uncharted waters here and kendrick is a fucking psychopath.

but like a cartoony bizarro world anti-psychopath, conducting weird social experiments. #zombiedrake

sorry! i was referencing this and it was actually clickhole not the onion

https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

, without any warning,

lol THE AUDACITY

but yeah, he's got a point. thx for the laugh.

Unfortunately I have picked up multiple verbal stims from Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" and none of them are appropriate to say in public

— Ebeggin (@ebeggin1) May 21, 2024

certified alligator, certified crocodile

Can't get the KidzBop version out of my head now.

Hey Drake, I hear you like gum.