My point was:
Kendrick is being criticized here for going from an album with more structured songs (GKMC, People's Instinctive Travels) to following it up with an album that's more of a meandering, jazzy vibe record (like The Low End Theory). Fair criticism...but it's just a bit ironic to me.

I don't care enough about the Golden Age Canon to place this in it. I'm just seeing a parallel that I find interesting.

See also: Brown Sugar/Voodoo.

And I love TLET, but please, let's not try to pretend that "Excursions", "Buggin' Out", "Rap Promoter", "Vibes & Stuff", "Infamous Date Rape", "Jazz", "Skypager", and "What?" are these well structured SONGS that we're accusing TPaB of being devoid of.

Keep shaking that head, player.