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170594, Listened to it a few times. I fall in the middle.
Posted by mrhood75, Tue Mar-17-15 12:12 PM
It's not a genre redefining masterpiece and it's not trash. There's a lot of stuff to like, but there's stuff that's just dumb and tedious.

Stuff I liked:
-Wesley's Theory (best track on the album)
-King Kunta
-Institutionalized
-Hood Politics (well, the beat and the lyrics themselves. More on that later)
-Blacker the Berry
-Mortal Man
-The beats in general
-Most of Kendrick's lyrics

Stuff I didn't like:
-u
-For Free?
-The fake live "i". I'd rather they just put the non-live version on it. All the fake crowd interaction and talking was corny.
-The fake 2Pac interview. Overlong and pointless.

And mostly, for fuck's sake, enough with the funny fucking voices. They're annoying and the take away from the impact of the tracks themselves. I really liked a lot of "Hood Politics," but the weird voice shit almost derailed the track. I don't care of Andre 3000 did it back in 2000, he was really good at it. Kendrick is not.

So yeah, right now I got this album in B/B- range. Which is fine. I'll definitely give it more listens, but it's not a transformative album. And it doesn't need to be. But I was hoping for something that held together a little better.