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

Friday can’t come soon enough

I support this!

You know they paid $$$$$$$ to get that cleared. And using the stems????? Wow.

Him and Prince in my book.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPUkgeiFVY

Thanks for pointing this out. Wow.

I love this rapper. I love that he has the resources. And, at least to me, he takes maximum advantage. Not everyone would. These hearts are usually rap festivals so they’re usually going to work on me. The first half of IV ran my life for weeks at least for instance. I’m gonna street team it up for this one too.

And yes, the Marvin sample feels like a flex but it works so well for what it sounds like he’s trying to do here.

Last thing for now: I love that it usually sounds like he finds a way to get back to ‘his mission’ with his music.

It's only on Spotify so you'd have to use that app which I know a lot of podcast listeners don't like, but it's most recent season was a five episode, just over 4 hour oral history of the making of Pimp a Butterfly and I could listen to stories about making that album maybe forever? I especially loved the third episode where they dive into how the musicians he surrounded himself with opened his eyes to what he could actually do with a follow up to Good Kid if he fully embraced the artistic community he was in the middle of.


And I'd bet most OKPs know the gist of the story, how it's basically what happened to Mac Miller near the end of his career on steroids and condensed into just a year's worth of sessions, but it's still so wild to me that Kendrick had no inclination at all to make an album that sounded like that yet so eagerly put his trust in dudes like Terrace, Sounwave, Dave Free, Taz Arnold and even Dre to embrace so many different facets of Black musical history and run with it.


I loved DAMN. and in many ways consider it his most straight up listenable album but these five-plus years have made me so, so excited for him to put an exclamation mark on his first 10 years in the mainstream spotlight. There's such a small, small number of artists I'd expect to not get discouraged by the expectations surrounding their next album but the open-minded approach Kendrick has had to his music since Good Kid makes me feel like he absolutely can't fail. I'm not even expecting "The Best Kendrick Lamar Album Yet" nor am I even sure I want it...I just wanna hear what he's interested in putting out. I don't think I've felt that way about an artist other than Radiohead in my lifetime.


EDIT: And as for what I THINK this album will be, based on his few public statements, the style of the promotion and feel of this teaser (this "Heart" series has always acted as a de facto teaser trailer for what his next project will sound like, right?) I'm crossing my fingers this is some insanely uplifting feeling type of album partly because it's just so hard to find a RAP album that'll try and be that anymore and I think Kendrick can find the right balance of spirituality, musicality and lyricism that Chance the Rapper stumbled so spectacularly to achieve on The Big Day.


It'd be interesting to see Kendrick's last big move with Top Dawg be an argument for rap music that can catch on in the mainstream and not be either mindlessly populist or numbingly nihilist. I'd think I'd gone proper insane if I told myself even just four years ago that I'd be saying this but if he has something like Mac Miller's Swimming on his hands without that fatalist subtext I'd think it'd have an incredible influence on the next decade of rap...but we'll have to see if the whole thing will feel like this episode of "The Heart" does, obviously!


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

I liked DAMN but it’s probably my least favorite album of his. I expect to like this one more, and I think we could all use an uplifting album right now. Excited to see what he has in store. PS those last two Mac Miller albums are great.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Whoa! Good thing to still have Spotify. I’ve got this ready to roll for my next commute.

Thanks!

As for trying to predict the new album? I’m trying like hell to not do that. I’m going to let Kenny do whatever he’s gonna do and listen to it as is.

I know Damn sideswiped me cuz I had no clue, got caught off guard, and had to ‘figure it out’. Of course, once I did it was more goodness.

>It's only on Spotify so you'd have to use that app which I
>know a lot of podcast listeners don't like, but it's most
>recent season was a five episode, just over 4 hour oral
>history of the making of Pimp a Butterfly and I could listen
>to stories about making that album maybe forever? I especially
>loved the third episode where they dive into how the musicians
>he surrounded himself with opened his eyes to what he could
>actually do with a follow up to Good Kid if he fully embraced
>the artistic community he was in the middle of.
>
>
>And I'd bet most OKPs know the gist of the story, how it's
>basically what happened to Mac Miller near the end of his
>career on steroids and condensed into just a year's worth of
>sessions, but it's still so wild to me that Kendrick had no
>inclination at all to make an album that sounded like that yet
>so eagerly put his trust in dudes like Terrace, Sounwave, Dave
>Free, Taz Arnold and even Dre to embrace so many different
>facets of Black musical history and run with it.
>
>
>I loved DAMN. and in many ways consider it his most straight
>up listenable album but these five-plus years have made me so,
>so excited for him to put an exclamation mark on his first 10
>years in the mainstream spotlight. There's such a small, small
>number of artists I'd expect to not get discouraged by the
>expectations surrounding their next album but the open-minded
>approach Kendrick has had to his music since Good Kid makes me
>feel like he absolutely can't fail. I'm not even expecting
>"The Best Kendrick Lamar Album Yet" nor am I even sure I want
>it...I just wanna hear what he's interested in putting out. I
>don't think I've felt that way about an artist other than
>Radiohead in my lifetime.
>
>
>EDIT: And as for what I THINK this album will be, based on his
>few public statements, the style of the promotion and feel of
>this teaser (this "Heart" series has always acted as a de
>facto teaser trailer for what his next project will sound
>like, right?) I'm crossing my fingers this is some insanely
>uplifting feeling type of album partly because it's just so
>hard to find a RAP album that'll try and be that anymore and I
>think Kendrick can find the right balance of spirituality,
>musicality and lyricism that Chance the Rapper stumbled so
>spectacularly to achieve on The Big Day.
>
>
>It'd be interesting to see Kendrick's last big move with Top
>Dawg be an argument for rap music that can catch on in the
>mainstream and not be either mindlessly populist or numbingly
>nihilist. I'd think I'd gone proper insane if I told myself
>even just four years ago that I'd be saying this but if he has
>something like Mac Miller's Swimming on his hands without that
>fatalist subtext I'd think it'd have an incredible influence
>on the next decade of rap...but we'll have to see if the whole
>thing will feel like this episode of "The Heart" does,
>obviously!
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~
>"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
>http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
>Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

All of this worked on me quite well.

TPAB is probably my favorite album in the last 10 years. I hear it like the West coast follow up to Voodoo and LWFC. And both of those ran my life when they dropped. I can’t say enough things about how Butterfly hit just right with where I was in my life at the time. My life as a listener of music had me completely ready to appreciate that album for everything it was trying to be.

>It's only on Spotify so you'd have to use that app which I
>know a lot of podcast listeners don't like, but it's most
>recent season was a five episode, just over 4 hour oral
>history of the making of Pimp a Butterfly and I could listen
>to stories about making that album maybe forever? I especially
>loved the third episode where they dive into how the musicians
>he surrounded himself with opened his eyes to what he could
>actually do with a follow up to Good Kid if he fully embraced
>the artistic community he was in the middle of.
>
>
>And I'd bet most OKPs know the gist of the story, how it's
>basically what happened to Mac Miller near the end of his
>career on steroids and condensed into just a year's worth of
>sessions, but it's still so wild to me that Kendrick had no
>inclination at all to make an album that sounded like that yet
>so eagerly put his trust in dudes like Terrace, Sounwave, Dave
>Free, Taz Arnold and even Dre to embrace so many different
>facets of Black musical history and run with it.
>
>
>I loved DAMN. and in many ways consider it his most straight
>up listenable album but these five-plus years have made me so,
>so excited for him to put an exclamation mark on his first 10
>years in the mainstream spotlight. There's such a small, small
>number of artists I'd expect to not get discouraged by the
>expectations surrounding their next album but the open-minded
>approach Kendrick has had to his music since Good Kid makes me
>feel like he absolutely can't fail. I'm not even expecting
>"The Best Kendrick Lamar Album Yet" nor am I even sure I want
>it...I just wanna hear what he's interested in putting out. I
>don't think I've felt that way about an artist other than
>Radiohead in my lifetime.
>
>
>EDIT: And as for what I THINK this album will be, based on his
>few public statements, the style of the promotion and feel of
>this teaser (this "Heart" series has always acted as a de
>facto teaser trailer for what his next project will sound
>like, right?) I'm crossing my fingers this is some insanely
>uplifting feeling type of album partly because it's just so
>hard to find a RAP album that'll try and be that anymore and I
>think Kendrick can find the right balance of spirituality,
>musicality and lyricism that Chance the Rapper stumbled so
>spectacularly to achieve on The Big Day.
>
>
>It'd be interesting to see Kendrick's last big move with Top
>Dawg be an argument for rap music that can catch on in the
>mainstream and not be either mindlessly populist or numbingly
>nihilist. I'd think I'd gone proper insane if I told myself
>even just four years ago that I'd be saying this but if he has
>something like Mac Miller's Swimming on his hands without that
>fatalist subtext I'd think it'd have an incredible influence
>on the next decade of rap...but we'll have to see if the whole
>thing will feel like this episode of "The Heart" does,
>obviously!
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~
>"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
>http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
>Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Yes, my wife played it for me on the drive back from Vegas a couple months ago. That was a great listen.

The one thing I could've used from that pod is a lot more musical interjection, sourcing stems and demos and whatnot. The interview clips were awesome and the pod had a very well edited narrative to it, but if each episode had been even 15 minutes longer with more interjections of how each artist made their mark on this or that song I'd have been in heaven.

Because I mostly listened to it while doing chores I was more than happy with the oral history feel of it, but looking back this is still the nut I need an audio documentary about an album to crack. They didn't have that making of The Black Album moment between Jay and Tim, y'know?

~~~~~~~~~
"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

With Kendrick’s hiatus—

He was gonna come back too abstract and go off on a pandemic/conspiracy theory deep end that the (very) few things that he’s released had a few lines alluding to.

This is not that.
This is IT.

https://twitter.com/songsandsamples/status/1523467982743109632

Yeah that got a tear out ofme.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

And I still didn’t connect the dots that he was supposed to be morphing into Nip. I was just like “why are they CGI-ing his face” LOL


That was pretty brilliant. Takes that last verse to a new level knowing he was speaking from Nip’s POV

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

I couldn't resist. I'm hyped.

>I couldn't resist. I'm hyped.

That’s another gift about the Heart series..the Heart song usually doesn’t make the album so you can listen away and still have the whole album whenever it comes.

Pun not intended but intended.

This is dope.

he's talkin about himself being murdered?

is that a metaphor, or does he think that's the inevitable end for him?

made me sad. maybe the point was to make me sad.

especially with the video. seems like most people seem to think the same.

kept trying last night but family was over and loud so i finally gave up. lol.

i'll have to peep again.

i havent listened to the song on its own. some people have been pointing out lines that match up with the face changes. what i caught was he did switch up his rapping some for the ye and nipsey switches.

ill maybe hold off on revisiting it until after the album drops. i know the song might be a stand alone single but i just want to hear the full album already lol

that he rapped about in GKMC

but then the face changed to Nipsey.

I was driving so I didn’t see all the face changed until the end. Thought I saw Will Smith for. second.

as in being the other side of the scale from most other mainstream rap.

Who are all the faces? The Nipsy perspective for the last verse makes sense to me. Did I see Kanye and Will Smith in there?

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

then i saw people said it was him *shrug*

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Will was like..

I KNOW KARAZY

im not the biggest kl fan but its slim pickings out here.

the amount of rap albums that have any degree of replay value to me are few and far between.

I completed my mission, wasn't ready to leave
But fulfilled my days, my Creator was pleased
I can't stress how I love y'all
I don't need to be in flesh just to hug y'all
The memories recollect just because y'all
Celebrate me with respect
The unity we protect is above all


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Don’t even bother

trying to make their opinion sound more authentic

technically he is a great rapper
just not my favorite
but i do understand the "hype"
i appreciate it because of the influence he has when he comes outside that influence produces more music that i like from other people
how is that not authentic ?

its not like he is a party/club rapper and finally dropped some deep shit

Its always been his lane so it reads funny to me.

and his message has always been conscious from what ive heard of him...as an artist he just didnt connect with me for some reason, but i appreciate what he does and the balance that he brings to the game.

for some reason this particular song, the sample and delivery hit me different plus the visuals of the video is what really did it for me. dope outcome.


>technically he is a great rapper
>just not my favorite
>but i do understand the "hype"
>i appreciate it because of the influence he has when he comes
>outside that influence produces more music that i like from
>other people
>how is that not authentic ?

Folks be afraid to just flat out say naw I’m not fucking with it or I generally don’t fuck with him whenever his name come up. Always dropping some qualified statements.

Folks are afraid to just say its dope, so they go out of their way to say there aren't usually fucking with him as a qualifier.

>
>Folks are afraid to just say its dope, so they go out of their
>way to say there aren't usually fucking with him as a
>qualifier.
>
>

The swinging in on a rope to make sure it’s known that something isn’t all that is always going to be a thing on the innanet. Hell, there’s whole business models devoted to it now. Some folks are serious and it’s just their thing to do. Others aren’t acting in good faith and their mission is to try to throw cold water on shit just to do it.

Regardless, it’s gotta come back to individuals digging what they dig and saving their energy when something comes up that they aren’t into. I’m not diving into Future album discussion threads or whatever to make sure everyone knows that his stuff generally isn’t my thing. And hopefully everyone who likes Future doesn’t ever miss me!

almost all of TPAB
and all of GKMC

The Heart Part 5 is an objectively good song, but it doesn't do much for me

but its okay.. some albums wont hit.

>almost all of TPAB
>and all of GKMC
>
>The Heart Part 5 is an objectively good song, but it doesn't
>do much for me


DAMN is the one that didn’t really do it for me as a whole, but I like some of the songs. It was the beats I couldn’t get into in most cases.

Looking forward to this new one - there are very few rappers popular enough to have an “event album”, where I actually might like it. Kendrick is one of them.

I will be listening tomorrow

And I consider myself a fan of his work. Lyrically he's spittin' but I'm just not blown away by that Marvin Gaye sample at all.


Instagram: ascensionmusic

Not much style in his delivery or concept to this… just spitting some uplifting conscious raps…

.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

http://www.twitter.com/steelysteel

this album is kinda doing too much tho lol

album is touching on some really deep shit.

You prolly aren’t Black tho..

no shade but just sayin

you really gonna listen to that song more than once bro lol

why they fucked the beat up like that

Not sure how many times I’ll be able to listen to it. Not just the subject matter but the constant cursing.

the darts they were throwing at each other were so real.. lol

The sigh I let out when I saw that song was like 5 mins long after the first minute of it whew 😂

I dunno if I even should've known her from something before? But she's on some kind inverse Nicki Minaj "Monster" verse shit there, she might've stole the album on pure guile honestly. She's rapping, I guess, but...damn.


Also helps that song from going full "Kim" the way I see some people claim it does, she's funny sometimes but it's also, like, balanced toxicity? That's new, lol.


~~~~~~~~~
"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

father issues, generational abuse, etc etc...