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Topic subjectRE: Have you heard The Big Hit Show podcast on Spotify?
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13460043, RE: Have you heard The Big Hit Show podcast on Spotify?
Posted by jimaveli, Mon May-09-22 10:32 AM
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!
>
>
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