maybe i'm pessimistic.

but this album distilled down, for me, is kendrick saying:

"fuck it - it is what it is. i'm working my shit out. y'all gotta work out your own shit. i'm working on me and this is what i got so far. miss me wit that other shit."

...and i respect it. i do.

i don't like it tho. it magnifies my own feelings of powerlessness and an inability to command my own destiny.

b/c if kendrick can't do it?

shit.

everything just seems to get worse.

i've spent the last 15 years in the service of others and shit keeps getting worse.

the best i can do is secure brief moments of rest - let alone peace or happiness or wealth.

it feels like it reaffirms that all you can do is for those small moments.

my inner idealist has been slowly bleeding out over the last decade.

this album feels like its tombstone.