http://soundcloud.com/topdawgent/kendrick-lamar-swimming-pools

Even over a commercial/radio beat, he takes it left and it works.

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Deep lyrics? Check
Diverse flows? Check
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I feel like I was fortunate to see Joe live before he blows outta here.

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>Deep lyrics? Check
>Diverse flows? Check
>Memorable hooks? Check
>Original concepts? Check
>Beat selection? Check
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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

(yeah, I got dramatic lol)

But for real, I see you say this a lot and MAYBE outside of his voice, I can't hear what else you would have a gripe with?


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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

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i can't call it. i do need to revisit his album though.

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No post jack, and i agree with your OG post....

but T-Minus gonna have a HUGE year again.

btw i don tlike the hook so much, its a bit to much of what Drake would do on a T-Minus beat...but yeah

Toronto .... how cute

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I'd say that's winning. Maybe not quite as much as Santa Monica though..LOL

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The Aftermath affiliation has me terrified.

he's like the chosen one for this generation. he can be their nas if he really drops as gem of an album in the fall. he has the potential. everything he's dropped has been heat.

whoa slow down there on your expectations

"lurking in the boards since 99"

Or at least, no discography be as divisive as his.

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

the slurring/swirling hook, the production to match, the socialization aspects of alchohol usage along with his own family history, the inner-monologue with his own conscience (which sounds a lot like 3 Stacks circa 2002 with the vocal effect except this kid has a much more nimble flow than Andre ever did).

Even without having heard this outside of my own office I can already see this is the frontrunner for anthem of the weekend.

I like this better than Cartoons & Cereal.

I can tell he's more comfortable on these 75-80 BPM tracks, but this is L.A. I need something I can throw in next to YG, Mann, and old Quik/Snoop/Kurupt. Doesn't even have to be a post-Jerk song...I like "Catch a fade" but it's more for the Hip Hop crowds like "9 times outta 10" was

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I mean it's melodic but that's because he is but the hook really isn't that far from the kind of thing he was doing on 'ADHD' or 'Spiteful Chant'.

I think he could pull off the kind of records you're talking about but I don't want it to come off forced.

'Catch A Fade' was vicious but yeah, it was really a hip-hop record more than a mainstream single.

But it's obviously commercial, talkin about a pool of liquor LOL.

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>But it's obviously commercial, talkin about a pool of liquor
>LOL.

This song is a celebration of intoxication about as much as 'Born In The USA' was a Rally For The Reagan Era.

Much like 'eight doobies to the face, twelve bottles in the case' was the setup on ADHD, these verses with nods to family history/pangs-of-conscience/peer-pressuring are the 'Fuck That' reply.

Like most quality art, it's a bit open-ended with enough gray area so that the listener can fit their own feelings into it rather than be being lectured or coerced one way or the other.

ground, he's always able to walk that line with it...to where it's appealing enough, but still allows him to be lyrical. When I was outside this club 2 weeks ago, I was randomly singin "8 doobies to the face" and this modeley lookin White chick said "fuck thaaat!" so I know he's reaching the commercial type crowds already.

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just like Kanye's Self Conscious

Our own dumb-ass old actor president in '84 missed that 'Born In The USA' was about a poor kid drafted by his government into a pointless/endless war then returning home a broken man until he tried to co-opt the supposed sentiment for an election year speech/tv-ad-campaign then got promptly ceased/desisted/denounced by The Boss.

Let 'em all pull out the lyric sheet or google it on ohhla later, the first hurdle is just being heard.

same way i feel about nas.

Kendrick could ride in that lane.......but he's on his way to some transcendant shit. He's going in a direction that's bigger than club music and BPM's. The hard thing for people is whether than can keep up with him and adapt. I can get lost in his music. I can party with it. ADHD is still a party staple of mine and will always be. That song came through and hurricane'd my world. Fuckin changed the way I look at what I can get into and where.

Even in 94, you probably heard "Represent" at the clubs in NY.

In order for Kendrick to REALLY get that L.A. crowd, he doesn't have to do the same shit Tyga and Joe Moses do, but I still feel he needs SOMETHING that can get into the club, even as an early vibe or as a feature, just so he can reach that audience as well.

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I heard 'It Aint Hard To Tell (Remix)' was going in those type of venues back then.

"Hip Hop head" events here....so at least on the early vibe it had to get play there.

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There was plenty of DJ mixtapes (talking actual tapes) that worked in stuff like that.

that hits the clubs, I feel Kendrick can drop songs similar to Miguel/Cole "All I want is you" that can get played at SOME point, even if it's not during a Ross, Meek, or Travis Porter set.

Who knows, I'm being too much of a DJ right now...but I just want him to hit all crowds and not end up as one of those who's ONLY known by name and not by songs.

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>Who knows, I'm being too much of a DJ right now...but I just
>want him to hit all crowds and not end up as one of those
>who's ONLY known by name and not by songs.

and then worry about the singles part down the road.

by that point he'll have his artistic credibility bona fides & a built-in loyal audience rather than put out some forced wack single like Wale on a choppy album then be forced to re-route and start over hanging on somebody else's coattails.

is because L.A. FINALLY found their own commercial type sound....so he has a few directions he can go that should still sound natural. With Wale and even J. Cole, their styles didn't really fit with any commercial sound that would help them blow, which is why people say that "Chillin" song as HELLA forced, along with "Work out" which most folks liked but still got mixed reactions.

Kendrick could probably make a strong single out of Dom "OPM"...Ty Dolla "Tricks", G. Malone "Rihanna," Clyde Carson "Slow down"...Bad Luck "Slut" or even a Tyler kind of track.

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before you know it we've got four fake singles released over the next six months but no album.

Dr Dre sitting on OKP sayin to the engineer 'damn, maxx is sayin none of these leaks are money tracks'

*pushes album back to summer & begins trying to rap added verse over a KL guide vocal while a fleet of mathematicians calculate the EQs*

My main priority is making sure the album drops, I'll worry about the rest later (though I guess with a hit single that could be a chicken-or-egg thing).

Illmatic was not getting burn in the club.

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LIFE'S A BITCH

Tempo aside, this shit fits in with those songs, the hook is perfect, people will get moving trust.

And also trust Kendricks going to have some doubletime ish shit that he does so well (look out for detox, rigamortus) on the new shit.

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Tempo aside, this shit fits in with those songs, the hook is perfect, people will get moving trust.

And also trust Kendricks going to have some doubletime ish shit that he does so well (look out for detox, rigamortus) on the new shit.

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which is pretty good considering it sounds nothing like Usher moaning over Skrillex.

last night, first time hearing it out somewhere.

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they've also played it up here too on KMEL

>I can tell he's more comfortable on these 75-80 BPM tracks,


He sounds WAAAAY better on bounce records

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I wonder if that changes since the reception to this is overwhemingly positive.

I might be making a mistake in assuming this is the track they're referring to, but it seems like it is.

Early the next morning Lamar is back in the studio waiting for the other Hippies before a photo shoot. Taking the opportunity to touch up some tracks, he operates as his own engineer, pressing record a few bars early and then sprint hopping back into the vocal booth to lay his own vocals. Produced by Drake affiliate T-Minus, the track sounds a lot like, well, a Drake song with its bluntly emotional fluttering synths. It’s a record that could fit in quite comfortably on current day rap radio and yet Lamar seems a little embarrassed to be playing it in mixed company, perhaps recalling the fourth law of Top’s manifesto: Uniqueness. He emphatically points out that the track is not intended for his forthcoming album. It is, instead, “some freelance shit.”

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TDE said it was mixed by Ali and Dr. Dre on Twitter.

we haven't seen a ceiling for this kid's talent yet.

It seems like he isn't even trying on some of these tracks, and he's still head and shoulders above everyone else, IMO.

What's crazy is, like the OP said, he has literally every element of the equation - lyrics, flow, concept, charisma, uniqueness, beat selection, etc. - without compromising one for the other. That's such a rarity, and he's still getting better.

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I think this song is dope!

His flows seem effortless.

are there any tracks besides this, recipe, and the cereal joint that he's put out recently? i'm trying to update my catalog.

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this is not from the album though. it's from something around the ghost recon game.

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i love his shit... underground kings & i'm on one are probably some of best stuff i've heard in 7 years

and kendrick is really growing as an artist...dre should keep mixing his records and leave the kid's artistic direction alone

there is no way they can lose. Dre knows he has something, every producer is going to want to work with them. I honestly haven't heard a wack verse from Kendrick ever. When his cd drops, i'm sure he'll have one song for the club or at least something that can get burn and people are going to take notice. I think that Buried Alive verse got him enough exposure that people will recognize him come his debut dropping.

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it works and should suffice as a respectable radio single.

he seems to have a 'voice' and unique and clear perspective to the music he makes. like Ketchums said he's excelling at any technical or artistic sense to making very quality rap music.

i haven't listened to Section 80 and I've really only heard this, The Recipe, and a few random tracks here and there. but i get the sense that while his skill at rapping and conveying excitement and energy with his skill is great, he's not really revealing much of his self in his music.

while his music could stand on its own, just on the merits of the skill necessary to pull it off, i think he could REALLY be a star if he mastered the art of taking the listener on a journey thru his 'lens'.

i think Kendrick is smart enough to pull something like that off. and alot of that 'sense' that an artist is pulling you through their music is dependent on image and impression, so it's more of a 'soft' skill than anything, but it helps make the music more relateable and personal.

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Kendrick has revealed ALOT of himself in his music. Shit he did so in this track right here.

This dude excels at making compelling narratives about his surroundings, and in expanding on those thoughts and observations in intricate stories that he sometimes places himself into and at time he takes a step back and hits you with a wider view. At times he does this in the same track. It's pretty seamless and it's a rare quality.

His music is not super topical. You have to really pay attention to this shit to really see where he is coming from AND where he is trying to take you. It's a sobering but intoxicating listening expereince at the same time and it leaves you with something when you back up off it. It's residual. That right there is the mark of a true visionary.

There is a sincerity in his music that makes me really wonder what his process is when he writes.

Go listen to the Spiteful Chant, Heart Pt. 2, Cut You Off, and see about him personally.

>Kendrick has revealed ALOT of himself in his music. Shit he
>did so in this track right here.
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>This dude excels at making compelling narratives about his
>surroundings, and in expanding on those thoughts and
>observations in intricate stories that he sometimes places
>himself into and at time he takes a step back and hits you
>with a wider view. At times he does this in the same track.
>It's pretty seamless and it's a rare quality.

At his CMJ show in NYC he did this monologue with a stool, acting out he and his father's interactions during parties when he was young. He is a very intelligent guy, very down to earth and you can see it in his music.

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and the skill he uses in his music does display his intelligence and understanding of music and art.

i think i'm just over-excited from the prospect of someone from the young generation possibly not only having the technical rapping ability of a top-level golden age MC, but also fully utilize the artistic license and range that modern MC's have access to.

i'm attaching personal expectations to his career that i've never had for an MC that has come before Kendrick. i think i'm just anxious to have a current-day MC who makes music that i get excited about.

Kendrick IS talented and maybe the level of emotional openness i want from his music has more to do about me than it does about his career.

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He is by far my favorite MC out right now. I had heard for a while that (O)verly (D)edicated was an experience and this guy was on some other shit, but it took me a while to ride in. There was a lot to get excited about from the release alone.

Section.80 was what really solidified it for me though. ADHD is one of the most visceral and inventive songs I've heard in a long, long time. The whole album really was off the hook, but not pretentious and not too over zealous.

I'm almost 30 and I feel like I can relate to this dude more than guys that are my age or a little older. He captured a feeling a lot of us have, and it is a genuine reflection of what influence really does to us and what motivates us, and what happens when live in the moment cause we aren't sure of the traps. It's also a rejection of a lot of what was becoming a culture devoid of compelling thought AND emotion. Kendrick's stuff isn't as disposible as a Drake record to me in that sense cause I always feel like Drake is pandering and not always being himself. The shit feels forced. I NEVER feel like that listening to Kendrick. He's always coming from somewhere legit and tryin to take us somewhere legit and I hope he doesn't lose that insight and foresight as he goes on in his career.

you don't see his full range/talent.

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i've liked what i've heard for the most part from him, i guess i haven't seen the whole picture yet and am drawing an image of him that's based on imcomplete info.

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