Originally posted by JayTee The Shark@Mar 16 2015, 01:16 PM


It depends on what you like really.


Some people like Childish Gambino so there is that.

Didn't know Gambino was from ATL. But again, doubt Dyl is talking about him, nor is he enough to ATL over, say, LA or Chicago or, hell, even NY right now.

I mean, I dig T.I., Ludacris, and Jeezy, but none of them have been dropping hot shit in recent years (except for Jeezy who dropped a good album last year).

Originally posted by Spangle@Mar 16 2015, 01:05 PM


Who, exactly, do you think is good from Atlanta right now? Killer Mike is the only guy, but I get the sense you're not talking about him.

I was just kidding lol. I listen to Thug, Quan, Jeezy, TI, etc but I obv don't think ATL rap > lol.

I don't really listen to music for lyrical content so that's why guys like Thug and Quan are people I listen to the most. I still fuck wit guys like P Reign, A$AP and Kendrick tho

Originally posted by Maxy@Mar 16 2015, 01:22 PM

Oh gotcha. I have a feeling Dyl is talking about 2 Chains for some reason )

Luda's not trash, I mean he's definitely not as good as he once was but I don't think he's quite trash.

Eh I don't really listen to 2 Chainz anymore :lol:

<div align="center">Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly: Album Review





Wesley’s Theory

The vinyl hitting the needle to start always gives that nostalgic feel to music….Which is a foreshadow to the rest of the album. The beat is nice. It is dark with some G-Funk 90s Snoop and Dre feel. Flying Lotus produced a real sick track. Kendrick is a little weird on this. He can’t really sing and while I commend him trying to give it a 90s feel it doesn’t work. Not a great starting track from an emcee standpoint but damn that beat and them horns. This is the whole Kendrick is a rich dude now and is seeing what that is like as a black man where consumerism is king. It is also a warning with the whole “You didn’t take Economics and taxes will get you and before you know it you are Wesley Snipes.”

For Free?

THIS DICK AIN’T FREE. The beat starts with a PSA type build that Jay had. This really is more than an interlude. This is what happens when scat meets hip-hop. Kendrick doesn’t even breathe throughout this and it is crazy. I really like this James Brown type feel and Kendrick kills the shit out of this.

King Kunta

This sounds so much better in the context of the album. When this dropped on Friday I did not like this at all but the funk/jazz feel really fits within the first two songs of this. For me this progresses the story with Kendrick sitting as king and bragging about it. “I was gonna kill a few rappers but they did it to themselves.” The beat is nice and simple in a sense with cool backing vocals. This again sounds like some death row beat and really brings that classic feel that Kendrick is looking for. On the third verse he absolutely rips it. I like the nod to Kanye on this with the line about making it past 25 and it really does show the idea that blacks aren’t supposed to make it and Kendrick went from a hood kid to a major voice of hip hop.

Instituionalized.

This has like a James Blake/Slow jam electro-funk beat. Kendrick is using one of his cartoon voices here and I am not a huge fan of it and then he tries to bite Outkast as the beat builds and he tries to sing. The message is kind of there where he and other blacks are still institutionalized (think about Kanye on Graduation) and he wants the chains off so he can do what he wants. I wasn’t really feeling this song and it is one of the lows of the album…. I also really dislike the Bilal hook even though the meaning it is trying to convey is strong… If you want to change shit you gotta get up and do it. I really liked Snoop on this… It adds a cool dimension.

These Walls

This song is interesting in a few ways. The walls represent prison in the sense that a man is prison and Kendrick is banging his girl who wouldn’t give him the time of day until he went away. This version of the walls is whatever and Kendrick comes off a bit corny despite the great beat. Really love the keys and the hook. The second verse though…. Damn. It is about the walls that blacks have on them and forced on them. They are supposed to act a certain way and the walls are formed to keep them in a box similar to slaves in a modern era. The message overall is cool but the song is lackluster.

U

Good god. This is the type of shit I like. The beat is so dark and moody and grimey with Kendrick screaming audibly at the start. It has weird sounds to make it have a horror feel like something out of the shining. Then he comes in with that raspy Kendrick voice. This is the antithesis to I and really keeps the trajectory of the concept. While Wesley’s Theory is the warning shot that money can be bad…This finds Kendrick at his darkest state where he sees the pratfalls of his personality and his problems that he is feeling. He talks about his little sister getting pregnant as a teenager while he is talking about making sure others don’t have that happen on his Section80 cut “Keisha’s song.” The 2nd verse sees the beat get more smooth but the vocals get harsher. It is a nice dichotomy. The 2nd verse is the city of Compton telling Kendrick he abandoned them at the worst. It really is an amazing song.

Alright

WE GON BE ALRIGHT. I love this song. It is smooth and Kendrick finally snaps into rapper mode totally. He murders this shit. It is a complete 180 from U. Where U was looking at all the downfalls and depressing shit that has happened since Kendrick blew up, Alright is the triumph. It is the whole, “yeah shit has been terrible but even with all this shit, we can overcome it and we will be good. I love this song from the dude saying we gon be alright to Kendrick dropping sick verses. The beat is amazing and it is one of Pharrell’s best in a long time.

For Sale?

This one is weird and Kendrick has a weird flow here. The more I listen to this album the more I realize Lucy is the evil that comes from fame. It is the drinking, the drugs, the lifestyle. It is the lifestyle that took Kendrick from a girl like Sherane to the fame that is at now. Again the concept of this album is intact. U was Kendrick at the lowest of low, Alright was Kendrick overcoming that shit and For Sale? Is the temptation of fame bringing him back to the way he was feeling before. I also like the I Love Lucy shoutout. A better concept than a song.

Momma

This song is cool. I love the vocals on it and Kendrick is really self aware on this track. The second verse is the standout to this and makes you realize that Momma is just a front for Compton as a whole. Kendrick feels like he has mastered the ability to write while also mastering money, clothes, hoes, religion and the price of life…But then he gets home and realizes that fame has made him conceited and seeing all the bullshit going on in Compton made him realize he doesn’t no shit. Great song and I love the drums on this. Then the beat changes and shit gets even more amazing. This is one of the stand outs.

Hood Politics

I love the beat at the beginning. It is so sexy. Isley Brothers at its finest. Then it kicks into a harder classic hip hop beat. I really get a battle rap Eminem of the 90s feel to this. He sounds raw and young and not mastered. It is a throwback version of Kendrick. It is also a warning shot to all other rappers in my opinion. The whole if you goin on wax you better rip it because I will fuck you up. My favorite couple bars though are without a doubt, “From Compton to Congress/Set trippin all around/Ain’t nothing new but a flow of new DemoCrips and ReBloodlicans/Red state versus a blue state, which one you governin’?” It is such a good line and shows the hood is a two party system battling for power. I also like when calls out all those that say they would prefer Kendrick rapping over every beat with the whole if you cared about Rappin, Killa Mike woulda went platinum.

How Much a Dolla Cost?

Easily my second favorite track on this album. It is the GKMC Kendrick that made him the king of kings. It is talking about what a dollar really does. How it can help people but can also hurt people in the way of drugs. This continuous story is great. I could explain it all but this is the one track you have to listen for yourself.

Complexion (Zulu Love)

Complexion brings it back to a more jazzy feel and it really works here. It is about breaking down the walls of colorism and what beauty really is. He brings it up in his first line where he says dark or bright, I don’t give a fuck about your complexion. While he says that though he takes shots at whites which is hypocritical. “I know what the Germans done” and “Brown skinned but your blue eyes tell me your mama can’t run” both are disses at whites. Rapsody comes in….and murders this shit. She is the female Jay-Z in the sense that her triple entendres are crazy as fuck. This is a great come down song and nice because what happens next……

Blacker The Berry

Which is the best track on the album. It is so fucking aggressive. Kendrick murders this and says some shit. If you are a fan of Kendrick you have heard this song and knows what makes this great. I also like the whole he is a hypocrite because he cries for Trayvon but doesn’t bring up black on the black crime which is much greater in numbers but lesser in scale. Also that Jamaican dude does some great shit.

You Ain’t Gotta Lie

I like this song. It is still funky and the message is great. It is all about why you trying to impress me and those that try to impress are the ones that have and do the least and are, at the end of the day weak as fuck. A great come down song.

I

Much better than the single version. It sounds like a live cut that features female backing. This also puts a bow on the concept really. It is the triumph song. Kendrick went through the fame, the self-doubt, the issues in the hood, the issues being black, the depression but at the end he finds peace within himself and who he is and he loves himself. It also serves as Kendrick’s platform to the fact that blacks are killing blacks at an alarming rate and this needs to end.

Mortal Man.

Tupac is alive. This is amazing that is all.


This is not a sequel of Good Kid. If that is what you are looking for, you will be disappointed. What this is, is Kendrick trying to attain heights and break the ceiling of what hip-hop is. He infuses a lot of live jazz fusion while keeping some hip-hop sounds to wet the pallet. What you get as a racially aggressive, consciously aware album. It is high art at its best. This is the closest thing to MBDTF in sense of trying to create something greater than the genre. There are times where Kendrick fails to attain those goals such as the first 3 or 4 tracks in the album. He then finds the nice middle ground where the jazz is still there, but he is also going in lyrically. The concept of the album is great and he follows it to a T. The album is not as good as GKMC but it doesn’t have to be. It is its own album and has to be looked at as a whole similar to MBDTF where as GKMC was a bunch of singular songs trapped in a concept album, TPAB is a concept album in the greatest sense of the word. This is a tremendous album and cements Kendrick’s place as the king of hip-hop.


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Alright, comparing him to Tupac is just a little too offensive for me to just let slide. FOH JT.

Originally posted by GOLFlab@Mar 16 2015, 05:44 PM
Alright, comparing him to Tupac is just a little too offensive for me to just let slide. FOH JT.

Tupac was on a sample on the track.

Why don't you know things before talking and making yourself even dumber than you are.


Dumbass.

How tf is he alive if you are referring to a sample... God you are dumb for a lawyer.

Originally posted by GOLFlab@Mar 16 2015, 05:47 PM
How tf is he alive if you are referring to a sample... God you are dumb for a lawyer.

it was a joke.

Sorry you try to act so hard to not know what comedy. Go watch slingblade or whatever and try to act hard.

Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade.

Originally posted by GOLFlab@Mar 16 2015, 08:47 PM
How tf is he alive if you are referring to a sample... God you are dumb for a lawyer.

Listen to the song and you'll see what he means. It was incredibly well done

Thank you to My boys @Merica and @Ragnar for the lovely sigs!

Originally posted by Maxy@Mar 16 2015, 07:51 PM

Listen to the song and you'll see what he means. It was incredibly well done

I just did, Kendrick went in but to have the audacity of editing together a conversation between yourself and tupac...

Originally posted by GOLFlab@Mar 16 2015, 08:53 PM

I just did, Kendrick went in but to have the audacity of editing together a conversation between yourself and tupac...

It's incredibly bold to do so. And Kendrick is the only one who I think can get away with it right about now

Thank you to My boys @Merica and @Ragnar for the lovely sigs!

I'm bout to fly to North Dakota, link up with my dude Daniel Merica, pickup a couple semi-auto jawns wit some hollowpoints and then go to Cali and ride out on Kendrick and TDE for this disrespect of a legend.

Originally posted by GOLFlab@Mar 16 2015, 05:58 PM
I'm bout to fly to North Dakota, link up with my dude Daniel Merica, pickup a couple semi-auto jawns wit some hollowpoints and then go to Cali and ride out on Kendrick and TDE for this disrespect of a legend.

stop being an internet tough guy.

see u in AUGUST then JT