Is Kendrick Lamar's album any good? That track is amazing
As long as the music beats make me nod my head. I will go for it!!!
It's got good songs... Kendrick's album suffers from his attempt to make his album a lot more than it is. Some songs are brilliant: "ADHD", "Tammy's Song", "The Spiteful Chant", but other songs are either too malformed in their preachiness or he tries too hard to emulate Kanye's MBDTF. He actually routinely starts doing Pusha-T's flow on several tracks, and there's dozens of singers on bridges, and dramatic sounds...
He's an amazing rapper, but his ambition is his biggest foe. It's hard for him to understand that his greatest strength is that he's an amazing rapper, and the more he lets THAT be the focus, the better.
Maybe it's me, but a lot of the beats on that album are crap, save for a few. He is an incredibly technical rapper with a versatile nature that deserves music that pushes him. So to hear the majority of those beats, and the cheesy hooks, I was just not having it for the most part.
Also, he literally uses Pusha-T's flow at least 4 times on that album, which is UNBEARABLE for me when you weigh in how much he wanted to make his own MBDTF. "Ronald Reagan Era" and "HiiiPower" are basically two huge fucking misses. Schoolboy Q, by a contrast, basically has a much better ear for beats, but he's not as agile or cohesive a rapper. If Kendrick's album he comes out with now is improved the way "HnC" upgraded from "Setbacks" though, I'll be estatic.
Maybe it's me, but a lot of the beats on that album are crap, save for a few. He is an incredibly technical rapper with a versatile nature that deserves music that pushes him. So to hear the majority of those beats, and the cheesy hooks, I was just not having it for the most part.
Also, he literally uses Pusha-T's flow at least 4 times on that album, which is UNBEARABLE for me when you weigh in how much he wanted to make his own MBDTF. "Ronald Reagan Era" and "HiiiPower" are basically two huge fucking misses. Schoolboy Q, by a contrast, basically has a much better ear for beats, but he's not as agile or cohesive a rapper. If Kendrick's album he comes out with now is improved the way "HnC" upgraded from "Setbacks" though, I'll be estatic.
I posted it, but nobody reacted.
OF is in a really interesting flux point. There's been such a huge demand to shift the attention onto the more R&B and disarming side of them in recent months (The Internet, Frank), that nobody's addressed their rapping. The song has a lot of great rapping from Tyler and Hodgy (Domo Genesis will always and forever more be hot garbage), and the beat is fun. Video's absurd, but hey.