Immensely overrated (as such an album was going to be), but he really has been able to try his hand at a bunch of things stylistically and sound competent. Like the first track on the album is essentially pointless, but its so weird to hear a sort of neo-soul attempt at something like grunge (at least that's how I heard it as). Too much of this sort of stuff tends to be a very traditional style, and he shifted it around.
I'm not listening to the new Kendrick until I listen to 5 other rappers this year. Like, he's on the backburner forever for using the word 'jigaboo' for me. There's enough shoddy fucking antiblackness and racial policing in my own racial group, you think I need him providing confirmation because he learned how to do multis?
Plus the last album sucked.