Kendrick Lamar

got mixed up, cant see me was meant for helter skelter, calif love was for chronic 2

http://dubcnn.com/features/articles/death_rows_greatest_albums_we_never_heard/

The Heart pt.3 gave me serious chills today

The more i listen to this album the more i like it.

cant remember teh track names but track 1-3 plus peer pressure and rise i love the most so far.

been listening to it while working out in the GYM and the backstage freestyle song i believe is called is a perfect fit for a gym workout song.

Its better the Nas's current album now imo. This guy intelligent with his hooks and rhymes.

for his next album though i would love for him to spit about stuff outside the compton hood. maybe speak about real life issues etc etc like section 80.

he has a brigth future and IMO a timbo beat would fit perfectly for this guy.

Backstage freestyle actually sounds like an old school timbo beat

Mr. Rager wrote: »

Backstage Freestyle is so much better once it is played along with the whole album, when I heard it first when it leaked I couldn't believe KL was rapping about bitches and money but it now makes sense in conjunction with the overall theme of GKMC.

exactly. the beat is amazing. very TIMBOish

Mr. Rager wrote: »

Anyone only listen to this today for the first time?

Only got it on iTunes this morning. Listened to 3 or 4 songs on the way to the gym.

It seems like it will be a grower, it has a very unconventional sound. I think it will take a minute to appreciate the style and sound of the album. Promising though.

As some have sound, it's very much an album rather than a collection of sounds. Each song seems like it will have to be judged as part of the whole rather than in isolation.

Also, only read one review so far (hiphopdx which I generally find to be very reliable) has made comparisons to illmatic (in quality Not style). Seemingly others have as well.

While evidently not to everybody's taste, some of the early write offs seem to have been premature.

TweetMe!?! wrote: »

Here's some really good analysis of GKMC:

http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=313845.0

And this is the website of the guy that wrote it:

http://www.theshirker.com/viewpost.php?id=1183

That's a brilliant explanation. Now I can't wait to get home from work and listen to the whole album straight through from start to finish.

I'm kind of disappointed I got the deluxe version now. The bonus tracks don't fit the narrative.

And from first listen that Mary J Blige track sounds kind of cheesy. Which is par for the course for any Mary J assisted track since the late 90s.

There's a bit of confusion around "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" but Kendrick has cleared it up here, saying that the song was originally meant to feature Lady Gaga but that in the end, it just didn't work out and that she isn't on the song.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1696064/lady-gaga-kendrick-lamar-dont-kill-my-vibe-maad-city.jhtml

Just after loading it onto my iPod (… Mac …) and it is 90 mins running time and if I get the earlier bus I should be able to listen to it before I get into work.

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Been trying to put the album onto my iPod for the last half an hour. I think it's after messing up my iTunes.

As in trying to burn it from a disc onto your iTunes? This is a nightmare with any CD, blame the idiots at Apple.

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Like said above it does seem to grow with every listen. I still don't think it has a patch on section 80, the story behind section 80 was genius so much depth and substance to it.

The album slightly more commercial, still has a few duds backseat freestyle stands out like a sore thumb.

References to 50 and game i like a lot, i know him and Q were big fans of them when they were younger. His verse about the game on black boy fly is class.

Also has Lamar had a brother that passed away? There might be some references about it on sing about me, also his explanation of section 80 on the same track is nice.

Huh?

I can't see anything commercial about this, except perhaps Poetic Justice. Which would has a very 90s feel. I don't know if it eould achieve much radio success today.

As for the "story" on Section.80, it has nothing on this. Section.80 had a theme. GKMC has a single narrative told through each sons on the album.

Now that I know the context I actually really like Back Street Freestyle. It's a lot cleverer than it seems when heard in isolation. He really paints a picture of a naive immature rapper really well, and lines like "all my life I want money in power" or "damn I got bitches" gain a whole new meaning in the context of the song. The references to Martins dream versus Kendrick's dream show how far off course he was then.

Cartoons and Cereal could actually have fit in really to the early part of the album.

Finally was able to listen to it in full last night, from start to finish. First I have to say that this is not a commercial album, I don't understand how anyone could even suggest that it is.

The album is sequenced perfectly, it flows perfectly and, while I usually find skits annoying, I can live with them on this. I've only got the chance to listen to it in full once so far, I'll give a more detailed review in a few days but as of now there isn't a single song on it that I don't like. Current fave is probably 'Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst', just brilliant.

As for the comparisons to Section.80, Kendrick himself said months ago that the album will sound absolutely nothing like Section.80 so I can't understand the disappointment there either.

Like everything Kendrick releases, it takes a little while to grow on you but after one listen I'm very impressed.

I'm in the crowd that doesn't see this as commercial album at all, it's actually even less accessible than Section.80, imo

It's two main singles, The Recipe and Swimming Pools, are either left off the album entirely, or extended by two minutes.
A 12 minute track, (how many of these are on any rap album, never mind a commercial album?) extended skits on virtually every track, and I read somewhere that the average track-length is 5.50 minutes, and that's not even talking about the album's content

I know that mufcbhoy is one of the biggest Kendrick fans on here, so hopefully the album grows on him some more

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Like said above it does seem to grow with every listen. I still don't think it has a patch on section 80, the story behind section 80 was genius so much depth and substance to it.

The album slightly more commercial, still has a few duds backseat freestyle stands out like a sore thumb.

References to 50 and game i like a lot, i know him and Q were big fans of them when they were younger. His verse about the game on black boy fly is class.

Also has Lamar had a brother that passed away? There might be some references about it on sing about me, also his explanation of section 80 on the same track is nice.

Honestly I didn't like it at all when I heard the leak, but in the context of the rest of the album I like it a lot more.

LUPE wrote: »

After listening to it about ten times non-stop I can say it is easily the best album since MBDTF

Agreed. I'm gonna say it's my favourite album since Distant Relatives. Can't stop listening to it, and I'm not a big album guy, I don't often listen to a full release back to finish, in fact I never do that, but I have done the full 90 with GKMC at least 7 times. Can't get enough of it.