Kendrick Lamar

jonneymendoza · 08-10-2012 8:36am

Yup as said before. Great song. This is more like it. Already sounding better then section 80 tracks

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jonneymendoza · 08-10-2012 7:21pm

Section 80 is beginning to grow on me

Boom_Bap · 08-10-2012 9:11pm

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Section 80 is beginning to grow on me

Section.80 is a massive grower. I was pretty non plused when first heard it, but I kept gertting sucked back to it. I still think there is a chunk mid-way and at the end that cut be dumped, but some is excellent. Rigamortis is one of the best rap songs in a long time. Even my 1 and a half year old daughter loves it.

mufcboy1999 · 08-10-2012 9:18pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy7F9-tSPhY

Jimmy Iovine · 11-10-2012 6:56pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Section.80 is a massive grower. I was pretty non plused when first heard it, but I kept gertting sucked back to it. I still think there is a chunk mid-way and at the end that cut be dumped, but some is excellent. Rigamortis is one of the best rap songs in a long time. Even my 1 and a half year old daughter loves it.

The chunk at the end better not include HiiiPower. That's my favourite song from it.

conor.hogan.2 · 11-10-2012 7:16pm

That chunk at the end (minus hiipower) is the same (I'd say) that I thought didn't fit in either but that grows on you too later on.

Kush & Corinthians (His Pain), Blow my high (Members Only) and Ab-Soul’s Outro are good songs, but I initially thought they were way too out of sync with the other songs but they definitely grow on you.

Boom_Bap · 11-10-2012 7:49pm

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

The chunk at the end better not include HiiiPower. That's my favourite song from it.

I like HiiiiPower, i think it's just a case that after Rigamortis, nothing compares to it. I've listened to the last few songs again and they are decent enough. I guess that my mind switches off after the excellence of Riga.

floggg · 11-10-2012 9:49pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I like HiiiiPower, i think it's just a case that after Rigamortis, nothing compares to it. I've listened to the last few songs again and they are decent enough. I guess that my mind switches off after the excellence of Riga.

After Rigamortus, Ab-Soul's Outro and Blow My High are my favourite songs on the album!

Love the screwed sample of Pimp C in Blow My High. Completely changes the tone and tempo from his Big Pimpin verse.

conor.hogan.2 · 11-10-2012 10:55pm

Huh just realized Timbo produced Big pimpin and 4 page letter.

floggg · 11-10-2012 11:07pm

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Huh just realized Timbo produced Big pimpin and 4 page letter.

I'd never heard 4 Page Letter before. That's dope the way he blends the two.

TDE have a habit of flipping lines from other songs like that and totally changing the tone and context of them - Schoolboy Q flips a line from Niggas in Paris on Nightmare on Figg Street, Ab-Soul takes a line from Ab-Soul's Outro for Illuminate on his own album, and then Blow My High.

Mr. Rager · 11-10-2012 11:57pm

floggg wrote: »

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Huh just realized Timbo produced Big pimpin and 4 page letter.

I'd never heard 4 Page Letter before. That's dope the way he blends the two.

TDE have a habit of flipping lines from other songs like that and totally changing the tone and context of them - Schoolboy Q flips a line from Niggas in Paris on Nightmare on Figg Street, Ab-Soul takes a line from Ab-Soul's Outro for Illuminate on his own album, and then Blow My High.

What's 50 grand to a mothafúcka like me can you please remind me? I'll remind ya! Really liking Q's shít these days.

And for the record, Blow My High is amazing

conor.hogan.2 · 12-10-2012 12:28am

"so what's 50 grand to a young guy like me? More than my annual salary"

Yasiin Bey destroyed that song.

Orizio · 13-10-2012 9:43pm

People should check out the Kendrick Lamar EP, its my favourite K.Dot project.

Mr. Rager · 14-10-2012 4:25pm

Imagine being there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0sWVjaIRo

mufcboy1999 · 15-10-2012 9:10pm

tracklist and production credits released, all the producers he has and he hasnt got 1 single dre beat !... so much for staying with the section 80 production team, like said.

1. Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter (Prod. By Tha Bizness)
2. B*tch, Don’t Kill My Vibe (Prod. By Sounwave)
3. Backseat Freestyle (Prod. By Hit-Boy)
4. The Art Of Peer Pressure (Prod. By Tabu)
5. Money Trees (Feat. Jay Rock) (Prod. By DJ Dahi)
6. Poetic Justice (Feat. Drake) (Prod. By Scoop DeVille)
7. good kid (Prod. By Pharrell)
8. m.A.A.d city (Feat. MC Eiht) (Prod. By Sounwave & Terrace Martin)
9. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended Version) (Prod. By T-Minus)
10. Sing About Me (Prod. By Skhye Hutch + Sounwave) / I’m Dying Of Thirst (Prod. By Like of Pac Div)
11. Real (Feat. Anna Wise) (Prod. By Terrace Martin)
12. Compton (Feat. Dr. Dre) (Prod. By Just Blaze)

Deluxe Bonus Tracks:

13. The Recipe (Feat. Dr. Dre) (Prod. By Scoop DeVille)

14. Black Boy Fly (Prod. By Rahki & Dawaun Parker)
15. Now or Never (Feat. Mary J. Blige) (Prod. By Jack Splash)
16. Collect Calls
17. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Prod. By T-Minus)

conor.hogan.2 · 15-10-2012 9:45pm

Even without a dre beat, I can't wait. Poetic justice better be a 2pac related track in order to balance out the drake-ness.

Mr. Rager · 15-10-2012 10:03pm

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Even without a dre beat, I can't wait. Poetic justice better be a 2pac related track in order to balance out the drake-ness.

Hopefully Drake is on the hook, in fairness he does very well on the majority of his hooks. Happy to see SDV is producing it, hopefully it's a banger like The Recipe. One of the tracks I'm most excited for on the album I'm most excited for.

conor.hogan.2 · 15-10-2012 10:41pm

Mr. Rager wrote: »

Hopefully Drake is on the hook, in fairness he does very well on the majority of his hooks. Happy to see SDV is producing it, hopefully it's a banger like The Recipe. One of the tracks I'm most excited for on the album I'm most excited for.

Yeah if only she stayed there it would be fine, but he will likely have an actual verse like he did with Game and others.

Master splinters daughter, nice missed that first time skimming it.

Boom_Bap · 16-10-2012 9:37am

Anyone know why track 16 Collect Calls has no production credit beside it?

The conspiracy theorist inside of me says that this might be a Dre beat....or is this one that has been released already?

jonneymendoza · 16-10-2012 11:37am

No Premo beats? damm. would have been nice to get Premo in. possibly even timbo

jonneymendoza · 16-10-2012 11:40am

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Huh just realized Timbo produced Big pimpin and 4 page letter.

do not underestimate Timbo. he is my fav producer but last few years he has been crap.

mufcboy1999 · 16-10-2012 7:45pm

track 3 backseat freestyle has leaked.... I dont know what to make of it to be honest, starts off good but soon fizzles out imo.

Have a feeling its going to be a let down, in terms of substance it wont have a patch on section 80... he's rapping about f*ck all in fairness, saw all the producers and feared for it straight away.. i hope im wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmUhwn3t8c

Paul1979 · 16-10-2012 7:48pm

my god that song is ****e.....horrible beat

Mr. Rager · 16-10-2012 8:53pm

CDQ Version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDgC1jrjvW8

mufcboy1999 · 16-10-2012 9:19pm

Sounds even worse, it's actually a horrible song that beat could of been so much better. Starts off like its a banger and then the cow bells take over and surprisingly Lamar bars are terrible.

PrettyBoy · 16-10-2012 9:33pm

Haven't listened to any of the recent leaks, just Compton and Art of Peer Pressure, waiting til Friday to listen to the album in full. It'll probably be the only CD I'll buy in 2012.

Paul1979 · 16-10-2012 9:37pm

not impressed so far at all, think the chorus on compton is really corny sounding and that backseat freestyle is the worst thing i have heard in a long time

conor.hogan.2 · 17-10-2012 12:15am

SDave chappelle hasn't got a patch on that 2pac impression, with biggies lyrics. Sounds meh, not very like him anyway.

Jesus, who was that? Sounds like there was there 12 different rappers on that track.

mufcboy1999 · 17-10-2012 9:13am

The snippets are out, can't post the link as im in work but its not being received very well.

His style and his sound has being a small bit commercially tailored, looking like this album could turn out like cole's , a complete let down.

How you can have a host of new producers and not have a single beat from one of the most legendary beat makers in hip hop who just so happens to be your boss is beyond me.

Maybe he should of had dre producing the album, he's a history of producing classic debuts.

bigpoppa · 17-10-2012 12:12pm

Argh another Cole in the offing my thoughts exactly

PrettyBoy · 17-10-2012 2:28pm

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

How you can have a host of new producers and not have a single beat from one of the most legendary beat makers in hip hop who just so happens to be your boss is beyond me.

Maybe he should of had dre producing the album, he's a history of producing classic debuts.

I remember talking about this here a while back, I was saying I wanted to hear Kendrick over a few Dre beats but a lot of people didn't think that Dre's beats and Kendrick's bars/flow would be a great match and I'd agree with them to an extent.

The whole TDE/Aftermath deal is a bit odd IMO, Dre has very little involvement in Kendrick's album, he contributed to the mixing and has a couple of verses that Kendrick wrote for him, that seems to be it? To me it looks like Dre is trying his best to "claim" Kendrick as his own - maybe it's because he hasn't introduced a relevant artist in nearly 10 years? The last big artist he can claim is The Game, introduced in 2003/2004. Aftermath hasn't done much since, releasing a few Eminem and 50 albums only. Now Aftermath is somewhat relevant again because of Kendrick and Dre contributed next to nothing to his album.

He hasn't done much in recent years besides selling and marketing headphones. Has he released any notable music in the last 5 years? Not really. No beats on his own artists debut album, surely a sign that he has well and truly fallen off?

Orizio · 17-10-2012 4:09pm

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

The snippets are out, can't post the link as im in work but its not being received very well.

His style and his sound has being a small bit commercially tailored, looking like this album could turn out like cole's , a complete let down.

How you can have a host of new producers and not have a single beat from one of the most legendary beat makers in hip hop who just so happens to be your boss is beyond me.

Maybe he should of had dre producing the album, he's a history of producing classic debuts.

...maybe he didn't have the option of Dre producing any tracks on the album, nevermind the entire ****ing thing? Dre is lazy as ****, nevermind the fact that his production hasn't been much good the past decade. I've no idea why anyone would look forward to a Dre beat in 2012.

And the snippets have been out for a week. And judging an album you haven't even heard yet is a joke, please stop.

Mikeyt086 · 17-10-2012 5:22pm

Make your own mind up about the album would be my suggestion.

If you read about people who think another Cole album is the result, then that will obviously be in your mind when listening. If you go in thinking the album is going to be a let down, then how are you going to enjoy it?

Wait till Friday, listen to the album, post your opinion.

PrettyBoy · 17-10-2012 5:35pm

Surprised the album hasn't leaked in full yet, the CD will be in stores in a day and a half.

Orizio · 17-10-2012 6:08pm

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

Make your own mind up about the album would be my suggestion.

If you read about people who think another Cole album is the result, then that will obviously be in your mind when listening. If you go in thinking the album is going to be a let down, then how are you going to enjoy it?

Wait till Friday, listen to the album, post your opinion.

That Hit boy track sounds messy...but that is no surprise since Hit Boy isn't up to much imo. Everything else sounds nice so far.

Paul1979 · 17-10-2012 9:05pm

its leaked

jonneymendoza · 17-10-2012 9:08pm

No this is Ironic, the same people who laughed at me for saying how Kendrick is nothing special are now dissapointed in what they have heard from kendrick's so called "BEST HIP HOP ALBUM EVER MADE"

Quite funny actually.

You can 9/10 tell by a mixtape/couple of lead singles how great a new artist will be and in this case, what he has brought is no ground breaking stuff.

Do u remember the first time u heard Nas rap? Eminem, Jayz, Biggie , tupac etc etc? i bet u was LIKE OMG WHAO WHAT IS THIS IM HEARING!! THIS BLOOMING AWSOME etc etc.

Did u lot feel the same with any of section 80's tracks or his lead singles recipe and swimming pool?

I diddnt. he is a good rapper, but he is not a great rapper from what i have heard so far. i think his maybe on par with GAME but thats about it.

In terms of production. well most i never heard of. I have not heard the tracks yet so i cant say they are crap producers but it seems of you do feel the producers in this album are sub par.

Why diddnt dj premo get involved? kanye and his crew? What about timbaland for christ sakes?

Umm why diddnt i mention Dr Dre? Well because as someone here stated, he hasnt brought out any bangers for years. if you thought Timbo fell off, Dr dre is even worse.

I stand by what i said though, best hip hop producer right now is Kanye and his crew.

I would so love to see kendrick on a kanye beat. to see what kendrick can really do but guess we will never know...

I will as i have said, listen to kendricks album before going about preaching "ha i told u so"

i will listen to it with a very open mind, give it lots of listening too and make a judgement.

Section 80 as said by me is a grower but even after listening it now, i would give it a 7/10. its decent but not classic, not masterpiece, far from it. no where near best hip hop album.

conor.hogan.2 · 17-10-2012 9:18pm

He is still easily one of the best rappers of the past several years.

Bobby Baccala · 17-10-2012 9:29pm

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Why diddnt dj premo get involved? kanye and his crew? What about timbaland for christ sakes?

Why should they? Premo isnt exactly known for working with up and coming west coast artists, he tends to stick closer to home, he hasnt done much on the west in comparison.

Kanye is producing very little at the moment in comparison to past years, he seems to be sticking to the people on his label

Timbaland produces very few hip hop tracks nowadays, dont think he's done a major hip hop song in years, and out of all producers you named i dont know what made you think he would work with Kendrick. His style would not suit kendrick at all

MD1990 · 17-10-2012 9:42pm

Album leaked

mufcboy1999 · 17-10-2012 9:54pm

Orizio wrote: »

...maybe he didn't have the option of Dre producing any tracks on the album, nevermind the entire ****ing thing? Dre is lazy as ****, nevermind the fact that his production hasn't been much good the past decade. I've no idea why anyone would look forward to a Dre beat in 2012.

And the snippets have been out for a week. And judging an album you haven't even heard yet is a joke, please stop.

whoa who's judging the album? stop making stuff up in your head. I said it sounds like it could be a let down, no one judges albums by snippets iv often said it here so don't try and make things up with your mod-mentality posts. PLEASE stop the swearing too, no need for it.

btw your theory on why dre isnt on the album is laughable, KL clearly turned down his beats and louis XIII is possibly one of the best beats of 2012 so far.

Everybody heard that I **** with Dre
And they wanna tell me, I made it
Nigga I ain't made ****
If he gave me a handout
I'm a take his wrist and break it

He is still easily one of the best rappers of the past several years.

without a doubt he is but iv listened to a few songs off the album and i can tell you from what iv heard so far its no section 80 by any means, in terms of substance its commercial themed everything from the lryics to the beats. The track with drake is fairly bad tbh too, nothing about the film either.

jonneymendoza · 17-10-2012 9:56pm

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Why should they? Premo isnt exactly known for working with up and coming west coast artists, he tends to stick closer to home, he hasnt done much on the west in comparison.

Kanye is producing very little at the moment in comparison to past years, he seems to be sticking to the people on his label

Timbaland produces very few hip hop tracks nowadays, dont think he's done a major hip hop song in years, and out of all producers you named i dont know what made you think he would work with Kendrick. His style would not suit kendrick at all

There are tracks in section 80 that reminded me of old timbal. Timbal can make a beat to suit kendrick

Orizio · 17-10-2012 10:07pm

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

btw your theory on why dre isnt on the album is laughable, KL clearly turned down his beats and louis XIII is possibly one of the best beats of 2012 so far.

Link? Source?

Bobby Baccala · 17-10-2012 10:10pm

jonneymendoza wrote: »

There are tracks in section 80 that reminded me of old timbal. Timbal can make a beat to suit kendrick

old is the keyword here, he has moved on, like most other producers that are trying to adjust to todays sound. And i have never heard him being called Timbal but hey, whatever you're into....

Paul1979 · 17-10-2012 10:17pm

sounds good so far

mufcboy1999 · 17-10-2012 10:17pm

Orizio wrote: »

Link? Source?

i showed you up already for replying to something i never said, thats enough conversation with you for one day.;)

PrettyBoy · 17-10-2012 10:24pm

I'm sure KL recorded several tracks with production by Dre but they just didn't suit the theme/sound of this album or they weren't his best work.

Same thing happened with that Lady Gaga track - it didn't work and they couldn't make it. No point forcing it.

mufcboy1999 · 17-10-2012 10:37pm

PrettyBoy wrote: »

I'm sure KL recorded several tracks with production by Dre but they just didn't suit the theme/sound of this album or they weren't his best work.

Same thing happened with that Lady Gaga track - it didn't work and they couldn't make it. No point forcing it.

exactly my point, id really doubt dre was "lazy" in terms of not even inputting some beats towards the album, especially towards one of his artists. Like you said the same thing happened with the gaga track.

jonneymendoza · 17-10-2012 10:37pm

Stupid ipad that's why lol

Bobby Baccala · 17-10-2012 10:39pm

Bollocks is Dre being lazy, he'd obviously give Kendrick beats if he wanted them, kendrick uses his beats, dre gets more dough, simples.

This isnt the first time in history somebody has turned down beats from a high quality producer, didnt Nas turn down an albums worth of beats from premo for his new album earlier in the year?

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