yea for sure

gkmc was great.

i remember the exact bed i was in and the exact text this girl sent me. shawty was kinda hit, but she was cool. told me if i knew kendrick but i aint really know his s*** like that.

she sent me sing about me and i was obsessed. off that song alone, i felt like he was the goat. i couldn't even get to dying of thirst, bc sing about me literally changed my life.

i was living in south side jamaica back then, s*** was a diff life. felt like my whole life was robbed from me and had no vision for the future.

that song just captured that hopelessness you feel living in the hood so perfectly and the plight of the black artist to recognize all the heartbreak that is our existence. idk man, that song still strikes me the same way it did all those years ago as a young nigga just dreaming about leaving.

but to pimp a butterfly came out when i was a lil older, lil wiser, and it just completely reinvigorated me. it was like a year after i moved out south jamaica, so i was going through a whiplash of socioeconomic mobility moving into a suburb. this album came at a perfect moment and captured a different feeling of leaving people behind for the sake of progressing yourself. captures the narcism, the guilt, the sadness, the anger.

kendrick the goat idc, idk why anyone else gets discussed. kanye (was) sonically years ahead of everybody, but man kendrick is the whole package. these songs still mean the world to me after all these years.

I still tear up listening to U 6 years later. Its not even about me relating to his exact situation but more so relating to that black pit of despair that comes with feeling like you failed yourself, your family, your friends

Plus the last line hits so f***ing hard I still get goosebumps

This the album that put kendrick in my top 5 and DAMN solidify that spot

This put him in the top 5

DAMN solidified him as Top 1

10/10 album no hyperbole

deadass i was living in the middle of f***ing atlanta when this s*** dropped and even hood niggas was f***ing with it heavy

delivery is so f***ing crazy on this

and the screams...

classic without being corny, idk how he does it

One of the best albums of the 2010s - C L A S S I C

1 week classic.

incredible album

will never ever understand how people can clown on it

damn this s*** hit you hard then especially when Kendrick talking about coming back home.
feel the same man.

Da evils of loosie was all around me

This will be considered one of the greatest compositions of music ever created.

Exactly bro, I’m from Baltimore and niggas out there was loving this s***.

Along with the riots happening tpab was all that was getting played at the time

oh yeah bro my grandma still live out there, that's who i was living with.

crazy place but it's def home in a way i can't explain with words...

BINGO

f*** with damn but this deserved the pulitzer

but f*** yt ppl awards!

We want the funk !

Momma first verse is other words
Then be follows it up with an equally exceptional verse 2

you know an album is great when you get that feeling "this is why I love music".

Only other album released that decade on the same level of vision is MBDTF and I prefer TPAB

I'm from Paterson and, honestly, this album didn't get as much love as GKMC and Drake/Cole/Future were way more popping than Kendrick out here in 2015.

That said, there's different types of rap fans, both Black and White, so it's kind of weird for people to say "Well only White/Black people like so and so."

And TPAB is definitely Kendrick's magnum opus even though I personally prefer GKMC. If Kendrick drops another album like this, he'd be solidified top 10 DOA for sure.