Nah, I don't mind Fantano. I disagree at times but he always explains himself. Plus Fantano probably a bigger Kendrick fan than me and I couldn't agree more with his review.

Every black man that does his blackness in a way we deem inferior is always criticized as the enemy or being help. I’m not about to give credit to white people for a Compton black man that decided he wanted to do music and excelled with positivity. Only two black men have reached this plateau with positivity and no gimmicks. Cole and Kendrick snd im not gonna allow myself to make it seem like they are some sell out.

I’m good on that narrative. Y’all can run with it.

Kendrick got the putlizer for that album which is hip hop history and one of the most critically acclaimed albums next to TPAB

Signed to the same record label, both appeal to the same crowd who otherwise wouldn't listen to hip-hop.

"If we can't respect ourselves how can we expect others to respect us", I'm good on it brother. I did enjoy this civil disagreement, as it was civil.

Waiting on what Kendrick will drop next just like you

the second part is not true at all.

Have you ever felt like, you finally got life
You finally got right? No longer a black sheep
Living off ya dreams like Christina uh-Milian
In the front seat of a convertible eloping to get married
What a feeling of overcoming the odds
It's like we just hit the lottery, my God
There must be a God, cause golly
You done made it through the fight while squabbling Ali
Now ya lifestyle's looking up and you escaped the crooked cuffs
And you ain't have to kill a nigga just to make a couple bucks
And she ain't have to go and f*** on everybody for a dollar
Making good decisions, got a independent business-mind
And both of y’all are steady grindin', doing it the legal way
Just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day
But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth
You must have joined the Illuminati just to ball out

Drake been supplying soundtracks to parties, clubs, cookouts, get togethers, vibe sessions, weddings that will be ingrained in everyone's memories forever, that is far more important to the public than some outdated so-called prestigious award that wanted to be hip, if anything it should have went to TPAB as that's the singular greatest hip hop album of all time, no?

Kendrick is a dude from Compton. Of course his discourse isn’t perfect. He has explained himself multiple times in interviews. He has given back more than enough. He has stood up to police violence. We just conveniently forget all of those things and remember what we want. He explicitly clarified that line was about him. And how he grew up wanting to kill black people and now he is mourning a black persons.

The same system that allows Trayvon to get killed and Zimmerman get off

Is the same system that encourages black on black. Violence.

DAMN. did that

Who was that from? That perfectly describes what we do to our own.

Didn't he semi backtrack on those statements? And please provide me some sources for him giving back, I just personally haven't seen it,

Got some Kenfolk mad in here

DAMN.

Pulitzer Prizes are not as important as 'vibe sessions'

Drake has classic songs for all occasions but he hasn't had a classic album in a long time. Talking about classic albums you gotta look at the album as a whole, and casual settings like that don't really play albums front to back

In all honesty can't y'all just enjoy the music and not seek validation from others?

More than half of KTT hates AWT, not gonna stop me from liking it.

Besides Kendrick and his label, who gives a f***? Really? Who gives a f***?

I feel that

Using outsiders as merits to rate an album is corny, if the next Kendrick album is trashed by critics, y'all are gonna say, "well they're wrong album is a classic, f*** the critics"

@aLIEN You getting off on these posts huh

Kendrick > Drake to me but Drake is great in his lane, as is Kendrick

They flip flopping

Why would the media show a black man giving back? Of course you never heard about it because that’s not what they want to be seen. You should know this.

They praise GKMC because it was a nigga boy doing nigga s***

As soon as TPAB came they criticized it called it critic bait because it was a nigga realizing his potential

Don’t sleep.

And his interview with rob mark man he said he wrote that third verse for him.

One of the many times he has given back :https: //www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/kendrick-lamar-global-citizen-festival-2016/

But anyway I digress I’m good on the hate of kendrick for secular reasons

You might think damn isn’t a classic but he isn’t being pushed as some messiah to black folk to pull the wool over our heads.