That seems really specific but if that's the case I understand why you're disappointed then

Hate to say it, but that couldn't be me. Esp cause we cry together one of my favorite rap songs ever tbh

Kendrick never had a straight up trash song on an album like that before. He set the bar high. He deserves the hate for we Cry Together alone, it’s ass and the fact he put that out is crazy to me

he not gonna be mainstream ever tho they barely let Trav lmao bro had to get with a Kardashian sister

Antidote + Kylie = Trav career

Yeah its a huge difference lol it was top 3 of the yeat it dropped along with outselling cole and hnm from drake.

Thats a huge deal lol.

And most rappers do terrible when they comeback years later - kendrick doing good & travis the only one probably in history with the outlier.

No the album did great and did an average of kendrick.

Gkmc is 230k fw and tpab 340k fw - this sits right in the middle, while if youre counting it, it did better than the ep and bp soundtrack - only damn being the major outlier which had the biggest mainstream push out of them all.

It is not a flop nor doing bad factual & made the biggest tour, a personal opinion is an opinion.

And it still makes him top 5 selling rap artists with on of the few artists (told by billboard and streamings) that is actually keeping "rap alive" with its sales - yes his whole discog but mmbs included which is still doing fine.

The artists "keeping rap alive" are gunna, future, drake & travis. While everyone else is selling low 200k and under with not much staying growth power consistently.

And also most album stream sales are down including drake (hmm did low 200k, the collab was somewhere near iirc & fatd did 400k which is all low for drake) which is a huge market factor that bolster the "rap is dying" sales wise agrument by labels and billboard - again only outlier is Travis.

Sure you can say its a disappointment or perhaps its lower than some of his releases, but its still did good & is still consistently doing fine. Which most kendrick albums n projects besides Damn due good/fine in their fw but way more make up for it by outpacing everyone else by the end of the year. Him & Drake are the only ones that stay consistent through the year(s) with a release (just that drake also has the explosive fw on top of it as well.

Which again, is normal, such as gkmc being the number 1 most streamed rap album overall while take care is not far behind.

His albums are nothing but legs thay keep moving. Its factual data-wise bro. Including mmbs.

^ ayo chill

I think more of the fact that his music is mid for the most part

He’s successful in his niche but outside of that what makes him different then any other rapper in his gen that has the same subject matter

I f*** with you but this is a wild ass take to me

I haven't sat through a full listen of We Cry Together since the day that album dropped

Let me have an opinion damn

I go out of my way to play that track on my CD very often ngl

Thread been making me cry since brunch 😂 y’all niggas is so funny and energetic.

That s*** fire. I like how their cadences balance with the beat

That one song doesn’t make the whole album trash tho. With that take then almost every album is trash

then how do you explain drake

You definitely got a point but I’m always speaking relative to Kendrick

Of course he’s one of the biggest acts in rap still. And he will remain near the top of the field for a while no matter what he does at this point because he’s cemented.

But I just expected more from a comeback. If it wasn’t going to be as big of a mainstream effort as damn then I at least wanted a fully realized album with no concessions or attempts at bangers if you’re going to make a therapy album. By trying to do both it’s almost like it cancelled each other out and wasn’t as massive commercially as damn but also not as praised by the music community as the other albums. So it is kind average or middle of the road for him in a lot of ways

Savior the one for me off that album Mr Morale, give me high five

I don’t think the album is trash. It’s actually good but just not great/amazing. Anyone saying that is just being hyperbolic but it’s a low point for Kendrick.

Yall derailed the thread We're supposed to be talking about how Keem too ugly and short to be making songs about b****es, not Kendrick

Sound wise it's all great, but mashing in that dark realistic storyline to it just hits every note for me

It’s true, Keem has the opposite of aura

Keem trash end of discussion

Nah f*** that nigga using an alt tryna get a hit thread. We taking over

Rappers were always cool like you almost wanted to be like them

No one wants to be Baby Keem. The whiny little cousin of an alien voiced manlet

I think OP is just stupid

If Keem was like 5’7 the thread would be way more valid but he’s a 6 footer