You are thinking mainstream music has to sound a certain way to be considered mainstream when mainstream deals with how someone hears it for the first time not its sound nor its lyrics

Radio , tv appearance ,

Friend of a friend or “ hey listen to immortal technique “ isn’t mainstream

Turning on your tv is mainstream and the beauty of Kendrick is he delivered something you would normally have to dig for to the mainstream

It’s revisionist history dawg, none of these niggas were tapped in back then so i get it but still

Thats what I meant when I said mainstream album in the og post but niggas arguing semantics

Yes it is

these niggas on 808 brainrot.

Niggas don’t remember when graduation dropped and people started saying Kanye sold out because he started making mainstream music 😂.

it’s not about the sound it’s about how you got to consuming it

I REGULARLY WAS HAVING ARGUMENTS WITH PATHETIC PIXELS NIGGA STOP IT.

Bro

GKMC and DAMN are still on Billboard

TPAB right now is not

That s*** was not made for the mainstream

It’s a classic album but in no way shape or form was it made to be popular

Ever since I argued with niggas about Tanna cause they chose to believe a random source like this, I given up tryna convince people to just be patient. “Stay focused 🤓”

people being stupid in tandem doesn't mean their right lol.

Yall young you don’t get it

If fye was open tpab at front of store being promoted and people doing a release party isn’t mainstream what is ?

Wouldn't this still just make it a mainstream album release that's maybe critically divisive?

It's a Kendrick Lamar studio album.

How is an album with an album signing , world wide release , everyone discussing mortal man , performed all on the tv not mainstream ?

niggas bought two copies of that album at Kingston mall like a lot of yall niggas itt really weren't outside.

The same people that say "TPAB a jazz album" because of ONE interlude lol. I hate yall frfr.

you think that’s all the Jazz there lol?

@fader was WLR mainstream?

Is the world black and white to you niggas

Just because the nigga made rap music that isn’t bullshit for clubs and radio doesn’t make it not mainstream and if it’s not mainstream or underground tell me what magical word you are going to make for it ?

Concious rap can have a mainstream feel

Common , Lupe and many more exist

Be for real

Wesley Theory a banger too, real ones know

At the time, no

If you’re doing something that challenges the status quo, it’s not mainstream

I say this as a nigga who remembers buying the cd in person lol

Yes and we are arguing when Kendrick made the album he consciously knew it was something that the casual fan wouldnt spin in the whip. That’s all @fader is saying.

Kendrick made DAMN. and released HUmBLe, Love, DNA, and Loyalty as singles because he wanted it to be more commercially viable.

TPAB single was a different version on the album lol. The other single was TBTB and alright lol

When he made tpab he specifically said he is doing 8 intimate shows because he didn’t make the album for everyone. He made it to be enjoyed in that setting by a smaller group of people.

TPAB went diamond in my library

That doesn’t make it a mainstream album