So funny seeing people take the Kendrick alts bait lol

What a horrible take.

I remember I used to make it a personal challenge to try and match every word without breath breaks like he did back in middle school

Lmaoooo I used to do this too

You definetly didn’t grow up with Kdots music

GKMC one of the best albums ever. Easily my favorite Kendrick album ever

hol up still my favorite kendrick song

damn bro

if only there was a way to listen to old kendrick

Easily

“you lack musical knowledge”

a lot of people have musical knowledge, they just dont see music as a battle for ultimate complexity/complex arrangements, they see it as something for the soul

They understand this s*** is isnt a chord-substitution d***swinging contest, it’s about whether this s*** makes you feel something or not

i know that post had nothing to do with me, but it just bothers me when i see people say s*** like that

saying tpab is his best album just because of the “complexity of the music/arrangements” has to be the worst/most foolish arguments one could make

and im not even saying it isnt his best album either

I prefer TPAB & DAMN Kenny tbh

His music felt more natural and heartfelt to me back then

Now that I think about it, DAMN is his worst album imo

Certain Kendrick stans on here need to cut this pretentious s*** out They can't even explain what they mean when pressed about it, I'm still waiting for explanations on what makes LOVE and GOD so musically superior

there is no argument between section 80 and tpab lmao

I get what you mean but this is only looking at it from one side.

You can really enjoy and prefer technical music. TPAB has a lot of really unique and technical instrumentation on it (for a mainstream album) and if that's something you enjoy, you're obviously gonna have more respect for that album.

I don’t know what happened to him but it’s crazy how much fame made him lose the sense of fun he had

U.u is close though

To answer the thread, I think TPAB is his best project so far. DAMN was a step below GKMC and TPAB but I wouldn't say its bad or a fall off in any way. However I do miss his old energy, it seems like he had less pressure on him and was more free to not be so serious all the time.

If you want examples of what I mean, compare his Nardwuar interview to post TPAB interviews. He clowned Nardwuar about his voice at one point and imitated him I can't picture Kendrick doing s*** like that now. That video of paparazzi following him and he took his phone out and started asking them questions like they were doing to him. I get it because there's more eyes on him now, but I really miss this side of him

Its reflected in his music too, it feels like every track has its place in the story he's trying to tell on his albums. The lyrics on those tracks are more dedicated to delivering a story instead of just bars. Like I can listen to tracks like these and appreciate them as individual pieces of work.

Every time I listen to Money Trees, I think of how its linked to The Art of Peer Pressure and there's a skit at the end to remind me its just part of a bigger story. Not saying that its a bad thing, but he's definitely got less quotable bars now. S*** like "Since my uncles was institutionalized, My intuition had said I was suited for family ties"

"I know some rappers using big words to make their similes curve, My simplest s*** be more pivotal"
Ironically, he's become what he referred to in the first line. Not saying its a bad thing and I completely understand why but I do get what people mean when they say they miss how he used to be Its kinda like people who prefer old Tyler compared to new Tyler, but a lot more subjective because the earlier Kendrick era wasn't extremely cringe and inappropriate

The people that are saying that are all the same person controlling alts. He basically uses alts to regurgitate this s***. He did it on ktt1, he does it on TheColi. I joined ktt1 during TPAB era and it was like this lmao