Drake stans in like the 29494930303th thread about this album "coming and going/being trash":

"shit is trash and will forever be trash! Came and went!"

"nope! in the future it'll still be trash! Nobody will ever like this trash!"

Kendrick sold better then Drake and Drake has to get 21 to even make a splash this year lmao

Couple years from now Kendrick will be a relic of the past

Morale was asscheeks and set Kendrick many steps back in terms of his legacy

Album came and went within the release weekend (arguably by Friday night!) and the only reason anybody still remembers that steaming pile of mysterious hogwash is because pgLang & CashApp teamed up to pay several Tweetdeck, high follower/engagement Twitter accounts to randomly tweet s*** like “Reminder: Mr Morale is the best album released in 2022.”

Very sad — imagine needing social media and chronically online Internet nerds tell you something is good, rather than realizing it yourself when you are outside drinking a spritzer with a mixed ting, which is exactly what happened to me with Her Loss. You can’t expect anybody that listens to Kendr297k Midmar to go outside, however!

Stop cosplaying this poster

Morale needed more songs like Rich Spirit, Silent Hill, Crown and N95. More than half of the album never getting played on the AUX

I love this album a lot, so many of the criticisms of it are so stupid and baseless. I hope he keeps making stuff like this from his heart he’s passionate about

Accept no imitation

And I love how Sounwave went in depth about how it was conceptualized basically entirely from someone alone in a room with a piano, it’s such an incredible execution of that idea to me. The piano has a character of its own

Makes so much sense. Link?

If that’s true I actually kind of respect the album less for not fully committing to that

I mean it does, it’s just more subtle and nuanced. When you listen with that in mind and pay attention to the pianos and the roles they play in the songs you can really see it

This whole interview is great tbh

“There was a heavy dose of live instrumentation on this album.

It didn’t start off that way. The more life happened, the more it became cut down to a point where a lot of what you heard lyrically from Kendrick was all done from pianos. Just piano riffs either from me or J Pounds or Bekon. It’s just literally a feeling that you get when you hear pianos. That’s why when you listen to this album, 98 percent of the song is going to have a piano in there. Literally the piano plays a very important part in the sonics of this. It has its own meaning to this album. And strings too. Strings and pianos, to me, you can’t go wrong. I had the task of creating a world that this artist is living in. And this world, for me at least, was a person stripped down of everything, locked into a white room with just their thoughts and a piano. And it is up to me to manipulate the piano enough to where you don’t get bored of it and you aren’t just going crazy hearing the same notes“

gq.com/story/sounwave-kendrick-lamar-mr-morale-big-steppers-interview/amp

I get it but I would’ve liked a more focused album that fully sounded like Crown and Mother I Sober tbh, only way the album disappointed me was I didn’t feel it was that distinct from DAMN sonically and I would’ve liked him really committing to a piano album more

I also know most people wouldn’t have liked that but yeah. United in Grief was another great use of it but there’s so many tracks that don’t feel like that concept

I feel like it’s a lot different from DAMN sonically tbh, I feel like that’s a problem people have with it too cus DAMN was so palettable even on songs like FEAR or DUCKWORTH. But I hear what you’re saying cus there’s definitely songs where it’s catering to the listener, people def wouldn’t have liked if the whole album was United in Grief/Crown esque songs. Keem influence/sound definitely plays a role as well

It sounds like most of the complaints about this album is because it doesn't "bump in the whip" (that saying is so played out). The same reason TPAB got all this contrarian pushback

Thank you 🙏

The fact that a bait thread this low effort and obvious got 14 pages is both my favorite and least favorite part of KTT2

Eminem having the top 3 hip hop album 20 years after it dropped that’s my goat

Yeah idk I have mixed feelings. The “catering” serves a purpose but I feel like the project could’ve got the message across better without it

solid project. savior interlude goes absolutely crazy though.

1st and the 15th!!!

Y’all Niggas ain’t old enough to remember witnessing greatness span generations and it shows

Watching legends like Jay and Nas drop projects for damn near 30 years str8 makes me optimistic about the future of the big 3

I could def see Kendrick pushing 50 on his KD s***

Nigga a legend he could never be washed my boy

this is super interesting revisiting the album the piano is definitely the main instrument on a lot of these beats I didn't know about the meaning of it tho that's cool