https://genius.com/discussions/323571-The-problem-with-kendrick-lamar?cf_chl_jschl_tk=f352782d276d4f154f6f7c0da76dd2d0e901a120-1580824354-0-Aet0qIOVnoz_J5QRi91nSLR6subj40j85pNv0F16GwHScbs9Y5QFVyEf4_ula4nYAC86Ngl1HW5boiB14bQWVfXbH4UylQrHArSIy4O1ULfWpnGnP4xzoyA-SWWiurNWPhxJLnSGZvJ-5DiZFYk9bASuQTqrfG9hTozX2Zr5-VV4XJUzn1pQ2GxiRqJmHYIaITq4oEh6doJ33gheC20Tvw7JpRttDB0fJsauaTsiLc452PCbF28hP6MaOa1WHhtyMr-nZam4otZTf4dxVSvIKcIAzgLCWqLn1D8r95pmw4y8bzzr3kXvEUN1ju1U9L1FyOMKdcb6AhGmTv-n1J2Pya9biXgu8EYg656_Ls50QIVKJgmPpyzJZl7SwGV-5FckSPuGV32-1N_kBSSAp6iXh3c

Just searching on the web what toc means and this thing appears

Hopsin spazzin on this one

Aye they got some gems on here

F*** is you talkin' to?
Ayy, do you know who you talkin' to?
Slide on you like fallen drapes
God toss full of carnivals

"in the song he describes the ingredients to said pie"

And Russia need a replay button, y'all up to somethin'
Electorial votes look like memorial votes
But America’s truth ain’t ignorin' the votes

Im f***ing cryinf bro

"Here is the thing, Kendrick suffers from something that could be called Esoteric Syndrome. He has a habit of saying really simple concepts in the most complex, wordy, subliminal way he possibly can to come off as deep or smart, but it just ends up coming off pretentious and conceited when forced or done incorrectly."

"It’s no doubt that Kendrick is a professional wordsmith, but the flaw in all these cryptic lines is that he fails to give enough context for the listener to unravel exactly what it is he is trying to convey. Either Kendrick has not mastered this technique, or he’s just not writing quality verses for whatever reason. Like Logic."

yall ever use genius.com? jw

I just use it as a lyric site, I dont read the interpretations

You have a JPEG avi, we don’t expect you to be literate bro

the fact that you think being able to hear words audibly is what literate means is hilarious ngl

Literally proving my point crine

20 44s
24 kobe bryant
many of kobes like clones
idk it doesn't make sense tbh

now you think literate means smart?

Stop sniffing castor oil bro

Learn to read bro

his PRIDE song sounds deep asf but i tried my best & couldn't understand what tf he meant

Even if it is, its nobodies fault that Kendricks enunciation of TLC sounded like TOC.

When DAMN dropped the Kendrick stans on KTT created an entire theory of what "TOC" could mean.

It definitely was a common thought that he said TOC, though, so I cant put that on the listener.

@Nisala @ ing you to get avy

Say less

Kendrick is overall arguably the best rapper of this generation but a lot of s*** in this thread is so true lmao...

And Lyrically Kendrick really doesn’t sound that other worldly and his bars were more raw back in the day on projects like Overly Dedicated. I think To Pimp A Butterly was his peak lyrically..

But he has been rambling more and more lately lol.

This can be done to any rapper

Aight, see this is actually poetic my g.

all these features he been doing since GKMC are the opposite of this.

But that's like some 90s/2000s Scarface let me paint a picture for you vivid bars son.

highkey the era they came up in being one of the weakest in hip hop history gave leeway for niggas to become "exceptions"

He kinda went into his christian/hebrew bag on that one.

That's actually one of the recent features that made sense my g.