Kendrick is quite possibly the smartest and greatest hip hop artist ever so I can't see him not making a classic.

why are you saying that as if The Big Day didn't deserve it lol

From what we've seen, kendrick cares about critics and his legacy more than anything so there's no way he drops an album that isn't perfect lmao

Doubt it. It'll be hailed as a masterpiece

Quite the opposite. Kendrick could release WLR and it will be hailed

I find this to be a very remote possibility, especially when it comes to a Kendrick album but let's see

Drake bad

Lol

tbh, kendrick seems to know how to make flawless music from an objective standpoint...artists that have that rare ability usually dont lose it

If Damn is radio bait then wtf is Scorpion

^ then wtf is every single drake project

They did this with TPAB

Doubt it

He already had it with tpab people got it out their systems

Hes kinda is the jay z territory where everything will be celebrated at this point unless its really bad

true, drake fans tried to drag tpab but they still failed as tpab is now considered the best album of the 2010s and one of the best albums of all time in any genre

Great albums always, ALWAYS end up getting acclaimed and s*** albums always end up getting critically panned. No exception.

This.

Kendrick's next album will most likely be another classic, because thats what the man does

sure , oh except from Paul's Boutique, Metal Machine Music, Velvet Underground and Nico, Drukqs, 808s and Heartbreak, Houses of the Holy, Souvlaki, Pinkerton, In Utero, A Love Supreme, Black Sabbath 1970, Pink Moon, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Exile on Main Street, The Ramones, Pinkerton, Paranoid, Are You Experienced, Led Zeppelin, Harvest, Blood on the Tracks, Nevermind

pretty much every album that has made a dent on modern culture, meanwhile there are whole articles of music journalists retracting their praise just one year after the "critic-proof" TPAB came out

hiphopdx.com/news/id.37916/title.kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-one-year-anniversary-celebrated-by-genius#

Nobody has retracted s*** lmfao, these same journalists have admitted it was still the best album of the last decade...and one of the guy retracting his praise 1 year later took on twitter 3 months ago to say he finally understands why TPAB could be considered as the greatest album in history. Nice try though.

Some do admit they personally don't enjoy it that much, but they can still make the difference between "an objectively outstanding album" and "something they personally and subjectively enjoy or not". Like P.T. said in 2017, Tpab is not for him, but he can still admit it is the greatest hip hop album he ever heard.

oh and

edit: and all the albums you listed are still not an exception...I appreciate your subjective tastes, but doesn't change s***.

"Albums are only good if critics say so"

Def gonna happen with Drake of Kdot

it's actually true, I don't think I've ever seen a good album that was panned by critics Some of these albums did make an impact on the game but that still doesn't make them good lol

and I've never heard a bad album that was acclaimed

I haven't enjoyed his music since GKMC, just a song here and there.

Will listen though.

Maybe Kendrick just isn’t for you.