in the words of the great lu
https://twitter.com/lupefiasco/status/1524987372806344705Damn and he a big hater
lol i remember wathcing this live
iconic hip-hop moment
even the line about cancel culture
to me, when he says "What the f*** is cancel culture, dawg?" he's mocking the fact that people are so scared of this abstract thing called cancel culture
i don't think it's intended as some quasi-IDW jeremiad at all
because he follows it up with "Say what I want about you niggas, I'm like Oprah, dawg"
he's not afraid of this, he thinks its vaguely pathetic to fearmonger while at the same time reserving his right to speak freely
a stance that rejects the "cancel culture is bad"/"its called accountability" dichotomy and so should make both "sides" mad
i dunno if i'd say that. i agree it's clearly not some conservative twitter bs, but other than that i do think it's supposed to reject that dichotomy but also just voice how annoyed he is with discourse in general. he clearly is just fed up with everything in mainstream culture at large, look at verse 3 of worldwide steppers. i think it's basically like "yeah cancel culture is annoying but i also hate the response to it just as much". he also goes off on virtue signaling and stuff later in the album but then s***s on the actual underlying culture itself
a true album for the ascended "both sides" big brains
kendrick should make every musician wanna step their pen up
he did it, heart 5 reactions by rappers proved it
Kendrick stole my WHOLE
F***ing flow bro
I believe you
lol i remember wathcing this live
iconic hip-hop moment
Rocky really is a danger near a mic when it's not music
I think Drogas Wave is a better double album than this off first listen, like while this album is cool it doesnt have anything on the level of Manilla, King Nas, Sun God Sam, and Mural Jr.
Drogas wave again
bro stop
Is there another album dropping next week? This had to of been a decoy album
rock album next week
You be at his shows making sure cacs ain't saying nigga. It's just a word in a song
how is that the same? artists have the absolute authority to use any word they want in a song if the art is good and it's justified in the narrative (which in kendrick's case, it is). let's see these libs on twitter try to make a work of art they could never lmao
on my second listen
i know there's an overarching concept here but i can't really pinpoint what it is
i'm questioning whether this is overproduced
it was
Is there another album dropping next week? This had to of been a decoy album
yeah NATION. is dropping in a few
heart 5 is mid and im glad the album doesn't sound like it, not like it was ever going to tho
In the heart part 3 he literally calls himself hip hops savior
He was trying to make a bag bro
Yooooooooo I remember this lmao Rocky really an obnoxious hood nigga underneath it all smh