Where do you think Kendrick is going next, both thematically and sonically?

The end of Mr Morale made me feel like he's done with hiphop and the "game"... but on Hillbillies he seems to be having fun again, and seems to have gotten back his old sense of humour.

Will he insist on releasing cohesive concept records like GKMC/TPAB/DAMN/MTBS? Or will he be more loose and playful with the music?

i think he'll experiment in production but keep concepts and lyrics light and comforting

i don’t think we’re getting another kendrick project i feel like they’ll drop a PGlang album and then he’ll go the 3 stacks route and just do features here and there

Easily digestible album like DAMN imo

And it will probably drop next year

Could potentially be a collab project with Keem

it’s clear he needs to go back to the drawing board after the the last one

nah, he aint ending on a stinker

Why?

It went platinum and produced the highest selling rap tour ever.

Yes. He'll have to do one of those. Couple Humble-tier tracks for the charts..

it was so bad it turned kendrick stans into sales experts like drake stans, yawn

if it was good we would be speaking on it's musical merit not it's commercial record

Why?

He hasnt done that yet.

If anything after Damn it would have been the perfect time to steer away, but he didnt.

People have been saying this since TPAB but been wrong.

I dont think he'll go "hardcore" like TPAB, but like Damn n MMBS he'll keep it concept heavy & "worthwhile", while having a handful of mainstream/radio/club songs. As a good inbetween.

Some people think TPAB "changed" him, but thats wrong - hes been like this since OD and especially since Sxn80. This is him and this is his music. Since always.

He'll just probably wont coat it in as much mainstream cover up like GKMC nor go as "hard" as TPAB again - at least not for a while.

MMBS still did incredibly well & produced the hightest Rap tour ever so far - so there is no money incentive to switch either.

He is still the 2nd to 3rd best selling Rapper outside. While doing what he wants overall.

I mean it’s a phenomenal album

As seen by the packed arenas singing along on tour.

Twin

He can go hardcore again if he can successfully pull off a super mainstream project with some radio hits again. The album after that could be "hard" again... I feel like that's been his strategy

"experimental"
guy needs to alienate his fanbase again with more weird music, ain't no time for chasing hits after the combined success of damn and morale

He will reference 2Pac

It was good

I liked it a lot

he gotta think for himself by now

I think the next album will be less conceptual, more accessible, will perform better commercially and probably critically than Morale but people will say he sold out or is doing this because morale was a flop

Basically DAMN. era again

leave those ghost-written in fridge ready for baby keem to make his fanbase feast pls

This made me think about how Kendrick has built such an incredibly diverse discography that even if his next album is all 'fun' s*** like people are saying (etc hillbillies) it would still be different from all of his other albums. That's greatness right there

Its honestly wild after a 5 year hiatus and being mostly out of the public eye that MMBS was still able to keep up with drakes collab & Travis' project lol.

The 3 most successful of the decade so far - HMs to Gunna & Kanye.

eh i also see this happenin but it would be a timeline i'm not a fan of

I think Kendrick pretty much has a cycle

Super thoughtful and introspective album that gets a lot of his chest then a more fun and accessible album that still addresses heavy themes

Sxn 80 (Introspective)
Gkmc (Accessible)
Tpab (introspective)
Damn. (Accessible)
Mr Morale (introspective)
Next album (accessible)