thegreatdivine

2y

K-Thots so delusional, they think anyone not riding Kendrick's d*** is on Drake's payroll

Oh and btw, Alphonso has spent a lot more time s***ting on Drake and everything he does than he's ever done s***ting on Kendrick.

thegreatdivine

2y

Actually, no. I wanted an entire album of Kendrick talking his s*** and taking a victory lap, not crying about some people who didn't ride his d*** all summer. That's like Drake winning his battle with Meek and then on track 1 of WATTTBA, he's calling out certain industry folks who didn't publicly back him. That's p**** s*** anyway you slice it.

ice cold

2y

Look, I get it. Not everyone is going to agree with my take, and that’s part of the job. When I review an album, I’m not writing to confirm your bias or cater to fandoms—I’m giving you my honest perspective, backed by years of listening to and studying music. That’s the gig.

Kendrick is undeniably one of the most important artists of our time, but not everything he drops is above critique. GNX is ambitious, no doubt, but ambition doesn’t automatically equal greatness. My review wasn’t about tearing him down; it was about engaging with the music critically. If that didn’t line up with your feelings about the album, cool—we’re allowed to disagree.

But let’s be real: the energy some of y’all bring to these threads makes it clear you don’t want reviews; you want validation. That’s not what I’m here for. Let the music speak for itself, and if you think I’m off the mark, fine—but at least try to engage with the points instead of coming with pitchforks. Respectfully.

Swayzomad

2y

So wait not only are you wrong about what he said, but now you saying that's what he done throughout all 12 tracks and you say you're not a hater?

But I get it now, you're upset he didn't do a victory lap (like he didn't already do that with the pop out), it's clouding your judgement

thegreatdivine

2y

Album should outsell Mr. Morale so that's a W, I guess.

ice cold

2y

Look, I get it. Not everyone is going to agree with my take, and that’s part of the job. When I review an album, I’m not writing to confirm your bias or cater to fandoms—I’m giving you my honest perspective, backed by years of listening to and studying music. That’s the gig.

Kendrick is undeniably one of the most important artists of our time, but not everything he drops is above critique. GNX is ambitious, no doubt, but ambition doesn’t automatically equal greatness. My review wasn’t about tearing him down; it was about engaging with the music critically. If that didn’t line up with your feelings about the album, cool—we’re allowed to disagree.

But let’s be real: the energy some of y’all bring to these threads makes it clear you don’t want reviews; you want validation. That’s not what I’m here for. Let the music speak for itself, and if you think I’m off the mark, fine—but at least try to engage with the points instead of coming with pitchforks. Respectfully.

quadra

2y

Alphonse got on here and cooked yall? Lmao

LUKAS

2y

nah it aint him lol

he did cook though

quadra

2y

I don't see why it wouldn't be

Sab probably got him an account

Smacked Voodoo

2y

It's not a good review because it's hardly even about the music lol it's mostly just projection, digs at Kendrick as an artist/person, and claims that Kendrick only leaned into the West Coast sound to spite Drake despite Kendrick making it extremely clear throughout his entire career the West Coast sound greatly influences him.

thegreatdivine

2y

I'd have given the album a 7 but I'm not mad at this score. It's definitely interesting seeing Kendrick fans be so bothered whenever he does anything and it isn't immediately followed by worldwide praise and adulation. Just goes to show how little criticism he's ever had to deal with.

That's why track 1, Kendrick was crying about Snoop Dogg and Wayne not kissing his ass. He legit thinks those are valid things to be that upset about lol.

YunoKilometers

2y

drake stans itt all of a sudden caring about critic reviews

Millz

2y

there goes their credibility

class wario

2y

There's plenty of a***ysis of the music and the background is generally relevant or useful context given what preceded this album. I don't think it's necessarily unfair to tie kendrick leaning into the west coast stuff to the beef either, whether you want to see that as a pejorative or observation is down to personal preference I guess.

As I said, I think it's pretty obvious that Alphonse is not a particularly big kendrick fan and I would assume he finds him self important or something. His articles in the past would lead me to believe he likes more street rap style stuff with pronounced regional elements - you would think he likes this more as a result but tbf he says he wishes the features got more prominence. He clearly also sees drake as a sort of larger than life figure in the genre and doesn't really take him all that seriously which leads to him not really slamming his musical output, for better or worse. So yeah, I would take his particular views on kendricks work with a little bit of salt but I think it's ridiculous for ppl to get majorly offended by this too: I think it makes for interesting food for thought and god forbid somebody doesn't think every kendrick albums a 10/10!

PALESTINE DATTEN

2y

WHO GIVES AF ABOUT PITCHFORK