After maybe 4-5 listens, I have to agree with the Pitchforks review score

While I love what Kendrick has to say here, the great music moments are less than ideal for its overall runtime.

I think it could have been trimmed down a bit, and focused more..

First page not for sale

People are understandably hyped for a new Kendrick album, leading them to overrate the album IMO.

Finally, a new album that lives up to the hype after so many disappointments edit: from other artists

But!

It doesn’t mean it’s a perfect 10.

It’s an album after all, the music comes first, and it’s not perfect, especially compared against the actual 10/10 classic albums you listed

It's not hard to understand it's just trying to make his point more profound than it is

He coulda just said it's not pop instead of trying to sound like an academic

True, whiny liberal is a better description for a p4k writer, english is not my first language so socialist was the first thing that came to my mind tbh

Isn’t Kendrick’s whole thing making points more profound than it actually is?

Why is it when a reviewer does it, its suddenly him trying to sound like an “academic”.

You're assuming me having an opinion of Kendrick that I don't have but that's ktt ig so whatever

I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy, since they are both being paid to be profound.

Love all the evolutions

why do y'all care man that man gave that trash NBA Youngboy & Birdman album a 6.5, he gave KINGS DISEASE II 6.1, f***ing FLO MILLI a 7.5

that man clearly doesn't know s*** and just giving random scores at the end of the day

Haven't seen this one

Post some more

Nah this can't be real. This is what he considers real art

this thread is surprisingly very funny

It's not exactly a hypocrisy because I know Kendrick thinks some things are more profound than they are too, it has nothing to do with what i said anyway

its so weird how our brains think like this cause 7 should be above average (~5) in theory

anyways putting a number to an album is arbitrary 100% of the time

i'm convinced they close their eyes and point, i don't exactly have proof but I'm certain this is how they do it

Tbf antipop is actually it's own genre

Oh i googled it but only found an album titled that

Daily reminder that kanye have 12 classic album and yall need to stop calling another men but him the goat

there a reason we all on Kanye TT not Kendrick TT

So all these 5 star write ups were after like 2 spins

This is really a dumb way to think of things just cause America grades like this lmao.

5/10 is literally average 7/10 should be above average

always enjoy seeing the writers face plastered on a page randomly, for me this is the climax of these sorts of threads and decides where discussion goes next

bonus points if they look like mid-30 reddit regulars who look like they're reviewing s*** way out of their depth (ktt2.com/stereogum-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-fucking-sucks-37696/3)

how it should be

10/10 - Incredible
9/10 - Fantastic
8/10 - Great
7/10 - Really Good
6/10 - Good
5/10 - Decent/Meh
4/10 - Pretty Bad
3/10 - Bad
2/10 - Almost Nothing Redeemable
1/10 - Worthless