from Luke to Lukas

wait you were the one?????

Need that Burger King Kunta phone call.

they accidentally put the clean version on itunes a week before the release date, that’s how it got leaked right?

One of two classics. TPAB and GKMC

First listens like this will never happen again :(

Pretty hard to be hyperbolic about this album. The rapping, the musicianship, the production and sound engineering, the songwriting were all done at the absolute highest level.

One of my favorite pieces of art I’ve ever known.

Too early to say, but you can tell with GNX that he had a fun time making it.

And that doesnt always translate to “great” album but you can tell he was just a lot moree freer and looser on gnx than most albums.

The thing with everything around tpab from the album to the shows, everything was frigging rigid and strict. While that mindset gave us some of the best live rap performances ever, i can see that s*** being draining.

Seeing those live vids tpab era inspired me as an artist to get my s*** together, and that s*** is draining to do for the few times i perform. Imagine having to do that for a whole year.

He’s more relaxed now. I can see that influencing other ppl views of that album

Probably my favourite Kendrick album

Those albums are landmark albums in a genre, of course it'll never be at those levels.

But even the amount of change up on MM in the last few years compared to the month it dropped?

GKMC, DAMN, and GNX the only albums in his discography that were overly loved on 1st listen tbh.

we talk about momma so much but that ENDING bro

MAYBE I'M PARANOID (HA!) MAYBE I DONT NEED YOU ANYWAY

DON'T LIE TO ME I'M SUICIDAL ANYWAYS

(like bro you can tell this was a soul-crushingly brutal album to make .)

But THAT's how you rap when the rent is f***ing due.

(full version of said verse) 4:00-onwards

this man's live performances from 2014-2015 are better than most rappers entire careers

My first listen to this album was unforgettable

His best/one of the greatest albums ever. Incredible music.

I remember this dropped earlier than it was supposed to on a sunday night I believe. First album I’ve ever heard high. Twitter was fun that night too. What a time

Troy ave Stan is pathetic

I remember I wanted untitled 3 on this so bad, those Colbert performances are so classic

Classic album man

Imma have the Compton swap meet by the White House

Both of those albums are by the same rapper though, why can it never be at those levels? If you say you saw the turnaround in reception to TPAB and you're expecting similar to happen for MM, that seems like you're expecting the end result of MM's reception to be at a similar level of TPAB's

How did it highlight Kendrick wasn’t wit the s***s to you? I think people misconstrue that message as “respectability politics” but as a nigga from a similar environment with heavy gang influence, I understand where his thought process was.

Do I believe police brutality and racism would stop if gang violence stopped? Not necessarily but I do think we got bigger enemies to focus on then beefing over blocks niggas don’t own S*** in my city a cop just got killed because we got 14 year olds heavy in the streets and lil bro was just tryna protect himself because his side is at war, he ain’t know nor felt like he had the time to wait to figure out if wit was opps or the jump out boys. Crazy to say he was acting off “instinct” in a way. It’s deeper than just “respecting each other” yeah but it’s a start.

This era is when Kendrick really elevated as a live performer imo. Imagine Dragons Grammys performance his breath control was still doodoo, seen him live early 2014 too and thought the same thing. But he popped off at every Untitled performance he did during this time before TPAB's release. Even got the audio from the Untitled 08 one saved on my phone

2pac talking about it's gonna be murder in the streets and niggas might eat the rich on some cannibalism s*** and Kendrick replies by saying all we got left is "good vibes through the music"

it's way simpler than you making it out to be.

tremendous album

Best rap album oat