Here is the attention you are dying for.

Using Metacritic or the Grammy's to claim that Kendrick has a better discography than Hov or other OG rappers like Nas or Wayne doesn't tell the whole story.

4:44, Life Is Good, and C2 may not be more critically acclaimed than DAMN but I still wouldn't say DAMN is better than them.

Doesn't take away from Kendrick being a great rapper and artist. He's in my top 10 but ya'll gotta chill with falling back on critics and the Grammy's then switching your opinion when Good News gets high ratings and the Weeknd gets snubbed...lol.

I don’t care what you would personally take. Hov doesn’t have an album that is as good as TPAB

The highs on damn are much higher though with more highlights imo.

Critical acclaim has always been used historically as a metric for hip hip though.

havent listened to 4:44 in a min

might have to give it a spin today thanks for the reminder

I really didn’t expect many ppl here to agree..

4:44 is good for a legend in the tail-end of his career but the replay value (especially considering its a more concise album), isnt as high as DAMN.

Both classics, DAMN is a bit better tho

Not necessarily.

GRODT, The Eminem Show, The Documentary, TM101, Stillmatic, and 808's and Heartbreak don't have a Metacritic score above 80 but they're still help up high.

Basically, it can go either way. Some albums like TPAB, MBDTF, Illmatic, Madvillainy, and Supreme Clientele are definitely masterpieces and have the acclaim to back it up.

But there's plenty of albums with meh reviews that still mean a lot to the culture and are help up high.

Rome still gets spins from me today😩🙏🏾

Duckworth is a skip song

4:44 is goat

damn has some great tracks, but as a whole it's underwhelming, especially compared to his other albums. not bad tho

Agree on replay value, but DAMN was literally curated for the top 40 (especially since hip hop was really beginning to tighten its grip on pop radio and culture in general) ..catchy hooks, memorable melodies (loyalty loyalty loyalty) and accessibility for the masses. Sounds like a standard blockbuster album to me. Kendrick is still a great artist and MC so the quality in depth would always be there

Duckworth is amazing...BAN

hard for this to be a hot take when hov the goat

wanna agree with you but i haven’t listened to both of them since 2018 so imma hold off until i listen to both of them

(i will not be listening to either of these albums anytime soon)

kill jay z

These were the general consensus top 2 rap albums of 2017. Now if you had said 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time>DAMN then you would’ve been cooking with fish grease

Never heard this one before, op wild!

Smile and Marcy Me are top tier songs

Both pretty similar for me but it comes down to pride/fear versus 444 title track/ oj

“ would’ve been cooking with fish grease” - Mane u sound like my nana.. u from down south, too??

NORTH CAROLINA
Born and raised

I wouldn't put them on the same level as the songs I mentioned personally but yeah they are great.

@Kdogone U just took me back to my hbcu marching band days when we used to battle A&T, FAMU and Alabama ..used to have the stadium jumpin

.. born and raised (till I was like 14-15) in Charleston, SC lol