Nah.

What’s Kendricks Can’t Tell Me Nothing? His Jesus walks ? His devil In a new dress?

Alright ? Money Trees? DNA? Loool. Very good records but come on b

DAMN. swept almost every major award show, top 10 most streamed album of the streaming era, sold 600k first week, had a #1 a top 5 and 3 top 20s, first rap album to win a Pulitzer award.

By every metric the album was a success commercially and critically

Yeah album did numbers but that’s not really what I’m talking about. I’m talking about what I see with my eyes in terms of culturally resonating. People adore Kendrick for the packages of albums he delivers but planty artists deliver more hitting music on the whole. Humble Vs any of Kanye or Drake top 10 slaps, nah

I know Kendrick stans don’t like to admit any kind of flaws in anything he’s done so this is a futile argument but... you know.

you talking about butterfly or mbdtf?

Fam your argument was that Kanye drops albums that the critics love and do numbers commercially. I said Kendrick does too, you said nah and I shut you down with proof.

There’s nothing more for you to say to me. You are wrong. At this point you’re wasting my time and yours. Move on

Also I’m a Kanye stan not a Kendrick stan.

My argument definitely wasn’t that Kendrick doesn’t do numbers. Im talking about how Culturally significant the individual records are, in hip hop / pop culture. The quotables, the impact in a real way visible way.

“Kanye albums are really classic people swear Kendricks are. He’s got the balance between drake classic and Kendrick classic
Has the critical geeky a***yst love but then records all hit individually like Drake stuff does“

This was what u wrote stop tryna move the goalposts

Imagining reducing A top 5 rap record this decade to “a bunch of fast raps and only 2 songs with replayability”

top 2 rap record

Fax tbh

Let them tell it he has 0 fans even though all his albums are platinum

damn is also his worse album. car alarms sounds and doesn't resonate with true hip hop fans. maybe suburban kids..

so all that about commercial success is mute.

I didn’t ask

Activism gets reviewers wet

you're argument is basically that to you most of the songs in TPAB lack replay ability so hence it isnt a good album

an album isnt just individual songs put together. Idk how you can listen to TPAB and see how amazing it is. The production on it is crazy and it draws influences from so many different historically rich genres, the lyrics are a cut above any kendrick project easily as well.

TPAB actually has so many replayable songs for the subject matter... For ones you didnt list:

King Kunta, I, u, hood politics (personal fave)

and replayability means I can easily listen to the songs without an album context. Doesnt have anything to do with if they can be played at a house party or some s***.

Its funny because frm your perspective id assume most rock albums or just generally albums hailed as universally great would be garbo

Real and poignant messages expressed beautifully in poetic verse through a variety of flows and song structures, makes reviewers wet.

not to mention using different traditionally AA sonic influences perfectly in a modern setting and genre

i honestly dont get how people can love Kanye but not TPAB.. (At least from a production perspective)

Why does it matter what reviews say.

reviews don’t hold weight in the future. Songs that you grew up on and love due.

So if you love Kanye album. You don’t gotta s*** on Kendrick album.

Just love the music you love.

Suddenly got really slippery in here.

thats why people/reviewers liked the album lmao

the album isnt him saying black lives matter on a loop or some s***...

This thread shows who listens to music and who just skims through it shoutout hov

Butterfly, post above is exactly what I'm talking about, s*** really is not deep

People listen to mainstream turn up music their whole lives then listen to TPAB once and think it's the most brilliant thing in decades

That's what I said in my thread. There are some really artistic albums in the Folk genre with ridiculous lyrical depth but nobody cares about them. I really feel like many people wanna act sophisticated with that Kendrick stuff, then you look at their playlist and it's full of Drake and Kanye