Wesley's Theory-6/10 Decent introduction felt a little heavy handed to me. For Free-3/10 lyrics were cringe and felt like listening to a bad poetry slam. King Kunta-7/10 more uptempo cast aspersions on the people that weren't there for the struggle has some cringe headass lines about yams being the power that be. Institutionalized-4/10 weird voice questionable delivery, boring production. S*** don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga was repeated 3 times. These Walls-8/10 good song, drags a bit at the end. U-5/10 Loving you is complicated is repeat 10 times as the song dives into the inner turmoil and tradeoffs of being successful. Second half is a crying blubbering mess. Alright 10/10 powerful message, great song. Momma -6/10 overtly wordy and lyrical song. Hood politics- 5/10 repetitive bad hook that the song never recovers from. How Much a dollar cost-9/10 great storytelling. Complexion-6/10 felt like good idea poor execution here. Blacker the Berry-8/10 difficult black stereotypes are confronted here including colorism and institutionalization. You ain't gotta Lie 5/10 repetitive hook and song in general i- 7/10 uplifting, decent production Mortal man 6/10

At least it’s better than DAMN

Best Jazz album of last decade

i present you the BREAKLINE

But it is a classic, if you don’t like it it’s ok

By trying to discredit the consensus best album of the decade, you're gonna discredit every single album from your favorite artists.

Tpab is a classic, period.

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-Highest rated rap album of all time;
-voted by critics as the best album of the decade, 5 years later;
-most grammy nominations in a single night since Michael Jackson;
-influenced albums from GOAT and legendary artists like Herbie Hancock, Prince, David Bowie, Public Enemy, etc (not to mention newschool artists like Danny Brown, etc);
-contains what is considered as the BLM anthem;
-is being credited by most jazz artists as the album that revived Jazz;
-often considered, by many great artists, as one of the best albums ever made, regardless of the genre;
-archived at Harvard

yeah ok, nice try

TPAB became a classic the day it came out

it's already a classic.

Means nothing,a bunch of people with opinions

Damn Stamos came with them faxx, guess I can’t like it no more

Thats not hard to do but yeah

Stopped reading at Wesley's Theory-6/10

So why is your opinion more important Drake Sxn Alt?

One of the best album openers of all time and I've heard some good ones

What you mean influenced albums from goats like prince and Bowie?

What others is up there?

Couldn't agree more, masterful opener.

Thats what their producers said.

Bowie's producer said bowie was listneing to nothing but tpab when he made blackstar, he also said the way kendrick was using his voice influenced his instrumentals on Blackstar

As far as hip-hop goes, NY State of Mind, Excursions, Say You Will are some off the top of the head.

Oh nice didn’t know that. Still haven’t heard Blackstar yet. Is the influence pretty evident?

theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/06/new-cool-kamasi-kendrick-gave-jazz-new-groove

"
To Pimp a Butterfly was certainly on the radar of David Bowie and the jazz musicians with whom he recorded his final album.

“It was an album that David talked about a lot, both with me and with producer Tony Visconti,” says saxophonist Donny McCaslin, the musical director of Blackstar. “It is a staggering piece of art. And oddly, I found Kendrick’s rapping – his intonation, his rhythms, his syncopation, the spirit of his phrasing – heavily influenced my own saxophone playing, both on Blackstar and on my new album. David was very much intrigued by a musician like Kendrick who was creating a personal vision: something that was a mix of many genres, but not really sounding like any of them. I guess it’s something that he has always done. I mean, what is Blackstar? It’s not a jazz record or a rock record, it was David’s personal vision. And it’s the same with To Pimp a Butterfly.”"

dailyrapfacts.com/8600/david-bowies-final-album-blackstar-influenced-by-kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly

"David Bowie‘s 25th and final album ★—Blackstar was influenced by Kendrick Lamar‘s “To Pimp a Butterfly” as well as the experimental hip-hop group Death Grips.

David Bowie’s long-time producer Tony Visconti told Rolling Stone “We were listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar. We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn’t do a straight-up hip-hop record (To Pimp A Butterfly). He threw everything on there, and that’s exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock & roll.”

it's also very easy to hear tpab influence on Bowie's last album