The Darkest Angel

5y

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It can be if you want it to, what is and isn't a classic is subjective op.

There's no unanimous classic album in any genre really if you think about it. Most people I know, myself included, just didn't like this project when it released and in retrospect it was a massive disappointment from the person that made gkmc.

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I'ma just say the forced Pac interview at the end never sat right with me but I don't like any posthumous related stuff from dead artists.

The Darkest Angel

5y

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It can be if you want it to, what is and isn't a classic is subjective op.

There's no unanimous classic album in any genre really if you think about it. Most people I know, myself included, just didn't like this project when it released and in retrospect it was a massive disappointment from the person that made gkmc.

Edit:
I'ma just say the forced Pac interview at the end never sat right with me but I don't like any posthumous related stuff from dead artists.

Bow And Arrow

5y

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

Buryly

5y

Best Jazz album of last decade

Ac Slatr

5y

https://www.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.”"

https://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

John Stamos

5y

What a load of pretentious crock, lol.

John Stamos

5y

What a load of pretentious crock, lol.

Ac Slatr

5y

being a true music lover has nothing to do with being pretentious. Every single true music lover been praising tpab to death, so not a surprise that Bowie and his team were listening to it non-stop.

When you truly know music, you appreciate great music, its as simple as that.

John Stamos

5y

Bowie doesn't know anything about hiphop culture

Ac Slatr

5y

He knows eveyrthing about music culture, dumbass. And he clearly knows hip hop a lot more than you do.

The Darkest Angel

5y

It can be if you want it to, what is and isn't a classic is subjective op.

There's no unanimous classic album in any genre really if you think about it. Most people I know, myself included, just didn't like this project when it released and in retrospect it was a massive disappointment from the person that made gkmc.

Edit:
I'ma just say the forced Pac interview at the end never sat right with me but I don't like any posthumous related stuff from dead artists.

Ac Slatr

5y

most people now admit its one of the best albums ever

like kamasii wahington said, if you have enough musical knowledge, then you know it's a masterpiece.

It did surprise people when it came out, and it took time for a few guys to get more knowledge on music, but now its easily considered as one of the best albums ever. Objectively, its his magnum opus.