Those albums just hit ya harder, no moment wasted, just straight heat nonstop

yeah s*** not even a month old lol. I wish we would start calling albums "perfect" or sum instead of classic and save classic for albums actually 4 years or older

This post is very different from "Kendrick doing weird alien voices and reading poems about remembering some conflict"

dont let this thread distract u from knxwledge having the 2 best beats and songs on both albums

Wow you just learned how to detect humor

Well I'd hope he has the best beat on Yes Lawd since he produced the entire thing

Celebs react positively to albums all the time. I’m not wasting my time finding them because I don’t need others to validate my opinion.

You can’t cope with the fact everyone doesn’t think TPAB is the greatest album ever and that’s a personal problem. Good day.

I’d also be willing to bet that most of these people don’t even listen to hip hop primarily

Which lines?

And the interludes and spoken word aspect are present because it’s conceptually built around a poem. It’s all leading up to the last song. You feeling like they “stop the flow” of the album may be personally how you feel, but that’s not really a valid critique. More like a nitpick.

I feel like something has to be funny for it to be humor, Idk maybe that's just me tho

It wasn't funny to you cuz you were being a sensitive stan. Sorry I hurt your feelings bro.

Well they both half as short as TPAB, but u right.

I hate this thread man

But tpab, definitely tpab

There are 50 quoted celebrities in that thread. Just did a rough count and at least 30 of them are rappers or hip-hop producers..

yes lawd is so good op thank you for reminding me to put it on and listen to it any time of any week for the rest of my life

It's not even about how you feel about TPAB. You guys are posting things that just isn't true to invalidate the fact that you're in the minority on this one It has to be people who don't listen to hip hop, nobody listens to the album anymore, everyone praises albums like this. And when you get pressed about these things it's "I'm not wasting my time to prove what I just said". Just admit you were talking out of your ass instead of this pretentious pride s***

His paraphrasing is weird and unnatural (no one actually talks like that), the rhyme schemes are good but I feel like he rhymes abstract gibberish just cuz it sounds virtuosic, make it weird to rap along to and I guess that's why people say he doesn't have bars/quotables. I think you can say meaningful stuff in a much more direct, conversational way.

"Fuck your sources, all distortion, if you f*** it's more abortion
More divorce courts and portion
My check with less endorsement left me dormant
Dusted, doomed, disgusted, forced with
F*** you think is in more s***?
Porcelain pipes pressure, bust 'em twice
Choice is devastated, decapitated the horseman"

"Life, to me, like a box of chocolate
Quid pro quo, somethin' for somethin', that's the obvious
Oh s***, flow's so sick, don't you swallow it
Bitin' my style, you're salmonella poison positive
I can just alleviate the rap industry politics
Milk the game up, never lactose intolerant
The last remainder of real s***, you know the obvious
Me, scholarship? No, streets put me through colleges"

"Oh, yeah? Puto want to squabble with mi barrio?
Oh, yeah? Tell 'em they can run it for the cardio
Oh, yeah? Everything is everything, it's scandalous
Slow motion for the ambulance, the project filled with cameras
The LAPD gamblin', scramblin', football numbers slanderin'"

Lol the last line reminded me of another line from the album:

"Remember scribblin', scratchin' diligent sentences backwards"

The album is full of this writing style so if you're like me and don't really dig it you're gonna have a problem

Great post and I actually understand this Kendrick does have a weird writing style and he's not as efficient as he could be. And I picked up similar bars on Hol Up/Hiiipower too, he probably gets an idea for a bar and then plays with it until it can fit on different songs

I’ve spent many moons with Ventura and Oxnard fam it’s just a taste with pakk he has so many flavours.

Idk but Scared Money is one of the best songs ever

Tpab the more impressive album but i listen to yes lawd way more

Yes Lawd! one of my favorite albums of all time, but I wouldn’t compare the two

both great albums

i listen to yes lawd! way more tho

GKMC >>>