enjoy.
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Loki — 4 years ago(December 11, 2021 08:39 PM)
I couldn't manage an album. I just searched his hits on youtube and I was shocked at how awmful it was. Asked a couple of friends who are into more mainstream hip hop then I am and they didn't rate it either so ai gave up easily. I put it down a style that I just can't get behind. But post the song you think is his best as it's possible I got exposed to his not so great stuff.
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sewfae¡ speshul — 4 years ago(December 11, 2021 08:55 PM)
ah i see. yeah, i get it. well as with many (true) artists, Kendrick's albums are ought to tell a story, each album in its own way, beginning with the opener and ending with the closing track. so, if u just randomly pick tracks from an artist's oeuvre, u probably missed the context to each track entirely. i think, especially Kendrick's albums work that way, each track really only works with the other tracks on that album, u know what i mean? i know u are no beginner to this at all, but yeah just trying to explain to u what Kendrick's deal is.
he is one of the best lyricists u will come across in that genre, it is real storytelling art here and it always helps for people like u and me who are not native English speakers to have the lyrics to the tracks at hand. then maybe u will understand Kendrick a bit better. i'm gonna tag Rocketman now bc he's Kendrick's biggest fan on the planet, and he may articulate better why Kendrick is a genius, not to tell u what's what or to "wo-mansplain" it to u, but rather to give u another opportunity to approach his music differently maybe, since the first time wasn't so rewarding for u. i know u are not a casual, superficial listener at all, and believe me when i say that there's one thing Kendrick's art is not: it's not superficial. there is a truly fascinating depth to his music.
so yeah, i would suggest that u give it another try and definitely hear what Rocketman has to say. he knows him way better than i do.
@Rocketman
that being said, this is my fav Kendrick track on my favourite Kendrick album (it's all about the lyrics):
and my second fav track on my second fav Kendrick album
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Loki — 4 years ago(December 11, 2021 09:13 PM)
Thing is with me it's always music first lyrics second. With hip hop and me, you'd almost have to know me to know why I swing the way I do.
I often want to understand American hip hop more than I actually do because US hip hop is very much the minority of the hip hop in listen to. My world is very much this side of the pond related. Of course I LOVE dälek, Akua Naru, a few other US hop hop artists you would know too. But when I look at where what I listen to is frok, it's all Ireland, Scotland, Wakes, UK, Sweden, Italy….US trails by comparison. Not that I don't listen to them. I listen to a LOT of music.
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sewfae¡ speshul — 4 years ago(December 11, 2021 09:33 PM)
oh yeah, i operate that way as well. music comes first, lyrics comes second. and it almost always has to grab me on the musical level first for me to start liking what i'm hearing. lyrics serve for me most of the time as a bonus. too often, individual lines shine through the music, lines that deliver some heavy meaning to me, words that connect with me and before i know it i'm in on the narrative, with the music carrying it along. when that happens, i almost always have a perfect listening experience. but the musical aspect is always the predominant one.
it is one of the reasons why i really cannot warm up to Bob Dylan or Sufjan Stevens, who write songs with minimalistic music and overbearing lyrics.
hip hop, and especially American hip hop, works for me personally bc i really love it when there's a steady beat driven the music. i love it in hip hop and i love it in electronic music and i NEED it in industrial techno. industrial techno is like my fav genre, and i listen to it all the time. i know that techno is also not ur thing, right? so maybe ur taste is just not going along with the beat part in music? maybe there's not much u can do about it idk
armchair interpretations big time from me, sorry about that.
ha, i forgot u also love Dälek and Akua Naru is so great. yeah, they're a different kind of beat driven music.
tbh with u, i was not always really a hip hop listener, it took me a while to appreciate it myself, like i was already past 20. sometimes, music or genres or sounds u think u cannot get through to at this moment will come back to u later, at a different point in ur life and u suddenly click with it. i've had this happening to me so many times. i mean, i even ended up having phases when i would listen to almost exclusively black metal… as teenager and beyond that i found black metal and metal in general super cringe.
until i didn't anymore. and i took a deep deep dive into that genre, and a new obsession was born. admittedly i'm an all or nothing kind of person, so i usually check out so much stuff from the same kind and delve deep into an artist's oeuvre or an entire genre. 2020 was the year i almost exclusively listened to industrial techno, before that it was black metal, and now it's like only hip hop. i'm a simple woman i apparently can only appreciate one thing at a time. oh well. -
Loki — 4 years ago(December 11, 2021 08:42 PM)
thanks haha, and to u!! one of these days i'll check out Irish, Welsh and Scottish rap, i'm sure. i will have to get back to u then.
I'll post you some stuff. I owe Rocket and Jacky the same
, I just need the computer for a mega post, and haven't had the time to sit down and relax behind a computer in months! So it's all it's "incoming". -
Rocketman — 3 years ago(November 11, 2022 06:57 AM)
The ONP 86 mix of Elevators is probably one of the few remixes of a song that actually slaps harder than the original. Perfect song to smoke a blunt and drive down the highway at night to.
I remember first hearing it on the GTA V soundtrack years ago. Became obsessed with that kind of hip-hop for a while because of it. Would always play as Franklin so I can do car chases and activate his ability to do slow-mo car driving while listening to the FlyLo Fm. That song was on after "Garbage" by Tyler, The Creator and was then followed by "Evil Grin" by Captain Murphy (aka Flying Lotus).
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sewfae¡ speshul — 4 years ago(December 12, 2021 01:10 AM)
enjoy.
- Hold On, Be Strong
- Return of the "G"
- Rosa Parks
- Skew It on the Bar-B feat. Raekwon
- Aquemini
- Synthesizer feat. George Clinton
- Slump
- West Savannah
- Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 1)
- Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 2)
- Mamacita
- SpottieOttieDopaliscious
- Y'All Scared feat. Khujo, Big Gipp, T-Mo
- Nathaniel
- Liberation
- Chonkyfire
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I'VE BEEN OAN THE LASH FER 5 WEEKS — 4 years ago(December 12, 2021 01:16 AM)
I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in
It goes: Reggie, Jay-Z, 2Pac and Biggie
André from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas, and then me
But in this industry I'm the cause of a lot of envy
So when I'm not put on this list, the **** does not offend me
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sewfae¡ speshul — 4 years ago(December 12, 2021 03:35 PM)
my personal Top 5 tracks on this album:
Rosa Parks
Skew it on the Bar-B
Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 1)
Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 2)
Liberation
runner up: Return of the "G"; Aquemini; Synthesizer; Y'All Scared; Mamacita; Chonkyfire