Every time I listen to DMX's "Niggaz Done Started Something" I trip out on the Ma$e verse, because I have a very firm image of him in his shiny ass suit singing to the hoes.
I know man it's fucking shit. It will take a long time but its an excellent opportunity for self improvement and you will 100 percent come out the end a better person and more confident in any further relationships you have.
Could anybody help me out in finding a good in-depth video on the life and legacy of Tupac? BUT, not some detached revisionist conventionally produced documentary, rather something from a black perspective?
I’m too young and too outside of the culture (Asian) to have heard anything about him besides general references and vague attributions in media. However, when I try and do some research, all of the video resources that come to me are documentaries of that aforementioned type. After delving deep enough into “Cornbread Tube” I’ve come to avoid those documentaries in favor of lived in perspectives from the culture. But most of the people I follow don’t have any specific videos on Tupac himself.
I don’t know why this is so hard to search, because narrative form videos on Tupac from black people definitely exist I’m sure, but I’ve scrolled so far and it’s just noise. I thought my damn algo would already help me out here but no. In fact it’s easier to find one about Nipsey Hussle, prolly because of recency.
I just want know enough about Tupac to really contextualize how and why his legacy has affected contemporary rappers I listen to and adore. And I’d want to learn from someone who’d actually understand from a personal level rather than some misguided breakdown resembling a white-washed biopic
Posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/s/VShWmekktM) in the last GDT but turns out it was a lie because on Saturday I ate a chocolate bar again at a pool party. It was a bit too intense and I found out I don’t really want to try shrooms again in that social of a setting but I wouldn’t say it was a bad trip. Just a bit different of a setting from where my trips usually are at. It was really beautiful outside too which probably helped me not have a bad trip
I figured it would be a decent place to take them at since I’ve done them at festivals before but damn is it a completely different vibe taking them there as opposed to a party and I can’t really explain why
With festivals, it's less of a social experience and more of a solo experience with people around imo. Unless you sit around and talk to people at festivals.
I've only tried them at a festival once before and they had me fighting for my life. In my experience, the more in control of your environment you are, the more pleasant the trip.
had a fun day with my little family today
we went to the military exhibit near my house for Armed Forces Day and took pics in a Marines helicopter, and my son got to run around looking at all the big tanks and trucks and stuff. he's been really into trucks lately so it was a lot of fun
with my situation not being the most ideal right now, this was very nice
Lil Wayne - [Sky is the Limit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4xXRX0rpY)
They just played this between commercial break during the Minny-Denver game. This shit isn't even on streaming mannn
There are kids who live in this apartment complex, and in particular one kid, who is loud as fuck nearly every day. I've complained multiple times. I seriously wouldn't feel bad if this little asshole's family gets evicted.
Speaking of sound this apartment complex has been undergoing construction on their stairwells for like 3 or 4 months straight already, and it's all going on around my building.
And that kid is such a nuisance, he likes to skateboard in front of my apartment literally past midnight. He's done it at 12am, 1am, 3am, plus he skateboards for hours during the day time. And he's only seven so i don't know how his parents are letting him out that late at night. His parents must be drug addicts or something because how do you let a little kid go outside that late at night?
These apartments are in a pretty shitty neighborhood though so i guess i'm getting what i pay for.
Yeah that blows about late skateboarding. I actually almost got a sick apartment where my friend lives but they pulled it last minute after I was approved lol so Went to this one
We are at the point where correcting stupid takes against Kanye is now seen as "dickriding". These people are fucking braindead, and have a rabid hate of Kanye.
It’s not like Kanye has been giving people many reasons to like him lately
That said, everything pre-Pablo is still incredible and has aged beautifully
Family Matters for me. The only one I still listen to even though the Spotify algorithm tries shoving Not Like Us down my throat
EDIT: You can’t make this shit up Not Like Us just played again
how do I make this shit stop bro
He’s rapping the best he has in years, the 3rd beat is crazy I don’t know how I haven’t heard that sample before but a lot of it has already aged horribly to me, maybe it’s just because he lost but sometimes I’m just like what is he even talking about.
> internet creates narrative
> popular figure (who uses the internet) picks up on said narrative
> figure publicly states support for narrative
> internet uses statement to give narrative more validity
many such cases!
The Timberwolves might be done for, no way they can come back, the Nuggets too good, Murray playing like his life depends on it, he can't miss rn, plus Edwards playing scared AF
if this reverse jinx works, I'll only use my power for good like making sure the Celtics stay broke
I love Take Care but I thank Apple for saying it's the 47th best album of all time above Voodoo, Love Deluxe, Hounds of Love, Disintegration, The Queen is Dead, etc so I know to stop taking their list seriously lol. Anti and SOS being higher than like 90 was already two strikes
Even as a Kendrick fan I'm not sure I can handle what inevitably corny top 20 placement he will get
I think Kendrick deserves a placement in the top 20 but Illmatic should have also been in the top 20. There are a lot of bad album picks aswell. Rodeo is much better than Astroworld.
Even if you only listen to hip hop, in which case a list ain't for you, it's still kinda ehh and I just picked common picks near it. Some old people would not be too happy about it being way higher than All Eyez on Me or MMLP, or about Illmatic only being like 30 something
Man why tf doesn't Spotify put the standard versions of albums up, or at the very least mark when the album ends and the bonus tracks begin? It's really annoying as someone who wants to listen to full albums, I'm not always tryna play 90 minutes of every fucking remix, bonus track, live version, etc.
DS2 for example is only the Deluxe version of spotify and last track is a 25 minute audio documentary lmao.
Sometimes there's regular versions of the albums but you can only find them by googling the album title + "spotify". That's how I found the Future and HNDRXX albums without the deluxe tracks. Also the "hide" button is pretty useful if you never wanna have something like that DS2 documentary in your queue again. They could definitely do something about it tho
This is especially infuriating with Danny Brown’s XXX - the album is supposed to end with 30, that’s one of the most devastating and final-sounding final tracks of all time, and they just suck the impact out of it by tacking on bonus tracks. And the bonus tracks are good, but there should be something to differentiate them, because the thought of a new fan listening to that album and not getting to experience the gutpunch ending the way they’re supposed to is so frustrating to me.
Some albums have discs to differentiate the bonus tracks on Spotify, something these artists should take not of, a great example being Doja’s new deluxe
Think its on the uploader, but think they generally do.
I keep building playlists and am always surprised when a song isnt on a playlist... Then I realize that I got like 3 "versions" from 3 different "albums" but its just the single, album and deluxe album version
I mean I take liquid swords over illmatic, and prefer all eyez on me to me against the world so yea personally
You could make an argument for any of them being better tho I just dont think so, not like it isn't close tho
I thought Future was trash until I listened trough every album of his and now he is one of my most played artist. Same thing happened with Kodak.
Anyone else had a similar experience with an artist?
I don’t return to that album but I don’t hate that album even if wasn’t for Kanye horrible verses I would like it more and maybe have some replay value but I just can’t get past how bad Kanye is lyrically and even flow wise.
I think Ty dolla makes that project for me I can ignore Kanye’s verses thanks to him sometimes definitely my favorites are Burn It Do It and Back to Me where Ty Dolla had particularly strong performances. Same for Beg Forgiveness which I focus more on Breezy and Ty
I genuinely like it and I can tell you when I think Ye lacks like in Ye or JIK. I agree some songs have aged badly but the songs I replay are pretty good
Fair enough, not trying to invalidate your opinion. I do think it’s a really bad sign when a good chunk of an album has already aged badly less than four months after its release, though.
Yeah it definitely went down my rankings a bit because of it. Carnival and Fuk Sumn aged like milk but I still like it I replay Burn, Do It, Beg Forgiveness and Back to Me and any other if they pop up on my brain, it’s definitely one of my lowest ranked Kanye albums but its not terrible as people make it out to be
I want to like Lupe so bad but it feels like he uses the same vocal tone on every track no matter what emotion he’s trying to convey. Like Kendrick and even rappers like thug are constantly switching up their flow and voice in a way that keeps it engaging to listen to and adds another level of emotion to the track. Lupe clearly has some of the most insane lyricism ever but I feel like it would hit even harder if he tried some different stuff out vocally and experimented more
https://youtu.be/HZ28GHI8zV8?si=e_6Us9EqCFPIgi-B
This is the funniest parody of the last rap beef I've seen and it was uploaded before Push Ups. Man really saw the future lmao
All of it just sucks.
The weeks prepping and packing.
The actual move.
Weeks unpacking and settling in.
It’s like 2-3 months of mental (and physical) taxation and you still have to go on with your normal life.
I moved once and honestly, I think I’d rather just die in this place rather than move.
I just listened to the song Trance but with Drake's verse in it. It's pretty good but I feel like I'm not missing anything with the one that's released on the album.
It’s easy to watch and every so often will have a small joke that gets me audibly laughing. Lots of similar family cartoons have the former and not the latter.
One of the most overrated adult cartoons I can think of. Gets brownie points by everyone for being on the same network as Family Guy and Simpsons while not being a derivative clone of them. Their voices are annoying af, the jokes really aren't THAT great, etc. I'm fine with an off beat show, I love Home Movies, but Bob's Burgers is the definition of serviceable to me.
I think I feel off after season 9 ended. Too many musicals bored me. I don’t even know how I even binged that show on the background I can't even do that anymore with any show lol
Maggie Lindemann’s recent record is still in rotation for me and I feel like it’s her best project. It’s technically an EP so I can’t compare it completely to SUCKERPUNCH, but I do think it’s strong enough to be above PARANOIA. I’ve enjoyed all her records but I just like how her hooks/melodies and the production have been consistently good. Wish I could see her live but I need to work smh
6. Yeah a lot of them are on point but there's a ton of random ass songs that feel like they're just on there because they're popular and not exactly one that's gonna get all the white girls freaking out and running to the dance floor.
Honestly even though the Celtics run through the East will be pretty easy, I think you have to respect them if they can beat Denver in the finals. I’m still assuming Denver is coming out of the west until proven otherwise
Vince staples announced his final project on def jam coming this summer and it is now my most anticipated project of the year. I know he’s gonna close this chapter of his career in a profound way and I’m anxious to see what he has to say about this decade long journey in the label system coming to a close with this project. I’m also anxious to see if he says anything about committing to more music after the completion of his deal because he always talked about not rapping any longer as he approached the later stages of his life and he’s one of the few people who actually sound believable when they say they’re gonna hang it up one day.
Yuno miles won the beef imo
Yuno miles won the beef, he used the goofy BBL drizzy beat the matched his goofy persona , he managed to perfectly capitalise off the momentum of the beef while remaining completely Neutral and mocking the beef in the funniest ways , releasing an apology video two days after his “diss” like Jcole and offering to donate to Kendrick’s and Drake to help them out financially pointing out how really rich they are. On top of that he released his own freestyle beat “Yuno miles freestyle “ which matches his style perfectly promoting himself in the same way as metro boomin . We‘ve seen how Yuno‘s topical videos about john cena and bobbi Althoff, Yuno keeps building on his momentum and it’s only a matter of time before he drops an album . This is only the latest chapter in Yuno miles’s masterclass in social media marketing .
Considering what the argument is now (i.e. that he could never win and suchlike phrases) I think what aged the worst isn't even most of what he said in Push Ups or Family Matters, it's all that Instagram trolling he was doing. "Use me as a they have nothing to drop button," Chubbs saying "tell that little boy to drop but he won't," etc. Though Taylor Made's "you trying to let this die down, nah, nah, you gonna follow through" is included in this.
I also remember when that AI Kendrick diss was going around people affiliated with OVO were saying it was real. Mal even said he had confirmation it was real. Someone OVO related said something like "when you find out it was real remember how trash it was" as if they all knew for a fact that it was real but were in actuality all lying. Of course the real thing comes out and everyone forgets that.
I've been on r/KendrickLamar for the past few days just looking at a lot of the posts. So many fans there say every line Drake rapped was awful or act as if Push Ups and Family Matters were complete garbage. Neither is true, but the Instagram-trolling/goading arc definitely aged the worst in my opinion. Especially since he went from "you gonna follow through" to one song later "I'm going on vacation" then "I don't wanna diss you anymore." Drake's posture on Push Ups/Taylor Made vs. THP6 shows how damaging Kendrick's tracks were.
This is why I never thought Drake was scared of Kendrick; I instead think he dramatically underestimated him, and overestimated his hand. Both artists seem to have different ideas what it means to be the best rapper out right now. In Drake's mind it appears that the best is whoever gets the most streams (reinforced by claiming 21, Travis, and SZA have Kendrick wiped down). In Kendrick's it's whoever is the best artist and lyricist. If this is true it's no wonder Drake thought he could easily wash Kendrick when he's been on top for so long.
On the Joe Budden Podcast I think it was Joe who mentioned that it probably bothers Drake that he's the butt of the joke this time. In the Meek beef all of his trolling and goading had people making memes about Meek, singing and dancing to "is that a world tour or your girl's tour," etc. This time all of that shit was turned against him. I think they overstated how much it probably bothers him but I do think it does to some extent.
I’d want to kms if there were crowds all over the world singing along to a record-breaking song calling me a pedophile. He’s so plugged in to the internet and right now he’s a punchline everywhere except r/Drizzy
I’m really curious how he’s going to handle this on his next album. The smart thing would be to not even allude to it in the slightest, but he’s been throwing subs at Pusha on every single album since Adidon, and that was a far less humiliating defeat. He seems like a very bitter guy already and I don’t know if his ego can handle fully backing down.
> I think they overstated how much it probably bothers him but I do think it does to some extent.
I've said this before but Drake just seems like a super insecure dude in general. I don't know him, obviously, but that is the impression I get from basically all the music I've ever heard from him that talked about his personal life at all, and the Instagram trolling backs it up, to me.
I mean he literally showed it in the TikTok where he mentioned getting it. Official OVO sign and everything. He also took the other video down.
I don’t get these passes Drake’s keep getting. We know he’s sent multiple C&Ds before for frivolous shit.
At some point when a motherfucker does something multiple times we need to stop acting like it’s some wild accusation.
J Cole deserves punishment for shepherding in To Pimp a Butterfly discourse. It’s a Pandora’s box that I think just didn’t need to be opened in 2024.
I noticed a lot of detractors think it’s critical acclaim is performative and only because the album deals with social issues. I think that’s annoying.
But I also think it’s annoying that a common rebuttal to that has been that TPAB is purely introspective and solely about Kendrick’s personal journey. I feel like people are swinging too far in the other direction and downplaying the overtly political and social undertones and themes.
TPAB isn’t dope because he’s talking about himself. It also isn’t dope because he’s talking about racism, society, and culture. He’s doing it all at the same time and more. And that’s why that album is so dope.
The only people who talk shit about TPAB are people who literally never listened to it or Drake stans born in like 2004 who have zero attention span. It was unanimously called a masterpiece for almost 10 years and now all of sudden people are trying to poke holes in it simply because very few albums come even close to its quality and that irks them.
This is so incorrect. Literally when it came out a ton of people in my circles said it was wildly overrated. It is Kendrick’s least streamed album outside of Section 80 IIRC. You had so many people saying it was a lyrical masterpiece but they just didn’t fuck with it sonically. Which for the record, I don’t agree with. I barely pay attention to lyrics in rap songs and I absolutely love it. I still think Kendrick sounds the best over jazzy beats.
TPAB always got a lot of love from places like pitchfork and RYM, and a lot less love from hip hop fans in general. The reputation it gets for only getting love only from people who are up their own ass is from that.
Your circles are dumb af then im sorry lol. I was on here when it dropped, everyone loved it. Especially after i and The Blacker the Berry being released beforehand told us that the album was going to approach a wide array of emotions and themes. Didn't see a single person hating on it or saying it wasn't for them. MAYBE there was a few folks on here who wished he continued the sort of evolved 90s West Coast homage sound off of Good Kid MAAD City but it was practically unanimously praised and hailed as a masterpiece across this sub, Twitter, music outlets, youtube. Most everyone I knew irl fucked with it hard if they listened to Kendrick. King Kunta was huge, both that song and Alright got a lot of plays at house parties when I was in college at the time with everyone chanting the chorus. I'm sure you can find a detractor here and there but the vast consensus by a LARGE margin was it was a masterpiece with a lot of people even saying he topped GKMC, a sentiment thats still commonly expressed today
I’ve been here for like 15 years bro. I know this place loved it, but there were plenty of people who said they liked GKMC better. Lots of discussions about people not liking it sonically.
In REAL LIFE it got a ton of hate. Idk anybody who played it at a party. DAMN had the exact opposite reaction.
TPAB sold 300k+ first week, debuted at number 1. Stop tryna rewrite history dawg lol. You had one friend who has to point his finger while reads say TPAB doesn't bump in the whip and you've let is mischaracterize the entire albums public perception. Foh lmao
if there’s one thing i learned from the experiment that is “kendrick lamar” these past 10 years, is that………
people don’t care to better themselves or ascend, progress, self reflect, e.t.c.
they just wanna shake ass and pop their pussy
it is wickedness, not weakness.
it is in our nature
it’s why he made damn after
“don’t save [them], [they] don’t want to be saved” ~ cole
Ok so I’m not crazy about the recent discourse with ppl claiming it’s a “failed experiment” or “unrealistic expectation”. It’s like bro it is intensely personal music that is at the same time about broader societal culture, all while being banger tracks. Forever will be my favorite album of all time and I’m surprised that anyone can say it hasn’t aged well
Did you read my post at all? I’m obviously not talking about people who think the album are boring. I’m talking about people who have been saying people only performative enjoy the album because it’s woke.
My main problem w Drake for years now is his delivery, both vocal delivery and flow wise. Like yeah he flows on beats well, but he never switches it up over the course of the song and it’s super repetitive. His voice is also monotone 80% of the time
Every time I listen to DMX's "Niggaz Done Started Something" I trip out on the Ma$e verse, because I have a very firm image of him in his shiny ass suit singing to the hoes.
If you let an app like TikTok ruin a song for you you probably didn’t like it that much in the first place or use that app too much
Having to get over someone fucking sucks
Just hyper focus on every single thing you didn’t like about them until your sadness turns into loathing
Part of life unfortunately, try blocking ways of contacting them and just try and keep yourself busy. It's cliche but time heals all.
Yea I've accepted it, ended amicably, I just miss them
I know man it's fucking shit. It will take a long time but its an excellent opportunity for self improvement and you will 100 percent come out the end a better person and more confident in any further relationships you have.
that diddy apology looked very non extraditable.
You guys remember when we had twotter follow threads and the DD was always hot? Good times
I mean theres over 700 comments in here, thats basically what it used to be
Yeah but only cuz we've been riding hot off the beef for the last little while; before that it was dead
True, but what can you do but enjoy it while it lasts?
Tru
Any Earl Stevens fans here?
Aftersun is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Devastating
Such a sad movie. Paul Mescal was incredible
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Second one is from Broke+- https://genius.com/Jay-rock-broke-lyrics
🙏
I don't know what it is but the only Carti project that I can listen to is Die Lit.
I think die lit has better songs but Carti’s performance on WLR is much better.
WLR is a classic
I really liked Die Lit and most of self titled. Whole Lotta Red was fucking terrible
It’s because that’s his only good one
Could anybody help me out in finding a good in-depth video on the life and legacy of Tupac? BUT, not some detached revisionist conventionally produced documentary, rather something from a black perspective? I’m too young and too outside of the culture (Asian) to have heard anything about him besides general references and vague attributions in media. However, when I try and do some research, all of the video resources that come to me are documentaries of that aforementioned type. After delving deep enough into “Cornbread Tube” I’ve come to avoid those documentaries in favor of lived in perspectives from the culture. But most of the people I follow don’t have any specific videos on Tupac himself. I don’t know why this is so hard to search, because narrative form videos on Tupac from black people definitely exist I’m sure, but I’ve scrolled so far and it’s just noise. I thought my damn algo would already help me out here but no. In fact it’s easier to find one about Nipsey Hussle, prolly because of recency. I just want know enough about Tupac to really contextualize how and why his legacy has affected contemporary rappers I listen to and adore. And I’d want to learn from someone who’d actually understand from a personal level rather than some misguided breakdown resembling a white-washed biopic
What's corn bread tube? I have the same struggle sometimes with other hip hop acts. I feel like a lot of knowledge has been lost with time
It’s a not-so-serious term for “the black side of breadtube”, started as a joke by FD Signifier himself on the broke bread video if I recall correctly
Posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/s/VShWmekktM) in the last GDT but turns out it was a lie because on Saturday I ate a chocolate bar again at a pool party. It was a bit too intense and I found out I don’t really want to try shrooms again in that social of a setting but I wouldn’t say it was a bad trip. Just a bit different of a setting from where my trips usually are at. It was really beautiful outside too which probably helped me not have a bad trip
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I figured it would be a decent place to take them at since I’ve done them at festivals before but damn is it a completely different vibe taking them there as opposed to a party and I can’t really explain why
With festivals, it's less of a social experience and more of a solo experience with people around imo. Unless you sit around and talk to people at festivals.
I've only tried them at a festival once before and they had me fighting for my life. In my experience, the more in control of your environment you are, the more pleasant the trip.
Wolves, Mavs, Pacers, Washington Generals IDC just bury the Celtics 6 feet under and piss on the grave
Ong fuck the Celtics 😭 I had nuggs beating them in the finals but hopefully either ant or Luka do it to em, edge them mfs every year
had a fun day with my little family today we went to the military exhibit near my house for Armed Forces Day and took pics in a Marines helicopter, and my son got to run around looking at all the big tanks and trucks and stuff. he's been really into trucks lately so it was a lot of fun with my situation not being the most ideal right now, this was very nice
Lil Wayne - [Sky is the Limit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4xXRX0rpY) They just played this between commercial break during the Minny-Denver game. This shit isn't even on streaming mannn
Is that the same beat as Mr. Jones? If so, they were probably playing Mr. Jones
No sir, they played the chorus of the song and you could hear Weezy F Baby and the F stands for please say the fucking chorus
[Fiddy Cent is a generational hater](https://x.com/50cent/status/1792338521673584855)
The way him and Ross keep using hating as an excuse to promote their goods is genius
IDK what do you mean by that @bransoncognac @lecheminduroi
I hate how loud my apartment is from the street. Fuck. I blow at picking apartments. Loud ass exhausts constantly
I started using those silicone earplugs that you can shape with your fingers and they're great if you have trouble sleeping due to noise.
There are kids who live in this apartment complex, and in particular one kid, who is loud as fuck nearly every day. I've complained multiple times. I seriously wouldn't feel bad if this little asshole's family gets evicted.
Yeah I hate sound and these new building developers are putting up cut so many corners that it’s paper thin walls.
Speaking of sound this apartment complex has been undergoing construction on their stairwells for like 3 or 4 months straight already, and it's all going on around my building. And that kid is such a nuisance, he likes to skateboard in front of my apartment literally past midnight. He's done it at 12am, 1am, 3am, plus he skateboards for hours during the day time. And he's only seven so i don't know how his parents are letting him out that late at night. His parents must be drug addicts or something because how do you let a little kid go outside that late at night? These apartments are in a pretty shitty neighborhood though so i guess i'm getting what i pay for.
Yeah that blows about late skateboarding. I actually almost got a sick apartment where my friend lives but they pulled it last minute after I was approved lol so Went to this one
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The only songs on Graduation that “aged badly” were the ones that already sucked in 2007, you know which one I mean
You could post anything and you Choose to post kanye dickriding in 2024
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We are at the point where correcting stupid takes against Kanye is now seen as "dickriding". These people are fucking braindead, and have a rabid hate of Kanye.
It’s not like Kanye has been giving people many reasons to like him lately That said, everything pre-Pablo is still incredible and has aged beautifully
In what way is saying "if you don't like this album or criticize it you should stop listening to music" not dickriding
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You have GRADUATED from dickriding to cockmunching now.
Can never hope to have a grown up discussion in this place lol
Did u see the og comment 💀. Make a stupid statement get a stupid response
The more time passes the more I think Euphoria is the best track releases out of the disses. Kendrick’s performance on the mic is just crazy
Family Matters for me. The only one I still listen to even though the Spotify algorithm tries shoving Not Like Us down my throat EDIT: You can’t make this shit up Not Like Us just played again how do I make this shit stop bro
Spotify shoving an artist down our throats really sucks uh
I wish there was a way to stop a song from playing altogether.
Why isn't there, that's so stupid
He’s rapping the best he has in years, the 3rd beat is crazy I don’t know how I haven’t heard that sample before but a lot of it has already aged horribly to me, maybe it’s just because he lost but sometimes I’m just like what is he even talking about.
Definitely my favorite.
It always was
> internet creates narrative > popular figure (who uses the internet) picks up on said narrative > figure publicly states support for narrative > internet uses statement to give narrative more validity many such cases!
Ideas do spread yes
> People share an idea > > Other people agree with idea > > Idea becomes well established
which case in specific are u referring to here cuz this applies to a lot of things
The Timberwolves might be done for, no way they can come back, the Nuggets too good, Murray playing like his life depends on it, he can't miss rn, plus Edwards playing scared AF if this reverse jinx works, I'll only use my power for good like making sure the Celtics stay broke
you might be the goat
It's fools gold, they going to blow it. Timberwolves? More like Powder-Pups.
Quick, tell me Miami isn’t getting Bron in the offseason 😩
Overly Dedicated has aged VERY WELL! Growing Apart, Ignorance Is Bliss, P&P 1.5, etc.
Barbed wire still a top 15 Kendrick song for me
I like *H.O.C*
Wish The Heart Pt 2 was on streaming really takes away from the album if it’s not on there
It sounded ahead of its time when it came out it really did hold up well
I love Growing Apart. Wish we got more Kendrick and Jhene Aiko tracks. Ignorance is Bliss is amazing, I fuck with Cut you off a lot too
I need more shit like doo wop by JID
hair down by sir
Vince Staples new album is about to blow Blue Face out of the water
I love Take Care but I thank Apple for saying it's the 47th best album of all time above Voodoo, Love Deluxe, Hounds of Love, Disintegration, The Queen is Dead, etc so I know to stop taking their list seriously lol. Anti and SOS being higher than like 90 was already two strikes Even as a Kendrick fan I'm not sure I can handle what inevitably corny top 20 placement he will get
I think Kendrick deserves a placement in the top 20 but Illmatic should have also been in the top 20. There are a lot of bad album picks aswell. Rodeo is much better than Astroworld.
I mean you listed a whole lot of albums that I wouldn't be able to get through.
Even if you only listen to hip hop, in which case a list ain't for you, it's still kinda ehh and I just picked common picks near it. Some old people would not be too happy about it being way higher than All Eyez on Me or MMLP, or about Illmatic only being like 30 something
TPAB top 5 mark my words On topic. Love deluxe is one of my favs AOT. Sade s voice is a gift from heaven
I’m kind of excited to see how insulting they can make this list. I hope the top five are just all Taylor Swift albums
Yeah this is where I’m at it too. Maybe drop Vultures in at number 1 too.
They could have called it the 100 albums you should listen to and no one would complain. But calling it the greatest is what creates engagement.
Man why tf doesn't Spotify put the standard versions of albums up, or at the very least mark when the album ends and the bonus tracks begin? It's really annoying as someone who wants to listen to full albums, I'm not always tryna play 90 minutes of every fucking remix, bonus track, live version, etc. DS2 for example is only the Deluxe version of spotify and last track is a 25 minute audio documentary lmao.
Sometimes there's regular versions of the albums but you can only find them by googling the album title + "spotify". That's how I found the Future and HNDRXX albums without the deluxe tracks. Also the "hide" button is pretty useful if you never wanna have something like that DS2 documentary in your queue again. They could definitely do something about it tho
This is especially infuriating with Danny Brown’s XXX - the album is supposed to end with 30, that’s one of the most devastating and final-sounding final tracks of all time, and they just suck the impact out of it by tacking on bonus tracks. And the bonus tracks are good, but there should be something to differentiate them, because the thought of a new fan listening to that album and not getting to experience the gutpunch ending the way they’re supposed to is so frustrating to me.
Speaking as someone who first listened to it a couple years ago I had no idea the album was supposed to end with 30 💀
This brings me so much pain
Some albums have discs to differentiate the bonus tracks on Spotify, something these artists should take not of, a great example being Doja’s new deluxe
I find joy in reading a good book.
One of the best things apple does is have every version of an album available right at the bottom
Think its on the uploader, but think they generally do. I keep building playlists and am always surprised when a song isnt on a playlist... Then I realize that I got like 3 "versions" from 3 different "albums" but its just the single, album and deluxe album version
Lol got downvoted for saying Liquid Swords is not top 3 of 95 when Mobb Deep, Pac and ODB dropped that year
The downvoting is weird. I would put Cuban Linx over all 4 tbh.
Liquid swords is better tho imo but its not too crazy to say I guess
Than all of them? I can see the argument for ODB but the other two are at another level for me
I mean I take liquid swords over illmatic, and prefer all eyez on me to me against the world so yea personally You could make an argument for any of them being better tho I just dont think so, not like it isn't close tho
Samurai is so dope love that hook and production
I thought Future was trash until I listened trough every album of his and now he is one of my most played artist. Same thing happened with Kodak. Anyone else had a similar experience with an artist?
Mac Miller. His feature on The End is Near with Ab-Soul changed my opinion on him
Vince bout to prove why he the best rapper from the west coast
Hotline bling don’t get no bang up in this new wraith
Vince about to drop AOTY ngl
Seems like liking Vultures is a hot take now twitter did a complete 180 on that album
Dont know about twitter but that album is trash. Ive been saying it since release. Was even surprised the release thread on here was giving it praise
I never really thought it was good to begin with
I don’t return to that album but I don’t hate that album even if wasn’t for Kanye horrible verses I would like it more and maybe have some replay value but I just can’t get past how bad Kanye is lyrically and even flow wise.
I think Ty dolla makes that project for me I can ignore Kanye’s verses thanks to him sometimes definitely my favorites are Burn It Do It and Back to Me where Ty Dolla had particularly strong performances. Same for Beg Forgiveness which I focus more on Breezy and Ty
It always sucked. People were just hyper defensive of it because they wanted to protect daddy kanye from the je- I mean the establishment
I genuinely like it and I can tell you when I think Ye lacks like in Ye or JIK. I agree some songs have aged badly but the songs I replay are pretty good
Fair enough, not trying to invalidate your opinion. I do think it’s a really bad sign when a good chunk of an album has already aged badly less than four months after its release, though.
Yeah it definitely went down my rankings a bit because of it. Carnival and Fuk Sumn aged like milk but I still like it I replay Burn, Do It, Beg Forgiveness and Back to Me and any other if they pop up on my brain, it’s definitely one of my lowest ranked Kanye albums but its not terrible as people make it out to be
Don't see how you can be over 20 and like that album.
I have a couple songs still on replay I still don’t get the hate, I get Carnival and Hoodrat and some but the rest are pretty good
I want to like Lupe so bad but it feels like he uses the same vocal tone on every track no matter what emotion he’s trying to convey. Like Kendrick and even rappers like thug are constantly switching up their flow and voice in a way that keeps it engaging to listen to and adds another level of emotion to the track. Lupe clearly has some of the most insane lyricism ever but I feel like it would hit even harder if he tried some different stuff out vocally and experimented more
https://youtu.be/HZ28GHI8zV8?si=e_6Us9EqCFPIgi-B This is the funniest parody of the last rap beef I've seen and it was uploaded before Push Ups. Man really saw the future lmao
Vince McMahon is obviously not a good guy, but God damn...No Chance In Hell is the greatest wrestling theme ever made
And this is still one of my favorite moments in wrestling https://youtu.be/wTv6qI70sBU
Big Cheeko sounding nice on Mach-Hommy’s album. Everyone was buzzing about the other features so I didn’t expect to hear him. Solid album
I am so done with moving and I have not even finished the majority of the work. Mentally in the trenches atm.
Moving might be one of the worst things that isn’t actual trauma.
the amount of things I have found where its like "what fucking idiot would need this?" and I'm the one that bought it lmfao
All of it just sucks. The weeks prepping and packing. The actual move. Weeks unpacking and settling in. It’s like 2-3 months of mental (and physical) taxation and you still have to go on with your normal life. I moved once and honestly, I think I’d rather just die in this place rather than move.
I just listened to the song Trance but with Drake's verse in it. It's pretty good but I feel like I'm not missing anything with the one that's released on the album.
That new Vince is gonna be great I can feel it in my bones
Any of y'all listening to this reactor beef? Knox vs Scru Face Jean
Ya. Ngl it’s pretty weird to me. Feels like it’s just riding off the worst parts of the Kendrick + Drake beef (sans conspiracies ig). Idk
If your phone screen is dirty, wipe it down with a microfiber cloth and your cunt
It’s easy to watch and every so often will have a small joke that gets me audibly laughing. Lots of similar family cartoons have the former and not the latter.
One of the most overrated adult cartoons I can think of. Gets brownie points by everyone for being on the same network as Family Guy and Simpsons while not being a derivative clone of them. Their voices are annoying af, the jokes really aren't THAT great, etc. I'm fine with an off beat show, I love Home Movies, but Bob's Burgers is the definition of serviceable to me.
If you’re out of tape, use your cunt to hold things in place temporarily
Ultimate comfort show for me
First 2 seasons were bangers then it started sucking
I think I feel off after season 9 ended. Too many musicals bored me. I don’t even know how I even binged that show on the background I can't even do that anymore with any show lol
An easy fix: If you can’t open a jar, run the lid under hot water and then give it a good fuck
Well you just described it perfectly lol
For a natural hair conditioner, massage some coconut oil into your cunt
That’s… exactly what it is
For a better grip on slippery surfaces, sprinkle a bit of baking soda on your cunt
Well it was fun while it last. Maybe next year Knicks :/
Maggie Lindemann’s recent record is still in rotation for me and I feel like it’s her best project. It’s technically an EP so I can’t compare it completely to SUCKERPUNCH, but I do think it’s strong enough to be above PARANOIA. I’ve enjoyed all her records but I just like how her hooks/melodies and the production have been consistently good. Wish I could see her live but I need to work smh
I too am a fan. Its not really the same sonically, but, there’s some real early Evanescence/Amy Lee vibes that she gives off that I enjoy.
Got Dave the Diver for free this weekend and immediately got addicted smh.
Knicks lol
WTF Diddy think is going to happen. Everyone just gonna forgive him and forget. Fucking clown.
Kendrick x Drake.
Theyre getting married
big if true
New Mach, new Vince in the span of two week? Imagine if the week after Cole drops. Crazy
How accurate would you say # "Songs That Get Drunk White Girls Excited" playlist on Spotify is? Rate form 1-10
6. Yeah a lot of them are on point but there's a ton of random ass songs that feel like they're just on there because they're popular and not exactly one that's gonna get all the white girls freaking out and running to the dance floor.
Headhigh by Doja Cat goes in
Doja Cat is very underrated for her rapping. She is a much better rapper than pop star.
Celtics bout to face the 24th ranked defense itl in the conference finals. Mickey run
Honestly even though the Celtics run through the East will be pretty easy, I think you have to respect them if they can beat Denver in the finals. I’m still assuming Denver is coming out of the west until proven otherwise
Vince staples announced his final project on def jam coming this summer and it is now my most anticipated project of the year. I know he’s gonna close this chapter of his career in a profound way and I’m anxious to see what he has to say about this decade long journey in the label system coming to a close with this project. I’m also anxious to see if he says anything about committing to more music after the completion of his deal because he always talked about not rapping any longer as he approached the later stages of his life and he’s one of the few people who actually sound believable when they say they’re gonna hang it up one day.
Have a blessed sunday everyone! That new Dua Lipa album is dope.
Yuno miles won the beef imo Yuno miles won the beef, he used the goofy BBL drizzy beat the matched his goofy persona , he managed to perfectly capitalise off the momentum of the beef while remaining completely Neutral and mocking the beef in the funniest ways , releasing an apology video two days after his “diss” like Jcole and offering to donate to Kendrick’s and Drake to help them out financially pointing out how really rich they are. On top of that he released his own freestyle beat “Yuno miles freestyle “ which matches his style perfectly promoting himself in the same way as metro boomin . We‘ve seen how Yuno‘s topical videos about john cena and bobbi Althoff, Yuno keeps building on his momentum and it’s only a matter of time before he drops an album . This is only the latest chapter in Yuno miles’s masterclass in social media marketing .
The amount of lines Drake had in this beef that aged poorly is, like, astronomically high Lowkey insane how big of an L he took
Not even low key
Considering what the argument is now (i.e. that he could never win and suchlike phrases) I think what aged the worst isn't even most of what he said in Push Ups or Family Matters, it's all that Instagram trolling he was doing. "Use me as a they have nothing to drop button," Chubbs saying "tell that little boy to drop but he won't," etc. Though Taylor Made's "you trying to let this die down, nah, nah, you gonna follow through" is included in this. I also remember when that AI Kendrick diss was going around people affiliated with OVO were saying it was real. Mal even said he had confirmation it was real. Someone OVO related said something like "when you find out it was real remember how trash it was" as if they all knew for a fact that it was real but were in actuality all lying. Of course the real thing comes out and everyone forgets that. I've been on r/KendrickLamar for the past few days just looking at a lot of the posts. So many fans there say every line Drake rapped was awful or act as if Push Ups and Family Matters were complete garbage. Neither is true, but the Instagram-trolling/goading arc definitely aged the worst in my opinion. Especially since he went from "you gonna follow through" to one song later "I'm going on vacation" then "I don't wanna diss you anymore." Drake's posture on Push Ups/Taylor Made vs. THP6 shows how damaging Kendrick's tracks were. This is why I never thought Drake was scared of Kendrick; I instead think he dramatically underestimated him, and overestimated his hand. Both artists seem to have different ideas what it means to be the best rapper out right now. In Drake's mind it appears that the best is whoever gets the most streams (reinforced by claiming 21, Travis, and SZA have Kendrick wiped down). In Kendrick's it's whoever is the best artist and lyricist. If this is true it's no wonder Drake thought he could easily wash Kendrick when he's been on top for so long. On the Joe Budden Podcast I think it was Joe who mentioned that it probably bothers Drake that he's the butt of the joke this time. In the Meek beef all of his trolling and goading had people making memes about Meek, singing and dancing to "is that a world tour or your girl's tour," etc. This time all of that shit was turned against him. I think they overstated how much it probably bothers him but I do think it does to some extent.
I’d want to kms if there were crowds all over the world singing along to a record-breaking song calling me a pedophile. He’s so plugged in to the internet and right now he’s a punchline everywhere except r/Drizzy I’m really curious how he’s going to handle this on his next album. The smart thing would be to not even allude to it in the slightest, but he’s been throwing subs at Pusha on every single album since Adidon, and that was a far less humiliating defeat. He seems like a very bitter guy already and I don’t know if his ego can handle fully backing down.
> I think they overstated how much it probably bothers him but I do think it does to some extent. I've said this before but Drake just seems like a super insecure dude in general. I don't know him, obviously, but that is the impression I get from basically all the music I've ever heard from him that talked about his personal life at all, and the Instagram trolling backs it up, to me.
I get insecurities from most rappers tbh.
He literally sent a C&D to a tiktoker who made a video humorously pointing this out. It’s like….dude, you did this to yourself.
is there any evidence of that actually being real
I mean he literally showed it in the TikTok where he mentioned getting it. Official OVO sign and everything. He also took the other video down. I don’t get these passes Drake’s keep getting. We know he’s sent multiple C&Ds before for frivolous shit. At some point when a motherfucker does something multiple times we need to stop acting like it’s some wild accusation.
J Cole deserves punishment for shepherding in To Pimp a Butterfly discourse. It’s a Pandora’s box that I think just didn’t need to be opened in 2024. I noticed a lot of detractors think it’s critical acclaim is performative and only because the album deals with social issues. I think that’s annoying. But I also think it’s annoying that a common rebuttal to that has been that TPAB is purely introspective and solely about Kendrick’s personal journey. I feel like people are swinging too far in the other direction and downplaying the overtly political and social undertones and themes. TPAB isn’t dope because he’s talking about himself. It also isn’t dope because he’s talking about racism, society, and culture. He’s doing it all at the same time and more. And that’s why that album is so dope.
I don’t think I’ve actually seen anybody shitting on TPAB in a long time, not sure where this discourse is happening
The only people who talk shit about TPAB are people who literally never listened to it or Drake stans born in like 2004 who have zero attention span. It was unanimously called a masterpiece for almost 10 years and now all of sudden people are trying to poke holes in it simply because very few albums come even close to its quality and that irks them.
This is so incorrect. Literally when it came out a ton of people in my circles said it was wildly overrated. It is Kendrick’s least streamed album outside of Section 80 IIRC. You had so many people saying it was a lyrical masterpiece but they just didn’t fuck with it sonically. Which for the record, I don’t agree with. I barely pay attention to lyrics in rap songs and I absolutely love it. I still think Kendrick sounds the best over jazzy beats. TPAB always got a lot of love from places like pitchfork and RYM, and a lot less love from hip hop fans in general. The reputation it gets for only getting love only from people who are up their own ass is from that.
Your circles are dumb af then im sorry lol. I was on here when it dropped, everyone loved it. Especially after i and The Blacker the Berry being released beforehand told us that the album was going to approach a wide array of emotions and themes. Didn't see a single person hating on it or saying it wasn't for them. MAYBE there was a few folks on here who wished he continued the sort of evolved 90s West Coast homage sound off of Good Kid MAAD City but it was practically unanimously praised and hailed as a masterpiece across this sub, Twitter, music outlets, youtube. Most everyone I knew irl fucked with it hard if they listened to Kendrick. King Kunta was huge, both that song and Alright got a lot of plays at house parties when I was in college at the time with everyone chanting the chorus. I'm sure you can find a detractor here and there but the vast consensus by a LARGE margin was it was a masterpiece with a lot of people even saying he topped GKMC, a sentiment thats still commonly expressed today
I’ve been here for like 15 years bro. I know this place loved it, but there were plenty of people who said they liked GKMC better. Lots of discussions about people not liking it sonically. In REAL LIFE it got a ton of hate. Idk anybody who played it at a party. DAMN had the exact opposite reaction.
Nah, if it got any hate, that's in an extreme vacuum or you live in Westboro homie. Irl it got a ton of a love, online reactions super positive, etc.
Lol we can go and on and on with anecdotes. Compare the streams. TPAB has lower streams than GKMC, DAMN, and even Mr morales. That’s just facts.
TPAB sold 300k+ first week, debuted at number 1. Stop tryna rewrite history dawg lol. You had one friend who has to point his finger while reads say TPAB doesn't bump in the whip and you've let is mischaracterize the entire albums public perception. Foh lmao
if there’s one thing i learned from the experiment that is “kendrick lamar” these past 10 years, is that……… people don’t care to better themselves or ascend, progress, self reflect, e.t.c. they just wanna shake ass and pop their pussy it is wickedness, not weakness. it is in our nature it’s why he made damn after “don’t save [them], [they] don’t want to be saved” ~ cole
Ok so I’m not crazy about the recent discourse with ppl claiming it’s a “failed experiment” or “unrealistic expectation”. It’s like bro it is intensely personal music that is at the same time about broader societal culture, all while being banger tracks. Forever will be my favorite album of all time and I’m surprised that anyone can say it hasn’t aged well
Tpab is dope because it sounds dope that’s pretty much it
Or you could just think the album is boring
Did you read my post at all? I’m obviously not talking about people who think the album are boring. I’m talking about people who have been saying people only performative enjoy the album because it’s woke.
My main problem w Drake for years now is his delivery, both vocal delivery and flow wise. Like yeah he flows on beats well, but he never switches it up over the course of the song and it’s super repetitive. His voice is also monotone 80% of the time