Super Bowl Halftime
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Too short is a badazz and should’ve been on my list. Nas and lil Wayne have very few raps that I enjoy
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This is an objectively silly comment. Kendrick has been popular for almost 15 years already, has won the third most Grammys among rappers, has dropped classic after classic especially Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp a Butterfly (arguably two of the greatest rap albums of all time), and literally just headlined a Super Bowl Halftime show. I can appreciate having fond thoughts of 90s rap since that was the best time for it, but completely discounting the best rapper of this generation is simply ludicrous.
If you were younger you would know this is really good and would realize you actually like it.
In other words, our appreciation for music is often conditioned and not really our choice at all.
In other words, our appreciation for music is often conditioned and not really our choice at all.
I whipped that up in 10 minutes, while procrastinating at the office
Are you really comparing sales of Kendrick, who released his first album just 13 years ago and has only five albums, to the Rolling Stones who have been around for six decades and have 31 studio albums, 39 live albums, and 28 compilation albums. Obviously that latter group will have a ton more sales.
The Serena Williams bit and crip dance was awesome. Like, moon walking badazz chit
I'll give it a go. I'm not a Kendrick superfan, but I have physical copies of all his albums and to me it's quite obvious why he's probably the best rapper out there right now.
I'm 36, but I think I have an older school view of music. I almost exclusively listen to music as an album from start to finish. I hate the Spotify-cation of music where everything is playlist after playlist. I buy physical copies of albums on vinyl and listen to them in full.
I say that because one reason I really like Kendrick is because he still makes albums, not just collections of songs released together. He has five full studio albums and they're all incredibly cohesive projects with a few of them being concept albums that tell a fully developed story from front to back. Because of this, I can understand why removing individual songs and performing 90 seconds of them during a halftime show leaves some people questioning what's so good about Kendrick. He's best when you appreciate his full projects.
As a lyricist he's a great writer. His third album, DAMN, won a Pulitzer. If you go look at the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music it's basically all classical composer, pianists, opera singers, and then Kendrick. I think that's a pretty good indication of how complex and layered his music is. He doesn't waste a line when he writes. He'll sew lines together over the course of a song or album to set up a double or triple entendre that references things from earlier in the song, album, or from pop culture or current events.
From a pure rapping point of view he's also just a very skilled rapper. He delivers his lyrics with passion and emotion with great breath control. This is something where you probably have to really understand the genre to appreciate though. Skilled rapping really isn't easy. Throughout his albums he switches up flow, cadence, delivery styles, and plays different characters.
He's truly committed to making art and not just radio friendly music. But when he wants to, he can switch it up a bit and write a radio banger like Not Like Us that stands on its own and is still chock full of complex lyrics you need to listen to 100 times to fully appreciate.
Appreciate the time to write that. His music is not my cup of tea, but that doesn't mean he isn't great at what he does.
As a soon to be 40 year old building out a vinyl collection, it isn't remotely close to what it was even 25 years ago. As soon as people could buy singles on iTunes, it all went south from there. It's the reason streaming figures are used now.
Sure, people still buy full albums (I will for my favorite artists), but the days of even 100k album sales in a release week are far gone for the majority of musicians.
I'm 36 and have quite a good vinyl collection. I started buying vinyl in 2008 when I was dormed across the street from CD Central in Lexington.
Take everything hmt says with a grain of salt... this is what he said about Taylor Swift yesterday...
"but she just has an insanely loyal base. Outside her base she has very little appeal." Guy is a clown
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