Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (May 13th, 2022) Album • Page 44

It’s top 4 for me, all the last 4 (sans BP soundtrack)

 

Section.80 is still my favorite.

 

Section 80 is good but it has No Make Up which is pretty bad mostly cus of that hook

 

S.80 is the indie film version of his pre-fame life
GKMC is the major studio version of the same story
TPAB is the one only made to get an Oscar

Damn is the Kung-Fu (lol)

 

So how is the good pressing of this album? Does it look good? Or should I just go with the standard black ?

 

Just go standard

 

dude what the fuck

 

Haha.

It’s great because we’ve been told it’s supposed to be great. Like it was made to be popular, hit certain artistic marks but at the end of the day it’s kind of a little too much to enjoy more than a handful of times.

The post was also painting very broad strokes. And 100% my opinion.

 

There’s definitely some truth in this. That spoken word interlude between each track is so fake-deep it hurts. I skipped it every time even during my early listens. But TPAB is still a great album, despite being a bit much. As you said, I rarely ever return to it though. GKMC and DAMN are probably his most replayable IMO.

 

TPAB is far and away my favorite Kendrick album

 

This is so accurate

 

I get what Bobby's saying

 

this and TPAB are both great but they aren't albums I'll just throw on whenever.

 

TPAB is quite easily my least favorite from Kendrick

 

Oh and untitled/ unmastered is the sequel no one wanted. Lol

 

I don’t think it’s meant to be a sequel… lol.

 

Isn’t untitled/unmastered just b-sides/throwaways? I don’t even really consider that an album. I think I listened to it once.

 

It is exactly that but I would say there’s some REALLY good stuff on it.

 

Jesus christ people

TPAB and untitled/unmastered are both phenomenal, what is happening here

And the spoken word poem that develops through TPAB until the end reveal is great

 

Seems more to me like people are now predispositioned to think of Kendrick as overrated due to his acclaim/popularity than to consider what got him there, which is not only obvious lyrical growth from project to project but also a knack for crafting unique hip-hop records with consistently ambitious themes and structures. It's normal to have an opinion about the records, but to act like any of them are "fake deep" or designed to be anything other than genuine seems like a leap based on what we've observed of him and his career imho

 

It’s also a semi-jokey post.

I personally don’t go listen to TPAB front to back often because of the intertwining poem. And I’m very much an album person so it’s not a rewarding listen in my eyes.

I completely understand all the deserved claim it gets. Just in my eyes a great album should have a high replay ability

 

I was hoping that DAMN. was the beginning of him toning it down conceptually, so much for that lol

 

You’re actually telling me people listen to and don’t skip the spoken word interludes in TPAB???? He repeats the same lines of the poem every song and it’s a waste of time IMO. Including it once in its entirety at the end would’ve been fine enough.

 

For free isn’t the same as for sale?????

 

imagine skipping either of those

HELL FUCKIN' NAHHHHH