New Kendrick Lamar single : "I"

[Erupt da Monsta]

i - Kendrick Lamar (Official Single) - YouTube

i - Kendrick Lamar (Official Single) - YouTube

Some people arn't feelin it..... but I fucks with the direction bro is going.. this shit is hiphop, and is music..... abstract production wise, and the whole concept is dope ....... hook could use a little more umph..but Its safe to say i like this song

[Erupt da Monsta]

i - Kendrick Lamar (Official Single) - YouTube

i - Kendrick Lamar (Official Single) - YouTube

Some people arn't feelin it..... but I fucks with the direction bro is going.. this shit is hiphop, and is music..... abstract production wise, and the whole concept is dope ....... hook could use a little more umph..but Its safe to say i like this song

Yeah, I heard this yesterday. it's cool, I fuck with it

Yeah, I heard this yesterday. it's cool, I fuck with it

[Erupt da Monsta]

I feel like he is trying to make a statement with this song... Like i gave you good kid mad city... but now that thats out way.. Ima show yall who kendrick really is... this me.. love it or hate it idgaf... I love me.

[Erupt da Monsta]

I feel like he is trying to make a statement with this song... Like i gave you good kid mad city... but now that thats out way.. Ima show yall who kendrick really is... this me.. love it or hate it idgaf... I love me.

[Godbody]

Imo this shit aint Hip Hop and its just corny..

His excuse for this wackery was that people put him in a certain 'box' after good kid mad city and he was explaining how your listeners hold you back sometimes because they want you in that box

regardless of the explanation he gave there were other songs he could've made conceptually that woulda took him outta that box...this shit is just garbage. lyrically. the beat, everything

the only thing good about it imo is the message.. "i love myself"

but this just confirms what i been tellin people for a minute

Kendrick Lamar aint nothin special. above average, sure. but he's no J. Cole or Drake.

[Godbody]

Imo this shit aint Hip Hop and its just corny..

His excuse for this wackery was that people put him in a certain 'box' after good kid mad city and he was explaining how your listeners hold you back sometimes because they want you in that box

regardless of the explanation he gave there were other songs he could've made conceptually that woulda took him outta that box...this shit is just garbage. lyrically. the beat, everything

the only thing good about it imo is the message.. "i love myself"

but this just confirms what i been tellin people for a minute

Kendrick Lamar aint nothin special. above average, sure. but he's no J. Cole or Drake.

Originally Posted by Godbody

Kendrick Lamar aint nothin special. above average, sure. but he's no J. Cole or Drake.

:clap:

Originally Posted by Godbody

Kendrick Lamar aint nothin special. above average, sure. but he's no J. Cole or Drake.

:clap:

[Godbody]

I'm actually mad as hell this song is getting praise by people

if anybody else made this shit it'd be their ass

but since Kendrick brought niggas good kid mad city & that Control verse ppl feel obliged to dickride him as if he did Hip Hop mad favors

this some corny ass Taylor Swift shit...Hip Hop is about masterfully puttin lyrics together to convey a message whether you're story telling, talkin that street shit, or talkin that i grew up skateboarding shit

this is pop hop

[Godbody]

I'm actually mad as hell this song is getting praise by people

if anybody else made this shit it'd be their ass

but since Kendrick brought niggas good kid mad city & that Control verse ppl feel obliged to dickride him as if he did Hip Hop mad favors

this some corny ass Taylor Swift shit...Hip Hop is about masterfully puttin lyrics together to convey a message whether you're story telling, talkin that street shit, or talkin that i grew up skateboarding shit

this is pop hop

[Erupt da Monsta]

That's your opinion....... You're entitled to it.. but please save me your long as paragraphs about how someone sucks n isn't this and that and try to portray it as fact ..... its your opinion pimp

This isn't pop hop tho.... this is more along the lines of the roots .. the real instruments, has an old school vibe, the more i listen to this joint the more it grows on me..... Haven't heard a track like it in mainstream hip hop in a min...

The message is dope, lyrics are dope, I fucks with it ... I think sometimes cats get used to hearin an Artist do one or two styles n get accustomed to it, then when they hear another style from the artist they don't know how to take it.

[Erupt da Monsta]

That's your opinion....... You're entitled to it.. but please save me your long as paragraphs about how someone sucks n isn't this and that and try to portray it as fact ..... its your opinion pimp

This isn't pop hop tho.... this is more along the lines of the roots .. the real instruments, has an old school vibe, the more i listen to this joint the more it grows on me..... Haven't heard a track like it in mainstream hip hop in a min...

The message is dope, lyrics are dope, I fucks with it ... I think sometimes cats get used to hearin an Artist do one or two styles n get accustomed to it, then when they hear another style from the artist they don't know how to take it.

[Godbody]

The roots? when you made a thread about favorite bands I knew ya head wasnt in the right place

you're on some weirdo nigga hipster shit Erupt. Wake up. It's not my opinion. It's fact.

Hip-Hop is KRS One, Kool Herc, Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z...just to name a few that help pioneered the shit

Not these sit in the back of the classroom quiet ass weirdo niggas tryna be super artsy and abstract

the fact that you define this track as a Hip-Hop track clearly shows that you have no idea what you're talking about

go listen to some Jadakiss or Fabolous or some shit bruh cuz you're so out of touch i even refuse to believe its actually you

these new school kids got the shit fucked up

Hip-Hop needs sub genres..

of all people on this site I stay more true to the genre than most given I work in the mecca...So everyone around here lives and breathes the shit. Big Pun & Terror Squad art work everywhere.. Kool Herc graffiti...etc etc etc... you sound like you're conforming to the new school sound while at the same time failing to realize the new school sound is the commercialized sound to make $$$ and try to sound 'catchy' and 'out of the box' Hip-Hop wasnt about none of that shit. it was about who had skill & who had respect

if that Kendrick song was Hip-Hop then so was Pharrel's "happy" song

[Godbody]

The roots? when you made a thread about favorite bands I knew ya head wasnt in the right place

you're on some weirdo nigga hipster shit Erupt. Wake up. It's not my opinion. It's fact.

Hip-Hop is KRS One, Kool Herc, Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z...just to name a few that help pioneered the shit

Not these sit in the back of the classroom quiet ass weirdo niggas tryna be super artsy and abstract

the fact that you define this track as a Hip-Hop track clearly shows that you have no idea what you're talking about

go listen to some Jadakiss or Fabolous or some shit bruh cuz you're so out of touch i even refuse to believe its actually you

these new school kids got the shit fucked up

Hip-Hop needs sub genres..

of all people on this site I stay more true to the genre than most given I work in the mecca...So everyone around here lives and breathes the shit. Big Pun & Terror Squad art work everywhere.. Kool Herc graffiti...etc etc etc... you sound like you're conforming to the new school sound while at the same time failing to realize the new school sound is the commercialized sound to make $$$ and try to sound 'catchy' and 'out of the box' Hip-Hop wasnt about none of that shit. it was about who had skill & who had respect

if that Kendrick song was Hip-Hop then so was Pharrel's "happy" song

[Erupt da Monsta]

Originally Posted by Godbody

Wake up. It's not my opinion. It's fact.

Hip-Hop is KRS One, Kool Herc, Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z...just to name a few that help pioneered the shit

^^ You were saying? Dont tell me "Hip hop is KRS One.... who helped pioneer the shit..." then tell me you don't think that way... You are a walking contradiction pulse.

By todays standards this is hip hop? By KRS ONEs, Rakims, Afrika bambaataa's standards "the ones who helped pioneer this shits" standards this is hip hop son.

I understand where your heart is at.. and it's in a good place... your mind just hasn't put the pieces together fully b... fwm nigga... You might learn something about hip hop

[Erupt da Monsta]

Originally Posted by Godbody

Wake up. It's not my opinion. It's fact.

Hip-Hop is KRS One, Kool Herc, Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z...just to name a few that help pioneered the shit

^^ You were saying? Dont tell me "Hip hop is KRS One.... who helped pioneer the shit..." then tell me you don't think that way... You are a walking contradiction pulse.

By todays standards this is hip hop? By KRS ONEs, Rakims, Afrika bambaataa's standards "the ones who helped pioneer this shits" standards this is hip hop son.

I understand where your heart is at.. and it's in a good place... your mind just hasn't put the pieces together fully b... fwm nigga... You might learn something about hip hop

[Godbody]

Originally Posted by Erupt

^^ You were saying? Dont tell me "Hip hop is KRS One.... who helped pioneer the shit..." then tell me you don't think that way... You are a walking contradiction pulse.

By todays standards this is hip hop? By KRS ONEs, Rakims, Afrika bambaataa's standards "the ones who helped pioneer this shits" standards this is hip hop son.

I understand where your heart is at.. and it's in a good place... your mind just hasn't put the pieces together fully b... fwm nigga... You might learn something about hip hop

I said KRS One was a pioneer ...I didn't say KRS One wrote the bible

& by Rakim & Afrika Bambaataa's standards? Don't throw them in the mix when you dont know if thats their opinion lol

my mind has all the pieces put together...I respect skill. I respect people that take that skill and try to take it to the next level. I respect people that keep the integrity of their craft/genre intact using that skill.

this is a move in a whole different direction & it's not a good thing. no matter how you look at it its a bad look. you could say "i told you guys Kendrick wasnt one dimensional" or "the message is positive" but that doesnt change that its a bad look for the genre in general...if anything classify that song as pop or as a new sub genre of Hip-Hop but dont confuse niggas by putting out a masterpiece like GKMC then this bullshit

today's youth is stupid/gullible/easily influenced. the last thing we need is a generation of kids growing up on songs like this then putting out their interpretation of Hip-Hop/Rap and it being so far from the essence... because songs like this are inspiring them to 'innovate' and 'think outside of the box'

[Godbody]

Originally Posted by Erupt

^^ You were saying? Dont tell me "Hip hop is KRS One.... who helped pioneer the shit..." then tell me you don't think that way... You are a walking contradiction pulse.

By todays standards this is hip hop? By KRS ONEs, Rakims, Afrika bambaataa's standards "the ones who helped pioneer this shits" standards this is hip hop son.

I understand where your heart is at.. and it's in a good place... your mind just hasn't put the pieces together fully b... fwm nigga... You might learn something about hip hop

I said KRS One was a pioneer ...I didn't say KRS One wrote the bible

& by Rakim & Afrika Bambaataa's standards? Don't throw them in the mix when you dont know if thats their opinion lol

my mind has all the pieces put together...I respect skill. I respect people that take that skill and try to take it to the next level. I respect people that keep the integrity of their craft/genre intact using that skill.

this is a move in a whole different direction & it's not a good thing. no matter how you look at it its a bad look. you could say "i told you guys Kendrick wasnt one dimensional" or "the message is positive" but that doesnt change that its a bad look for the genre in general...if anything classify that song as pop or as a new sub genre of Hip-Hop but dont confuse niggas by putting out a masterpiece like GKMC then this bullshit

today's youth is stupid/gullible/easily influenced. the last thing we need is a generation of kids growing up on songs like this then putting out their interpretation of Hip-Hop/Rap and it being so far from the essence... because songs like this are inspiring them to 'innovate' and 'think outside of the box'