Dec 23, 2021·1 replyLike racial tension is damn near an every year thing now in this day and age. And Black artists been making Black music about such times for...shit way longer before these "racial tensions in the social media age" Are all these Black artists now making critic bait music? Was Marvin Gaye making "critic bait" music?
You motherfuckers are f***ing stupid man I hate y'all.
Dec 23, 2021Crack Palm StepperEvery thing he drops doesn't need to be an instant classic. You only say this because drake fails to reach the standard he set years ago when he was most focused on crafting cohesive bodies of work. That em argument is pointless because the idea of “feeding the fans” is what’s eating his legacy alive. Great art lasts for generations so I don’t get when folks say Kendrick,frank, d’Angelo etc are depriving fans when their last project can be considered some of the best in their career or respective genres.
I don't agree with the Drake take but fair enough.
Dec 23, 2021·1 reply
vagabondsop is a weirdo why did y'all even entertain this thread lmao
Oh s*** its thegreatdivine lmao
- Dec 23, 2021Smacked Voodoo
So...a Black man making Black music is critic bait now?
He’s from that continent
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Dec 23, 2021
kenneth branaghthe uncomfortable truth is Kendrick releasing an album deeply centered around race relations during a time of peak racial tension for the first time in social media era, with a backdrop of black music from funk to jazz to contemporary hip hop, is literally bulletproof to music criticism from "white" publications (Rolling stone/p4k/etc etc), you couldnt give it a bad review upon release,
it's exactly what the journalists said in their retrospective one year later
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.37916/title.kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-one-year-anniversary-celebrated-by-genius#
It’s also a fire ass album you know
Dec 23, 2021·1 reply
NEW EQUITYI don't either. That's the cool thing about Kendrick. I don't think he tries to intentionally make political records , but his experience as a black man in America is political. And he's able to paint that picture in away it's digestible.
Digestible to who tho? The guys Who make trap music are also telling their experience about being a black man in America in low income neighborhoods and other black people relate to their stories but you wouldn’t call their music any political statement or anything.
- Dec 23, 2021·edited·3 repliesSmacked Voodoo
So...a Black man making Black music is critic bait now?
maybe ask the black journalists who said exactly what i said verbatim,
or skip to Damn, you know, the record which was modelled on Lemonade's PR campaign? (all caps singular title, all caps song titles, blockbuster music vids, unlikely a list collabs), its called creating a spectacle, so when it drops everyone is in awe. just look at how the lead single Humble starts, it immediately begins to attract maximum attention
everything kendrick does is massively curated to garner maximum critical praise, its not the sole part of his creative process but a huge huge part of it since GKMC, we could go onto Black Panther..
edit; i could simplify and just ask you back: "could a traditional music publication give TPAB a negative review upon release?"
- Dec 23, 2021·3 repliesJohn Mauve
Oh s*** its thegreatdivine lmao
didn't even read the rest of the op as soon as i read the username
i can already tell it's a "drake is the undisputed goat" thread in disguise lmk if im right
Dec 23, 2021thegreatdivineNothing tbh lol. I only care about art that I can actually engage with, not art that maybe gets made but isn't released.
All that culminates into what you actually do hear, so in my mind it matters even tho I may never hear it
Dec 23, 2021
Punish leeAdd section 80 too
Section80 was more than 9 years ago
Dec 23, 2021kenneth branagh· editedmaybe ask the black journalists who said exactly what i said verbatim,
or skip to Damn, you know, the record which was modelled on Lemonade's PR campaign? (all caps singular title, all caps song titles, blockbuster music vids, unlikely a list collabs), its called creating a spectacle, so when it drops everyone is in awe. just look at how the lead single Humble starts, it immediately begins to attract maximum attention
everything kendrick does is massively curated to garner maximum critical praise, its not the sole part of his creative process but a huge huge part of it since GKMC, we could go onto Black Panther..
edit; i could simplify and just ask you back: "could a traditional music publication give TPAB a negative review upon release?"
LMAO you a psychopath
Dec 23, 2021·1 replykenneth branaghthe uncomfortable truth is Kendrick releasing an album deeply centered around race relations during a time of peak racial tension for the first time in social media era, with a backdrop of black music from funk to jazz to contemporary hip hop, is literally bulletproof to music criticism from "white" publications (Rolling stone/p4k/etc etc), you couldnt give it a bad review upon release,
it's exactly what the journalists said in their retrospective one year later
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.37916/title.kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-one-year-anniversary-celebrated-by-genius#
Critic bait is when white ppl blame a black person for releasing music centered around blackness and them not being able to judge it accordingly because they are white
No black journalist that listens to rap would say this bullshit.
- Dec 23, 2021AR15
Also most likely label politics cuz hes done with tde after this album
I disagree lol. TDE likely hasn't made any real money since his last album. If anything, they want him to drop an album and have been on his ass to do so for years now.
- Dec 23, 2021·1 replythegreatdivine
Black Panther Soundtrack doesn't count imo.
I counted it since I counted stuff like collision course for jay
- Dec 23, 2021NewCopeJustDropped
Critic bait is when white ppl blame a black person for releasing music centered around blackness and them not being able to judge it accordingly because they are white
No black journalist that listens to rap would say this bullshit.
- Dec 23, 2021kenneth branagh
maybe ask the black journalists who said exactly what i said verbatim,
or skip to Damn, you know, the record which was modelled on Lemonade's PR campaign? (all caps singular title, all caps song titles, blockbuster music vids, unlikely a list collabs), its called creating a spectacle, so when it drops everyone is in awe. just look at how the lead single Humble starts, it immediately begins to attract maximum attention
everything kendrick does is massively curated to garner maximum critical praise, its not the sole part of his creative process but a huge huge part of it since GKMC, we could go onto Black Panther..
edit; i could simplify and just ask you back: "could a traditional music publication give TPAB a negative review upon release?"
I'll go to those Black journalists and ask their dumbasses if they think that Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sly and Family Stone were also making "critic bait" albums back in the 60s and 70s.
Dec 23, 2021·1 replythegreatdivineMy point isn't about the music he's already dropped. That music is solidified already. Those albums are great. I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about dude being missing for DAMN. near 5 years and still coming out talking about being the GOAT when he's done nothing to prove that he is through his actual music and work ethic.
I'm asking if being lazy and going missing is something we now champion in hip-hop since Kendrick fans seem to wanna do that when if any of his peers did the same while he remained active, they'd use that to criticize any GOAT claims they made.
Lets be honest man. We all know kendrick is gonna come with an amazing ass album. He literally changed into a completely different person since damn dropped. I think thats why he did that show encapsulating his entire career. Esp since he was clearly going thru some of his worst life experiences during the making of DAMN.
he out here riding beach cruisers, meditating and doing psychedelics now bro. he aint that same kendrick. He got a lil daughter now. What im saying is, he took the time out to live life and grow after dropping like 7 classics. Thats what GOATS do
- Dec 23, 2021·3 replies
Anyone saying "critic bait" is a racist im deadass serious
- Dec 23, 2021·1 replykenneth branagh
maybe ask the black journalists who said exactly what i said verbatim,
or skip to Damn, you know, the record which was modelled on Lemonade's PR campaign? (all caps singular title, all caps song titles, blockbuster music vids, unlikely a list collabs), its called creating a spectacle, so when it drops everyone is in awe. just look at how the lead single Humble starts, it immediately begins to attract maximum attention
everything kendrick does is massively curated to garner maximum critical praise, its not the sole part of his creative process but a huge huge part of it since GKMC, we could go onto Black Panther..
edit; i could simplify and just ask you back: "could a traditional music publication give TPAB a negative review upon release?"
y'all are too far gone man
Dec 23, 2021math fiftyAnyone saying "critic bait" is a racist im deadass serious
- Dec 23, 2021math fifty
Anyone saying "critic bait" is a racist im deadass serious
Dec 23, 2021thegreatdivineI don't know how the man y'all call the GOAT can make that claim when he's been ducking putting in the work for almost 5 years now.
In the time Kendrick has been away, Eminem has dropped 3 albums, 4 if you include the 16-track deluxe version of MTBMB:
Revival (2017)
Kamikaze (2018)
Music to be Murdered By (2020)
Music to be Murdered By (Deluxe) 2020
And another album is allegedly dropping next year.In the same time, Nas has dropped:
Nasir (2018)
The Lost Tapes 2 (2019)
King's Disease (2020)
King's Disease 2 (2021)
Magic (2021) Out TonightHow are you calling this man the greatest of a generation when he's not actively competing in what are the prime years of his career and his peers are putting in the work and even legends who are 12-15 years older than him are outdoing him in work ethic?
Are we now rewarding laziness in rap/hip-hop?
I really wish you would delete your account cause you clearly don’t know s*** about music
- Dec 23, 2021·1 replykenneth branagh
the uncomfortable truth is Kendrick releasing an album deeply centered around race relations during a time of peak racial tension for the first time in social media era, with a backdrop of black music from funk to jazz to contemporary hip hop, is literally bulletproof to music criticism from "white" publications (Rolling stone/p4k/etc etc), you couldnt give it a bad review upon release,
it's exactly what the journalists said in their retrospective one year later
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.37916/title.kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-one-year-anniversary-celebrated-by-genius#
I agree with the critical acclaim take and how no one was ever gonna give it a bad or even mixed review, especially considering when it dropped but it's also one of the greatest rap albums of all time so lol.
- Dec 23, 2021·edited
Don't mention any Eminem album from the last decade to make a point. Them albums was dookie juice.
