What is up with other Kendrick stans having to tear down other great black artists when we praise Kendrick? Yall bring him up a lot for someone yall don't like

I thought Drake stans would be the toxic ones on here during this era but I guess not. How yall even think about Drake at a time like this is weird to me when new Kenny just dropped

That said on some real s*** as objective as I could be I think Mr. Morale on par with CLB both are classics. Drake and Kendrick aren't what they used to be but that's obvious for years at least their new albums are better than More Life and DAMN

Drake is too busy selling perfumes and shilling gambling sites. Kendrick is brain-storming new and inventive methods of scaring the hoes.

Kanye is designing a Renaissance-inspired cathedral to house an iPhone note he recorded last night.

Dark times for rap.

You made me go see what they saying on r/KendrickLamar. Someone made a whole post about how the album is a “masterpiece” but they’re not a fan of it. Wtf kind of delusion is that

Damn these new users dumb as s***

And Kendrick delivered a whole album of it

People always say this but don’t hold it up to other forms of art like music is inherently more disposable, nobody argues that Disney makes objectively the best movies, or EA’s FIFA games or yearly COD releases are objectively the best games, or disposable airport romance novels are objectively the best books

Humble or Kings Dead

lots of people have disney movies and COD as what they would consider the best... Like MW3 was lots of peoples favorite game when it dropped.

Yeah, fair enough. At least you like the song itself.

By Tuesday, he'll be lucky to have 5 songs in the top 10 because other songs are rising and will be entering the top 10 soon.

Look at all the excuses these people have for Kendrick, man. It's embarrassing

Comparing early projections with actual sales 🙄

Not just Drake. I've seen tweets from a lot of Kendrick fans s***ting on J. Cole just to praise Kendrick. And it's weird because when J. Cole or Drake drop albums, no one thinks about Kendrick but when Kendrick drops, his fans are talking down on everyone up to try to convince themselves that he's better.

That's how they did with TPAB (which I believe is an actual masterpiece) but that album struggled to reach Platinum certification and doesn't get streamed but an album like GKMC (which dropped 3 years prior to that album) is also a masterpiece and gets streamed more than some albums that dropped this year lol.

I will NEVER believe that to make a "great album" the music on it has to be borderline unlistenable because that's just a f***ing lie and that's especially a lie Kendrick fans will try their best to push with this album, especially when they see how it performs weeks/months after it's release.

Why the f*** should I care about how great an album supposedly is if at the end of the day, I'm left with no desire to play it back? Doesn't that defeat the very purpose of releasing said album?

It must feel great having people defend and make excuses for you when you do subpar or when you say slurs 😫

Yah the rollout was pretty mid. Not surprised.

The Spotify numbers today will say if the album has gone down in sales projections

This gave me cancer & covid at the same time

I think Mr. Morale on par with CLB both are classics.

And it was. OP lost

These are people who force themselves to like it because some people they don’t know gave it a good number out of 10 or they got lots of statues for.

I think other forms of art (movies for instance) are reliant on promotion. In this era if you’re really good your fav artist is putting his music on all platforms paid or otherwise and the barrier to someone’s ear is low.

It’s why there are so many artists because you can really gain a following if you sharpen your sword enough. You can write, produce and engineer the whole thing yourself without a whole lot of help or expense.

You can’t really do that with movies or games. It’s hard for an obscure movie or song to really pop off like that to count stream for stream - so many factors can get in the way.

They had all the tough talk about the album's quality and commercial performance before it dropped but now that the album is out and they're seeing real-life interactions with the album and how the songs aren't really holding peoples' attention, there's every excuse in the book. It's really funny.

People still don't realise that traditional promo doesn't really do s*** anymore, it's not an excuse for Kendrick's "low" numbers. If you're a megastar these days you don't really need a single/buzz for months/interviews/talk shows anymore... because they have social media.

it's how Future just sold 220k? when no one cared about his singles whilst in 2020 he sold 150k with Life is Good going rampant.

it's how Drake did 605k with no single (except LNCL a yr prior), no interview, no talk show, he barely even talked about CLB. Anyone that thinks the heart in his head did anything is pure delusional.

these days it's even arguable how much of an effect singles have on an album's first week numbers for megastars. I honestly think these days the best promo by a huge distance is literally just features

Just to be clear, all albums lose a ton of streams on Saturday/Sunday. What will be telling is how much streams the songs off Kendrick's album lose and how/if they recover by Monday's update.

Also, it's Apple Music performance is probably what should be focused on seeing as that's where most of his streams will be coming from anyways.