What if the big steppers album is a 10 track album with Kendrick & 50 something year old hov

does anyone remeber when kendrick dropped the tracklist and album cover for DAMN. ? was it the day before or the day of release ?

Can He do 50 track for double album?

"Special Thanks:
Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and DEEP VOODOO

what involvement did matt and trey have? I thought I remembered hearing about some sort of play but idk

i'm not saying that playing the album backwards completely changes the meaning of the album. quite the opposite, actually. i think that the album being able to end with BLOOD. or DUCKWORTH. without altering the overall meaning is the point.

without those two songs, DAMN. is just a collection of deeply personal thoughts and feelings from kendrick. some fun moments as well which don't really tie into the album's messaging. if you eliminate the "wickedness versus weakness" idea, what do you have left?

when he performed in vegas last year, he put up little descriptions of each album before playing them. two lines stood out to me about his description of DAMN.: "damn if i do, damn if i don't" and "a song that never ends." once again, i believe that his message is that certain things in life (such as death) are inescapable - good people die every day, and so do evil people. living a good, moral life can be your downfall. as for "a song that never ends," i think that is referring to the viscous, inescapable cycle of fate. bad s*** is never going to stop happening, even to good people.

maybe i'm not going into enough detail, but i also stand by the fact that kendrick wouldn't say something if he didn't mean it. did he sell the deluxe version for some extra sales? sure, i can believe it. i don't think that changes the fact that he actually had a vision for the album being played in reverse without losing its meaning, though. the normal version is a story of wickedness, the reversed version is a story of weakness, and they're both stories about how nobody is safe from fate.

lmaooo what a clown

they used their studio for the deepfakes

thats dope, video came out crazy good

it was three days before the album release

The narrative is applicable back to front because the narrative doesnt follow a linear path, where tracks need to follow some chronological order.

As the other poster said the album ties into reaching the same conclusion with different paths. So the placement of Duckworth and blood are really the only thing that matters.

You're right in that kendrick didn't explicitly say this. But this quote from him kinda hints at the wickedness/weakness angle.

“I don’t think the story necessarily changes, I think the feel changes,” he continued. “The initial vibe listening from the top all the way to the bottom is … this aggression and this attitude. You know, ‘DNA,’ and exposing who I really am. You listen from the back end, and it’s almost the duality and the contrast of the intricate Kendrick Lamar. Both of these pieces are who I am.”

damn. that means tomorrow is a possibility

it could be any time now

We’re 100% getting something tomorrow (Tuesday)

Baby Keem is on the album

Proof?

Should be a given

why

Do u know any other confirmed features ?

Y’all think Kendrick passed the torch to Keem or tana or he just supporting family? I don’t look at Kendrick as new gen anymore he’s a veteran

Prayer is the intro right?

I f***ing hope not

Family Ties a classic