You put my thoughts into words bro

That's why I don't get on KTT or Twitter nowadays unless I finish up listening to albums.

The reaction to we cry together is silly because at the beginning of the joint it says “this what the world sound like” so it’s clear that they playing characters. I wouldn’t be surprised if that warning wasn’t even there originally when he conceived the album but he probably knew niggas would interpret the song wrong so he threw it on there

you're correct but not for the same reasons.

It is interesting the more this genre goes towards inwards (there's a whole wave of hip hop that's dealing with trauma @FIFTY950 this nigga's been listening to sLUms ngl) and less outwards it loses relevancy.

sometimes you have to sacrifice

Yea dude I think it’s great

There’s a lot to process but I really really liked it on first listen

i listened to this while album out of order because i played it off YouTube. s*** still slaps regardless

Not really tbh

yeah I think the album discourse is pretty much done and ppl will spend the rest of the year talking ab 'is kendrick transphobic'

"Demetrius is Maryanne now, Remember church Easter Sunday"

Midway through, but I think this is a guy who’s exiting mainstream stage left. Potentially by design just due to some of the talking points on the album so far and song compositions. It’s gonna be hard to fit a large range of america with this kinda album at least midway thru. Not necessarily a critique on the album’s quality, but just my takeaway.

savior might be my favorite on the album

production puts me in a trance
flow, message and delivery is great kinda the perfect kendrick song for me

I don’t know that Ye would be able to approach these topics with this level of nuance.

And that’s my dude.

Album is MUCH better on 2nd listen

Elaborate on why you understand someone hating this

Imo if someone s***s on this completely I’d like their rationale

DJ KHALED SONNNNNN

they never should've given yall no personality b****es yeezus

I agree except the damn pt 2 thing, I knew he was coming with something different but not something this much left-field lmao

I respect the boldness tho, kendrick got some balls to drop this type of album after a 5 year hiatus and specially after DAMN, even if its for the bad

We Cry Together out soon

i thought it was confirmed by his actions on socials

Worldwide steppers is just incredible

him and keem just be in the stu cuttin up lol

They gettin on him for Aunties Diaries saying he’s homophobic, also upset that Kodak is all over the album when he has a song about sexual abuse and s*** (which is fair)

Yeah that’s one of the problems I have with the album. I have no idea why it’s distinctly separated as two halves when both sides are very thematically and sonically similar.