This album does not feel as concise or as focused as GKMC, TPAB, or DAMN.

I really don't know about this one, but I like it tho.

Yeah exactly and you can tell thats been a very painful process for him

thank you. id like to think that i am attentive and decently comprehensive enough to know a thing or two about a thing or two

Pro vaxx bars actually.

just woke up and this is out

Wonder if drake is aware of the artistic gap between him and Kendrick, If he deep down actually cares or not

I JUST WOKE UP
BREAKFAST THEN FIRST LISTEN
GOOD MORNING BIG STEPPERS

Damn u so right lmao.

So are the kids on the cover kendricks kids?

Okay it’s a 10

Someone said she was abused but I didn’t catch that reference on the album

europe fam checking in

"Writer's block for two years, nothin' moved me"

Sounds bout right, dropping those 4 albums he did in a row, the pressure bound to get to him to living up to expectations

I kinda like that though, everyone needs to have that one disjointed album. It works pretty well here imo.

It's a 10 tho.

It isn’t but I sill really like the flow of it

First listen now

wtf is that intro

that beat is going ngl

That’s definitely an intentional decision tho
Like I can see why people wouldn’t like that about it but he didn’t make it feel so kinda disorganized by accident

I can see this & agree

im sure it’s very multi layered for him

maybe we will get a more sober album where he can flesh out some of these raw thoughts

I hate ranking an artist's albums. These are pictures painted by them during certain chapters in their lives. We all know who we were 10 years ago, 5 years ago, now, and who we hope to be. Will GKMC and DAMN have more of a vibe/casual feeling? Probably, but this is a great album, also hats off being able to create something this good in such a f***ed up timeframe in our world.

n 2 deep better than anything on this

let me see if i can find the lyrics at the exact part, but theres this great part where hes kind of whispering in the background while the tapdancing is going on

If he cared he wouldve showed after tpab, not this album. He makes the music he enjoys making and the world listens to it for years

@GEENO said, he realized he couldn't save hip hop (I'd say the world) and realized he had to save his family/himself from his generational trauma.

you can't heal the world until you heal yourself