yeah pretty much this

i dont care much for yah and blood as well

Yah yah

Yahh yahh

Goes hard but bad placement on the tracklist after the DNA beat switch moment

he already reference to him on the heart pt. 5 and the mv and father time. i figured he just didnt wanna call
him out again

anyone get Yeezus vibes from Kendrick Glastonbury performance

kendrick already payed for his sins, he good lol.

Man you’re the first person I seen mention this since I posted it the night the album dropped. In the lyrics it said something about Ye but the song had a Bron bar. Went to sleep and woke up and tried to screenshot but it was fixed by then. How’d you peep?

Kenny really outside this year man now that I think of it was there even a Kendrick sighting last year? Lol. Track sounds fire though

Day N Vegas show

Taking out the interludes, the album is pretty much 16 songs so if you like 12-14, that’s pretty much the majority of the album.

Keem snapped on Savior Interlude y'all crazy

Y'all must not like real instruments

Yeah it was in there originally. Probably didn’t want multiple Ye references

It's crazy how many funny coincidences there are when it comes to Kendrick and mystics/theosophists/Crowleyites. Not any negative end, and many many musicians have gotten caught up in it over decades - but it's pretty unexpected

expand a bit for the uninformed me

Now that I’ve had time to process the album, these are my favorites from most to least

Mother I Sober
United In Grief
Father Time
Worldwide Steppers
Crown
Savior
Count Me Out
Mirror
Savior Interlude
Die Hard
Rich Spirit
N95
Mr. Morale
Auntie Diaries
Silent Hill
We Cry Together
Purple Hearts
Rich Interlude

ha ha

jokes on you

high five

iim bulletproof

Those choir vocals that come in at that moment too

I always thought that These Walls last verse was just a creative piece of storytelling. But Kendrick a demon, that may be a true story

I keep thinking that happened at the beginning of this year lol. Hope he does a magazine cover/interview this year too

I'm in the process of preparing to write something extremely long on the subject but to condense it down to some general ideas:

Theosophy and parapsychology lean heavily on the idea that we live in a sick, broken world. A world where everybody sounds stupid as f***. The reason for that? Culture. A culture of d**** (even though mystics love substances), of flawed Western reason, of "imprinting" and "conditioning" we are raised in, generational curses, a loss of spiritual dimension in our lives. Mr Morale preaches much of the same solutions to these problems as the two fields of study, extremely popular in the 60s, do: meditation, free love, moral relativism, anti-Puritanical thinking, generational culture shifts, a rejection of codified Western religious thinking, self-reflection through a guru/student relationship, etc.

Kendrick became a student of Eckhart Tolle, as we know from the album. He's an extremely popular life coach and pseudo-Zen scholar, but he's also the most mainstream-accessible mystic since the 1960s. Eckhart's writing, from what I've seen of it, is pure theosophy and parapsychology. Theosophy is the bridge between Western science and Eastern philosophy, usually with some sort of theological or straight-up occult bent. His name is derived from the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart, and he began his studies/career after being introduced to the work of Bo Rin Ya (a German mystic who changed his name to be more ethnic, an incredibly common trend with theosophists; Kendrick now goes by Oklama, an ethnic name we don't know the origin of)

Eckhart firmly agrees with Carl Jung that the collective unconscious, societal group-mind and group-memory, and energy fields that distort our shared reality are real. Jung came to believe in the concept of synchronicities, or extreme coincidences. A great example of a synchronicity can be found in the song DUCKWORTH. Jung, during a depressive break, experienced his long-dead ancestors speaking to and through him as well as visiting him. He wrote The Seven Sermons of the Dead about this experience. On Mr. Morale, Kendrick frequently speaks of his ancestors speaking through him, visiting him, watching him, and refers to himself as a psychic medium whom spirits speak through.

Eckhart famously caught a ton of flack in the states for his books stating that god was made in the image of man, and that man can and should become his own god through a journey of self-awakening (self awakening being a concept of extreme self-awareness introduced by famed zen teacher Gurdijeff) This idea has deep roots in theosophy and parapsychology, and is also a core tenant of the occult. Crowley et all were big on invocations and magic acts that symbolically (and they believed literally) gave them godlike powers that could effect the energy fields and collective consciousness we live in. Mr Morale, with it's cover depicting a man in the christian crown of thorns, as well as Kendrick's crown, echos that imagery. The album depicts Kendrick's journey of self-awakening to a T.

A major tenant among theosophists is the Journey to the East, venturing eastward to China, India, etc to study ancient masters and cultures. In a cute coincidence, Kendrick previously used eastern imagery in his graphic design and branding (examples of this include the Doves in the Wind video, and the nickname Kung Fu Kenny)

Damn this s*** is going way too long and unweildy, sorry boss - too scattered to make much sense atm. I can't pull out my notes for the more fun stuff so no annecdotes about Ab Soul's constant Crowley cosplay (not a surprise but its also not postering, he seems legit into that s***)

Suffice to say that the famous Western theosophists, occultists and "experimental mystics" had immense savior complexes to battle (few seemed to try), immersed themselves in Taoist duality of the wrong and the right, extolled the magical power of onomatopoeia and non-sense words, and believed there was a spiritual world that our current reality hangs over like a curtain.

"I can't live in the matrix, rather fall short of your graces, this time I won't trade places/ not about who's right and who's wrong, evil is the only thing known, ask me when I'm coming home - blink twice again I'm gone" is about as perfect a log line as you could think of for the movements