Swayzomad

2y

Both of these comments takes away all credibility but especially "sissy" tells me all I need to know.

More like you want him to crack because you're a hater lmao

ice cold

2y

Look, I get it. Not everyone is going to agree with my take, and that’s part of the job. When I review an album, I’m not writing to confirm your bias or cater to fandoms—I’m giving you my honest perspective, backed by years of listening to and studying music. That’s the gig.

Kendrick is undeniably one of the most important artists of our time, but not everything he drops is above critique. GNX is ambitious, no doubt, but ambition doesn’t automatically equal greatness. My review wasn’t about tearing him down; it was about engaging with the music critically. If that didn’t line up with your feelings about the album, cool—we’re allowed to disagree.

But let’s be real: the energy some of y’all bring to these threads makes it clear you don’t want reviews; you want validation. That’s not what I’m here for. Let the music speak for itself, and if you think I’m off the mark, fine—but at least try to engage with the points instead of coming with pitchforks. Respectfully.

ryuH

2y

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Pitchfork = Alphonse Pierre

One corny ass dude’s opinion doesn’t matter lol. He’s known for doing this s*** and he’s single handedly responsible for destroying the credibility of pitchfork with unfair out of touch rap reviews

Still universally acclaimed with a solid 84 on Metacritic

class wario

2y

There's plenty of a***ysis of the music and the background is generally relevant or useful context given what preceded this album. I don't think it's necessarily unfair to tie kendrick leaning into the west coast stuff to the beef either, whether you want to see that as a pejorative or observation is down to personal preference I guess.

As I said, I think it's pretty obvious that Alphonse is not a particularly big kendrick fan and I would assume he finds him self important or something. His articles in the past would lead me to believe he likes more street rap style stuff with pronounced regional elements - you would think he likes this more as a result but tbf he says he wishes the features got more prominence. He clearly also sees drake as a sort of larger than life figure in the genre and doesn't really take him all that seriously which leads to him not really slamming his musical output, for better or worse. So yeah, I would take his particular views on kendricks work with a little bit of salt but I think it's ridiculous for ppl to get majorly offended by this too: I think it makes for interesting food for thought and god forbid somebody doesn't think every kendrick albums a 10/10!

Smacked Voodoo

2y

Y'all keep doing the goofy ass "god forbid someone doesn't like the album!" s*** thinking y'all saying something, when most people itt who liked the album don't mind that he didn't like it. They're saying it's a hating ass review that barely covers the actual music itself. Or it's flat out projection and assumptions.

That's just not a good review man lol

BigSkinny

2y

cope

ryuH

2y

Coping with what? A pitchfork review of an album I like that is universally liked by everyone else? I don’t gaf about that s*** you delusional clown

Kr0niic

2y

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/a-power-ranking-of-everyone-in-the-drake-kendrick-lamar-every-rapper-ever-battle-royale/

Here is Alphonse putting Kendrick Lamar in last in the beef and Drake in the top saying Drake the goat

mosh

2y

Funny that they gave GNX a 6.6 and DAMN a 9.2 when GNX has a lot in common with DAMN, imo

Jetfuel

2y

this is less pitchfork being on a payroll and more them knowing a negative review from them would stand out more in a sea of positive ones

and to give them credit, it works

(i'd just ignore it)

Benjy

2y

Who cares the GOAT Fantano gonna give this a hard 9 watch

pimpin

2y

Almost dropped off my chair lol this delusional skank @thegreatdivine talking about sissies while groupie been crying over Drake since March lol can't make this shii up.

LUKAS

2y

it's not actually him

@pimpin did crash out too quickly though

NeonNigga23

2y

He did neither of those things in that article + that was pre-euphoria

Jetfuel

2y

this is less pitchfork being on a payroll and more them knowing a negative review from them would stand out more in a sea of positive ones

and to give them credit, it works

(i'd just ignore it)

Smacked Voodoo

2y

They like to get back in their contrarian bag from time to time