was just thinking about this today while reading some more about public housing and the systemic nature by which people are still denied access through things like alcohol, d***, and criminal history provisions governing access to or eviction from public housing. I was thinking about it with the documentary and tryna juxtapose Kendrick’s upbringing to Keem’s from what they’ve at least presented. It’s interesting that Keem came from a very broken home and knowing it was affected by d**** and from what I’m assuming his dad not being a good dude, did this in a way affect their homes access to the same resources his cousin’s family was receiving whose parents were staying out of trouble and tryna live a normal life, at least from how Kendrick presents it.

I’ve been thinking it would be interesting for Kendrick as a better writer and ear than Keem to explore this reality and dig a little deeper into how this dynamic and the overall systemic oppression basically splintered the family and larger community they were within. get back into that “every day life” music he was good at in that era where the musicality is there, but the stories are very straight to the point about real life. kinda like Heart Pt. 6, Gloria or Father Time but for a whole project. I guess you could say Morale was that, but I think that project left a lot to be desired past just understanding the artist in front of you and where they at today, especially with songs like Father Time and We Cry Together (is this him and Whitney or him remembering his parents/extended family?)

What do ya’ll think? I think there’s still a lot that needs to be explored about just how f***ed up these things that are supposed to be helping are still based in a reality of keeping you down from the same system that got you there in the first place. I’d take an album exploring these themes and topics a little deeper past what he’s been doing since DAMN which is “this is how it affected me and has been affecting me”

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We’ll never get this kind of album from dot he told us all that he was willing to

Anything would be cool, but he don't drop enough

But yeah I would love a « 4youreyesonly » from Kendrick, that’s my favorite Cole project

things change but yea maybe it’s wishful thinking today he didn’t say s*** in that documentary lmao

I think it would be very disconnected from his current life experience considering his position as one of the most culturally important people in the world irl right now.

If his music is anything, it’s not disconnected

definitely

I kinda want an album sorta like gnx but east coast inspired production and him just going crazy over it also though

I’d prefer a return to the S80 style writing tbh, just momentarily

Been saying this for years ngl, wish he’d get back to the more grounded regular nigga style more often, rather than the deity viewing and critiquing humanity from a different plane of existence raps

Though I understand it’s just growth he’s shown. He can never be 24 years old and broke / learning the world ever again, so it’s just a vibe from him that I miss

I don’t think so honestly. Dot is very much in his city like Dave is walking around Ohio or Cole walking around Fayetteville

i think we tend to assume this cause dudes are rich and successful, but Kendrick literally did the most regular down to earth, we just put this stage together last minute with some local niggas who have equipment, performance in the middle of Compton with lil kids on stage just dancing and having fun during the PEAK of his beef win

yea it’s definitely a vibe I’ve been longing for since OD that he was getting on Morale and a little bit on gnx but just not all the way like back then. it’s probably not easy to enter that mode when you literally looking down from the top of the mountain lmao

that would be tough as f*** can’t lie. definitely miss Dot rapping over east coast beats and the ones he did do recently have been top tier

maybe he wants to reinvest himself into the space of activism and social change but that is entirely speculation. If he saw the world that way he’d make music about it right now

But he doesn’t see that, so he won’t make that music. He’s worried about personal and career problems by his own admission.

But that’s as far as we know

Who?

i think you flipped it around. he was on the activism tip until reinventing himself with Morale which will get him back to that every day life music from his early days which was a nigga just rapping the reality of his surroundings or familial history and if you can relate, you can relate lol. would be dope to see that from his positioning and skills now compared to 2010

GNX a step in the right directions

Needs to end that nerd/critic rap already

Forgot KTT full of Drake haters not actual Kendrick fans like us @op

They in the drake thread instead of here