Absolutely not lmao. I’d take any of those albums over the very mid gnx album. It was so massively overhyped coming so soon after the beef with Drake. 6:16 In LA is considerably better than any song on gnx. It’s the most I’ve liked a Kendrick track post-DAMN
There’s no accounting for taste. I really love GKMC-Morale, but i understand why someone wouldn’t. I really don’t like Drake, but i understand why someone would. If you like Kendrick, GNX is cool even if it’s not as high of a high as the others. If you like Drake, probably any Drake release has something about it you’d like.
I should have should have said last three (I guess it's six now), but regardless...I cannot in my right mind imagine thinking Certified Lover Boy is a better album than GNX in any universe, especially knowing what we know about Drake lol. But you do you
I'll always maintain that drake has the best marketing team in the world behind him. Because without it, he would have disappeared over a decade ago.
Morale is significantly better than it gets credit for. Drake's last solid release was What a Time to Be Alive.
Any more i only really go back to DAMN and Morale. DAMN especially has grown on me, i really think the pessimism following TPAB is very relatable, and Morale is - when it’s at its best - a natural outgrowth of that.
I am really never in the mood to listen to a Kendrick track that is not like, Backseat Freestyle or ADHD. Ronald Reagan Era came on shuffle a few weeks ago and reminded me how much I like that record, but there's also a ton on there I skip. TPAB is obviously his best and still a masterpiece, but I am not riding around listening to it lol.
What about NBA YoungBoy? Last I heard (which granted is a while ago) he was like the actual most streamed rapper after Drake
ADHD used to be the first song that played every time I started my car due to alphabetical order of my library and that wore me out on it but it still is great Fully agree with all this though
Drake is easily the better singles artist, and while I don't think that Take Care is a better album than TPAB, I will definitely reach for it more regularly
Maybe it’s because I’m from Southern California but half of everyone I know loves Tyler the Creator and I haven’t met a single J Cole fan so I’ve always been surprised it’s J Cole in the “top 3” and not Tyler
Right back at you man. I can't imagine thinking that an album in which an artist raps "bing bop boom boom boom bop bam" is good, especially with what we know about Kendrick lol. You do you bro!
It you ask me that whole generation was lucky to have come up with the explosion of streaming because they all punch above their weight
All this discussion is making me want to listen to GNX. Have some fun and have a little singalong to Peakaboo. Try not to go full drake and not take myself too seriously.
Consensus seems to be Lil Baby, Lil Durk, NBA Youngboy and Future. Uzi (probably because this is Philadelphia). They pretty much all at least checked out the Drake album this morning, but none of them would call him a "favorite" of theirs -more just that he's huge and everyone would be talking about it.
There’s plenty of corny/bleak stuff about Kendrick beyond the stuff Drake brought up. Also, i do think it’s goofy when people point to a stupid lyric in a rap album as evidence that the album itself is bad. It’s the most lyrics-dense form of music we have, almost every album i love in hip hop has at least some dumb shit in it, i usually chalk that up to sheer density.
Surrounds himself with, works with and actively defends abusers of women. For example, Kodak Black, Dr. Dre and Playboi Carti. He threatened to pull his music from Spotify if they removed R Kelly's music. He's a piece of shit lol, not sure why people like to pretend he's morally any better than Drake Also there's that interview from years ago where they question him about allegations he has beat women, and he gives a very unconvincing denial... given the people he chooses to associate with and uplift it's not hard to believe. No smoke without fire and all that
I think people tend to feel better about Kendrick’s music because he frequently is grappling with these shortcomings in himself and others (even if/when they dislike where he winds up as a result of those reflections, like working with Kodak Black) whereas with Drake it is usually music about how aggrieved he is.
Drake employed and signed a human trafficker, man I don't think Kendrick being tight with Dre or Carti is good either but that's a much broader and (unfortunately common) problem in hip-hop (they both worship Michael Jackson, for example). Unless I'm missing some major piece of evidence, I don't have a reason to think Kendrick is abusive and I do think Drake's case with Baka, before even getting into the optics of dating teenagers and texting children, is worse than (once again, unfortunate) morally questionable features
Lmao Kendrick fans are absurd. Choosing to support abusers of women is not a "shortcoming", and I don't care if he "grapples" with it. There are no excuses for him working with those people
His inclusion of Kodak on Mr. Morale is definitely fascinating at best given the album's themes as a whole and completely misguided at worst.