Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (May 13th, 2022) Album • Page 40

It works as a single album for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but if people enjoy this as two separate halves, the cool part is they're still enjoying it.

 

Eh, I don't mean that it's bad or anything by saying that. I just don't think I'll ever be in the mood to listen to it again, and there really aren't any tracks that I feel like going back to. Still probably his second best. An above average hip hop release in 2022.

 

Smdh

 

I like this more every time I listen to it.
We Cry Together and Auntie Diaries don't always make the cut, but I think they are artistically very impressive.

Don't want to re-iterate the Kodak Black stuff...but I wish he was also just a better feature. Brings nothing to the table.

 

Yeah idk this works for me as a complete album, no skips every time.

 

Yep. I don’t skip We Cry Together either. The actress and Alchemist beat are too good

 

might be my favorite beat on the record

 

It’s a great beat I just wish it was for a track I would casually listen to haha

 

I'm open to the idea that double albums can, at least sometimes, be meant to be listened to as two separate pieces rather than a single 80-120 minute opus. I certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone for saying Mellon Collie feels long in a single sitting but is incredible in two parts. (I'm also not sure that it wasn't intended that way to begin with.)

I don't know if I totally buy that argument here given that outside the two more explicitly personal songs on the second side I think most of the two discs here feel interchangeable, but I wouldn't knock anyone for preferring the halves independently.

Personally I think this is really good but I'm in the haven't felt the desire to go back to it much camp, which is very different from how I felt about GKMC, TPAB, and Damn when I first heard them.

 

Obviously it changes drastically per project, but if anyone thinks Speakerboxxx / The Love Below is one album, then you're very wrong

 

i always skip rich (interlude)
i mostly skip we cry together
i sometimes skip savior

everything else rules. 4/5 album for me.

 

That doesn’t really count though.

 

just noticed Spotify has The Heart Part 5 as the final track for this album. Don’t know if that was always the case

 

Definitely not

 

It was added last week as the final track.

 

Everytime "Mother I Sober" starts I think the piano is a "Chistmastime is Here" sample lol

 

this is currently my aoty.

 

Same. I'd love to see what could knock this out of my top spot this year however

 

Performance starting right around 13:00

 

Incredible set.

 

Not only my current favorite song but just a great performance, shit made me cry. This album is beyond music, somehow it’s teaching me things about myself, the ego, how to avoid distractions and temptations, this is an album I’m still trying to fully comprehend but I already know nothing will beat this for me in hip hop until he drops again

 

this Glastonbury set is fucking extraordinary wowwww

 

Not a fan of Jesus stuff in general but I do like when it’s used in a positive manner, with Kendrick signaling that he would actually support womens rights etc…amazing performance either way