Black Hippy thread (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, etc.)

Busta Ry · Post by **Busta Ry** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:00 pm

Yeah, this album didn't initially smack me across the face, but it is one of the most excellent "let that shit bubble" records that I can think of in recent memory. I remember feeling the same way about "Labcabincalifornia" and "Donuts". It's probably the best hip-hop record released in the last five years in it's own all-encompassing way.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:17 pm

CHANCE RANDOM wrote:
EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:kendrick writes with a purpose. he writes about stuff. it's never about bars.
This. It's funny as fuck seeing critics and others pushing their glasses up their nose and actually giving Kendrick shit for writing extended metaphors and tons of figurative language tricks, like he's writing a fucking AP English Lit assignment or something. There's very few if any rappers with the audience Kendrick has doing what he's doing and people are making fun of it.

Motherfuckers don't want to think critically, they just want to go fishing with little bitty shrimp dips.

suckas say they miss the metaphors in rappin/
muthafukka if u did then canibus would be platinum

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:02 pm

What's everybody's favorite song on here?

I actually think the new single "King Kunta" might be mine, even with the unnecessary "funk" shouts at the end. Beat goes.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:25 pm

^werd

i like blacker the berry more & more

but "how much a dollar cost" changed my life

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:50 am

You never considered that God might be a homeless person, bruh?!

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:55 pm

Versive wrote: You never considered that God might be a homeless person, bruh?!

rly tho the thoughts going through his mind in the first two verses. characterization of him & the bum. then in the 3rd he starts clowning the dude & you're like oh kdot was right after all. then

step one · Post by **step one** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:07 pm

EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:
"how much a dollar cost" changed my life

just listened to this on my continuing quest to find a KL song that doesn't suck balls. I'm convinced there must be at least one.

Shit is Mr Wendal 2015.

Still surprised how many people (on this board especially) can find his fuck awful rapping enjoyable. The tracks of his where he tones down the terrible rapping into something more passable are generally pretty dull. Dude doesn't really do 'entertaining' does he?

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:12 pm

step one wrote:Dude doesn't really do 'entertaining' does he?

Backseat Freestyle is your best bet

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:13 pm

ackbar wrote:
step one wrote:Dude doesn't really do 'entertaining' does he?
Cartoons And Cereal is your best bet

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:13 pm

On second thought just listen to Gunplay instead

step one · Post by **step one** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:24 pm

ackbar wrote:
step one wrote:Dude doesn't really do 'entertaining' does he?
Backseat Freestyle is your best bet

Don't like this but it does seem totally at odds with his current MO. He only does the concious black upliftment thing when its convenient?

Cartoons and Cereal is ok (as in not as shit as the other songs). Can't say I'm rushing to hear it again though.

Listening to Gunplay instead seems like a good call. I wouldn't usually invest so much effort into trying to find a song i like by a particular rapper but the amount of plaudits he's been getting from all sides had me thinking there would be something. Obviously its just not for me.

Gyangsta 4 Life · Post by **Gyangsta 4 Life** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:45 pm

step one, what you think of this? dope shit:

I need you to keep quiet as a mouse
which is ironic, 'cause rats is what i'm talkin' bout

step one · Post by **step one** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:28 pm

Enjoy a fair bit of Game's music and I like that. Just need a version without the chorus because autotune makes my skin crawl.

Thanks man.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:36 pm

step one wrote:
EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:
"how much a dollar cost" changed my life
just listened to this on my continuing quest to find a KL song that doesn't suck balls. I'm convinced there must be at least one.

Shit is Mr Wendal 2015.

you're thinking superficially. the song is not about bums.

AXEWOUNDFISTER · Post by **AXEWOUNDFISTER** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:10 pm

king kunta beat is fire i wish the west went back to gfunk type era.

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:20 pm

ackbar wrote:
step one wrote:Dude doesn't really do 'entertaining' does he?
Backseat Freestyle is your best bet

His verse on Fredo's "Jealous" entertains the fuck out of me. The "num num num/can't talk right now/I got pussy on my tongue" bit always makes me chuckle.

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Tue May 19, 2015 6:43 pm

Escobar305 wrote:
Versive wrote:Not saying I don't like this. I've only listened to handful of songs shuffled in Spotify and I already like it more than Good Kid ... but the best possible thing that could happen with this album is that it gets a whole wave of teenagers/college kids into jazz.
Plz recommend some good jazz.

This is some moons ago but hey, Escobar!!! Here's some good recent stuff I've been enjoying:

Unfortunately, Tchicai passed away last year. Really grateful for being able to see/meet him live.

And Cecil McBee turned 80 today

!

ChaMerZ · Post by **ChaMerZ** » Fri May 22, 2015 1:13 pm

so i finally got to listening to pimp a butterfly (actually listening to it right now, these walls ftw :)

pretty deep and chill. this is the first kendrick project i've consumed so i'm wondering if i'll be able to backtrack to GKMD and Section 80 without feeling lost.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Fri May 22, 2015 1:26 pm

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Employee

What's the best track and why?
"Alright" because he straight up shreds one of his verses like the New School West Coast Wolverine that he is; not Peabo Bryson throwing a temper tantrum. It wanders, but the beat is enough that remaining engaged isn't arduous. If you've yet to discern "TPAB", it will be a highlight; the same is true if you've already been privy to it.

I recommend listening to this record while...
Being a white person who is being lectured by another white person or maxin' out and smoking weed.

While I listened to this record, I pictured...
A sizable golden egg nestled in a chair cushioned by feathers of Italy's rarest birds. This gold gamete is purported to possess palliative properties in addition to healing powers. But no one's ever seen the egg face-to-face because it's in an uninhabitable, unreachable area. Until the ineluctable day some heroic "MacGyver" mother effer throws convention to the wind in order to confirm the egg's existence and discovers a pair of entangled, crumpled up folding chairs.

Anything else to add?
In the pantheon of Popular Bullshit will forever lie "TPAB"'s inexplicable appeal to the legions of bloggers, Rap Journos, and Assorted Scribers as evidenced by said crowd's fawning praise for an album that is, at its peak (which is every single second of every single song according to the People Who Are In The Know And Know For A Reason, Bro) a frenetic glimpse of what Kendrick Lamar's appeal is: RAPPING HARD IN THE PAINT. Singing and meandering on lengthy interludes is Lame Sauce. I'd wager some of Death Row's money they are alleged to serve some purpose, but what it is is entirely lost on me.

An esteemed colleague of mine remarked that this is "Aquemini 2.0" and I echo said sentiments. Sprinkle in some "The Love Below" and you've got yourself a Critical Darling. Why or how this is, like, The Blackest Record To Be The Blackest Record In A Long Time thus too escapes me. The racial themes and language do not differentiate themselves as characteristics in a way so stark as to be jarring or impactful even on a, say, J. Cole level. We now live in such a hyper-racialized, race-focused, race-centric orbit that when a black guy echoes prior, powerful, pro-black sentiments he is suddenly the most revolutionary, Blackest Person Alive. Silly really.

Pablum of this magnitude is no longer rare or different: rather it's accepted and acceptable so its universal acclaim isn't much of a surprise with the benefit of a week's worth of hindsight. But it is growing old rapidly like the viability of my sperm and achieving of boners (Rap & Otherwise). Time and again we are given a Bic in place of fire; it is not organic, it is a platter of the mundane and the sustenance of the self-serving. Hearing Kendrick Lamar sacrifice a sizable swath of his stinging narratives in favor of a rugged John Secada impersonation is not my idea of a "surprise"; nor is it my cup of tea, coffee, or mineral water.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Fri May 22, 2015 3:28 pm

did u drop acid when you wrote this

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Fri May 22, 2015 3:34 pm

I've been on acid since 1996.

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Fri May 22, 2015 8:45 pm

i see you've moved away from alliteration and really gotten into capitalization lately

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Sat May 23, 2015 1:09 am

Employee wrote:I've been on acid since 1996.

Rachel Hobozal · Post by **Rachel Hobozal** » Sat May 23, 2015 6:08 pm

Jon Secada. How Many Times Did You Ejaculate On Yourself While Writing That Shit?

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:49 pm

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:52 pm

^sick but dude is best as a feature imo

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:56 pm

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 1:58 pm

Tired & Broke · Post by **Tired & Broke** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:00 pm

Employee wrote:

does anyone know the name of the track that starts at 2:00 with all of Black Hippy in the car??

TDE is easily the most consistent camp out.

ChaMerZ · Post by **ChaMerZ** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:54 pm

been listening to tpab a lot the past few days. a cot damn classic. might be 2nd favorite project this year after vince staples - summertime '06

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