I feel like Lupe was doing all of that on his music before Kendrick came around, correct?
Also, isn't Kanye's debut notable for shifting the hip-hop scene from gangsta rap to something else entirely different? He went up against the biggest rap artist of the millennium (50 Cent) and progressively ended him and his popularity by the time Graduation came out.
No? He wasn't. Just, no.
Yeah, Kanye's debut is notable for that, and I'm not discrediting Kanye.
Not to be rude - but if you're predominantly, above all, a fan of female pop music?
Odds are you don't really know how to play the game when it comes to quality, progressive, important music.
Don't get me wrong, love barrel-scrounged female pop.
But, like.
You think untitled unmastered should be more acclaimed than ANY J. Cole, Beyonce, etc album?
Yet again, the ass was kissed over something that most people won't be playing more than 3 times.
No, I do not. But I also thought Beyoncé was a tad overrated and that J. Cole's best album wasn't his highest rated.
But opinions are like assholes.
Overall, I think Kendrick Lamar has earned his acclaim.
untitled unmastered is musically better than any J.Cole album and i'm certainly gonna be playing it more in full than BEYONCE, so I ain't mad at it being more acclaimed than both. It's up to subjectivity.
And Beyoncé has slightly more reviews than untitled, so to say that one is more acclaimed than the other is not looking at the bigger picture. Whose to say, if given the same amount of reviews, untitled wouldn't be behind Beyoncé on Metacritic?
The real acclaim comes with retrospective reviews, tbh.
Because it is completely not comparable to the messages AND sounds AND lyricism/flow that TPAB has.
808s has one of those things, and in the rap game, it's the least important one.
And Beyoncé has slightly more reviews than untitled, so to say that one is more acclaimed than the others is not looking at the bigger picture. Whose to say, if given the same amount of reviews, untitled wouldn't be behind Beyoncé on Metacritic?
The real acclaim comes with retrospective reviews, tbh.
And this is why Blackout is the quintessential album of this generation
Because it is completely not comparable to the messages AND sounds AND lyricism/flow that TPAB has.
808s has one of those things, and in the rap game, it's the least important one.
No, the most overrated rapper today is Drake. He doesn't write his own ****, his music is melancholic whiny BS and he's just overall a bland person, from the image to his monotone voice.
This is so true, he is BELOW average in every possible aspect. His popularity is mystifying to me.
He wasn't. Just, no.
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