burn this down
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Here it is. This is it. He's actually gonna top TPAB. What did we do to deserve Kendrick?
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Kendrick Lamar: The Heart Part 4 - Single
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so have they officially confirmed the existence of an album?
Kendrick did in the last bar, "Y'all got 'til April the 7th to get ya'll shit together".
Hippolnareff
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Genius has the whole song's lyrics now (as best as people have heard, I suppose...)
clipping
CrimsonSquall
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He already said it himself in a recent complex interview IIRC and yea april 7th
I liked it, it was pretty tight.
Have to agree with this though
Only the pre-switch is doing things for me
Have to agree with this though
Ravensmash
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Net_Wrecker
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The way I see it, the big switch up is what those previous beats are building to. The way he rides into the sparse new instrumental is so smooth. How do your neck joints not go into overdrive right there.
Bingo.
As recently as Drake's More Life project a week ago he's still dropping subliminal shots at Kendrick.
Cesare Borgia
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There are literally like 4-5 Big Sean subliminals in the song. It has nothing to do with Drake.
Multiple Jay Z homages or references too.
I caught the Sean tip-toes.. I mean.. subliminals.. others seem to think some of that quote is about Drake.
Angelus Errare
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I mean Giggs had better bars than Drake on KMT
TheWorthyEdge
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Holy.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Just_myles
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That's an MC.
It's not going to be on the album.
Rosenberg said the only thing he knew is that it won't be on the album (which makes sense since the song is an announcement for an album on April 7th) and he also said that Kendrick wrote this like a few days ago.
Unspeakable Evil
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Batman... Dunna dunna
anderyoung
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that beat switch bass line sounds eerily similar to started from the bottom or other drake beats
ty for tihs
Rollo Tomasi
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Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Big Sean hate smh, bunch of broke boys who don't know nothing about working 10 to 10 like a Mexican.
Fitting, since he's been working and chillin' with Q pretty tough. Hope he has something on the LP!
DJ Dahi getting that work too, that's dope!
Allonym
There should be more tampons in gaming
Because he said Hall of Fame? What are the others? What has Big Sean said to warrant Kendrick to diss him? I feel like you're piggybacking off of what's been said somewhere else.
CassidyIzABeast
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Big Sean definitely sent shots on No More Interviews last year
And I'm just not impressed by you niggas rapping fast
Who sound like one big asthma attack but trash when Im rapping it back
Who you put in your top five and claim they the savior of rap
There was another shot on his album as well.
Sean's been at this for years but now Kendrick's finally saying something. Go back and watch old Breakfast Club interviews where they bring up Control and Kendrick, Sean kept saying Kendrick didn't wash him and he (Sean) was the best on it, kept saying that he (Sean) is at the upper tier of rappers, basically since that Control shit he's been on edge hearing this stuff. Sean then dropped No Interviews and I Decided and people finally said he's improved as a whole and he (Sean) feels this is him stepping up to Kendrick and it's him being "the best" in this. He's given out jabs to Kendrick before but never brought up his name in these songs.
Kendrick's just finally been like "alright nigga I'm gonna address it" now. Even in the old interviews when Kendrick's name was brought up you can tell it annoyed Sean and in a way it's downright disrespectful.
But Sean's been at this for years, the shots at Kendrick are pretty clear.
The entire song of No More Interviews is just fuck this Kendrick dude
Allonym
There should be more tampons in gaming
I understand that. I think Big Sean has been deserving of being in the same conversation as Kendrick since Dark Sky Paradise. The guy has steadily improved with every body of work unlike some other guys people that are in the current rap top 5. Big Sean saying that he wasn't slaughtered on Control isn't an example of him dissing Kendrick nor is the fact that he believes he's always been competition for his more popular peers. Like he and other rappers have said, if you don't feel like you're the best at what you're doing, why are you doing it? I honestly agree with him, rap doesn't need saving, there's been a number of talented people in the genre before, during and I'm certain they'll be more after Kendrick. Saying that Kendrick's some type of rap savior is disrespectful and diminishes the work other people have been putting in for years. I think Drake's shots at Kendrick have been a lot more overt, leaving little room for alternate interpretation.
Allonym
There should be more tampons in gaming
The top 5 savior line? Yea that maybe, but it's just him saying people need to chill with the guy's hype. The rapping fast shit, there's a large number of rappers who rap as fast and faster than Kendrick.
Allonym
There should be more tampons in gaming
I play I Decided nearly everyday when I go to work and I don't recall anything that could be interpreted as a diss to Kendrick. If you're talking about the "Nigga fuck what you know, I'm taking back control, the underdog turned to the wolf and the hunger steady grows" line... I think that'd be a reach because Sean already addressed that and said he can't take back something that already occurred and gave Kendrick his due respect for that. Beyond that and just saying his current top 5, Idk what else would qualify for a "diss" even a subliminal one.
You and Sean are probably the only 2 to think that because in everything else I've seen and heard from others Kendrick's ahead of Sean here. Even if you compare their tracks you can easily see Kendrick is on a different level. If you want to compare bars, songwriting, storytelling and overall what it means to be a lyricist and artist then that's what'll have to be done because there's a divide between them. There's a difference between saying Sean's in the Top 5 of the mainstream (which I can agree on) and saying Sean's the best (which he's not and that's what Kendrick is right now). As for Sean saying he wasn't slaughtered, Kendrick clearly had the best verse no bullshit and his verse was the most talked about and controversial. There's a difference between thinking you're the best and looking at two artists and saying "ok, that's just how it is" because even more famous artists (Jay-Z for example) can admit when an artist does better than them on a track. At a certain point it gets to a territory of being stubborn and thinking your work is better than everyone else's when really, if you compare it piece by piece, it's not. It's no different than Gucci saying he's the best. Yeah, he can think that and rappers are free to think they're the best but...let's actually compare the work of these artists to make that assessment. Do you honestly think Gucci is better than a J Cole for example?
People saying Kendrick is "rap's savior" wasn't the disrespectful part because Kendrick himself didn't start saying that. Since S80, since Dre and the other West legends called him the new King of the West, since GKMC, multiple publications, everyone's stated that. Kendrick saying it is only in reference to others saying it on a track and as he's stated himself, when he says "king" he doesn't consider himself as the real "king", he says it to prove how hungry he is as an artist. Big Sean saying his comments on No Interviews is literally taking a shot by saying he isn't impressed by him, the work he's done and in turn this is piggybacking off his comments since Control.
Overall Sean has improved but there's a clear difference between Sean and Kendrick right now, it's not comparable but if people wanna compare them then yeah let's go on and do it. But yeah Sean was clearly going at Kendrick. There's even a video that came out a few days ago with Sean listening to Mike Will's track with Kendrick on it and the moment Kendrick's verse hits Sean literally stops for a few seconds, anyone could see that man looking different.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR06wA6gqKb/
IrishNinja
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amen
sean's improved but he still has one of the worst voices in mainstream hip hop, like i get he's going for that obnoxious flow but it's not even entertaining. he can craft a song & works on hooks but he's never been on anything that stood out for me, just feels like he's noteworthy to some because the bar's low for his lane & he's gotten less mediocre.
i don't personally judge him as harshly as i might someone actually trying to be in kdot's lane like a smart-dumb dude like cole, but i don't see him as a like artist, much less anywhere near his level.
Exactly.
I like Sean, he's great at what he does and he's improving but I can't really compare the two. Two different types of artists.
Jest Chillin
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Bars are one thing. But everybody linking this video like some kind of smoking gun is reaching hard. Sean barely moves the whole time and y'all are trying to act like a minor pause means something serious.
In any case the whole debate is moot. Kendrick took shots at both Drake and Sean and whoever else *thinks* this applies to them.
Why anyone thinks the dude must only be taking shots at one dude, I have no idea.
Song is dope too.
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