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Kendrick Lamar endorses XXXTENTACION's new album.
- Thread starter torre_avenue
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Byakuya769
Member
I've only seen Duckworth endorse TDE albums. So the first time he does for another artist publicly is for this guy...
Man.
Man.
Uno Venova
Banned
Really do you remember where you saw this.
Kendrick used to walk that fine line, but I'd say he's pretty mainstream now. Doesn't take away from his music though.
Sunset Samurai
Member
Then again it was a YouTube vid explaining the situation 🤔, it was the first time I heard of him because of memes couple of months ago. Imma see if I can find the vid again
Cesare Borgia
Banned
To be fair he's done this for Solange's album, Hiv's album this year, Chance, and some others.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
Kendrick is right, album is good.
Being a trash human doesn't take away from a good product. I mean we can say it does but then we'd have to take a serious look at everything we use and consume on a daily basis.
Being a trash human doesn't take away from a good product. I mean we can say it does but then we'd have to take a serious look at everything we use and consume on a daily basis.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
That's on you if you want to support the album. There are other rappers that are as equally as good as X. Some of us are now getting tired of all these milkshake ducks. I can't take X wanting to help out the little man seriously when he has no problem having his fans turn on his ex gf by calling her a liar.
PixelatedBookake
Junior Member
What if Kendrick liked Cash me Outside girl's new single? 🤔
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Yeah, maybe we should.
I don't subscribe to the "King Kendrick" school of thought but your point is only tangentially related to this thread at best. Kendrick cosigning a rapper you don't like doesn't exactly take away from his contributions to hip-hop
Did she beat up or kill someone yet
Imp the Dimp
Member
Didn't know XXXTENTACION before but this thread got me into listening to his latest album out of couriosity...and it's fucking good. I feel a little conflicted. "Revenge" and "Save Me" are amazing.
edit: Dear god, every song on this album has been really good so far.
edit: Dear god, every song on this album has been really good so far.
pokeystaples
Banned
It's so easy to vote with your wallet. Especially when it comes to this shit, but people gonna people. Kendrick is no different. My mama still jams Step in the Name of Love.
Darryl M R
Member
Yea I'm not supporting XXX because I know of his history but his sound (grunge hip hop with some singing) is good. Sad that he has to be a terrible person but this is a decision I am making.
Kendrick is making his own decision but people should take him off a pedestal. His surface level wokeness isn't praise worthy nor did he ever asked for it to be praised. There are still opportunities for growth with him so it is good that he will get challenged and he has been open to accepting criticism despite not requesting it.
Kendrick is making his own decision but people should take him off a pedestal. His surface level wokeness isn't praise worthy nor did he ever asked for it to be praised. There are still opportunities for growth with him so it is good that he will get challenged and he has been open to accepting criticism despite not requesting it.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
I mean its fun to talk about but we gotta stop putting so much stock in these celebrities outside of their products. But I guess it's up to the individual at the end of the day to vote with their wallets.
apieceofstrange
Member
I just checked out the album. Never heard any tracks from XXX before besides that one that Drake bit. Basically it's not what I was expecting at all. I would barely even call it a rap album. There's more singing than rapping and it's more like emo rock. Not really my thing, but it does have some dark themes like Damn so I can see why it would appeal to Kendrick.
Robot Pants
Member
Still scratching my head why Kendrick would endorse this garbage.
torre_avenue
Banned
Speaking of XXX,...
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Stay losing Kendrick, keep showing your real colors.
TPAB got way too many people in there feelings out here thinking he the new civil rights leader and shit
it was actually embarrassing
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Women and minorites aren't people to them, not exactly breaking news.
spindashing
Banned
X-X-X-TEN-TAH-SEE-ON.
He's definitely not getting my support. Fuck him and fuck Kendrick for cosigning him.
One and done.
Even if the album was fire I wouldn't give money or publicity to someone who beat his pregnant girlfriend.
I don't know why any of this about Kendrick is surprising anyone. I wouldn't go so far as to say he's some horrible person for cosigning the art, but he was brought in by Dre of all people--Abuser supreme. He definitely has no qualms separating the art from the art from the artist, to say the least.
X can fuck off with that colorism bullshit as well, though.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Because people have been putting him on some profound pedestal for years, people finally realizing he's just after the money like everyone else.
Devilinthiscity
Member
Not as embarrassing as xxxtentacion.
Uno Venova
Banned
allegedly
Musical taste is subjective, but I listened to some of this "17" album and and it's just really, really bad. Very tryhard and edgy, but with awful execution.
Dude said Cobain is one of his main influences. I've been playing guitar seriously for 10 years and this kid doesn't even have a fraction of Kurt's talent and Kurt wasn't even an exceptionally good guitar player (a great song writer, though).
Just makes me literally feel ill about the future of music seeing how much attention this kid is getting with such little talent/skill. However, if you enjoy XXX's stuff then I'm really happy for you because, again, music is subjective.
Dude said Cobain is one of his main influences. I've been playing guitar seriously for 10 years and this kid doesn't even have a fraction of Kurt's talent and Kurt wasn't even an exceptionally good guitar player (a great song writer, though).
Just makes me literally feel ill about the future of music seeing how much attention this kid is getting with such little talent/skill. However, if you enjoy XXX's stuff then I'm really happy for you because, again, music is subjective.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Who else in the mainstream would even be a candidate though?
Joey Bada$$?
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I don't think Bada$$ is mainstream, although I've been out of the loop since 2012 so...
Bounceounce
Member
Joey is trash compared to Kendrick.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
And while I wouldn't go that far, Joey hasn't made classic(s) like Kenny.
Also is he still on that third eye shit? Do people even do that shit anymore?
apieceofstrange
Member
Lol this is actually pretty accurate.
Is it though? I hear a lot of guitar and piano, something I don't care to hear when listening to a hiphop record.
Dude beat up a woman, wait, a pregnant woman no less?
pass.
kdot got paid off for this one fam
I think he's getting there although most of his vids usually don't hit a mil views for a couple of months. His most recent album is about the racism in america and police shootings and it was kinda a radical departure from his old work because he never even claimed to be "woke" (that i know of) so if anything maybe hes getting further away from the mainstream
Yeah apart from the whole beating the shit out of his pregnant ex girlfriend bit. Swell guy otherwise.
This seems wildly shortsighted.
Elegant Weapon
Member
The fuck are you talking about? I don't know how stereotypically unoffensive you need Kendrick's music to be, but he doesn't sacrifice content while still rapping at a high level.
He has singles where the hook is "I love myself". If he was "just after the money", he'd be rapping about abusing drugs instead of putting "death to molly" in his videos when every rapper was mentioning that shit even if they didn't do it.
Fuck, seriously. The dude can be woke and still not perfectly Mr Rodgers or Obama or whatever the fuck.