Please tell me how or why Kendrick is considered a top tier lyricist? Also tell what Kendrick has done that's actually original? Give me proof and I'll recant my statements.
@M.Dot47 Benjamin button disease. But nah man these are my honest opinions, and if you look at the comments, I'm not the only one. But check the other videos out maybe we have other topics we can agree on.
Kendrick Lamar is very overrated but because he is supposed to be so " deep ", he was crowned the savior of Hip Hop. But I can't think of a memorable rhyme from Kendrick right now.
@@thehatersball504I got one that I can think of "the reason why Lauryn Hill don't sing or Kurt Koban loaded that clip and then said bang!" Probably the hardest line he's ever said lmao
@@thehatersball504 oh most def, it's either that or GKMC for me, I like some of his later work except for this last god awful album lmao but I do agree with you guys that over time he just kinda started to dip in quality sadly.
I think it's pretty reductive to say something is trash because you can't remember a quote. Think of all the great movies you've seen that you can't quote. I think GKMC is a genuinely great album, from the concept, to the production, to the lyricism, it's a big picture project and not really something that can be measured by quotables alone. But I do think he's massively overrated, his new material is boring to me.
He's a flow artist, he always tries to do voices, but lyrically he's weak and reading back his rhymes, they're weak, the beats carry him every time, he's basically lil wayne with a helium balloon inhaled, plus all of his fans are hardcore glazers, his fans are cringe acting like he's 2pac's second coming 😂😂😂
I don’t consider Kendrick a Hip Hop emcee/artist. He has always made Pop Rap music. His lyrics and music just don’t measure up to truly ‘classic’ Hip Hop records and albums. Only casual listeners of Rap music that lack awareness and knowledge of Hip Hop culture since it’s inception in the 1970s buy into the hype about Kendrick Lamar Duckworth
q-tip isn't even top 200 best rappers bro was more of a visionary and musical director/producer learn your facts young blood he was instrumental in development and immortalization of jazz rap
@@thehatersball504 Prior to Kendrick releasing his first album, there were 30+ years of pioneering and truly innovative emcees that never had the mainstream media machine and public relations marketing campaigns working to constantly convince potential buyers of how ‘great’ the artists are, and because of this PR machine, Kendrick is rated over many legendary artists with timeless music that shaped the genre, when his audio recordings don’t measure up to the legends, and he nor his music has yet been proven to stand the test of time
my thing is we've gotten so soft your not allowed to say you dislike a popular artist without one of their fanboys saying your just insecure or a hater, I never understood the Kendick hype, sure I guess he has some clever lyrics, every song of his I've heard feels like he's come up with the most witty way he could think of to tell you how great he thinks he is, or its some song thats trying to make a political point about how racist America is to blacks. Its like every song he writes he wants to remind you about how smart and conscious he is so you never forget that hes the smart guy rapper. I'm just keeping it real, it feels like his music is meant to appeal to white high school kids in Honors classes or black folks who want to blame all of their faults on white america. but I'll also admit I just don't like a lot of rappers of the 2010s and now into the 2020s, in the 90s, and 00s their where a lot of artists who while I wasn't a fan of theirs, I could see why people liked them and I didn't actively dislike them, I swear the entire generation of millennial and older gen Z rappers I just found the majority of them legitimately unlikeable, I think its true what the boomers and Gen Xer's have been saying, millennials are just coddled, entitled losers. An actually if anything, I think I prefer the younger Gen Z rappers to millennials, I gen z are more humble, they see how badly we millennials have fucked up and are willing to admit where they can improve, whereas millennials seem to think a little to highly of themselves.
If I’m being completely honest, I’m putting on J Cole, Big KRIT and even Drake any day over Kendrick. To me, projects are Friday night lights, return of 4eva, krit wuz here, the warm up, if you’re reading this are much more enjoyable than anything Kendrick has ever made. Also I can’t recall any Kendrick bars off the top of my head
@@thehatersball504 TPAB WASHES anything Freddie Gibbs will ever produce you guys are hilarious. Kendrick is actually speaking on important matters and issues, that's why the world and people love him. Wtf has Freddie Gibbs done that's original, innovative or even remotely important for the culture to progress.
Found this video just now. Yall got a sub. I have been saying since TPAB (which literally put me to sleep no joke) that he was overrated. I do think he has talent, but i always thought Ab Soul was better on the label. Now that dude can spit.
MMBS isn’t even trash, he makes decent songs , he’s just a mediocre rapper.. the best part of the albums is the times where Kendrick isn’t rapping/singing.. a buddy of mine said Kendrick is up there with pac and I never looked at him the same.. mind u I’ve known this friend for 20 years.. Kendrick voice is trash, his cadence/flow is trash .. I guess his marketing is good because I don’t get it..
I think the main reason kendrick is held in high esteem is cos ppl aint ever put in the effort to research music, they just take what theyre given at face value without looking deeper so they deem it GOATed without even doing the research, they never look outside of theyre own era, beyond mainstream or beyond theyre preferred genre even lmao
I don't like music that tries to be intellectual, and I think his directing work is much more interesting. Kendrick's music is for Kendrick's fans (and of course he won the beef with Drake). But the fact that people can't get around someone saying "it's not for me" makes me dislike it all much more. I feel like his discography reflects his very tailored public image as it has progressed. No denying he has talent and an ear for a hit, but I can't get into his more acclaimed music because I really don't love it. And I find his approach to themes on TPAB to be somewhat heavy handed and zealous. I personally believe other people have done it better. So what, right? But forget about challenging the mainstream acclaim! You're not "allowed" to. How about this - sometimes, it's not enough to be "objectively" good
@@thehatersball504 Not entirely. I agree that DAMN. and Mr. Morale... ain't all that. I don't get the hype around them tbh but GKMC and TPAB are great albums. Plus Kendrick ain't making it into my top 10 rappers pick too.
TPAB has been my favorite rap album and he's in MY personal top 5 but i can't stand the fans ong! Yeah his writting has gone downhill since he stop hanging around Ab-Soul and Q, they pushed him to rap better. And Baby Keem is the worst thing to happen to Kendrick's music holy shit. I was vibing so hard to N95 then he did that squeaky shit and i actually got pissed lol 🤣
I remember last year making the argument that Kendrick doesn't have a lot of replayability in his music and it's refreshing to see that i wasnt just pulling that outta my ass. Can't say that now especially after "Not Like Us", but that's been my stance. I'm not even gonna get into the beef, ill just say I'm not sold on the "winner".
@@ripskip160some of his backstory (not his life, but the way he got into the industry still feels like it's missing pieces to me considering the timeline of when he came in and how he has connections. Idk if he's a plant, but he did have more help then he leads on by far I think
I watch stuff like this to get other perspectives. I think Kendrick music offers more content than most mainstream artists. Maybe overrated is fair but it feels misapplied in his case. I think DAMN is jammin’ though and a classic.
Than most mainstream artists are the key sentence. Mainstream hip-hop has very little content right now, but that doesn't mean we should give him extra credit for other rappers failings. Thanks for watching, though we appreciate everyone's perspective.
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It's funny cause I actually prefer this album of his to ALL his others. I feel albums like TPAB or GKMC were very overrated and just, not really all that good. He's more of a hits rapper than anything to me.
He might be overrated by the people who claim he’s the greatest. But to be honest he’s pretty close. Calling him overrated or saying he’s not a true top tier lyricist is blasphemy and just stupid
We are addressing people who call him the greatest or say he's top 5 or top 10 or say he made album of the year and all the other hyperbole that surrounds Kendrick.
If you think he's even close to being one if the greatest then you haven't listened to enough hip-hop. You can't tell me that from the very beginning of hip-hop to now that Kendrick is anywhere close to the greatest. Now that's blasphemous and ignorant
@@mr.rationale8808 Kendrick has dropped two of the greatest albums in hip hop history. The only thing really holding him back from truly being one of the greatest is time
@christianthiessen1504 whoa 2 of the greatest all time is this really how ppl feel? please tell me which 2 albums? and do you mean they are top 10 albums or like top 100 albums?
@@DumbitDwn good kid maad city, and To Pimp a Butterfly. Personally I think TPAB is the best rap album of all time and if you asked most people both of those albums would end up in the their top 25 at least. The storytelling, ability, and Kendricks vocal inflections mixed with the incredible meaning and impact are next level
saying that kendrick lamar is the most overrated rapper ever has got to be titled just for clickbait 😂😂🤦🏾♂️ OD - DAMN is a better discography than 90% of rappers that have come out in the last 15 years 😂
My opinion on Kendrick - he has made some enjoyable pop-rap songs. King Kunta, Money Trees, Humble, Pride, Wesley's Theory, Swimming Pools, and Alright are either above average or good. To me, I've always felt like "The Recipe" is his only good hiphop song and it was heavily carried by the sample if we're being honest. Kendrick's "rap flow" is terrible. He cannot flow over a beat for the most part, and even his beat selection itself isn't very good to begin with. Kendrick is either just rapping fast and not properly complimenting the beat or he's just speaking over the beat (like on SAMIDOT). This is because Kendrick most likely writes his verses BEFORE listening to the beat so often in musical translation it isn't pleasing to listen to. If Kendrick's rap flow was so good why does he never perform great on features with more interesting beats? He was awful on New Freezer with Rich the Kid and Goosebumps was polarising. Like everyone makes fun of Rich the Kid and yet he actually greatly outperformed Kendrick on that. I'm not a fan of Drake's "personality", I think Kendrick is more "likeable" than Drake. I mean, Drake is always in the spotlight and gets negative rep for his antics. Kendrick is private so it's not easy to find reasons to hate on him as a person, although he has made himself a hot topic through some of his music lyrics directed at other rappers (like Control). But Drake IS a better rapper than Kendrick and people will think this is blasphemy but it's facts. Drake's rap flow is better, he has better beat selection, and has more memorable lines. Yes, what Drake often raps about isn't progressive, like Kendrick's is, but this is just one factor of many that you have to rank rappers. Solely based on the fact that Kendrick raps about "the black struggle" is the reason he is better? Music is about replay value, what will age well in decades? I mean, at the end of the day, both Drake and Kendrick make music for casuals, Kendrick's subject matter is just more thought-provoking. That's about it, whilst Drake mostly just raps about partying and women with a few exceptions. But Drake has much better beats, and ultimately the distinctive beats will stand the test of time, look at Still D.R.E. It's likely a song like 10 Bands will still be played in a decade by actual hiphop listeners and not casual hiphop-pop rap listeners because the beat is so good and Drake flowed well on it. Don't get me wrong I don't think Drake is particularly great either, but he is better than Kendrick.
@@thehatersball504 Drake is quantity over quality, no denying that, but he has made more ambitious "hiphop" songs than Kendrick in my opinion in terms of beats and flow. I bring up Drake because, well, he's popular like Kendrick, but there is a good reason for it. Drake is arguably the greatest feature artist of all time and has a good amount of solid hiphop songs in his catalog. Just off the top of my head: 10 Bands, Legend, Chicago Freestyle, Scholarships, Jumpman, Hype and Money in the Grave, I think these songs are future-proof, but yeah, I get it. Drake is nowhere near as good as for example Nas (Illmatic/some of It Was Written), Mobb Deep (Infamous+Hell on Earth), GZA (Liquid Swords), but for this era of hiphop he's made the most memorable shit in his unsurprisingly oversaturated catalog. There are gems in there if you take the time to look. Literally only ASAP Rocky on his first 3 projects has had better beat selection than Drake, and Rocky don't make music anymore like that so Drake is pretty much only competing with himself at this point. The 21 + Metro combo was hot between 2016 - 2018 but I think that one has been casted off as well as Metro's beats aren't as good as they used to be imo.
@@user-np3tq4nf1t Trash opinion. Drake doesn't have ONE Sing About Me, DUCKWORTH., FEAR., FEEL., Mother I Sober, Auntie Diaries, How Much A Dollar Cost?, Mortal Man, These Walls. Stop it
@@ArmLegLegArmHead47 Kendrick fans always bring up these mediocre songs and hype them up like they're hiphop royalty. Sorry but Mother I Sober and Aunties Diaries are therapy songs for a niche, not hiphop tracks. Duckworth is decent from what you mentioned and maybe These Walls but that's about it.
bro you speaking bullshit right now😂😂😂😂😂so according to your ears and common sense between Kendrick Lamar and Drake .DRAKE'S THE ONE WHO IS HARDER IN TERSM OF RAP AND DRAKE IS NOT FOR THE CASUAL POP RAP fans my n*gga Drake himself identifies as a popstar bro is prolly the poppiest sing song rapper of ALL TIME no wonder ol'e heads call him a sing rapper my nigga think before you speak Kdot has one of the most impressive catalogs in rap history bro can be gangsta can be a loverboy can be a preacher can be a teacher a politician and a pastor and a sinner Kendrick's beats are more carefully crafted that's why no one can replicate his style/sound listen to TPAB who else using jazz and funk like that and In terms of flow🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Kendrick's top 5 in terms of flow right now alongside J cole ,JID & denzel curry & Travis SCot boy don't even start with flow Kdot's flow is objectively better he has at least 6 different deliveries Kendrick Lamar: Kendrick is renowned for his versatile and intricate flows. He effortlessly switches between different rhythms and rhyme schemes, making his delivery captivating and unpredictable. Drake has a predictable sing song rap rap sing song flow SUBSTANCE Kdot Versatility KDOT Technicality -kdot Production-Drake(although it can be argued Kdot got some of the most rapped too beats in modern rap) IMPACT -Drake songwriting/hits-Drake features-DRAKe because he can do a bunch of shit on various sounds. overall i think it goes down to personal tastes but the Day YOU SAY KDOT GOT A TRASH FLOW 😂😂and if you say RICH DA KID song kdot messed up you must have smoked sess or injected psychedelics in yoself boy That verse was fire
Yall say Kendrick has no lyrics when he won a prize specifically for amazing lyrics 🤦🏾♂️ and the thing is that so many ppl think he is a really good rapper is bc he is you haters out there say things without any proof plus Kendrick Lamar also has a diamond album which only a few rappers have gotten
To kill all of this noise. In the end, whether Kendrick "is" or "isn't" the or one of the greatest rappers/artist ever, the fact that we've been having this conversation for almost a decade now speaks volumes. You can't deny that it's on the people's mind. I'm a huge fan and I place him somewhere between Tupac and Wu-Tang ( pick any member)
The fact that we been having this conversation for so long is why I can call him overrated since TPAB ppl been calling him top 5 or top ten like there aren't tons of legends with dope catalogs. But I can agree that Kendrick is somewhere between Tupac and masta killa.
@@ProGamer-lk9qw Who cares atp, Kendrick has solidified himself and the World appreciates his artistry. Literally no one cares about old heads and Gate Keepers anymore, the culture has evolved
@@ProGamer-lk9qw The culture is toxic and outdated, you're right. Enjoying Kendrick has nothing to do with bad taste, dude literally is one of the best WRITERS of all time.
@@ArmLegLegArmHead47 You're right, I probably was a little harsh with that reply my bad plus music, like a lot of things is subjective and even though I may not fully agree with Kendrick being the best you are entitled to your own opinion and I should respect that.
Kendrick got one of the best catalogs in HipHop (OD-Mr. Morale + Untitled Unmastered + BP Soundtrack), dozens of features, a whole history of outstanding live performances and tours, 17 Grammies, a Pulitzer, all his albums are rated 8 or up...Yall really just hate
Kendrick is the GOAT. y'all know it. This is trolling and fckn stupid😅 and also if he watched this he wouldn't be offended cos he ain't sensitive like Aubrey. It's not even the "deep"ness that make him special. It's the storytelling, the authenticity, wisdom, emotion, self awareness. There will never be another like him😂
Lol, check out any video on our channel you see us give our unbiased opinion on everything. Only Kendrick stans cant comprehend people having different opinions. If you think we are trolling, then go back to your bubble where everyone is playing that TPAB in the whip.
@@thehatersball504 I also don't hear people bumpin illmatic in they whip. the blueprint , cuban linx bcos that is not the context and vibe that it is meant to thrive in. It is intellectual content meant for individual processing. Greatness is not defined by how playable the music is in your fuckin car or the club. If so, then tell me Drake or Future is the goat. I always say TPAB is the greatest album of ALL TIME. Also when I listen to your critiques about Kendrick, it's very vague, narrow and superficial like that car thing. He doesn't make low vibration disposable junk or "bangers" like these rappers. He is not overrated. He is not a rapper. But simply a great artiste and his impact will stand test of time. You all are the lost ones looking for sumn negative
@@mauricekimani5968 1st we appreciate hip hop conversation and respect everyone's opinions. if you disagree that's cool but to say our criticisms are vague is ridiculous. if you watched our TPAB review you'll see we went through song by song and say exactly what we like and dislike then we gave it a good rating just cuz we don't agree its the greatest of all time don't mean we are looking for negative. secondly if you watch our other video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_CdGQ8S2fjI.htmlsi=lz90nUAtUzEAPsnF on Kendrick we say very specifically what we like and what we dont. last if you never hear anyone play illmatic blueprint or OB4CL then we live in different worlds.
@@thehatersball504 it's like bro, I actually watched the video looking for valid points. How can you hate on a successful black man that made it out of gang riddled Compton streets & made something positive of himself. This kind of energy is self reflective of your inner selves. You sound like losers for real, there's nothing of substance in your critique
@mauricekimani5968 I was waiting for you to pull out the "hate on a black man" shit. Kendrick fans can't handle people not kissing his ass. They didn't say he is whack they just feel he is overrated.
