MB Classics: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Blank. · 12-22-2017, 09:06 AM

This has moments where the album is fun, and moments where it falls off. This album can be boring but at moments it can be somewhat interesting. I don't have any desire to listen to this ever again, and this being the second listen for myself I can honestly say I didn't enjoy myself anywhere near as much when I listened to it for the first time. 6/10

Current average 6.9

Anteater · 12-23-2017, 12:51 PM

Strong album. The jazzier it gets the better it gets, and 'King Kunta' is a great single, with 'These Walls' being my 2nd favorite. Perhaps the biggest magic trick Kendrick pulled here was getting an experimental album like this in front of a mainstream audience that wouldn't give someone else, such as EL-P, the time of day if he had done this record.

This album probably feels even more relevant to some folks than it did in 2015, though Kendrick's subject matter doesn't really hurt nor elevate the material here for me: it's just kinda there. Thankfully the production behind it remains a wonder to behold.

Mindfulness · 12-24-2017, 07:09 AM

Blank. · 12-24-2017, 09:53 AM

Current average 6.9

Time to call it. Voting is over. Album barely doesn't make it.

Akai · 12-24-2017, 10:13 AM

Good kid, m.A.A.d. city would've made it in tho no doubt.

**Frownland** · 12-24-2017, 10:15 AM

It would've made it in if talking about American race politics didn't make some of our members so uncomfortable.

rubber soul · 12-24-2017, 10:22 AM

For me, it's more that I'm just into not Hip Hop that much though I did like this one. Public Enemy I probably would have given a ten.

OccultHawk · 12-24-2017, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rubber soul

For me, it's more that I'm just into not Hip Hop that much though I did like this one. Public Enemy I probably would have given a ten.

Which record? The first three are unassailable.

rubber soul · 12-24-2017, 11:41 AM

It Takes a Million To Hold Us Back for certain. I'll be giving other PE albums closer listens as my top 25 project gets into the late eighties, early nineties, but I'm pretty sure Fear of a Black Planet and Apocalypse 91 will rate high too.

OccultHawk · 12-24-2017, 11:47 AM

The debut is incredible

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12-22-2017, 09:06 AM	#51 (permalink)
Blank. Jacob Sartorius Join Date: May 2016 Location: Dank memes Posts: 4,034	This has moments where the album is fun, and moments where it falls off. This album can be boring but at moments it can be somewhat interesting. I don't have any desire to listen to this ever again, and this being the second listen for myself I can honestly say I didn't enjoy myself anywhere near as much when I listened to it for the first time. 6/10 Current average 6.9 Last edited by Blank.; 12-23-2017 at 04:00 PM.

12-24-2017, 07:09 AM	#53 (permalink)
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12-24-2017, 10:13 AM	#55 (permalink)
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12-24-2017, 09:53 AM	#54 (permalink)
Blank. Jacob Sartorius Join Date: May 2016 Location: Dank memes Posts: 4,034	Current average 6.9 Time to call it. Voting is over. Album barely doesn't make it.

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