Is he a commercial rapper? Ive never heard of him. Can you recommend some songs to check out?

You're right, there are better rappers..... but Kendrick is a breath of fresh air for the hiphop/rap stations that have been plagued with cookie cutter generic rappers and rap songs.

The Kendrick Lamar hype blows my mind. I just straight up don't get it. I just find him irritating to listen to.

Do you? Like you don't like him at all?

I thought Section.80 was decent, with some standout tracks like **** Your Ethnicity, but still thought it was overhyped a bit. I consider GKMC the most overrated album in any genre in a very long time. I wasn't feeling any of it but it seems like it's universally loved by everyone from dickriders to acclaimed critics.

His voice and flow is just annoying to me. I can't listen to him for an extended period of time. I'm not seeing the lyrical genius that everyone else seems to see either. He's undeniably huge right now though; I just don't understand why.

even though i loved section 80 i do agree its overrated but i did love GKMC a lot tho.

and realtalk is right, he is just a breath of fresh air


Kurrupt did a similar thing 14 years ago, and kendrick mentions korrupt earlier in his verse

Really? I thought Watch The Throne was.... I rather hear a song like Poetic Justic saturating the air waves than a song like Ni***r in Paris

don't understand the kenderick hype myself either. Him being the greatest just seemed to be how he was marketed from the get-go. I thought the jay verse was a lot more creative and interesting.

That whole black hippy label is overrated. Stellar production team though.

check out his King Remembered in Time mixtape or his Return of 4Eva, both stellar records.

4Eva N a Day was also great.

Well the dictionary definition of classic actually mentions time:

Why's it so ridiculous that we can't judge it over a period of time? It could sound good now & dated in 10 years, or it could be ahead of it's time. A classic should be able to last the ages. This is why I don't think MMLP is a classic for example, most of the production sounds dated and very 'of the time' in a bad way, that doesn't mean I don't like it. I hammered it for a solid year when it came out and because it was when I started secondary school I feel nostalgic listening to it, doesn't mean I can't be objective about it though. I actually don't think Eminem has any classics to be honest.

I think as a general rule of thumb a classic album should tread some new ground or expand on something that's already been done and take it to a new level. You can't just make an album full of catchy tunes that isn't innovative at all and call it a classic. I don't care how many people listen to it in 20 years time or whatever. The whole thing is pretty subjective though imo.

I can't count the amount of times I've heard a new release, been giddy over it then a couple weeks later it's been gathering dust. I look back a few years after it came out and I realise it wasn't all that. Take Dizzee's Boy In Da Corner for example, nobody can deny that's a classic album. It is ten years old this week and still sounds fresh today, nobody has managed to recreate that sound and he was definitely ahead of his time and definitely trod new ground, there was no filler and fans of all genres can appreciate how good that was and entirely self produced at 17 years old. I'd say it's a classic album.

There were white rappers before him. Fact is if he wasn't skilled he'd have been found out quickly and he wasn't. '98-'02 he was up there.