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Originally Posted by Severian
Dude, just get Kendrick's albums and dive in. Lupe is great, but he is more or less cut from the same cloth as Kanye West (minus a lot of the talent, the production chops, the vision and the ego to pull off the unpulloffable), and Common. He comes from conscious stock, and has a lot of conceptual ideas, and digs fashion and shit.
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okay
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Originally Posted by Severian
Tetsuo & Youth is probably my #2 hip-hop album of the year so far, but it's really just Lupe's version of stuff Kanye's already done. His other albums are nowhere near as "high-brow" musically, and he stumbles over dumb lyrics at the best of times.
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yeah, in spotify at the top of his "hits" there's something called "battle scars". according to my wife (who speaks english, lol), he's talking about PTSD, but to my ear, it just sounds like anything i'd pick up on a clear channel radio station.
i do like tetsuo though, so-- which is your "#1" so far?
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Originally Posted by Severian
You want the disciples of KRS-One? It's Kendrick Lamar. Of Public Enemy? It's Run the Jewels.
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louder said as much. looking forward to checking those out!
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But Kendrick is where you wanna be. Go check out his new album, it has everything you seem to be looking for and more of it than any other rapper out there. Brilliant musical scope and some of the best lyrics you're likely to hear on a hip-hop record. And if you haven't already heard Good Kid mAAd city, or his excellent mixtape Section.80, hear them... Now!
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i will i will.. if they're on spotify it's too easy.
BUT i don't like to stuff myself. i prefer to listen to 1 album over & over, then move to the next. right now i have tetsuo + the new lightning bolt on heavy rotation.
it's sort of like a europen friend said to me about thanksgiving... he complained that after days of labor all woudl get eaten in 15 minutes. and when i asked what he'd do different he said IT NEEDS COURSES. i agree, ha ha ha. courses. make it a long meal, drinks in between.
i've given tetsuo & youth 2 full listens and some casual ones (i.e. background) and i[ve ben reading the lyrics a bit on some website. i think i get it more or less at this point. later today or tomorrow i'll check out TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY.
well, thanks again guys. i appreciate your help corrupting my tastes, ha ha. its always a good thing to get unstuck from terminal judgments.