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Originally Posted by noisereductions
this. Yeah. I feel like it's been some secret for years that they're awesome and critics are now just feeling ok with admitting that.
SEV: I like Untitled a lot. More than TPAB probably/maybe. But I'm not into it like TLOP, no.
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Wow, man. I'm legitimately surprised to hear that.
I had (and still have) my issues with TPAB's pacing, but the damn album is like a street poet's g-funk take on MBDTF. The two most important hip hop albums of the past 10 years, easy. So while I still usually skip tracks on TPAB, the album as a whole just shreds.
I like untitled unmastered a lot. I think untitled 01 is one of the best tracks of the year, and the rest of the album is full of prime moments.
Maybe you're just not that into Kendrick. No problem if that's the case. For me, untitled unmastered pretty much made me give up and say, OK, Kendrick's my second favorite artist in hip hop.
Is it anywhere near as colorful and joyful as TLOP? Fuck naw man. Hell to the no. But next to Kanye, Kendrick's the man. It's hard to take most modern artists seriously with those two out there killing it.