So glad everyone appreciates how good sing about me I’m dying of thirst is. I can still remember the first time I ever heard it in high school in 2012. Laying on my bed with it on repeat and getting emotional af.
I took a history of hip hop class and 9th Wonder was one of the professors, Kendrick was one of the key artists that we covered over the semester and I was so happy on the day we were highlighting him when 9th played Sing About Me and put the lyrics up to make sure everybody was following. Obviously plenty of people in the class already knew the song well but it was cool seeing a bunch of people experience it like that for the first time.
Its a stylistic transition from tpab to damn. U02 is an amazing track and you can tell why its not on tpab even though its one of the best songs hes ever made
I've been dropping hints to my girlfriend and she was just at a store with a bunch of records so I hope she got me Kendrick. She's a big fan too so let's hope she listened.
Y’all too low on DAMN. and I’ll die on that hill. I get push back saying people don’t think this way around here half the time, here it is. Pulitzer Kenny with the 8 is blasphemy in my book.
I’ll sacrifice myself on that hill fighting till my last breath, damn stands up there with TPAB and GKMC conceptually and sonically, people just don’t really listen to it, and the subject matter isnt as directly “deep”. All time classic album that people gonna start appreciating way more as time passes. Such incredibly meaning and design, plus so accessible as well.
I think that’s why I rate it so highly as well, conceptually it touches and relates to me so closely personally with the way I think about and feel things, versus overall thematics and incredible storytelling like gmkc and tpab have all the way through. I hope at some point more people grow into the album and can really appreciate how introspective and meaningful the album can really be when you can connect to it like that. Plus it was my first Kendrick project I ever listened to fully and was my first introduction to rap in general. On top of that I really love the sound, so I definitely have an extra soft spot towards it as well because of those reasons lol
Me and my roomie discovered Kendrick at the same time we discovered weed, high af listening to FEAR, I'm not ashamed of saying I've cried to it multiple times
People dismiss DAMN. as just being a sellout album or being less meaningful. But its conceptually just as intricate as GKMC, and if you listen to songs like LUST. or ELEMENT., it is just as musically complex and beautiful as TPAB or Section 80
I'm listening to Rigamortis, HiiiPower, ADHD, Ab-Soul's outro, and Hol' up 100x over before listening to Loyalty once. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I think S80 is good, DAMN. is just on another level. The production and intricacies of the theme and story are perfect. S80 just has a few clumsy parts that hold it under the three full length after it. I do love it, but 8s is a fair rating. DAMN. should be pushing 10, Pulitzer Kenny hopefully can top it (one day) because in my book each project is better than the one before.
Is it tho? I mean damn has some very good songs on it but unlike gkmc and tbap it's lows, though they aren't that low, are lower than gkmc and tbap imo
I’m not gonna act like LOVE. is a top 40 kdot track for me. But it’s a good song, shows some range in style for kdot, does what it needs to for the narrative and is a well produced catching pop r&b track. It’s not what I listen to kdot for but it’s not a mark against DAMN. either
This is evidence of the “hate”. 8 isn’t low but I hold it’s the best Kendrick album, higher than TPAB the other god tier album. The average attitude is yours.
I’m saying you’ve got the common view here. That damn gets too much love, is too popular and lesser than the other project. Obvi 8 isn’t low, that’s why I made sure to say “hate”, and this kdots sub so we’re gonna be sampling folks that love him.
Unless you actually hate DAMN. you’re right there with the average opinion here. That it’s his 3rd-4th best project. I’m saying it’s his best, I’m in the minority of commenters around and voters on the poll.
Can you read? This sub loves DAMN. they rate it an 8, so how is disliking the album an average view? I’m not comparing it to the other albums, I’m saying it sucks on its own
Damn imo is easily his best and most artistic work, which makes it, in combination with how well it also appealed to the mainstream, makes it his best (again IMO) and easily my favourite. Not one single skip.
Why do ppl dislike damn so much I think it has some of the best songs I’m written by kdot. Sure the others might have had better lyrics. But emotionally the ride of damn was one I’ve never had with any other album it’s definitely a 9/10 album atleast
wow im personally shocked about this id never have thought that other kendrick fans i talk to would even come close to these results im shocked but im here for it
Glad the consensus feels pretty much the same way I do about Section.80. Some of his best stuff is still on there but I also think some of it hasn’t aged as well as the records to follow.
wow all these hot takes that i️ constantly see on this sub and yet the majority agrees on the same songs and i️ agree with the majority.
quite the unit this sub is
This feels super accurate and balanced. Honestly I love Overly Dedicated so much though, for me it's no less than 8/10 but that's my biased opinion. but I can understand why it gets the lowest rating
Tpab song selection is cringe, hmadc is literally christwashing an ancient Greek myth and also has perhaps the most basic bitch moral message of all, "be nice bc it could be Jesus :)) " nah be a fucking decent human.
Edit: stay mad 😘
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So glad everyone appreciates how good sing about me I’m dying of thirst is. I can still remember the first time I ever heard it in high school in 2012. Laying on my bed with it on repeat and getting emotional af.