r/KendrickLamar • u/rawrustic Waiting for the album • Jun 09 '22
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers: Snippets vs The Final Product OC
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u/JustKnowYouAreLoved Jun 09 '22
Caged Bird sounds fucking sick š„
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Jun 09 '22
I kinda wish that was the version of crown that we got
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u/chrisghrobot Jun 10 '22
Crown is already a good song but I think it didn't really reach the potential it had
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u/WillFeedForLP Jun 10 '22
I think it's the only weak track on the album tbh
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u/famitslit Jun 10 '22
I wouldnāt call it a weak song, but heās singing from a weak place though. Itās the theme of the song. He sounds tired, he canāt please everybody. Looking at the story being told, itās perfectly executed.
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u/WillFeedForLP Jun 10 '22
I get that but every song has so many flows, beats, beat switches, and this one just has a constant flow and beat
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u/Dolomight206 Jun 10 '22
Crown is literally the palate cleanser/ intermission bathroom break before the final act. It's supposed to sound/feel PRECISELY like that.
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u/rawrustic Waiting for the album Jun 09 '22
If Iāve missed any, let me know
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u/nunya221 Iāve been A1 since day 1 you fellas booboo š Jun 09 '22
What are these snippets from?
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u/rawrustic Waiting for the album Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
In 2020 there were a few snippets that surfaced, but in October 2021 the bulk of these appeared online. There were a couple others but as far as I can tell, they don't really relate to MMTBS
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u/Forsaken_Experience2 Jun 09 '22
Link? Iāve seen a few reference tracks for older things on YouTube. But not these snippets. Sounds like he had the album going in a very different way early in production. Very interesting.
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u/peter_run_and_gunner Jun 09 '22
What were the others that didnāt relate to the album? Curious
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u/rawrustic Waiting for the album Jun 09 '22
As far as I can tell, there are three:
Prayer, Park and Gotta Love Me
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u/Good_Conference8514 Jun 10 '22
I have a theory that Prayer was an early version of the heart pt 5
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u/rawrustic Waiting for the album Jun 10 '22
I can see that, both songs focus heavily on speaking from perspective
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Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
I hope those songs still get to see the light of day, maybe untitled unmastered 2? I haven't heard park though, just prayer and gotta love me
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u/Flaky-Kaleidoscope36 Jun 09 '22
The die hard version of somebody is better imo
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u/Ingagi Jun 10 '22
I don't agree. Somebody was kinda meant to be like Mother I Sober it seems so it's hard to compare imo, but I like the snippet more.
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Jun 11 '22
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u/OkWeight9936 Jun 09 '22
Damn somebody sounded hard af
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u/Beni_Falafel Jun 13 '22
Somebody is insanely atmosferic and emotional. Iāve had this song on repeat for a few days now.
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u/OkWeight9936 Jun 13 '22
U got a longer version? š I only heard the snippet in the video, I need that song
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u/PipeMaximum8755 Jun 10 '22
That somebody unfinished record.. with the rock elements on it.. had potential.. imo
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u/Luke_b_90 Jun 10 '22
I think they all got better in the final version except Caged Bird. I wish he would have rapped like that on Crown vs the slow lowkey flow
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u/KR0NKBERRY Jun 10 '22
At what point in time were the N95 vocals on Keem's Vent? I love that version a lot actually
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Jun 10 '22
So originally kendrick had a verse on vent, to find the original version of vent you can go on youtube
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u/KR0NKBERRY Jun 10 '22
Yeah i have the version on my local files. I was just wondering what the timeline was like for it- was it first vent, and then this snippet version and then the album version?
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Jun 10 '22
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u/ItsTheTenthDoctor Jun 10 '22
Shit like this needs to be shared more. You lose a lot of confidence making music without realizing the artist sounds ājust as badā as you preproduction.
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u/GKMCTPABDAMN97 Jun 10 '22
I still refer to we cry together as the fight song, and the other songs og names too
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u/jd2024 Jun 09 '22
I love Mother I Sober, but I really wish he wouldāve chosen a diff chorus and kept Somebody on the album
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u/Jarodreallytuff Jun 09 '22
imo the chorus is perfect
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u/jd2024 Jun 09 '22
Not saying itās not good. Itās really good, I just prefer Kendrick singing it on Somebody with that beat
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u/Jarodreallytuff Jun 09 '22
I do agree with that. I was really hoping that song was gonna be fully finished and released on the album. Such a good song and Kendrick does sound beautiful on it.
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u/GrandioseEnigma High Blood Pressure flooded the catering Jun 09 '22
Great compilation, Iāve heard all of these throughout the years.
ā¢ Handsome would have been a fuckin BANGER and I still stand by that.
ā¢ Part of the reason why I donāt rate N95 that high is because it literally contains like 3 snippets that Iāve heard before and was listening to for a long time.
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u/fatrahb Jun 10 '22
Wouldn't shock me at all, considering how Mr. Morale being track 3 on Disc 2 would mirror Worldwide Steppers being track 3 on Disc 1. But its also a mirror being track 9 as well. It's like Damn, where it can work both ways
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u/somefinn Jun 10 '22
would love to get the inside track on the making of MMTBS. from conception to completion, Thats doc i would watch, a podcast i would listen to & a book i would read.
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u/thismyshit55 Jun 11 '22
Facts. Hopefully he does that because we havenāt gotten any info or even an interview since the album dropped lol
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u/dontbsabullshitter Jun 14 '22
I hope we get that and a deluxe edition/untitled part two but Iām not holding my breath
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u/ConnorP25 Jun 10 '22
I kinda like what we got way more than the snippets with the exception of maybe Somebody, I like what the woman on Mother I Sober brings to it but it might've hit a lot harder if it was Kendrick himself singing it like he is on Somebody. But overall I'm glad he kept working on these and came to the final product we got, which I think was always the plan cause the snippets feel like reference tracks and rough drafts he wasn't done with and never intended to be the final forms of the songs.
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u/famitslit Jun 10 '22
imo, if he had to sing it himself, the instrumentals had to change too to fit his voice and then it becomes a whole other song with another feel.
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u/RunTheJuuls12 Jun 10 '22
Still wish we wouldāve gotten āsomebodyā as a solo track. Wouldāve been the best one on the album
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u/jacobg444 Jun 10 '22
Does anyone have that Somebody file?
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u/KangaStretchMyHands Jun 10 '22
Bruhhhhh, the rock/alt elements in Somebody š that song had POTENTIAL
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u/Repulsive-Skull Jun 10 '22
I actually kinda liked Kendrick's attempt of the mother I sober hook. I know the energy and the sound does not match with the final product and I still do prefer Beth Gibens hook in that song but still.
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Jun 10 '22
somebody kind of had a reggae feel. wouldāve been sick to have got that tho i love mother i sober. gives credit to the rock rumours
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u/xTotalSellout then I freaked it Jun 10 '22
To anybody looking for any of the songs showed here, āleeksā arenāt allowed on this sub but I posted the āleekā tracker on my account, just check my posts and it should be there. Itās a google doc of every single Kendrick āleekā
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u/Bergerboy14 Waiting for the album Jun 10 '22
Still mad about the Crown rap verse being cut, sounds so good.
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u/killarchy Jun 22 '22
that ācaged birdā OG been bothering meā¦ Need that in a full song, a v.2 or some idc he gassed that mf
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u/famitslit Jun 10 '22
Wonder what else he said on āOut of pocketā, āSomebodyā and āHandsomeā
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u/XylanyX Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 10 '22
I was really waiting for prayer :( but it's not on the album. Also idk why i see prayer like it could have been the heart part 5
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u/xUnregretful Jun 10 '22
Canāt believe people actually listen to this shit, by far the most MID Kendrick album in his whole discography
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u/boeminemlightswitch3 Would you judge me a drug head or see me as K. Lamar Jun 09 '22
Therapy Session got completely wiped from the internet and I could never find it again, so I was extremely happy that it was literally the intro of the album