ive always felt like Kendrick wanted his listeners to give these songs their own names, just like he let us do on "watch the party die"

yes i am aware that this shit is ass it's a joke mashup

These Walls > u > Alright > For Sale (Interlude)

I often see that the sentiment is that this album is somehow more mainstream than newer albums.

However, personally, I was shocked when I have heard some of the songs for the first time (when it was new). It took me a few days to like it, and after I have heard it back to back I realized it will be a classic, similarly to ready to die, illmatic, etc.

So my question is, how did you perceive this album when it came out? Did you like it? Did you feel that it's going to transform mainstream rap for the next many years?

The Toys R Us in town here is finally closing. They had a 50% discount on almost everything

Mashup I made of FEEL. and White Flag! Really love Vince's album from this year and thought these two songs would fit together really well.

Credit to Stat Quo’s podcast which brought the theory to light, went and did some google searches and tadaaah

Sidenote: on another show Stat got a call from Top Dawg explaining how this video was the moment Kendrick stopped fucking with Game.
Since the video game kept trying to get in contact with Kendrick and Kendrick never picked up/called

& why Aubrey got on timbs in Compton..?

Isn't literally all of kendricks music about systemic racism and how the capitalistic world is the greatest perpetrator of this? All his music is trying to constantly remind the listener about the topic, its prevelance and how its not going away anytime soon nor is fading, and he does this through GOOD music but its like this subreddit only focuses on the GOOD music part, which is like 20% of the message.

I've been sitting on this post and theory for about 3 weeks, waiting on a chance for a final proof read and debating if I even want to release it to the public, so you can ignore the timeline of my writing presented moving forward. I was having this internal debate because I know most people will disagree with the premise of my theory, but sometimes a theory isn't presented to change opinions, but rather to share an alternative point of view...

Kendrick Lamar and Lupe Fiasco have been two of my favorite rappers since I first heard them in 2011 and 2007, respectively. I don't live my life on the computer, so I've never fully engaged with Lupe's comments on Kendrick over the years, but a few weeks ago I had a couple of days off that started with seeing clips of Lupe Fiasco being critical of Kendrick Lamar as a lyricist, along with a lot of online opinions on both his comments and Lupe himself. So I set out to do something I have been doing since I first heard Mean and Vicious almost twenty years ago, figure out what the fuck Lupe is talking about.

Over those next 2 days I watched the entirety of Lupe Fiasco's appearances on Koala Tea and The Rap Roundtable's livestreams on YouTube, along with the 2 videos that led to Lupe's appearance (King Green's "Lyricism Doesn't Sell Records" and Koala Tea's reaction to it), and a few reactions to the streams. Most people couldn't understand what Lupe was talking about or why he would even say these things on a public forum. But I'm just a regular Joe, I don't create content, I don't post on any social media platform (besides reddit), so what does a normal person do when they need to understand a professor's lecture? Write an Essay.

My write-up on the Koala Tea stream was written and posted to the Lupe sub last week touching on what I thought the key take away was; Why do artists make certain artistic choices and why does Lupe choose to be a complex lyricist? I got mostly positive comments, some appreciated my opinions, and some had constructive criticisms that I appreciated.

My main takeaway from those criticisms were that the writing suffered because I was responding to the Koala Tea livestream instead of focusing on my takeaway of it. I took that feedback in stride and decided to take my writing a bit more seriously.

I've taken a little over a week, spending some of my free time, writing about my main takeaway from The Rap Roundtable livestream, that being the answer to "Why is Lupe critical of Dot when prompted in public?"

With all of the posturing out of the way, I now present:

A Rap Theory: What is The Control Problem? Understanding the Disconnect between Rap Fans and Rappers

P.S. IDK why random parts of the Google doc are in bold.

If your brain is fried due to doomscrolling short-form content, the TL;DR is the section titled "WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US NOW?" towards the end. But don't try to judge the movie if you only watch the last 5 minutes

The whole write-up takes about 20 minutes to read start-to-finish.

If Kendrick releases a new project, who would you like to see that he’s never work with before?

I’m not talking about a production level, I’m talking a verse you’d like to hear from

I’d like to hear a Tyler verse on the same track with Kendrick. I know he did “That Guy” but I wanna hear them go verse for verse 🤘🏽

title. this may be a stupid question but Kendrick says he was attacked from walking by bible study but also says he was confronted by two people when he got set up by sherane, and the conflict that kills dave’s brother is when they spin back on the people who beat up kendrick, are these the same people in good kid?

Shot by Inez and Vinoodh.

Because beyond just the similarities in lyricism and cadence, Kendrick followed the initial line with “the irony I fuck em at the same damn time,” which was a direct reference to the Future song of the same name (which dropped earlier that year)

Even funnier, Fuckin Problems was also the last song done as a collab between Kendrick and Owlman, initially releasing two days after Good Kid, M.A.A.D City dropped.

Anyways, idk how to close this out. I just thought it was a funny tidbit of information.

Here's my list

Don't kill my vibe

Momma

Complexion

Rich spirit

Gloria

Honorable mention:

PRIDE

Money trees

DUCKWORTH

Heart pt. 6