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Originally posted by lil_wayne
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Mississippi x California x North Carolina
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How many songs is expected in the album?
These 7 songs really look like they gonna sound dope (Atleast that's whats written on the article)
I really wanna see what this GAGA song gonna be like...sounds very interseting..Originally posted by Shake
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Every one on twitter who attended said the 7 songs sound incredible....I have a feeling most of those tracks gonna be on the deluxe...Originally posted by IceMan View Post
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Kendrick Lamar Previews Long-Awaited Major-Label Debut | Music News | Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stones said the production is classic!Mississippi x California x North Carolina
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Originally posted by Cli-City View Post
The first track bore out Kendrick’s Outkast influences in full force, with a warm bass line reminiscent of Atliens laying the foundation for typically strong, world-weary rapping from the young Comptonite. The room was pleased, albeit not overwhelmed.
Track two fixed that. With a bass knock to make “A Milli” blush and Kendrick shouting “Martin had a dream, Kendrick have a dream” before diving into some of his most maniacal, technically impressive rapping to date, the room had little choice but to succumb to the song’s visceral power. It sounded mean.
Track three returned the room to the ‘Kast-influenced portion of the album, with mellow groove and the sort of cutting consciousness that has buoyed Kendrick to the brink of stardom. Again, a pleased but rather unenthused room.
Taking the temperature, Kendrick struck back with another dose of heaviness, a two part track that featured a first half sounding like a beefed up “Mercy” and a second half a concoction of RZA-influenced thunder and west coast synths. As Kendrick cut the track, a few vocal members let it be known: more like that, please.
Kendrick closed the night with two tracks that suggest slightly divergent paths. The first saw Kendrick shouting “Halle Berry, Hallelu” over an organ-based groove that would have fit perfectly on Section.80. The second was a bass heavy ode to sex that featured a very much in-his-element Drake sounding right at home spitting his usual on-record game. Kendrick’s verse was mostly drowned out by low end, but Drake’s presence on the track highlighted Kendrick’s current strengths and weaknesses even further, a closing reminder that, great though the young emcee is, there are still mountains left to climb on the road to stardom. If the rest of Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City sounds like what played last night, Kendrick could well be on his way.
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Rolling Stone:
As industry stiffs fought past rain-soaked fans into Chung King studios in Manhattan last night for a Kendrick Lamar listening party, speculation flew as quickly as over-enthusiastic daps and business cards. "This better be the rap equivalent of Thriller," one attendee muttered, demonstrating the due praise and comical hyperbole that have shadowed the Compton, California, native throughout his slow and steady rise.sounds great tbh
In a climate where rap's most buzzed about stars shoot across the sky with the tap of a trackpad, Lamar's decade-long climb seems almost implausible. How exactly does one craft a "debut" after releasing four mixtapes, an EP and an independent album? One damn good song at a time, it seemed, as the tracks previewed from Good Kid, M.A.A.D. city depicted the best of the rapper and the worst of his hometown, side-stepping all expectations and sounding at once warmly familiar and brand-spanking new.
Lamar and his Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope affiliates shuffled through tracks from behind soundproof glass, giving the session the air of a market research test. But the handful of journalists taking notes huddled near a speaker were no match for the cocktail party/family cookout vibe that dominated the rest of the floor, as caterers served cheeseburger sliders and chicken fingers, and cute bartenders let the Ketel One flow freely ("They ran out of cups," one attendee whispered to a friend just before the album started, "so hold onto yours to get refills"). At the start, a TDE soldier briefed the room: "The man don't fuck around with his music. We've got people in here dressed regular. If we see you with cameras or phones recording, you'll be escorted out and we keeping your shit!"
They've got a right to be stingey: GKMC feels precious. The production alone sniffs at classic status: a tight, cohesive blending of Dre's chunky, hi-gloss ridah music and the woozy, futuristic boom-bap that Lamar fans have come to love. Beats swayed between down-tempo sparse thumpers and fierce drumbreak loops that screw your face up for you – one particularly vicious cut featured the infamous Funky Worm synth that defined Nineties West Coast rap, and it gained an even sharper edge when MC Eiht showed up to spit some straight-up menace. Other features were just as unpredictable: there was Drake rhyming about flying his natural-haired East African chick back to the motherland (Israel?), Fred the Godson bringing the Bronx River Deli to the Compton Swap Meet and Lady Gaga doing something that landed between rapping and singing but didn't really feel like either. Lamar's Black Hippy cohorts Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock weren't present on these songs, but they posted up at his sides during the session, ensuring the crew was solid as ever.
And then there was Kendrick. It's all here: the growls and snarls, the nasal deadpan, the loopy hooks, the cadence flips, the double-time barrages of syllables. His stories are just as vivid this go round, clocking in four full narratives within the six songs he previewed. His lyrics have always felt hyper personal, but these verses feel white-knuckle real: "If I told you I shot a man at 16, would you believe me?" he asks without blinking. One person's name literally gets bleeped out of a verse describing a robbery, but he doesn't omit it when rapping to himself from behind the control board. He narrates the rise and fall of a high school ball player (with the brilliant chorus "now watch that black boy fly"), and confesses to being jealous of ballers and rhymers in his hood that appeared to have a better shot at making it out. "Every neighborhood is an obstacle" in the world Lamar depicts, where he's often both suspect and spectator – deep in the cave, hopelessly punching at the walls.
"October 22nd, you'll get that whole package," Lamar promised at the close of the session. With little mention of mentor Dr. Dre and more than a month until the release date, we can be sure to expect more surprises leading up to the release. There were no titles given and tracks were presented in no order – after each, he'd ask "Y'all like that song? OK, cool." When Lamar announced he'd only play one or two more, the crowd jeered and rap media mainstay Elliott Wilson shouted "three!" into the mic. "Can't do that," Kendrick quipped. "We'd be giving y'all the whole album." If the night was any indication, it'll be worth the wait.
people gon be disappointed though, expecting a classic lol...it's going to be a 9 probably and dope as hell
typical "gets famous - receives unnecessary hate" already started anyway
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[MENTION=21158]IceMan[/MENTION] what did you rate Section 80?Mississippi x California x North Carolina
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let's see if this fucks with LFTU
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The same about a 9 or a little under.....Once an album is 8.5 or above to me..I consider it really good...Originally posted by IceMan View Postvery high, I love it from start to finish (yes even No Makeup)
A or A- which would be something between 9 and 10?
what about you?
According to recent history...
I would rank Friday Night Lights - B+ while Cole World Sideline Store - B-
Return of 4 Eva- A 4 Eva N A Day B Live From the Underground B-
IMO K.R.I.T and Cole both released top quality work before their debut, hopefully this aint the trend with Kendrick...Even though Cole World and LFTU was dope..nothing close to Return of 4Eva or FNL (IMO)Mississippi x California x North Carolina
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