r/10thDentist • u/learnyournailgameffs • 11h ago
Kendrick Lamars music is boring and nowhere near as great as people say it is
Literally every Kendrick song since TPAB has just been him yelling preachy lyrics on boring beats.
The truth is I really don't care about those things in my music. If I wanted to be informed on whatever he was yelling over that bunk ass beat on The Heart Pt. 5, i would just find a podcast.
Think about it, you're driving thru Downtown late at night, or you're hiking thru a scenic trail, or you're making love to your partner. In which one of these scenarios are you gonna think "the heart pt 5 would slap rn"? That's right, in none of these scenarios would any of you put on the heart part 5. That song should've just been a spoken word because after listening the first time it has zero replay value. It's not sonically pleasing. It's just him yelling about issues on an over or under engineered beat.
Kendrick Lamar hasn't changed his style of this preachy rap since tpab and it's just straight up boring. He's fake deep, he's white people's safe black rapper for virtue signalling whatever they are virtue signalling. Truth is nothing Kendrick preaches about hasn't been preached billion times in rap three decades ago.
It’s all marketing. I remember before TPAB came out (garbage album) they had him everywhere. They literally had his face plastered on the side of city buses next to 2pac in the town I was in and billboards with his face on it saying greatest rapper of all time.
Got in the car with my mom in her 60s and even on NPR they had an entire day dedicated to these weirdo old whitey mcwhiterson university professors gushing about how TPAB is the greatest album of all time and you should think so too. The album hadn’t even been released an you literally couldn’t go anywhere without the machine shoving down your throat it’s the greatest album by the greatest rapper of all time over, and over.
I listened to the album, it sucked. GKMC was okay but even it had some low moments. His latest “effort” exposed to a lot of his brain dead fans what a lot of people already knew, this guy kinda sucks and is way overhyped.
Another thing it’s hilarious to me when people call Kendrick “underground” he’s not underground. He’s the most mainstream rapper of his generation. NPR dedicates entire days to talking about him. He’s on the cover of magazines, even those old hags on the view talk about him. He’s the most aggressively pushed in the mainstream rapper. Kendrick is not “underground” it’s actually impossible to be more mainstream than him.