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Kendrick is a terrible rapper compared to meek mills I mean come on now Kendricks new album is terrible
And what's all this crap about him supposed to be some elevated cultured above the fray rapper? He's talking about the exact same crap everyone else is talking about. ...again not trying to find something to dance to but ZERO rhythm to any of the tracks. Beats are just erratic at best. You can tell he's TRYING to be inventive/innovative but it's a huge fail. There's just no track that "grabs" you or has a "catch" to it. Very very uninspiring and really shockingiy underimpressive considering the props everyone gives him.
If Kendrick was as crap as you say he is, he wouldn't be as popular as he is now and he wouldn't be arguably the best rapper out at the moment.
I'm not the only one ...many credible music reviewers are saying that To Pimp A Butterfly was a fail from him ...I havnt listened to every track on all three albums but I did listen to all TPAB and I honestly didn't hear a single track worthy of all the hype ...I listened to 3 other tracks (don't know what albums they're from) "Swimming Pool" "Alright" and another that I forget the name of those 3 tracks were trash. I'm not claiming to be a rap artist it even a professional musician/critic but I'm an accomplished amateur pianist (won every award I competed for) & taught piano/keyboards briefly and I'm just as good a judge of music technics as much as prob anyone who KAWs (certainly more then anyone who's contributed to this thread) ...as stated previously ZERO RHYTHM, ERRATIC BEATS with no logical progression to them. The whole album is like a really bad freestyle that got recorded and produced for sale ...it really is trash. I'm not saying he dsnt have the potential to be great or never will be. It's just from the tracks I've heard he's a hack ...having said that there has to be at least a couple of decent tracks since "1 or 2" credible people on this thread say he's worthy of listening to. If PRIME gives him props then I'll give Kendrick benefit of the doubt that he can actually spit out some real rap, but so far from what I've heard he really does suck. iPhone
Sigh ...hold on I'll dig them all up SS then post. I'm at work right now will when I can... ....but honestly it was said almost everywhere I looked/read. I honestly listened to TPAB with an open mind but I seriously couldn't do it. Music in essence is mathematical ...the beats of all music regardless of genre fit a mathematical pattern if a pattern dsnt exist or is erratic your brain interruptes it as crap... Will go into it more later ...gotta start yelling at people bbialb iPhone
Yeah yeah I know TLDR but you really should. It's the most comprehensive summation of how I feel about TPAB and confirms everything I've said about it... ....he tried hard but it's a fail ....this sums it up perfectly for me. I'll post more later
...and to add "Vibe" "The Source" "XXL" & yes "Rolling Stone" too ARE NOT credible sources for honest music reviews. Again all 4 are owned by media conglomerates (payola) iPhone
Yeah you listen to top 40 don't you? I can tell.. The masses are idiots ...ev1 screaming how Trump can't possibly win ...do u realize he has the highest delegate count in GOP history? If the election was held today and everybody voted as they registered he'ld win hands down Yeah the masses know best all right TRUMP 2016 iPhone
Ever wonder how autotunes works? How those EDM software programs work ? Where all you have to do is set parameters and add samples and presto music comes out? (If you call dub step music) "MATH DECIDES" So why is it that the notes C and G fit together well, but the notes C and F-Sharp do not? Who decides which notes will have their X's line up well, and which notes will not? The answer is, mathematics decides! Remember that High C has a frequency which is twice as large as Middle C. On the other hand, High C is twelve semi-tones above Middle C. There are eleven other notes - C-Sharp, D, D-Sharp, E, and so on - squeezed in between Middle C and High C. What are their frequencies? How do they fit in? Early musicians - as far back as the Greek mathematician and musician Pythagoras of the sixth century B.C.E. - tuned musical instruments specially for each key. For example, when playing in the key of C, the note Middle G would be tuned so that its frequency was exactly 3/2 times that of Middle C. This would make the X's line up perfectly, so the notes would fit together exactly right. However, this system required different tunings depending on which notes you were planning to play, or in which key your music was written. Over the last couple of hundred years, a more universal system has been used instead. This system - called equal tempering, a version of well tempering - spaces all twelve notes of the octave equally. In this way, a single tuning can be used regardless of the key being chosen, or the music being played. Equal tempering is a system for breaking up each octave into twelve equal semi-tones. Since each octave represents multiplying the frequency by a factor of 2, each semi-tone represents multiplying the frequency by the twelfth root of 2 - a number which produces two when twelve copies are all multiplied together. This number is about 1.059463, because twelve copies of 1.059463, all multiplied together, is equal to 2. So what does this mean? If we start with Middle C as a base, then Middle C-Sharp, one semi-tone above Middle C, has a frequency which is 1.059463 times as large as Middle C. Then Middle D, two semi-tones above Middle C, has a frequency which is 1.059463 multiplied by 1.059463, or 1.122462, times as large. Continuing in this way, we eventually reach Middle G, seven semi-tones above Middle C. The frequency of Middle G is 1.498307 times that of Middle C. But wait. 1.498307 is almost exactly the same as 1.5, or 3/2. This explains why every three time periods for Middle G, correspond to two time periods for Middle C. The two frequencies have a nice simple ratio, 3/2, and that is why they fit together so well. Similarly, the frequency of Middle E is 1.259921 times that of Middle C. This ratio is very close to 1.25, or 5/4, and explains why every five time periods for Middle E correspond to four time periods for Middle C. Hence, like G, the note E also fits in well with C. Another good example is the note Middle F, whose frequency is 1.334840 times that of Middle C. This is very close to 1.333333, or 4/3. And, indeed, C and F also fit well together (their interval is called a "fourth"). On the other hand, Middle F-Sharp has a frequency which is 1.414214 times that of Middle C. The number 1.414214 isn't too close to any nice simple fraction (it isn't too far away from 1.4, or 7/5, but numbers like 7 are too large to be of much help). That is why the notes F-Sharp and C do not fit well together. So, to figure out which notes fit well together, we don't need to guess, or use trial and error, or study musical theory for years. We just need to remember the equal-tempering principle, and multiply copies of 1.059463 together to see whether or not we get a simple ratio of frequencies. -Jeffrey Rosenthal, Plus Magazine "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres." — Pythagoras. Counting, rhythm, scales, intervals, patterns, symbols, harmonies, time signatures, overtones, tone, pitch. The notations of composers and sounds made by musicians are connected to mathematics." -American Mathematical Society
And of course there's a mathematical correlation between music that has a pleasing/aesthetical beat... ...the math corresponding to frequency and to the beats just isn't there with Kendricks music. iPhone
When your young and your brain is still developing cognizant abilities. The "math" needed to produce a pleasing response in your head doesn't need to be as complicated or complex when you're older ...the older you get the more your brain seeks out more complex patterns to achieve the same response ...hence the reason nursery rhymes are so "catchy" and why the older you get the music you listened to in the past becomes "boring" But then there are those songs that stay stuck in your head ...the ones you put on auto repeat and listen to over and over again and don't get bored of These songs have "good math" and your brain subconsciously knows this. Not all songs appeal to all people equally ...this has a lot to do with the lyrical content itself...... More later gotta go again iPhone
Before I leave again ...like the article that I post/quoted says I think people are being vastly influenced by all the hype and anticipation after the 1st two albums. The anticipation was so high that a lot of the "good reviews" of the album mask the albums true quality... ...few years from now when the hype dies down and or if Kendrick comes out with an actual good album I'm sure the view of TPAB well not be as good as it is now by those claiming it is iPhone