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I heard the same thing in 2005 when Game dropped The Documentary.
Kendrick Lamar is a monotone, cerebral, high-content, intellectual rapper..EAST COAST shit. This nigga should be rappin with motherfuckin Dead Prez or Nas one of them niggas.
West Coast rap is that ignorant, G-funk shit, gangsta shit: it's energetic, it's fun, it's about smoking weed, fuckin bitches, getting high, riding round, feelin good, etc. That ain't Kendrick's album.
Quote from: MOBNigga06 on October 27, 2012, 09:37:27 PMKendrick Lamar is a monotone, cerebral, high-content, intellectual rapper..EAST COAST shit. This nigga should be rappin with motherfuckin Dead Prez or Nas one of them niggas. Mmm, could just as easily say he's more like a Southern rapper...because of the slurred drawl, the half-singing stuff like Andre3K,the fast rapping like Luda, Mystikal (also usually mid-western guys like Twista, Bone Thugs, Tech N9ne, Eminem, etc. do faster styles),the slower beats, beats with drum machines/keyboards in them, lots of catchy choruses...I'm not saying he IS more like a Southern rapper, I'm just saying you could argue for it just as easily, I don't think he fits in one obvious box...To me, typical East coast would have to have way more multi-syllable rhymes like Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, etc.and have a way harder vocal style as well, like attacking the track, like Wu-Tang... Kendrick is way more chilled...Also typical East coast guy would use a lot more sampled beats with hard sampled snares, boom-bap, Primo style stuff...just a more "rugged" un-polished, raw sound overall is what's "normal" for East coast...
lol another close minded vision on what every artist from the west should sound. shit is sad.it still amazes me that people still think in 2012 that music from a certain area should sound like this or that.the content is a westcoast as it gets, just cause it's not gangsta doesn't mean it ain't westcoast. kendrick speaks about what he goes through, he ain't gonna try to conform to g-funk and gangsta lyrics because it's what made the west famous in the early 90's, jesus.
Today there is no such thing. Everybody mixing each style together.