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Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« on: October 27, 2012, 09:37:27 PM »
Just bumped Kendrick's album....

This is a good album from a good rapper, but this is NOT a West Coast album....

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.

Nigga sound more like he's from Brooklyn than Compton.


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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2012, 09:40:55 PM »
Where on the west coast, or east coast are you from?
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2012, 11:26:09 PM »
I heard the same thing in 2005 when Game dropped The Documentary.
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2012, 12:39:30 AM »
I heard the same thing in 2005 when Game dropped The Documentary.

I doubt anyone called Game cerebral or an interlectual rapper tho
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2012, 03:13:57 AM »
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.

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...
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2012, 03:26:01 AM »
people said the same thing when Crooked I came out...I think Kendrick does a good job of mixing both styles
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2012, 04:42:26 AM »
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.

acutally all of it was a big part of good kid maad city
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2012, 06:08:13 AM »
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.
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2012, 07:44:08 AM »
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.

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...
this.
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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2012, 07:59:29 AM »
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.

West Coast rappers and their fan base seem just as closed minded

No wonder the scene is on its knees. Kendrick at the very least is breathing new life into the tired genre
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2012, 08:02:16 AM »
Today there is no such thing. Everybody mixing each style together.
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2012, 08:03:32 AM »
He doesn't rap the typical west coast content, but he's definitely rapping what a lot of west coast inner city kids have gone through as teenagers.
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2012, 08:04:18 AM »
Today there is no such thing. Everybody mixing each style together.
i think that's part of the problem.
"Summa y'all #mediocres more worried bout my goings on than u is about ya own.... But that ain't none of my business so.....I'll just #SipTeaForKermit #ifitaintaboutdamoney #2sugarspleaseFollow," - T.I.
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2012, 11:44:47 AM »
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.

lol true i guess if ur not talking bout gang banging ur not a west coast rapper lol stupid fucking people
 

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Re: Kendrick Lamar is an EAST COAST rapper
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2012, 11:46:37 AM »
k dot aint from the east coast this thread is bananas