Best RETAIL release from TDE thus far?

[Blood$]

all of the iTunes/free mixtapes don't count, only what you can find in stores with a barcode on it that gets counted in Sounscan

honestly I gave Jay Rock's album a spin today since it's been awhile and I just might take his over the others 

[aerroc]

wow this is a hard one all 3 are great albums

jay rock was good the beats the lyrics on point but the gang banging talk got old quick im sure he wont make that mistake next time i just feel like the album came out at the wrong time
people were still with that lil gayne type bullshit and rappers who had good beats but couldn't rap or rappers using a hook for almost the whole song thats what killed jay rocks album
no one gave it a chance

Kendrick its like everything he drops is a hit people say hes the flavor of the month i say flavor for the next 5 years

q is the weakest out of black hippy but he still can hold his own his older stuff was good and his newer stuff is better

i cant wait till ab-soul drops and he is next and this guys gots lyrics you wont be disappointed unless ur looking for some g funk gangsta shit like 90% of people here then yes lol

[JML-G]

Follow Me Home 

[Blood$]

jay rock was good the beats the lyrics on point but the gang banging talk got old quick im sure he wont make that mistake next time i just feel like the album came out at the wrong time
people were still with that lil gayne type bullshit and rappers who had good beats but couldn't rap or rappers using a hook for almost the whole song thats what killed jay rocks album
no one gave it a chance

so on point, +1

if he would drop an album that sounds like Follow Me Home now with the growth of TDE's movement following Kendrick and Q he'd be sure to do bigger numbers and influence the game heavy

[Hack Wilson - real]

jay rock by a mile

[doggfather]

gkmc

[Okka]

"GKMC" for sure.

[DeeezNuuuts83]

GKMC, easily.  Not to say that the other ones were bad or anything.

I just respect a lot of what Kendrick has been doing, and his sales and recognitions back up how good he and his work is.  He killed it on the Grammys, and performed alongside Imagine Dragons, rather than just being paired with some rock group only there to pretty much do their beat but with live instruments.  And he's popular because of the music too, and not necessarily controversy.  Plus he didn't really dickride anyone, but now people are reaching out to him... from Lady Gaga doing a track with him to Eminem putting him on MMLP2 as the only guest rap artist.

I mentioned this before in a different thread about Jay Rock, but one of the things I didn't like about him was how he was riding Lil Wayne a little too hard, which took some points away in my book.  Weezy's popularity at the time was damn near at its peak, but the reality is that he's pretty much a fake gangbanger who flaunts red rags in everything without ever really having faced the consequences of it.  Jay Rock is from the hood, and I don't doubt that before his rap career, he probably had his share of red-on-blue (or purple, given their city) run-ins just because of colors.  So for him, with that background, to co-sign an out-of-towner really with no credentials but still tries to pass himself off as a Blood isn't favorable, in my eyes.  Same shit with Game doing it to Weezy.  And it didn't even really work either, that Lil Wayne guest spot on All My Life didn't get him nearly as much attention as his turkey giveaway did.

[Will_B]

"GKMC" for sure.

yep

[GangstaBoogy]

Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City was critically acclaimed for a reason. No flaws in that masterpiece.

Jay Rock's album was wack and sounds borderline dated.

[Matty]

people saying the jay rock, really?

album was good and had some great tracks, but kendrick's LP is on another level as a cohesive record. and that's coming from someone who isn't crazy about it, preferred the xzibit like a few peeps on here.

[714rep]

1. GKMC
2. Follow Me Home
3. Oxymoron

[YSH]

GKMC nodoubt

[The_Offence]

Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City was critically acclaimed for a reason. No flaws in that masterpiece.

Jay Rock's album was wack and sounds borderline dated.

thats because it was dated you fool   he said most of the album were recorded years before it was released.. remember that album was supposed to drop on Warner bros.. some of those track were recorded in 2007- 2008.

remember when this was the first single years ago ?