Kendrick Lamar Debuts New Song on "The Colbert Report"

[djole 213]

As Stephen Colbert prepares to say goodbye to "The Colbert Report", he welcomed Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick debuted an untitled new track alongside a band featuring Thundercat and Bilal. The track was reportedly produced by Astronote.

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[West$ide Boi]

again, Kendrick is completely ignored on this forum. smh

[aerroc]

again, Kendrick is completely ignored on this forum. smh

good lyrical deliverance like always from Kendrick i hope to here the regular version
but true smh but what do you expect when 96% of the time here is talked about washed up rappers from 20 years ago
the whole tde is ignored here as well as other newer good west artist

[Matty]

smh at the first two posts being meta-commentary instead of actually talking about the track, much irony.

shit sounded good, way better than i. jazzy track with spacey sounds and plenty of soul, more tracks like this would be great.

performance starts around 4 mins

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6zr9YagWL3w" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/6zr9YagWL3w</a>

[MOBNigga06]

Song is decent. Kendrick isn't appreciated on this forum because his style is not very West Coast. And ever since he blew up, he acts silly and artificial, like he's Wayne or a "Martian" or some other gimmicky rapper. At the end of this performance, the screaming  and shaking is just hella gay to me. It's designed to appeal to 16 year olds.   

I'm glad to see TERRACE MARTIN getting some shine, though.

[bouli77]

smh at the first two posts being meta-commentary instead of actually talking about the track, much irony.

shit sounded good, way better than i. jazzy track with spacey sounds and plenty of soul, more tracks like this would be great.

i know right, lol. Kendrick is getting a lot of love but it's not like they ever come up with something credible and unbiased to say.

I liked the production, obviously needs more spins to process the content but I liked the guitar and the performance overall.

[Matty]

smh at the first two posts being meta-commentary instead of actually talking about the track, much irony.

shit sounded good, way better than i. jazzy track with spacey sounds and plenty of soul, more tracks like this would be great.

i know right, lol. Kendrick is getting a lot of love but it's not like they ever come up with something credible and unbiased to say.

I liked the production, obviously needs more spins to process the content but I liked the guitar and the performance overall.

it's hillarious how they whine about other peoples preferences then when there's a thread for something they do actually like, they're still whining. those guys are the worst posters, full of negativity all the time.

[OG Snoopaveli]

This damn good.
Kendrick is bacc

[Detox Is A Myth!!!]

I generally think Kendrick sounds like an Andre 3000 spinoff for the 2010s era.  I agree that he hardly sounds like a west coast artist at all, so it's no surprise to me that he doesn't get much "love" here.  This is a west coast forum after all.  That's why I don't understand why people complain about certain artists like Kendrick not getting enough love here.  I think it's fair to think of a forum dedicated to west coast music as being one that is dedicated to music that sounds west coast rather than to artists that hail from the west coast.

It's not really something I've really formally thought of before, but, you know, there are French artists who make west coast-sounding music who get more shine here in some respects than Compton artists like Kendrick who don't make traditional west coast music.  I think the tension that exists on this board lies in the division between how people view what this forum is dedicated to.  Is it just music that sounds west coast?  (In which case it doesn't matter where it's made -- California, France, etc.)  Or is it music that was actually made by artists that are from the West Coast, regardless of what their music sounds like?  Some people think it's the latter, but I tend to think of it as the former.

I think Kendrick is a good artist, and Good Kid was good for what it was, but to me, I'd much rather listen to other stuff, and his style doesn't really speak to me as directly as someone more traditionally West Coast like Dom Kennedy.

Something to think about...

[gio™fugahoo]

I generally think Kendrick sounds like an Andre 3000 spinoff for the 2010s era.  I agree that he hardly sounds like a west coast artist at all, so it's no surprise to me that he doesn't get much "love" here.  This is a west coast forum after all.  That's why I don't understand why people complain about certain artists like Kendrick not getting enough love here.  I think it's fair to think of a forum dedicated to west coast music as being one that is dedicated to music that sounds west coast rather than to artists that hail from the west coast.

It's not really something I've really formally thought of before, but, you know, there are French artists who make west coast-sounding music who get more shine here in some respects than Compton artists like Kendrick who don't make traditional west coast music.  I think the tension that exists on this board lies in the division between how people view what this forum is dedicated to.  Is it just music that sounds west coast?  (In which case it doesn't matter where it's made -- California, France, etc.)  Or is it music that was actually made by artists that are from the West Coast, regardless of what their music sounds like?  Some people think it's the latter, but I tend to think of it as the former.

I think Kendrick is a good artist, and Good Kid was good for what it was, but to me, I'd much rather listen to other stuff, and his style doesn't really speak to me as directly as someone more traditionally West Coast like Dom Kennedy.

Something to think about...

Good Point of view
True dat
Preach

[bouli77]

it's true that first and foremost it's a board dedicated to g-funk and traditional gangsta rap, but kendrick has gotten a lot of love here over the years. some people have complained about his lack of "regional sound" which I disagree with since I think Kendrick's californian identity is pretty obvious but a lot of people have shown love as well.

i think you picked the wrong example with france because although France is a very active g-funk "nursery", most often it's being ridiculed here for being unauthentic and over-the-top (can't say I disagree much although I do think some producers are extremely dope). what's true though is that most posters are more interested in golden age g-funk music than any other type of music, coming from the west coast or not. hence a lot of my threads about lesser-known newer artists having no response at all lol. but TDE gets a lot of love round here, and it's not a new thing. even as far back as 2010 it was the case.

[Will_B]

smh at the first two posts being meta-commentary instead of actually talking about the track, much irony.

shit sounded good, way better than i. jazzy track with spacey sounds and plenty of soul, more tracks like this would be great.

performance starts around 4 mins

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6zr9YagWL3w" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/6zr9YagWL3w</a>

I loved the song. Like Matty always says need to hear it properly mixed/mastered but that was a hell of a performance from K.Dot

[MOBNigga06]

I generally think Kendrick sounds like an Andre 3000 spinoff for the 2010s era.  I agree that he hardly sounds like a west coast artist at all, so it's no surprise to me that he doesn't get much "love" here.  This is a west coast forum after all.  That's why I don't understand why people complain about certain artists like Kendrick not getting enough love here.  I think it's fair to think of a forum dedicated to west coast music as being one that is dedicated to music that sounds west coast rather than to artists that hail from the west coast.

It's not really something I've really formally thought of before, but, you know, there are French artists who make west coast-sounding music who get more shine here in some respects than Compton artists like Kendrick who don't make traditional west coast music.  I think the tension that exists on this board lies in the division between how people view what this forum is dedicated to.  Is it just music that sounds west coast?  (In which case it doesn't matter where it's made -- California, France, etc.)  Or is it music that was actually made by artists that are from the West Coast, regardless of what their music sounds like?  Some people think it's the latter, but I tend to think of it as the former.

I think Kendrick is a good artist, and Good Kid was good for what it was, but to me, I'd much rather listen to other stuff, and his style doesn't really speak to me as directly as someone more traditionally West Coast like Dom Kennedy.

Something to think about...

This is the way I see it as well.

Kendrick is a product of marketing to appeal to teenagers across America. He's not for fans of West Coast rap.

[LAC/EASTSIDE]

All this talk about Kendrick not sounding West Coast is ridiculous. Kendrick doesn't have an accent that would make me think he's East or even South. He's West! And I'm not saying this based on the new shit that people are just listening too. Kendrick has released multiple albums/mixtapes and people are still talking about his style? I had KDot tracks before he even dropped Section 80. Never did that even cross my mind; people are confused. What Kendrick does not sound like is a "GANGSTER RAPPER". This isn't about him not sounding West. It's about him not being a gangster rapper. This doesn't mean he doesn't sound WEST. Kendrick is just a type of rapper that has made it big on the West, who isn't a gangster rapper. But he is not the first of his kind on the WEST. He could easily blend it with Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, Tha Liks, Hiero, Dilated Peoples, Madlib, Lootpack, Defari, Aceyalone, Jurassic 5 etc etc etc. He isn't the first of his kind in the West. There's been a westcoast tradition of backpack/hip hop rappers since waaaay back. People just need to catch the fuck up. Not just a tradition but LEGENDARY "underground" groups like [The Pharcyde] and [Souls of Mischief] who had their own unique style and sounded like nobody. Kendrick and AB Soul are more to this liking, stylistically. Of course, they are also able to blend the rawness of the West but that's not who Kendrick is. He's more of a Hip Hopper. That's all it is.

[Detox Is A Myth!!!]

He could easily blend it with Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, Tha Liks, Hiero, Dilated Peoples, Madlib, Lootpack, Defari, Aceyalone, Jurassic 5 etc etc etc. He isn't the first of his kind in the West. There's been a westcoast tradition of backpack/hip hop rappers since waaaay back. People just need to catch the fuck up.

I think you're providing evidence that supports my point.  Basically all of those groups don't get nearly the same level of attention here as Tha Dogg Pound because they didn't make the kind of music that could be called stereotypically west coast*.  Fans of west coast rap are generally fans of stereotypical west coast gangsta rap -- that "sound" -- rather than backpack rap.  So it should come as no surprise that those groups you mentioned don't amass the same levels of appreciation from this board, because what really captures the hearts and minds of a global fanbase is not where an artist is from but how he sounds.  At the end of the day, fans don't care where you're from provided you make the kind of music that they like to listen to.

I'm just explaining WHY new west coast artists that don't sound stereotypically west coast like Kendrick don't get "love" on this board.  It's not because we're stuck in the 90s.

*except for maybe Tha Liks -- I don't think you should have included them in that list