KENDRICK LAMAR - GNX (Official Discussion)

[Tanjential]

It's still a concept album but it's more a collection of songs and I love that. His most musical since Damn IMO. Bored with the Christianity at the core of his work but the style still impeccable, appreciate stuff like "reincarnated" touching on spiritual ideas beyond normal American Christian stuff.

Agree it's a classic.

- T
 

[Quadruple OG]

Sky is blue, grass is green, Dubcc shits on this album because it wasn't Snoop approved. No wonder this forum died two decades ago.

[Sccit]

Sky is blue, grass is green, Dubcc shits on this album because it wasn't Snoop approved. No wonder this forum died two decades ago.

i think most people here actually like it …. n if u not contributing u part of the problem

[Tony Trey]

K. Dot could be the best lyricist in the world, but I cannot sit through any of his albums. His high pitched whiny voice annoys the piss out of me after just a couple seconds. Am I alone in feeling this way?

[Quadruple OG]

K. Dot could be the best lyricist in the world, but I cannot sit through any of his albums. His high pitched whiny voice annoys the piss out of me after just a couple seconds. Am I alone in feeling this way?

Yes! Me too!

I'd rather sit through Snoop's dated raps and desperate attempts at being relevant musically (vs. being an oldies act) than celebrate someone moving the west coast forward!

[Rudki]

K. Dot could be the best lyricist in the world, but I cannot sit through any of his albums. His high pitched whiny voice annoys the piss out of me after just a couple seconds. Am I alone in feeling this way?

You aren't at all - and it's not even hating. I like Kendrick and appreciate his craft but not the biggest fan of his voice.

[Tony Trey]

Yes! Me too!

I'd rather sit through Snoop's dated raps and desperate attempts at being relevant musically (vs. being an oldies act) than celebrate someone moving the west coast forward!

Where did I say anything about Snoop? Because for the record, I'm not feeling K. Dot or Snoop; K. Dot because of his voice and Snoop because of Dre's garbage production this far.

If you ask me who's moving forward and I say Xzibit.

[teecee]

K. Dot could be the best lyricist in the world, but I cannot sit through any of his albums. His high pitched whiny voice annoys the piss out of me after just a couple seconds. Am I alone in feeling this way?

I definitely feel this way at times, but for whatever reason it doesn’t bother me on this album (for the first time since GKMC)

[OG Snoopaveli]

This album is easily the best of 2024

[doggfather]

not that easily.

this year is strong like a muhfukka!

[OG Snoopaveli]

not that easily.

this year is strong like a muhfukka!

yes there have been good albums, but GNX comes to crown Kendrick's year.

[teecee]

The Force (LL) had it wrapped up for me but now GNX up there.   It’s a front to back classic with no skips AND cultural relevance…just one of those hip hop moments in time.   And nearly every song sounds like a hit.  I’m even lovin the title track now.   

[The Predator]

Regarding the comedian mentioned on 'Wacced Out Murals' -

TDE’s Punch and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Call Out Andrew Schulz for Saying He Could ‘F*ck’ Kendrick Lamar: ‘Weird'

Schulz threatened to "make love to" Kendrick Lamar in response to a line from 'GNX' that he perceived as a diss.



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TDE president Terrence "Punch" Henderson and actor O'Shea Jackson Jr. ripped Andrew Schulz after he responded to a perceived diss from Kendrick Lamar by threatening to sexually assault him.

On a recent episode of his podcast Flagrant, Schulz took issue with a lyric from K Dot's GNX opener "wacced out murals," on which he rapped, "Don't let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that's law." In response, Schulz said that if he found himself in a cell with Kendrick, he would "make love to" Kendrick, and "the only thing that he could do is decide if it's consensual or not."

"Wait… wait… I know as a Black man who’s involved in Hip Hop Music, that we are a bit slow and don’t really understand sarcasm and humor… but did my guy say he want to sleep with Dot??" Punch tweeted in response.

O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ice Cube's son, also chimed in with a to-the-point response. "Weird ass n***a," he wrote.

On Flagrant, Schulz went on an extensive bit about how he would sexually assault Kendrick if they shared a prison cell.

"I would make love to him and there's nothing he could do about it," he said. "Just Kendrick Lamar, I would make love to him. And the only thing that he could do is decide if it's consensual or not. ... I would go so far as to say he couldn't stop most people on the planet from having sex with him. ... He's talking a lot of shit, but if it came down to it I could put him on my lap, I could feed him a bottle."

In the episode in question, Schulz also implied Kendrick only wants to "protect Black women" when it serves him, and suggested he was hypocritical because of some collaborations with alleged abusers, as well as his Spotify protest in 2018.

"Listen, rappers are telling comedians we need to be more respectful to women," Schulz said. "So we need to sit back and reflect. ... Listen, no one has respected women more through art than rappers. So I completely understand how a rapper could look at a comedian telling a joke and be like, 'Yo, you need to switch that shit up. How dare y'all keep saying your wives are annoying. Be more like us, bitches ain't nothing but hos and tricks, I beat my bitch with a stick.'"

Ebro in the Morning co-host Peter Rosenberg specifically called out the comedian's dismissive jokes about misogyny in rap.

"This take is SO BAD," he tweeted. "So PAINFULLY bad. Being friends with Charlamagne gave this guy a pass to give opinions on hip hop?? This era is unbelievable... Good thing no one gets checked anymore... and Schulz better pray that holds true."

In a follow-up tweet responding to someone who suggested Schulz was "pointing out hypocrisy" and Kendrick took a shot at him "over a nothing burger," Rosenberg compared the comedian to infamous conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly for dismissively labeling all hip-hop as misogynistic.

"Kendrick calls out Schulz for running down black women... more specifically the dudes who let it happen unchecked," he wrote. "Schulz responds by saying 'oh cuz rappers are so pro women.' Schulz is no different than Bill O'Reilly... acting like K Dot is 2 Live Crew... it is a nonsensical response and shows Schulz doesn't actually like or understand hip hop. Please hear me... not all white guys are built the same. For some of us Black culture is not wacky fodder or a means to an end."

Rosenberg also posted a video in which he took further aim at Schulz.

ok final words on that clown talking about Dot

Schulz suggested that the lyrics that potentially target him, and any Black people who enable his behavior, were likely in reference to racist jokes made about Black women in an earlier episode of Flagrant.

Shulz also posted a video of Mike Tyson and Hasbullah on his show, seemingly a reference to Lamar's height and his comment that he "could put" the rapper on "my lap."

Plenty of people on social media have also criticized Schulz for his response, labeling him racist and calling out the hypocrisy of a comedian who believes people are "too sensitive" and then proceeds to go on a ten-minute-plus rant about one line in a song that doesn't even directly mention him.

[The Predator]

Kendrick Lamar has now spent FIVE months at #1 on US Apple Music in 2024, becoming the ONLY artist to achieve this milestone this year.

[OG Snoopaveli]

Easily best album of the Year.
and unfortunately it is not Missionary that changes my opinion.