I think this song is unnecessarily cheaply racist in a way with the little chants.
Especially right off the heels of his last song its almost like they are connected. He tried to pretend he is happy on "i" and flirt with Taylor Swift, and this song comes off almost as an insecure defeat, like crying that in the end he's just always gonna be a black dude and back to that horrid insecurity and rawness. Why are we going there? Again? and Again?
Kendrick was the last traditional rapper before the genre died out and I think his job right now is to try to find a way to make me care about his as an artist by honing his best devices to masterful effect. What Eminem proved is that despite rap being dead, people still have an appetite to see someone who is a master of their craft do their thing.
I think Kendrick needs to stop making concept work and make like a straightforward work of great depth and detail that highlights his most acrobatic lyricism and creates a dense canvas of great rap that delivers for a whole album worth of great verses and creative songs and grooves. And show off too. Don't try to be too artsy just go back to doing what nobody else can do.
Don't try to be Kanye and go back to the basics of being a nerd phenom wordsmith that you would want to chill with in the studio. Thats what compton is about and that is what that whole neo hippy vibe is about so without that vibe there isn't much there as a master thesis.
A) I respect your opinion
B) I disagree with nearly all of it lol. Starting with the "unnecessarily cheaply racist" to "the last traditional rapper before the genre died out"
beat goes hard.. eminem needs to hop on the remix and go classic slim shady on it
Only thing I agree with you on is the beat is hard but I can't see Em on a remix as he couldn't relate to the content as he's the beneficiary of White Privilege. I listened to the track 5 times.
Damn this is probably THE most terrible analysis of this song I've ever read and that'sI think this song is unnecessarily cheaply racist in a way with the little chants.
Especially right off the heels of his last song its almost like they are connected. He tried to pretend he is happy on "i" and flirt with Taylor Swift, and this song comes off almost as an insecure defeat, like crying that in the end he's just always gonna be a black dude and back to that horrid insecurity and rawness. Why are we going there? Again? and Again?
Kendrick was the last traditional rapper before the genre died out and I think his job right now is to try to find a way to make me care about his as an artist by honing his best devices to masterful effect. What Eminem proved is that despite rap being dead, people still have an appetite to see someone who is a master of their craft do their thing.
I think Kendrick needs to stop making concept work and make like a straightforward work of great depth and detail that highlights his most acrobatic lyricism and creates a dense canvas of great rap that delivers for a whole album worth of great verses and creative songs and grooves. And show off too. Don't try to be too artsy just go back to doing what nobody else can do.
Don't try to be Kanye and go back to the basics of being a nerd phenom wordsmith that you would want to chill with in the studio. Thats what compton is about and that is what that whole neo hippy vibe is about so without that vibe there isn't much there as a master thesis.
I think Kendrick needs to stop making concept work and make like a straightforward work of great depth and detail that highlights his most acrobatic lyricism and creates a dense canvas of great rap that delivers for a whole album worth of great verses and creative songs and grooves.