The Kendrick Lamar thread [Drops verse of the year]

[Samuel.]

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/67852424/Kendrick+Lamar+Lamar.jpg


Discography

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3844/kendrickep.png
Kendrick Lamar EP (http://mediafire.com/download.php?a2bfrvx981qjdwg)

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6954/kendrickod.png
O(verly) D(edicated) (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/overly-dedicated/id392386303)

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6395/kendricksection80.png
Section.80 (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/section.80/id447516359)

http://www.punknews.org/images/covers/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-maad-city.jpg
good kid, m.A.A.d city (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/good-kid-m.a.a.d-city/id567178522)

[King Gizzard]

Work of art

[Marc]

http://static.tumblr.com/v1asjlx/Iemly6uli/baby_lawd.gif

[Shaun]

haven't listened to Section.80 properly yet but I've really liked what I've heard

[King Gizzard]

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California Dungeonz

[King Gizzard]

Am I seeing things, or is this a Bears, hat

if so, he's a ledge

http://www.kendricklamarhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kendrick-lamar-2.jpg

[King Gizzard]

yes it is :amazed:

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[Roy Mars III]

the whole black hippy gang are great

People should listen to Schoolboy Q as well, if they like Lamar

[Samuel.]

Two great unofficial mixtapes of his unreleased stuff:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4hkr2l34f26z77m

http://www.mediafire.com/?qg94gdve9lxd9dk

34 tracks.

[Samuel.]

http://www.seetickets.com/Event/KENDRICK-LAMAR/Electric-Ballroom/628470

New London date.

Definitely copping tomorrow.

[King Gizzard]

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[Samuel.]

Great interview.

Though not quite as good as:
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Got the tickets btw http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1511/39949147.jpg More excited for that than I am in seeing Kanye and Jay.

[King Gizzard]

just posted it cause of that Das Racist guy lol

[Samuel.]

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[King Gizzard]

Just heard Spiteful Chant track on a car advert. wonder if he's tempted to release it with different lyrics

[Roy Mars III]

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:amazed:

[Samuel.]

Just heard Spiteful Chant track on a car advert. wonder if he's tempted to release it with different lyrics

There is another version of it out there somewhere he released after Section.80. Not sure if lyrically it's different, but it's without the horns apparently, which is probably why I never bothered to listen to it.

[King Gizzard]

Oh, Spiteful chant is a sample of Woodkid - Iron

[Samuel.]

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[Brother Leon]

Is there a proper release date?

[Samuel.]

Nothing specific yet, just aiming for summer atm. Wouldn't be surprised if it's pushed back tho.

[Brother Leon]

Will probably come out the day after I fly out knowing my luck. Waiting for the summer Hip Hop album to hit.

Last year was Rolling Papers even though I found it **** every other season :laugh:

[Samuel.]

New verses:
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[Samuel.]

Dropped today:
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Pretty good for a video game track.

[King Gizzard]

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came on shuffle

[Samuel.]

Think I feel comfortable saying Kendrick's now my all time favourite artist. Already he has more tracks I love than anybody else.

[King Gizzard]

I have listenend to the Beyonce track about 20 times now

[Samuel.]

Great track.

Did you download his unreleased stuff?

[King Gizzard]

Yeah those 2 things from mediafire, going through them now

[King Gizzard]

can tell I'm bored as hell

http://i46.tinypic.com/rjm96v_th.png

[Samuel.]

Beautiful.

[Samuel.]

New freestyle

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[Samuel.]

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[Samuel.]

http://i.imgur.com/emF5L.png

[King Gizzard]

http://i.imgur.com/lfpeY.png

[King Gizzard]

ok that will look crap on dark backgrounds

[Samuel.]

Looks good to me http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8262/63845666.png

[King Gizzard]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lb13iGy11r2j9ww.gif

[Brother Leon]

Must be just me who prefers him as a feature?


He's still 2nd in Hip Hop at the moment though.

[King Gizzard]

listened to cartoons and cereal so many times now

[Samuel.]

The Recipe video should be out in another couple of weeks http://i.imgur.com/OldKJ.png

[Samuel.]

Happy 25th birthday, Kendrick :worship:

[Samuel.]

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Incredible night. Everybody knew all of the words to every song, was crazy. Wished it was longer though; after Watch the Throne, just an hour goes by so quick.

Gave us a release date for Good Kid too - October 2nd.

[Samuel.]

The live MV

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The proper one should be out soon hopefully.

[Samuel.]

New track
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[King Gizzard]

Why the stupid album title?

What's wrong with Good Kid Mad City

[Samuel.]

idk, but it must have some reasoning behind it. At least the A's.

Apparently Swimming Pools isn't an album track, just a throwaway.

[Samuel.]

That flow...
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04hjp1mer1qg3uqyo1_400.gif

On replay.

[Samuel.]

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6071/gkhktukyu.jpg
http://p.twimg.com/Ax4LONjCAAENze-.png
http://p.twimg.com/Ax4QqRXCEAA6gBq.jpg
http://p.twimg.com/Ax4I7fACQAAttfP.jpg
https://distilleryimage2.s3.amazonaws.com/b790e5b8ced011e180ff22000a1e95d0_7.jpg

:pipe:

[Smithy]

-hopes they collab-

[Samuel.]

Kendrick Lamar - Westside, Right On Time feat. Young Jeezy (Prod. by Canei Finch)

http://soundcloud.com/topdawgent/kendrick-lamar-westside-right/s-af2PQ


Worried about GKMC tbh. A part from Cartoon & Cereal and Illuminate, he's been sub par this year. This is still nice, though.

[Samuel.]

Standard
http://hiphop-n-more.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-maad-city.jpg

Deluxe
http://hiphop-n-more.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-maad-city-deluxe.jpg

The cover of a classic tbh :idc:

[Roy Mars III]

old school feel to it, i like it

[Brother Leon]

2Chainz cover>>


This is aight though.

[Samuel.]

http://www.sharebeast.com/mkm9fkat4krm

Apparently it's an older version of the actual track that'll be on the album, but it's really good nonetheless.

[Samuel.]

http://i.minus.com/j0i9jzS1F7rnc.png

Compton is the last track on the standard edition.

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[Smithy]

Why isn't GaGa credited on bitch don't kill my vibe :suspect:

[Brother Leon]

The features should be a lot better.
Any news on the producers?


2 Dre tracks though :amazed:

[Brother Leon]

The features should be a lot better.
Any news on the producers?


2 Dre tracks though :amazed:

[Samuel.]

idk what's happening with the Gaga track.

The features are perfect imo, keeping it lowkey, keeping the focus on Kendrick.

Compton is a Just Blaze track.

[Brother Leon]

I was hoping for some tracks where he kills it along with another ****ed rapper. Instead we have Drake,Gaga and Mary J Blige :laugh: :p

[Samuel.]

Apparently Gaga isn't on the album. Prolly for the best.

[Samuel.]

http://a1024.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/Music/dd/03/07/mzi.iduwxujz.aac.p.m4a

[Samuel.]

http://soundtracking.com/chrispratt

Ain't listening tbh :idc:

[Brother Leon]

Will listen when home. I've only really liked Kendrick as a feature or with a feature. Dunno how a whole album of his will be for me. I it's good I'll iTunes it.

[Samuel.]

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:worship:

[Samuel.]

LomiipINRCs

Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe will be GOAT

[Samuel.]

http://distilleryimage4.instagram.com/9791543613d211e29a9c22000a1e8b99_7.jpg

If this doesn't leak by Wednesday, idk how much longer I can hold out on those snippets...

[Samuel.]

http://instagram.com/p/QuvUPnGdXf/

no1curr but this prolly leaking tonight :elephant:

[Locke.]

Been listening to section.80 lately, most of the tracks are decent, but No Make-Up and Keisha's song are by far the best

[Samuel.]

Hol Up, ADHD, Ronald Reagan Era, Poe Mans Dreams and Keisha's Song >>>

I really like every track on Section.80 tho.

[King Gizzard]

Lost my hardrive with all my music a few months ago now, so haven't listened to him in ages, still think RRE, Beyonce, Cartoons and Cereal are my favourite

[Samuel.]

Found this great fanmade video for C&C the other day:

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[Samuel.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5LHzA7CIAE5z8a.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5LH2Y9CMAAGTjM.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5LH5pHCEAEWBtq.jpg

From some guy on Twitter who has the album... but he ain't leaking it :(

[Samuel.]

http://www.sharebeast.com/9fapfi0dcssr

:dazzler:

[King Gizzard]

Awww man the 2 unofficial mix tapes from the first page have been deleted on mediafire

[Samuel.]

Album's great.

I don't think it's on Section.80's level, but I need more time to let it sink in. Tis very conceptual.

[King Gizzard]

144mb :D

I don't know why large file sizes makes me happy

[Brother Leon]

Listened to it earlier. It's missing something....Still a good release, but It wasn't the Hip Hop Release of the year I expected it to be.

[King Gizzard]

Right, shall listen now whilst playing FIFA

How many games I win will be the judge of how good it is

[Brother Leon]

0* rating coming up from Nathan.

[King Gizzard]

What is the fascination with loads of random speaking on rap albums

[King Gizzard]

Liking track 2

[King Gizzard]

The beat in the second half of M.A.A.D City :love::love::love:

[King Gizzard]

Good Kid's good too

[King Gizzard]

Good stuff

[King Gizzard]

Listened to it again, love it

[Samuel.]

Kendrick da gawd delivered.

I need to update the OP tbh.

Money Trees is my favourite track atm. BDKMV second. There aren't any tracks I dislike.

[King Gizzard]

yeah really good, not your average trashy rap in every single song, mix of thoughtful as well, highlight is still that beat in the second part of M.A.A.D City for me, shame it isn't a track on it's own

Hope it gets good reviews and sells well, I'll probably get the CD eventually, don't like not buying something I really like, feel guilty

[Samuel.]

It's getting a really positive response from forums/fans. I reckon the reviews will be similar.

Definitely picking this up next week. Can't even remember the last new CD I actually bought.

[Samuel.]

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[Doogle]

I downloaded it yesterday for no reason.. just felt like something different and I'd only heard a few Section.80 tracks in September when flicking through Spotify. It's not my kind of thing usually but I loved it, so glad I downloaded. Favourites on first listen were Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, Now or Never, Sing About Me / I’m Dying of Thirst, Backstreet Freestyle and The Recipe.

[King Gizzard]

I am a sinner
Who is probably going to sin again
Lord forgive me
Lord forgive
Things I don't understand
Sometimes I need to be alone
Bitch don't kill my vibe
Bitch don't kill my vibe
I can feel your energy from two planets away
I got my drink I got my music I will share it but today
Bitch don't kill my vibe

[Locke.]

Album is pretty good but the talking at the end of most of the songs is really annoying

[King Gizzard]

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Glad it has a meaning to it, and not just some stupid way of spelling it

[Brother Leon]

Kept Sing For Me & Compton on my Phone. Kept Don't Kill My Vibe and the tracks named after the album as it will probably grow on me too.

Rest isn't all that to me yet :p

[Locke.]

Swimming Pool >

[Brother Leon]

Just realised my fave tracks are all after each other(Good Kid to Compton). It's like MBDTF again.

[Samuel.]

https://twitter.com/Pharrell/status/259315025477500928

One of the hip hop GOATs has spoken.

[Ramsay]

Downloading the album atm, cant wait

[Roy Mars III]

link to album?

really behind

[Ramsay]

I'll PM you

[Roy Mars III]

thanks :)

[Ramsay]

No problemo :pipe:

[Ramsay]

Think the song titles are messed up in that link i sent you roy

[Ramsay]

edit: oh no wait they are all right i just got mixed up lol

[Roy Mars III]

Backstreet Freestyle :worship:

[King Gizzard]

Is it the deluxe one that was the first leak?

[Roy Mars III]

yea

[Samuel.]

Big40Bu2teg
D:

[King Gizzard]

what...does this mean the leak wasn't accurate?

[Samuel.]

what...does this mean the leak wasn't accurate?

It's not an album track. Just a track Kendrick's put out there.

[Samuel.]

"Even when my album leak, fans still buy it for proof"

"Will you let hip hop die on October 22nd?"

[King Gizzard]

would if the deluxe was on amazon

[Roy Mars III]

it really is a great album, I would say that Backstreet Freestyle and Swimming Pool are my favorite songs

[Brother Leon]

Sing About Me Is deep.


The way the first verse ends..

[Samuel.]

Yeah. The whole album's deep

http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=313845.0

Really worth the read.

[Samuel.]

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This video >>>

[King Gizzard]

pretty much still love them all apart from Swimming Pools which is just a bit meh

[Brother Leon]

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They drunk/high as **** :laugh:


Also, the way they dropped everything they were doing to talk to Lebron :worship: :laugh:


The link Samuel posted is sick. A couple things I didn't notice at first.

[Samuel.]

Recipe (Black Hippy remix)
Swimming Pools (Black Hippy remix)
Collect Calls
County Building Blues

Kendrick keeps blessing us :worship:

[Brother Leon]

Downloading.


Those are the two tracks I didn't really like though :laugh:

Schoolboy is hard though, so will be cool to see what he done.

[Samuel.]

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17253-good-kid-maad-city/

:worship:

[Brother Leon]

Number 5 on iTunes UK :o


Behind only Taylor Swift(twice), Swedish House Mafia & Jake Bugg.

Big.

[Samuel.]

Kendrick's on track to do over 200k first week.

Nas' Life is Good "only" managed 150k.

Kendrick blowing up. Shame he won't be getting that number 1 spot though with Red releasing the same week...

[King Gizzard]

The one with Drake and Swimming Pools are the most popular according to itunes, and they're my least favourite

[Locke.]

Swimming Pools is probably my favourite song this year. The Drake track is probably the worst on the album though

[Samuel.]

I like Swimming Pools and Poetic Justice.

Real is the weakest if any imo.

[Brother Leon]

The Drake tune and Swimming pools is just so out of place. Like he made the Album them made them two at the end :laugh: M.A.A.D City and Sig About Me are my personal faves. The Recipe remix got me into the original now. Wasn't feeling it first.

200k is very good figures for 2012 never mind Hip Hop in 2012. Meek Mill's album out Tuesday...god bless the second they decided to release their hit after each other :worship:

[Brother Leon]

Not everyone is a fan of Kendrick Lamar's audio-cinematic LP good kid, m.A.A.d city. Since dropping his major-label debut on Monday, K-Dot has received a ton of critical and fan praise, with many heralding his album an instant classic, but the young Compton MC does have his detractors, most notably exiled rapper Shyne.

"Yoooo! Kendrick Lamar is talented with a lot of potential but his album is traaaaash," Shyne tweeted of the Dr. Dre-helmed album before comparing it to Game and 50 Cent's debut projects. "The game Documentary even 50 get rich or die trying lived up to the hype and were classics. Good kid is trash!"

Po's comments didn't seem to rattle Kendrick in the least bit, but his Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate and Black Hippy rhyme partner Schoolboy Q quickly came to K-Dot's defense. Q wrote: "We all know @OriginalSHyne AIN'T EATIN!!!!! N*gga ain't had a hot verse since '01." Shyne fired back with a tweet that included a homophobic slur (since deleted apparently but still visible in a screen grab captured by MTV News) and told Q, "When mobsters talking rappers be quiet!"

Houston MC Slim Thug, who seems to be impartial with no direct ties to Kendrick or TDE weighed in as well by retweeting one of Shyne's messages preceded by two emojis: a surprised face and a pistol pointed to the head.

[King Gizzard]

Jealousy is a terrible thing

[King Gizzard]

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[Samuel.]

http://www.metacritic.com/music/good-kid-maad-city/kendrick-lamar

:worship:

If only it wasn't for that ridiculous 60 rating NME gave it... wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't such a terribly written and short review.

[Brother Leon]

NME hates anything urban. Only remember them truly liking Dizzee's BIDC which was a British masterpiece so they had no choice really.

[Samuel.]

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[Locke.]

"Personally, I think Shyne should just back away and let the kid breathe and if not, I don't know, we might find ourselves face-to-face or sh-- that nobody really wants to see happen," Game said of the deported Shyne Po. "Kendrick is non-confrontational, he's not a thug, he's not a gang banger, he's just a dope, hip-hop lyricist, but he's from the streets and he got a lot of ties out here and a lot of good hood n---as with him and I'm one of them."

[Roy Mars III]

Lamar about to catch a body

[Doogle]

I've listened to pretty much all of Section.80 now and I'm not sure which I prefer tbh, but glad to see GKMC doing so well.

[Brother Leon]

So, what we think?

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My opinion.......Life Is Good is far from a Hip Hop classic. GKMC could be seen as one though in the future. Not up with Ilmatic,Reasonable Doubt or Chronic amongst others,but still a definite potential.

[Samuel.]

Still prefer Section.80, as great as GKMC is.

I still think Channel Orange is my AOTY, just.

[Samuel.]

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By far the best bonus track.

[King Gizzard]

can remember when I thought WZRD was amazing ffs. Definitely think GKMC will be as close to classic as you can get, not up there with The Chronic et al though

[Brother Leon]

This is better than Channel Orange imo. Still not sure if I may be thinking This is better than what it is simply due to how terrible 2012 has been :laugh:

[Locke.]

Second place after Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream

[King Gizzard]

Honorary degree to Samuel for introducing us to the ways of Kendrick

[Brother Leon]

Samuel>>>>

My boy told me about him a while ago, but I ignored him, because I didn't really like Cartoon & Cereal, but Samuel's dedication made me give him a 2nd chance.

[King Gizzard]

Second part of M.A.A.D City with that beat though. The drums >

[Samuel.]

:pipe:

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

220k after 68.46% of sales counted :worship:

[Brother Leon]

Second part of M.A.A.D City with that beat though. The drums >

Compton USA, Made Me An Angel On Angel Dust :pipe:

[Brother Leon]

:pipe:

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

220k after 68.46% of sales counted :worship:

Brilliant. ****ing Taylor Swift. Those are number 1 numbers.



Lol at the albums after the top 2.

Btw, how do we see the figures for the U.K charts?

[Samuel.]

No idea about the UK charts.


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This better get released at some point.

[Samuel.]

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Huge numbers for 2012.

Almost double what Channel Orange did, 50k more than Cruel Summer.

[Samuel.]

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Propane on posers, restraining from the doja
Imagine if I smoke, I probably come up with a quote
So heavy you'll forget every album you heard from Hova

[Shaun]

only four tracks in... might have to break out my first 10 :lovedup:

[Brother Leon]

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Grime Daily getting an interview>>>>


His hat is sicka.

[Samuel.]

Kendrick continues to blow up :pipe:

Sorta disappointed with GKMC tho. Reminds me of MBDTF; I can understand the praise, but I'm personally not enjoying it as much as most are. It's no Section.80.

Still a great album though.

[Samuel.]

Doesn't get much more bigger than that tbh.

[Shaun]

:laugh2:

[King Gizzard]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/dec/10/best-albums-2012-kendrick-lamar

shoulda been no.1

[King Gizzard]

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[King Gizzard]

KL EP >>>>

[Samuel.]

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[King Gizzard]

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late but lol

[Brother Leon]

50 & Floyd Vs Oscar>>That tbh.

[King Gizzard]

Broner >

at least he's funny

[Drew.]

Kendrick is an absolute BOSS

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[Brother Leon]

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His best tune tbh.

[Shaun]

SAM,IDOT is my favourite too.

[King Gizzard]

average joe is my favourite

and Kendrick Lemar EP is my favourite record

[Samuel.]

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That crowd D:

[Shaun]

-got the album for £7 in HMV-

-killed the store-

[Ramsay]

Was supposed to go that gig but had no one to go with as it seems im the only person in my group of friends who even know he exists :(

[Brother Leon]

Going to see him on the 20th. Makes up for Chief Keef not being able to make it a couple weeks ago.

[Samuel.]

Was supposed to go that gig but had no one to go with as it seems im the only person in my group of friends who even know he exists :(

Same thing happened last year with me. Ended up just going on my own and really enjoyed it.

Not too fussed about going to gigs alone anymore tbh, your company doesn't matter when you're watching the performance.

[Shaun]

he's playing in bristol tomorrow but it's sold out :(

[Samuel.]

https://twitter.com/chartnews/status/294202742606532609

Crazy how much Kendrick blew up last year.

[King Gizzard]

Was supposed to go that gig but had no one to go with as it seems im the only person in my group of friends who even know he exists :(
Woulda thought it'd be the complete opposite now Lol

[Ramsay]

no really, even at this stage im still the only one in my group that knows how good he is

[King Gizzard]

http://cdn.thisisbigbrother.com/customavatars/avatar11566_55.gif

[Ramsay]

http://i.imgur.com/39kpwBG.png

[Shaun]

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death to molly

[Samuel.]

http://hiphop-n-more.com/2013/06/interscope-tde-present-platinum-plaque-to-kendrick-lamar-for-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interscope-tde-present-platinum-plaque-to-kendrick-lamar-for-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city

Will finally update OP tbh.

[Samuel.]

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Macklemore cameo >

[Samuel.]

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3 minute mark

:worship:

[Brother Leon]

Time for Hov to blacklist Kendrick for life due to that blasphemy.

[Shaun]

http://media.tumblr.com/dc1bb60640c43b3fe080679935f09cf4/tumblr_inline_mrc5i510Jx1qccon2.gif

shame the rest of the track is so meh

but i'd take those namedrops as a compliment tbh, he's just seeing them as competition

[Jemal]

Still cant get kendricks bars in memories back then out my head. He kills it.

[Brother Leon]

http://media.tumblr.com/dc1bb60640c43b3fe080679935f09cf4/tumblr_inline_mrc5i510Jx1qccon2.gif

shame the rest of the track is so meh

but i'd take those namedrops as a compliment tbh, he's just seeing them as competition

Yeah. Name drops were deffo complimentary. Calling himself the king of NY is the real beef lol

[Samuel.]

This one verse has already spawned like half a dozen response tracks. It's insane.

Historic verse.

[Shaun]

late i know but -dead-

http://i.imgur.com/ona2vdt.png

[King Gizzard]

2 years samuel bought k.dot to our attention

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still amazing

[Z]

:worship:

[Iceman]

Yeah. Name drops were deffo complimentary. Calling himself the king of NY is the real beef lol

Why be a king, when you can be a god?

But no seriously bumpin love game a lot. Kendricks great in it...