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magma wrote: I think I'm going to take Compton off my phone and put C&C as the last tune of the album.

hubb wrote:Some really bad tracks that I had to skip through on first listen (sing about me).

Sing About Me

Verse 1 – from the perspective of Dave's brother. He says the blood is on Kendrick's hands because the whole situation happened out of revenge for something that happened to Kendrick. But he says he appreciates that Kendrick was there for his brother and held him while he was dying. Dave's brother wonders if he will ever discover a passion like Kendrick to get him out of the hood – he says he hopes Kendrick will remember him and sing about him when he makes it big, and if he dies before the album drops...pop, pop, pop – he gets killed.

Verse 2 – from the perspective of Keisha's sister. She is mad at Kendrick for putting her sister on blast (on Section 80) without even knowing her properly. She talks about how she is living the same life as her sister, as a prostitute, and is proud of her living and what she does. She claims not to be just another woman lost in the system. She says her sister died in vein. Unlike Dave's brother she doesn't want to be sang about on the album. She feels great and says she'll never fade away....but then she does, her vocals slowly fade out in to obscurity...perhaps she died or just became another nameless "hoodrat".

Verse 3 – from Kendrick's perspective. Looking in the mirror. His fear of death. He speaks to Dave's brother, agreeing that Dave was like a brother to him. He speaks to Keisha's sister saying that Keisha's story was the one that drove him to write something that powerful and real – he didn't mean to offend. He talks of how music saved him and pulled him away from the drugs, money and guns.

Maccaveli wrote:

hubb wrote:Some really bad tracks that I had to skip through on first listen (sing about me).

Did you listen to the lyrics properly? I don't know how any hip hop fan could possibly think that song is 'really bad'... This writeup of it pretty much puts it better than I ever could:

Sing About Me

Verse 1 – from the perspective of Dave's brother. He says the blood is on Kendrick's hands because the whole situation happened out of revenge for something that happened to Kendrick. But he says he appreciates that Kendrick was there for his brother and held him while he was dying. Dave's brother wonders if he will ever discover a passion like Kendrick to get him out of the hood – he says he hopes Kendrick will remember him and sing about him when he makes it big, and if he dies before the album drops...pop, pop, pop – he gets killed.

Verse 2 – from the perspective of Keisha's sister. She is mad at Kendrick for putting her sister on blast (on Section 80) without even knowing her properly. She talks about how she is living the same life as her sister, as a prostitute, and is proud of her living and what she does. She claims not to be just another woman lost in the system. She says her sister died in vein. Unlike Dave's brother she doesn't want to be sang about on the album. She feels great and says she'll never fade away....but then she does, her vocals slowly fade out in to obscurity...perhaps she died or just became another nameless "hoodrat".

Verse 3 – from Kendrick's perspective. Looking in the mirror. His fear of death. He speaks to Dave's brother, agreeing that Dave was like a brother to him. He speaks to Keisha's sister saying that Keisha's story was the one that drove him to write something that powerful and real – he didn't mean to offend. He talks of how music saved him and pulled him away from the drugs, money and guns.

Maccaveli wrote:Well yeah of course but... in a genre where 2 Chainz and Chief Keef are allowed to exist I don't understand how anyone could call Song About Me "really bad". Like, say what you want about the beat or the chorus but surely the lyrics alone are enough to at least partly redeem it.

say_whut wrote:Gutted Cartoons & Cereal didn't make it, but this album is top notch

Maccaveli wrote:
Well yeah of course but... in a genre where 2 Chainz and Chief Keef are allowed to exist I don't understand how anyone could call Song About Me "really bad". Like, say what you want about the beat or the chorus but surely the lyrics alone are enough to at least partly redeem it.

fair point, but i guess the "really bad" is in the relative context of the overwhelmingly positive response

hubb wrote:Yeah, and also in the context of me thinking that this new album would be as refreshing stylistically as it was hearing his first couple of bits. Its the exact same thing for me as when dre and em watered down fifty. Its still good but not something i will recommend to people.

cheers for trying to have the lyric convince me.. I did listen to it already though on the album.

btw, what do people think about his singing?

dididub wrote:The first 1 and a half minutes of The Art of Peer Pressure is waste.

VicarOfDub wrote:

dididub wrote:The first 1 and a half minutes of The Art of Peer Pressure is waste.

yep...this. Compton is the only one I keep coming back to besides that tune. album might need a couple more listens...

Maccaveli wrote:Well yeah of course but... in a genre where 2 Chainz and Chief Keef are allowed to exist I don't understand how anyone could call Sing About Me "really bad". Like, say what you want about the beat or the chorus but surely the lyrics alone are enough to at least partly redeem it.