Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE
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It's on the album. It's track 8.
Its official im tired of trying to like this MC's Music..... I am done trying to understand the HYPE...... He is annoying his style aint 4 me and I aint H8n im just relaying & conveying......
But as someone said b 4.. u guys are DICK RIDERS to him..... Beat is subpar and well KL is KL typically annoying and hard to follow and boring!
Select few songs I like from and i do mean a few but this dude is the most OVERRATED MC of the past 20 years.. EZ
ONE verse by J Cole makes me feel better about hip hop again!
But as someone said b 4.. u guys are DICK RIDERS to him..... Beat is subpar and well KL is KL typically annoying and hard to follow and boring!
Select few songs I like from and i do mean a few but this dude is the most OVERRATED MC of the past 20 years.. EZ
ONE verse by J Cole makes me feel better about hip hop again!
If I gotta go hard on a bitch Ima make it look sexy.
So many lines....
Loyalty is the smash hit.
Well there's like 1 more potential but Loyalty is the early runner for song of the summer. If he does a video with the featured guest it's a wrap.
I want them to do a collab album that's classic west coast sound and feel.
Loyalty loyalty loyalty.....
My favorites Duckworth Element DNA Fear Loyalty Feel Lust XXX Humble Yah...
I love how he making fun of Drake on GOD
....word is he dropping another album though
I like this song in a capsule. Like some of the records on the album. Not really feeling it as a whole. It's taxing. Don't see it as "progress." Think his last album may be the summit.
Disagree
he's progressing into a different lane and concept each album. it don't have the exact same feel which is great
but the concepts and subject matter is the same and evolving deeper.
That was nice
He's moving on conceptually. But not necessarily progressing. I don't believe the brilliance is on par with his first two major releases. I wasn't wowed by much on this project. And I don't even want to call it a project. Like Momma. Like Complexion. Like The Blacker The Berry. Like How Much Does A Dollar Cost. And so on. There's not a lot of bite on Damn. No clinch.
He may have peaked as an artist. He's released a lot of good material. Shouldn't understate that. Regan Era. Rigamortis. Those are interesting songs. Nothing really lasting about this album upon my first few listens. Not dissing, but . . . it may take him some years to get back up to par IMO. Common took years too. Nothing wrong with that.
See and I disagree with that as well because nothing is deeper than conveying emotions and that's exactly what every song on this album is doing
plus there is a working theory that he's dropping ANOTHER album this easter sunday which completes this work.
I'm talking about creativity though. I don't think this album connects as well. Kendrick is always going to release professional work. But this isn't elevation. It's something, but it's not IT. It's not as intimate (pause) as TPAB (lows/ blues), nor as polarizing (highs/ poplular). Not as experimental. Not as soulful. Bottom line. The album as a whole doesn't say much either. And that's fine. He just peaked IMO.
Magic moments. There are a variety of magic moments on TPAB. On here, I don't hear the same thing. That grip: but a rapper with a ghost writer, what the fuck happened [oh no]? OK, I'm in.
Damn, the album, is a display of talent. Kendrick putting on a Kendrick mask. Not as classic as his two previous. This could totally be a prelude to TPAB. If this was released before TPAB, no one would bat an eye. Save for a few technical exceptions. However, if you were to do the same thing with TPAB with GKMC. No one wouldn't believe it. Not slighting GKMC, but it's a different level of creativity.
Edit: And I'll say too, Damn is not as conventional. If that's being progressive, have at it. It's not as conventional. It's more obscure. There's a "plus," for this particular album, if you will.
And at the end of the day. Kendrick Lamar is a grown man and a rap artist. He can release whatever he wants to. He knows what's right for his career. I'm speaking from my perspective, as a listener.
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We just disagree
He did what I wanted a major artist to do for the LONGEST TIME. get out of the box.
For eons in rap it's if you speak on a certain topic it has to sound like 1 thing as far as musically goes. He turned that on his head. He's got the sonics to stand out in today's music and the lyrics are as deep and even deeper than ever.
now the kids that will auto listen on music alone with hear what he has to say.
im on my 7th listen and the lyrics on this are even more scorching than tpab he's talking about the exact same thing just more in your face with it
TPAB is major, has a footnote in my rap history, based on my religion (hiphop), this doesn't. Not a chapter nor a ripple.
Agree to disagree. It's cool, but that's about it. And that's being generous.
TPAB is major, has a footnote in my rap history, based on my religion (hiphop), this doesn't. Not a chapter nor a ripple.
Agree to disagree. It's cool, but that's about it. And that's being generous.
It's not being generous lol
The funny thing is, the subject matter is exactly the same the sonic sounds of it is different. that is literally the ONLY difference between this and TPAB
and if you don't like the way it sounds cool. You have a type of sound you're looking for and this wasn't it no harm no foul.
But we not gonna reduce the concepts and the lyrics of the album. Sound is a major aspect so if it's not for you that's OK.
It is for me though. Finally. Updated sound with truth to power lyrics
Every song about uplifting and calling people out and all the other topics he broached doesn't have to sound like we going to church or preachy, you can dance to it.
Be Humble.
Tell him.
He didn't tell me anything and actually what he said doesn't correspond and dispute what i said at all; and the funny thing is there's no one on this earth who doesn't value someone else's opinion regardless of what it is and/or who it is.....
I've had this album on repeat all day. It's on while I'm at home, in the car running errands, in my headphones while I'm waiting at the car wash. This album is flames. Not as good as GKMC and TPAB, but It's the best of 2017. Pride, XXX, and Duckworth >>>>>>
Dope album..Yah, DNA and FEAR are my favorites
he's 7/7
he's 7/7
I like this song in a capsule. Like some of the records on the album. Not really feeling it as a whole. It's taxing. Don't see it as "progress." Think his last album may be the summit.
‘DAMN.’ Decoded: Kendrick Lamar’s Album is About Breaking the Curse of Disobedience
By Yoh | 7 minutes ago
Only Hevven Art
Gone but not forgotten, homes I still feel ya
So, curse the day that birthed the bastard
Who caused your church mass, reverse the crash
Reverse the blast then reverse the car
Reverse the day and there you are, Bobalob
Lord forgive him, we all have sinned - Jay Z ("Lucifer")
There’s no second album, let’s kill that theory now. Resurrection isn’t coming on Easter Sunday. Don’t allow the internet conspiracy community to get your hopes up. Instead of wait around for what isn’t coming, let's deep dive into what Kendrick has already given us.
DAMN. is an album rooted in God, the book of Deuteronomy, and trying to break the curse of damnation. "Curse" is one of the most recurring words on the album and the key to unlocking the overall concept. I have to thank John Noire, a DJBooth contributing writer, who brought to my attention many of the components that built this theory. It takes more than one mind to analyze and decipher such a project mere hours after its release.
“FEAR.” is the most important song on the album, beginning with the voicemail from cousin Carl. He calls Kendrick to remind him, "we are cursed people” and to leave him with the Deuteronomy 28:28 scripture: “The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart.” In the book of Deuteronomy, chapters 27 and 28 focus on the blessings and curses of disobedience for those who keep and break the laws of Moses.
Cousin Carl is the same Carl from “YAH.,” the album’s second song. “I’m a Israelite, don't call me black no more, that word is only a color, it ain’t facts no more, My cousin Carl, my cousin Carl Duckworth said know my worth and Deuteronomy say that we all be cursed,” Kendrick raps. He alludes early on about the teachings of his cousin and the curse that Deuteronomy spoke of to the people of Israel. Kendrick sees himself as a descendant of Black Hebrew Israelites but focuses on the curse of disobedience instead of the blessings of obedience. For context, “Yah” is likely short for Yahweh―the name and pronunciation of God in Hebrew.
“FEAR.” walks us through three stages of fear―the fear of his mother at the age of 7, the fear of death as an adolescent at the age of 17, and all the fears brought on by his newfound fame and fortune at the age of 27. In the Bible, the numbers three and seven both represent completeness.
Pay close attention to the closing verse:
I'm talkin' fear, fear of losin' loyalty from pride
'cause my DNA won't let me involve in the light of God
I'm talkin' fear, fear that my humbleness is gone
I'm talkin' fear, fear that love ain't livin' here no more
I'm talkin' fear, fear that it's wickedness or weakness
“Loyalty,” “Pride,” “DNA,” Humble,” “Love” and “Fear” are all track titles and themes explored throughout the project. This section defines his approach to each―”DNA” questions if his genetic makeup as a cursed Israelite will keep him out the house of God. There’s nothing humble about “HUMBLE.,” hence the fear that he has lost his sense of modesty. He's crying for loyalty on "LOYALTY." but on “PRIDE.,” he's frank about not trusting people enough to put his faith in them. Kendrick raps about the “perfect world” on “PRIDE.,” and it's worth noting how pride is the original sin that got Adam and Eve banished from the Garden of Eden. Collectively, DAMN. focuses on Kendrick’s fears that could lead him to damnation. By acknowledging them, he hopes to overcome them. The outro to "FEAR." is how God has damned us all. Damn is defined as, "Condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell." At the beginning of “BLOOD.,” the album's intro, there’s a question posed: “Is it weakness or wickedness?”
Fear, what happens on Earth stays on Earth
And I can't take these feelings
With me so hopefully they disperse
Within fourteen tracks, carried out over wax
Searchin' for resolutions until somebody get back
Fear, what happens on earth stays on earth
And I can't take these feelings with me
So hopefully they disperse
Within fourteen tracks, carried out over wax
Wonderin' if I'm livin' through fear or livin' through rap - Kendrick Lamar ("Fear")
This question is important because of cousin Carl’s closing voicemail on “FEAR.,” which was excluded from the leaked version of the album and what, I believe, Sounwave referenced in a tweet about it not being the official version. The voicemail is critical to understanding the concept of curses. Carl preaches that until the world comes back to the commandments, laws, and statutes stated in the book of Deuteronomy, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native American Indians, the true children of Israel, will continue to be chastised. To take it back to “YAH.,” in the last verse, Kendrick says, “And Deuteronomy say that we all been cursed, I know he walks the earth, but it’s money to get, bitches to hit, Yah!, Zeroes to flip, temptation is Yah!.” This is Kendrick’s way of acknowledging he believes in the curse but that he also can’t help but stay distracted by earthly pleasures. This line brings to question: is it inner weakness or wickedness that keeps people from following the commandments, laws, and statutes? Kendrick goes to great lengths to see if he can overcome the elements of his DNA—the elements that raised him and the elements of his fame—to truly rise above.
The story told on “DUCKWORTH” about Anthony and Ducky is significant because it explores the circumstance of living in a mad city, surrounded by wickedness and weakness. Anthony was from the city and he saw the madness, but as Kendrick states, “Adaption, inevitable.” He goes on to detail gun violence, crack spots, and federal policies. He came from a family of pimps and gang bangers, it was in his DNA to be dangerous. Ducky wasn’t innocent—he did his share of hustling—but also worked at the KFC to help feed his family. A KFC that Anthony had previously stuck up, hence the possibility of another robbery. Knowing this, Ducky was kind to Anthony, giving him free food and extras as a peace offering. As Kendrick states in the song, that one act of kindness saved two lives. “That one decision change both of they lives, one curse at a time, Reverse the manifest the good karma and I’ll tell you why, you take two strangers and put ‘em in random predicaments, Give ‘em a soul, so they could make their own choices,” he raps, building up to the revelation that Anthony (Tiffith) would later become TDE’s CEO and Ducky was his father.
They overcame wickedness and weakness and by choosing to do the right thing, good karma impacted the future. That is Kendrick's way of saying, you can overcome your circumstance and be a good person and a good soul in a maad world. I believe that’s why the album rewinds, to ask the question again: “Is it weakness or wickedness?” We can reverse what happens by employing free will and the decisions we chose to make. The more you choose to follow a lifestyle that further you away from God, the more likely you are to be damned for eternity.
The deeper I dive, the more DAMN. sounds like a man confronting his vices until he’s back in God’s good graces. He understands what could cause him to lose his life, hence his death at the album’s beginning. The blind trigger woman is the curse that will take him down if he doesn’t confront the weakness and wickedness within himself. Repentance and forgiveness are also in the book of Deuteronomy, highlighting the importance of following the commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law. Kendrick has previously stated that TPAB was written for God. Essentially, it was his repentance album. Could untitled unmastered be inspired by the Book of Revelations and DAMN. by the Book of Deuteronomy? I believe so.
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” - Book of Deuteronomy
Jay Z’s last verse on “Lucifer” wishes to reverse the crash that took the life of his nephew. What if Kendrick is trying to reverse the circumstance that will ultimately bring his downfall? Cousin Carl is his voice of faith, keeping him from falling under Lucy’s temptation. He made the blind woman a woman for a reason. In 2016, Kendrick released the short film, God Is Gangsta. The seven-minute long visual combines the songs “u” and “For Sale?” from To Pimp A Butterfly. I’ve seen a few fans on social media point out the way God Is Gangsta connects to DAMN., and this connection is spot on. “For Sale?” is the introduction to Lucy, and visually, God Is Gangsta represents the devil’s temptation to lure Kendrick in a room full of lusty women. The video ends with Kendrick on a bridge, taking a walk at night. “BLOOD.,” meanwhile, begins with Kendrick encountering the blind woman while on a walk. There are no coincidences in Kendrick’s world. It’s also wild that an act of kindness kills Kendrick, while an act of kindness kept his father safe.
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“What happens on Earth stays on Earth,” is the mantra that recurs again and again on the album. I believe it’s a reminder that our time on this planet is short, so not to hold onto earthly possessions. That includes feelings, hence why Kendrick is sharing all of this with the world.
Kendrick is a conflicted man, dealing with all these emotions while trying to get closer to his savior despite feeling cursed to be damned. There’s so much to unpackage, explore, and decipher on this album, I haven't really even scratched the surface. The album is deeply spiritual, rooted in a man who is on Earth and worried about his spirit burning for an eternity. The urgent nature of this album, which Kendrick alluded to in an interview before its release, has to do with the state of the world, the worship of men as God, and trying to open minds to the curse and the blessings stated in Deuteronomy.
I’m standing firm on my belief that Kendrick doesn’t have a second album coming later this weekend. We need weeks, months, and maybe years to sit with this one. While I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting, I highly recommended playing DAMN. on repeat and searching for the deeper meanings hiding between the margins.
Heart beat racing like a junkie's
I just need you to want me
Am i asking too much?
Let me put the head in.....
I just need you to want me
Am i asking too much?
Let me put the head in.....
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