cobl04
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his review of All Day is fucking hilarious.
if iyup does not listen to this immediately i will kill him
Maybe not immediately but I did get a chance to hear it today. Cobbs, I do get a certain Flying Lotus vibe from much of the production (there's a liquidity to it, for lack of a better term), and the jazz element is super classy. It moves nicely between soul, jazz, and funk - I'm immediately reminded of Miles' On the Corner for several of these tracks.
I would point out Institutionalized, How Much a Dollar, and Blacker the Berry as highlights, but I think my favorite part is the poem/interview at the very end, especially where the pure spoken word bit is gradually surrounded with the jazz band. Really inventive shit there, and moving as well.
Maybe this is premature, but this album reminded me a hell of a lot of Black Messiah, both in subject matter and general vibe. There's a bit of a social evangelism going on in both that is firmly rooted in a sense of African-American consciousness and activism.
I'm male, straight, white and middle-class, so I'm in a group of people that is the most privileged the world has ever known, so it's hard for me to empathise a lot of these situations. All I can do is sympathise
A lot of people have said this seems like a successor to Section.80 but I don't really get that. I love Section.80 as well but that wasn't nearly as genre-bending as To Pimp a Butterfly.
Hood Politics has become my favorite song on this. The last first is where it's at.This album already has all of the acclaim the word can offer:
Reviews for To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar - Metacritic
Now I want it to get some sales. With physical sales added in, I think it may do 400k first week, which is great, but something this great deserves better.
If Hood Politics isn't the next single, TDE fucked up. It has one of the few beats that would sound good on the radio and it's so fucking quotable:
I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo boo
Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo
Lil hoes you went to school with, boo boo
Baby mama and your new bitch? BOO BOO.
They give us guns and drugs, call us thugs
Make it they promise to fuck with you
No condom they fuck with you
Obama say, "What it do?"
Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin’
Motherfucker if you did, then Killer Mike'd be platinum
I want to bump this shit every day.