• Rx_Hawk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        Just because “mainstream” rap isn’t good doesn’t mean people haven’t constantly been releasing quality stuff.

        Also, Kendrick is pushing 40 and has been putting out music for 2 decades, so he’s not exactly a part of the younger generation of rappers.

        • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          2 months ago

          That’s certainly in his favor. I called him kid because he’s about 10 years younger than me and I was being cute

      • FungiDebord [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        i can’t tell the difference between a guy self-consciously doing conscious jazz rap, who deliberately positions himself as stylistic through-line to the 90s and puts himself in literal conversation with hiphop greats, and his “wack” contemporaries

        why pretend to be an old head – you can just say you’ve never, once, listened to hip hop lol

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          2 months ago

          I like what I’ve heard of Lamar so far. I like that stuff that sets him apart. It’s many of his contemporaries I don’t like.