Truth Nation: Kendrick Lamar
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Gosh, where do I even begin?
Kendrick Lamar looks like an idiotic pinheaded 5'4 person whose face has stopped maturing ever since he was 12.
Now that I am done with that and have slayed and exposed the whackness and hypocrisy that is Hopsin one million years ago, I will now slay upon the overrated cliche the Hip Hop world likes to call "Kendrick Lamar". First off, I am going to begin by complementing and extracting the nice features Lamar has since he does deserve it after that controversial verse in "Control" (What's a Big Sean?). I love Lamar's uniqueness and how he mixes a variety of styles into one. I give credibility to his originality since very few rappers seems to be committing such action nowadays. He introduced a different feature the hip-hop world has never ever witnesses and has constructed such a large empire out of it.....up until Good Kid, Mad City dropped (gosh,that album was filled with effortless wordplay, weak beats, and corny hooks). I believe that Section.80 is a masterpiece and Lamar should've never signed to Aftermath Entertainment. His Control verse went total boss, but there are some bugs needed to be fixed (those bugs are going to be explained in just a minute).
But the truth of the matter is, folks, that Kendrick receives a wee-bit too much credibility than he actually deserves for a rapper this young in the rap game. I absolutely awe in irony whenever someone claims that Lamar IS the future of hip-hop and that Lamar IS the best rapper alive and the he delivers the best lyricism when in reality, he is just as whack as those swag fack rappers you hear on the radio.
Why, you ask?
Kendrick Lamar mostly rhymes with words that are 1-2 syllables. His raps merely depend on the end line and does not commit to anything special within the line. All of Kendrick Lamar's songs are specifically like this.
I’m standing in a field full of land mines, doing the moonwalk hoping I blow up in time
I’m 23 with morals and plans of living cordial, not rich but wealthy, there’s nothing you can tell me
I tell you motha$%&@ers that life is full of hydraulics, Ups and downs, get a 6-4 better know how to drive it
I know to follow Him instead of following people or follow vanity, cause that means I’m following evil, guess I’m following evil, I shall follow
cathedral, blessings I need but live like I don’t need You
I tell my !@#$%* ‘front me, let me put it on the strip’, then give it back when I think about the consequence
Tell Wayne to swallow his pride , yall !@#$%* talking that jive
That kind of style really bugs and bores the hell out of me. Yes, there are indeed times where his wordplay is great, but most of the time, his format of lyricism and flow really are just as the same as those I have pointed out.
If your raps depend on end lines (lines that only rhyme with the word at the end of the line), then writing a rap verse is so $%&@in easy which really eliminates the challenge and the beauty of rap.
For example:
I be in the club drinkin alcohol !@#$/
Then I turn around and $%&@ on this !@#$%*/
Now, let us use STRATEGY to improve this line:
Walk into the club, gobbling bottle after bottle/
Talk like I dont give a $%&@, vommitin the !@#$% of this model/
See the difference? The last one has a different flow that really becomes fresh and anew, but it is really difficult trying to write it so 
.
Not to mention the really annoying same-word rhyming scheme 
. Example? The epic (as most would say) "Control" Verse.
I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you !@#$%*
Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you !@#$%*
They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from u !@#$%*
I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you !@#$%*
Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you !@#$%*
They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from u !@#$%*
I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you !@#$%*
Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you !@#$%*
They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from u !@#$%*
I got love for you all but Im tryna murder you !@#$%*
Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you !@#$%*
They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you !@#$%*
Those are one of the few "legendary" lines of the oh-so "game-changing" verse. I do get that the passion, flow, and voice of that verse is what made the verse epic, but for the most part, people were not calling that verse as it was supposed to be called; it was instead accused of being lyrical and having a smart wordplay. The only time my ears had an orgasm while listening to a verse of Kendrick's was when he spit his alcapella in Game's song, "The City". In that track, Kendrick flows. Kendrick rhymes with larger words instead of the same old end-rhyme scheme. Kendrick's verse achieved to create a tune for itself that it did not even need to be extorted in a rap song with a beat. If he repeatedly raps like he has in "The City", maybe, just maybe, I will include myself as a fan of Kendrick Lamar and consider him great, but sadly, he does not.
Now that I have outlined that Lamar's lyricism is not that impressive and is the same as that of a swag fack rapper, Lamar is a bit of a hypocrite himself. He does not reach the great bar of hypocrisy as Hopsin has set in the rap world, but he still has set a bar anyhow. In the rap game, it is all about being the best emcee. At first, the emcee's purpose was to support the DJ and rep him as well. As time went by, the emcee started making a name for him/herself, thus rap was born. But rapping was not enough. The emcee was growing simultaneously and there were so many that the emcee had to prove himself the best out of them all, thus beef was born. The one thing you absolutely do not do while dissing someone is contradict/diss yourself. For example,
New !@#$%* just new !@#$%*, dont get involved
Ummm.... Lamar is comparing himself to legends that have stayed relevant to the rap game (mentioned right before this bar in the track) for over ten years then has the nerve to vociferate the up and coming rappers to not get involved in hip-hop when his debut album (or the first album that made Lamar relevant and popular in the rap game) was released in October 22, 2012! If he is insisting for the new, up and coming rappers to not get involved in the rap game, then isn't Kendrick himself supposed to be excluded as well since he does fall into that exact category he disses in the song?
As I have said, I do admire Kendrick Lamar's new take in rap and do believe that he went hard in "Control", but the bad actions he does in the rap game and the immense cocksucking he receives is too much for a guy who is not even as lyrical nor metaphorical nor experienced as everyone claims he is. Deuces.
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