Social media is really driving us crazy. It’s triggering all types of anxiety and creating more insecurities and fears. It’s even creating new mental disorders. We got to figure this thing out. From what I’m seeing it’s very unhealthy for us if not balanced correctly.
Cole is a very genuine guy. I respect it. We often give in to external pressures and outside influences and act out of our own character. It’s rare to have enough heart to make the correction. It didn’t align with HIM so he fixed it in the same manner he engaged. Salute 🙏🏽
I had a conversation with Jay Z during the process of “to pimp a butterfly”. I told him “we are about to drop this album that’s going to challenge and possibly piss off our fan base”, he said “good! Do it now, and they’ll never be able to put y’all in a box”. He was right.
I’m reading comments. Smh. You ppl are nasty. Disconnect from the internet for awhile and get some air and sunlight. Go talk to ppl in person. It’ll help your perspective in regards to life.
We need to talk about more things in our music. I can’t keep listening to us describe different watch brands how much a cars cost. It’s literally money, car, watch, girl, money, end verse.
So I understand the polarity with Kanye’s album. On 3rd listen it’s not really an album at all to me. It’s more of a play or a musical. A performance piece. I get the stadium listening sessions now. It’s an experience.
Roddy Ricch: "Music isn’t gonna be progressive when you’re putting something out every three months, because you ain’t been through nothing... I have to give myself time to actually go through things so I can speak on it & have a new understanding of life”
Jay Z is THE G.O.A.T…. Not A Goat but THE G.O.A.T…. I can’t listen to this man’s verses and then listen to what’s going on currently and say it’s good. Celebrating mediocrity stops right now.
The current rap climate got me realizing a lot of you music industry ppl are Kdot haters. lol you telling me you niggas been secretly hating ALL this time! 😂
We dropped this 15 song “Ep” 10 years ago today! It changed our trajectory forever. This was Kdot introducing Kendrick Lamar to the world. The Kendrick Lamar EP.
#TDE
Please don’t lose the feeling in your artistry. You can see it in a artist eyes when the feeling is gone. Don’t let the business or nothing else taint your artistry... please.
PS Da Canadian got nikkaz leavin 🇺🇸 and it ain’t been 24 hours… Lil weaux ✈️ to New Zealand to go hiking you could’ve did that in Runyon weaux
#DontSNOOZEandMissDaMoment
#DropAndGimme50
Y’all really want that album still??? Like for real? I think it would great for hip hop. I did my part though. I spoke to both of them. Hit them niggas!
“I can’t help myself I think I need some help...” this was Mac’s adlib on Soul’s Record “D.R.U.G.S”. Reach out to your ppl man. Hit your loves ones right now.
There is no new SZA album out. Old songs were stolen and leaked. We are currently fixing the issue. Please feel free to continue enjoying Ctrl until the next album is ready.
-Punchino from TDE
Blank Face is one of the best hip hop albums ever. Wildly underrated. What
@ScHoolboyQ
did lyrically sonically and visually was phenomenal. 5 years later it still holds up.
Wait.. so you want me to be concerned about another grown man’s sex life?? Is that what you’re really interested in? As oppose to having a dialogue about music??
And in my humble opinion I feel Jay Z is the bar and will be the bar until he decides to stop. I don’t ever see him “falling off” because he thinks progressively. A lot of his counterparts he came up with sound dated. They stopped growing. He mastered forward thinking.
LEAKING MY MUSIC IS STEALING . THIS IS MY JOB . THIS IS MY LIFE AND MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. YOU ARE A FUCKING THIEF AND I PROMISE TO PUT MAXIMUM ENERGY INTO HOLDING EVERYONE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW . I AM TIRED .
Wow you guys think it’s pretty easy to make quality albums huh? It’s not easy when you actually care about what you say and how you say it and what it sound like.
It’s crazy watching ppl defend the Brother Nature nigga right off top. I guess because the nigga feed animals he’s above starting some nonsense. He was the aggressor and ended up in the fetal position. Just wait for a sec.
Don’t wait for ppl to believe in you or what you’re doing. Even the ones closest to you. They usually don’t believe until they see others believe anyway. Lock in and go!
Never forgot who u are. Stay who u are on the inside. Don’t allow outside influences to penetrate your core values. The Rock in Lake Theory. No matter how long a rock sit in a lake surrounded by murky, influential waters, if u crack it open it’ll still be dry inside. Stay solid.
It’s an amazing feeling watching DAMN and Ctrl alternate between the 1 and 2 spot on all of these year end list. 2 different artist, 2 different POVs, 2 genres, 2 different concepts, female and male. So dope all around.
I'm an urban legend
South Central in a certain section
Can't express how I curbed detectives
Guess it's... evidence of a divine presence
Blessings, help me out at times I seem reckless
- The Great Nipsey Hussle
I’m curious. No disrespect, just a thought… Machine Gun Kelly do Tickets To My Downfall and it’s alternative rock. Tyler do Igor and it’s still rap… Though he didn’t really rap on it. How?
Dave Chappelle is genius. His superpower is giving you the full context so that you get the overall message. And you remember that message because the punchline is so effective.
It’s crazy being surrounded by lyricist, you forget that that’s not what everyone else is doing. The responses to Jay Elect’s album reminded me of that. It shows how much ppl miss words, and metaphors, and imagery, and complex rhymes, and deeper content etc...