Neither Young Thug nor Nicki Minaj are anywhere close to the "best thing to happen to rap in years".
Look, I don't have a problem with Young Thug, but he's just another guy doing the same thing Future got famous for. Using a weird voice and weird flow over some nice beats. This trend will pass on by in the mainstream, probably by the end of the year and we likely won't hear from Young Thug much anymore.
My issue is Stereogum, and other indie sites, posting stuff like this and completely excluding things that hip-hop heads are actually getting excited over. If blogs want to post mainstream stuff like this, be my guest, but I think it should be better counter-balanced.
This was better live, in large part because of the way Imagine Dragons came in so hard after Kendrick's remix verse, this version doesn't have that at all since it just uses the exact same chorus from the normal song. It's kind of a weird transition.
This is about as good as an Imagine Dragons/Kendrick Lamar collaboration could ever dream of being and I think they should be commended for that. This could have been really, really bad.
It was amazing how much better that song of his got when Gary Clark Jr started singing it instead of the Australian guy who inexplicably has a "country" accent.
Look you're probably right but maybe we should at least wait until the entire album comes out to make that judgment? I thought their debut had quite a few good songs on it.
Yes who can hate on such lyrical gems as "Take me to the Hamptons/Bugatti Veyron" and "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it, it's a fact, kiss kiss"
I'm convinced Ryan Tedder is some kind of evil genius. The number of OneRepublic songs that I feel like I should hate that I LOVE is way too damn high.
Before you get excited about Kendrick performing, keep in mind that the geniuses who decide how this show is going to go thought it would be a good idea to throw Imagine fucking Dragons on stage with him.
Yeah except in this case it looks like they told her if she finished the album before the summer, which she apparently did, then they would release the album by the end of the year. They failed to do that so she did it herself. I'm 100% behind her on this one.
Not to mention March is an awful time to drop a hip-hop album. March is usually when hip-hop releases really start get going. Releasing in March and not have either a bunch of buzz or an amazing project means you're going to get overlooked soon. Just look how quickly people seemed to forget about King Remembered in Time this past year.
I know he's like the number one hitmaker in terms of hip-hop now and he's starting to crossover into pop but after hearing his beats steadily for the past two years or so, it's getting old. He doesn't have a great deal of variety in his sound, I don't anticipate his solo album being particularly interesting. But I'm sure it'll be loaded with hits.
I think it has as much to do with indie blogs' collective obsession with Arcade Fire as much as anything. Yes, there was a big roll out campaign for Reflektor, but there are big roll out campaigns for albums all the time that no one pays much attention to, at least not around here or around the indie music blogowebsiteosphere. Not to say Arcade Fire hasn't done enough to deserve this obsession, they've released four extremely memorable and well-loved albums, but when every time you log on to a music news website whether it be Stereogum, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, Spin, wherever, you see something about Arcade Fire. It tends to wear on you after a while, at least it did for me.
I guess oversaturation in the media is the TL;DR version of what I'm trying to say.
Drake needs to STAHP. He's the only idiot on the list of rappers that Kendrick named that's dumb enough to take it as a diss. And he won't even fire back directly, he has to resort to petty little subliminals.
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