**Official Kendrick Lamar Thread 4th Studio Album ''DAMN.''Out Now**

[wrightone86]

Listened to Untitled 2 again

Going to have to youtube to mp3 that one 

Kornrow Kenny 

Level 2, level 2, no I'm not done

I'm 'bout to let my hair down on ****

You aint got to tell me that I am the 1

I can put a rapper on life support 

He hasn't even reached his final form yet though 

 
Yes, that song was amazing and others said that J Cole's Black Friday song was better. J Cole is an amazing artist as well but Kendrick's song was otherworldly.

Yea I like them both and they both came with it. Kendrick had the edge between the 2 in my mind though. 

 

[The Fresh Prince]

 
Listened to Untitled 2 again

Yea I like them both and they both came with it. Kendrick had the edge between the 2 in my mind though. 

Without a doubt Kendrick has one, J Cole doesn't go deep into subject matter like J Cole and he also uses Drake "Subject matters" like females and relationships but not that much as Drake.  That is what appeals to this generation which is why some people will choose J Cole over Kendrick sometimes. Kendrick reminds me so much of Tupac and Nas, he's trying to bring rap back to it's golden age.

 

[wrightone86]

 
Without a doubt Kendrick has one, J Cole doesn't go deep into subject matter like J Cole and he also uses Drake "Subject matters" like females and relationships but not that much as Drake.  That is what appeals to this generation which is why some people will choose J Cole over Kendrick sometimes. Kendrick reminds me so much of Tupac and Nas, he's trying to bring rap back to it's golden age.

I definitely get the Pac vibe from Kendrick in his songs as well. 

I saw comment, I believe on that YT video for Untitled 2 and it was pretty accurate. It said that we should just call him an artist instead of a rapper. His performances, videos and songs are too deep to be just considered another rap song. 

 

[wrightone86]

Someone broke down the song in their opinion and I think they did a good job with it:

 So here's my take on it.

money is the general theme of the song. go listen to it again. first verse (which he also rapped on a funkadelic song "aint that funkin kinda hard on you") is CLEARLY about money. there's no need to really explain that verse but... First HOOK he says "getting new money and it's breaking me down to the top" which is him saying despite the money breaking him down emotionally, it also signifies that he must be doing something right cuz he's on top.

Second verse he talks about his home girl who has a credit card scam and doesn't want to take the scholarship to go to college. Instead she goes for some fast money rather than spend 4+ years in college ("365x4 plus more") ("but aint no money like fast money") The following hook is, again, about kendrick not being happy despite having so much money. ("Walking around with blue faces.") There's a double meaning there. Blue faces, in the hip hop community is the new hundred dollar bills with the blue line on them. Blue face also signifies sadness/depression; hence the line "walking around with blue faces. Ever heard the expression "why so blue?"

THIRD verse he meets a man (I'm guessing in south africa or in the hood) who talks about their contrast in lifestyle. He raps lines like " say you sold crack, my whole world amphetamine" or " your projects aint ****, I live in a hut" or " we all came on the boat looking for hope but all you can say is you lookin for dope" (dope, maybe to deal with his depression, idk) "these days aint no compromise. your pain aint mines half the time" "your brand new excuse aint nothing to me, see i made my moves with shackled feet." I see that as the man saying "why are you so sad and how can you complain when you have all this money and a privileged life and I'm living like this."

The last verse is self explanatory. 

Also check rap genius Ps.

Can't believe I actually wrote all this.

 

[The Fresh Prince]

 
I definitely get the Pac vibe from Kendrick in his songs as well. 

I saw comment, I believe on that YT video for Untitled 2 and it was pretty accurate. It said that we should just call him an artist instead of a rapper. His performances, videos and songs are too deep to be just considered another rap song. 

True, but I consider him a rapper/artist.

 

[abematic]

J Cole's is more of a song song.. 

Kendrick is more of a rap lyrical exercise..

 

[Remy LeBeau]

I prefer not to compare the two artist

 

[flatbushfiyah23]

Mp3 of Untitled 2 has been on constant repeat.

 

[ciscokid]

Watched last nite **** gave me chills

 

[SoleByThePound]

I prefer not to compare the two artist

Everyone should follow suit and do the same.

 

[MVP]

Hip hop at its very core is about competition. See nothing wrong with comparisons. Cole is a great rapper in his own right, it's a different style though. K. Dot has a combination of content and aggressiveness that hasn't been seen since the glory days of the 90s.

 

[wrightone86]

Went back and listened to the first one on the Colbert Report 

They said he literally wrote the song the day before he performed it and has never been recorded and the only copy of it is on the Colbert Report Show?! 

http://www.stereogum.com/1790227/th...rt-hasnt-been-recorded-wont-be-released/news/

Way before the frenzy surrounding  the release of To Pimp A Butterfly  erupted, Kendrick Lamar caused another mini-stir when he performed a moving, untitled, jazzy, funky song as the last musical guest on The Colbert Report. One of his collaborators on the song (and extensively on Butterfly  and elsewhere), Terrace Martin, already talked about how Lamar wrote the song the day before they performed it, but now he’s confirmed that the song has never been recorded aside from the live performance.

“It don’t even exist nowhere in the world,” Martin told Complex, “except on The Colbert Report.” Martin said the song was intended to be “just a moment” and won’t see a commercial release at all.

I definitely did not realize it was a scenario like that. I figured these were songs he had in the back pocket that he either didn't think made the cut, were out of place for an album, or like you guys mentioned, over time will be it's own project or something. 

Definitely an interesting setup. I wonder if he will do this for any live performance he does on shows like this...

 

[flatbushfiyah23]

I actually found out a few months after the first untitled performance that he wrote the day before and I was so amazed at how well he arranged that song. I wonder if that was the case with this latest performance.

 

[wrod7]

while untitled 1 + untitled 2 being two amazing songs, I hope Kenny preforms during the grammys and tops it with untitled 3 or event just preform both 1 + 2 I would be happy.

 

[jthagreat]

King Kendrick g ^

 

[ciscokid]

I was proud as hell when my son asked me to play alright. But now he won't let me play anything else and wants to listen to it over and over and over

 

[$tacy]

I was proud as hell when my son asked me to play alright. But now he won't let me play anything else and wants to listen to it over and over and over

Kids got a bright future

 

[htg designs]

Just played my ripped version of Untitled 2 ...

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

View media item 1866843make me feel like all the other noise on the radio isn't even music

 

[dominikin]

wow he popped off on that untitled 2 track. I have been following since section 80 since NT fam put me on to it. Glad he has grown up to the artist he is today. 

 

[delete]

Untitled 2 :x damn he's not playing around anymore

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Dude was inhabited by a spirit on that Fallon performance. Good grief 

 

[AEA18]

Untitled 2

Hope that Kendrick x Cole album actually happens

 

[MVP]

The homie Big Quint... 

 

 

[sea manup]

Wow...

 kilt it 

 

[$tacy]

U really can't tell me he's not the best right now. I can't take anyone who says otherwise serious.