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Originally Posted by louder
Yeah, it's probably not BETTER, but I prefer it. Feel more emotional attachment to it anyway. "Kill Jay Z" and "Smile" and "Marcy Me" hit the spot for me.
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Oh hell yeah, it's a spot-hitter for me too. Big time. It's full of just moment after moment of powerful, resonant beats and turns of phrase. Almost like Graduation, really. It reminds me of that album with its condensed, tight, non-stop high kind of vibe. No skits, no slow moments, no pauses or skippable tracks.
DAMN. is Kendrick's least dense album in a while, but it's still very Fucking dense and heavy emotionally. There's a lot to unpack there. And I love it, and it's my album of the year so far, but I can see how 4:44 is more ear candy. I find myself skipping tracks on DAMN. even though I love all of them (except "LOYALTY," which I just don't get), because I get into the vibe of the first few tracks. They're intense as hell, and then it goes on this odyssey, and snaps back into focus with DUCKWORTH. So I'm usually in the mood for either the first half or the second half, or I just listen to BLIND/DNA and then DUCKWORTH on Fucking repeat
But yes, I totally feel you. I still like DAMN. better, but 4:44 is hot shit. "Caught their eyes" and "Moonlight" and "Kill Jay Z" are my favorite tracks.
Side note: I am *positive* that NR will love this based on our previous conversations about our preferences in hip-hop, and how he and I both dig the big euphoric shit, which is why we fucked with TLOP right out the gate, and why we both struggled with the complex, labyrinthine aggro-jazz of TPAB (though I eventually found a spot for it, and maybe he didn't).