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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
SNOB!
i was listening to “damn” on this morning’s hike, and i like the music. but i found that the least i understand the words, the more i like the whole thing. the beats and loops and samples etc.— great. the way he applies words to the beat like an instrument is great too.
but the words themselves not so much. i mean i get that what he’s saying is important for the culture. the guy is not in some rarefied dungeon of pure guitarness (or whatever) with his head up his ass— he’s talking about police killings and extermination and other serious shit. so, yeah, it’s important stuff, socially or whatever.
i’m just... ha ha ha im, i just... i don’t like the poetry slam i guess.
the shot though at the beginning fucking it shook my spine. twice.
ok.
what is “dna” about? i need a translator.
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I would need more time to talk through this with you in a way that does justice to the material.
But... YES! It’s amazing. It’s better than TPAB. It’s representative of a “moment” — not for hip-hop because SO much of it is SO shit — but for Kendrick. Who is now very realistically a Dylan figure for rap music.
“DNA.” is about what he is and what he’s supposed to be. Half of what he says is deliberately mercurial, about a quarter is genuine answer-seeking, and the rest is him reflecting back at the world what he thinks the world wants him to be.
The lyrics are good. They require multiple listens. The highlights are DNA and XXX and DUCKWORTH though. Those songs tell a story.
It’s the Finnegan’s Wake to TPAB’s Ulysses.
We’ll talk more later. No time. Gotta go waste my life writing poorly for a living. Right, boring ass? GD? Never mind, don’t care.