Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers | BEST & WORST
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Discussing the dense & personal 5th studio album from Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Giving our BEST & WORST Lyrics, Features, Beats, Samples & Songs.
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My parents are big Kendrick fans, they’ve been singing We Cry Together all week
This song must’ve leaked or Kendrick must’ve stolen it from somewhere. My parents have been singing this for years before this album came out.
lmao
This comment is funny until it is sad
Oh buddy you’re cooked
Yeah uh I think they like the wrong song
n95 is actually a nod to dreams hit single "Mask"
Both are equally great songs
@@geckogeico2212 enough talking for you
kendrick acknowledging the real goat 🐐
@@geckogeico2212😦
Watching Riley and graydon have serious conversations is like watching two dogs eat cat food
what you failed to realize is that dogs dont give a shit and just love cat food
@@iked3702 that’s why it’s such a great analogy
I have no idea what this means but I completely understand what it means
Holy shit man I'm scrolling through all the comments. Just finished reading one, tearing up over one, talking about how important and powerful auntie diaries is. Then scroll and read this one and almost choke I busted out laughing so hard. This is the funniest shit I've seen all day god damn
Truth be told I think continuing this sort of "series" for upcoming albums, and really even albums that have already come out, would make for really nice content. Loving this style of video
totally agree! unsubscribed.
It’s almost like a podcast
thanks Lego Star Wars Yoda
100%
The clean version of We Cry Together is fucking hilairious by the way.
you,
nah, you,
you,
nah, you,
Nah bruh i listened to the clean one and didn’t realise until I got to that song 🥴
@@hamishcxnxry9133 You poor soul.
So funny - don’t know why they didn’t ad lib “stuff you” into the mix
@@droprelease4820 You know the remixes on RUclips are coming. There's so much empty space, people could even put Hivemind quotes in there since as Riley said, there's hundreds of hours of them just talking.
stanning hivemind isn’t just a hobby, it’s a lifestyle, a reason to breathe, an escape from this cruel world filled with thieves. it’s art
that dignan fella is pretty sexy too
It's testifying in court that dignan was not anywhere in Miami, Florida on July 23, 1994 and was in no way tied to any such ongoings that day
I love this comment section so much it's like on the 360th stage of irony
-Kendrick Lamar on “We Cry Together”
considering diggy is on record being a thief and I wouldn't be surprised if Riley and Graydon were accomplices, you might not be as far from thieves as you think.
if im being quite honest, the literal only way im going to the hivemind show on june 4th is if there's a half pipe & they do a rendition of weezer's say it ain't so. That shit would legitimately go hard asf
Say It Ain’t So but they both cover the backup vocals only
my piece on "auntie diaries" as a genderfluid person: his use of deadnaming, misgendering and slurs is an extremely effective method of storytelling, and it makes his critiques of transphobia within his family, the church and the wider culture of hip hop music much more effective in my eyes. if he simply made a song where he said "shout-out trans people, y'all have it hard and deserve rights" and used all the "correct" words, it wouldn't reach his target (cisgender, heterosexual, ignorant/uninformed) audience in the same way. in professor skye's review he says kendrick isn't SAYING f-bombs, but rather USING them, to specifically make the point that using that word as a non-queer person is wrong. i'd much rather listen to something like "auntie diaries" than any song by a cis artist who pays people like me lip service, but doesn't actually care about shifting the culture to become more accepting of us. i think the song will be remembered as one of kendrick's, and hip hop's, most important songs. for an artist of his stature to say trans rights are human rights so boldly means the fucking world to me.
couldn’t agree more. The first time I listened to it I was definitely thinking “this could’ve been done in a classier way” but the conversation itself isn’t classy. It’s real and it’s visceral and it’s so deeply personal that offense is inevitable in every party, and that’s something that is conveyed most realistically by a cishet man using slurs not meant for him out of ignorance. As soon as the last line hit, it clicked for me.
@@kait711 it's one of many moments on this album that initially had me scratching my head, before i realized the way he puts it into context. it happens over and over on this record, some of his best narrative and conceptual work ever
@@ThomAvella very true, there were many times where the lightbulb went on for me and it all made sense, and I think that surprise of putting the pieces together adds a lot to the experience and what made it so enjoyable for me personally.
I completely agree with you. But just to play devils advocate here, what if a white person made a song about black rights while using the n word. Btw I love auntie diaries I’m purely playing devils advocate
as a trans person, i agree. i gave it a listen before my first listen of the album, and was initially a little upset, but after hearing the song i realized how great it was and how much it could change people's minds. esp in the current climate for trans rights, it gave me hope. that being said i also think that queer ppl completely have to right to criticize/dislike the song
For the first 30 mins, this vid was jam-packed with jokes coming left and right. It was shaping up to be the funniest Hivemind vid ever, but when they made the very serious statement that Jack Harlow's album was better than Kendrick's, my chuckles immediately stopped. How can they have such a obvious and hard-hitting FACT in such a light-hearted video? Unsubscribed.
Deeply disappointed that this comedy special turned political, I really came here for a laugh, not to be force-fed food for thought 😑
Fair
Gosh dang. I’ve gained a new level of respect for these two. Not only is Hivemind one of the funniest, most entertaining RUclips channels out there, they’re also surprisingly academic, nuanced, thoughtful. Geez.
I will make a gentle correction: while Kendrick uses the phrase “auntie” in Auntie’s Diaries, he is in fact referring to his uncle, since he is AFAB/FTM. I know they know this but I fee it needed to be said
Some families choose to use the gendered familial term. Like still saying auntie because that person was always an aunt to you- engaging in gendered familial roles like cooking thanksgiving dinner, helping closely with child rearing of the mother etc. It's more up to the family. He may still see himself as the aunt to the children and understand his role as a sister to the mother. Just more nuanced than that sometimes.
@@AC-gd1pj that’s fair! I’ve certainly seen, for instance, nonbinary people refer to themselves in gendered ways with relation to their families. My point was less to say “Kendrick was absolutely utterly in the wrong for calling his uncle ‘Auntie’ in this song,” and more to say, “Hivemind probably should have called Kendrick’s uncle his uncle”
@@th.nd.r one hundred percent get your pov! Thanks for clarifying. I totally agree
@@th.nd.r Honestly I kinda struggled with that too cause the song says 'aunt' so much that my brain thought he was talking about a mtf aunt
as someone who has been a victim of sexual abuse more than once, I agree with Riley and Graydon that the Kodak feature really threw me through a loop. It made me question Kendrick and really scratch my head. "Did he really put Kodak on a song?" is along the lines of what I said. but after I listen to the album, the song, and the overall theme of this album, I think it was a masterclass move. Kendrick picked Kodak SO we could have the conversation Riley and Graydon are having, discussing if it was a good idea or not. Can we ever reach the point where we can see past the abuser, and see an abused person themselves? I really appreciated the thought Kendrick put behind it, and I have a real appreciation for the choice for the album. plus, that song is fucking fire.
Patiently waiting for the follow up retrospective video with Riley and Dignan’s passionate cover of “we cry together”
you outta pocket
I’d watch it
ends the same way too
this album was incredible. I honestly don’t listen to a ton of rap, not my go-to genre, but this album has been on repeat for me since it came out. I’m really glad it’s generating so many conversations about the subject material
Though it’s cool, this is basically what happens every time he drops. They analyze these albums like Bible study
@@enshen2190 I feel like that’s pretty deserved in a case like this. Each track is about a separate deeply personal subject, and while that’s more or less the point of most music, it’s kinda rare to hear such prolific artists discuss these current day issues in such a real way. Idk I love analyzing music and I think there’s a lot to be discussed in this album that normally could be seen as “taboo” talk
@@kait711 yeah
I don’t like it
@@Drooploop cool
Really appreciate how you guys talked about Auntie Diaries, it's been exhausting to see a lot of people paint any criticism of Kendrick's approach to the lyrics as being "too sensitive" or just an attempt to demonize a black man.
As for Kodak's inclusion, I understand why he's here but it falls flat when Kodak himself hasn't shown anything to suggest that he's trying to be better. Trauma can help explain behaviour but doesn't excuse it.
I don't really think it matters if Kodak changes in all honestly because I think Kendrick uses him as a mold for other people to fit in. Or like a question could you believe someone like Kodak could change for the better? I think Kodak fits into that mold but it's not really about his sole situation. I don't think he should ever be forgiven for what he has done and Kendrick doesn't either, it's more about taking everything you are and everything you have done whether it's good or bad and trying to live a way you and other people can accept and be happy with. And whether Kodak follows the path Kendrick did or not I still think a point like that can stand with all the other people it connects with.
agreed
Yeah, the Kodak thing is difficult to grapple with. I think Kendrick's intent with his inclusion on the album had the potential to be powerful, but I agree about it falling flat--there are other ways to make an example of or have a conversation about intergenerational trauma rather than giving a platform, exposure and (arguably) an attempted redemption arc to an abuser. I get that Kendrick is getting us to question our biases but if you're a grown ass adult, you are responsible for your actions and no one else, trauma-informed or not.
"Trauma can help explain behaviour but doesn't excuse it" is literally a PERFECT of summing up what i feel is the missing final step with Kodak's inclusion. I think it would have worked 1000x better if Kodak was actively addressing his past and taking accountability but without that it kinda feels hollow
I personally really struggle to agree with Kendricks decision to include Kodak in the album. As they said in the video, it’s understandable given the context but I feel like Kodaks inclusion didn’t provide a nuanced take. Kodak himself didn’t mention his evolution as a person after experiencing these things so I found that without thinking more deeply into the reason he was there it came off as tone deaf to have him there. Overall the album was beautiful and something so different from anything Kendrick has released but that was an element of it I struggled with.
Real talk, this channel is hilarious and I love your dumbass energy but serious conversations like these really bring out just how genuinely smart and socially aware you guys are. I love nerding out over commentary related to music and this series shows your natural knack for that and how seamlessly you can go from keeping a light atmosphere to treating topics with the severity they deserve. Very well done, love this series so far.
Last note- I’m lgbtq+ and you’ve had the classiest commentary on auntie diaries I’ve seen so far. Really means a lot :)
I feel like Auntie Diaries also serves as a confession of Kendrick's past use of the f-slur by using the word in that song. By facing the backlash that he did from that song, he got what he believes that he deserved for using that word in the past.
That's actually a really interesting idea
yeah, it's him putting his past on display, knowing that he's always been far from flawless, and trying to get everyone with trauma in their past on an equal level before they can be evaluated for where they go from there.
Great commentary. I would likin "We Cry Together" not to a physical dysfunctional relationship between a couple but rather to the dysfunctional of the world. Back and further banter on social media, etc. Notice how the first words of the song is "this is what the world sounds like."
this album is fucking heavy and personal and passionate in ways that we’ve never seen before from kendrick. considering one of the themes of the album is therapy, its fitting that this album reads as more of a confessional than an album. the music is pretty good too tho.
Kendrick turned into the rap Taylor swift my guy. When pop artists release albums with very deep and personal lyrics they don’t get as much praise as a rapper doing it. Have y’all even listened to a Halsey album? Anyways. The album is mid. But I have a feeling he will release another project very soon that goes back to his strengths.
@@mug281 Comparing Kendrick to Halsey?? 😂😂😂
@@mug281 did you really come to a 50 minute video about this album to hate on it, im so sorry
@@mug281 bro what 💀
@@dimitriii4599 guess you can’t understand what I’m comparing. Everyone keep going on and on about how vulnerable Kendrick is, but other artist do this style way better. And hell yea I would rather listen to a couple of Halseys albums over this. Y’all just like shit so you can tell people you like it. Foh bums.
I think Father Time could’ve been chosen as the best for a lot of those topics. Production wise it’s soooo good. And then the sample 🤯. I think it’s just a fantastic song overall
Agreed Father Time is my favorite
one of my favs
what’s the sample?
@@nourae.9616 Your not there
Honestly I think Father Time is my favourite in everything. When the beat kicked in I physically moved in my chair, Sampha’s voice is incredible, and the backwards sample near the beginning is so good
I just listened to this album a few times yesterday. Went on here to hear/watch reviews and reactions for the videos. Out of 5 or 6 videos yours is definitely the most insightful and analytical. I’m still mulling over my feelings about the album. For me, this is an album where I don’t play singles, I have to play the whole thing to get maximum impact. For a song, Father Time is probably my favorite but We Cry Together is on another level and it’s less a song and more an art piece (much like this album as a whole). I hope you do more breakdowns like this. Truly, one of the best channels on RUclips. No joke. Thank you for having this channel.
I respect other people being able to form there own opinions but I was so shocked to see the amount of people calling this album bad.
*their
It's not kendricks best imo, and its not my favourite album so far this year, but that doesn't mean it's not good.
“It’s mid” is just telling me they didn’t want to like it, and/or didn’t even listen to it. If you honestly listened to the whole thing, and didn’t like it, you’d have more than 2 words to say about it
@@yaboytroy357 i listened to the whole thing from start to finished. his wordchoice is subjective and i was anticipating a great album
@@sTan2493x His word choice has always and will always be subjective. He bases his albums off his experiences since that is all he knows and he leaves room for us to apply our own experiences to the concept of the album and mr morale has done that better than every other album of his. The album is meant to be confronting and its meant to create a reaction that is where half of its meaning stems from. Its kendrick nailing home the idea that these deep conversations hes been trying to have for the last decade are not possible in the image obsessed and conflict avoiding world most of us live in and to do that he had to forget about how people will view him and just say what he thinks and feels and he executed it brilliantly with the mirror and self reflection themes and the overall structure of the album.
Count me out has to have one of the hardest beat drops in the history of beat drops. When I first heard it, it felt like I was listing to Father Stretch for the first time again. Plus the song as a whole goes hard with the choir in the background of the beginning.
One of my least favorites honestly
The beat is very ye-like there
I agree idk why people aren't talking more about it. It may not be the best but it's such a good track.
People don't give this album enough credit, not only did Kendrick put his usual incredible attention to detail into the album, he wrote about himself and is standing up for himself and saying to the world "I Choose Me I'm Sorry"
My body still gets covered in goosebumps from the transition going from Auntie Diaries to Mr. Morale .... this whole album is art.
This is such an important video for this channel. We all love seeing these two cracking jokes and being silly, but they’ve proven here that they can be entertaining and interesting while being serious as well. Legends. Love y’all.
Great video, guys! Graydon must have really liked Auntie Diaries to be singing the lyrics so much!
This form of review is incredible. I will watch every one of these you guys make. It’s focused, honest discussion about music. It’s funny, but thoughtful, and most importantly has a lot of heart. You guys have struck GOLD.
I really love hearing you guys talk in depth about stuff like this! You joked that this is clearly your funniest video, but you both are super articulate and thoughtful. And for the people like me who like content that makes us think too, this is great.
have loved your guys goofy vids for a minute, and did not realize you could unpack something as fiery and dense and nuanced as this album in such a articulate thoughtful considerate and ultimately forward-thinking way, fantastic work boys
as a person who carries a lot of trauma from my childhood and who spent a lot of my late teens and my twenties as an addict - and did a lot of things i’m not proud of - i appreciate the message of this album.
the phrase “hurt people hurt people” always scared me as a young teenager who already had a lot of trauma in my past. it sounded like a curse. like a bad fate. i was destined to repeat my traumas on others. but that’s not always true.
i’m a residential counselor for neurodivergent and at-risk youth now. i do social work with kids who have issues that i’ve been offered an ability to empathize with. hurt people can also help people.
and i can’t wait to listen to this album. i could listen to y’all talk about music and album art and shit forever - it’s just so engaging.
always love the saucy little joke bits but I really enjoy your serious music chats. Good thoughts in those brains of yours.
i don’t really think someone has to be trans to have an opinion on the song, but i’m trans and i love auntie diaries. the word use doesn’t bother me because the whole song has a very genuine and supportive feel to it. He might have used the wrong words but Kendrick openly showing support for trans people is huge and reaches so many people.
SAME! Like I think that song helps way more than it hurts us.
the “money wipin tears away ” bar reminds me of something mac miller said which was “a shame that my tragedy my masterpiece”. both very similar yet different
Funeral? Such a surreal song, Mac may be my favourite artist tbh. It's the way you can tell he 100% feels what he's saying wich makes him so brilliant. Not even the first time Kendrick uses similar lines to one of his songs, I know he probably didn't get inspired by it but Hood Politics has "on the dead homies" in the chorus, just like Diablo. Ik it's probably just a cool coincidence but still...
i have a theory in terms of the placements of kodak and baby keem on the album, being that both had similar upbringings, but baby keem having the resources he did and the right people around him, his life turned out different. i think it shows on the two interludes, where rich interlude, kodak is talking over a hectic beat with no rhythm just random piano keys, and on savior interlude, the song starts off with a therapist talking, baby keem talking about his upbringing, but also over a beautiful and harmonic beat. additionally, keem refers to himself as mr morale, or maybe someone else as mr morale at the end of the song, so having the right resources has turned him into a morally better person than say someone like kodak who maybe got involved in drug and gang related activity but didn’t have the right people around him to keep him away from that stuff. and how you guys mentioned the “mirror” aspect of the album, keem and kodak can be seen as mirrors of each other, but taking separate paths later in life
When you really think about Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers feels like a series of therapy sessions with a handful of breakthroughs and realizations that lead to personal and relational conflict. Kendrick never attempts to make commercial playlist music.. He makes bodies of artwork that will stand the test of time. He has approached black culture, black trauma, and mental health in the past through different storylines and perspectives. This time he opens the veil into his own personal life experience; the plight of the perceived black savior in his community. He tries to present that he is just a normal human living through normal human experiences and the expectations on him as an artist, father, son, and lover are unachievable. He cannot please everybody. He actively writes his thoughts more simple and to the point so everyone can hear it on this album compared to his last works. Please listen to this many times with no expectations and enjoy King Kendrick at his best: The songwriter of our generation.
beautifully said. preach
Not only songwriter just overall great wordsmith
He is a savant of mastering the English language to elevate what you communicate with words
Moments that I really appreciated
3:50 - Didn’t think of that perspective. So cool.
5:45 - Mirror
8:35 - Ppl reducing themselves to content
12:05 - Brother opinion was interesting
15:20 - big agree
18:50 - perc in her salad or perk in her salad? 🧐
23:00 - whole section fire. Nailed it
29:20 - Stop performing
31:45 - Holy shit City and Color & Sampha my mind is blown
I’d love to see this series for some older, classic albums. Any review from genres like rap to grunge or even dream pop would be great to hear from these two. I’m always amazed by how much knowledge these two have and the depth of their musical tastes. I’d love to see videos like these regarding Radiohead, The Beatles, Jay-Z, or even any of Graydon’s jazz favorites. Y’all are super fun to listen to.
My view of this album is that there are 2 main themes.
Theme #1 - Mr. Morale
- Mr. Morale is a Jesus-esc figure that people portray Kendrick as. Kendrick has begun to portray himself as this, because of the expectations people put on him. He feels like he needs to be a savior for everyone around him, when in reality he can't please everybody. Through this album he is learning to cut himself a break, take care of himself, and not care what people think of him ( Count Me Out, Crown, Savior, Mirror)
Theme #2 - The Big Steppers
The big steppers represent everyone. Everyone with past trauma and issues. Kendrick is a big stepper too. Throughout this album Kendrick is digging up old trauma and healing through his music. He is learning and working through feelings of gender and race ignorance, misogyny, sexual abuse, daddy issues, and poor coping mechanisms. He is healing himself and all the big steppers. (Worldwide Steppers, Father Time, We Cry Together, Auntie Diaries, Mother I Sober)
A third, smaller theme is about fake people who hide behind their vices. People who suffered from this trauma and now hide behind sex, drugs, chains, Money, tattoos. People who are philanthropists in public, who are corrupt behind the mask. It's not all their fault that they're corrupt. They are victims of trauma. (United in Grief, N95, Mother I Sober, Savior Interlude)
10:51 foreshadowing
Y'all should DEFINITELY do this with more albums, Pusha T's album would be perfect since it's relatively new. Then after that you should do some more albums like MBDTF, TPAB, GKMC, Swimming, Circles, TA1300 etc. Not a lot of music channels are doing something like this so it would be cool to get some of these from time to time to keep it diverse.
Y'all definitely need to keep doing these. After listening to this video I realized there is so much in this album I haven't even touched.
14:12 My favorite thing about We Cry Together is it highlighted almost every poor conflict communication strategies. The are both cross-complaining where they aren't trying to truly understand the other person's side, they are replying with a complaint of their own. They are constantly bringing up new topics that I am not sure were relevant to the initial argument, called kitchen sinking. Both are them are not listening to the other side, they are constantly refusing a solution due to some additional reason they bring up, and they finally drift of of track of solving the conflict, also known as off-beaming.
I love this format, I enjoy album reviews from other RUclipsrs but what makes this great to me is it feels like I’m sitting here with a couple friends just discussing an album together instead of just someone talking at me!
Kendrick lamar is awesome. I love everything he does. This is a great album. I loved how you ranked everything. I did not have anything to do with the vehicular manslaughter of 2003.
😍😍😍
that sampha feature is AMAZING graydon how dare!!!
No chaser
Came back to this video to say how when Graydon gets real he actually has some genius opinions on this album. I do love the characters he plays in the usual hive mind videos but i have a lot more respect for the guy hearing his opinions on this album as a whole
It really makes me appreciate this whole series, it feels way less like hivemind feels pressure to entertain you and more like a genuine discussion between friends
how did sampha get worst feature💀💀💀his vocals were incredible
Love that feature too
2 years I'm still not over it
Wish I could have heard more of your guys’ thoughts on the track mirror, just because it reads to me as one of Kendrick’s most self-affirming and viscerally happy tracks in his whole discography. Still though, amazing video like always and I love hearing you guys delve deep into heavy and serious topics, if yall do stuff like this more often I wouldn’t complain!!
Legit thanks for deconstructing and contextualizing a dauntingly dense, challenging and important album in such a cogent manner as to make it a little more approachable. Love the channel, but these album breakdown videos really highlight how deep you both go into the music that you love. Respect --
This is the perfect representation of the duality of Hivemind. A difficult conversation, handled with grace and delivered with intelligent commentary.
Y'all killed this fr good job. SO MANY PEOPLE don't like crown! I love crown so much. So relatable and beautiful IMO but I get that it's slow and is a little too long for sure + it's hard to pick a least favorite lol
I`m from Germany and doesn`t always understand lyrics and the deep meaning behind them, even if i´m reading it in genius. You guys are giving me a whole new pov on this album. Thank you very much
crown is def my top 3 tracks atm, tho ive seen a couple ppl say its their least fav. i might be biased cuz i love piano, but it just feels so movie-like to me. a lot of the album feels that way to me, maybe just cuz of how emotional, raw, and often cathartic it is. from an "objective" (?) standpoint i can see how its not rly up there on the tracklist, but the vibes r there for me and thats all that matters tbh
It has a lot of cool things about it, like singing in iambic pentameter like how Shakespeare wrote
i was really waiting for this video because of the auntie diaries part. i am a trans woman, and i think the song will do good for my community. there will be people like me who wont be abandoned by their friends because of what kendrick said. the song is offensive for me to listen to, and it ruined the entire album for me to be honest, but it was never made for me. its for the people who know me but dont understand me, and if i'm not able of making them understand me, then i'm all for kendrick trying his best to help them. i am sure this song will do good for the world.
i think it would've been possible for kendrick to make a song that achieves the same thing while empowering trans people, but as he said, he is nobodys savior. i understand queer people who only have negative feelings about the song, because i really had to think about before i could feel like its a good thing he released it. i took me a lot of time to process the song to feel good about it and the release date of this album was not a good day for me.
on a completely separate note i am very happy the hivemind community is a welcoming place for me and i want to thank everyone reading this for that!
Incredibly interesting perspective. As someone who should have the strongest voice on critique of a song like this, it's fascinating to hear you see the songs purpose outside of your own viewpoint. Being upset with it personally and still seeing it as a step towards a common goal through different means is a highly intelligent way to approach it.
i aint reading all that sorry
@@ts-wo6pp it's like... 250 words? Maybe? Go read a book, get your attention span back. I believe in you buddy, best of luck.
@@3x5WLeague you sound like an unpleasant person just based off ur online writing style. just the vibe I'm getting Edvin
If you make it empowering it is then written off by the people it needs to reach and would miss the point of the song where it is about kendricks experience and perspective since that is all he knows and ever will know. I think the song is an essential part of the album whether it offends you or not. It is almost a final test towards the listener as everything he has said beforehand combines where by not tap dancing around the conversation he cant please everybody with the song no matter how hard he tries because there is too much nuance to the conversation and that ultimately he will have to open himself up to criticism to play his part in the conversation. And I think it works so well since literally immediately following the song is the start of the conclusion of the album where self awareness and self reflection are the focus leaving aunties diaries fresh in your mind for you to reflect on how you interpreted and engaged with the song and how you relate your own experiences to it. Its almost like an example of everything his album means that he gives you to help reflect.
That being said I also think kendrick does a good job representing trans people with the way he clearly idolizes his auntie and is proud of him even with his friends teasing but you can see the shift he has with his cousin as she isn't as tolerant with the mistreatment after opening up and he and his family start to think it was a change because they were trans rather than a change in self confidence and identity. Also completing the story almost as a circle where a young innocent kendrick doesnt care that his auntie is trans and instead loves him because of who he is and after being corrupted by the world, he matures enough to have his stand in church defending his cousin and repairing his and his families relationship with her.
Why the yellow wall guys not laughing
On the Kodak inclusion and the slur on Auntie diaries, I think hasanabi had a good point where he's saying this album and these arguments aren't for the people who will take offense to that. Its more for the perpetrators and the people he sees as more of his core audience who grew up with homophobic/mysogynistic views being pretty much encouraged. So while it is insensitive and not necessarily the best idea I totally get that perspective.
I think that also ties in with a great point you guys made about the theme on the album of these converstations being performative (tap dancing), especially on social media and how Kendrick sort of martyrs himself with these controversial choices in order to more fully and effectively explore the topics and get his point across to the people he believes need to hear it.
This is probably one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking analyses of this album on RUclips and I'm really grateful for the comments it's inspired.
Damn fine work, y'all.
I just listened to album for a second time, and I love all of your critiques about it, especially considering some of the more challenging topics like abuse, gender and sexual identity, violence, and overall self-concept. You guys really hit the nail on the head in that in due time, this album will be another To Pimp a Butterfly with it changing the course of perspectives regarding rap and Kendrick's overall choices within his career. And just in general, y'all have such great content, definitely my favorite music content channel I've ever watched.
Having this series on your channel brings a nice balance where i feel like i’m receiving an even greater and more complete form of entertainment from you guys. I genuinely loved your channel before and i think you’re both hilarious but now with album reviews, i feel like there’s even more value that i didn’t even think was possible.
HIVEMIND should have their own podcast!
they used to have one i think
@@naimadbackwards I think they’ve said they’re gonna try to relaunch it in the future. I hope they do cause I could listen to these two talk all day 😂
loving these types of videos i hope yall continue
as a trans woman i really appreciated how yall approached auntie diaries
I totally agree- im a trans man and whats most important is just that allies/cis people should just respect how we decide to take topics about us rather than speaking for us
trans person here, just wanted to say that k dot saying the f slur is 100% fine to me. it's okay to say things to be able to get over saying them if that makes sense. if you want to truly apologize for something and grow from it, you have to be able to admit what you did fully. him saying the f slur is fine and it's honestly on one of my favorite tracks of the album because of his honesty and openness to accept what he did wrong
I really don’t like it. I of course understand why he is doing it, but a big scale of artist normalizing that word by even saying it three times in a row, then later saying he understands that the word itself and using it is harmful, it’s dumb. He understands why it’s bad, yet still does it. He could’ve gotten his message across without using that word. I’ve heard people around me saying the word when they hear the song and acting like it’s okay. Also I’ve seen multiple people just skip it because they don’t like the message. So it hasn’t really made any change other than normalize the harmful language.
@@slapstick2199i definitely understand that. i think unfortunately my main thing i just being seen. i like that kendrick recognizes that the word usage is wrong. he definitely could've gotten away with not saying it and still gotten his point across, but i feel that the message is amplified with him saying it (especially the end point with a white fan saying the n word). i understand how the song can be harmful so it makes sense that people don't like it but i personally just like the message and the impact that the song has.
@@slapstick2199 I think kendricks point is that it's still normalised in some communities. I don't think him using it will make anyone say it who wasn't already in an environment that would mean they'd say it anyway, but him using it in the context that he does and talking about how it's normal to some people will make a lot of people think twice about it and about homophobia in general.
i really like how he took the provocative methods of deadnaming, misgendering, and saying slurs to make a point. as a trans person i know that song wasn't for me. it was to challenge the people who wouldn't batt an eye at usage of the f slur. it was made to reach the folks who would look at you weird for saying your uncle used to be your auntie. it's for the people who wouldn't stand up for the trans girl getting singled out by a pastor. i am 100% certain that auntie diaries helped to change many minds when it comes to trans people
Waiting for the mash up Come Home Mr. Morale, the Big Steppers Miss You
Actually fire title. Thanks Jackson Harlem, very cool.
I actually quite enjoy hiveminds take and opinions on albums, I hope this format keeps on going in the future!
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT SAM DEW?? THE MOST UNDERRATED FEATURE ON THIS ALBUM. HIS HARMONIES AND MELODIES CREATE A VERY ANGELIC ATMOSPHERE!
this is a really loaded and dense album, and you guys navigated it brilliantly! i am loving this format
ps. please do this for the pusha t album, its almost dry
This was genuinely incredible. The games and other more comedic segments are awesome but you guys genuinely have such a passion and eloquent way of dissecting the music that I think it would be a waste of your talents not to do this with more albums. I would love to see you guys go back and discuss hip hop classics/landmarks from years past. Yeezus maybe..? 👀
this was an amazing analysis, i love how you guys can be hilarious at some points but have deep intellectual conversation at other points
Finally nice to see Mr. Riley and the Big Graydon
As a non-binary half black/half white person Auntie Diaries hit different, the last line about comparing a white girl using the N word to him saying the F word is amazing, I felt many perspectives just crashing at once and I personally feel like it really made its case. To be trans-parent (lol) I’m Swedish and have never been called the F-slur so maybe it would feel worse to hear if i had lived through that
Man after watching so much comedy from these guys they're incredibly insightful when they want to be. Even when I disagree with their opinions I can totally see their arguments have merit. Really awesome video
this is so mature and thoughtful, really impressive. you guys are great at just joking around but an album with actually subsinance is treated like it. reall good job guys
I love your guys' content so much!!! The guess the samples, guess the rapper based on cartoon puns etc; but I will say that this was my favorite video of yours. I may be biased as Kendrick is my favorite rapper, but I also just loves the style of this video and would love if you did this for other albums as well!
I ❤️ these two. Kenderick gave them a whole movie production mentality. The breakdowns are definitely gr8. I feel good knowing how much they understood. 😊😊❤❤❤😊😊
You guys should do a video like this for each of your favourite albums of all time. I would especially love to see Graydon speak deeper into his favourite country or jazz album since it’s not music I listen to much but appreciate from a distance and would love to see a more concise view on it.
(Ps. I am not the father of Dignan’s children and I do not owe $55,000 child support stop harassing me about it)
one thing I find really interesting is the "tap-dancing around the conversation" starts in Father Time and ends in we cry together so in all I believe the conversation is therapy and the tap dancing isn't only the argument and sex but also him self reflecting on his daddy issues alone in Father Time, then deflecting criticism of his flaws In rich spirit and that's a really good way of storytelling in a not so obvious way
when Kendrick hits the OG Vent hook and verse on N95 >>>>>>>>>>>>
As someone who studied english literature in university this was genuinely a great review and really high quality.
love this conversational style of vid and would be excited to see more of it occasionally posted when you have something passionate to say about a project. love love love
19:02 im rewatching this and i think what they mean by “tight bitch put a perc in her salad” he means 1. even people that are “healthy” -in this case tight=skinny, have some sorts of escape- drugs
2. tight- after perk- loose
a 50 minute hivemind video? the digriders are gonna love this
The digriders LMAOO sounds like a cult
@@Dandandandan23 how does it sound like a cult? If anything, it’s just an MLM
@Mocap Cow Bro why do you care 😂
@@Dandandandan23 spreading the truth!!!
I can't tell if you're joking or not but alright
Honestly, I love this album and I think the themes of parallels probably play into it a lot more than we think. It's such a heavy record, and while I see a lot of people referring to it as Kendrick's therapy session, I don't think that's what this is. I think this is OUR therapy session. He's got this figured out and explained his thought process of doing so. We're the ones who need to hear it.
This album is genuinely a masterpiece and I think it is by far his most intricate and heavy project. I think this will go down as one of the greatest albums of our lifetime, and at the very least on the level of TPAB. There are so many layers to it that trying to put a rating on it this early is just doing a disservice to the album.
Appreciate you guys for doing this, and helping me realize a few things that I didn't catch myself. I love these types of videos that you guys make, even if they aren't laced with jokes like your others are. Love you guys! I didn't bury seven children in the back of a Denny's parking lot in 2003.
Love hearing u guys go deep into the music just as much as the jokes.
And there is NO PROOF that I was the cause of the extinction of 3 species of penguins.
These kind of videos are amazing. I want y’all to do this for every new big release.
Please….for the love of God…do a review segment like this for Denzel Curry’s album Melt My Eyez See Your Future. My second favorite album of the year behind Mr. Morale
you guys killed this + echoed (as well as built upon and added a lot) to my thoughts on the album. I was shocked to see people saying it was trash out of the gate, I did immediately pick up that it was something amazing however as said by you guys a super challenging listen; a core theme of the album is uncomfortable topics & confronting things that many may not want to confront, as well as production that while I love, I can see a lot of people being confused by/not liking (even though there are some very accessible beats/instrumentals laced throughout). I feel like you guys have shown so much merit by being able to break down such a dense, intense album in such concise and poignant language. you guys were already hilarious and loveable but this truly shows your acumen as quite genuine critics/being able to discuss music in such a deep vein.
I love you boys and how you handle serious topics. This is gonna be a really cool time stamp.
My favorite song from the album has to be savior, the production is crazy. my favorite feature is kodak black black. yeah he's very controversial but him being on the album makes a big impact and just just sounds so good on silent hill and also on rich interlude.
Sampha’s feature was fire
The Shakespeare quote 'uneasy is the head that wears a crown' is from Henry IV Part 2 is often now phrased as 'heavy is the head the wears the crown'. The phrase has become an English idiom meaning that those charged with major responsibility carry a heavy burden that makes it difficult for them to relax. Love the content guys
Mr morale & Mirror are already underrated tracks I see
Summer Walker is actually my favorite feature as well as Taylor Paige. Also I like Kendricks voice on Rich Spirit
I love Summer Walker’s voice with Kendrick’s on that hook. Something about her voice is really musically satisfying imo
I love that you all consistently talk about the samples more in depth than most of the other RUclipsrs (that I’ve seen anyway). My favorite sample is the reverse vocals on Father Time :)
i love reviews like this. it makes me look out for new details and things to catch even when i'm on like my 924th listen
we cry together is one of the most intriguing musical experiences ive listened to in a long time, feels weird saying its my favorite (for now obviously) but god damn its just perfect
I love this format way more than any other reviewseries on RUclips rn, please keep these going!
Need more love for Savior! Best song on the album!
I am so happy to say I have known about Hivemind since 2020, it's insane how in depth and high quality this video is yet how little recognition it gets. Keep up the phenomenal work friends, you are steady on your way to the top