Doing a Kendrick Lamar song bracket. LET'S GO! The bracket: / kendrick_madness_bracket My social media: Twitter: / theneedledrop Instagram: @afantano FB: / theneedledrop
To be fair, money trees is literally a round-up of everything going on in the story up until that track. It's literally an interlude but still a fantastic track
I'd argue because of how it fits within the context of TPAB, how it's a microcosm of the entire album, the wack flow, the gorgeous sample, the lyricism, and its message, it's his most underrated song ever.
@@husaanshabendri4331 Yeah I guess but I always hear SAMIDOT, u, or mortal man. They’re all amazing songs but How Much A Dollar Cost just hits different.
I feel like Mortal Man gets dismissed harshly by just being know as having the "tupac bit". It's a beautiful ending to a ridiculously epic and ambitious album that underlines the narrative throughout it. In my second or third listen through TPAB it actually got me a bit choked up. Partly because it gave me this incredible sense of accomplishment for Kendrick but also the throughline of the album coming to a conclusion: after everything he's been through - all he wants to be known for is having elevated people (or freed them in their mind, as he puts it) through his art. "I want you to love me like Nelson".
These walls is an insanely good track. The many layers and metaphors, the funky beat, the way the track develops. I like levitate but these walls got snubbed
Sing about me I'm dying of thirst is kendricks best written song imo. He hasn't topped it and I don't know if he will. 3 stories in one and different perspectives from different people. Also relates to keishas song.
Instrumentals insane, especially with Kendrick’s interaction with it. He raps straight through the beat switches which sample completely different songs but still work to create a continuous feeling that backs the narrative. The way he raps right through the barline sounds like Charlie Parker anticipating the chord changes to a jazz song and playing right over through the end of harmonic phrases. In my opinion the best track off DAMN and what makes the whole album work, tying together the theme of understanding abstract concepts and linking it to the fact that his own existence is arbitrary and a matter of chance.
This bracket is seeded incredibly weirdly. Love being a 1 seed is BS. Blood being on the bracket is weird and some of those first round matchups are brutal because of seeding.
Brian Murphy I read through the reddit, and it turns out the creator seeded the bracket by Spotify sales to avoid favoritism or anything weird like that
I feel like sales/streaming numbers have a huge recency bias, which really shows here, even with less than a decade between the earliest and latest releases. Works much better for an artist that hasn't released anything in the streaming era, or in another 5 years where more artists will have only released music while streaming has been this big. But really, not much you can do, very few ways to objectively seed something like this.
ikr, sing about me could've been in the top 4, since it's easily better than FEEL. so that quarter was just very weak, and now a song that doesn't belong in the top 4 is in the top 4 just because it had easy competition. and don't get me wrong, i really love FEEL. more than most kendrick fans since DAMN. was my first album of his, but that song is nothing against the twelve minute masterpiece that is sing about me im dying of thirst
That's pretty tough having "Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst" and "The art of peer pressure" against each other in the first round because those are both INCREDIBLE
that one had me thinking for so long, but i think melon has a point. tho personally would probably go with alright because that instrumental is fucking icnredible
@@xbenci i mean based on just quality, i do think that a song that became an anthem, with such significance even now, surely is better than a comic interlude
@@snow5064 actually yk what thats a really good point. that song alright has sort of become a theme song of a group of people and an age group. Tho if we were to just go on the songs themselves not theire significance outside of the album, i think For Free? can hold its own with any song on the album, filled with details, absolutely HILARIOUS song, and extremely creative not to mention actually good jazz production.
@@Velocity165 that’s fair but to me the squeaky young Kendrick voice on m.a.a.d city and the rough angry voice on blacker the berry has just as much emotion
“The Blacker The Berry” is one of the more fully realized tracks that Kendrick has. I think the outro from “Complexion” gives a great lead in and frame to Kendrick’s angry spitfire, but Kendrick steps back toward the end of “Berry” and tackles his common theme of self-love on a much higher level. It’s one of those bangers (much like m.A.A.d city) that takes the energy from the beat, the politics he struggles with, and his reflection on his upbringing and community and puts them together in such a precise and charged manner. I think for sure it’s what I would have chosen to win.
Biggest loss for me too.Are you fucking kidding me. Alright is a definitive song for kendrick and even if its not your favorite, it has to beat out what is essentially an interlude. Also though, why would I ever I give an effort into getting upset over melon's kendrick bracket
I feel like simply because of how much For Free contributes to TPAB and how engaging it is makes it a better track. Would totally listen to Alright way more on its own.
"Sing About Me" and "Art of Peer Pressure" could literally be in the finals. Arguably my two favorite Kendrick songs. Sucks to see AoPP out in the first round :/
u is the rawest (and imo best) kendrick song to this day. so incredibly personal yet he amplifies it by embodying the other characters and basically acting it out with that chilling vocal performance
whoa I was not expecting the #1 to be what it was. I would've counted it out, but you had a fantastic case for it. _+1_ *respect* _+69_ *melon* *polish*
Ronald Raygun Ronald Reagan Era has some really good verses and plays a big role in the concept of Section 80. Also the Kendeick Verses on Money Trees are super repetitive in comparison to Jay Rocks
u from TPAB is an emotional mess in the best way possible. He just can't control himself but he still lets his story be heard. His acting on the music video is also on point and describes the emotion throughout the song perfectly.
I think you miss the point of No Make Up. It isn't Kendrick being preachy about make up, it's a story of a boy trying to tell his girlfriend he loves her no matter how she looks, without him knowing that she was wearing make up to cover up the abuse of a family member
@@sergiomendoza4040 I would agree, but our friend Marchthony Madtano didn't think GKMC had a strong central theme, but thought TPAB did, because TPAB had the same poem fragments in a ton of its tracks, while you actually needed to listen to the lyrics and tone in GKMC to follow the themes. Source: his own words in his TPAB review, where he uses this to justify TPAB getting a 10 over GKMC's 9.
Jason I don’t think he said it didn’t have a strong central theme I also don’t think that Good kid getting a 9 was because of the “lack of strong central theme” in the tpab review melon mentions how Kendrick’s mindset was likely that “I’m going to make trendier music but I’m going to do it on my terms” when making GKMC I figured that was more of the justification for the 9 where tpab was completely on its own in terms of sound/ production etc at the time of its release there was nothing like it not that good kid didn’t stand on its own but in terms of production I always assumed melon realized this wasn’t Kendrick pushing himself to his limits to make something like tpab which was a “benchmark in music history” his word too in the tpab review
Maad City and Blacker The Berry is definitely the hardest one....Maad City is like NY State Of Mind for Compton but TBTB is so hard hitting and heart felt
Honestly I am so happy that someone finally shed light on the fact that FEEL. is an amazing and incredibly underrated track; I probably would’ve put FEEL. and King Kunta in the championship and had King Kunta win it, you just can’t beat that track
![KSI - Thick Of It (feat. Trippie Redd) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/At8v_Yc044Y/mqdefault.jpg)
You lost your credibility as a melon by calling Money Trees an interlude
My favorite kendrick song too
It is tho
Squid 1 no it is literally not in terms of its context in the album
Ikr i flipped at that part
I let Momma slid then stopped the video after that money trees bit
Money Trees didn't make it past the first round??? Nope nope nope nope
KC overrated
@@cam8842 the jay rock verse alone invalidates this statement
@@cam8842 Ya bische
Money Trees isn't that good
@@joelikesthings in this country we are allowed to have wrong opinions
when money trees lost to ronald reagan era my brain exploded
yes
Why? Ronald Reagan era better bruh get over it
On god
To be fair Ronald regean era is one of Kendrick’s best songs ever even tho I like money trees more
Ronald Regan Era is so damn good tho
Poetic Justice is the wrong color
Mederic Chiasson ur the wrong colour
Ikr
That was bugging me so much
Oh fuck
xd memes sounds like a fantano quote
you had this chance to say kendrick M.A.A.D.ness bracket
ok
@@dodderypantz8815 man replies to a 3 year old comment by saying "ok"
@@talonalexander7161 ok
@@talonalexander7161 ok
@@talonalexander7161 ok
“Money trees was a nice little interlude” 😂😂😂
that shit still scares me till this day
To be fair, money trees is literally a round-up of everything going on in the story up until that track. It's literally an interlude but still a fantastic track
i had it as my overall winner before he started ranking the songs but its out in the first round
@@ryanhfc interludes are instrumentals. Its a dimunitive way to talk about this track.
@@oobieo since we're in the kendrick realm, for free and for sale are NOT instrumentals despite clearly being interludes
"if I had to pick between feel and u, I would pick u"
aww, thanks anthony
such a romantic melon
LMAOO he said this just as I read the comment
Momma is one of Kendrick's most underrated songs
I'd argue because of how it fits within the context of TPAB, how it's a microcosm of the entire album, the wack flow, the gorgeous sample, the lyricism, and its message, it's his most underrated song ever.
Facts
Nolas facts
@@SlowedandReverbCEO Wack flow? He displays one of the dopest flows Ive ever heard in the track's first verse...
@@ArmandTheBlackRevolutionary yeah i meant wack as in crazy good
It’s interesting because Anthony didn’t even talk about How Much a Dollar Cost? in his TPAB review
YES!!!? i was so excited to see what he was about to say about it, since it's always been my favourite in the album
It's an unpopular opinion but How Much A Dollar Cost is my favorite Kendrick song ever.
@@shaanalam3872 totally agree
@@shaanalam3872 I don't really think its unpopular, so many people love the song, its amazing
@@husaanshabendri4331 Yeah I guess but I always hear SAMIDOT, u, or mortal man. They’re all amazing songs but How Much A Dollar Cost just hits different.
Compton isnt in the Compton section lol
BrenDon Duckworth isn't in the duckworth section
Hugo J You have eyes right buddy?
Quick Freshie Nah, severe downies.
AIN'T NO CITY QUITE LIKE MIIIIIIINE
BrenDon 😂😂😂
I feel like Mortal Man gets dismissed harshly by just being know as having the "tupac bit". It's a beautiful ending to a ridiculously epic and ambitious album that underlines the narrative throughout it. In my second or third listen through TPAB it actually got me a bit choked up. Partly because it gave me this incredible sense of accomplishment for Kendrick but also the throughline of the album coming to a conclusion: after everything he's been through - all he wants to be known for is having elevated people (or freed them in their mind, as he puts it) through his art. "I want you to love me like Nelson".
When shit hits the fan is you still a fan
Fosho!
Amen
Could not have said this any better.
And the “Pac. Pac.... Pac?” In the end always gets me.
These walls is an insanely good track. The many layers and metaphors, the funky beat, the way the track develops. I like levitate but these walls got snubbed
Sing about me I'm dying of thirst is kendricks best written song imo. He hasn't topped it and I don't know if he will. 3 stories in one and different perspectives from different people. Also relates to keishas song.
Deanz Beber my top 4 was... Sing about me, Fear, Blacker the Berry, and Mortal man.
Deanz Beber yeh
Beny G Literally all of Kendrick's longest songs. Lol
He has topped it. FEAR
Adrian Ramirez no
no tracks from damn collectors edition smh..
S, Is that a reference to the siri video ?
atrass toumay Its cause the collectors edition is the regular edition but backwards.. Someone had to dumb it down, everyone.
Kendrick's best songs are his deeper cuts. I will take "Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst" over "Humble" any day
no shit
I disagree I’m ADHD and I can’t handle long songs like that. Humble is better to jam out to but sing is better in general
Any real Kendrick fan would
Lucas Davis yeah any real Kendrick fan would blindly like a song over another
Captain Obvious humble isn’t that deep of a song bruh. It’s very popular to casual fans just not his best
07 over These Walls 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
i was like surley not... cause in my bracket it came second
these walls is dreamy
07 is also probably the worst song on untitled
@@someguy315 absolutely, I really can't believe it's the most popular song on there.
Head is the answer
You can tell none of these brackets were as well thought out as the Kanye one
PIMP PIMP!
HOORAY!
MAD MAN that song is straight BARS
Sick and tired of being tired
Untitled 02 is a top 10 Kendrick songs
Love won’t get you high as this
Get god on the phone
It was a good video until you started screaming "syrup sandwiches nigga" for the whole latter half of it
ljrdnmrts Disappointing isn't it?
Then it became a GREAT video.
Syrup?
agree
*I REMEMBER SYRUP SANDWICHES*
10:25 did you say duck worth was not the best, instrumentally? Are you out of your melon mind?
I'm saying the beat switches were dope af
Bro, melon is on drugs
Best instrumental on DAMN period
Instrumentals insane, especially with Kendrick’s interaction with it. He raps straight through the beat switches which sample completely different songs but still work to create a continuous feeling that backs the narrative. The way he raps right through the barline sounds like Charlie Parker anticipating the chord changes to a jazz song and playing right over through the end of harmonic phrases. In my opinion the best track off DAMN and what makes the whole album work, tying together the theme of understanding abstract concepts and linking it to the fact that his own existence is arbitrary and a matter of chance.
Gotta love how he color coded them to the correct album, and then there's Poetic Justice.
He didn’t make it but yeah that one’s wrong lol
This bracket is seeded incredibly weirdly. Love being a 1 seed is BS. Blood being on the bracket is weird and some of those first round matchups are brutal because of seeding.
Brian Murphy I read through the reddit, and it turns out the creator seeded the bracket by Spotify sales to avoid favoritism or anything weird like that
I feel like sales/streaming numbers have a huge recency bias, which really shows here, even with less than a decade between the earliest and latest releases. Works much better for an artist that hasn't released anything in the streaming era, or in another 5 years where more artists will have only released music while streaming has been this big. But really, not much you can do, very few ways to objectively seed something like this.
like sing and the art of peer pressure are two of his best songs
Untitled 05 was such an amazing track from Untitled Unmastered. Sadly it's not on here...
One of his best verses ever. I find the intro to that song to be a tad too long, but man that verse...
Justice ain't free, therefore justice ain't me
yea whats the system for this again? blood is in it but untitled 5 isnt..
Top 3 for me
I agree. Still my favorite untitled track
How on earth do you put Sing About Me and The Art of Peer Pressure against each other round one??? Those are like TOP seeds
ikr, sing about me could've been in the top 4, since it's easily better than FEEL. so that quarter was just very weak, and now a song that doesn't belong in the top 4 is in the top 4 just because it had easy competition. and don't get me wrong, i really love FEEL. more than most kendrick fans since DAMN. was my first album of his, but that song is nothing against the twelve minute masterpiece that is sing about me im dying of thirst
For sure
Literally both in my top 3 kendrick tracks with How Much...
Eh it’s not that bad. Don’t get me wrong TAOPP is a great sign but I don’t think most people are choosing it over SAMIDOT.
Sorry but sing about me, i'm dying of thirst is the BEST kendrick track
Chaz Bustos ok
YESSSS
@@liamregan4975 ok
Jimmy Nuch 2nd
"U"?
My Kendrick M.A.A.Dness Bracket!
W
original
That's pretty tough having "Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst" and "The art of peer pressure" against each other in the first round because those are both INCREDIBLE
They both tell stories beautifully
I know this is just your opinion but For Free? over Alright... Damn
For Free is lyrically deeper imo aswell, so much to the point it sounds like he's reading a poem instead of rapping
For Free has one of the best instrumentals on TPAB (for obvious reasons)
Anonymous yeah Ik the whole concept of “this dick ain’t free” is just super meaningful and a very powerful message
Yeah I lost my mind
I love both tracks but I prefer For Free? I prefer the instrumental, flow, and lyrics
He really 1st round Money Trees lol
Yvener Eugene I know wtf
NO WAY
Yvener Eugene melon is deaf it seems
Turns out he really was that guy on the news
He called it an interlude lol
For Free? OVER ALRIGHT, this man crazy
no he isn't
I mean, For Free? is absolutely fucking genius
that one had me thinking for so long, but i think melon has a point. tho personally would probably go with alright because that instrumental is fucking icnredible
@@xbenci i mean based on just quality, i do think that a song that became an anthem, with such significance even now, surely is better than a comic interlude
@@snow5064 actually yk what thats a really good point. that song alright has sort of become a theme song of a group of people and an age group. Tho if we were to just go on the songs themselves not theire significance outside of the album, i think For Free? can hold its own with any song on the album, filled with details, absolutely HILARIOUS song, and extremely creative not to mention actually good jazz production.
Anthony saying Momma is a low tier TPAB track actually hurt me
All TPAB tracks are amazing. It's okay to have another opinion
Angad Grewal lol
@Angad Grewal welcome to the club, buddy
yeah, it really is the midpoint and conveys so much. the day he came home, the comical chorus, its such genius
This feeling is unmatched
It should've been called M.A.A.D.ness Bracket
JesterJosh if m.A.A.d city had won
"u" is not only Kendrick Lamar's best song, but is one of the best rap songs ever made. Fuck with me.
Blacker the berry, king kunta m.a.a.d city are better fuck with me
the sheer emotion that he displays there is just oof
@@akselbentsen3683 i love all those songs but the emotion and everything he put into “u” makes it top all the others
@@Velocity165 that’s fair but to me the squeaky young Kendrick voice on m.a.a.d city and the rough angry voice on blacker the berry has just as much emotion
@@akselbentsen3683 why king kunta then? I know it’s a good song, but not nearly as important as the other two tracks.
RADIOHEAD MADNESS BRACKET PLEASE!!!
Do a Fantano Review bracket
Which one would win???
Also, would we include his *M E M M E* reviews!?
Who wins, Fantano, thatistheplan, Cal Chuchesta, Melon, theneedledrop, or the guy who gave Damn a 7
The miley cyrus one would win that
Revival and MBDTF are up there for different reasons off course
Kunta over a sing about me? Anthony's opinion is a joke.
sadly it is, in this case
Not everyone has the same opinion as you. Stop hating.
@@robintetris yeah but what if my opinion is right
@@danteh2888 DAMN.
@@danteh2888doesn’t matter because it wasn’t 3 years ago and it ain’t now. King Kunta is supreme - though SAMIDOT is obviously great too
“The Blacker The Berry” is one of the more fully realized tracks that Kendrick has. I think the outro from “Complexion” gives a great lead in and frame to Kendrick’s angry spitfire, but Kendrick steps back toward the end of “Berry” and tackles his common theme of self-love on a much higher level. It’s one of those bangers (much like m.A.A.d city) that takes the energy from the beat, the politics he struggles with, and his reflection on his upbringing and community and puts them together in such a precise and charged manner. I think for sure it’s what I would have chosen to win.
I'm upset that Alright lost to for free
Biggest loss for me too.Are you fucking kidding me. Alright is a definitive song for kendrick and even if its not your favorite, it has to beat out what is essentially an interlude. Also though, why would I ever I give an effort into getting upset over melon's kendrick bracket
Dvo yah I know, alright is one of the best hiphop song of the history
I feel like simply because of how much For Free contributes to TPAB and how engaging it is makes it a better track. Would totally listen to Alright way more on its own.
right? my final 4 was blacker the berry, alright, dna & king kunta
Kush & Corinthians, Black Boy Fly, Cartoons & Cereal and more Untitled Unmastered missing
Nolas: this!!!!!!!! Where the hell was Kush and Corinthians’?!?!?! That’s in my Kendrick top 10 For Sure
Sing about me I’m dying of thirst is his best song in my opinion
Noah Dunston Agreed.
Fact.
Noah Dunston poe mans dreams is his most underrated
The art of peer pressure is my favorite funnily enough
kush and Corinthians > everything
how much a dollar cost? was obama's fav. song of that year
no wonder Anthony picked it, obama was staring him down the whole time ready to drone strike him.
Doesn't mean shit
18:57, tf? Did you hear the instrumentation, the poetry, and the perfect structure of Mortal Man? One of his best songs ever
“Levitate over These Walls”
Heresy. Pure heresy.
ChampionGold had me so heated when I heard that
levitate so much better honestly
these walls is my favorite song of his
If these walls could talk, they, like you, would scream heresy.
These walls is lame Levitate is fire
These Walls would have made top 8 for me
it was my top 4 in the bracket
its number 1 for me
It would have made top 2 for me, probably beating out good kid. I have an irrational love for both songs.
Sonny Etchell Yeah, even Kendrick says it’s one of his favourite songs he’s made
Same
"Sing About Me" and "Art of Peer Pressure" could literally be in the finals. Arguably my two favorite Kendrick songs. Sucks to see AoPP out in the first round :/
really you chose *GUCCI GANG* we get it
I actually really enjoy the brackets. I would like to see a Brockhampton, MF Doom, or Frank Ocean bracket Melon.
Tyler Blair...All Caps when you spell the Man’s Name..
Momma has to be my favorite Kendrick Song. The lyrical content, the flow, the vibe, and that god damn instrumental are just too good
Mortal man is one of the most meaningful songs ever tho 🤔🤔🤔🤔
it works better as an outro then as a song
The Aqua Grinch facts
BIG FACTS
Especially within the context of the album, but I think it isn't as great as a standalone song.
Not as much as sing about me imo
u is the rawest (and imo best) kendrick song to this day. so incredibly personal yet he amplifies it by embodying the other characters and basically acting it out with that chilling vocal performance
Dude how the actual fuck could you first round institutionalized
yur mum gay FACTS B! Like his reasoning had me TIGHT
Well, untitled 2 is amazing
Belennos and you’re a bitch. So looks like it evens out stupid ass nigga
but feel isnt
because untitled 02 is fuckin amazing
PRIDE. and U are my favorite songs. Also For Sale.
But I think we all can agree Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst is his magnum opus.
Maybe I wasn't theeerrrrrreeee
MYNAMEISMYNAME hyper normie
MYNAMEISMYNAME you’re joking.... right?
can we all agree that? umm no
What about keisha's song
the fact that sing about me, im dying of thirst isn't even in the top 4...
>King Kunta beat u
>AND Sing About Me I'm Dying of Thirst
Sometimes I worry about you.
Victor Viridian sounds like u got a bone to pick
>sing about me beat Keisha’s Song
Dylan Knight duh
@@oc800. You’ve never heard Keisha’s song then, STUPID! YOU THINK GARBAGE ABOUT ME DYING OF GARBAGE IS BETTER THAN THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME
@@dylanknight1399 YEAH THIS GIY HAS BAD OPINION
Mortal man out first round ? Wow okay lol
Tell me how no make up made it to 2nd round but money trees didn’t
edit : THESE WALLS DIDNT EITHER WTF
10:18 ..... Excuse me.... Duckworth isn't the best instrumentaly.... I am confusion
i'm angry
MF DOOM Bracket next!!
Nardwuar holy fuck is there one out?
the art of peer pressure being eliminated that early got me in my feels :(
prob my fav off of gkmc
@@funoryx1169 over sing about me?
@@bynne4567 yes peer pressure is better than sing about me
i laughed so hard when you put ronald reagan era over money trees, wtf
lesryglrhfohser fr. But Section 80 is underrated but he didn't even mention the fantastic Jay Rock feature
lesryglrhfohser such a joke...
@@kcopara1417 Your opinion is a joke!
MAKE A TYLER MADNESS BRACKET
This comment is even more relevant nowadays
These Walls is my favorite Kendrick song 😞 hate to see it leave that early
Yes
Yes
@@96romulo yes
“Went with Blow My High over Kings Dead because ”La Di Da Di Da, Slob on me Knob””. DEAD 😂
whoa I was not expecting the #1 to be what it was. I would've counted it out, but you had a fantastic case for it.
_+1_ *respect*
_+69_ *melon* *polish*
yeah king's deaf has kendrick's best guitar solo by far
I never thought I’d agree w Fantano this much on anything 😂 My top 3 Kendrick songs are How much a dollar cost, Wesley’s theory & m.A.A.d city
These Walls and Money Trees couldn’t make it out the first round?!?
Tyler Morton I know right,These Walls is one of the best ( if not the best ) songs on the album.
WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY ABOUT MOMMA
RIGHT
I DON'T THINK ANTHONY REALLY APPRECIATES HOW THAT'S ACTUALLY THE BEST KENDRICK SONG. GENERALLY GOOD PICKS, BUT ONE BAD TAKE
MOMMA ONE OF THE BEST SONGS ON TPAB. SMFH MELON.
auto music That’s the only song I like on TPAB
That one tends to grow on people, I really think it's a classic and better than Backseat Freestyle for sure.
putting king kunta over sing about me should me a sin
fuck you
Money Trees lost to Ronald Reagan Era. I get that this is just your opinion melon man but you are no longer allowed to have an opinion.
Ronald Raygun Ronald Reagan Era has some really good verses and plays a big role in the concept of Section 80. Also the Kendeick Verses on Money Trees are super repetitive in comparison to Jay Rocks
I agreed. Money trees is fun to listen to but I think Ronald Reagan Era is overall a better track
Untitled 03 is kendrick's most underrated track, it's one of the best written songs ever to me and for it to be a B-side is insane.
I know this is old but LOYALTY OVER POE MANS DREAMS wtf
Best song is ‘Bitch, I’m in the club’ don’t @ me
Gabriel gibson 💀
HUMBLE gets upsetted the very first pick😂
Entropathocracy69
Because humble is a pretty mediocre song lol
ρυηρυη Not disagreeing. Just figured that’d be the one thing to cause a lot of mainstream fans to shut the video off 2 minutes in lmao.
No surprise, it’s not even the best song on Damn.
Hello yeah Keisha's song is incredible.
Entropathocracy69 Humble is a great song though
u from TPAB is an emotional mess in the best way possible. He just can't control himself but he still lets his story be heard. His acting on the music video is also on point and describes the emotion throughout the song perfectly.
Now or Never is so unfairly underrated. The funky, uplifting hook is so infectious.
Levitate over these walls😒🤦♂️
that can work two ways
Mongolian folk singers be like 28:53
I think you miss the point of No Make Up. It isn't Kendrick being preachy about make up, it's a story of a boy trying to tell his girlfriend he loves her no matter how she looks, without him knowing that she was wearing make up to cover up the abuse of a family member
BoredOfYou I see both sides.
BoredOfYou I assure you he didn’t miss the point it’s a pretty clear cut track and gets the message across pretty clearly
@@sergiomendoza4040 I would agree, but our friend Marchthony Madtano didn't think GKMC had a strong central theme, but thought TPAB did, because TPAB had the same poem fragments in a ton of its tracks, while you actually needed to listen to the lyrics and tone in GKMC to follow the themes.
Source: his own words in his TPAB review, where he uses this to justify TPAB getting a 10 over GKMC's 9.
Jason I don’t think he said it didn’t have a strong central theme I also don’t think that Good kid getting a 9 was because of the “lack of strong central theme” in the tpab review melon mentions how Kendrick’s mindset was likely that “I’m going to make trendier music but I’m going to do it on my terms” when making GKMC I figured that was more of the justification for the 9 where tpab was completely on its own in terms of sound/ production etc at the time of its release there was nothing like it not that good kid didn’t stand on its own but in terms of production I always assumed melon realized this wasn’t Kendrick pushing himself to his limits to make something like tpab which was a “benchmark in music history” his word too in the tpab review
Where's Kush & Corinthians!?
my thoughts exactly
Exactly, how is No Make-Up gonna be there but not Kush and Corinthians
Thank you! Who picked the Kendrick tracks that were entered? Kush and Corinthians beats half the tracks on DAMN (or all of them imo)
Ikr
Gregers Knutson THANK YOU
The hardest choice was the first round for Sing About me and The Art of Peer Pressure. Those songs resonate with me so much.
Hiiipower tho?
I'm totally fine with it losing to Wesley's Theory
Hiii Power is great but Wesley’s Theory is debatedly my favorite Kendrick Lamar song ever
It was up against Wesleys Theory wish is obviosuly Kendricks best opener ever
The Blacker The Berry and Sing about me I'm dying of thirst are Kendrick's Magnum Opus.
I can't choose between this two tho
choose sing about me. simple.
Yes! How Much A Dollar Cost! I’ve been telling everyone how good that song is for so long...y’all be sleeping
Frrr that song is so deep
Maad City and Blacker The Berry is definitely the hardest one....Maad City is like NY State Of Mind for Compton but TBTB is so hard hitting and heart felt
Billy Joel, Nice
He meant Nas' ny state of mind
Untitled 05 is criminally underrated.
Honestly I am so happy that someone finally shed light on the fact that FEEL. is an amazing and incredibly underrated track; I probably would’ve put FEEL. and King Kunta in the championship and had King Kunta win it, you just can’t beat that track
Agreed. My top 3 are 1. Sing About Me 2. How Much a Dollar Cost 3. FEEL.
King Kunta is a great song as well
The best Kendrick song is probably U
Carter Bryson Thank u
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst > u > bunch of others probably > King Kunta
tbh
I agree. Song brought me to tears
U stupid
no u
Yall look up Cartoon and cereal and tell me that's not one of his best!
alexis montes it’s THE best!
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN these people put the black panther songs but not cartoon and cereal that woulda made top 4 for me minimum
It's not one of his best.
I'm just so confused as to why it's not even included....
Retro Star soooo fucking good!!! The fact that I’ll never be able to have a physical copy of that song pisses me off so fucking much!
did he just say mortal man was 'decent'
Yes
by to pimp a butterfly standards im guessing
@@krlllx even then it is the best ending to an album. but i wont classify it as a song
do the frank ocean one PLEASE
clmarick YEA
Not enough material.
Don't Tread On Memes it exists tho! www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/FrankOcean/comments/8446iw/i_made_a_frank_madness_bracket_for_the_cult/
Four albums is enough material..
Pyramids is the answer
The Blacker The Berry got snubbed smh
u may only have 9 likes but you must know those were from the REAL ON E S
More real ones are coming along there are 29 likes now
Should have won... How much a dollar cost is dope also though
That's my close second man.
Favorite K. Track.
Putting Fear vs How Much a Dollar Cost is unfair.
The GKMC songs are gonna bulldoze this tournament. I think TPAB is the better album, as a collective, but GKMC by far had the best individual songs.
James Burgess it's already in semifinals. 2 gkmc left. Only one in the finale
agreed kind sir
Hard agree
James Burgess Wrong boi
James Burgess sction 80 for the win
Blood was a waste of a seeded track tbh.
what I'm saying how you gonna put blood over untitled 05 like that shit ain't top 10 kendrick
"Yuh is one of the most bor-" lemme stop you right there melon
if the 'for free? interlude' doesn't win im unsubscribing
This but unironically
slando unsubbed yet?
But this win ain’t freeeeee
Alright was an absolutely amazing song tho…
Byron the best eh, it was alright
DO A RADIOHEAD ONE
My favorites gotta be Flex Like Ouu off Lil Pump
Poetic justice is supposed to be blue
Do a radiohead one!