Reacting to "GNX" by Kendrick Lamar

I didn't really know what u meant by chanting "they not like us" being off putting to you because of u being how u are, but I'm guessing u mean it in a creating an out group kinda way. Thats really not what he's doing with that. He is talking as a black american protecting black american culture from being tokenized and exploited for monetery gain. He is critcizing capitalist exploitation of his culture and a historically marginalized group by the ruling class. So whatever u think, this slogan in that context is not punching down or creating an out group or whatever. It's an emancipatory slogan. (Sry for the bad spelling English is my 2nd language lol)

If you're doing the new Smino album today. It's short, so you could add another short album, like RAP Music by Killer Mike. Now wouldn't that be a surprise.

React to luv is rage 2 it’s so diverse with a ton of modern day classic trap songs that I’m surprised you don’t know about yet.

Would really love you to listen to king krule, if anyone one knows where to recommend stuff I’d appreciate it if y’all passed it along

You should really listen to Revolutionary 1 by Immortal Technique

you should listen to alternative trap by lucki

Really crossing my fingers for that Hell Hath No Fury reaction. :3

You caught the twist on Gloria faster than any other reactor I’ve seen nice work haha if you re-listen you’ll catch a bunch of references to pens/pencils/writing/etc

Bob when you were trying to explain in reincarnated the idea of having different aspects of your self be their own selves and communicating with each other for possibly therapeutic reasons…. you’re basically describing the inside out movies

Squabble up is a sample of debbie debs ‘when I hear music’ a hit 80’s freestyle song. I was surprised by how few ppl seemed to recognize it, I guess it’s more Bay Area specific thing. It was so funny listening to him sample such a random throwback, but it’s him showing love to Bay Area culture which I love to see

This album gets better with each listen. I got excited at Kendrick's flow on TV Off earlier today, as if I haven't already heard it dozens of times. Even GNX (unanimously the weakest track) is not a skip for me. This is Kendrick's best album for me since TPAB.

You’re the only reactor that I’ve watched so far who understood goria. I was soo happy 😂

I definitely hated the GNX track when I first heard it. It’s still my least favorite but it definitely grew on me.

my interpretation of tv off is that kendrick is telling someone to turn drakes tv off during the halftime show. it’s interesting bob and genius had different views tho

As someone who grew up in the bay area, this was right up my alley. Lots of hommage to west coast hip hop both contemporary and past sounds. I definitely can see this not being everyone's cup of tea if you're not used to growing up to these sounds but this is like a hommage to west coast music

I know you say that you don’t care about the beef and that you care more about the stuff he’s talking about in reincarnation, but those things are very much related in Kendrick’s eyes. Drake is the embodiment of everything he is speaking out against.

i swear kendrick says “past life regression” not “bad, slight progression” on reincarnated. is genius wrong on that one?

The only frame of reference you need for heart pt.6 is heart pt.5 !

Hopefully we get Friday Night Lights or The Warm Up next

Bing bop boom boom boom bop bam

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for dropping this today, putting it on now while I meal prep for tomorrow’s dinner.

To Sock Some One Is Another Way Of Saying To Punch Someone

Squabble Up samples Debbie Deb's "When I Hear Music" which is a pretty famous song for that west coast breakin' and poppin' scene in the 80s and is indicative of the sounds that even Dr Dre was producing back with the World Class Wrecking Cru

man at the garden is a nod to nas one mic track on stillmatic btw. Need more nas

Bob: "I don't wanna spend 20-30 minutes per song" *looks at the timeline* Me: "yup"

let’s gooooo

Literally just subscribed rn for this