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but i do feel like there is a kind of weird undertone of 'this record belongs in a museum' to that sentence. You are clearly not suggesting that kendrick lamar needs to be compared to picasso in order to be considered seriously as an artist. but always sort of doing the opposite and reaffirming the institutions / critical discourses that grant legitimacy, rather than highlighting asymmetrical configurations through which new music is distributed, consumed, evaluated.

I wouldn't have minded so much a comparison to, say, 'a change is gonna come'īut i feel like having kendrick lamar and pablo picasso in the same sentence sort of smacks of that peculiar need critics or intellectuals sometimes have to contextualize/legitimize hip hop. Obviously, that's not a thing I would like to hear a whole album about but I am not really worried about Kendrick coming up with some interesting stuff. His bragging is just hilariously otherworldly, I mean he plays on this religious, messianistic imagery where he is a god and leaves you wondering how the fuck do I even answer to that. I mean HUMBLE sounds like he's coming back to put rappers who thought he's about different stuff in their place again. Right now he recognizes he's the guy who made TPAB and he can literally do and call out whoever the fuck he wants because basically everything he says from now on is treated like a manifesto. But what I like about Kendrick's career is that he always recognized the position he was in and knew what to do - after GKMC he knew he had the audience and authority to make To Pimp a Butterfly. TPAB was literally forcing you to immediately recognize it as a classic from the very first day it came out. That album was such a socially important statement that you can't really follow it up with anything being even remotely that momentous. I think To Pimp a Butterfly is kind of closed chapter. I like the song, wonder if it's a little bit of a headfake in the vein of 'i' - leading with a straightforward track and following with a more complex album.

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