{"id":6927,"date":"2016-03-06T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:37:30","slug":"album-review-kendrick-lamar-untitled-unmastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/album-review-kendrick-lamar-untitled-unmastered\/","title":{"rendered":"Albumrezension: Kendrick Lamar \u2013 Untitled Unmastered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Untitled Unmastered<\/span><\/i> is about what you would expect from an album full of songs that weren\u2019t good enough to make it onto the <\/span>best hip hop album of the decade<\/span><\/a>. I love Kendrick, and I understand that Lebron James wanted to get his hands on Kendrick\u2019s unreleased tracks, but releasing these as a full album just felt unnecessary. While hardcore Kendrick fans will obviously love this record, it didn\u2019t do anything for me.
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On songs like Untitled 02 and Untitled 05 it\u2019s abundantly obvious the songs are leftovers from To Pimp A Butterfly. On Untitled 02 you can hear the brass that was on “<\/span>Sie<\/span><\/a>“, and on Untitled 05 you can also hear musical themes that were on <\/span>Sie<\/span><\/a>. Still, these are actually two of my favorite tracks on the album, not just because of the easily identifiable elements from To Pimp A Butterfly, but because of Kendrick\u2019s verses. When I heard about the album coming out I was excited; I expected all of these untitled tracks to have the same raw aggression that Kendrick had in his <\/span>grammy performance<\/span><\/a>. Instead we really only got aggressive verses on Untitled 02, Untitled 05, and Untitled 07. The rest of the tracks are interludes or softer songs, which I really don\u2019t mind. I actually loved Untitled 06, and Ceelo Green made a great appearance on the track. I guess it\u2019s more my fault than the album’s that I was expecting something different. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fun Fact: Swizz Beatz’s 5 year old son produced the second part of \u00a0Untitled 07<\/span><\/p>\n

Kendrick did deliver\u00a0some pretty crazy disses on this album. Specifically on Untitled 07, where he calls out <\/span>Jay Electronica<\/span><\/a> and Drake. I thought Kendrick\u2019s Jay Electronica diss was pretty clever, but I\u2019m more excited about his Drake diss. On the track Kendrick raps \u201cI gotta take it there, I ain\u2019t even playin\u2019 no more\/ Said you just make me wanna Drake you down\u201d Kendrick is basically saying he is gonna take Drake down. Is it bad I want them to exchange diss tracks? Probably, but who cares it would be really entertaining. Lyrically the album was pretty straight forward Kendrick, but I didn\u2019t understand the parts of the album where he kept referring to head. Often in the album the phrase \u201chead is the future\u201d will appear, and I didn\u2019t understand it at all.<\/span> I thought he was talking about blowjobs. It turns out he might be talking about <\/span>hedonism<\/span><\/a>, but while I was listening it really took me out of the album.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201e<\/span>Before you poke out your chest, loosen your bra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Before you step out of line and dance with the star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I could never end a career if it never start<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I enjoyed this album, and I\u2019m sure many other fans and critics enjoyed it, but you have to take this album for what it is. It\u2019s always nice to have some new material to listen to but there wasn\u2019t any substance to the songs unless you kept on thinking back to To Pimp A Butterfly, which wasn\u2019t hard. This album is full of songs that weren\u2019t good enough to make it onto the greatest hip hop album of the decade. Overall the album is good, but it\u2019s not in anyway great or fantastic. Technically this album is the follow-up to To Pimp A Butterfly, but I wouldn\u2019t call it that, I\u2019d call his next album the follow-up. I will be anxiously awaiting Kendrick\u2019s next album so we can actually gauge his progress since To Pimp A Butterfly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Favorite Songs: Untitled 02, Untitled 05, Untitled 06<\/span><\/p>\n

Least Favorites Songs: Untitled 04<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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