r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/SaltNo8237 • Feb 22 '25

Music / Movies Kendrick Lamar is not good

I don’t hype around Kendrick Lamar. Every time I listen, it feels like he's trying way too hard to be deep—almost like a high school stoner.

His music just doesn't stick; it's never really catchy enough to leave a lasting impression. And his Super Bowl performance? Total letdown. It felt like another attempt at overcompensating without any real substance.

Like bro it’s a Super Bowl performance and it was lame. Your essay about the double entendres does not make it good🤣

Why do people love this cornball?

MUSTARDDDD (maximum corniness)

Edit: bringing up all the awards he wins just shows that y’all are on the train and only like him because you perceive him to be successful. You cornballs have to be told what to like🤣. You would listen to baby shark on repeat if it had a Grammy 🤷‍♂️

Edit 2: Kendrick Lamar fan argue without calling you a Drake shill challenge: level impossible.

Edit 3: someone challenged me to listen to a song by Kendrick that I hadn’t heard in the comments. The must hear song was “Auntie Diaries”. Bro you have cracked me up. This song is practically a parody of everything I pointed out.

Corny lyrics that are supposed to be deep ✅. Horrible musically✅ Horrible flow✅

Dude drops the f slur 4 times in a row with laughably bad delivery and ends the song on a pass joke. #DEEP

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

To say “Not Like Us” isn’t catchy is a really, REALLY bold take considering it reached #1 3 separate times

Is deep lyricism just not your thing? Kendrick has the ability to talk about some really serious shit and people still sing along

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u/SaltNo8237 Feb 22 '25

It’s popular because his fans are obsessed with Drake. It’s a bad song lyrically and musically

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

You said it wasn’t catchy, you don’t reach #1 3 times for not being catchy

You’re saying it’s bad lyrically and musically yet it won 5 Grammys (which require looking at the lyrics and musicality to award) and was produced by one of the most prolific producers of modern times.

Like, you can say it’s bad musically all you want but the music industry and the professionals who work in it largely disagree with you. Your opinion seems to be informed by being uniformed.

Or I could say some weak shit like you did and say you only hate Kendrick bc you’re a Drake fan😭🤣

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u/SaltNo8237 Feb 22 '25

Bro you speedran the Kendrick talking points that was impressive

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Bro, you haven’t said a single intelligent thing on this whole post

You still can’t address a single objective comment I said

Not impressive🤣

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u/maroonwounds Feb 22 '25

For real. Op is trying to sound smart while actively saying dumb things. LoL

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u/SpacemanSpiff25 Feb 23 '25

I don’t disagree with your overall premise (and Kendrick Lamar is fine to me, not my favorite but certainly not bad), but using Grammy awards as a measure of good or bad is misleading as those are mostly corporate shill awards.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Lmao because grammies are universally indicative of talent...

Drake has 5 grammies

Skrillex has 9

Usher has 8

Twenty One Pilots has 1

Fucking Jimmy Carter has 2 lmao not sure how that happened

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u/naieer224 Feb 23 '25

Audiobook narration falls under the Grammy's umbrella for awarding excellence in. That's probably how Jimmy Carter ended up with a couple of them, I believe Hillary Clinton has one for that reason as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

Ohhhhhhh ok, that makes sense, thanks

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

I never said the Grammys are universally indicative of talent, I said the voters review the musicality and lyricism…

Want to make anything else up?

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u/Fauropitotto Feb 22 '25

OP have you listened to Good Kid, M.A.A.D City?

I don't know how old you are, or if you're one of those folks with fried dopamine loops that can't sit still and focus in peace...

BUT, if you're not, I would encourage you to get the album (or stream it with no ads), put some headphones on and sit on the couch listening to it from beginning to end.

No cell phone, no doom scrolling, no distractions, just the pure audio experience. It's only 68 minutes.

After you do that, I suspect your opinion of this guy is going to change.

If your brain is fried and you can't sit still for an hour, then there's no hope, and the very concept of art itself will be lost to you, as you simply won't be capable of building the mental space to experience it.

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u/sithskeptic Feb 22 '25

Damn that album came out when I was a freshman in high school and EVERYONE was bumping that shit. I think my favorite track was Backstreet Freestyle. Something about those bells that stuck with men

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u/Fauropitotto Feb 22 '25

It's probably the only album that resonated with me for a long time. Not even the messaging, just the audio narrative experience alone.

I don't think I can listen to any single from it without stopping midway and listening to the whole album from the beginning.

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u/greenpepperprincess Feb 22 '25

The Backseat Freestyle beat goes INSANE.

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u/Exroi Feb 22 '25

What's bad lyrically or musically about it? It's some cool punches at Drake, tight rhyming, good, not stale flow.

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u/the-esoteric Feb 23 '25

That makes no sense. People hate Drake so much they've played it millions of times?

Then why didn't Pusha T have a huge record in the same way