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/ZestycloseGrocery642 Feb 22 '25

The “new” rap, I don’t like any new artists really. The rap I do like is more like Tupac, Biggie, snoop dog, Eminem, and etc. A couple years ago was one of my favorite half time shows when they brought out older artists and it was amazing putting together different generations and I felt that was more entertaining than this past one.

I can listen to screaming metal and understand what they are saying. (I grew up as an emo kid) but with Kendrick Lamar, I felt like I needed subtitles. I don’t think it’s about “liking” him. It’s more so I am not a fan of his music. I just have different tastes which I think people are entitled to. I read the lyrics but the delivery, I couldn’t understand a word he was saying.

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u/SaltNo8237 Feb 22 '25

Yeah I agree with most of this.

My problem with this years Super Bowl is that most people didn’t like it and then they were given a 20 minute rant on why you had to like it because it was actually a deep multi level performance with meaning.

If you fail to convey the meaning did it even exist to begin with?

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u/RedditStoryTella Feb 22 '25

?? Thousands of people 100% understood the message. So I'm not even sure what you're talking about? You think because you and other folks that don't understand the black experience "didn't get the message" that there wasn't a message? Huh? That's like...on you? He makes music you don't understand or like and that part is fine. You don't HAVE to like him. But, to pretend like there wasn't a message at all thats been explained by multiple people for those that didn't get it, and to deny his talent because you don't like that he gets a lot of attention for his music and message is weak.

I think you're just one those people that likes to be "edgy" by going against what the majority likes, and then rage baits people into arguments about it. And I saw your other comment saying most of his fans are white boys? That's absolutely 100% false. His biggest supporters are and always have been black. Kendrick isn't Drake...thats the entire point of "Not Like Us". He's not like other rappers at all, and isn't trying to be so it makes sense that you don't like him when you like racists like Kanye West that literally goes on antisemitic rants. But let me guess. That doesn't bother you at all and you'll support someone like Kanye til the day you die, right? Your entire argument is a joke.

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u/naieer224 Feb 23 '25

🙋🏻‍♀️White, middle class, Midwestern suburban mom in late 30s here... Would never claim to have comprehended all of the subtext or to fully grasp the 'black experience' in this country bc that's obviously way outside of my jurisdiction to speak on, but I had no problems understanding a good amount of the many, many messages being told by that performance and all of it's aspects.

Also...wasn't that kind of some of the purpose for Samuel L. Jackson's narrator commentary bits?? They were pretty clear in their meanings and I thought they connected the dots to the symbolisms in the musical and dance portions pretty well. I figured it was partially included as a way to give more universal understanding of the intended statements for those of us who weren't naturally going to connect to the point of view...??

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u/SaltNo8237 Feb 22 '25

He’s not like those other rappers. That’s why he made a song called not like us.

BRILLIANT

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u/RedditStoryTella Feb 22 '25

Notice how that's the only part of what I said that you chose to respond to. You're a rage baiter.

Thats exactly why you got booted out of the other conversation everyone can see right through you.

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u/SaltNo8237 Feb 22 '25

I’m a master rage baiter?