This would be 10/10 if How Much a Dollar Cost and Blacker the Berry were removed and he used the non-live version of i.
Those are literally the best three songs dum dum
The album is already as close to perfect as an album can be. why change it?
>>60845337
literally the two best songs on the album and the live version of I is god-tier
>>60845337
nigga the single version of i is such ass
WE
WAZ
KINGZ
EN
QUEENS
MUHFUGGA
the album
>>60845337
non-live version of i wouldn't fit, it's too slick and commercial
Blacker the Berry is the emotional climax of the whole album so that needs to stay on and How Much a Dollar Cost is still good even if it has a shit hook
I'd remove i if I had to remove a track, the actual "song" portion is too short and the speech/freestyle is just a rehash of what he's already said throughout the album
>>60845389
Me btw
>>60845337
waaat you crazy
I agree w OP
Dollar is cliche af, Berry is a "race realist" anthem
>>60845337
Nah, I think Mortal Man is the only really unecessary song, and the Tupac interview is fucking corny.
How Much A Dolla Cost is a great concept but the execution could have been better
No problem with Blacker the Berry or i, I think i in its current form would have been a much better end than Mortal Man. The transition from catchy rap to spoken word to talking to the audience is a nice conceptual fade out.
Are you high?
ITT: OP posts shit opinions
>>60845337
this album would be a 10/10 if it didnt even fucking exist
>>60845337
'I' is absolute fucking trash and should not be. Otherwise, it's an ok album. It's not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination.
Kendrick always makes the last song more of a tack-on bonus track than a true finale. Same with Compton, same with HiiiPower (which is a great song but doesn't really feel like a finale at all). Same with Mortal Man. It's about your heroes being regular people and not gods, whether it's that time people thought MJ might have been a molestor, Tupac being convicted of rape, or all those political leaders being flawed cults of personality. Given how legacy-obsessed his latest songs have been, I think the concept for his next album or his J Cole collab might be about legacy and hero worship. If TPAB is his Invisible Man, his next might be his The Anxiety of Influence.
With that said, How Much a Dollar Cost is pretty meh as far as the album goes. It's a Facebook "share if you love God ignore for the devil" post in song form. His rapping and the best are both great and save the song but the concept is as cringeworthily hamfisted as God's Not Dead.
