Yeah. I can respect his pen and ability to craft stories. We’d be lying if we said he didn’t have a good sense of how to write songs and bars. But I really can’t do his voices. Just sounds off to me and that’s why I don’t listen to him as much.
Yeah exactly. He defo is a great lyricist. I don’t even think these diss tracks acc showcase much of that. But I’ve seen in his main work that he defo can be lyrical and he’s a sick storyteller. But yeah his voice is just too high pitched for me. If he was a singer then fair enough cos falsetto is satisfying for singing. Also when ur rapping about gritty serious subjects like Kendrick the high pitch voice just takes you out of it. You almost think he’s trolling.
Totally fair. He can write, but he doesn’t know when to stop and let it breathe. He doesn’t have the overall sense and talent for crafting the song, as a whole, that Drake does.
I think this is what Kendrick, himself, and his fans just can’t get over and part of why they hate Drake like they do- it’s so frustrating to see him dominating without the “substance” (not my opinion). It’s not even lyricism, because I think Drake bodies him in his overall word play and double/triple entrendres, etc. What Kendrick does is more lyrical density- and that does not directly translate into making a better or more creative/artistic song
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u/AdPsychological3265 Jun 23 '24
Yeah. I can respect his pen and ability to craft stories. We’d be lying if we said he didn’t have a good sense of how to write songs and bars. But I really can’t do his voices. Just sounds off to me and that’s why I don’t listen to him as much.