Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
This was one of the most emotionally complex pieces that I've ever encountered. I entered this knowing very little about Kendrick Lamar outside of To Pimp A Butterfly, and that was plenty enough for me to have my expectations real high already for this one. And oh my God it did not fail to meet them at all . It's a really similar album to TPAB actually, in many different ways, the more raw and personal approach on a lot of songs and the sort of narrative that it has throughout the 2 discs that it encompasses, but while TPOAB looked mainly into the bigger picture of society and how it connected to Kendrick's personal struggle, and this one does that a bit too, but it's so much more personal, and that's amazing. It really feels like the type of project and artist does for themselves, being driven only by the impulse of self expression, where every sound, word, and creative decision is what feels best to the artist, not what would "work better" in a technica...