Rotting Nostalgia: I love At the Drive-In, LCD Soundsystem, Converge and Full of Hell. Nothing wrong with that, unless you were hoping that an emcee at the top of his game would stop pandering to Big Sean fans. “For the streets” now means “for the basics / focus groups / DJ Akademiks clones of the world”. I didn’t care for most of the big ticket punk/hardcore releases (in the MRR sense or any other), nor did I like any of the Pitchfork darlings that aren’t on the lists above. Trash Compactor: Everything else was lacking for me.
In addition to the heat above, the old guard came though: Suffocation, Immolation, Incantation, Obituary all had solid offerings and Morbid Angel returned to their damn senses. Had to cut some releases out of my lists so the moribund wouldn’t overrule the living. Only _ Is Real: I really liked death metal this year. Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation.Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix.BROCKHAMPTON - Saturation I, II, and III.Not sure why you’re reading this, honestly. Here’s some stuff from 2017 that I liked. Girls, Chaos Echoes, and Parquet Courts.ĮPs: Blanck Mass, Wound Man, Klein, Protomartyr, and White Hills x Der Blutharsch. Honorable Mentions: Tribulation, Sons of Kemet, U.S. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides.Blasphamagoatachrist - Black Metal Warfare.Our Place of Worship Is Silence - With Inexorable Suffering.The fault lines are just easier to observe thanks to the internet’s electron microscope precision. The world isn’t any more divided than it was before. Niggas wanna flex on me and be in L.A.Constant Ringing: Best of the First Half of 2018 Niggas thought they wasn’t gonna see me, huh? You ain’t front in line, get out the goddamn way One through Five, that’s the only logicįake my death, go to Cuba, that’s the only option You know careers take off, just gotta be patient You know this’ll never be a tie, just look at they laces I got ’em by a landslide, we talkin’ about races Years in the makin’, and don’t y’all mistake it None of y’all fuckin’ with the flow, yeah, the flow, yeah They never been ready, yeah, I know, yeah, know, yeahġ00K spread across the floor, ‘cross the floor, yeah Goin’ digital and physical on all y’all, ayyīunch of criminals and money in my phone calls, ayyĬheckin’ for me heavy ’cause I go, yeah, I go, yeah Seven figures ho, that’s slimmer than my bitch figure, ayy I pull up, hop out, air out, made it look sexy If I gotta go hard on a bitch, I’ma make it look sexy If I gotta slap a pussy-ass nigga, I’ma make it look sexy See also Lyrics: Olivia Rodrigo - The Rose Song That’s why you maney-ass rap niggas better know We ain’t goin’ back to broke, family sellin’ dope
I’ll take your fuckin’ life for this shit, nigga I don’t do it for the ‘Gram, I do it for Compton I be hangin’ out at Tam’s, I be on Stockton Thirty millions later, know the feds watchin’Īuntie on my Telegram like, “Be cautious!” So ain’t nobody prayin’ for me, I’m on your head, ayy Put the Bible down and go eye for an eye for this shitĭ-O-T my enemy, won’t catch a vibe for this shit, ayy I done cried for this shit, might take a life for this shit I don’t give a, I don’t give a, I don’t give a fuck Y’all know, what happens on Earth stays on Earth LeBron is a huge Kendrick fan, and was instrumental in the release of his last project, untitled unmastered.Ī music video, directed by Jonas Lindstroem, was released on June 27, 2017. Prior to the album release, LeBron James jammed out to this song on his Instagram story. Kendrick delves into his personal journey of self-sacrifice and family tribulations that has so far accumulated in his life how the struggles his family and himself have endured have influenced & carried him to where he stands today: at the top of the game.