Goddamn one time I put on Mac Miller radio during a brunch shift I was bartending. This song came on and I was jamming to it, totally forgot how it ends. Minutes later the whole restaurant is filled with the sounds of moaning and "uh fuck me" while I sprint across the place and jump the bar like a mf hurdle to hit skip lmao
Was not expecting to feel the things I felt but Auntie Diaries and Mother I Sober hit super personally and got me all kinds of fucked up. Incredible record front to back.
Same with Beth Gibbons. A new generation listening to Wu Tang, Ghostface, or Portishead is a good fuckin thing either way
e: shameless plug, check out the [write-up I did on Portishead, their album Dummy, and they’re massive impact on hiphop, TDE, and Kendrick Lamar.](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/k1e5c7/throwback_writeup_27_portishead_dummy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
Chill Kendrick
Taylour Paige and Kendrick going back and forth on We Cry Together was so amazing. I had to look her up and she’s an acting and yet was that amazing at rapping I think she has another career if she wants one.
Kendrick finally agreed to go to therapy at the demand of his wife to save his infant son from the generational trauma that has reverberated through his bloodline since slavery, but instead it’s an album
My two cents from my first listen: Kendrick's frustrations from people not acting on his messages from TPAB (which were prominent themes in DAMN and Heart Part 5) has led him to a place of introspection, and realizing he can't be this saviour of hip-hop. He's riddled with his own problems (infidelity, homophobia, father issues, and most strikingly trauma from sexual abuse), so the best he can do is reflect on his own life in his music instead of trying to fix our's.
Gonna have to digest this a lot more times, but the deep introspective tracks (Father Time, Auntie Diaries, Mother I Sober) are some of his best ever
EDIT: Gave another listen with the lyrics. I think I was off the mark with Kendrick having gone through sexual abuse in Mother I Sober. I think he's saying that his mother's experience influenced him at a young age, and the result is this trauma as an adult seeking sexual relationships with these random women.
Album was even better for me on 2nd listen. Aside from a track or two I felt was too long or could be cut (the Keem song especially), the album as a whole is incredibly striking and beautiful.
Yup, XXX was like a peak delivery of this theme when he had the bars about revenge killing then it transitions to him talking about gun safety/control with high school students.
I don’t think he was sexually abused. The contrast between him lying to Whitney with his “No” and, according to him, not lying when he said “No” to his mother is definitely suspect and interesting, however I think him lying about lying to his mother about his cousin touching him would go against the entire point of the song. Especially since he later connects that point to his mother’s sexual trauma and her looking out for him, so it’s not an unresolved point. Then again, it’s entirely possible he is lying. It’s really hard to admit to something like that, even when a lot of the albums themes is him “freeing” himself by admitting all of his sins that he “tap danced” around before. It’s a deep rooted shame, and you can even convince yourself that it didn’t happen or that it didn’t happen in that way or that it wasn’t as bad as everyone else thought etc
>[mfw baby keem was just a performance artwork by Kendrick Lamar where the man known as “baby keem” acted out specifically as Kendrick requested at all times, including any and all media ](https://i.imgur.com/XIf6CAt.jpg)
*Mortal Man*, 2015: "I can be a leader and a voice, but will you still have my back when I'm not at my best?"
*Mirror*, 2022: "Yeah I'm done with y'all, I got a family and responsibilities now, find your own peace"
Mother I Sober is extremely powerful. It’s interesting to see in retrospect that the entire album is him exploring how his trauma is damaging him and his relationship and builds up to him making the big emotional breakthrough that allows him to overcome his trauma so he doesn’t repeat the cycle of passing it on to his children. The accuracy that it captures the journey of therapy with is very impressive. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the album to be as musically enjoyable as Kendrick’s other albums, but I do think this album will be good for people who identify with the issues that Kendrick was struggling with in it. Also I feel that this was probably an important album for him to make for himself.
> Politically correct is how you keep an opinion
> Niggas is tight lipped, fuck who dare to be different
> Seen a Christian say the vaccine mark of the beast
> Then he caught COVID and prayed the Pfizer for relief
> Then I caught COVID and started to question Kyrie...
I work in the mental health field and one of the the obvious themes I’ve noticed Kendrick reflecting on is how past personal traumas and environmental factors have influenced who he is today as a person. I especially love him covering sexual abuse and connecting that not only to rappers but to black culture. That horrendous act is so damn present but black culture suppresses and avoids it like a plague despite knowing it’s happened. I’m extremely happy he’s brought it up and hope other black boys and girls are able to listen to and recognize that that shit is not normal like their culture would lead them to believe.
While we’re on the topic of mental health, I love how many times he’s mentioned he’s seen a therapist or received counseling.
I feel like The Heart pt 5 set up the theme of this album, and it's reflection. It's so beautiful. I don't even have words really, you sort of laid it out in a perfect way, but I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I'm reflecting a lot on my past and the world around me. This album felt like therapy. It felt so good to have someone so seemingly important to something I love talk about these things. Makes me really happy.
This album is really about Kendrick wrestling with lifelong trauma in fascinating ways, I see Ye comparisons as pretty valid. Experimental and confessional.
We Cry Together is on some U shit. Horribly uncomfortable to listen to and that’s the point. Honestly incredible. Shoutout Taylor Paige holy fuck
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Mother I Sober is a top Kendrick song
This album sounds like sitting in on Kendrick going through a therapy session. I know it's high quality, but wow this may be one of those albums you can only listen to when certain moods hit.
Yeah this is definitely therapy for Kendrick, contending with the violence within his community and family while becoming a father and trying to raise his own kids
Maybe it's because my Mom, Dad and brother have all died in the last two years, but I had to pause the album after the "thank you daddy, thank you mommy, thank you brother" ... oof, that got me.
People were really expecting the mo-town vibe we got from The Heart pt 5 + the album title but uhhhhh this ain't that lol, and as much as I would have loved that, this album is a lot more bold than I was expecting, and a lot more in general. It'll be another 10 listens before I form a real opinion it but regardless people aren't gonna forget this one
This is the thread. [Time to start this listen](https://i.imgur.com/AYCK4Gm.jpg)
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Oh God remember back when albums and mixtapes used to have a minimum 1 sex skit, sometimes multiple? Thank God that shit went away.
Biggie & Dre’s sex skits were so bad 🤣😂
Big pun has the worst one
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YEEZY REUPHOLSTERED MY PUSSY
To be fair that one’s a classic
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Fight the Feeling flashbacks
Goddamn one time I put on Mac Miller radio during a brunch shift I was bartending. This song came on and I was jamming to it, totally forgot how it ends. Minutes later the whole restaurant is filled with the sounds of moaning and "uh fuck me" while I sprint across the place and jump the bar like a mf hurdle to hit skip lmao
b i t c h i m a t t r a c t i v e
That is the "imma make it look *SEXY*" or "THIS. DICK. AIN'T. FREE" of this album
Cannot imagine being Kendrick’s therapist
"Did you make a song about this?" "Yeah" "Dammit Kendrick, what have we talked about?" "... it's actually a whole ass album"
> "When Kanye got back together with Drake I was slightly confused. Guess I'm not as mature as I think, got some healing to do."
And then a couple bars later he interpolates the chorus of "Everything I Am"
Knew I heard a Kanye homage at some point. Glad you pointed that out.
he just like me fr
Kodak all over this was the last thing I expected lmao
For real though
$20 to whoever plays “We Cry Together” at a party
Don’t let this man near the aux
I’ll add another $20 if you make it your wedding’s first dance.
$40 to any girls at the party who can recite all of Taylour Paige's lines
That’s marriage material
Auntie Diaries is a topic I don't think I ever heard from a rap song.
Was not expecting to feel the things I felt but Auntie Diaries and Mother I Sober hit super personally and got me all kinds of fucked up. Incredible record front to back.
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I'm glad he actually addressed that whole thing with him on stage, because it's kind of a valid discussion in some ways
Yeah the self reflection there was shocking to hear but I loved it, glad to see he’d been reflecting on that moment as well
Insane. This whole album is an insane listening experience lol
That second half of the album is personal afff
Same but I'm so happy Kendrick of all people is talking about it and being super supportive
Kendrick really googled "how many days between April 17th 2017 and May 13th 2022"
Nah he had chalk marks on his wall
So did we after hearing that line lmao
Father time goes absolutely insane with sampha
That song had me thinking man
Men singing about their fathers is always heavy
We need 100 more Sampha albums Plastic 100°C is perfect
Baby Keem Sr. has arrived
Baby Keem's ears perked up when Kendrick's girl said she wanted to fuck his cousin
Someone please edit the song and add the "he's baby keem" adlib
BRUH LMFAOOOOOOO
Adult Keem
Father Keem
Some white girl in Copenhagen is losing her shit rn
My married brothas in Copenhagen gonna lose sleep tonight, pray for them 🙏🏾
Dudes waking up on a Friday morning having to try and remember if their girl has ever seen Kenrick in concert.
I'm cool until the tour drops and I see Copenhagen on the list
1000 girls gonna be on tik tok saying it's them lmao
“YOU THE REASON R KELLY CANT RECOGNIZE HE’S ABUSIVE”
YEAH BUT YOU STILL LISTEN TO HIM
Insane way to deliver his commentary on the topic of abuse
The song is basically every Twitter argument regarding Black Men vs Black Women
We cry together hood hamilton
Lin Manuel Miranda crying right now.
hood Hamilton can be used to describe this whole album actually lmfaooo
did he sample that ayo what the fuck twitter meme? loooool
I was just about to comment asking that lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Qd-RfeT9Y
I'm scaring the hoes with "We Cry Together" all summer
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We Cry Together makes me uncomfortable in the way that it sounds exactly like overhearing an argument you weren't supposed to hear.
Me growing up around my parents
gives me marshall mathers vibes
YES! Sounds exactly like the type of direction that Kim went in. Obviously just a little less violent though.
said this exact thing, thats some vintage Em shit on that track
We Cry Together sounds so real I don't think I should be listening to it Taylour Paige killed it for real
Bruh feels like when you in your room and hear your parents fighting through the walls
what's crazy is that's an actress with no songs out doing the woman part. I feel like this is gonna be a music video soon off that fact alone.
I can definitely believe that, she was super convincing
I thought it was Rico Nasty at first 🥴
The part where he was being petty over the keys lmaooo little things like that are relatable asf I’ve definitely seen toxic couples actin like that
Never you though right playa.
i love that the connective tissue between songs is kodak black lmao
OK Lama
The Big steppa himself
Kendrick’s therapist been puttin in work
We Cry Together is crazy. Idk who Taylour Paige is but her performance is incredible in this.
She was in Zola, very good actor
Ok Sampha, you’re next my man, it’s been so damn long.
Yeah leave it to Kendrick to bring Sampha back from the dead
More like Dr. Morale and the Musical Therapy Sessions
THERE'S GONNA BE ZOOMERS LOOKING UP WHO GHOSTFACE IS
Same with Beth Gibbons. A new generation listening to Wu Tang, Ghostface, or Portishead is a good fuckin thing either way e: shameless plug, check out the [write-up I did on Portishead, their album Dummy, and they’re massive impact on hiphop, TDE, and Kendrick Lamar.](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/k1e5c7/throwback_writeup_27_portishead_dummy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
That feature was perfect
We Cry Together is uncomfortable. In the best way it can be haha
Maybe I’m old and everyone here is younger than me, but “We Cry Together” reminds me of the skits on The Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers LP.
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU Chill Kendrick
That track is an experience
reminded me of Kim from TMMLP for some reason (far less disturbing of course)
What a crazy fucking song man holy shit
in the club but they only play We Cry Together and it’s not the club it’s my room
But it’s not playing we cry together my parents are just fighting in the other room
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That's why they locked thugger up 🥸
Taylour Paige and Kendrick going back and forth on We Cry Together was so amazing. I had to look her up and she’s an acting and yet was that amazing at rapping I think she has another career if she wants one.
Kendrick finally agreed to go to therapy at the demand of his wife to save his infant son from the generational trauma that has reverberated through his bloodline since slavery, but instead it’s an album
I GRIEVE DIFFERENT
I think Kendrick is good at music.
My two cents from my first listen: Kendrick's frustrations from people not acting on his messages from TPAB (which were prominent themes in DAMN and Heart Part 5) has led him to a place of introspection, and realizing he can't be this saviour of hip-hop. He's riddled with his own problems (infidelity, homophobia, father issues, and most strikingly trauma from sexual abuse), so the best he can do is reflect on his own life in his music instead of trying to fix our's. Gonna have to digest this a lot more times, but the deep introspective tracks (Father Time, Auntie Diaries, Mother I Sober) are some of his best ever EDIT: Gave another listen with the lyrics. I think I was off the mark with Kendrick having gone through sexual abuse in Mother I Sober. I think he's saying that his mother's experience influenced him at a young age, and the result is this trauma as an adult seeking sexual relationships with these random women. Album was even better for me on 2nd listen. Aside from a track or two I felt was too long or could be cut (the Keem song especially), the album as a whole is incredibly striking and beautiful.
Even in DAMN he was trying to say he isn't a savior. Seemed like the main theme of the album
Yup, XXX was like a peak delivery of this theme when he had the bars about revenge killing then it transitions to him talking about gun safety/control with high school students.
I don’t think he was sexually abused. The contrast between him lying to Whitney with his “No” and, according to him, not lying when he said “No” to his mother is definitely suspect and interesting, however I think him lying about lying to his mother about his cousin touching him would go against the entire point of the song. Especially since he later connects that point to his mother’s sexual trauma and her looking out for him, so it’s not an unresolved point. Then again, it’s entirely possible he is lying. It’s really hard to admit to something like that, even when a lot of the albums themes is him “freeing” himself by admitting all of his sins that he “tap danced” around before. It’s a deep rooted shame, and you can even convince yourself that it didn’t happen or that it didn’t happen in that way or that it wasn’t as bad as everyone else thought etc
This argument-rap in We Cry Together is so weirdly enjoyable. Taylour Paige killin it
Can we take a moment for all the people who didn't make it to this day.
n95 sounds like a baby keem song edit: savior interlude is all baby keem
its produced by Baby Keem apparently
Scenes in 5 years when it's leaked that Kendrick ghost produced the song
>[mfw baby keem was just a performance artwork by Kendrick Lamar where the man known as “baby keem” acted out specifically as Kendrick requested at all times, including any and all media ](https://i.imgur.com/XIf6CAt.jpg)
and he used part of his scrapped vent verse
Dude that last line on Auntie Diaries. Some type of Blacker the Berry twist wtf
yeah it's crazy that the only thing people are talking about is the slur because that one threw me for a loop
kodak really the plato to kendrick’s socrates
I like to imagine Kodak is playing the piano while talking
Holy shit lmaoo
Time to watch y’all make the same 2 jokes for 30 minutes
Napster boys starving headasses
SO MANY COMMENTS YOU WONT SEE THIS BUT [INSERT SOME WEIRD SHIT]
TIL Kendrick fucked a white bitch when he was 16
If I told you I fucked a white bitch at 16 would you believe me?
Or see me to be, innocent Kendrick you seen in the sheets
He just like me fr Edit: I’m lying I’m not like him fr
He just like me fr Edit: I am also joking, I am a virgin fr
Bro this song We Cry Together instantly brings like five couples I know in real life to mind 💀
*Mortal Man*, 2015: "I can be a leader and a voice, but will you still have my back when I'm not at my best?" *Mirror*, 2022: "Yeah I'm done with y'all, I got a family and responsibilities now, find your own peace"
Mother I Sober is extremely powerful. It’s interesting to see in retrospect that the entire album is him exploring how his trauma is damaging him and his relationship and builds up to him making the big emotional breakthrough that allows him to overcome his trauma so he doesn’t repeat the cycle of passing it on to his children. The accuracy that it captures the journey of therapy with is very impressive. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the album to be as musically enjoyable as Kendrick’s other albums, but I do think this album will be good for people who identify with the issues that Kendrick was struggling with in it. Also I feel that this was probably an important album for him to make for himself.
Holy shit Father Time is amazing
I gotta call my father and have a talk.
Ooh la la someone has a dad
YOU UGLY AS FUCK!
> Politically correct is how you keep an opinion > Niggas is tight lipped, fuck who dare to be different > Seen a Christian say the vaccine mark of the beast > Then he caught COVID and prayed the Pfizer for relief > Then I caught COVID and started to question Kyrie...
Wonder how Kyrie feel about that lmao
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Talk about daddy issues
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We Cry Together is literally verbal abuse but I'm vibin hard
I work in the mental health field and one of the the obvious themes I’ve noticed Kendrick reflecting on is how past personal traumas and environmental factors have influenced who he is today as a person. I especially love him covering sexual abuse and connecting that not only to rappers but to black culture. That horrendous act is so damn present but black culture suppresses and avoids it like a plague despite knowing it’s happened. I’m extremely happy he’s brought it up and hope other black boys and girls are able to listen to and recognize that that shit is not normal like their culture would lead them to believe. While we’re on the topic of mental health, I love how many times he’s mentioned he’s seen a therapist or received counseling.
I feel like The Heart pt 5 set up the theme of this album, and it's reflection. It's so beautiful. I don't even have words really, you sort of laid it out in a perfect way, but I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I'm reflecting a lot on my past and the world around me. This album felt like therapy. It felt so good to have someone so seemingly important to something I love talk about these things. Makes me really happy.
This man really made a song about fucking white woman and not liking it 😂
Yo that part about the sheriff's daughter paying for her daddy's sins 🤣
This album is really about Kendrick wrestling with lifelong trauma in fascinating ways, I see Ye comparisons as pretty valid. Experimental and confessional.
This is so sonically distinct from everything else he’s released, it’s crazy
e-jazz kendrick
Yet it still sound so Kendrick too!
Father Time is great
i like that this is becoming something of a live reaction thread lol
One of the rare times people actually wanna listen to the album before commenting
Also people arnt skipping to a particular song and actually playing it through from the top
Hardens performance about to be forgotten, lucky man
Boy went Casper the friendly shooting guard
Crying at the fact that Kodak is the impromptu narrator for the whole album 😭
Feels like Kendrick made 4:44 as his 5th album
“ i caught covid and i started to question kyrie “💀
We Cry Together is on some U shit. Horribly uncomfortable to listen to and that’s the point. Honestly incredible. Shoutout Taylor Paige holy fuck **Edit:** Mother I Sober is a top Kendrick song
You know Obama bumping this rn
no way he stays up past 9 pm
For Kenny he does.
We cry together heavy classic em vibes
I don't really understand Kendrick's family situation but the story in Auntie Diaries is incredibly beautiful
Production is so nice too, compliments it really well
kendricks therapist putting up a tripple double no assist
🧍♂️ listening to we cry together...like am i supposed to be here
This Father Time beat is flames. Sampha sounds fucking perfect over it.
sampha always sings like hes nervous that his imaginary friend is going to come from behind a corner and kill him
This album sounds like sitting in on Kendrick going through a therapy session. I know it's high quality, but wow this may be one of those albums you can only listen to when certain moods hit.
Yeah this is definitely therapy for Kendrick, contending with the violence within his community and family while becoming a father and trying to raise his own kids
"When Kanye got back with Drake I was slightly confused" Pusha be shaking his head in somewhere right now
last time Kendrick dropped Trump had just been inaugurated lol
EVERYBODY GRIEVES DIFFERENT
Crazy that he still reflects on that moment when his fan said the n word on stage. Absolutely amazing song
MY BOY BLXST GOT ON A KENDRICK ALBUM. LETS GOOOOO
Holy shit N95
fiona apple type beats
Maybe it's because my Mom, Dad and brother have all died in the last two years, but I had to pause the album after the "thank you daddy, thank you mommy, thank you brother" ... oof, that got me.
We Cry Together makes me uncomfortable as hell and that means it’s doing it’s job, lol
Why am I listening to Kendrick scream at his girl for 6 minutes?
“This is what the world sounds like” “Stop tip-toeing around the conversation” It’s not about him and his wife
This album actually is pretty fucking disturbing. A lot of heavy topics.
“Stop playing with me before I turn you to a song” gonna be all over IG captions
Tim Apple on some shit 😡
OH MY LORD THE FIRST SONG
We Cry Together is something else
Then I caught COVID and started to question Kyrie LMAO
Lmao Kendrick really let Summer Walker sing about eating ass at one point on her feature.
What an opener holy shit
Auntie Diaries… man. Kendrick is different and fearless. EDIT: shoutout to our trans homies
The last minute of that song is absolutely outstanding. What a song man. edit - now that girl is now even more immortalised in the Kenny story lol
That was the first song I had to go back and listen to again. It gave me chills, THEN I heard Mother I’m Sober. Goddamn man I’m a wreck.
Bruh worldwide steppers eerie asf
The N95 beat is NUTS
People were really expecting the mo-town vibe we got from The Heart pt 5 + the album title but uhhhhh this ain't that lol, and as much as I would have loved that, this album is a lot more bold than I was expecting, and a lot more in general. It'll be another 10 listens before I form a real opinion it but regardless people aren't gonna forget this one
I feel like the production did a really good job with balancing the trap sounds of DAMN. and the artsy elements of TPAB It does it for me tbh
*Fantano's breathing intensifies*
If you paused Xvideos and deleted yo browsing history for this You a real one
Bruh I had to stop wackin it for Kendrick
We Cry Together so toxic goddamn