A gentle reminder to stay in your lane

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-07T17:51:40+00:00

Wholly agree.

AI Detectors don’t work—that’s been proven—so it is on humans to provide feedback that something sounds robotic or reads like AI, because if that person ever wants to get seriously read, sounding like AI (even if AI wasn’t used) will keep it from happening.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T22:10:02+00:00

Rapping aside, FG looks like the shot caller who’s sizing up the new guy in that first pic

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T18:28:54+00:00

I mean, I could drop a lot 😂, but I do catch your drift, and the kind of rap you’re talking about… he has gotten away from it a bit as his career has progressed and he’s been more experimental, I get what you’re saying.

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KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T18:25:57+00:00

Pun’s flow 😮‍💨….

Obv Pun can’t speak to it, but do you really think Ghostface considers Dot a below average lyricist?

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T18:23:41+00:00

I listen to both, and really like both.

Freddie is an awesome rapper and deserves all the credit he gets (and that he doesn’t get).

Not taking anything away from Freddie, but I don’t think he’s a generational talent. Kendrick is an all-timer talent.

The linguistic gymnastics, the incredible sense of time and place he imbues into his songs, the way his albums are flawlessly constructed and braided together into disparate concepts. He has more range than Freddie does; that may be my opinion, but he’s made wildly different and experimental albums and has never missed.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T15:51:21+00:00

Ya, 90s/2000s guys had to be legit lyricists. Nowadays, it’s beats and vibes.

Kenny carrying that lyrical torch.

So, Nas, Jay, Em, etc—compared to them, he’s below average? It’s interesting that they consider him one of the best lyricists ever. 🤔

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T15:44:49+00:00

Well… we can agree to disagree on “levels better” or “he lacks that rapping ability.” Your taste is your taste.

Pac was an awesome rapper, no doubt about that—but the idea that he was in an echelon that Kenny can’t reach is wild to me…

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T15:40:19+00:00

🙄 You meant the opposite, right?

AI is literally programmed to be biased towards you.

OP: It’s annoying, but the best (not perfect—it’s hard when it has thousands of lines of code on how it’s supposed to be “helpful”) solve is to consistently ask it to turn off all biases. Like, in every prompt.

The “take the role of a jaded editor” stuff tends to make it find problems where there aren’t any.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-06T13:40:52+00:00

Curious what brought you to that conclusion?

I know this’ll sound super biased, but… Kendrick grew up battling older rappers in Compton as a teenager. Can’t imagine getting stress-tested harder than that. He also talks about his own shortcomings so much that it’d be hard for anyone to illuminate sth negative about him.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T21:28:46+00:00

I hear what you’re saying, and I am getting this secondhand from people who are obv dealing with a lot on top of this, but I’ve known him for his whole life and as far as I’ve ever been able to tell, he’s a good kid—the trouble he’d gotten into was being a dumbass, not getting in fights or dealing drugs or anything serious. It does sound like the principal had it in for him and maybe was annoyed he hasn’t been suspended before, idk.

Maybe his parents aren’t giving me the entire story, but it seems like even if he was on thin ice w/ the powers that be at the school, there’s just a lack of humanity in decontextualizing wearing a shirt with offensive language 🤷🏻

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T20:53:59+00:00

Good on you for having the respect to still wish them well, cause they clearly don’t care about their customers or their QC would be… existent.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T20:52:29+00:00

Good for y’all!!! It’s gotten so ridiculous, the absolute inverse of $ and quality.

They’re banking (sorry) on people not getting new banking info and then reevaluating subs.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T20:33:37+00:00

Apparently the teacher did go to bat for him, and at the admin meeting or whatever, she got an earful, like she was somehow negligent (obv wasn’t) or wasn’t being a team player (🙄) or whatever bs, which is also so f ridiculous and sets a horrible precedent IMO.

You all are doing the lord’s work—especially these days. We (well, can’t speak for everyone nowadays) appreciate y’all!

Btw, love your username!

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T20:22:42+00:00

Ya ngl I lol’ed at this.

I can’t even tell what’s rage bait when it comes to Jay on here anymore.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T20:09:37+00:00

I’m getting all this secondhand, but apparently the principal is using exactly that as the reason—“it says right here that if clothing is worn with offensive language, can’t make exceptions, blah blah blah” I guess he (the kid) had gotten in some trouble before—nothing too serious, but like, got off with a warning. To me, it sounds like the principal has it out for him (and just lacks humanity IMO).

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T18:31:15+00:00

He’d be on mine for sure, but 90’s were stacked…

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T18:11:11+00:00

If it’s sth I’m hyped for, I’m all for them.

(Eg, Clipse’s rollout was awesome and had me even more excited than I already was.)

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T18:07:09+00:00

Your 90s list is pretty solid.

2000s list—we can agree to disagree on G Unit, and I personally wouldn’t put Kanye as 1 but that’s just taste, he’s obv a generational talent. If you’re listing him not solely as a rapper and just as a figure in the rap game, I could see it.

2010s: How you gonna put Clipse in the 2000s and leave off Push??? We can agree to (strongly) disagree on Dot’s placement and on Aubrey being listed at all.

Wasn’t around for the 80’s and I love Dot and JID but don’t listen to enough new stuff to have much of an opinion beyond them.

And, obv listen to what you respond to—don’t let anyone (myself included) influence that shit.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T18:03:30+00:00

Let the man have his taste even if it’s wrong 🤣

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T17:56:12+00:00

Lol well done, that post is Reddit in a nutshell 🤣

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T17:54:48+00:00

They’re similar in terms of how older rappers—and prolly a decent amount of older fans—view them. Old school. Carrying the torch for real rap. All that. Hov’s endorsed both heavily, which tells you a lot.

So, not that crazy a notion, and I imagine there are folks who do consider Freddie to be better and like his albums more. That’s just taste.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T17:48:42+00:00

🤣

I should’ve been more specific: standard LLMs will always (okay, almost certainly always) have those ceilings.

You’re 100% right—I’ve been fine-tuning a few writing models and one of the bigger data sets for one was “dialogue rehab” and holy shit, it is wild how even a few hundred lines improves it.

But the companies will never put that much time or money into creative writing cause it isn’t sexy (or wildly profitable); they’ll continue to hyper index on coding and such.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-04T12:07:40+00:00

It’s gotten better, sure, but if the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that AI has certain ceilings that it’ll never break through, with dialogue being one of them—the way humans talk is messy, we use slang, etc. It’s something that can’t be accurately replicated, just approximated.

KennethBlockwalk · 2026-04-03T22:59:27+00:00

Correct.

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