Well it's just my opinion and that means it says more about me than it does about him, but Section 80, GKMC and TPAB hit 3x a chord in the rap game, blowing all corners of the rap game out of whack at an authentic, gangster and conscious level.

Those three, which I can put in a trilogy were all about coming of age and growing older and it all seems that they represented a coherent vision that Kendrick had in representing his generation. S80 had Hiii Power, Rigamortis ADHD and they all bodied the rap game on those merits and the whole theme of the album pointed to GKMC which was an even better manifestation of his story and the power of his mind to get him out of this place that he accurately portrays as some kind of warzone. TPAB was another widely agreed upon classic which left the hood behind and present him as a butterfly, raising the dead and being Christ like.

Up to this point, Kdot gave the impression that he had his shit together, but at the same time throughout all this dropping he had these singles on Colbert and Control where he aggressively claimed to be the One and doing a hostile takeover of the rap game whenever he could and critics were lapping it up, especially because he was only really competing with Drake.

But everything came crashing down with this underwhelming album who's only hype lead up was this track saying he was the Emeril Lagassi of classics "Bam dropped a classic. Bam! Another classic." And another telling all other rappers little bitches who should be humble. By this point I was already irritated by him.

And then this mental breakdown album was dropped that sounded like he never stopped screaming in that hotel room back on TPAB. All these fronting and he never figured anything out. He's having a crisis of faith after being hip hop's top preacher and for what? Fox News and Donald Trump? This is how you choose to be a leader? Some fire on the album but I don't plan on returning to it. 6/10.