Mr. Morale And The Big Steppers.

Mr. Morale is A record That Could End up in Retrospect a  Reverential Spectacularism Like “Yeezus” And “808s And Heart Breaks.”. Or A STAIN on An Otherwise Flawless Career.

“When Moses First Tried To Free The enslaved person In Egypt, He Was an Arrogant. 40 Years Later He WAS the meekest Man On Earth.”

Listening To “Mr. morale As the Stepper” On Repeat Through The Final Days Of This Reviews Forced A LOT of Writing, Editing, And Rewriting Over. I Mean, I Should Be Cycling Through Thoughts Regardless Like Some Super Charge Server, But The Process Felt Inordinate With This One. I Had A Rich disorienting Time trying To Peel Through the “Rolodex” Of On This Latest Kendrick. Sure I Know, I'm Writing Of My Volition Since No One tasked Me To Do So. Still, this Record Felt. From the Top, You Ascertain That Lamar Had No Sense Of Purpose other than Possibly Penning A Document For Future Generations Who May Stumble On The Lamar And Want To Know Him. Worse Of All, He overlays His State Of Mind With Heavy Word Play, Misdirecting Guilt and Self Righteous. The Record Takes Off From All Over The Place All At Once, But Kendrick Can't Slow Down To Let You Know That Just Yet He Just Needs To Hold Your Attention Long Enough So That Maybe You Wouldn’t Notice.

After Spending a Year Honing His Experimental Trans-Pitch Sonic Style, That Patent Change In Potch That Emphasis Some Line In A BEAT, The Pulitzer Award Winning Rapper’s Mastery, Seems without A Voice. An ALBUM Lamar Write In The Flavor Of Honesty But Stews In Prentention.

Given What We Know; this Latest Album Has A Surprising, Profound messiness To it. A Surgeon Taking The Task Of A deep cranial Operation On HimSelf With A Dirty Mirror And Reflection As Cause Sucess. A Far Off Guide(Elkhart Toole). He conducts the operation After Reanimating Himself From A Self-Induced Coma. “Runaway From The Culture To Follow My Heart”

Along The Path To Procedure, Bubbles sod Mental Scar Tissue Emerge, encumbering The Operation. “Toxic Bubbles.” That Are Blocking The Pathways  To A CLEAN Incision.

“Love, loss, and grief have disturbed my comfort zone, but the glimmers of God speak through my music and family,”

Lamar Left To Of His Matters Existential Grief. The One Money Couldn’t Scrub Away. The One's Money Could Proliferate.

Kendrick Left To Find a Way To Make it On This Earth. You can Hear The Mellowed Cries From The Days Of DAMN.

Only For Lamar Returned From The Mountain, Mt. Sinai Even—So As Apple Music Cogently Put It—To Say Mostly, I’m Lost.

Growing weary of his role as an “anointed genius.” It’s a Cruel Irony As That’s What He Coveted When He Broke Into Mainstream Appeal. It Seems Whichever Way Lamar Flips The Coins, it's all Toxic. The old Pick Your Poison Hallelujah Or Halle Berry.

The Album Feels And Sounds Like A Collage Of Thoughts And Theme.  All Of Our Broken Apart But to Cohabit On The Same Mural. Lamar’s Structure  Reminds Me Of My Writings. In A Familia Empathic Way.

During The Day I’m Usual Busy. So Busy That, As Thoughts and Idea Sprout,  I Write. As Issues Interject, I Pause Mid Expression. Like The Starved Yearning of an Orgasm Protracted.

Some Ideas Are Left To Stew a Later Become Malnourished, Worse Cases, Incomplete.

But Remain Crucial Component And Compliments To a Decadent Composition. Forced me to Fit Them In Somewhere, Even At The Cost Of Continuity And Repetitiveness. Given Brains proclivity Towards Finishing Rather Than Flourishing. Derelict Idea Brought Up Later With More Time Given To Refocus.

 Still Many Are Left Unfocused.

Case In Point.

In Doing So, The Created Substance And Wholeness, Brandish Earnestness And Beauty But Not Wholeness and Harmony.

RDC World1 Or RDC plug, The Viral, Youtube Famous Sketch Comedy Group Based Out Of Houston, Recently Posted a skit On Their Youtube Page Entitled: how artist Used to Fell When Lil Wayne Jump On Their Beat In 2009.

At The Sight Of Title alone, the Video Had A irresistible Nostalgia Pull-On Me . RDC is Cheif In The Content Creation Sphere.  The Group thrives On Their Blend Of Exaggerated slap Stick Skits, Comedic Screen Play, And Surrealism To Bring An Honest Or Humorous Perspective  On Celebrity Or Media Matters.

 At The Top Of The List In Terms Of Viral Sucess. With Almost a Decade Of A Work, RDCworld Has Blueprint Many YouTubers try To Replicate. Their Verisimilitude Of Realism All Packaged In The Frames Of A “Everyday” Veneer. Several Theatrical renditions Of Actually Impressions. What The RDC Crew Intends To Project In This Setting What “Regular,” Those Untrained Or Indoctrinated In Political Correctness. The Group’s Youtube  Succinctly Brandishes Their Intent To “Provide Entertainment. Averaging More Than A Million View Per Post, RDC’s Sometime Parodic Monologues.  The Bases Of The  Lil Wayne Skit Goes Like This An Unnamed Artist Just Score His First Gold Plaque For His Hit Single, He’s Elated, On Top Of The World Even. Then One Of His Guys In HIS entourage Gives Him Some Troubling News. This Message, Lil Wayne Jump On His Beat.

Suddenly All Of The Feelings Of Grandeur, Still Fresh on The Senses,  Gets Zpped Out of The Room. The Goose Bumps Are Crawling “mannequin” Artist Become Palpable. Lil Wayne Release A Track On The Same Beat. Soon The Gold Plaque And The Rights To The Song Stormed Away With the Exact Suddenness Of The Jubilation. Any Record Or Document To The Song, Smudge From Existence.  Another Beat Jack By  "mixtape" Era Wayne.

Those were The perilous Days Of 2009.  The Raps Worlds Apex Predator Lil Wayne Developed An Galactus Size Hunger And Didn't Need Permission Stomp Out A Planet Or the Case Of artist A Career Or A Come Up. During An Era Of Apparent Everlasting Peak Of Abilities.

 A  King With An Insatiable Lust For conquest, "the only thing on the mind of a shark, is to eat,"

No Intellectual Property Could Hide Safely Before The Young Cash Money Virtuoso Would Slaver His oleaginous Bars And Social Claim The Song His. Not Legitimately, commercial The Songs Had No Inherent Value.  The Market Barrs Another Composer’s Work  From Purchase. But  In A De Facto Sense.  Taking The Original Track And Deriding It And Its Originator of Any Cultural Would Be Tantamount To When Noah’s Son Ham Exposed His Father’s Nakedness.  “If you hear Wayne's version first and then listen to Mike Jones's, it's complete trash.” Lawrence Burney Of Vice Speaking On The Wayne’s Lyrical Gut Punches Over The Mike Jones Song “Mr. Jones.” The Famed “Sky’s The Limit”

You Were Sure To Know Weezy F Would Ride Your Beat To Glory and Your Career To The Grave. Nothing Solidified Wayne's Pronounced Control Over The Rap Airs Better Than The Cultured Acclaim  “Sorry For The Wait” Mixtape. In 2011, Wayne Released  “Sorry 4 the Wait” With The Intent Of Bridging The Gap Bridge Between Between Albums. The Impending Release of The Chart Swallowing Record “Tha Carter 4” Hit a Snag Due To A Now Famous Record Dispute. With Fans. The Mixtape Not Only Strengthens Weezy Legacy In The Gam, but

The Mixtape also keeps Him Relevant. Weezy Understood That Long Breaks From Th Rap Game,  Brought On Whether By Artistic Retreats Or contracts, Disputes Long Breaks From The Game. With The Rise Of The Internet And Consequently Streaming, Musicians Could Package And Release Music Droves. Even Giants In Relevance Like Weezy Could Have His Slice Of The Rap Pie Devy Apart, Unnecessarily, I Might Add. In Between Breaks, The “Next Thing” Arrives  Then Flees And With IItsPortion Of The Conscienceness Of The Masses.

 Weezy understood this, At Least I Believe So, As Evidence By His Other Mixtapes series Like The Drought Or No Ceilings Seri. Neither Mixtape Featured Weezy Sega Surfing the Beats Of Popular Song.

“The flame is burning out, sweetheart. I’m not hot; I’mgreat.”

But Those Two Ideas Aren’t Mutually Exclusive.

When Your Hot, You Have To Stay In The Flame.

The Dedication Series, Another Mixtape Underscored the Recognition Of Cultural Relevance That Young Money Disciple Drake has Adopted. He’s Push Out Playlist, Mixtape, Feature Rap Beef Year In Year Out.  With Olympic Class Focus Like Gold Medal Hurdler. Rihanna Accomplished A SIMILAR The “Bad Gyal” Released An Every Year For the First Six/Seven Years In Her Career. The Weeknd And The Migos. Even an intermediary Record As Flat and  Nauseating as the Repetitive Culture 2.

Artists Like Kendrick Lamar Break Off From This Historical Approach. He Doesn’t Rap In The Feild Of Play, Raps In The Maze, or The Matrix. Where Bar Open The Door To Next Level Of Mastery.

Lamar, Of course, Strives To Separating  Rappers Like Drake. “When Kanye got back with Drake, I was slightly confused/ Guess I’m not as mature as I think, got some healin’ to do.” Underscoring his “Disillusionment” With Current Trends In The Hip-Hop Habitat.

Kendrick Lamar Took A FIVE the year 1855 Day Break FroM THE game. Though Not Uncommon, Retreats From Public zeitgeist are Repudiate Practice; even When You’ve Conquered Every Cultural Sphere, You Can't Clean The Room And Leave It Spotless And Vacant. Something Lamar Achieved, Figuratively, After His Declarations On His Verse From Control.

“I got love for you all, but I'm trying to murder you N*****Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you N***** They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you N***** What is the competition? I'm trying to raise the bar high.”

Lamar Most Certainly Rose The Bar. Bar After Bar.

In So, Lamar Gained Reputation Not Only As Hip-Hops Savior, Buts Defender, Avenger, Tye Heritage, and herald Of All The Genre Dreams, Hopes, and Wishes. Not Bragidicoous And Showy But Demure And HUMBLE.

The Healing Product Of The Scarred Neighborhood, That The Blood Of So Many Slain In The Name Of Hip-Hops Martyr, Cried Out to Heavens For Retribution.

Lamar Once Said In A New York Times Interview, “That Everyone He Touch Ended Dead Or In Jail.” This Interview Before The “Global” Success. Before The Savior Complex. Before The Family, The Pool Before The G-Wagon That Police Pulls Him Over In. All Those He Didn’t Before. You Have To Wonder How ALL The Re-Wiring Of  His Approach To Life Affected  The Music. The Music, The Verbiage Which  Functions As the Skeleton To His Life.

“Love, loss, and grief have disturbed my comfort zone, but the glimmers of God speak through my music and family,” Lamar Using Music To speak His Truth To But What Truth.  His Motivation Since Section 80., His Truth. But has His Truth Changed? The Man From The West Who Once Called Himself King, Did He Want The Kingship Anymore. What Am I Doing All Of This For again? From The Gang To The Thrown But the  Changes Feel Hollow.

 “Shaking A Moving Like What Am I Doing…”

I started to feel like it's only one answer

To everything, I don't know where it is (Woah).

Two Days Before The Release Of Mr. MORALE and The Big Steppers Kendrick Team Released The Artwork For The Kendrick Fourth Major. The Hype Machine Started Cranking But Not Enough To Shake My Indifference. I'm a Lamar Acolyte, But Where does He Fit In The Current Rap Climate. An Era Of Toxic Masculinity, Drill and The Re-emergence Of New York And Kanye. It's Been A WHILE Since 2017, 2018, If You Consider Count the Black Panther Sound Track That Won A GRAMMY.

DIRECT violation Of The Kanye Commandments 3: “ Dont Leave While You're Hot. That's How Mase Screwed Up.”

The Last Venture  We Took Through The Deep Esoteric Corn Field of Soul Baring Hieroglyphs And potholes of Intuitive Reflection Of Silent Minority Known As The Mind Of Kendrick Lamar. The Rap Game’s Savior Sent Down “DAMN” The Pulitzer Award-Winning Edict Of Hip-Hop Prestige. The Album Sealed A TRIFECTA for Lamar Following the Commercial, Cultural, and Critical Successes Of “Good Kidd Madd City” And “To Pimp A BUTTERFLY,” “DAMN,” It's The Perfect Blend of Commercial And Consious Rap That Eluded Legends Like Nas And Snared Contemporaries like Wale. But Lamar Kaleidoscopic's penmanship And his Kaleidoscopic Change In Pitch And Tone Mastered These Two Competing Forces. Like The Chosen One, they were Bringing Balance To The Darkside Of The Force.

 The Gifted Child’s Rise To Prominence.

A Theme  So Revelatory That “Prophesied” Feels Too Flakey A Word.  The  Chosen Ones, Kendrick Bears Guilts He Must Work Through But Seem only Conquerable By Death Or A Complete Surrender To The Forces Pushing Him Unto A Plateau He’s Disillusioned With:

“I choose me; I’m sorry.”

Throughout His Music, He Left Notes Of an Impending Hiatus.

“Feel like you wanna scrutinize how I made it.”

 Lamar Enunciates Of “Feel,” He Take The Opportunity to ProofRead His Career In Music. Since Then, He’s Been Ducking The Pandemic On, Answering Only To Metatron. On This LP, Mr. Morale and the Big Stepper. But The simplest Of Questions Produce The Most Complicated Soundscapes.

I wanted To Forage A bit Before refining My Thoughts On This Piece of work, Other Than Late, Sheltered Or Isolated; I Could Not Grasp My Thoughts Over.

The 73-minute Long Dialogue Over Synths and Piano, Starts With “United In Grief.”  A scorching Blitzkrieg Of Double Entrende And Explosive Half-Truths. The Song shows A Lamar, who's Not Always Clear But Expressive.

Following that, N95 Featuring Baby Keem. A Song That Sounds More Like a Continuation When The Two Relatives Link For Keem's Family Ties.  

“Worldwide Stepper” Kendrick Extolling His “Lust addiction.” Like Anakim In Star Wars Trilogy, A JEDI  Who Shouldn't Feel Fear Ann Anger and Must Cope With His Suspected Insufficiencies. Kendrick Discusses His Relations With White Women, As iTs The Sixties or 1800 When Such Delicacies Would Taboo. He Does Mention His Struggles With Writer's Block. This Song Runs Like a Fumbling Mess Of Ideas. From worshiping Trees To Opening Up And Letting God Speak Through Him. The Pace Subject Matter Change Like Door Falling In Parallel Universe. When the New Beat Came  In, all I COULD say was, “What The F***.”

Die Hard, Passable Track.

“Father Time,” a “ universal and highly personal” Jam. “What should I Do With What's Been Done To Me?”

 An Honest Tirade On His Soul. It might be The Best Track On A Flaw Record. 

If You Haven't Pick up Your Mind Off The Floor, “We Cry Together,” A Torn Toxic Romantic Ballad Will Scoop the Puddle Remains Of Your Conscience Of The Couch.

After Purple Heart, We're On To Disc Two.

Disc Two Has More to Say For Itself. Songs Like The Leading “Come Me Out” Where Kendrick Denounces The Value Of Fame. “Done So Many Magazines. What's Fame To Me”. Still Kendrick Pens A Song Too Masturbatory. He Shows limited Verbal Intercourse And Intimacy Almost To The Point Of Tedium.

A listener To Him Seems No More Than An Object To Express His Opinions Over. Kendrick Makes Good On His Early Declarative From N95: “This Ain't Monogamy You Getting F***.”

More Of This Echoed Style Of writing Blooms On Sappy “Auties Diaries.” Kendrick Unwaraping A Conversation About His Transgender Aunt.

“Faggot Faggot Faggot”

This Side Of The Album Aand The Entire Record Ends Wih The Heart Part 5 Lamar Quiet Moan On the Final Track. 

“As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective / And my perspective may differ from yours.” These are The Type Of Monologues, Though Heart Warming Years Ago, Insightful -And Sobering  When Spoken By Artist Like Drake, Come Off As DULL. Lamar Has always Had A “Differing.” His Unidealized Visions Of Gang Life. His Open Competitiveness In a Rap World That’s Shifted More Towards Business model Resembling More of A Cash Grab Slot Machine. He Didn’t Romanticize The spiral Of Violence; he bemoaned The Endless Of Deaths and Imprisonment Brought On Through Gang Activity.

The Emotional Child Abuse( I Beat Your A**). Instead, He opened Up About. To Pass This Declaration Of As A Golden Revelation Would Be Tantamount To Consider Any Of The Matrix Sequels, Particularly Resurrection, A erstwhile  Attempt At Canon.  The Song is a “Wait A Minute, We’ve Been Here Before. “ the Song. Add Any Value To The Revord Itself

The song Word Play in All is Peerless. Drawing On The spirit Conscience, Even The Essence Of Nipsey Will Smith Kobe, It’s Profound. But it’s Feels Out Of Touch. Like Martin Scorsese’s Criticism Of Marvel Movies For Not Being Cinema But “Fun Houses.” The Track Reeks Of Superciliousness. Of Course.

You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God...Now All The Devils Are Coming Back.