GKMC has aged very well

good kid, m.A.A.d city FOREVER SLAPS

Some of these “hot takes” are just garbage.

*someone mentions GKMC* Music elitists: that’s cool and all but TPAB is better

GKMC is still one of the best albums I have ever listened to.

>GKMC is aging poorly Im not surprised someone with the name Bryson would say that

People overuse the "hasn't aged well" argument. It's usually very subjective

>inferring that basslines can only be truly played on bass *laughs in tuba*

GKMC aged like wine wtf do you mean bryson?

good kid, m.A.A.d city Hasn't Aged Well, It aged amazingly

"Tee-Pab" - Fantano, 2019

Not only has it aged well, it’s a certified classic. Listening to it is not only more pleasurable today, but immediately puts you back into your life circa 2012. Up there with other great rap albums a la The Chronic, Illmatic, 36 Chambers, to be enjoyed by hip hop fans for all of eternity.

Somebody should rank all your "Let's Argue" bass intros. Not me, but somebody.

Will you come play bass at my birthday Melon?

Hell no, GKMC sounds like it was made yesterday. That shit is still sounding new.

GKMC was always my favorite from Kendrick. I can agree that objectively, TPAB was the better album with it's ideas and it's consistency. But I just love the sound and style of GKMC way more.

good kid not aging well is one of the worst takes I have ever heard

Everybody is always talking about how Childish Gambino and Donald Glover look a like but Anthony Fantano and Cal Chuchesta are on a different level.

Fantano : 8:37 Me: 8:42

Dont let this distract you from the fact that anderson paak is going on tour named best teef

Saying GKMC hasn’t aged well is like saying The Chronic is futuristic

Stevie Wonder's left hand is one of the best bass players of all time

I thought GKMC stand for GeKyuMe Circumsition

There is no defining hip-hop song of the 90s, the genre had too much diversity, and saying one song is the defining song, only could be valid for the specific style that it would be categorized in. Saying a Dre or Pac song is the best, doesn’t show the boom bap or jazz rap of the East Coast and vice versa.

Good video Anthony but why did you say that edgy thing you didn’t actually say

I didn't realize that melon was a Synth-Exclusionary Radical Bassist.

GKMC flows like water...each song seamlessly goes to the next. The skits are great. The narrative and themes are great. Imo his best album.

I listened to it in it’s entirety for the first time in a while the other day and it’s aged like a fine wine. Compared to other albums from the early part of the decade it’s still fucking amazing

>teepab >Not calling it GUKMUC

I love GKMC more now than I did the first time I heard it.

To hate on GKMC is to hate on the modern rap renaissance. Kenny is the GOAT and that album is beautiful and not to mention YAWK YAWK YAWK YAWK

The take about female narratives being “1000% more interesting than anything made by men” is one of the most short sighted takes I’ve ever heard on this video series.

LET’S ARGUE: We’ve seen the entirety of Melon’s wardrobe at this point. EDIT: shameless plug (I apologize) but I draw shit on my channel if you Melonites wanna check it out EDIT EDIT: super sorry for the self advertisin

If Fruits and Vegetables, all came along...they prob want Fantano by the end of the song...

"Having a bunch of musicians that aren't members of the band ruin the live show." Can't help but imagine Claire Torry going up on stage to perform The Great Gig In The Sky, and this guy booing his ass off at her.

Kendrick’s i performance on SNL where he’s lathered in vaseline and wearing all black contacts is the greatest musical guest spot the show’s ever had

for a melon you aged well, other melons would have rotted by now

“I have never heard anyone argue such a thing ever in my entire life.” THATS THE POINT OF THE SHOW MELON

Let's argue: music genre's don't die. As long as a type of song exists, it can be heard, enjoyed, and influence musicians

when Anthony heard illmatic for the first time he gave it a 6

I wish I Am Legend would've had some Will Smith bangers in it.

LET'S ARGUE: anthony doesn't know what "bassline" means.

Good kid has aged better than damn and damn cane out like 4 years LATER

“Lil Pump is a rockstar by the way” -Anthony Fantano

Good Kid Mad City is straight so cal summer vibes, i plan to bump it on loop this Summer

backup dancers and performers are underrated in response to the second person

He missed Wu-Tang clan

I think a lot of young ppl buy records bc everything is hella digitized nowadays & we like vintage stuff out of nostalgia. We want the ritual of owning records and playing them bc it feels more special than a spotify playlist. I think it's less abt looking cool & more about reaching for physical objects in an increasingly online existence (I don't actually own a record player, being a broke college student, but I do want one)

ANTHONY A "BASSLINE" is not specific to a bass guitar..

regular show intro has the best baseline ever

10:00 not being misogynistic at all but that's just not true from what I've seen. True there are talented ones like Bjork, Joanna Newsom, Lorde and many others but you can't deny all the great music men jave done on terms of narrative. It's kind of a tie tbh

How is someone going to say something like maad city not aging well without even bothering to justify that opinion?

Although TPAB is one of the best hip hop albums of all time, i still enjoy GKMC more

Anthony please let my wife and kids go, I swear I'll buy the wallets just please let them free.

I literally listened to all my kendrick CD's the other day just on a whim and honestly gkmc has probably aged the best

The Live show I ever saw was the band Cursive. Many things contributed to the amazingness of the performance (small venue, freezing rain, they played a full album from start to finish), but the thing that made the largest impact was the fact that they brought in a string quartet to play on stage with them. It’s rare that too many cooks spoil the musical stew.

I think we can all agree that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has aged remarkably

Duothony Lingotano, please stop threatening to kill my family unless I learn the bass.

GKMC could literally come out today and would sound fresh. Tells something about how timeless it is.

I bought a record player just to get the GKMC vinyl, it sounds amazing

I'd argue that GKMC has aged much better than any of Kendrick's other works. Sing About Me still sounds fresh to me

The title to this video is blasphemous and u should be ashamed for even typing the words

Great vid Anthony Now will you please apologize to my sister?

On that backup singers/musicians point: One of my favorite live performances ever was seeing The World is a Beautiful Place in Connecticut and they had a bunch of extra musicians and local friends take stage with them and jam together. It was like a conglomeration of great friends having fun and playing music. I could hardly see how that'd ruin a performance.

Kendrick has a top 5 discography in rap history

All credibility lost when they wrote "baseline" on the Seinfeld one

Bumping this at work today, still sounds 🔥

I still listen to GKMC often. It's packed with great beats, imagery, and stories. "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" gives me goosebumps every time.

VELVET UNDERGROUND MADNESS BRACKET R U UP FOR THE CHALLENGE MELON MAN

9:26 1000% more does not mean 1000 times more, if anything it means 10 times more

10:17 this is part of why I collect records (at least until I can afford a better setup), but a bigger part of it is to support the artist. I love the aesthetic of my collection, and the feeling of owning "nice things", but I also take pleasure in supporting artists I love by buying their records, even if I already own the album in other formats (eg: CD and digital).

5:55 - by that logic, if you hear a drum beat programmed in a hip-hop song then your evolved galaxy melon brain thinks “oh wow, nice samples”. Dude, you’re really making no sense here. It’s not like we’re talking about some MIDI quality bass guitar sounds and even then, if something is meant to represent and instrument then that’s what you refer to it as. You can record me farting into a microphone and then play the sample back as the Seinfeld bassline and that’s still a bassline within the context of musical theory. Plus, a bassline is anything that’s on the low register so think cello, Tuba, etc

With all that went on with hip hop in the 90s I think Mos Def's Black on Both Sides was a perfect closer for 90s hip hop

Sees title Instant anger

it just knocked Eminem out for longest charting hip-hop album.

Why Kendrick has aged incredibly well, and is a Top 5 MC of all time : (its very long but I would appreciate if you read my whole point and discuss in the replies) after continuously widening my library of top notch hip hop, such as listening to more songs from Kendricks discography and comparing the 80's esc style of many other Hip hop legends like Rakim and Nas along with Biggie, Big L and Jadakiss I begin to realise that this album really does match up with the best of all time in many ways. Biggie was arguably the best story teller of all time and Kendricks stories of child hood that are incredibly well portrayed on songs like "the art of peer pressure" (which grew to be one of my favourite songs of all time as I can relate to an extent) and also songs like "money trees" can easily match up to those on Biggies "Juicy" and "big poppa". Then we have the flow aspect of things, personally I'm a huge fan of Rakim's flow and how revolutionary his flow is (I see him as the best of all time) and Kendricks flows on many songs such as Isiah Rahshad's "Whats wrong?" and Flying Lotus' "never catch me" can easily match if not surpass many other artists caliber when coming to flow. Now we get to lyricism, let's cut straight to the chase, this is Kendrick's strongest aspect. His lyrics on songs such as "sing about me I'm dying of thirst"(my favourite song off of the album) and "how much a dollar cost" are just sensational and sets the standard for many decades to come. After comparing Kendrick to the greatest MC's of the past Kendrick comes off to me as the greatest all-rounder in HipHop's history, he is so versatile. He can be hilarious on songs like "Range Brothers" and "Family Ties" but can also be lethal and incredibly serious on songs like "Duckworth" and Big Sean's "Control". I think the only thing holding Kendrick back these days is, number one, his production. I absolutely adore a lot of the production on GKMC, TPAB and DAMN. although you can't help but to fantasise at just how good Kendrick teaming up with producers such as The Alchemist and Madlib - following in the footsteps of Freddie Gibbs who is brilliant (and another favourite of mine) but doesn't have the talent that Kendrick has. The second thing holding Kendrick back is his lack of competition these days, as HipHop is. rapidly becoming the most widely listened to genre more sound cloud rappers keep hopping on the trend to cop the bag rather than to make good and proper music. Unfortunately the game at the moment is incredibly saturated with low quality mumble rappers so therefore Kendrick is really in a pool of his own at the moment with low competition which gives him little motivation (as he went on a streak of not dropping for 4 years). It is at times where rappers are fighting for their reputation and dignity that they produce their best music, a brilliant example of this being Pusha T and Drake both producing their best music in ages. Had Kendrick been in the generation of the old MC's I don't think people would blink about him being a top 5 rapper, although old HipHop heads instantly have a bias against him due to the fact that he is part of the new generation of rappers. This is ultimately something Kendrick has no control over due to the fact that he couldn't decide when he was born, therefore I think it is unfair to have such biases against any modern day MC let alone Kendrick Lamar. Let me know what you think about this and I would highly recommend listening to ever song I mentioned.

anthony play the bass like the race card

Oh hey, I found Waldo. (he went bald I guess)

congrats on 1 mill. ABOUT TIME

That record collection tweet represents me so nicely.

Was just bumpin GKMC all day yesterday

"Lil Pump is a rockstar by the way" Anthony Fantano 24th April 2019.

Anybody who says good kid maad City hasn’t aged well prolly thinks one of X’s projects is the best of the decade

I would argue Marilyn Manson was a bona fide rock star after Kurt Cobain

Tame Impala killed their snl performance last week. Borderline is a testament to the guys vocal skills.

Rename this video "Anthony tells you why your opinion is wrong."

This is a story all about how calchuchesta life got twisted turned upside down And I'd let to give you a moment and sit right there And I'mma tell you how he lived his life as a melon with hair.

Good episode Melon. I look forward to your next one.

Where is the "u cant sit with us by pivot gang" review melon

Rename this series to LETS VOMIT, cause those opinions made me projectile vomit.

Saw a Coheed show a couple years ago where they brought out the horn section from the opening band, Thank you Scientist. Def added to the show and it was only for the last few songs anyway.

shit you laid down at the beginning of this one was fire

Kendrick has released 4 studio albums and 2 are already classics.

Kendrick Kurt Outkast vinyls It's probably gonna be my favorite LET'S ARGUE video

Idlewild is the best Outkast album, write it on my Tombstone.

One of my friends is literally brought to tears out of anger when he hears the snare drum from St. Anger

Good Kid MAAD City is the album that got me into albums and I still listen to it!!!!

GKMC is a top 3 rap album of the decade along with MBDTF and TPAB

Damn when I saw that photo come up of David Byrne's backing band in their gray suits I got pumped. That show was fantastic.

A bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as jazz, blues, funk, dub and electronic, traditional music, or classical music for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer). In unaccompanied solo performance, basslines may simply be played in the lower register of any instrument such as guitar or piano while melody and/or further accompaniment is provided in the middle or upper register. In solo music for piano and pipe organ, these instruments have an excellent lower register that can be used to play a deep bassline. On organs, the bass line is typically played using the pedal keyboard and massive 16' and 32' bass pipes.