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Old 03-17-2015, 11:17 AM   #221 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Surell View Post
I mean, as much as I don't agree on calling Death Grips anything besides hip hop (though the other elements are definitely there), I don't think we should be comparing Kendrick and Death Grips, or allowing one to shape our views of the other. Except that for at the heart of it all DG are infinitely more interesting. And I don't even like them all that much.
Agreed on both points. They're just another subgenre of hip hop and should be taken on its own accord. If I took that mindset, I would have to consider all of the great albums of 69 **** because they came out in the same year as Trout Mask Replica.
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