yeh ..but there's enough mumbling with rap .....why encourage more with these guys??

babynoz said:

SignOthetimes1987 said:

Both albums were BLACK. Black lives matter, Black Power, whatever, it was in the air after

shootings in Ferguson and Treyvon Martin. They were black protest albums. you guys are blind.

And D'Angelo is a hiphop artist too.

LOL.

jaawwnn said:

I love Black Messiah, like a lot, but the fact is it didn't crossover to a younger audience, it was mostly old D'Angelo fans listening to it. D'Angelo's connections are all old school, someone like Questlove is the youngest. The album was a finely crafted piece of work but it didn't scream modern.

Kendrick on the other hand comes from Compton with hip hop credentials coming out his ears, Pitchfork has been on his side since day 1 as well, that's the whole younger crossover audience right there.

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This. Kendrick is a new and current artist so of course he is going to relate more to the newer generation. It had been over a decade since D Angelo released new music and he is a veteran artist.

mjscarousal said:

jaawwnn said:

I love Black Messiah, like a lot, but the fact is it didn't crossover to a younger audience, it was mostly old D'Angelo fans listening to it. D'Angelo's connections are all old school, someone like Questlove is the youngest. The album was a finely crafted piece of work but it didn't scream modern.

Kendrick on the other hand comes from Compton with hip hop credentials coming out his ears, Pitchfork has been on his side since day 1 as well, that's the whole younger crossover audience right there.

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This. Kendrick is a new and current artist so of course he is going to relate more to the newer generation. It had been over a decade since D Angelo released new music and he is a veteran artist.

True. They're from different generations. Their catalogues may be the same size, and there is just a little overlap -- D'Angelo's work bears varying degrees of hip-hop's influence, and K.Dot's more work is heavily influenced by R&B and funk -- but other than that, they operate in different circles.

Then again . . . they are competing for many of the same listeners, as Prince competed with younger rap acts throughout the late 80's and all of the 90's.

namepeace said:

heathilly said:

I think kdot fans and dangelo fans are largely different. There might be slight crossover because of the production on to pimp a butterfly but that's it.

That's largely true. They may be looking to nab many of the same listeners, but their respective audiences are discrete, especially in terms of age.

As I said, yeah, there is a little sound crossover, but not much.

There is nothing about these 2 projects that they could be compared on.

2 completely different target audiences in every way possible.

Well that's not true.