Kendrick Lamar knows that 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers' is not the message people want; he feels it’s the one they need. CraigSJ writes on a prickly listen with moments of brilliance that are offset by jarring choices
Photo: Screenshot via YouTube Kendrick Lamar is in a tight spot. People want the guy who wrote “Alright” and “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” and “The Blacker the Berry” to come back and tell us we have what it takes to survive the compounding conflicts of our time, to save the soul of a divided nation. But he wants to be a better partner and son and nephew and cousin — a more present person in the relationships that matter the most to him.
Photo: Renell Medrano/Interscope The messiness seems pointed. The album is very considered and more balanced upon closer inspection than the wilder pull quotes may suggest. Like Tolle, Kendrick treats bluntness and transgression like tools: When you’re mad at him, it’s because he wants to shake you out of the popular thinking. When Dot says life failed R. Kelly and then muses about Oprah being abused in “Mr.
Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers is a prickly listen, but it’s annoying us on its way to enlightenment. K. Dot has the nagging, arrogant conviction of a man who has no problem telling anyone about themselves because he’s genuinely trying to sort his shit out. He thinks it’s more important to model the process than to make proclamations from a place of moral superiority, although this album is certainly not devoid of those.
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