Section.80 Is Still Great

Talking about Kendrick Lamar's debut album 10 years on from its release.
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[@mememan3799]

The fact that Section 80 is ignored to the extent that it is, for one given how good it is is crazy, But for two, the fact that Kendrick's discography is so great that you could ignore Section 80 is even more wild.

[@EyesDontCry]

It's true GKMC was so great that people could easily see how great he truly is, AND THEN TPAB came and just blew everything out of the water, DAMN is just so good, and what really got him into the tippy top of mainstream, with tracks like DNA and HUMBLE. And I think with that more new people got to see kendrick and maybe dismissed section. 80 as the inferior GKMC, but they are truly different albums, and personally I think GKMC is the better album by in large, but section. 80 shouldn't be ignored because it doesn't necessarily live up to that. But section. 80 has some of my favourite kendrick tracks (obviously rigamortus, hol up, ADHD, hiipower, fuck your ethnicity) it may not be as conceptually "whole" with a clear story but it displayed his master work from a debut album like no other artist (there is obviously others that have great debuts, but to have a great debut and then continue to improve from that SO significantly TWICE is just crazy, going onto make the greatest hip hop album of the decade is just crazy) I think section. 80 is just a testiment to how great kendrick was going to be and deserves more attention for that.

[@kc.21k]

@@EyesDontCry my guy is spittin

[@tydews8983]

@@EyesDontCry what's even crazier than that is O.D. was really fuckin good too and nobody talks about it at all

[@WilliamFuckingButcher]

@@kc.21k All Hail King CSG

[@EyesDontCry]

@@tydews8983 R.O.T.C is easily a top 15 kendrick track, I think O. D just didn't get its debut release so it's a little harder to find, and therefore not talked about as much, plus tracks like ADHD garnered alot more attention for section. 80, and O.D. Just didn't have that spotlight I don't think

[@danfromua]

HiiiPower is still one of the best Kendrick songs. And this is the man who made TPAB

[@TheLuiscelaya]

And it was produced by J Cole. Probably my favorite collab from him counting all his prod. work and features to this day

[@philly_sports1558]

I love how that song is so hype, uplifting, and intense at the same time.

[@ceyshonhuggins9855]

HiiiPower is a very good song I think Poe Mans Dreams is probably my fav track IMO

[@ttarkus]

And GKMC, which is much better than the frankly overrated (by white people) TPAB

[@p2bp2b]

JUST CALL THIS SHI HIIIPOWER

[@ZeuzMakesMusic]

Section.80 deserves more respect in Kendrick Lamar discography retrospectives

[@KendrickMegaFan]

Yes but it’s still his worst album. It’s an easy 8.5/10 tho. Imo 1.) TPAB (10/10) 2.) GKMC (10/10) 3.) DAMN (9/10) 4.) Section 80 (8.5/10) Overly dedicated isn’t an album, but if it were to be counted I’d give it a 6/10

[@blakehammer9559]

@@KendrickMegaFan you say that like the album doesn’t matter. The reason why section 80 deserves more respect is because it is often put to the side. There’s nothing wrong with liking kendrick’s other albums more, but that doesn’t mean section 80 is worthy as a write off 8.5 is rather good tho, so I mean no disrespect

[@Visbi]

@@KendrickMegaFan DAMN is not a 9/10🤣🤣🤣🤣More like 5.5/10

[@trenhen4311]

@@Visbi Damn an 8-8.5

[@KendrickMegaFan]

@@blakehammer9559 anything over 8 for me is great. It truly is a game changing album that marked the true beginning of a legend

[@TheBatosai]

Kush & Corinthians is timeless, and rapping along Rigamortis is fun as hell. Class album

[@guygilroy9719]

Feels like no one talks about kush & Corinthians. One of my favourites of the album

[@objectivelysubjectiveopinions]

@@guygilroy9719 the instrumentation on the song is what makes it great for me

[@alejandroserrano7755]

Rigamortis is such a jump-y song. In my brain it feels like juggling lol

[@alejandroserrano7755]

Rigamortis is such a jump-y song. In my brain it feels like juggling lol

[@mattwrynn4319]

@@guygilroy9719 it’s hypnotic almost

[@therationalnational]

Definitely holds up. ADHD is still my favourite Kendrick track, right next to Money Trees.

[@therationalnational]

Shiit, listening to Hiipower now for the first time in years and it’s hitting harder than ever. May need to rearrange this favourites list

[@noaheast7600]

Hey funny seeing you here! Good taste king!

[@therationalnational]

@@noaheast7600 🙌

[@diegocorral8787]

Fun fact: Fantano called Money Trees an interlude once lol.

[@syraphian]

I never tried listening to Kendrick Lamar, and hiipower came on a Spotify playlist last month and Ive been binging his stuff since, incredible song

[@barsbarsbarz]

Chapter Six is one of the chillest dopest interludes too that shit hits

[@Ronak-jx8zr]

pray that we make it to 21

[@flightreactsburner660]

fav song on the album

[@trevorsorrels6872]

Listened to it all day the last day i was 20

[@khalilabdul-waheed6791]

Listen to KING, the r&b group that beat sampled. They dropped ONE album and that was it but it was one of the most underrated r&b albums of the decade.

[@Brandon152795]

"Who's willing to explain this story“

[@kingkaywicked6698]

I think the way Kendrick's sureity has diminished is literally proof of what Pac said on Mortal Man. "In this country, a black man has only 4 or 5 years where he can exhibit maximum strength" Or as j Cole spit on heaven's ep "Or has the money watered me down, that truth is hard for me" Kendrick simply matured and felt more and more emotionally overwhelmed and broken as the weight of the issues he was rapping about and hoping to enact a change in Actually hit him. He was a young man, screaming his opinions, voicing a generation and throwing three fingers in the air, and demanding hii power of the youth around him. But as the years went by, Kendrick becomes more personal and introspective, he sees these issues from his own perspective and paints them with a brush dipped in his own pain and sorrow. His survivors guilt, his disconnect from Compton, his humanity and the expectations on him and how they juxtapose with systemic racism and oppression. He realises how futile and stupid America is, that he dared to lend a hand and it shot him in the gut for it and failed to understand the pain of the streets that he tried to spit in his bars. "I see a woman, a blind woman......hello ma'am, can i be of any assistance?it seems to me that you have lost something. ....you have lost.....your life" *gunshot* I don't think Kendrick Is defeated or less boisterous, this would have led him to adopt more moderate stances and dilute his views. He simply stands for the same ideals but his overwhelmed with how to express them. At the same time he no longer wants to only talk about the system and dehumanise his homies back in the hood.

[@cosmojenkins3020]

I agree to a large extent. However, and this is speaking as a dude FROM the ghetto and tasting extreme poverty my whole life and seeing racial injustice firsthand and making it a subject I’ve studied for years: I think that, while to a large extent he is a radical, politically he is essentially a centrist. He is anti-social conservatism to the extreme, but whether because of religion or simply not reading into things like the fact that every black panther, Malcolm X, MLK, etc. were hardcore socialist/anti-capitalists who understood racism and capitalism were invariably interwoven and always will be, he seems to believe that Obama is a prophet: a man who didn’t help minorities worth a shit, and barely helped the poor AT ALL and gave tax cuts like crazy and helped corporations continue destroying labor rights, and deported even more immigrants than TRUMPS admin. Because states were REPULSED at Obama’s policies and refused to allow something like those again, like… Basically his viewing Obama as a prophet and not ever including a MATERIAL analysis of the situation means him not understanding systemic racism in any way other than personal experience which is valid, but him basically thinking its just GOD CURSING the black community is absurd and harmful as a message, and him not understanding economic imperialism on black people and how much they’ve been left out of things even post civil rights bill, makes him just a fantastic poet with incredible rhymes and flow, who can name a lot of problems, but has no real understanding on how to FIX them POLITICALLY. But for what he is: He’s one of the geniuses of his generation and his music itself is second to very few. I criticize him as one of my favorite artists of all time.

[@erboch7124]

@@cosmojenkins3020 I don't think Kendrick was promoting Black Judaism moreso than highlighting how certain family members perceive issues. He said the curse was something his "Cousin Carl" mentioned on YAH, but the "curse" was more in reference to the one that befell Kendrick personally in context of the album.

[@brown-eyedcheese5440]

COSMO JENKINS you don’t understand how much seeing this reply has made my day.

[@kingkaywicked6698]

@@cosmojenkins3020 this is an incredible reply. I actually hadn't thought much of his praise for Obama. Also I'm sorry if I can't be completely sympathetic to your situation or the situation of America in general. I live in India but have enjoyed hip hop for as long as I can remember and Kendrick's ideals and perspectives in his music have shaped a lot of my own thoughts and political musings, I simply look at the discrimination that he speaks about against African Americans and his perspective on it and it has inspired a lot of my own viewpoints on discrimination against and oppression of minorities in mine own country. But it is quite true, he has failed to look at Obama's character and actual impact beyond as a black person and representative

[@undyingdefect]

@@cosmojenkins3020 Bro, tell me about it. as a leftist, I remember absolutely loving The Heart Pt 4 until he started bringing up that neoliberal russian interference load of crap in his actual verse. It immediately made me dislike the song just a little (thankfully its just great enough to make up for it). Kendrick is a god damn genius emcee with a discography almost unparalleled and i think he understands speaks on the system's failures while not acknowledging how much of the system's negative effects on the Black community are on purpose and what it was designed to do originally by affluent whites

[@PeaSoup145]

THANK YOU MELON I WAS FORGETTING IF I STILL LIKED THE ALBUM

[@AxxLAfriku]

ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear was

[@52BLUE]

How do you forget? You need somebody else to tell you? Just listen to it again. Its not hard. You just sit there.

[@lostdapack]

@@52BLUE Was a joke bro bro

[@th3giv3r]

@@52BLUE Yikes do you even speak TND

[@52BLUE]

@@lostdapack where's the joke?

[@Moltzenn]

Keisha’s song is such a vivid and dark story, seriously gives me chills everytime i hear it.

[@Prodbyjah464]

Keisha’s song is one of the only songs I’ve heard and felt completely uncomfortable after it, like it shook me.

[@TJJ117]

@@Prodbyjah464Only one I’d argue beats it is Immortal Technique - Dance With the Devil

[@jorgegutierrez7186]

As much as I love GKMC and TPAB, I go back to S80 so much more. For me, the album holds so much nostalgia. It was my soundtrack from my freshmen year of high school all the way to my senior year. I won't forget listening to HiiipoWeR for the first time and going crazy for that track, later diving through a knowledge hole finding out that J Cole produced that song. Or riding around my senior year with my friends bumping ADHD or Chapter Six doing stupid shit you do at 17 years old. Some of my fondest memories have had S80 as the soundtrack in the background. To this day I can play it from front to back and enjoy it as much as I did 10 years ago.

[@lucasbrucas9632]

exactly. As much as I can say tpab, maad city, and mr. morale are _better_ albums, section.80 wil likely always be my _favorite_ just because of who i was when i heard it

[@triplebypassburger4955]

@@lucasbrucas9632 nah, its not just a personally good album, its an objectively great album that i think is better than mr morale and the big steppers

[@drdoomer8553]

The first three tracks alone are better than a lot of rapper’s whole discography

[@philly_sports1558]

And HiiiPower is one of the best closing tracks of any album ever. Not just rap albums. Any album.

[@bakhtiyarguseinov9402]

@@philly_sports1558 incredible beat, if people wanna hate cole they can, but what he did for the production is incredible

[@DubbX767]

@@bakhtiyarguseinov9402 he's no doom tho 😂

[@bakhtiyarguseinov9402]

@@DubbX767 of course, no one is like the goat, RIP

[@joebidenjr5902]

Stop being so pretentious💀

[@payne3612]

Anthony saying he sounded mature for his debut, when truth be told he was like 87.

[@CurrentBella]

got me laughin my ass off

[@DDub04]

The five track run of Rigamortus - Kush and Corinthians - Blow My High - Ab-Souls Outro - HiiiPower is quite the note to end on. Super jazzy, super soulful, and really really good. The hook for Blow My High might be my favorite moment on the album.

[@shanecorcoran2542]

Ab-Soul’s Outro is probably his most underrated track ever. Both kill it and it’s such a great ending to the story of the album and the ending skit setting up HiiiPower great

[@felixorozco4055]

Ķeisha's Song is also fantastic.

[@ryanmuhlenberg1480]

This is a pretty great album, maybe Kendrick will score a 10 someday

[@mr.s845]

Right….

[@maad1670]

any day now...

[@IveGotToast]

Doubt it.

[@taner873]

@@IveGotToast lmao

[@EyesDontCry]

Nah bro, this HAS to be where it peaks, I mean it would be CRAZY to improve upon this right, and I mean TWICE would be IMPOSSIBLE... right?

[@MasterOctagon]

Section 8.0 is so good. The beats were such a great stylistic choice for the time and especially for a young artist trying to break through. Just totally different from what was being put out at the time. And I still love Overly Dedicated.

[@patrickhumphrey5021]

OD and Section 80 are perfect. They bring me back to my high school days

[@disdainjames]

It’s almost a curse that TPAB was so good because it overshadows all Kendrick’s other work. If there was no TPAB, Section .80 & DAMN would be considered some of the best albums of the last decade. Also, GKMC would be way more appreciated (even though it’s not underrated at all)

[@disdainjames]

Overly Dedicated deserves more love too

[@jsegovia]

Although I think TPAB is better, I think I've seen more people say GKMC is better. It's definitely not underrated.

[@m1dsp1k3r]

Rigamortis is still one of my favorite Kendrick songs ever

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

I always encourage people to listen to Overly Dedicated, the project before Section 80. Kendrick dropped a few gems on that project that should not be overlooked. Also, the Look Out For Detox freestyle is pre-section 80, as well as his feature on Live Again, also worth checking out

[@devonlabuda9539]

I mean nearly every early Kendrick is really worth digging into. His 6 foot 7 foot remix with Q is one of my favorite hip hop songs

[@jayyy1677]

Ignorance is a bliss is a whole w

[@ChansCam]

I don’t think section 80 is Kendrick’s best project but it’s definitely my personal favourite. It’s a beautiful project man and the time of my life it’s tied to just makes it 👌🏾

[@mistahmata]

Agreed, not quite TPAB and objectively I don’t think it’s “better” than GKMC but I definitely return to it more than both of those projects maybe combined. Keisha’s Song, Ab-Soul’s Outro, F*** Your Ethnicity, and ADHD are still all time great Kendrick songs

[@coolj3428]

Personal favorite equals what you should think is the best but I respect it 👍

[@mistahmata]

@@coolj3428 i mean idk I think most people would agree many aspects of Kendrick as an artist evolved and matured on GKMC but I personally prefer the sound and aesthetic of Section 80

[@thedondon911911]

@@coolj3428 not true at all

[@coolj3428]

@@thedondon911911 An opinion 👍

[@kidaqua115]

F*ck your Ethnicity is one of my favorite Kendrick openers. Then it’s followed immediately up with Hol’up is amazing to me. Poe man’s dreams is always a chill vibe to me I love it. Yes this album still holds up for me. I go back every now and then and appreciate this project.

[@TJJ117]

💯

[@kingkaywicked6698]

Section 80 is a phenomenal album on it's own, it stands out with its own unique characteristics. The production is simple, yet perfect, Kendrick shows how aware and connected he really is and also shows that he can really work a beat like very few MCs can. at the same time, it's very clear that Kendrick Is practicing his art in this album perfecting it before the two masterpieces that came after this and it's beautiful. It's like watching a master boxer put in sparring rounds before fight night. like Ab soul's outro is almost a perfect precursor to the musical experimentation he put in for TPAB

[@alejandroserrano7755]

2011 was such an amazing year for rap and hip-hop. So many great artists and albums. Its one of those moments in time where you really had to be there to understand the shift that was emerging. Seeing Kendrick, Mac, Rocky, Ferg, Drake, The Weeknd, Tyler, Schoolboy and all the other come up was such a moment.

[@GoBlueHTB]

Let’s not forget that we witnessed Royce outshine Eminem across an entire album that year.

[@keithholden9344]

Don’t forget Nipsey, J. Cole and Big Sean.

[@GoBlueHTB]

@@keithholden9344 Facts. Big K.R.I.T, Yellawolf, Rittz, Meek Mill, Wale, Cyhi, Pusha T, Ace Hood, Nicki Minaj… so many rappers had a breakout year in 2011. The era of like 2008-2016 may be the true golden age of hip hop. The 90s went crazy but what came after was evolution from that foundation and I don’t know if we’ll ever see another time like 2011.

[@keithholden9344]

@@GoBlueHTB Pusha T is a God!!! Nobody can touch his bars! But idk about Nicki, her music is Doo Doo to me. "Pushing dope" bars over "bad bitch" bars anyday.

[@GoBlueHTB]

​@@keithholden9344 Nicki carved her own lane. She's not everybody's cup of tea but she is far from "doo doo" and she deserves her flowers. Pusha T is not a god. He's slightly above average at what he does. Literally everyone on Griselda does the "pushing coke" bars 10x better than Pusha, with far better lyricism and bar structure on that specific one-dimensional niche of content. But again, Pusha carved himself a lane that laid the foundation for Griselda to pop off, and he's a respectable emcee in his own right, so he also deserves his flowers.

[@PhreshPhrog]

Favorite kendrick album, I really like early Kendrick, and I recognize what he did later in his career is legendary, but this raw hungry style he had when he was coming up and when he had just broken out was personally my favorite

[@beinerthchitivamachado9892]

Hungry Kenny is the best Kenny.

[@eliotguerin192]

Ab Soul’s Outro is still transcendent. One of those tracks where a different line hits me in the gut every time I listen. It might be unstructured (intentionally) but the execution and passion is just on point...it’s lightning in a bottle.

[@BigDoinksOnly]

Kendricks flow on rigamortis instantly made me a fan when I first heard this album back in High School. The whole thing still holds up so well.

[@WTFisHappeningToMe]

It’s currently got the crown as my favorite Kendrick song. It’s just different. Never heard a hip hop song like it before. It’s a great representation of what hip hop is and means too. It’s very simple and hip hop to the core. Simple sample, simple beat, catchy flow with lots of word play. The way he builds up the ammo at the end is amazing. He just gassed you up and by the end you’re just like “well alright!”

[@diepersona]

to be fair, i think "No Make-Up" was less of a commentary on women's beauty standards, but more so a commentary on domestic voilence against women disguised and conceiled as track commenting on women's beauty standards. but i get your general sentiment, hopefully we've all move past this "oh don't wear make-up, you're more beautiful without it" kind of thing.

[@PenseeRationnelle]

Looked this point. Well said. And lots of parallels revolving around power. Him (God / abuser), imperfections (natural insecurities / literal bruises), blessings (accepting yourself as you are / equating abuse with love i.e. blessings, though since it’s only used in the first verse, maybe this one’s a bit of a stretch). So him asking for no makeup becomes a cruel request, like he wants to admire his work. The song would definitely feel empty without that underlying story.

[@KaRaTeLoRd11PS3]

Section.80 is so criminally underrated. A personal favorite of mine. May not be as in depth stylistically and maybe a bit more surface level but the dark drug-like atmosphere that it gives off throughout the album like the streets of a rundown hometown that’s ripe with trouble along with the deeper themes of how the Ronald Reagan era fucked over a generation so badly that it changed that generation forever makes it an instant classic

[@jorgo8701]

Keisha's song is still such a powerful and vivid story. His passion really comes through when talking about the things happening around him and this just felt so personal

[@blakehammer9559]

Thank you melon. It’s been awhile. I’ve moved past this album and forgotten how it resonates with me. Recently I’ve been always looking for the next newest thing and I’m ashamed of my ignorance. As melon stated; to understand your development you have to go look back from where you came from. This album is what inspired me to push forward my taste in hip hop. Hopefully I can re-inspire my passion for the art. To do what this album has done for me.

[@alexisaguirrevideos]

That fire and confidence Kendrick had was what I had until I became disillusioned too. Then I realized the only way to enact change and to gain power is to infiltrate the system and learn the rules of business, influence, and teaching. Now I’m on a different path than I was when section.80 came out, but I can feel the energy as a whole shifting for all of us out here fighting the fight from within. Kendrick, Kanye, Jay-Z, we’re all cut from the same cloth. And we will achieve our mission before our time is up. Or at least inspire the following generations to pick up the torch and finish it for us.

[@eliotguerin192]

I guess it’s the few maverick visionaries that inspire the majority of us to change the system from the inside. Both roles are necessary. What’s special about Kendrick is that he can relate to both positions, and has spoken on both in his music

[@alexisaguirrevideos]

@@eliotguerin192 that’s why we love the music and the artists behind it so much, because we see so much of ourselves in them. We grow up with them. We see them change and make mistakes and it starts to feel like family. That’s why I love music so much

[@Z3in_]

this album is so distinct that's why i love it so much

[@TheLuiscelaya]

This album was one of my most played High School albums a decade ago. It’s probably my 2nd favorite album from Kendrick

[@Rll_2206]

Even if all the other albums he dropped after this are better, Section.80 is probably one of the projects that deserves the most respect and appreciation in his discography. This fantastic album kickstarted the Kendrick and also TDE wave that are still going on to this day.

[@TheAlphawolf6]

Saw him perform like a fourth of the album live at Day N Vegas. I was in heaven.

[@hanpoop17]

Same was unreal

[@KiIIua_]

Poe Man's Dreams is up there with Sing About Me/Dyin Of Thirst as my fav Kdot song. The instrumental of that track is so good

[@plop4493]

Spiteful Chant is one of the hungriest songs I've heard. Definitely motivating!

[@mousekill82]

I used to have a janky set-up for my phone to connect to the radio in my car where when I turned it on it would alphabetically play the first song in my library… so I would always hear A.D.H.D play whenever I started driving anywhere lol. It got to the point where I loved it, got annoyed by it and skipped it, then back to loving it and embracing it. Eight doobies to the face 🤟🏽

[@realmackle]

ADHD still has one of the dreamiest beats i've ever heard

[@dhbomb]

That’s a fitting description because I literally had a dream with that song in it 👌

[@kungfudenny577]

Section 80 and Damn are comparable in the level of enjoyability for me. I definitely keep it in my playlists, and it's a welcome treat when I get one of Kendrick's old throwbacks. At this point, it's become nostalgic to listen to Section 80 and even Overly Dedicated.

[@dolphinlaugh1241]

This album has grown on me so immensely. Has a vibe that is hard to find anywhere else

[@genesisosuna]

Keisha's Song is an amazing track that dirsnt get talked about enough. Literally Sing About Me's predecessor

[@chrisa9082]

One of my favorite albums ever for sure

[@1coven]

HiiiPower and Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst are probably my 2 most replayed Kendrick song ever. I love this album.

[@majorisker]

After all these years this holds up as probably my favorite Kendrick album. I can acknowledge it is in no way his best, but there is something about the youthful energy and almost DIY feel of the whole thing that is so endearing and nostalgic for me. It was just so cool to hear who would soon become one of the greatest artists of all time on the very edge of that success. This album is bursting with even greater artistic potential at the seems yet still being amazing in of itself.

[@MaxMax-zo9vq]

It has its imperfections, but that’s what part of what makes it appealing for me. That feeling’s intensified after seeing him grow, it’s not my favorite but it makes me nostalgic for when it dropped. The hook on No Make-Up sucks though.

[@Lampshade7]

Was looking for this comment lol. That song keeps me from coming back to this album

[@randomusername1735]

That song is really dated lmao, the rest of the album still sounds great but no make-up is my least favorite as well

[@blakehammer9559]

Most special project to me by far. From me to you + this and maybe forest hills drive have been the driving forces behind the place I am with my music taste today. I have been molded in the reflection of these projects

[@beinerthchitivamachado9892]

It doesn't just hold up for me, I think it's another one of Kenny's Classic Masterpieces. Tracks like (F*ck Your Ethnicity, Hol' Up, Ronald Reagan Era, Poe Man's Dreams, Rigamortis and HiiPower) are legit perfect, IMO. The least I could give this album is 9/10. I love every track, but S80 isn't on the same level as GKMC or TPAB.

[@ttarkus]

It doesn't hold up but still a masterpiece? What

[@septic1502]

@@ttarkus you missed a word might be worth reading something correctly before commenting!

[@ttarkus]

@@septic1502 no I saw the word "just", if that's what u mean but reading it again yes I understood what he meant but it still can be understood in two ways.. Right? Idk whatever

[@imlatetoschool]

@@ttarkus also read it that way. adhd

[@beinerthchitivamachado9892]

@@ttarkus JUST. It doesn't JUST hold up for me, I think it's a classic, imo. It does WAY more than just hold up for me. Learn to read homie.

[@CalumAtkinson]

i didn't get into kendrick until late 2015/2016, at that point tpab was a bit too daunting an album to appreciate as my intro and i didn't fully vibe with GKMC initially but using s80 really helped set the stage for kendrick and further get into the rest of his music.

[@jaysemitchells497]

I love seeing everyone in the comments bringing up different favorite tracks

[@maxwelltalley612]

Listened to this album on my work commute today. Ab-Soul’s Outro stuck out as a serious look into what Kendrick’s production and sound, and was such a tremendous track. The cheesiness of this is adorable. Kendrick has grown up quite a bit.

[@joatthegoat]

adhd is prob the most timeless kendrick song. the whole sound of that song specifically is stellar.

[@THEGMH1998]

Yesssss, I feel like people forgot how good this record is. It's one of my favorite Kendrick albums, not his best, but one of my favorites

[@johnmorrison7]

Classic album. A great entry point to his career and precursor to gkmc story telling and TPAB musically.

[@FlipVizor]

Remember “the spiteful chant ft Q” is missing from the track list on streaming! Gotta consume the OG mixtape version.

[@pooppee6069]

section 80 is such an album!

[@planetzoot7410]

Entirely a project, even comes with songs

[@DirectFireDave]

Definitely one of the albums of all time

[@SafariAtari]

Kendrick is still levitating over the ocean, even now.

[@DekuScrub_]

Section 80 is definitely still a contender for Kenny's best album tbh. I only first listened to this album this summer and it blew me away, A.D.H.D, F*ck Your Ethnicity, No Make-Up, Ronald Reagan Era... the entire album from start to finish is a masterpiece and its so jarring to me that people always ignore this one.

[@GoBlueHTB]

It’s not because S80 isn’t a great album. It’s because GKMC is head and shoulders better than S80 and TPAB is head and shoulders better than GKMC.

[@butterfingersman]

@@GoBlueHTB music isnt objective and therefore i can say that you are objectively wrong. i prefer section 80 >>>>>>>> gkmc but its fine that you feel otherwise

[@GoBlueHTB]

@@butterfingersman music can absolutely be judged objectively and anyone who thinks otherwise is a total casual who thinks there’s merit it someone saying Lil Xan is a greater rapper than Kendrick Lamar when you can literally check off quantitative boxes of criteria to objectively prove that statement egregiously false.

[@fort809]

@@GoBlueHTB no way you’re saying art isn’t subjective

[@GoBlueHTB]

@@fort809 Preference in art is subjective, but there are measurable qualities that one could tally up to compare two similar artists objectively. Art can be judged objectively if you have a criteria. If not, you’re just going off of subjective favorites, but art criticism requires a modicum of objectivity.

[@dragonflyeye9157]

Poe mans dreams, always loved this tape

[@beinerthchitivamachado9892]

"Be on my last dollar and split the bill with 'ya..." LOVE this song.

[@jadusdoe8470]

It was in my top 10 of the 2010's decade, timeless classic along with GKMC and TPAB

[@benny7878]

went to Kendrick's Day n Vegas performance watching him perform this album live was actually so good

[@johnw2984]

Still holds up. Funny there’s no mention of Kush & Corinthians tho. One of my all time fave songs of his

[@sauldab4682]

My favorite Kendrick album

[@xSHAMELLx]

Gave it a full relisten yesterday. Don't remember enjoying it as much now as when I was a kid🤯

[@Exodemer]

this project deserves so much more respect, people dont talk about it as much because its overshadowed by gmks and tpab but this is a classic and would be most rappers best album

[@hellbabyy]

Keisha's song and no makeup are still so good. I remember I cried the first time I heard Keisha's song. It sounds silly but I didn't listen to section 80 when it first came out but I DID listen gkmc and tpab when they first came out, and when I went back and heard section 80, that's when I knew Kendrick is the best rapper of the modern era, section 80 is my favorite Kendrick album, maybe bc I'm only 21 and that's around kendricks age when he wrote section 80. Gotta love Kendrick. He's in my top 5 all time, maybe even top 3

[@K_Boogey]

Kendrick’s 3rd best album behind TPAB & GKMC, but still so so good. I love this album today just like the first time I heard it. A strong 8/8.5

[@xavierd725]

imo DAMN is better but I respect your opinion

[@theevster3413]

Fantano take

[@K_Boogey]

@@xavierd725 I love DAMN! I honestly still have it in my rotation & I think DAMN is aging beautifully! But as crazy as this sounds, I think that’s Kendrick’s worst album lol

[@LazerIsHere]

@@K_Boogey Kendrick’s worst album is a 9/10, that’s how crazy his discography js

[@beinerthchitivamachado9892]

@@LazerIsHere LEGIT. Like the least I could give a Kenny album is 9/10. I LOVE OD, S80 is perfect and GKMC, TPAB and DAMN. are absolute classic masterpieces.

[@mister-pinkman]

GTA 5 is what introduced me to Kendricks’s music. First song I heard was ADHD on the radio

[@stefanoalves8862]

First time I heard Hol' Up I felt like that GIF of the guy ascending to the sky

[@stefanoalves8862]

Also is kinda cute that he definitely is lowering his voice on Fuck your Ethnicity.

[@samgarncarz1430]

the run of tracks from rigamortis through the end of the project is still one of the best track runs of his career

[@freddysamjacob363]

Rigamortus still knocks my socks off

[@zleep9182]

WE’RE FAR FROM GOOD NOT GOOD FROM FAR

[@MyPimpinAfro14]

Whenever we're ready to talk about how excellent untitled unmastered is, I'm ready. Most of that album is his best written work ever.

[@beinerthchitivamachado9892]

BRUH, ON GOD. I've been addicted to it lately, especially Untitled 05.

[@gavinmahoney5402]

5 and 8 are both top 5 Kendrick songs and it's insane to me that that album doesn't get more shine

[@MyPimpinAfro14]

@@gavinmahoney5402 3 and 8 are insane. 5 is one of his best instrumentals

[@randomusername1735]

Untitled 2 is my favorite. It's slow and cool and the vocal style switch is great

[@jerk3554]

I love how everyone is on here commenting their favs, it so wholesome 😌

[@RampageYI]

I been waiting on somebody to revisit this album, I can honestly say one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. One of the best improvement from project to project on this.

[@alexyoung5836]

The “camp” parts of Section.80 are the best parts imo. The intro of Ronald Reagan Era and the guy by the campfire in Ab-Soul’s Outro help you buy in to the revolution Kendrick is starting, even if it is over the top. The first ten seconds of Hiiipower aren’t nearly as awesome if the “camp”fire preacher hasn’t been hyping you up for the past minute. It’s like a basketball coach giving a rousing halftime speech and then Kendrick breaking the huddle with a “1, 2, 3 fingers in the air, HiiiPower”

[@shanecorcoran2542]

The “know you can’t control us” repetition in the campfire part of Ab-Soul’s outro is chilling, it makes the switch to the chill beat of HiiiPower even better, I love it.

[@810austin]

First heard Section.80 a little after it dropped in 2011, the nostalgia that project brings whenever I hear it is otherworldly. Such a masterpiece.

[@dariofkxv6829]

adhd is one of my fav songs of all time

[@beaniealex]

First album I ever bought was Good Kid MAAD City. To Pimp A Butterfly is the best first listen I’ve ever had of an album. Somehow though, Section 80 is my favorite Kendrick album and top 5 of all time for me. He was so hungry, so wise, and most of all he was so tired. I felt like he gave the last bit of life force he had built up into this album and if it would’ve gotten no attention or success, who knows if Kendrick would’ve kept trying. This album is a masterpiece. “Keisha’s Song” and “Hiiipower” are the pinnacle of art through language. I think that’s why the art is dying. We truly reached the peak of what it could become and now, just like any genre before it, we are on the end path to the next big movement. The 30s are gonna be polarizing for music.

[@DuckDodgers345]

I'm not sure if you know this but top dawg confirmed that Ab-Soul's control system was intentionally made to be S.80 part 2. 😱 I have other reasons but this alone makes both of these albums classics imo.

[@beaniealex]

@@DuckDodgers345 believe that!! Thanks for the knowledge

[@crazeclique3543]

I don’t see section 80 as too underrated many people i know love it and I see people online lovin it

[@HTIOGranka]

Section 80 is what got me into Kendrick and is also what I continue to listen to, Ronald Reagan Era is probably my all time favorite Kendrick song.

[@charlieb3892]

adhd was my og favorite i would bump this in 10th and 11th grade just 2-3 yrs ago.

[@theunitedkingdom]

It’s so underrated. I personally find it sonically to be his second best for me.

[@visual_bored]

I think I return to Section.80 the most out of Kendrick's projects. It captures such a pivotal point in not just my life but music in general

[@supathiccniss]

I still listen to Section.80 to this day

[@jesteroffools1035]

"Blow my high" will always be my favorite kendrick song.

[@Tonjit41]

this is my favorite kendy album. it's very comforting

[@itsallenwow]

It’s really cool listening back to see how Kendrick would eventually get to the peak he is now: Rover gang rover gang rover gang. We are not the Wayne’s

[@colinstevens2462]

Toppoda moaning

[@aliyazc213]

Ab souls outro is hands down the best song on this album

[@martamrozinska4095]

that gil scott heron sample on poe mans dreams is just fucking perfect man

[@matt00794]

I’ve only given this a couple of listens but yeah I think it shows a lot of what he will become you can hear his influences and what he wants to become as a rapper and knowing how much he will grow since this album is rather incredible, at the same time it’s still a rather good if not great album

[@BRobMint]

My favorite Kendrick album most days tbh

[@NezzySetApart]

I heard section 80 for the first time this summer and I love it, one of my fav albums

[@Kenpachi324]

I remember section 80 and the song “Cartoons and Cereal” got me into Kendrick Lamar

[@clytemnestra]

Just listened to this for the first time during Thanksgiving traveling and was absolutely blown away

[@kristephex496]

Same lol

[@soulful999]

This is easily my favorite Kendrick album. I know that blows a lot of people's minds but the vibe of the album is the most consistent, he had a vision for the album that worked in better unision then his other albums, it feels like one long ass song compared to his other albums. That is just my personal opinion, after going back and listening to his discography after the whole Drake and Kendrick 2024 Beef.

[@a.tfitness_]

My favorite too but I think some of it may be nostalgia I was introduced to Kendrick with this album when I was only in middle school at the time it dropped

[@tylerboroshok7417]

I didn't hear it for the first time until a year or 2 ago and it holds up like it's only a couple years old

[@Exodemer]

definitely holds up and still my favorite kendrick album

[@sambelyea678]

crazy amount of memories to this. i remember trying to get everyone on kendrick when this dropped and than 2 years later everyone was obsessed with him.

[@johndamario2546]

Do Take Care, it also turned 10 years old in November. Interested to hear your thoughts on how it’s aged given how much it’s revisited.

[@soulmoney119]

You should do a reaction to your Spotify wrapped on this channel

[@HiThereIAmChico]

i love these retrospects! keep em coming