Feb 23, 2021 I was thinking about how Kendrick’s career has kind of mirrored early Kanye. they both came out of the gate with a classic album considered to be in the “conscious” category. Skits and all their sophomore albums both take on an immense amount of live instrumentation. Both also widely critically acclaimed. their third albums blast them to absolute super stardom, and contain their biggest songs and embrace pop rap, but not in a negative way. Kanye then made 808s, so I’m thinking Kendrick might be coming with something completely left field with his next album. We’ll see.