Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "KENDRICK LAMAR - MAN AT THE GARDEN"

Starting point is 00:00:03 Safe to say that Confu Kinney, also known as White Tank Top, deserves it all. Because this song, all jokes aside, is beautiful. Now, there's no punchline. There's no joke coming after that. In all intents and purposes, this is one of the better tracks from a lyrical standpoint of 2024. Now, of course, one of the tracks that I also talk about all the time, It's very introspective. It doesn't get a lot of shine because it didn't sell a lot, right?

Starting point is 00:00:39 Is Big Sean's track On Up? So whenever you get to the actual quality in somebody to point out the lyrical depth of the quality, I think it's important to do so because, of course, in today's hip-hop economy, people just don't care about bars anymore. So Big Shons on Up is one of the better tracks I've heard from a lyrical standpoint. but of course man at the garden from a self-reflective standpoint is the best track of 2024 simply for the fact that he's really addressing a lot of deep philosophical ideologies throughout this track to the point where this could be broken down and examined

Starting point is 00:01:29 in institutions right like collegiate academic institutions this could be broken down as to how to reflect on yourself to become a better man right ultimately with this track being titled man at the garden and then being the fourth track off this album I mean the switch up is just phenomenal the first two tracks very rap heavy ignorant like teaching your man how to squabble then you get to the third track with Cizza very heartfelt for the ladies and then you get into man at the garden that slows everything down and gets into a very very deep reflective state of mind maybe that i don't want to mess up the pronunciation because y'all gonna laugh at me let me see it i i awesca no that ain't it

Starting point is 00:02:23 iawaska iawaska right that's what he recommended drake take uh right yeah that's what it was okay when Kendrick told Drake I recommend some ayahuasca I messed it up the ayahuasca right hold on let me make sure let me see this is going to read out to me

Starting point is 00:02:43 I don't think it's going to read out to me okay okay it's not going to work anyways y'all get what I'm saying right the overall wait hold on let me just this is this with the search bars for all right

Starting point is 00:02:58 ayahuasca hey you know what I'm saying all right so I oh hold up ayahuasca ayahuasca hey we're getting I probably still butchied it, but y'all get what I'm saying, right?

Starting point is 00:03:12 When he recommended Drake to take that, I don't think he was just joke. I think he was actually giving Drake actual advice that he's done himself. Because this track is phenomenal. From a lyrical standpoint, being titled, Man at the Garden, being the fourth track, offered the album, slowing it down to like a snail's pace as as far as the tempo and really getting into just introspective bars. Because literally the title is, I mean, that I already know, but it refers to the Garden of Eden, right?

Starting point is 00:03:37 and there's a lot of biblical themes as far as the title of this track. But not only that, the format of the rapping is based off of Nas' one mic because usually whenever our lyricists gets into his bag of self-reflection, it's top-tier quality. Because if you're able to put words together and add a high tier that makes people feel something, but now you're reflecting on yourself, then it's ultimately taken away the judgmental side of things because now you're talking about yourself.

Starting point is 00:04:12 So now all they have to do is to get a better glimpse of you is to listen. So man at the garden is very much a sit down and is an audiobook style of self-reflection as this track is very top-tier quality from a lyricism standpoint. Now, of course, when it comes to replay value, a lot of people are going to say, oh, ain't nobody going to be like, turn on that man at the garden while going to the club. And you know, that's probably what you go wrong.

Starting point is 00:04:39 This is not a track for going to the club. You know what I'm saying? This is more of a I deserve it all, literally, type of track, symbolizing clarity, purity, the high stakes of his career and how he's handling that. And then ultimately understanding that his legacy is up to him. And there's a lot of, there's a lot riding on what he does every single day. as far as overall legacy, as far as being impactful with the way that he puts words together. It's a very personal connection between the listener and man at the garden.

Starting point is 00:05:14 It's a high tier track. And I think this track will go down as one of the best tracks when it comes to specifically lyricism and introspective bars. But of course, like we've seen with the big Sean on up track, it's not really too many introspective tracks that's getting respected out. here but I'm glad that I could shine a light on it because I feel like a lot of people are going to skip over this one because it doesn't have that replayable club anthem type of feel but anyways that's how I feel about this track very much a standout on this track I enjoy

Starting point is 00:05:48 heavy lyrical bars from people who can rap because in all intents and purposes it's like a journal for them so when they get into this bag that means they're getting deep into their journal so I love this track and it's probably one of my standouts of the album but anyway With that being said, we just cover track four, man at the garden of GNX. Now let's get into track five, which is titled, Hey Now.

Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "KENDRICK LAMAR - MAN AT THE GARDEN"

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