DAMN. normal: 7/10 DAMN. WITH BACKWARDS: *10/7* album of Century
@Rishiyisus
7 жыл бұрын
:o
@mrbehindthemustache
7 жыл бұрын
Good one.
@austinnemorin8729
7 жыл бұрын
Centuries of Damn
@bluemcdaniel99
7 жыл бұрын
Andrew Cabaj Hold this W
@claytonjohnson5092
7 жыл бұрын
OCTOBER 7TH. THAT'S THE KEY!!
@JRob1125
7 жыл бұрын
Foward: He starts off aggressive...humbles himself, and is rewarded for it Backwards: Starts off humble, gets aggressive and is punished fir it. That's how I interpret it
@nekozombie
5 жыл бұрын
that's actually a pretty interesting way to put it
@nikolaiandre5751
4 жыл бұрын
Thats a cool idea. From humbleness we are exalted, from exaltation we become prideful (And pride cometh before the fall)
@stupidityevolved7513
4 жыл бұрын
damn.
@saintsaii8774
4 жыл бұрын
.nmad
@ussishkingang7194
3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think there’s a single interpretation
@Datpiff_Admin
7 жыл бұрын
Reupload the review backwards or we riot
@anaccountthatgivesws3998
7 жыл бұрын
Not Thomas W
@stopanthonyfantano3709
7 жыл бұрын
Stop Anthony Fantano
@THApeanutMagician
7 жыл бұрын
Inciting a riot is illegal
@jakepaulerdabdab2970
7 жыл бұрын
Jake Pauler Dab Dab
@killmenow5636
7 жыл бұрын
OH SHIT SHOTS FIRED
@MrYeezy77
7 жыл бұрын
*I guess he watched melon's review and now he want him to reverse the rating*
@loganburnette7984
7 жыл бұрын
Yeezy Yeezy how you doin huh?
@patches2221
7 жыл бұрын
Yeezy Yeezy your father in law is now your second mother in law
@Nokitron
7 жыл бұрын
10/7 incoming
@idiotmyschkin
7 жыл бұрын
Yeezy Yeezy Turn the 7 upside down its an L now
@ThreesixnineGF
7 жыл бұрын
goofyboy16 Definitly caught this one
@OurFoundingLiars
7 жыл бұрын
If you play fantano's video backwards it tells you where the next cult meeting is, melon juice provided. Keep asking questions
@DamiiCalifornia
7 жыл бұрын
I hope this becomes a meme
@egghead7485
7 жыл бұрын
Our Founding Liars subbed.
@fromthe4621
7 жыл бұрын
damn does it tell you whether Anthony is Dr eggman or not?
@damienkun8786
7 жыл бұрын
Our Founding Liars stay woke
@henryteccsi1114
7 жыл бұрын
Our Founding Liars this now has 666 likes, theory confirmed
@MING00P
7 жыл бұрын
DAMN was meant to be played on Shuffle. Same story, different feel every time.
@wlf-hly
7 жыл бұрын
If you play albums on shuffle imma face fuck you
@mikewillsmusic
7 жыл бұрын
ElitexKing lol same
@kankurou1010
7 жыл бұрын
ElitexKing heh
@BossDrSample
7 жыл бұрын
How do you shuffle a record? Hahaha
@tjenglish7036
7 жыл бұрын
Wlf_Hly depends on the album, if it's like still striving playing it on shuffle is fine
@Crazyrfl25
7 жыл бұрын
Listening forward, it's the evolution of Kendrick living by his music, becoming better and more virtuous (going from pride to humble, from lust to love) and finishing by meeting God in good terms with a final thought on his legacy and all that lead him to where he's at (Duckworth). Played backwards, it's the exact opposite story, he finishes in the same place sure, but here he lets go of his beliefs and sinks into the violence, the vices of rap, justifying it with it being written in his DNA. It's the polar opposition of Kendrick's psyche, how different he can be in a single instant bc he's so divided between enlightment and vice. Sure it's the same story, bc it's the same character who ends up in the same place (death), but the path isn't the same. But hey, who am I to think for myself instead of following Melon Head Lord's opinion?!
@ealejandrodm
6 жыл бұрын
Rafael Sanches 👏🏽
@jjhardey7343
6 жыл бұрын
DAMN
@andreseraso2737
6 жыл бұрын
You explained it so good
@piyush2465
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, that makes more sense
@tonnoh4944
4 жыл бұрын
A FUCKING SMART PERSON!
@runescapeisacoolgame
7 жыл бұрын
Review my failed marriage
@marthewputnam4588
7 жыл бұрын
Poop McDoop please get this comment to #1
@doperhymeboyz5768
7 жыл бұрын
NOT GOOD
@gregcoyle4598
7 жыл бұрын
Light to a decent 4
@luke4188
5 жыл бұрын
Meh, it wasn't anything I was really blown away by, but some of the most interesting sections did get me excited. Quite depressing, but I wouldn't say it was awful as a viewer standpoint. Decent to strong 4.
@vagelismel
4 жыл бұрын
I’m Feeling A Strong 5 To Light 6.
@jaggyboo6198
7 жыл бұрын
I wonder if DAMN/10 would be different if it was BACKWARDSDAMN/10
@lesryglrhfohser
7 жыл бұрын
no bc he didn’t like love or god and those songs would still be there
@WWxeroWW.WERWKWWF__WPWWW.-_WWW
7 жыл бұрын
.NMAD
@nyroysa
7 жыл бұрын
01/L
@ns8881
7 жыл бұрын
BACKWARSDAMN/10 has 12 letters 12/10 confirmed
@ayeeyuhh8702
7 жыл бұрын
DROPTOP GOLF CART Soundcloud....
@nakedflames
7 жыл бұрын
great now you can give it a ㄥ
@uranusgucci5356
7 жыл бұрын
naked flames that's upside down
@supersquare
6 жыл бұрын
actually you flipped it horizontally, then flipped it vertically
@nm841
6 жыл бұрын
honestly funniest reply im high af and im laughing ahahahahah
@jo_nm9484
4 жыл бұрын
That looks like an L
@bobsbrain397
7 жыл бұрын
wait are you still trapped in the deep fried dimension?
@SquatsAndOats2plate
7 жыл бұрын
That's his brother, Paul Joseph Watson. And it's a frog dimension.
@cinemapure.e
7 жыл бұрын
SquatsAndOats2plate *gay frog dimension
@n0tbran
7 жыл бұрын
it's a furry dimension
@nekozombie
5 жыл бұрын
stop exloding green nigga
@maxr8358
7 жыл бұрын
When shit hits the fan, is you still a fan?
@DunkeysLongLostSon
7 жыл бұрын
That nigga gave us "King Kunta", you say he didn't mean for it to be backwards?
@kbscheme
5 жыл бұрын
Dunkey's Long Lost Son the ghost of tupac
@mikeexits
4 жыл бұрын
@@DunkeysLongLostSon atnuK gniK?
@armanpamma9454
3 жыл бұрын
@@DunkeysLongLostSon did dunkey have a kid with sky who he beat in smash?
@DunkeysLongLostSon
3 жыл бұрын
@@armanpamma9454 watch AMA Jax and the secret will b uncovered
@nel-wu9mn
7 жыл бұрын
don't let this distract you from the fact that Anthony gave damn a 7
@stopanthonyfantano3709
7 жыл бұрын
Stop Anthony Fantano
@ozzymandias8137
7 жыл бұрын
Stop Anthony Fantano Stop Anthony Fantano
@giantmichael8313
7 жыл бұрын
it deserved a 7
@seberster
7 жыл бұрын
360
@OfficiallyKyrios
7 жыл бұрын
Nelson Benitez did it deserve higher or lower?
@offlnegamer
7 жыл бұрын
I mean, I've been on this theory and always believed it to be true, that it was done purposely. If you listen to the album front to back how it's originally intended to be digested, you get a Kendrick who loses his life right at the beginning of the album, who after losing his life, tells a story of a man who is looking back at how he progressed as a person. He's a lot more cocky and braggadocious toward the beginning of the album and finds his way to a better place toward the latter half of the album, where you have to experience lust before love, and being prideful before being humble and ultimately finding god. If you listen to it in reverse, he tells a story about how different his life could've been had top actually murdered his dad, he's a man of god from the very beginning, but loses his way and ultimately loses his life at the end of the project. Listening to it this way puts love before lust and maybe being too prideful to remain humble. Sorry for the rant, this is just a personal take on it, I'm surprised this isn't what he mentioned in his interview, I truly thought this was his train of though.
@lilliamcruz6778
7 жыл бұрын
7 a DAMN gave You
@daviddidonato9765
7 жыл бұрын
ㄥ ɐ ʇᴉ ƃuᴉʌᴉƃ llᴉʇS
@outrankedfrank7244
7 жыл бұрын
This deserves infinite likes
@Xavio354
7 жыл бұрын
Lul
@gubbay2251
7 жыл бұрын
how
@matthewkendall8592
6 жыл бұрын
Do you live in Austalia?
@Shmuel420
4 жыл бұрын
It’s a 6 now, but as the great Drake says, “turn the 6 upside down it’s a 9 now”
@Malkav65
7 жыл бұрын
The "I'm an Israelite - don't call me black no more" assertion comes before the phone call that gives him that idea in the original sequence.
@dirtreynolds1456
7 жыл бұрын
The story is the same because it's cyclical, and the character (presumably Kendrick) ends up dead either way. Played forward, it's his descent into weakness that leads him to the blind woman. Played in reverse, it's his descent into wickedness. Both of these concepts feed into each other no matter which why you flip it. The themes don't matter because they end up in the same place.
@jackal1
3 жыл бұрын
Is it wickedness? Is it weakness? You decide! Maybe hes telling us exactly what you just said, to interpret it both ways. Could be a reach, but knowing Kendrick, it seems awesome
@Dead_by_Design
2 жыл бұрын
@@jackal1 Dudr that’s actually brilliant
@lordsafro
2 ай бұрын
“You Decide. Are we going to LIVE or DIE?” I believe in the timeline from BLOOD. to DUCKWORTH., BLOOD. is not Kendrick dying, but a premonition OF Kendrick dying & THAT becomes the genesis for his redemption.
@trashman9699
7 жыл бұрын
DAMN is overhyped imo. It's a decent album, but it's no way near as good as good kid maad city or to pimp a butterfly. EDIT: This is just my opinion; you don't have to like it. I wasn't expecting this comment to get so much traction. 😂
@devinrochester3833
7 жыл бұрын
Apollo8176 I agree I do think it's better than section 80 though.
@SYMShutYoMouth
7 жыл бұрын
Good Kid Maad City is his worst out of his major label 4. Kendrick ranked his own albums and had Section. 80 at 1, TPAB at 2, DAMN at 3, and GKMC at 4. GKMC is so fucking Overrated. All you guys like it a Mainstream ass listen mainly composed of hooks.
@naioki444
7 жыл бұрын
Devin Rochester I gotta disagree with that too
@camronme917
7 жыл бұрын
Apollo8176 I literally said this like 7 weeks ago and had like 80 people Insult me
@trashman9699
7 жыл бұрын
Devin Rochester Yeah I can understand that, it is an enjoyable album, but the production and lyricism on DAMN were a big step down from TBAP.
@williamhicks6460
7 жыл бұрын
But, when is NATION coming out?
@aaaa-sz7xl
7 жыл бұрын
damn spelled backwards is nation
@_MYSTICWOLF
7 жыл бұрын
OMG😭😭😭😭😭😭
@felojimenez9931
7 жыл бұрын
Datpiff got NATION on there but its just old songs
@emilo7460
7 жыл бұрын
it was a fan theory it ain't coming
@zacharyallard8864
7 жыл бұрын
NATION/10
@ryannice4456
7 жыл бұрын
I'm feeling a light to decent satanic messages from a Christian man are not my thing. Tran.
@jacobm2625
7 жыл бұрын
Ryan Nice ssexual
@mehtra7395
7 жыл бұрын
Jacob M'Boi LMAO
@boo1488
7 жыл бұрын
Ryan Nice Sition! Did ya hear it? Did ya love it? Did ya start speakimg in tongues. Comment below
@boo1488
7 жыл бұрын
Ryan Nice Sition! Did ya hear it? Did ya love it? Did ya start speakimg in tongues. Comment below
@Dan-pp3qd
5 жыл бұрын
@@boo1488 Did ya hear it? Did ya love it? Did ya start speaking in tounges? Comment below.
@ChowSquaredMusic
7 жыл бұрын
Listening to the album forward, he's living through his music and becomes immortalized in death like Pac. Backwards, he's at the top of the game and fears loosing wealth and sanity, and agonizes how people will perceive his music when he's gone. "Wondering if I’m living through fear or living through rap"
@Bagoboneskas
7 жыл бұрын
ChowSquared no forwards he lives through fear backward hes living through rap
@Berlinwood27
7 жыл бұрын
ChowSquared I hate kendrick talking about pac shits annoying
@felojimenez9931
7 жыл бұрын
Berlinwood27 pac is one of kendricks favorite rappers and inspirations, of course he's gonna talk about him
@ChowSquaredMusic
7 жыл бұрын
Forward, I interpreted it as him getting killed on BLOOD. and living through his music from that point onward, eventually becoming an immortal GOD. of rap in the end. Backwards, he lives in fear since his father wasn't killed in the chicken incident on DUCKWORTH, allowing him to live his life and become one of the greatest rappers to ever live. But that life comes with a laundry list of fears that he describes on the track, FEAR, right after DUCKWORTH. Then, backward, the album ends w/ DNA, where Kendrick doesn't give a fuck the pundits anymore (as shown w/ FEEL and YAH) and snaps, b/c he is rap royalty in his DNA and he is proud of it. Then, he dies on BLOOD., as a man conformable of the mark he left on earth, which he worried so much about for a large portion of the record.
@imthebesterestest9388
7 жыл бұрын
Melon head was yellin at the theorists for stretching it but honestly this seems legit. It fits in with how the album's themes are too, I'll dig it
@sherktheogrethatfinnesedsh3787
7 жыл бұрын
I'm sure if it was backwards then melon would give it a 10
@anaccountthatgivesws3998
7 жыл бұрын
Sherk The Ogre That Finnesed Shreks Wife W
@stopanthonyfantano3709
7 жыл бұрын
Stop Anthony Fantano
@jamaicanpiratewhoisbettert4741
7 жыл бұрын
W
@jakepaulerdabdab2970
7 жыл бұрын
Jake Pauler Dab Dab
@itisidonkey8375
7 жыл бұрын
Sherk The Ogre That Finnesed Shreks Wife either way it's trash
@younginthegang2039
2 жыл бұрын
Here's my take on DAMN. There are two sides in this album. The first one that goes from 1-14, presents us with Kendrick starting off from the hood aggressive, violent, losing, afterwards, negative feelings for positive ones, through rap, and finding his way back to God at the end of the album, thus going from the red album cover to the alternative blue album cover. In the last track ,though, Kendrick refers to the things that would happen if his dad was murdered, with the album being reversed to its start. This is the second outake of the album, going from 14-1, in which Kendrick would start off as a humble and innocent individual,losing, afterwards, positive feelings for negative ones ,through fear, and ending up being shot,(described in BLOOD.), thus going from the blue album cover to the red one. Either way, Kendrick is damned to feel those feelings, over and over again, therefore losing his hope for the world, and no more, praying for it to become better. At this point, Kendrick is tired of carrying everyone's feelings in his back, while nobody cares for his("ain't nobody praying for me"). That's why he wrote DAMN.
@hawkins8945
7 жыл бұрын
PLAYING DAMN IN REGULAR ORDER IS WEAKNESS, PLAYING DAMN BACKWARDS IS WICKEDNESS THE MAIN THEME OF THE ALBUM WICKEDNESS OR WEAKNESS
@anonymous5401
5 жыл бұрын
you mean the main theme is Duality.
@donwhitman6714
7 жыл бұрын
NMAD gets a - 7
@flx3032
7 жыл бұрын
kikwe Butt -7/-10
@adrianstegmeier9110
7 жыл бұрын
It's exactly my thoughts on reordering or retuning a tool album. It doesn't actually change the meaning unless you yourself give it more meaning, and that's completely the specific listeners choice. Give it a listen backward. Did you love it? Did you hate it? What would you rate it? Just know you're still listening to the same songs everyone else is.
@Dielawn69
7 жыл бұрын
Not even that big of a fan of Tool but I could see them using this gimmick and actually making something creative out of it. As opposed to "Oh it has a different vibe played backwards" uh no shit. "If you watch titanic backwards, Its a heartwarming story of a magical ship that saves people"-DiiceForeveroO3. That dood pretty much sums up my feeling on DAMN backwards.
@deusextoast
7 жыл бұрын
I don't know that any Tool fan really feels like changing the song order alters the meaning of the piece. The most notorious example of Tool album restructuring is The Holy Gift (Restructuring Lateralus to spiral in and out based on track number, for those of you who might be reading this and are unfamiliar with it) and while most Tool fans agree it changes the progression and presentation of the album, I don't know of many who feel the meaning is radically different. In fact, most would state that the same meaning is present and that the restructuring is only meant to underscore it.
@BadFriendEric
7 жыл бұрын
You're just wrong. He includes a few moments in the album where the music is literally reversed. This was probably a hint. He said it was premeditated. Do you not believe him? I think your general lack of appreciation for the songs on the album due to a lack of "central theme" and all that is the reason you can't see the message in the backwards, or the forwards, versions of the album. You think each song is just an under-developed attempt at addressing each topic in the title of the song but you miss the story kendrick is telling about his own mind. I think more than anything this album is about understanding the way kendrick thinks. Usually I respect your opinion as your own but this just feels like disrespect to a legend. An artist is saying that there is deeper meaning in their work and you made an entire video to basically say, "nope, its essentially just a meme" like wtf? So you're saying your opinion of the meaning is more significant than kendricks own?
@eyepatchbelou
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed! It's like he's saying Kendrick is just bullshitting.. what
@horsyswillkill
4 жыл бұрын
you shouldn't make fun of anthony just becauce he's black
@Shmuel420
4 жыл бұрын
He’s not saying Kendrick is wrong, he’s saying that playing the album backwards is stupid. Also idk why you wrote an essay on it lol
@queue.2312
4 жыл бұрын
@@Shmuel420 it’s not stupid. it’s entended to be able to be played both ways so ur getting both sides of the story. at the end of duckworth it rewinds itself. that’s the part where you replay duckworth and go back through it backwards. so your getting the part of the story IF anthony killed topdawg
@cancel990
7 жыл бұрын
It's still confirmed pre meditated. The concept is DUALITY. Not every album can be played backwards. It's not a completely LINEAR story. That's the point. You said yourself you cannot do this with GKMC. Kendrick said it was premeditated. What people are discovering is "we bout to put it in reverse" on DUCKWORTH. Now it's confirmed. It's not rocket science. No one is claiming it is. Didn't you say you wanted more conversation about music? Oh, wait. Not if you're wrong though. *forced laughter*
@shauL__
7 жыл бұрын
c0rrupt c0ntent inli
@VideoGameCenter100
7 жыл бұрын
Melon knows more about the album than Kendrick does apparently
@Astrothunder_
7 жыл бұрын
How so?
@thedondon911911
7 жыл бұрын
From Memes 2 Dremes lmfaoo exactly, he's just appeasing his hipster fanbase by bashing kendrick
@karmadelivery4407
7 жыл бұрын
Snowfall Knight there's sharing your opinion, and then there's coming across as a pompous pseudo intellectual who thinks he's knows more about an artist's music that the artist himself
@TonioTonius
7 жыл бұрын
karma delivery he got caught liking/favoring an artist and now he has to disperse that notion every chance he gets
@iamjp1
7 жыл бұрын
karma delivery no. that's not how it works. you shouldn't just trust the artist. if macklemore told you his album was a classic, do you trust it because he's the artist and he knows the album best? no, you judge it for yourself.
@N4orEditor
7 жыл бұрын
seven backwards is neves, neves has 5 letter, kendrick lamar is two words, 5 - 2= 3. the word ten has 3 letters. DAMN IS A 10/10
@thebrowhodoesntlift9613
4 жыл бұрын
This comment has 7 likes. Your album is a 7/10. Checkmate!
@Chris-cc9hb
4 жыл бұрын
Why’d you have to reverse it to have five letters
@obarich
4 жыл бұрын
marvin marvin Seven is five letters...?
@KeroRetro
7 жыл бұрын
Since DAMN is a double album now it should be given a 14 by melon
@LightYwins
7 жыл бұрын
14-1 sounds better than 1-14
@nyshyn307
7 жыл бұрын
TMFaster yea, 9/10 for me backwards, forwards it's just weak tbh. I don't understand why, I just genuinely think this
@z7513
7 жыл бұрын
Nyshyn because forward it's for the ppl the skim the album real quick, might not even make it thru the whole album, only lookin for the "lit" parts
@nyshyn307
7 жыл бұрын
z7513 that makes sense but I still don't think that's a great excuse to list the album backwards instead of the "true path"
@SuperKickerAss
7 жыл бұрын
1-14 sounds better than 14-1
@coleintheville117
7 жыл бұрын
I agree, he didn't even try to listen to it backwards, wtf fantano
@stuck_around
7 жыл бұрын
JK Rowling: the Harry Potter movies were meant to be played backwards
@Switzrific
7 жыл бұрын
I read this theory the day after DAMN. come out, and reverse order is actually my preferred order. Although, that's not necessarily because it tells any kind of "different" story. It's a little more abstract than that. For me, the two orders are meant to reflect aspects of Kenny's life from an outside perspective (Original), and from within his own head (Reverse). This is primarily showcased in the commercialized order of the original, placing most of what the AUDIENCE wants to hear towards the first half of the record (his revered social commentary on racial tension, radio bangers like DNA. and ELEMENT., his Rihanna feature, etc.). While these tracks may be super fun and easy to listen to, I don't believe it's any accident that we see a lot more swagger than substance in the first half. Additionally, this track listing provides an easily digestible pseudo-narrative, taking the listener through what seems to be a simply-presented "platter" of 14 different themes that are just random things on Kendrick's mind as of late. Like Anthony said: each track has it's own "single" potential. No doubt that was intentional. However, when you "THROW IT IN REVERSE", you're immediately presented with themes that we all know, judging by subject matter from the rest of his discography, have always been inherently important or relevant to Kendrick (His family, his religion, his worst fears, his intimacy, etc.). But somewhere along the way, he realizes that his mainstream audience does not WANT him to be humble (track 8) or godly (track 13) or loving (track 10), but would rather see him flex on wax and get aggressive, maybe start some beef with reporters or other artists (both of which are addressed on the first half). So he transitions in the public eye from HUMBLE. (again, track 8) to PRIDE. (track 7). His values deteriorate because of the aforementioned fears (you know, in FEAR.) of losing his success, landing back in the belly of the beast. He MUST convey a persona to retain his status as the arguable modern GOAT of hip hop. This begets the more shallow themes, even going so far as to name a track "YAH.", as if that hold any value to him whatsoever. We get an AGGRESSIVE, more COMMERCIALLY ACCESSIBLE Kendrick Lamar from DNA., ELEMENT. and FEEL. The reverse order appropriately ends in what the mainstream media (as addressed on-record) traditionally has always wanted from Hip-Hop: BLOOD. Maybe I'm just blowing smoke, but the track listing just feels so much more illustrative of what's going on in Kendrick's mind when you play them in reverse. That being said, it's stupid as fuck to bitch and whine about how people "should" listen to an album. Listen to it however you enjoy it most. Nobody else should give a shit.
@katscandance
2 жыл бұрын
Wow how has no one really talked about this yet. The fact that the first few songs are more commercial and mainstream sounding (which they ended up being the big hits) is what the people wanted from him, which also lead the Fox News people to continue calling out his music as promoting violence, leading to his death. Wow
@doornumb
Жыл бұрын
Damn.
@Marco-er4ql
7 жыл бұрын
I'm a huge Kendrick fan but some fans will be reading into his music way too much like I remember when GKMC came out some people were analyzing the cover explaining why the van is a certain color or why the sky is blue in the photo. This honestly sounds like high school kids trying to find symbolism in a children's book when it's not even there...
@user-nf3hh8kn5r
6 жыл бұрын
Marco LMAO
@ronicave8522
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like me doing every English essay in high school , “overanalysing shit that ain’t there”.
@andreseraso2737
6 жыл бұрын
Wrong. Multiple songs have reference to others. Like Duckworth ending like blood begins. Just because you are lazy and unimaginative it doesn't mean those things are not there.
@chriscc14
3 жыл бұрын
it was literally meant to be played backwards. kendrick said it himself
@randomusername1735
3 жыл бұрын
@@chriscc14 Yeah I don't get how this was such a confusion, there's 2 reverse parts in the album and in DUCKWORTH one of the lines is "We gonna put it in reverse" He put the album in reverse in a snippet on that song and yet people were still saying it wasn't true I'm glad we know the definitive truth since the deluxe version of the album is the same but in reverse
@Ranall75
7 жыл бұрын
This video is a bit of a cop out, as it doesn't mention that DAMN. is M.A.A.D backwards.
@ayythatsmikey
6 жыл бұрын
Oh, D.A.A.M
@jo_nm9484
4 жыл бұрын
NMAD
@friendlypup5650
4 жыл бұрын
TPAB BAPT as in baptism Kendrick is... religious?
@melew25
7 жыл бұрын
i don't know if it tells a different story. but there are things in certain tracks that reference things later on the album. like "my cousin carl duckworth said know my worth" and "love's gonna get you killed, but pride will be the death of you and me." like these references just make more sense in reverse order. however as you said, it's not like there's pieces of one story throughout the album that make sense in reverse order. i guess you could argue that duckworth is his beginning, then fear kinda talks about his childhood in the beginning, humble could be him on top of the rap game, DNA could be him responding to more recent haters. but again there's not a strong enough thread there
@nyshyn307
7 жыл бұрын
melew25 DUCKWORTH is his beginning, talking about his family breaking the curses which was necessary for his success as a Black male. FEAR is the track responsible for laying out a lot of what ties the album together, playing the album forwards or backwards, in FEAR he's asking about will become of him. The last verse pretty much lays out the issue to be addressed in the album: Has Kendrick strayed too far and became wicked? That's why some song titles contradict one another: Kendrick's LOVE for a woman becomes a LUST of the flesh, which results in living the same days over and over with no further determination for a meaningful life. HUMBLE (where the hook is Kendrick telling himself to humble himself) turns to PRIDE (where he resents the world as if he's any better). Skipping ahead to YAH, here Kendrick contemplates what path he will follow, he tells himself if 14-1 "I know he walks the earth, but it's money to get, bitches to hit, yah." Next we have DNA, where Kendrick boasts and accepts his fleshly flaws and ends asking "When destruction gonna be my fate?" which leads into BLOOD, where that's exactly what happens. He was executed by a blind woman because he has been judged wicked, regardless of how he appears
@nyshyn307
7 жыл бұрын
melew25 sorry I wrote so much bro
@Malkav65
7 жыл бұрын
melew25 melew25 You hit the nail on the head. I always did think it was weird that he seemed to have certain revelations before the moment that served as catalyst for said revelations.
@orster2076
7 жыл бұрын
Reverse DAMN. is Kendrick succumbing to his vices and embracing the bad influences around him leading to his eventual (literal) demise
@reven6e531
7 жыл бұрын
Let's make this "backwards" shit a new meme guys. Backthony Wardstano
@frankcamacho4358
7 жыл бұрын
REVEN6E BACKTANO WARDTHANY
@Lohimda1
7 жыл бұрын
He doesn't understand that you can't just go to an album and play it backwards and it plays in perfect sequence but Damn is perfect sequence played forwards and backwards
@MADARAISEPIC1
7 жыл бұрын
Richard Walker Exactly
@IamSuperEffective
7 жыл бұрын
Richard Walker what's so different about damn? You're so far up Kendricks ass that you're coming up with bullshit theories for why he said this. You could take ANY album and play it backwards to get a different story.
@jordanjplayz1701
7 жыл бұрын
Aminoff The Don shut the fuck Up and stop fucking crying, my god the amount of dumb Ass kids bitching cause kendrick makes them feel stupid is too damn high
@jordanjplayz1701
7 жыл бұрын
Aminoff The Don "WhAtS sO dIffErEnT aBoUt dAmN" lmfao look up the fucking lyrics, use your brain, and find out
@_saturniidae
7 жыл бұрын
Jordan J Playz God you sound pretentious lol
@JarHead1318
7 жыл бұрын
I played this video in reverse and man I got to say it really changed the vibe of the whole video. That is a very artistic choice melon, you truly are the greatest artist of our generation.
@scovell7
7 жыл бұрын
Kendrick is just caught up in his own hype. What a bunch of pretentious bullshit.
@silvershitposts8761
7 жыл бұрын
rt
@stevebussemi7640
7 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@AnamanaguchiWAT
7 жыл бұрын
Yup
@samitpaudel7886
7 жыл бұрын
scovell7 he loyal now
@nomercy7622
7 жыл бұрын
scovell7 sadly. Though i think interviews are milking so much this topic. DAMN. is a cool album, but some of this "interviewers" are fuckin cancer. Yup, bunch of pretentious shit nowadays in the press, and sadly kendrick got caught by this "cancerous articles".
@johnw4115
7 жыл бұрын
In alt universe damn was released backwards and Tano thinks listening to it forward is cringy
@MrKuso101
7 жыл бұрын
Damnthony Fantano.
@stopanthonyfantano3709
7 жыл бұрын
Stop Anthony Fantano
@liamgallagher1476
7 жыл бұрын
"I don't take headlines lightly or on their face" *makes video trashing LCD based pretty much solely on the headline*
@hawk2079
3 жыл бұрын
I though he ment backwards as in reverse lol
@Zeniithe
7 жыл бұрын
3:14 I thought he was going to say "14 tracks...carried out over wax"
@joemurray5982
6 жыл бұрын
Zeniithe wonderin if I'm livin through fear or livin through rap
@kayshawn.
4 жыл бұрын
Where??
@OutofTheLyingsDen
7 жыл бұрын
Turn that 7 upside down it's an L now
@AntiRiku
7 жыл бұрын
Every album has a different vibe if you play it backwards. This is just another attempt by Kendrick to appear to be super deep.
@ahmadking5229
7 жыл бұрын
Anti Riku 😂😢
@popetaytv
7 жыл бұрын
Ivan Blokhuis they really aren't though. Just because you discuss your life or politics doesn't mean you're deep. Kendrick is very surface level with what he discusses and he's not even bringing any new outlooks. Dope as rapper with a message, but he isn't as deep as folk put on.
@notdom9196
7 жыл бұрын
Anti Riku In the intro of Duckworth it literally says"we gon' put it in reverse" lmao how is this an attempt of being deep it's simple
@Kirbystare1992
7 жыл бұрын
popetaytv if he's not deep what is?
@Kirbystare1992
7 жыл бұрын
karma delivery he's being pretentious lol
@super8nacho
7 жыл бұрын
Yo totally not related but the new action Bronson album is surprisingly very very good
@twistedgambit9084
7 жыл бұрын
nice I like him and Jonwayne
@reachTrees
7 жыл бұрын
I think what he means is that regardless of whether you play the album forwards or backwards, it still tells a story. Whereas most albums, they may tell a story forwards but they will not tell a story backwards and that's where the beauty lies, the fact that both directions there is still a story to be told
@Dytanious
7 жыл бұрын
I get what Kendrick is saying. When you're listening to it in the original order forward the story starts from the present where he died and ends at the beginning. But when you listen to it in reverse you're going from past to present, like yeah it's the same story but it is told in a different perspective in a way. Tbh I don't really give a shit about the reverse thing at all. I value that this is the first Kendrick album in awhile that I can just casually listen to without dissecting it too much but I do think it's important to acknowledge that the same story can be told in multiple perspectives and DAMN does do that to a certain degree. Just not enough for me to care honestly because I prefer it in the original order.
@rahulr5825
7 жыл бұрын
.NMAD
@super8nacho
7 жыл бұрын
Review my antifa bandana
@anon2427
7 жыл бұрын
Bystander55 "nazi"
@sleepybandit23
7 жыл бұрын
Jonah Jameson antifa quite literally means "anti fascist"🤔call him a communist maybe?
@super8nacho
7 жыл бұрын
How bout I make a joke and you guys not label me cuz you never met me in real life
@joshuacottton6985
7 жыл бұрын
feeling a decent to strong ten
@jeromios
7 жыл бұрын
Yo fuck antifa and fuck nationalists. All sides are shit. Make your own side. Be rational.
@Alex_Mac_
7 жыл бұрын
If it's better in reverse order than why didn't ya put it that way to start with? Idk, I love when people hide stuff in the album but this just feels pointless.
@nyshyn307
7 жыл бұрын
AlexMacIsKING it's likely because he wants people to see the two paths, and if he placed it in the true order it would be harder to grasp that there was a path of the order we were given
@MrOmarthegangsta
7 жыл бұрын
Then ppl was theorise that it can be played backwards lol.
@ToLWaM
7 жыл бұрын
damn backwards is nmad
@notaninstrument7707
5 жыл бұрын
Good Kid nmaD City
@jessicakilpatrick2008
5 жыл бұрын
Not an Instrument eleborate. Please
@PsychoticManiac
5 жыл бұрын
Niggas always mad 😉
@brandons2640
3 жыл бұрын
@@notaninstrument7707 ITS ALL CONNECTED MY THIRD EYE IS AWAKENING
@notaninstrument7707
3 жыл бұрын
@@jessicakilpatrick2008 sorry just saw this 2 years late but he made another album called Good Kid M.A.A.D City that’s the joke
@PoserGalore
5 жыл бұрын
If you played good kid mAAd city and to pimp a butterfly alphabetically. The two albums comes into one full rounded story. Try it it out mind blown.
@henryrasche7353
7 жыл бұрын
Instead of going from lust to love, etc he's going backwards(love to lust) into a darker state of mind where, in the end, gets shot. Even uncle carl in FEAR. warned him about this. If you listen normally, kendrick listens to him and lives, if not, Kendrick ignores him and dies. You're very welcome
@angelserrano4109
7 жыл бұрын
He's just having fun with it and you and all the people hyping the album into something it's not. Playing right into my niggas hands 😂😂
@mangolollipop_
7 жыл бұрын
I'm like Damn is meh. I liked To Pimp a Butterfly better
@nomercy7622
7 жыл бұрын
mangolollipop noshit
@burgskeletal3149
7 жыл бұрын
maurien moret Oh yeah, cuz GOD. was a masterpiece amirite?
@notknown8431
7 жыл бұрын
I kinda feel sorry for the guy, everyone just bashes him because he didnt make another TPAB
@2000Doriyas
7 жыл бұрын
Only basics like Damn better
@2000Doriyas
7 жыл бұрын
Because it's almost background noise by comparison
@phlyphenix1601
7 жыл бұрын
If that's the case then DAMN would get a 10/7
@arisgolseen2693
7 жыл бұрын
DAMN is Kendrick Lamar's commercial album it is not only meant for heavy hip hop/rap fans but for everyone who loves music.
@joshuabennett3363
7 жыл бұрын
Illuminati I disagree that it's not meant for hip hop fans. The rapping is still really great. Despite what a lot of people on the internet might think, it's possible for something to be popular and good. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Not everything has to be like to pimp a Butterfly and be different than everything else. And even with Kendrick being more commercial the beats are all fucking great and once again I say the rapping is still fantastic.
@arisgolseen2693
7 жыл бұрын
Joshua Bennett what.. ?
@jasonmercado2270
7 жыл бұрын
Joshua Bennett Read his comment again....
@MagonTheConqueror
7 жыл бұрын
Not for everyone who loves music, but for everyone who loves being in the mainstream. There's no sense in making worse music (I believe TPAB is objectively better than DAMN.) for people who love music.
@arisgolseen2693
7 жыл бұрын
TheShooterAddicted that's partially what I mean. "Mainstream" don't like underground and/or unpopular artists/music. That's why songs like damn, humble, loyalty... are made for those who solely enjoy listening to music. Loyalty couldn't have been in TPAB considering the style of the album. Rihanna may have even also brought in more women who love her music or just music in general the way it was produced - to listen to Kendrick.
@kilbarz8751
3 ай бұрын
“Is it wickedness, or weakness?”. If you play the album from start to finish, he goes on to the path of weakness, the undoing of the deadly sins. If you play the album from the back end to the start, he goes on to the path of wickedness. On the song FEAR, just for the sake of it let’s interpret that his father did die…Kendrick goes on to the path on the undoing of the best parts of him as he’s growing up. The narrative is there, you’re just ignorant if you don’t want to acknowledge it. Now if that’s something you don’t care about after you try to see it through those lenses, that’s different.
@TheseBitchesWantNikes
7 жыл бұрын
Love it or hate it, it's undoubtedly one of the most important albums of his year.
@benjaminbeats3612
7 жыл бұрын
These Bitches Want Nikes well so is more life I don't really think that's a big accomplishment
@kevinmorelikekevout3639
7 жыл бұрын
These Bitches Want Nikes saturation 2?????
@mamba4817
2 жыл бұрын
Playing any album backwards won't have the same effect. I think your missing the polarity theme of the album, the tracklist is set in polar opposites. So going one way is more a story of enlightenment, the other the opposite.
@keegan1959
3 жыл бұрын
Because BLOOD. works as a better outro than intro since he dies and DUCKWORTH. works better as a intro since it’s about his youth or before his birth or whatever it is about That’s was my interpretation
@dong3312
7 жыл бұрын
Lmfaoo how the fuck is Anthony gonna tell kendrick what his albums about ?
@CR-ur9nz
7 жыл бұрын
Guys don't listen to Anthony. Just remember that he gave damn a 7...
@coleintheville117
7 жыл бұрын
NEVER FORGET..
@professorchannel6359
6 жыл бұрын
I know right. He was too generous
@tooitchy
6 жыл бұрын
It deserved a 7, it's overrated as hell.
@sycko8
6 жыл бұрын
it deserved a 4 at best. If you're gonna give a reason not to listen to Anthony, my advice: MBDTF
@ambitious6963
7 жыл бұрын
i think the reason for kendrick placing a fullstop after each track on the album is to say that each individual song is a single story by itself
@invertexto.
7 жыл бұрын
I personally feel that the wickedness/weakness idea is flipped when you play it forwards or backwards. That's just my opinion.
@Bert1268
7 жыл бұрын
This was smart by Kendrick, he got people talking about his album again with very little effort. 10/10 marketer.
@beyshore_
7 жыл бұрын
Listen to Drake's Nothing Was The Same backwards.
@RegularGuyism
7 жыл бұрын
Great start. Great finale. The middle is just meh.
@jershawnfreeman550
7 жыл бұрын
Kendrick is sitting there smiling at him over thinking this subject
@PureDisorder
7 жыл бұрын
Oh no the moustache is back
@Cheaplinx
5 жыл бұрын
If its meant to be played backwards then why would he put each song in that order?
@xdoxxy
4 жыл бұрын
Steve Reyes I honestly have no answer, but it’s definitely meant to be played backwards
@SuperYOmrYO
7 жыл бұрын
You were wrong I've lost all respect for you
@kankurou1010
7 жыл бұрын
Nuck Fu Metal you for respect all lost I've
@jeremycook7337
7 жыл бұрын
Nuck Fu Metal I've lost all respect for you
@rsmaster700
7 жыл бұрын
DAMN. in its normal sequence gets more complex with each song, because each song talks about progressively more complex human concepts. From your vital fluids and inborn abilities and qualities all the way to your surname/fate (Kendrick talked about this in the first interview). From yourself inside yourself to yourself+other people in a sense. So backwards instead of this build up you get the deconstruction, reminding you of who you are at the absolute core, in a way "humbling you down" which is obviously one of Kendrick's main goals on this album.
@lucastaylor8321
Жыл бұрын
this is my favorite theory
@sad_kang6332
7 жыл бұрын
Melon? More like m&m Doctor Phill.
@L1NE_C00K1NG
3 жыл бұрын
So, like I know my comment is like 3 years late but is no one going to comment on Kendrick’s life as he does let people know his survivor ptsd is forever apart of him? Like from end to start that his dark inner thought of his mind and then from the start to end it’s about him living from those experiences and trying to stay humble? It’s a duality of his inner most thoughts and his story. In my humble opinion the albums a 10/10
@randomusername1735
3 жыл бұрын
I'm loving this album more the more I look into it, I've heard many theories. What I'm sure of is that when played forward it's a bit of a sad, yet satisfying story in which he becomes a better person and may or may not die at the end. In reverse, his habits keep getting worse and eventually he tragically dies from something (I don't know what the blind lady represents)
@stopbreathing2839
7 жыл бұрын
still a 7
@justscrollinginthecomments7930
2 жыл бұрын
The way I see it is, if you play GKMC in a certain order, the story changes. If you play DAMN backwards you get .NMAD
@refugio7528
7 жыл бұрын
MELON JUST TAKE THE L AND MOVE ON. I KNOW IT MIGHT BE HARD TO THINK YOU CAN ACTUALLY BE WRONG BUT YOU WERE, YOU ARE.
@coleintheville117
7 жыл бұрын
lol
@tooitchy
6 жыл бұрын
How can an opinion be wrong?
@Georgiaboy_
7 жыл бұрын
He never said it HAD to be played backwards or should only be played backwards. Only that it can indeed be listened to backwards. Idk why y'all so offended.
@radomane
7 жыл бұрын
Real fans listen to DAMN. on shuffle the story is amazing
@Thebridge232
7 жыл бұрын
Listening to the album backwards unlocks a digital download code to Kendrick's second album "NATION."
@hzhz2551
7 жыл бұрын
If DAMN. is a 7/10, is .NMAD a 10/7??????
@icejaythakid5480
7 жыл бұрын
The vibe that Kendrick talked about being played backwards is the overall idea. Wickedness vs Weakness. You listen to it forwards and he says humans have moments of weakness and are not totally evil, you listen to it backwards and he states that humans have evil hardwired into them. Like this so melon can see
@kansloosisdope
7 жыл бұрын
if this is true damn will now be a 10/7, anthony was right all along
@wirvingred
7 жыл бұрын
I think Kendrick realized the importance of singles to win a grammy and that's pretty much the motivation behind DAMN.
@errormacro438
7 жыл бұрын
Review The Emoji Movie soundtrack
@iamhexoronii
7 жыл бұрын
So this dude is pretty Much saying he knows more about the album than the guy that made the album
@mcbrodz1663
7 жыл бұрын
7 backwards is a 10
@javalefanboy6921
7 жыл бұрын
He finally fixed the lag in the audio. Thank you melon you are now jesus
@Zelgaro
7 жыл бұрын
Melodrama > DAMN.
@KalimeroShow
7 жыл бұрын
we been knew
@Moneyman-33
7 жыл бұрын
Dab Savage Flower boy>DAMN
@ms94
7 жыл бұрын
I See You > Melodrama > DAMN.
@garfeildbusta8125
7 жыл бұрын
Dab Savage After Laughter > Melodrama >> DAMN.
@Zelgaro
7 жыл бұрын
tru
@AnarchyIsLove
4 жыл бұрын
I might be reading too far in or Kendrick didn't let enough on, but in reverse the songs' stories are chronological, and the story he wanted to tell, but as this whole album is mocking what the industry does to art, he released it in reverse because the stronger songs are in the beginning. The story is twisted in the name of marketability.
@RegularGuyism
7 жыл бұрын
Interscope told him to say this so people would listen to the album again and get it more streams.
@southgonholditdown
7 жыл бұрын
Degrade DAMN to a 6 Fandango he should know better than to mess with you.
@Liqhtning
7 жыл бұрын
This dude is so dense... You're a mini journalists, for your own sake I'm sure you have enough intelligence to simply start by reading the titles backward. It was stupid of you to say that any album could be played backwards, since he premeditated the concepts of each song in the title to create a different "motive" rather than story. Playing a whole future album is stupid. Playing Kendrick's album backwards like he said and intended, and had someone screaming throughout the whole album for you to do it is obvious. I'll give you an example, play it backwards and he chooses Lust "over" Love. Pride over being Humble. Ect. But ultimately what he's stating is all of the decisions he made led him to becoming famous. One wrong move like he said in Duckworth and his life would have ended in Blood. It's meant to be taken at face value. You dig deep to understand and then you relax once you get it. You understand.
@gabrielfuller9708
4 жыл бұрын
If you listen GKMC backwards Kendrick returns his momma’s van on time.
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