![]() ![]() GKMC’s narrative focuses on K.Dot's transition to Kendrick Lamar as he tries to break free from Compton. This is the internet and unfortunately, it’s illegal to superglue our interns to laptops to search through every miniscule rap blog for a mention of Kendrick Lamar.įor everyone else, let’s start at the beginning….īut first – TL:DR – The story starts at the end. In between wondering if Kendrick’s father ever satisfied his want to sink ships of over-priced pizza crust into seas of garlic and herb sauce, I wondered if anyone had ever compiled the narrative bastion of GKMC into an easily digestible guide. As I listened, I no longer found myself on the coffee machine jockey’s convoy to the coast instead, I was riding through South Central Los Angeles tarnished with sympathy for Kendrick’s dad and his Dominos. ![]() city features five bonus tracks.The other day, while passively hating on the rest of the commuting public for using the same transport as myself, I found myself listening to Kendrick’s masterpiece. These snippets pepper the album providing an anthropological glimpse into his life in Compton. ![]() MC Eiht.” Like prog rock, Lamar’s tracks have songs within songs-sudden tempo changes with alter egos and embedded interludes, such as unscripted recordings of his parents asking for their car back and neighborhood homies planning their latest conquest. ![]() Verbally nimble, Lamar experiments with a variety of different lyrical styles, from the Bone Thugz-type of delivery on “Swimming Pools (Drank)” to the more straightforward orthodox G-funk flow on “m.A.A.d. His second studio album good kid, M.A.A.d city, conceptual enough to be a rock opera, certainly uplifts the genre with its near-biblical themes: religion vs. West Coast hip-hop elders like Snoop and Dre have virtually anointed Kendrick Lamar to carry on the legacy of gangsta rap. American Hip-hop Superstar, Kendrick Lamar Released his official Project called "good kid, m.A.A.d city" Album. ![]()
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