Lemme breakdown the whole album for you breh
The first track is preceded by a prayer by a group of young men before the song beings. The opening track Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinters Daughter describes the meeting and relationship of Kendrick and a girl named Sherane. Our story begins as Kendrick rides to Sheranes house in his moms minivan. As he pulls up and sees Sherane he also sees two dudes in black hoodies. He freezes and his phone rings. It goes to voicemail. On the voicemail we get our first introduction to Kendricks mother and father (voiced by Ab-Soul). While Kendricks dads just shouting about Dominos his mom gets on him about taking the minivan and warns him about ****ing with Sherane. She reminds him that hes got to focus on school the next day.
The next few songs take a step back in time. We go back earlier into the day where Kendrick is just chilling and having a good time with his friends without a care in the world who warns his critics *****, Dont Kill My Vibe. This second track really captures the Section.80 vibe more than any of the other tracks as its the least conceptually specific. It again reinforces Kendricks attitude and outlooks. He just doesnt want to be told if he keeps living this lifestyle hell never achieve the things he wants to. As he and the homies go to cruise around town one of his friends says they got a pack of Black & Milds and a beat CD. They hop in the car and toss on the beats. Thats Kendricks cue to rip the instrumental blaring through the speakers in a Backseat Freestyle. One of the most swagged out tracks on the album because of its freestyle content, this **** is a ****ing banger and a clearly quotable highlight. Martin had a dream! Kendrick has a dream! After the backseat freestyle the dudes keep rolling around town drinking and smoking in The Art Of Peer Pressure. Things dont always stay good though cause one day its gon burn you out. A little over a minute into the song the beat changes to provide a dark, ominous background to the mad city. Now these guys look around in the early afternoon around 2:30 and the sun is beaming. They grab some fast food and look for some girls to holler at. They see dudes in the wrong colors and start ****ing with them. They leave and brag about their intimidation and Kendrick realizes that hes only acting that way because of the group mentality. They roll through to a house theyve been staking out for months and they make the move to rob it as the sun goes down. Quickly getting trailed by the police they make it away on this one lucky night with the homies. They make plans to meet up again around 10:30. This gives Kendrick time to go see Sherane.
After the robbery Kendrick and all his friends have dreams of sitting in the shade of some Money Trees. He reflects on the nature of what he has just done and its perception by different groups of people in society. Everybody gon respect the shooter but the one in front of the gun lives forever, he preaches. On Poetice Justice his thoughts go back to Sherane as he heads over to her place, where our album began. Drakes assist makes perfect sense here and the Janet Jackson sample cements the smooth, sexual nature of the track. At the end of the song were brought back to Kendrick getting approached by the two gangsters in black hoodies who rolled up on him as he arrived at Sheranes house. One of the gangsters (voiced by ScHoolboy Q) gives Kendrick a hard time threatening him and while he tries to avoid conflict by staying quiet hes snatched out of the car.
The struggle of Kendrick Lamar vs. Compton is fully realized as he describes what it means to be a good kid in his environment. Even though he isnt a gang member he still gets treated with intimidation from the gang members. Even though he isnt a gang member he still gets treated as if he were one by the police. All this pushes him to a point that he wants to snap and give into the ills of his surroundings but he fights through cause he knows one day you respect, good kid, m.A.A.d city. In the next track we feel the insanity of the m.A.A.d city with the hook being built from the gang members interrogations. Where you from my *****, where your grandma stay, huh my *****? Halfway through the beat flips and Kendrick describes his experiences with the madness around him including revealing he foamed at the mouth during on his first times smoking a blunt because it was laced with cocaine. MC Eiht comes through to drop some necessary old head knowledge to show that Compton was like this long before Kendricks childhood. In the final bars Kendrick addresses his generation of sedated sleepwalkers. If I told you I killed a ***** at 16, would you believe me? Kendrick proposes that his innocence isnt from birth but instead worked towards after brutal lessons. Before the vintage West Coast synth hits Kendrick claims Compton U.S.A. made me an angel on angel dust.
When Kendrick and his friends meet up again they head to a party and being to drown themselves in Swimming Pools of liquor. At the party Kendrick examines his peers as he gets drunk and sees how pathetic and empty the act of partying leaves him. He urges people that if they feel stress and tribulation to not be like him making excuses that your relief is in the bottom of a bottle and the greenest indo leaf. As the song comes to a close it is revealed that Kendrick was pulled out of his moms minivan by the two gang members and stomped out over a *****. Kendricks friends say they are going to run up on the two gang members and shoot them, and they hope they see Sherane cause theyre gonna pop that ***** too. As the song ends shots ring off and Kendricks friends take out the gang members but one of their own is caught in the crossfire and loses his life.
Kendrick begins the 12 minute Sing About Me, Im Dying Of Thirst by revealing his need to be remembered as one of the Hip-Hop greats after the day he hangs up the microphone. In the first verse Kendrick goes back to his friend that was shot the night before and how the victims brother will continue the vicious cycle by trying to claim revenge of the shooters. In his second verse Kendrick hears the rebuttal of Keishas sibling about how he judged and portrayed her on Section.80s Keishas Song. In the final verse of the Sing About Me portion of the track Kendrick thanks his acquaintances from the two previous verses for what hes learned claiming youre right, your brother was a brother to me and your sisters situation was the one that put me in a direction to speak of something thats realer than the TV screen. Always extremely self critical Kendrick wonders if anyone will sing about him after hes gone saying now am I worth it? Did I put enough work in? As the song transitions into Im Dying Of Thirst Kendrick and his friends decide to go hunt down the shooter of his friends brother. In the midst of their conversation Kendrick feels lost in the m.A.A.d city and comes to the realization that he must escape the madness. He is dying of thirst. As the song ends the boys are overheard by one of their grandmothers plotting to take revenge on the murderer of Kendricks friends brother. She interrupts them and sees one of them has a deadly weapon. She calms them down and tells them they are dying of thirst like the other angry, young, spiteful men of their generation. They need holy water and need to baptized with the spirit of the lord. She convinces them to pray with her and it is the same prayer from the opening words of the album. After the prayer ends she tells them to remember this day, the start of a new life, your real life. The life Kendrick Lamar is still living today.
While the majority of the narrative ends there Kendrick still has more to say. He takes a rare moment to brag about his life. Thankfully Kendrick has embraced a new life that has taken him away from bragging about materialism, women, and violence. Instead this new life has made being Real the pinnacle of achievement which is a belief his music has reflected since Kendrick Lamar EP. Kendrick says Im talking about hating on money, power, respect, and my will, and hating on the fact that none of that **** make me real. After the song he gets his final call from his parents. His father gives his sympathies for his lost friend but warns Kendrick dont learn the hard way. His mother lets him know TDE called and wants him to come to the studio. His mother leaves him with the true lesson. She says he hopes he comes home soon. If he doesnt than she hopes he takes his negative experiences and becomes a positive for the people lost in the m.A.A.d city like him. When you do make it, his mom says, give back with your words of encouragement, and thats the best way to give back to your city. I love you Kendrick, his mother says before saying he knows where she hides the key.
After all the trials, tribulations, struggles, highs, lows, sacrifices, and time Kendrick has put in on his rise to the top its time for him to finally take on and embrace the fate of the good kid. Compton serves as the crowning ceremony of the new Hip-Hop Chirst King Kendrick Lamar, overseen by the one and only Dr. Dre. Dre reminds people they loved him because he didnt listen to anyone and only lived by his own rules, which is the same thing he sees in Kendrick Lamar. Complete with Roger Troutman talkbox the closing track is the beginning of a dynasty rooted in over 20 years of life and tradition. We can all celebrate, Kendrick exclaims. I agree. We should all be celebrating the beginning of the reign of King Kendrick Lamar. The song ends with Kendrick saying Ma I gotta use the van real quick Ill be back in 15 minutes, bringing our story full circle, but now, and forever, Kendrick will remain the good kid in a m.A.A.d city.
Rap will never be the same
if y'all don't rep this man
....Standout tracks are Poetic Justice,Compton,Madd City with Mc Eiht,Art Of Peer Pressure,Sing For Me,Swimming Pools and its another one too I just forgot....ima start off sayin the beats overall will be a let down if you expectin heavy bass,gfunk shyt,typical Dr Dre beats...but the beats are more of a throwback to the style of beats oldschool California LYRICIST would spit over...so I give a pass on the beats becuz I'm guessin that's what wuz intended so I'm not takin points off just cuz I went in thinking "dr dre production"...once I realized what wuz goin on I got it.
what's with the goofy azz hooks and voice changing technology
?...nikka u ain't Future its wack when u do it
it wuz a miss everytime....not to mention that wack hook u served up on Poetic Justice ruining what coulda been a classic track,u wuz better off lettin Drake do it or just shutting up and letting Janet do it.
sounded completly uninspired...dude doesn't have much mic presence at all and people are letting him off easy bcuz its sumthing different being pushed in the midstream...definitly the hipsters king right now.
....when I heard Doggystyle obviously u would see the Slick Rick,maybe the richie rich inspiration but I certainly wuznt thinkin shyt about them as I wuz listenin to Snoops debut bcuz he built on it to a point all u could think wuz 
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nikka was rhyming his ass off and panning each line back n forth between the left & right ear made it even better.
it's a classic 
incredible breh's dude has really made it, he performed bytch dont kill my vibe for the first time it was 