Kendrick Lamar-good kid, m.A.A.d city-2012 (CLASSIC)

[LucaBrasi]

Breh's Anybody got that "The Recipe" Black Hippy remix I have a demonic no tag version

 

[tirademode]

Gave it another listen all the way through today .

This has substance , and you can tell it had thought put into it. Something that a lot of debuts have lacked in recent years.

 

[JohnStarksMiddleFinger]

The hook in on Peer Pressure and Money trees reminds me of Outkast.

 

[JohnStarksMiddleFinger]

never even seen this video before...and this was a year ago. kendrick got the whole westcoast behind him. shyt is powerful.


Kendrick Lamar Gets The Torch! - YouTube

Tyler Creator must have been mad as hell

 

[blackslash]

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 Splinter’s Daughter” describes the meeting and relationship of Kendrick and a girl named Sherane. Our story begins as Kendrick rides to Sherane’s house in his mom’s 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 Kendrick’s mother and father (voiced by Ab-Soul). While Kendrick’s dad’s just shouting about Domino’s his mom get’s on him about taking the minivan and warns him about ****ing with Sherane. She reminds him that he’s 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 “*****, Don’t Kill My Vibe.” This second track really captures the Section.80 vibe more than any of the other tracks as it’s the least conceptually specific. It again reinforces Kendrick’s attitude and outlooks. He just doesn’t want to be told if he keeps living this lifestyle he’ll 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 & Mild’s and a beat CD. They hop in the car and toss on the beats. That’s Kendrick’s 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 don’t always stay good though cause “one day it’s 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 he’s only acting that way because of the group mentality. They roll through to a house they’ve 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 it’s 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. Drake’s assist makes perfect sense here and the Janet Jackson sample cements the smooth, sexual nature of the track. At the end of the song we’re brought back to Kendrick getting approached by the two gangsters in black hoodies who rolled up on him as he arrived at Sherane’s 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 he’s 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 isn’t a gang member he still gets treated with intimidation from the gang members. Even though he isn’t 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 Kendrick’s 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 isn’t 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 mom’s minivan by the two gang members and “stomped out over a *****.” Kendrick’s friends say they are going to run up on the two gang members and shoot them, and they hope they see Sherane cause they’re gonna “pop that ***** too.” As the song ends shots ring off and Kendrick’s 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, I’m 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 Keisha’s sibling about how he judged and portrayed her on Section.80’s “Keisha’s 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 he’s learned claiming “you’re right, your brother was a brother to me and your sister’s situation was the one that put me in a direction to speak of something that’s realer than the TV screen.” Always extremely self critical Kendrick wonders if anyone will sing about him after he’s gone saying “now am I worth it? Did I put enough work in?” As the song transitions into “I’m Dying Of Thirst” Kendrick and his friends decide to go hunt down the shooter of his friend’s 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 Kendrick’s friend’s 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 “I’m 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 “don’t 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 doesn’t 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 that’s 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 it’s 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 didn’t 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 I’ll 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

Incredible...dudes Kdot has done it brehs.

Kdot's debut is equivalent to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gUuzYvTItNk#t=121s
Has the OGS of the rap game like

 

[Cumlover]

garbage pure shyt

 

[erker]

Lemme breakdown the whole album for you breh

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Rap will never be the same

Wow man, you killed it!!! Makes a whole lot of sense now. Thanks for helping me put together the last pieces. You made me like this album even more.

 

[kaybe]

Great album

 

[Black Magisterialness]

@LucaBrasi you missed one thing about the outro to m.A.A.d City. They are getting drunk and amped up because the goons from the end of Poetic Justice pulled K.dot out the car and jumped him...which leads to the gunfight at the end of Swimming Pools.

 

[criminology]

great album. i wish his voice wasnt so annoying on m.A.A.d city though.

 

[Black Ball]

@LucaBrasi you missed one thing about the outro to m.A.A.d City. They are getting drunk and amped up because the goons from the end of Poetic Justice pulled K.dot out the car and jumped him...which leads to the gunfight at the end of Swimming Pools.

I always felt this was the best breakdown.



swipe this from another board but it all makes sense..

this is the story of the album..

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City: A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar

Setting: Compton

Characters:

Kendrick Lamar (present Kendrick)
K.Dot (young Kendrick)
Sherane
Kendrick's Mother
Kendrick's Father
Dave
Dave's brother
Keisha's sister
Demetrius (Sherane's favourite cousin)
The Two Brothers (Sherane's younger brothers)
Granny (Sherane's Granny who she lives with)
Sherane's Mother (a crack addict)
Uncle Tony (Kendrick's Uncle who was killed)
Joey (either childhood friend of Kendrick or cousin)
L, Boog, Yaya, Lucky (friends/family members of Kendrick when he was 9)

The Story:

Sherane aka Master Splinter's Daughter

The story opens as a flash-forward. K.Dot has known Sherane for a number of months by this point. He met her at a party where they flirted and exchanged numbers. They kept in contact with each other over the summer and got to know each other pretty well, he talks about her family's history of gang-banging that made him wary but didn't stop him from hooking up with her.

At the end of this song K.Dot is driving to Sherane's house in his Mother's van, he has sex on the brain. But when he turns up Sherane is outside waiting with two dudes in black hoodies (possibly her two younger brothers, or her cousins, one of which could be Demetrius).

Skit #1 - as K.Dot pulls up at Sherane's house his Mother tries to call him but instead gets his voice-mail. We learn from his Mother that K.Dot said he was borrowing her van for just 15 minutes. She warns him not to mess with “them hoodrats” especially “Sherane”.

****, Don't Kill My Vibe

The content of this song doesn't actually follow the Sherane narrative. It is a song told from the perspective of Kendrick Lamar the rapper and how as he gradually gets more recognition as an artist he sees people around him changing, "I can feel the new people around me just want to be famous." He also talks about trying to maintain his credibility while becoming a more mainstream artist, "I'm trying to keep it alive and not compromise the feeling we love/You trying to keep it deprived and only co-sign what radio does."

Skit #2 – The narrative begins. K.Dot's homies pick him up in their white Toyota with a pack of blacks and a beat CD.

Backseat Freestyle

The most self-explantory song on the album. Young K.Dot cruising around town with his homies, getting high and dropping freestyles in the backseat. This is a life is good moment, living free, no troubles. The calm before the storm.

The Art of Peer Pressure

The narrative begins to build. The pressures of hanging with the homies becomes more than simply having a laugh and freestyling. The usually drug free and sober K.Dot is brought in to a world of drinking, smoking, and violence when with “the homies”. Cruising around in a white Toyota, hitting up girls, jumping dudes wearing rival colours, and bragging about what they just did.

The stakes are upped when K.Dot and his homies rob a house that they had been stalking for two months. Cops pursue them but lose them.

Skit #3 - The homies talk about dropping K.Dot off back at home, so he can take his Mother's van and go hit up Sherane – and then they can all meet back up later on the block.

Money Trees

K.Dot recaps the story so far.

He talks about robbing the house, "Home invasion was persuasive/From 9 to 5 I know its vacant."

He mentions ****ing Sherane and bragging about it to his homies, "I ****ed Sherane then went to tell my bros."

He references Backseat Freestyle when he talks about rhyming to beats, "Parked the car and then we started rhyming, ya bish/The only thing we had to free our mind."

And he talks about jumping dudes who looked like they had more money than them, "Then freeze that verse when we see dollar signs/You looking like an easy come up ya bish/A silver spoon I know you come from ya bish."

The line in the chorus "Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever." is deeply important, not just as a life motto, but in regards to the events that later take place in this story regarding Dave and his brother. It's also a reference to Kendrick's Uncle Tony, who was shot and killed at Louie's Burgers; this event is a snap back to reality from the "dreams of living life like rappers do."

Skit #4 – K.Dot's Mother leaves another voice-mail. She wants her car back.

Poetic Justice

K.Dot has been dropped off back at home by his homies and is about to go see Sherane. He's probably driving on the way there in his Mother's van. He talks about her and their relationship so far - it appears they may have had some arguments, he talks about her meeting up with her girlfriends to curse him, and going out partying rather than talking with him.

Skit #5 – this is when we catch up with Sherane aka Master Splinter's Daughter. It starts where Sherane ended, and you can tell because that haunting female vocal (used in the beat to Sherane) comes back in this skit. The two dudes with Sherane approach K.Dot and ask him where he and his family are from (trying to work out what gang he is affiliated with). They force K.Dot out of the van and jump him.

Good Kid

This really sets off the theme of the second half of the album and it is all to do with - realisation.

K.Dot talks about getting jumped, "For the record I recognize that I'm easy prey/I got ate alive yesterday."

He discusses the negative effects of gang-culture, and being unable to escape the pressure of people wanting to know what gang he represents, "But what am I supposed to do/When the topic is red or blue/And you understand that I ain't/But know I'm accustomed to." Red or Blue obviously refers to the LA gangs of Bloods and Crips.

The red and the blue in the second verse become police sirens. K.Dot talks about getting no sympathy from the cops because they stereotype him as a gang-banger, making him lift up his shirt in order to look for a gang affiliated tattoo, "I heard them chatter: "He's probably young but I know that he's down"/Step on his neck as hard as your bullet proof vest."

K.Dot is trapped in a violent culture and can't get a reprieve from the gangs or the police.

M.A.A.D City

More self-awareness and realisation of the corrupt city that K.Dot lives in.

K.Dot's recent beat-down brings back early memories of similar situations, witnessing someone with their brains blown out at a burger stand back when he was 9 (I'm not sure if he is talking about his Uncle Tony again, or someone else), he thinks he knows the person who did it but he censors his name. He also talks about how his cousin was killed back in 94.

He talks about his Father telling him to get a job but he got fired after his friends pressured him in to staging a robbery. He gives his reason for why he doesn't smoke when he tells a story of smoking marijuana laced with cocaine and "foaming at the mouth."

In the final verse he tries to let the good shine through and offer respite for the youth and how they don't have to succumb to the temptations and pressures of the street. He hopes that his experience and intelligence can do good for the youth living in similar situations. "Compton, USA Made me an Angel on Angel Dust."

Skit #6 – K.Dot's homies meet back up with him later as planned. They try to boost him back up after his beat-down, and they offer him alcohol to take his mind off it.

Swimming Pools

An anti-alcohol song, that again plays in to the second half of the album's realisation about the vices previously holding Kendrick back. Kedrick talks about growing up around alcohol both within his family and group of friends.

Skit #7 – this is the big impact moment of the narrative. The plan is to take revenge on the dudes that jumped K.Dot. One of K.Dot's homies (possibly Dave) talks about maybe dropping K.Dot back off at home, but this idea is turned down, and K.Dot stays. The homies see the dudes that jumped K.Dot and a shoot-out begins. During the battle K.Dot's friend Dave gets shot. The dudes that shot Dave drive off and K.Dot is left holding Dave as he dies in his arms.

Sing About Me

Verse 1 – from the perspective of Dave's brother. He says the blood is on Kendrick's hands because the whole situation happened out of revenge for something that happened to Kendrick. But he says he appreciates that Kendrick was there for his brother and held him while he was dying. Dave's brother wonders if he will ever discover a passion like Kendrick to get him out of the hood – he says he hopes Kendrick will remember him and sing about him when he makes it big, and if he dies before the album drops...pop, pop, pop – he gets killed.

Verse 2 – from the perspective of Keisha's sister. She is mad at Kendrick for putting her sister on blast (on Section 80) without even knowing her properly. She talks about how she is living the same life as her sister, as a prostitute, and is proud of her living and what she does. She claims not to be just another woman lost in the system. She says her sister died in vein. Unlike Dave's brother she doesn't want to be sang about on the album. She feels great and says she'll never fade away....but then she does, her vocals slowly fade out in to obscurity...perhaps she died or just became another nameless "hoodrat".

Verse 3 – from Kendrick's perspective. Looking in the mirror. His fear of death. He speaks to Dave's brother, agreeing that Dave was like a brother to him. He speaks to Keisha's sister saying that Keisha's story was the one that drove him to write something that powerful and real – he didn't mean to offend. He talks of how music saved him and pulled him away from the drugs, money and guns.

Skit #8 – K.Dot's homies talking after Dave has been killed. Some of them want to go back and get revenge. K.Dot finally snaps and says he is tired of this ****.

I'm Dying of Thirst

Kendrick talks about been tired of running and gunning people down. It's just a circle of death. The perpetual struggle.

Skit #9 – K.Dot returns home, still angry and upset over Dave's death. Him or one of his homies have a gun with them that his Mother sees “That better not be what I think it is.” she says. She tells them that they are dying of thirst and that they need to take a new path and let Jesus in to their lives. She makes them prayer. From here on K.Dot begins to live a new life as Kendrick Lamar.

Real

This is Kendrick disregarding the street life and turning his back on gang-banging, drugs, alcohol, violence etc. The different meanings of being “real”. Are you real because you represent your hood and shoot people? Are you real because you try to escape that life and make something of yourself?

Verse 1 – about certain girls (but could be Sherane). She loves handbags, French Tip, bank slips. But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself?

Verse 2 – about certain homies (but could be Dave's brother). He loves fast cars, fast women, beef, streets, ducking police, hood-life. But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself?

Verse 3 – about Kendrick. He explains the previous two verses - “I love first verse cos your the girl I attract.” and “I love second verse cos your the homie that packed burner.” “I love what the both of you have to offer.”

He wonders if he should hate her for what happened or should he hate his homies for convincing him to seek revenge. Or should he hate the fact that none of that **** makes him real.

Skit #1 0 – voice-mail from his Father. He tells Kendrick not to make the same mistakes he did, and that none of this stuff makes him real and that he should get out and make something of himself. His Mother tells him that Top Dawg called and wants him in the studio – she tells him to take his music career seriously – that it is his chance to get out and tell his story to the kids of Compton so that they have hope. This is technically the end of the story in a narrative sense - the tape is ejected and then rewound.

Compton

The narrative is over. This song is after Kendrick has made it and is now giving back just like his Mother told him too. It's a positive outlook of a city that is often full of darkness and violence.

Skit #1 1 - the narrative starts over again when K.Dot borrows his Mother's van.

 

[erker]

I always felt this was the best breakdown.

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City: A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar

Setting: Compton

Characters:

Kendrick Lamar (present Kendrick)
K.Dot (young Kendrick)
Sherane
....

I like it too, but this one doesn't describe the chronology of the album as well as LucaBrasi did. It is not a lineair story. Also, this one IMO gives an incorrect interpretation of 'bytch, don't kill my vibe' within the context of the album.

LucaBrasi nailed it like a muhfukka.

 

[WickedGames]

Also it says the woman at the end is k dots mother

 

[WickedGames]

Good summary LucaBrasi but Ab soul didnt play K Dots father. Pretty sure Kendrick said those were his real parents on the skits

 

[Black Ball]

I like it too, but this one doesn't describe the chronology of the album as well as LucaBrasi did. It is not a lineair story. Also, this one IMO gives an incorrect interpretation of 'bytch, don't kill my vibe' within the context of the album.

LucaBrasi nailed it like a muhfukka.

Naw, they got it wrong. bytch Don't Kill My Vibe is present Day Kendrick talking about his career, not him at 16 or 17.

Only thing that got messed on the one I posted is them saying it's one of them dude's mothers at the end leading them in the prayer.