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

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Glad it got cut. That bytch killed the vibe of the album though alone it doesn't sound bad for the pop crowd.
 
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Album's dope...song concepts and execution make it even better, BUT them skits especially involving his parents really make it sound better for me. Dude's parents seem cool as fuk.
 
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Some random jawn with less than 3000 followers severely outshines the most popular artist in the world?:youngsabo:
 
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LucaBrasi said:
Lemme breakdown the whole album for you breh :myman:

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 :ahh:
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Just...wow. This is definitely a new age classic.
 
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This is his pops apparently
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Peak said:
So this is the corny nikka talking about dominos? :comeon:

Either this is wrong or K.Dot completely undersold his Pops savage...:damn:
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I barely understand how twitter works but if I'm reading it right kdot is answering the question in this tweet?


Kendrick Lamar ‏@kendricklamar

RT @maronator89: @kendricklamar who's the dude with the crazy eyes and big ass gun in the liner notes? (pops)
 
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Flav said:
i think big krit album is better than this kendrick album.krit spit more game and his beats was more raw and felt.but this kenrick album is very good just not classic like people hype it up to be.

also they should try to sign Eiht to TDE.i think he still got what it take to sell some albums.
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Alchemist was on twitter saying he wants to do a project with MC Eiht and Spice 1. That needs to happen....
 
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