Although the sonic environment of GKMC might be closer to the present day, the album supplies the same ambition as the prog-rock efforts of the 70’s. It is concept art without being a disservice to the term. While most contemporary albums are at best a collection of singles and features, Kendrick’s sophomore effort would feel much more at home next to The Beatles’ Sgt.
Good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut, was released in 2012. The streets of Compton don’t incubate the American Dream, it nurtures a vicious cycle littered by violence and crime.Yet these very streets would produce a prodigy, superfluous with talent to break glass ceilings and usher an era of upliftment for his community. A city that afforded a murder rate almost 10 times greater than Patna, India’s most homicidal city, whilst ironically in a state with an economy larger than France. The caveat in the previous sentence being Compton, California.
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born on Jin Compton, California.
While it is always imperative to study art and not the artist, to really grasp the message of good kid, m.A.A.d city, it behoves us to understand Kendrick Lamar and his upbringing.
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