Still hitting the bottle, Lamar thinks about his dead friend and how so many dead young men are forgotten.Ī woman from Lamar's church settles down his angry crew, and his mom takes a call from Dr. Lamar's friends and the men who beat him meet, and a friend dies. Unfortunately, booze doesn't offer him the road out of Compton he'd hoped for. Lamar stresses the word "drank" in an anthem for addiction. The darkest song on the album and another hit. In the end, they convince him to drown his sorrows, leading to the alcohol abuse of the next track.
Lamar's Compton friends want to find the men who beat him.
Finally he's beaten and kicked out of the neighborhood. Lamar gets a smooth beat from Pharrell as he talks about trying to run away from his life's problems. His delivery is flawless, leaving Drake sounding like a bit of an amateur. Drake and Lamar celebrate their lives, until Lamar ends up at Sherane's house with a gun barrel to his head. Naturally, this will probably be the biggest radio hit. Jay Rock and Lamar describe the hustler lifestyle, and that same girl, Sherane, shows up again. Like the first track, this one packs a lot of story in a fast, fluid rap. The four are almost caught, and Lamar panics. Lamar is roped into a robbery by his friends. Riding in the back of his mom's minivan, Lamar builds on the previous track's plans for his fame with a Hit-Boy beat. With a driving beat, Lamar hopes to break out of Compton and never have to look back, vibe intact. Lamar lusts after a new girl but instead finds himself surrounded by mysterious men. Here, Rap Genius's track-by-track breakdown of the entire album, and listen to it below. This time, he looks back on his old life in Compton - the murder, the alcoholism - and his escape from it. Verbally nimble, Lamar experiments with a variety of different lyrical styles, from. 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.
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Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city (out Tuesday from Interscope) is full of the same storytelling of his independent debut Section.80. West Coast hip-hop elders like Snoop and Dre have virtually anointed Kendrick Lamar to carry on the legacy of gangsta rap.
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