The album will surely catapult Kendrick into the upper echelons of rap, where his debut will have to be compared to the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and Nas. good kid, m.A.A.d city follows a day in the life of a teenage Kendrick riding around the streets of Compton as he hooks up with a girl, does a house lick, and goes through numerous other misadventures.
The artist formerly known as K-Dot has done something that didn’t seem possible in this day and age: He's made an album without any artistic or commercial concessions, an album that speaks for a generation, an album that’s worthy of being called a classic.Īnd it’s not just a collection of masterful records, it’s a conceptual album-a "short film," as the subtitle puts it. And it’s every bit as good we all hoped it would be-and then some. Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d.
Watch the interview with Fuse below.Finally: A rap album worthy of the hype. The LP is slated for release on October 22nd. You don't see nobody else's eyes, but you see my eyes are innocent, and tryna figure out what is goin' on." Kendrick explains the photo as follows, "Two are my uncles, to the far right, it's my grandpa, and a baby bottle, next to a 40 oz, next to a gang sign, holdin' a kid," K.Dot says of his cover art. "If you look in the background, you see a picture on the wall, and the picture is me and my pops," Kendrick added. "And the eyes blacked out, that's for my own personal reasons, you'll probably hear about that on the album. That photo says so much about my life, and about how I was raised in Compton, and the things I've seen, just through them innocent eyes.
I feel like I needed to make this album to move on with my life. I had them old negative vibes and demons haunting me, and it's that real." Kendrick continued, "It had to come from somewhere, had to come from a place, it coulda been negative and it coulda been positive, but for the majority part of it, it was a negative place." He says recording the album helped him move on, "It was a venting process, to tell these stories I never told." He says of his Aftermath debut, "It's really just like a self-portrait.
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