That’s why I like to call Compton kids, good kids in a mad city, the influences are making them fucked up,” Lamar explained in an interview with Complex. “A lot of these motherf***ers are good kids. A memoir chronicling a 16-year-old Lamar, getting into trouble on a 2005 Compton summer day, Good Kid was the perfect introduction to the West Coast emcee’s ethos. Kendrick always knew the project would be his major-label debut album. Billed as “a short film by Kendrick Lamar,” the project is more comparable to coming-of-age film classics like Stand By Me, The Wood, and Boyz n The Hood, with its structured pacing of three acts and a clear beginning, middle, and end. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is so much more than a rap album. And his major-label debut, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, is just that and so much more. 80, the unparalleled Compton wordsmith has made a habit of constructing lyrically and thematically dense concept albums with the intention of telling stories of the Black American experience through his eyes. Since his debut commercial mixtape, Section. Kendrick Lamar has always been an artist who moves with absolute intention.

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