
Every so often, Lamar lets loose a wild boast – “I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower/So I can fuck the world for 72 hours” – but the triumphalism feels warranted. The plush production of tracks like the Neptunes-produced centerpiece “good kid” hearkens back to Seventies blaxploitation soundtracks and Nineties gangsta-rap blaxploitation revivals, and good kid warrants a place in that storied lineage. Buy Kendrick Lamar -good Kid, M.A.A.d City- Album Cover Rap Star Poster Canvas Poster Wall Art Decor Print Picture Paintings for Living Room Bedroom. Lamar is an unlikely star: a storyteller, not a braggart or punch-line rapper, setting spiritual yearnings and moral dilemmas against a backdrop of gang violence and police brutality. The album opens as if in midsentence, in brisk conversational mode – “I met her at the house party on El Segundo and Central” – and never slows, gusting through dense narratives and thickets of internal rhymes. Dre protégé Kendrick Lamar, the Compton, California, MC wears it lightly, like a favorite hoodie. Read: 5 facts about Kendrick Lamar’s album ‘DAMN.The title “Next Big Rapper” has been a curse as often as a blessing. Jay Rock recorded a follow up to “Money Trees” titled “Money Trees Deuce,” which was released on his album, 90059. Kendrick Lamar mentions Ciara in Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter.īonus fact. She never responded, so he sent it to Kendrick Lamar. Music revealed he originally made the beat for singer Ciara. Backseat Freestyle beat was originally produced for Ciara. “m.A.A.d” is also a reference to 90s Compton based hip-hop group “WC and the Maad Circle.”ġ. Leakers while explaining the meaning behind m.A.A.d. It’s in the story. It was just me getting my hands on the wrong thing at the wrong time, being oblivious to it.” Kendrick Lamar revealed in an interview with L.A. The reason I don’t smoke, and it’s in the album. The first is ‘my angry adolescence divided,’ and the basic standout meaning is ‘my angel’s on angel dust.’ That’s the reason why I don’t smoke,” Kendrick Lamar revealed. Dot kept a diary so he didn’t forget how he felt at the time of the album’s release. Kendrick Lamar kept a diary after the release of good kid, m.A.A.d city so he didn’t forget how he felt at the time.Īfter the release of his second album, K. His father was in the Backseat Freestyle music video. My parents love the album.” Kendrick Lamar told Complex. And those are my real homeboys being themselves.

Those are people that I was raised by, so I decided to put them in the skits as themselves. “Those skits are actually my real mother and father. That was Kendrick Lamar’s real parents leaving voice messages on the album. The van on the cover was actually the van Kendrick Lamar talks about it throughout the entire album.Ĥ. You can view a photo of Schoolboy Q designing the 2012 Good Kid, M.A.A.D City font above. The handwriting font on the cover art of Kendrick Lamar’s second studio album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City was done by his fellow TDE member Schoolboy Q. The handwriting on the cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “good Kid, M.A.A.D City” album was done by Schoolboy Q.
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Here are 5 facts about good kid, m.A.A.d city.ĥ. Full title: good kid, m.A.A.d city a short film by Kendrick Lamar m.A.A.d is an acronym for both My Angry Adolescence Divided and My Angels On Angel. Kendrick Lamar‘s 2012 debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city turned Kendrick into a star.
