![]() ![]() ![]() If much of that album dealt with familiar west coast bread and circuses, its hotly anticipated sequel is timely, haunted by the recent police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown (in Staten Island and Ferguson respectively) and ratcheting social unease. Marrying autobiographical intensity with dazzling lyrical virtuosity and elastic double-time flows, he proved himself one of the most vocally creative and thoughtful rappers of his generation. The Compton boy wonder’s good kid, m.A.A.d city was a jittery, head-turning epic that took the observational skills of Illmatic-era Nas and applied them to the stresses and strains of his neighbourhood – the cradle of gangsta rap. KENDRICK LAMAR'S MAJOR label debut instantly placed him in a rarefied position.
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