Good Kid, M.A.A.D City was recorded mostly at several studios in California, with producers such as Dr. It is Lamar's major label debut, after his independently released first album Section.80 in 2011 and his signing to Aftermath and Interscope the following year. Dre, Jay-Z, Jay Rock, Anna Wise, and MC Eiht. The album features guest appearances from Drake, Dr. It was released on October 22, 2012, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Read on to sift through the album’s critical response, Twitter reactions, blog coverage, and footage of pivotal moments that pushed Lamar onto the global stage.Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (stylized as good kid, m.A.A.d city) is the second studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. To this day, even after two certified classic LPs, you’ll still find a crowd who considers this release Kendrick’s best. In honor of Section.80’s fifth birthday, we dialed back the clock to revisit what might just be the most formative year of Kendrick Lamar’s career. He wasn’t quite the masterful artist he would become in the years that followed, but 2011 saw him reach a level of comfort that would take him to the very top of the industry. Section.80 encapsulates the moment Lamar grew into himself.
Section.80 boasted mind-boggling rhymes over upbeat jazz breaks on “Rigamortis” and “Ab-Soul’s Outro.” What’s more, the album showcased Lamar’s penchant for left-field hooks that stuck, employing a bevy of voices-including his own-to express ideas and feelings that pop radio couldn’t.Ĭase in point: “A.D.H.D.” The song, a rumination on pills in the wake of the Reagan era, sparked chants at shows for years despite its denouncement of drugs-a skill that reappeared most famously, and in sharpened form, on Lamar’s first bonafide hit, “Swimming Pools (Drank).” Meanwhile, old heads abstained from hurling insults because, well, how many acts from the “Golden Era” can really out-rap Kendrick? and Egyptian hieroglyphics captivated an audience in search of something fresh and otherworldly. Cole-produced single, an immediate segue for fans of the Fayetteville MC. The newly selected XXL Freshman turned heads with his J.
It was the year in which a concept called HiiiPower came to be, its three-finger hand symbol appearing both on blogs and in the Facebook photo galleries of teens with increased frequency.
What’s most remarkable about this release is that it was really just practice, the last warm-up in a long line of street tapes. The final domino to fall in fact arrived 10 months later, in July of 2011, when Section.80 solidified Kendrick as the new school champion of the West Coast. Although his initial work remained obscure as successive waves of new fans found King Kendrick, natural selection saw the best of those stepping stones enjoy rediscovery. The freebie offering currently sits just shy of one million Datpiff downloads, a sizable number that indicates both the punch the project packed and its self-benefitting aftermath. Save for small circles of rap heads in southern California (ahead of the curve by proximity), most early fans were first introduced to Kendrick Lamar through 2010’s O(verly) D(edicated), a glimpse of what the Compton artist would become.
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