Kendrick Lamar · 2012 · 2010s · Entry 269 of 272
good kid, m.A.A.d city
A coming-of-age film compressed into an album — Compton as setting, adolescence as subject, Kendrick as narrator, subject, and conscience simultaneously. 'Backseat Freestyle', 'Swimming Pools', 'Money Trees', 'Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst' — a four-song run in the middle that as good as anything in the catalog. The first chapter of the trilogy that ends with DAMN.
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