


Kendrick also swept the 2018’s Grammy Awards, DAMN led to five Grammy wins, including a second Best Rap Album nod.The rapper recently welcomed a child with his fiancée, Whitney Alford, who gave birth on July 26. Kendrick acknowledged the engagement on Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club Show” in 2015 when he was promoting his album Top Pimp a Butterfly. This year, Kendrick Lamar was featured in Beyoncé’s new album The Lion King , the soundtrack for the Walt Disney Pictures-produced film. Kendrick recently made an appearance in R&B artist SiR’s “Hair Down.” Check out entire tracks of Good Kid, m.A.A.d City below. D2 to D4 are marked with ' Bonus Track' B1 mistakenly lists 'Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand' as two separate writers.
Kendrick Lamar Good Kid Maad City Album Full Of Boyz
He portrays the gangbangers not as hardened criminals but as aimless kids “just circling life” as they avert the police, staving off the inevitable for one more day.Even when Kendrick boasts, he sounds like he’s winking at the listener. Folded into the Gothic synths and the cold, descriptive verses, the narrator wrestles with his self-doubt. On “The Art of Peer Pressure” he veers from a cartoony introduction into a sinister-sounding, detail-rich description of a car-full of boyz in the ‘hood gearing up for a robbery.
The low-key production and in-your-ear rhymes suddenly go bonkers, complete with the gratuitous declaration: “Ain’t no city quite like mine. It leads to the oblivion of the “Swimming Pools” full of liquor and a 12-minute meditation on the elusiveness of redemption in “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst.”“Compton” provides an over-the-top curtain closer, in which Lamar brings all his personas on-stage for one final bow.
