EDITORS’ NOTES West Coast hip-hop elders like Snoop and Dre have virtually anointed Kendrick Lamar to carry on the legacy of gangsta rap. The deluxe version of good kid, m.A.A.d.Ĭity features five bonus tracks. These snippets pepper the album providing an anthropological glimpse into his life in Compton. MC Eiht.” Like prog rock, Lamar’s tracks have songs within songs-sudden tempo changes with alter egos and embedded interludes, such as unscripted recordings of his parents asking for their car back and neighborhood homies planning their latest conquest.

Verbally nimble, Lamar experiments with a variety of different lyrical styles, from the Bone Thugz-type of delivery on “Swimming Pools (Drank)” to the more straightforward orthodox G-funk flow on “m.A.A.d. His second studio album good kid, M.A.A.d city, conceptual enough to be a rock opera, certainly uplifts the genre with its near-biblical themes: religion vs. ** here is the official leak for kendrick lamar’s highly-anticipated debut album “good kid, m.a.a.d city” - download album now!! Advertisements Rate this.ĮDITORS’ NOTES West Coast hip-hop elders like Snoop and Dre have virtually anointed Kendrick Lamar to carry on the legacy of gangsta rap.

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