Kendrick Lamar Good Kid M.A.AD City Album Review

Kendrick Lamar's latest album Good Kid M.A.AD City has been dubbed by many rap enthusiast and experts as one of the best albums since the golden age of hip hop/slash rap in the 90's. GKMC is being mentioned and compared in the same name as great albums such as Nas's Illmatic and Tupac All eyez on me. Kendrick Lamar uses great metaphors, beautiful imagery, and colorful skits to to tell a whole story through this entire album.



GKMC starts of with the song Sherane, in the beginning of the song you hear a group of young man offering up a prayer to god asking him for forgiveness, then the song makes a smooth transition to Kendrick rapping about a female named Sherane. Sherane ends with the first skit of the album where his mother and father are leaving a message on his voicemail. The next song B*****, don't kill my vibe is a smooth song with a well paced beat. Kendrick Lamar uses extremely witty wordplay to entice the  listener to listen on. The next few songs Backstreet Freestyle, The Art of peer pressure and Money Trees deepens the plot. The next song Poetic Justice uses a sample from Janet Jackson's anytime anyplace. This song features Drake on it. The collaboration on this song between the two artist gives the listener a cosy feeling when listening.The song Good Kid offers a foreshadowing through literary devices of what you will hear while hearing M.A.A.D City. M.A.A.D City takes the listener to the hard pounding beat of a 90 west coast rap. This song featuring Mc Eiht shines a light on what life is like in Compton through Kendrick's eyes while growing up. The next three songs "Swimming Pools," "Sing About me, I'm dying of thirst," and the "Real" are the most important song on the album to telling his story. Swimming Pools offers a us some deep thinking on a problem that affects a lot of people, drinking. Kendrick uses this song to show how alcohol has affected the minds and thoughts of us all. At the end of this song a skit comes up and it tells us that the girl Sherane set Kendrick up and he got beat up. The next song Sing about me,I'm dying of thirst goes into the way of life he has seen growing up in Compton. " A demon whispering get em, i got em and i ain't give a f***" "In actuality its a trip how we trip over colors." These are two lines taken from Sing about me,I'm dying of thirst. This song is the most powerful song on the album, it makes an attempt at analyzing how the Compton life affected the people around and how it shaped him. The end of the song you hear the same prayer you heard at the beginning of the album. The song Compton is the final song on the album and it gives a salute to his hometown Compton.

I honestly believe if someone takes the time and listens to this album it can be life changing experience for them. The amount of wisdom dropped on this album rivals Tupac. Overall GKMC was a great album that can change lives.