"good kid, m.A.A.d. city" - Kendrick Lamar (Oct. 22nd, 2012)

[ImANoob]

dope as fuck

[King Lance]

sales :

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city - 44,000 (week 10)


Somehing is coming this month

DJ Dahi (Money Trees producer) has RT'd this: https://twitter.com/PSImDope/status/286859460213866496

[ImANoob]

a lot of people are expecting a money trees music video. maybe its the short film, or maybe just another amazing song. either way

[ImANoob]

he will be performing on saturday night live on the 26th

[King Lance]

you're talking about the show with Adam Levine ?

[ImANoob]

yeah hes hosting that night

[King Lance]

too many lists for me so I didn't write everything





HipHopDX : Good Kid M.A.A.d. City is the new illmatic
Vibe : Good Kid M.A.A.d. City is a new illmatic
Billboard : The most breathtaking hip-hop debut since 2004 is Good Kid M.A.A.d. City
MTV : Good Kid M.A.A.d. City changed the game and is the new standard
michigandaily : Good Kid M.A.A.d. City is a 21st-century West Coast masterpiece
sabotagetimes : Kendrick Lamar made us stop wanting Detox, his album is art
Guardian : Good Kid, MAAD City is the most impressive hip-hop album in years
The Source : Prince Kendrick Lamar changed the game.
Lameuse : Kendrick Lamar is the new intergalactic star, in front of Psy
XXL : There’s no denying Good Kid Maad City is setting a new Standard
SabotageTimes : 2012 was the best year in Hip Hop History because of Kendrick Lamar and some other new artists.
Guardian : Not since Kanye West's early shows has a major new MC balanced swagger and sensitivity with such aplomb.



BBC: #1best album of 2012 (all genre)
Fact Magazine: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
Complex: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
New York Magazine: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
Vulture: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
Vibe: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
Pitchfork: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
LA Weekly #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
BET: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
LA Time: In the "best albums of 2012" (all genre)
NewYorkPress: In the "best albums of 2012" (all genre)
B2FD: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
The National Student: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
QGmagazine: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
michigandaily: #1 best album of 2012 (all genre)
Hip-hop DX: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Hip-hop DX (reader's choice): #1 best hip hop album of 2012
HipHopWired: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Spin: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Rollingout: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
XXL: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
XXL: #1 Kendrick Lamar is the best rapper of 2012.
TheVersed: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Rapradar: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Rapcities: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Jsonline: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
MIMO: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
undertheradarmag: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
basementthread: #1 best hip hop album of 2012
sabotagetimes : #1 best hip hop album of 2012
Complex: #1 best album cover of 2012
Hip-hop DX: #1 best Emcee of 2012
BET: #1 best lyricist of 2012

Spin : 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
Billboard : 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
MTV : 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
Time: 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
The Needle Drop: 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
GlobalGrind: 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
The Daily Californian: 2nd best album of 2012 (all genre)
Consequence of Sound: 3rd best album of 2012 (all genre)
PrettyMuchAmazing: 3rd best album of 2012 (all genre)
Rollingstone : 6th best album of 2012 (all genre)
Metacritic: Among the 100 highest rated albums of all time (all genre)

Passionweist: Cartoons & Cereals is the best hip-hop song of 2012
rapgenious: Money Trees is the best hip-hop song of 2012
Complex: Cartoons & Cereals is the 2nd best song of 2012 (all genre)
Pitchfork: Bitch don't kill my vibe is the 4th best song of 2012 (all genre)
Fact Magazine: Cartoons & Cereals is the 4th best song of 2012 (all genre)

Swimming pools stayed 3 months in the billboard hot 100 and is now #17, the song is also #3 @ hip hop charts

[momentsgolden]

That Backstreet freestyle video's fucking insane!

[King Lance]

Nas Names Kendrick Lamar’s Debut Album Of The Year, Readies ‘Life Is Good’ Follow Up Album



http://theversed.com/2013/01/09/nas-nam ... -up-album/


Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city - 36,000 (620,000)
I think gkmc will go Plat. before Nicki Minaj's album.

[mnoh312]

hey guys money trees lyric video is out..I wish I can share, but it won't let me post links up here..

[classthe_king]

Also so with the story on this album...I need some help with the chronological order of it because it obviously isn't told in the right order. Right now I'm thinking it goes Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe (Not sure if any "part" of the story is in this song except for the skit at the end) -> Backseat Freestyle -> Art Of Peer Pressure. Now at the end of that song it talks about Kendrick going to Sherane's so that leads me to think that Master Splinter's daughter would be next but at the end of that song it says that he saw the two guys in the masks when he got there. However on Money Trees he said "I fucked Sherane then went to tell my bros" so that implies that he was already there and there was no conflict. So basically I'm confused about the middle of the story but cause the end with Sing For Me, I'm Dying of Thirst -> Real is obvious

[ImANoob]

You're wrong, it was told in the right order

[classthe_king]

Well...it obviously wasn't told in the right order.

[King Lance]

In fact there are different perspectives, characters > Kendrick Lamar (present kendrick), K.Dot (young Kendrick)
Sherane, Kendrick's family (his parents and his uncle Tony), Dave, Dave's bro Keisha's sister, Sherane's family (her granny, her cousins & brother), Joey (a Kendrick's Childhood friend) and L/Boog/Yaya/Lucky who are friends (I'm still not sure what they really are)

The story opens as a flash forward, Kendrick describes Sherane and her family's history.
Bitch Don't kill my vibe doesn't really follow Sherane's story, This is the present Kendrick Lamar who talks about his new celebrity & people changing arround him and his family.
He's just trying not to lose his credibility

Backseat freestyle > He's in the car with his friends, they're having fun and kendrick is freestyling over the Hit Boy's beat.

The narrative story only begins with The Art Of The Peer Pressure which follows Backseat Freestyle's story.

In my opinion, Money Trees is just a summary of what happened in the previous songs with new details > As you said, he Banged Sherane and went to tell his bros (Backseat freestyle + The Art Of The Peer Pressure)
The song perfectly follows The art of the peer pressure IMO because he's talking about money to his friends and Kendrick's mother sent him a message because she wanted her car back (Her msg implied that kendrick and his homies were still in the car)

I didn't understand the chorus at first but I found this explanation on another site:
The chorus "Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever." is important, not just as a general motto but in regards to the events that later take place in this story. (Kendrick's Uncle Tony was shot and killed at Louie's Burgers)
this event is supposed to be a snap back to reality from the "dreams of living life like rappers do."

Kendrick came back home in Poetic Justice and he is going to see Sherane... He also describes the relation they have and the skit at the end of that song is another flash forward but this time, it's a flash forward to "Sherane aka Master Splinter's Daughter" and kendrick explains what happened at the end of the intro.He also got problems with the 2 guys who were waiting in front of Sherane's house.

Good Kid introduces a new theme in this album and I think that Kendrick talked about what happened with the 2 guys he mentioned in Poetic Justice and Sherane aka Master Splinter's Daugther > "For the record I recognize that I'm easy prey/I got ate alive yesterday"
Then, he talks about gangs, the police, violence etc. and it leads to introduce Maad City

Swimming Pools is a song about alcohol... Alcohol is dangerous but that substance can help him with depression > He seems depressed because of the maad city he's living in


This is my interpretation of that story

[classthe_king]

Hmmm so it goes

Backseat Freestyle (He gets picked up) -> Art Of Peer Pressure (He fucks around with his friends and gets high and robs the house) -> Master Splinter's Daughter (He gets dropped off at his house and gets the van and then goes to Sheranes) -> Poetic Justice (He gets jumped by Sheranes friends) -> Swimming Pools (He meets up with his friends and drinks to feel better then they go find the guys and dave gets shot) -> Sing For Me, Dying Of Thirst -> Real