Good Kid Maad City Album Overview
When good kid, m.A.A.d city first dropped, Kendrick Lamar was careful not to feed into the talk around the album being a classic, not yet. 'It's classic worthy, you know?' 'But it has to stand with the time and have the years behind.” It was a wise thing to say in an age where albums are either hailed as classics or trash minutes after they leak. The world may now have the attention span of a Vine video, but truly great art still demands sustained attention. In fact, a classic album only deepens its hold on you over time, offers additional layers to peel back years after you thought you'd already uncovered even its most hidden secrets. A classic album not only remains an immovable landmark of that moment in history, but it also ages with you, moves with you into the future. That's why now, more than two years after its debut, I won't hesitate to call Kendrick's GKMC a classic.
Good Kid Maad City Album Review
Oct 25, 2012 - good kid, m.A.A.d city marks Lamar's first release on a major label, Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment. Whereas other rappers. And with good kid, Lamar has given us the most comprehensive look yet at his absurd amount of raw talent. Though it s not being billed as a concept album, good kid does have something like a.
I remember driving to my man's house that October, listening to the album in for the first time with the windows down, the L.A. Spongebob full episodes season 8. Weather completely ignoring the Earth's insistence that it was fall, and by the time even 'Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe' ended my heart already felt the album would become a classic. And when I got to my man's house, and he opened the door, eyes wide, the first sentence out of his mouth, 'Yo, have you ' I felt like a moment, a classic moment. If Vegas took bets on this kind of thing, I would have bet my daughter's college fund on GKMC standing the test of time. Still, though, while my soul was already picturing still listening to 'Money Trees' in the retirement home, my head was pumping the brakes. I had a literal professional obligation to wait before making any grand proclamations.
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So I played the album.and played it.and played it. I listened to it to at the gym, I listened to it washing the dishes, I listened to it. I'm listening to it right now. And somewhere in between the 200th and 4,000th listen even the most logical, rational, Spockian-emotionless part of my brain accepted GKMC as a classic. Nonton running man ep 423. I should have written this article then, but it just never felt like the right time—I had more pressing, to write about - until now when around GKMC.