“ you’ll hear the aggressor, but at the same time you’ll hear the victim.”Īlthough Lamar is keeping album details close to his chest (including what the title’s acronym stands for), he says it’s a concept album similar to Section.80, but with punchier songs and ever more complex narratives. A lot of these gangsta rappers grew up the same way I did, but what was selling and what these corporate people wanted was gangsta rap – that’s you being aggressive and not being on the other end of the stick. “When you think of gangsta rap from the West Coast, you don’t think of vulnerability.
“I don’t think Dre got to tell his story the way he wanted to tell it,” Lamar says during a Toronto tour stop earlier this summer. So, what did the man behind pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment, which will release his first official studio album, good Kid, m.A.A.d City, on October 22. It also landed him a joint deal with Interscope and fellow Compton native Dr. Last year he independently released Section.80, an album that hearkened back to the jazz-influenced, socially conscious hip-hop of the early 90s.
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His music is full of melodic, singsongy rhymes and vivid morality tales that meld the mundane with the menacing, like deceptively soothing stoner single Swimming Pools (Drank), about how a house party can become a gateway to blissful ignorance. Soft-spoken but with a lot to say, the 25-year-old MC has done a lot to unravel the Compton gangsta rap mystique in his short career. See listing.Ĭompton might not have changed much in the past two decades, but the bombastic rap music that the gang-plagued city southeast of Los Angeles gave rise to in the 1990s has taken on a brooding dimension thanks to Kendrick Lamar. KENDRICK LAMAR with AB-SOUL and JAY ROCK at Sound Academy (11 Polson), Wednesday (September 19), doors 8 pm.
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