Good Kid: M.A.A.D City

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Any hesitation about the horror of it all is quickly wiped away by Kendrick's mix of true talk, open heart, open mind, and extended hand. The title has been interpreted as a reference to WC and the Maad Circle, a Los Angeles-based hip hop group active in the 1990s. One week before the standard edition's release (October 22, 2012), snippets of the album leaked online.

Complex also ranked its album cover as the best of 2012, [88] while Pitchfork included it on its list of the 20 best album covers of the year. D City features a child Lamar, two of his uncles, and his grandfather, with the adults' eyes censored, possibly for privacy reasons. It was released on 22nd October, 2012, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Lamar expressed he was surprised and happy that Gaga released her version of the song, as it displayed confidence in their work together. Recording sessions for the album took place at PatchWerk Recording Studios in Atlanta, Encore Studios in Burbank, TDE Red Room in Carson, and "At My Mama's Studio" in Los Angeles.After subtitling the album "a short film by Kendrick Lamar", Lamar would state in an interview with GQ that "he plans on doing a short film to bring his story to life. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.

It featured a cameo from Juicy J, and a bonus clip of a new song by Schoolboy Q from his own respective major label debut album, Oxymoron (2014). Hailed as the new face of West Coast Rap, the 24 yr-old Compton-native has already been making his mark on the music scene, first with his sought-after mixtapes - ‘Training Day’ and ‘C4’. Before and after the album's October 2012 release, Lamar toured as a supporting act alongside Drake and Steve Aoki. The track serves as the twelfth track on the album, and acts as the standard edition's closing track.As well as scene stealing features alongside The Game, Drake, Rick Ross and others - Kendrick is poised to be the first artist in a long time to not only change how the country views West Coast hip hop, but how the world sees Hip Hop as a whole. The music video for the song, " Backseat Freestyle", was released on January 2, 2013, which included Lamar's father in a cameo appearance. The album was ranked number two of "The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)", a list published by Pitchfork in August 2014 [94] and number five of "The 20 Best Albums of the 2010s (so far)", a list published by Billboard in January 2015.

d] "The Art of Peer Pressure" contains a sample of "Helt Alene", written by Rune Rask, as performed by Suspekt. f] "Poetic Justice" contains excerpts from " Any Time, Any Place", written by James Harris, Janet Jackson and Terry Lewis, as performed by Janet Jackson. Pitchfork 's Jayson Greene wrote that "the miracle of this album is how it ties straightforward rap thrills" to its "weighty material" and narrative, [29] while David Amidon from PopMatters believed the album was simultaneously accessible and substantial, capable of appealing to both underground and mainstream hip hop listeners. In the album's first week of release, it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and sold 242,000 copies in the United States. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.Lamar is the James Joyce of hip-hop", he said, "in the complexity of his storytelling, in his knowledge of the canon, and in his continuing focus on the city of his upbringing—Compton. Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker finds its use of "smooth" music as a backdrop for "rough" scenarios to be analogous to Dr. Add it all up and subtract the hype, and this one is still potent enough to rise to the top of the pile. On the week ending October 29, 2022, the album had spent a total of 10 years (520 weeks) on the Billboard 200, making Good Kid, M.

It was released on October 22, 2012, by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 91, based on 36 reviews.Hailed as the new face of west coast rap, the 24 yr-old Compton-native has already been making his mark on the music scene. Robert Christgau from MSN Music felt that its "commitment to drama has musical drawbacks", but stated, "the atmospheric beats Dr. a twist, or sometimes upend[ing] them completely" on a record that "brims with comedy, complexity and the many voices in Kendrick Lamar's head. D is an acronym with two meanings: " My Angry Adolescence Divided" and " My Angel's on Angel Dust", with Lamar stating: "That was me, [and it's] the reason why I don't smoke.