Kendrick Lamar

At first all I heard of this guy was, "Yo, he's the next big thing in rap." And really I just thought that was a bunch of ghetto kids who listen to bad rap hyping him up. I spent a long time not listening to him. But then something drove me to finally download his album. I listened to it all the way through and I shit out of my ears. It was amazing. I strongly suggest you listen to it. It tells a terrific story. You can't listen to it seperately, you have to listen to it fully all the way through.

The album starts off with him rapping about his life as a young teenager in the hood. Rapping about the parties he goes to, friends he hangs with, the girls he messes around with. Until he gets a call from his mom and dad telling him to come home.... then they end up fighting and it ends with dad telling the mom to "Not Kill My Vibe".

Every transition of this album is perfect. At first Kendrick is a kid who drinks and smokes his life away until he realizes that its stupid in the hit song "Swimming Pools (Drank)". He tells how money is what makes the world go round and how much easier it would be if it was here in "Money Trees". He also shows his sentimental sides in how girls don't want a thug they want a poetic romantic in "Poetic Justice". Then he tells his stories of being an underprivellaged kid in Compton in "Good Kid" and "Mad City". Then after hearing of his friend and companions dying off, he sings a sad song about how he hopes people will remember him in "Sing About Me" and how he needs to learn his morals in "Im Dying of Thirst". Then he closes off this masterpeice with the streets made him and he's never gonna change with "Real" and "Compton".

This guy is for real. His rhymes and lines are just ridiculous. In the song "Sing About Me" he says "and if I die befor your album drop I promise I'll...." and all you hear is gun shots. That's just genius. He also slips in small things like in "Money Trees" he says, "with all disrespect". Just small things like that can make a rapper.


My favorite song by him is Sing About Me

The most popular song is probably "Swimming Pools"