I want to keep doing it every time, period. Dre's anti-police lyric in 'Still D.R.E.' was not. “I’m not doing it to have a good song,” he said. During the Super Bowl halftime show, fans were quick to notice how Kendrick Lamar seemed to be censored during 'Alright,' but Dr. Given its popularity, Lamar’s music can be surprisingly dense, taking shape in winding, album-length narratives ( good kid, m.A.A.d city), live-band hybrids of jazz and funk ( To Pimp a Butterfly), and quasi-conceptual explorations of self (2017’s Pulitzer Prize-winning DAMN.). But he was speaking for many.īorn in 1987, Lamar grew up under the influence of JAY-Z, Eminem, and 2pac-for the wordplay, for the imagination, for the heart and sense of community. “So to see them actually express themselves through song, through lyrics that I wrote?” For a kid from Compton whose life was transformed by hip-hop, the fame was nice, but the singing, the spirit, the possibility that his music was opening a cultural inroad for people joining the fight for civil rights- that was real. “A lot of people don’t have voices out there,” he said.
For Lamar, the success was that people sang it in the streets. Following 2012’s electrifying good kid, m.A.A.d city, the supremely gifted, Compton-bred rapper delivers another uncompromising and deeply affecting listening experience. It wasn’t even that it broke new ground for where hip-hop might go. In an interview with Apple Music, Kendrick Lamar reflected on his 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly-in particular, the song “Alright.” It wasn’t that it sold well (it did).
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