Blog Post #30 Kendrick Lamar

 Today I will be talking about Kendrick Lamar and his journey through Compton, California.



Kendrick Lamar was born on June Seventeenth, Nineteen Eighty-Seven, in Compton, California. This is where Kendrick lived through his young years of life with him going through what most kids in Compton experience. This is especially analyzed in his album named, "Good Kid, M.A.A.D city", "Good Kid" tying directly to Kendrick and many other young kids who have had to live in Compton, California and how they are all nice people but are changed by the harshness and violence in Compton. While "M.A.A.D City" has three main ideas centered around it, with the most obvious being about Compton, California and its violence surrounding it. The second idea is "My Angry Adolescence Divided" which is talking about the younger years of his life and how he is divided between the love and hate that he has for his city. The third idea is "My Angels On Angel Dust" which is talking about the drug problem in Compton and his direct correlation with him being laced before leading to him quitting drugs and smoking.  




His album mainly goes over the violence in the city with it progressing through a story, some songs on the album are a sequence of events that help convey a scene in the audience's head, while some of the other songs are "non-Cannon" with them being place holders to go over the ideals and morals in the album. For example, the story starting with a Cannon song that helps begin a sequence of events that will help push the plot of the album, it starts with Kendrick meeting a girl that he likes at a party named Sherane but Sherane is affiliated with a gang. When Kendrick goes to meet her, he sees two guys in black hoodies next to her, and Kendrick's mom is wondering where he is calling Sherane a "hood rat" meaning that she doesn't trust Sherane, this is all conveyed through the song "Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter. 

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