Still, when he realizes that hero Jeezy must have risen above the game - because the real playas are damned and never show their faces - it spawns a kind of elevated gangsta rap that's as pimp-connectable as the most vicious Eazy-E, and yet poignant enough to blow the dust off any cracked soul. was the home team, but as the truly beautiful, steeped-in-soul, biographic key track "The Art of Peer Pressure" finds a reluctant young Kendrick and his friends feeding off the life-force of Young Jeezy's debut album, it's something Clash, Public Enemy, and all other rebel music fans can relate to. He's shamelessly bold about the allure of the trap, contrasting the sickness of his city with the universal feeling of getting homesick, and carrying a Springsteen-sized love for the home team. It is what makes this kid so "good" as he navigates his "mad" city (Compton) with experience and wisdom beyond his years (25). Here, Kendrick is living his life like status and cash were extra credit. Dre, and MC Eiht) and attractive production (from Pharrell, Just Blaze, Tabu, and others). City would be a milestone even without the back-story, offering cool and compelling lyrics, great guests (Drake, Dr. Dre, and the "biggest debut since Illmatic" stuff starts to flow, but Good Kid, M.A.A.D. Top it off with a pre-release XXL Magazine cover that he shared with his label boss and all-around legend Dr.
A series of killer mixtapes displayed his talent for thought-provoking street lyrics delivered with an attention-grabbing flow, and then there was his membership in the Black Hippy crew with his brethren Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, and Jay Rock all issuing solo releases that pleased the "true hip-hop" set, setting the stage for a massive fourth and final. Hip-hop debuts don't come much more "highly anticipated" than Kendrick Lamar's. “good kid, m.A.A.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. That says she’s confident not only about her work, but my work. For her to put it out even undone, that says a lot. It showed people we wasn’t playin’ with it we was actually in the studio vibing out when we recorded. I thought she was gonna hold that in the can. I didn’t even know she was gonna put that out. Regarding this, in an interview with XXL, Kendrick said:
On November 8th, Lady Gaga decided to release the version of the song featuring her. The song became the album’s second track, titled “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe”. I’m not really too tight about it because I know we have something special. That’s just the business side coming through and messing things up. We had a date, but we had to meet the deadline for the pre-order date. In an interview with Complex, Kendrick said: Eventually, the song was completely cancelled. However, soon after, on August 23rd she tweeted, saying the song was delayed. On August 15th, 2012, Lady Gaga tweeted that she was a feature on the album, on a song called “Partynauseous”. So this album won’t sound like Section.80. I got myself right back in that mode and I got inspired by that. Going back to the neighbourhood and going to different spots, chilling with my homeboys, put me back in that same space where we used to be, bringing back them thoughts, reminiscing how I was feeling. And that’s what happened with this album. It’s a big difference from the next project compared to the last. I couldn’t tell you what type of sound or where I’ma be in the next five years as far as music. On August 2nd, 2012, Kendrick commented on the album’s sound, saying: On July 31st, 2012, he released the second single, “Swimming Pools (Drank)”. On April 3rd, 2012, Kendrick released the lead single for the album, “The Recipe”. Some of the reviews include the following:
GKMC was met with universal acclaim by music critics. The album was re-released on Mawith a bonus remix of “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” featuring JAY-Z. The first 12 tracks make up the standard edition of the album, and there are a variety of different deluxe editions including various bonus tracks.