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That environment is Lamar’s native Compton. Cowie says the album follows a transformation of Lamar’s character “from a boisterous, impressionable, girl-craving teenager to more spiritual, hard-fought adulthood, irrevocably shaped by the neighbourhood and familial bonds of his precarious environment.” WK PopMatters’ David Amidon said the album offers a “sort of semi-autobiographical character arc.” WK Exclaim!’s Del F. WK In 2014, the album was studied as part of a Georgia Regents University composition class alongside works such as James Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. It also landed four Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year and was named to many end-of-year lists, topping lists from BBC, Complex, New York, Pitchfork. It sold 242,000 copies in its first week and debuted at #2 on the Billboard album chart.

It was “potent and smart enough to rise to the top of the pile” AMG both commercially and critically.

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Thanks to “cool and compelling lyrics, great guests,…and attractive production” AMG Good Kid, m.A.A.d City “would be a milestone even without the back-story.” AMG “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.” AMG XXL’s Jaeki Cho called the album “one of the most cohesive bodies of work in recent rap memory.” WK

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A series of mixtapes followed which caught the attention of Aftermath and Interscope, leading to a major label record deal. His Section.80 was independently released through Top Dawg Entertainment in 2011. “Lamar is the James Joyce of hip-hop” – professor Adam Diehl, Georgia Regents UniversityĪll Music Guide’s David Jeffries called this the “biggest debut since Illmatic.” AMG It wasn’t really Lamar’s first outing.