Unlike earlier hip-hop innovators, they haven’t killed their idols to move forward-they’ve eaten them. Instead, it is about a generational shift that he and similar artists like Schoolboy Q and Danny Brown embody-their music is omnivorous. But Lamar’s story is not primarily about gangs or gangsta rap. Dre, has now closed the circle, signing Lamar to his Aftermath label. Compton’s favorite son, the producer and rapper Dr. and solo artists like Snoop Dogg made Compton a kind of shorthand for both gangsta rap and violence. In the late eighties and early nineties, groups like N.W.A. Symbolic, and a little too pat, the photograph was taken in Lamar’s childhood home, in Compton, California, a place that rap made famous, in a way that wouldn’t have been possible for Miami or New York. is a perfect combination of classic and trendy, which he makes clear on the cover of his major-label début, “Good Kid, M.a.a.d City.” It’s a Polaroid of Lamar at age five, on the lap of an uncle who is flashing a gang sign two bottles, one of malt liquor and one of baby formula, sit on a table in front of them. The twenty-five-year-old rapper Kendrick Lamar’s c.v. Lamar’s album is an omnidirectional scan of twenty years’ worth of rap.
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