Good Kid: M.A.A.D City

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On March 9, 2013, Kendrick told Rap-Up that his next single off the album would be "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe". g] "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" contains elements of "Maybe Tomorrow", written by Quincy Jones, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, as performed by Grant Green; and an uncredited sample of " Use Me", as performed by Bill Withers. Dre, Just Blaze, Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy, Scoop DeVille, Jack Splash, and T-Minus, among others, contributing to the album. Reviewing the album for Rolling Stone, Jody Rosen said it "warrants a place in that storied lineage" of "Seventies blaxploitation soundtracks and Nineties gangsta rap blaxploitation revivals".

The uncle who is holding Lamar also is displaying the Crips gang sign with his hand, and the poster above the head of the uncle features Lamar and his father. On the week ending October 29, 2022, the album had spent a total of 10 years (520 weeks) on the Billboard 200, making Good Kid, M.Featuring the introspective woozy lead single "Swimming Pools (Drank)", produced by T Minus and mixed by Ali. Lamar would later respond to Shyne's comments on October 26, saying that he is not a sensitive person and was unfazed by his comments.

observes a "transformation" by 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.The music video for the song, " Backseat Freestyle", was released on January 2, 2013, which included Lamar's father in a cameo appearance.

It eschews contemporary hip hop tastes [15] and generally features tight bass measures, subtle background vocals, and light piano. The album earned Lamar four Grammy Award nominations at the 2014 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. In its second week, it sold 63,000 copies in the US, [73] and 176,000 more copies over the next four weeks, bringing its total sales to 481,000 by November 25. Complex also ranked its album cover as the best of 2012, [88] while Pitchfork included it on its list of the 20 best album covers of the year. f] "Poetic Justice" contains excerpts from " Any Time, Any Place", written by James Harris, Janet Jackson and Terry Lewis, as performed by Janet Jackson.

Billed as a “short film by Kendrick Lamar” on the album cover, the concept album follows the story of Lamar’s teenage experiences in the drug-infested streets and gang lifestyle of his native Compton.