good kid, m.A.A.D. city & Complex

Idag släpptes Kendrick Lamars superefterlängtade good kid, m.A.A.D. city på Spotify i Sverige. Det är ett sånt jävla texttungt album (sånt älskar jag), så måste lyssna i lugn och ro innan jag är redo att forma min åsikt. Men spontant gillar jag den väldigt mycket. Lyssna på albumet här och passa på att läsa Complex omslagsreportage om Comptonrapparen. Ett utdrag här nedan:

”Lamar offers an alternate view of Compton, as seen by someone who grew up there but wasn’t defined by the stereotypical violence and gangbanging. ’Some friends of my parents were involved in gangs, and some weren’t,’ he says. ’People think Compton is all about colors. It’s deeper than colors. You might think that’s a Blood neighborhood, everyone must wear red, I gotta wear red. No. Nowadays, people wear whatever they want to wear, especially the kids.’ The acronym in the album’s title stands for ’my angry adolescence divided,’ an adolescence caught in between. “What am I supposed to do/When the topic is red or blue,’ he raps on ’good kid,’ the album's first title track. ’And you understand that I ain’t/But know I’m accustomed to?’ The entire album can be understood as his answer to that question. All Lamar can do is tell you where he’s coming from with as much candor and compassion as he can muster. So he stands in the dead center of his city, looking around at all the lives Compton contains.”