Credits:

Kendrick Lamar

Description:

New work from the West Coast MC prodigy. The lyrics, which are said to be a mixture of complex and bizarre emotions, may stimulate your consideration, but with the help of a production team that includes Flying Lotus and Thundercat, the music develops rhythmically with a steady flow while weaving in P and G funk and 70’s avant-garde jazz elements, and the final track, a pseudo-dialogue with the late 2 Pac, is extremely musical and easy to relate to. The music is extremely musical and familiar, requiring no prior knowledge, even down to the pseudo-dialogue with the late 2 Pac. The urban and grandiose musical picture scroll, which is convincing with Bilal and Snoop’s monstrous performances, Miss Rhapsody’s noble rap, and the descent of George Clinton and Ronald Isley, is even more diverse and immanent than D’Angelo’s “Black Messiah,” which is equated with the restoration of black people’s digni