Kendrick Lamar continued to make the rounds to honor the release of his major label debut good kid, m.A.A.d city, which hit stores yesterday.
After delivering a five-minute freestyle on Power 106’s Big Boy’s Neighborhood, K. Dot sat down with the host to talk about combining the tracks “Sing About Me” and “I’m Dying of Thirst,” stating that the events described on each track occurred on the same day. Because of that, he brought the songs together to symbolize a shift in perspective on the LP.
“That’s a real turning point of the album,” he said. “Before I became this person with a mature aspect on life, it was a dark place I came from, a place of negativity, a place of being unruly. ‘Dying of Thirst’ is actually a specific story about one of my homeboys passing away before my eyes. It really turned everything around full circle. So when you go to a track like ‘Dying of Thirst,’ and that same day we was getting a spoken word from an elderly lady telling us about God and getting some type of prosperity out of that… I really based them two tracks together because that was a situation that happened that exact same time. So when I say ‘Dying of Thirst,’ she’s really talking about getting hit with holy water or saving yourself.”
He also touched on how Tupac‘s style influenced how he went into writing songs for the album. “Storytelling was the whole niche of the album. I wanted to bring that back to the game. What ‘Pac showed me was really not being scared to show vulnerability in your music, because that makes the biggest connection with the audience. When I speak on certain topics about certain friends or my homeboys or a certain female, it’s not only real to me, but it’s real to the listener.”
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Great songs them two, sing about me/i’m dying of thirst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEdbwuI8p0
The Album is CLassic….
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i could do without all the skits
gonna have to edit those out,
“WHERES MY DOMINOES?”
The skits are huge part of the album, the story.
yes but they have zero replay value to me
great album, but yeah way too many skits/recordings etc
bitch were the dominoe’s?????
The skits come at the end of the songs so you can just skip to the next track when the track ends. It’s really not that serious.
Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest rappers period. He is the west coast lupe fiasco(you forgot how big Lupe was years ago). but if you need to remember how hot he is listen to The Cool and Food and Liquor then you will remember. But these two need to do a album or a song together ASAP.
Lupe
KDot
J Cole
Big Sean
Big Krit
Jay Electronica
Drake
Kid Cudi
Wiz Khalifa
ASAP Rocky
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This is the future of hip hop
Take out Drake, Wiz Khalifa, and Big Sean and ill agree with you.
Smh niggas always hatin on the commercial dudes. What ever happened to balance? List is solid.
More like the present now lol
…and cudi. hes not hip hop. at all….
i never said it was serious dickhead
i never said it was serious dickhead
@ dashing
f**k lupe asap rocky and gay jay electronica
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best song(s) on the album.
it was my favorite track of the album, even tho it’s long as hell but he’s trying to give a story on this one
Near the creek close to the old attic….
Sincerely Yours
-Malone
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Sincerely Yours
-Malone
uhh -_- Troll humor
you gay!!!
history has been made with this album.
Great production value on Big Boy’s show =)
he sound like a homo on that song real talk
shut the fuck up