Kendrick Lamar Discusses “good kid, m.A.A.d city” Album The Year Grammy Nomination

    Kendrick Lamar says that he’s happy to be nominated for Album Of The Year at the Grammys.

    “That’s crazy that it’s even in that [nomination] because that album is a really raw album,” Kendrick Lamar says of his good kid, m.A.A.d. city album during an interview with Power 106. The Compton, California rapper performed with his TDE crew at yesterday’s (December 14) “Cali Christmas” concert, which was held at the Honda Center at Anaheim, California. “It’s not too much crossover, so for them to even put it in that light, that’s a win by itself,” Kendrick Lamar adds. “So if I take it home, [that will be] even more of a crazy feeling.”

    Kendrick Lamar earned seven Grammy nominations in all, including Best Rap Album. His “Swimming Pools (Drank)” is up for Best Rap Performance and K Dot is also up for Best New Artist. 

    The 56th Annual Grammy Awards is scheduled to be held January 26, 2014 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show is set to be broadcast on CBS at 8 pm EST.

    Kendrick Lamar performed with fellow Black Hippy members Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q at “Cali Christmas” yesterday. The TDE crew’s 52-minute set included them performing together and delivering solo selections, as per hiphop-n-more. Diddy also joined the crew on stage.

    “It feels good, man,” Kendrick Lamar said before his performance at “Cali Christmas” yesterday. “It’s family and ya’ll family, so it’s really just like a big get-together. It feels great. I’ve got some of the best fans, some of the best family, the best radio station. It’s important to me. That’s who I owe it to at the end of the day.”

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    122 thoughts on “Kendrick Lamar Discusses “good kid, m.A.A.d city” Album The Year Grammy Nomination

    1. drake runs the game still kendrick is nothing compared to drake an sbsolute 0 compared to the greatest of our generation. Good kid fag city has nothing on take care which is considered album of the decade.

      1. Isn’t Beyonce going to come close to Drake’s album sales with 0% of the awarness that surronded Drake’s album?

    2. until I saw the check which had said $6064, I did not believe that my mother in law had been realey bringing home money part time on their laptop.. there friend brother has been doing this for only about 16 months and resently cleard the dept on their place and purchased themselves a Mitsubishi Evo. try here… http://www.Fb39.com

      still kendrick is nothing compared to drake an sbsolute 0 compared to the greatest of our generation. Good kid fag city has nothing on take care which is considered album of the decade.

    3. As an accountant for YMCMB i can confirm that Kendrick isnt happy at Aftermath records. Dr Dre is to lazy and only sucks Eminem dick. Even 50 Cent wants to leave Aftermath. As we speak my boss Birdman is talking with Kendrick to joint YMCMB. Birdman said they Kendrick is a prettyboy and will be perfecr for YMCMB.

      1. You never got laid. I took one guy who was a virgin hater of ymcmb in to ymcmb headquarters and Nicki fucked him to death. The overstimulation changed his brain and now he loves ymcmb.

    4. Gibbs and Big Krit > Kendrick

      Kendrick is so overrated. Hes ok, his Maad City album was dope, but hes not gonna save Hip Hop. Hip Hop doesnt need to be saved. There are still tons of great rappers all over the place,people just want to dwell on the wack ones.

      1. don’t comapre mediocre rappers like krit or gibbs to elite like kednrick, kendrick has one of the msot complex flows and paint pictures with his lyrics like Nas in 1994. at this point, kendrick is even better than lupe fiasco.

      2. other way arround, krit and gibbs are overrated.

        kendrick is rated jsut fine as the best rapper of the new generation

      3. “don’t comapre mediocre rappers like krit or gibbs to elite like kednrick”

        dude, get off his dick already..

    5. Alright I probably will get hated, and you all will think this is a troll post. Its not I am serious in my mind I think Lil Wayne is the modern day biggie. Think about it they rap about the same topics, both gangsta rappers. In my opinion LW is a better rapper than biggie because he has better rhymes, and punchlines. DONT GET ME WRONG, Biggie is still GOAT and im not slandering him saying hes trash, but I think when LW well all realize that he is in GOAT category too. Whats your opinion?

      1. Co-sign @OP

        C3>>>Ready to Die
        C2>>>>Life after Death

        Lyricism: Weezy
        Flow: Weezy
        Beats: Weezy
        Hair: Weezy
        Substance: Weezy

    6. FUCK KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE, 2 CHAINZ, ODD FUTURE, LUPE FIASCO, MEEK MILL, WALE, DRAKE, WIZ KHALIFA, BIG SEAN, KID CUDI, B.O.B, MAC MILLER, YELAWOLF, LAUGHTERHOUSE, MACHINE GUN KELLY, ASHER ROTH AND ALL THESE WACK FRESHMEN RAPPERS THAT SOLD THEIR SOUL TO THE DEVIL.
      FUCK EMINEM, JAY-Z, 50, LIL WAYNE, KANYE WEST, DR. DRE, DIDDY AND NAS FOR MAKING SONGS WITH THOSE WACK RAPPERS.

      KILL THE ILLUMINATI! THEY KILLED PAC, EAZY-E AND BIGGIE! ONLY DMX AND ROSS REMAINED THE TRUE WARRIOR FOR THE KILLUMINATI SOLDIERS!

      LISTEN TO REAL MUSIC LIKE IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, LOWKEY, K-RINO, DIABOLIC, APATHY, CELPH TITLED, VINNIE PAZ, SEAN PRICE, HOPSIN, MC JIN, NECRO, CANIBUS, DMX AND ALL THE REAL UNDERGROUND LEGENDS!

      1. ever heard of main stream rap music?? notice how the majority of them suck to people that actually know music? lol kendrick is clearly untalented but he makes so much much money because all of his fans are retarded and brainwashed by the mainstream media…he doesnt give a fuk about his fans lol… all the fans are doing is supplying his pocket with cash that he always raps and yaps about… Game on the other hand he never changed he was hungry when he sold over 20 mill and still is…

    7. THERE ARE MORE REASONS TO LOVE FRENCH MONTANA, YET PEOPLE STILL MANAGE TO HATE HIMFOR WHATEVER REASON IS BEYOND ME. IM NOT SAYING HES THE ALBERT EINSTEIN OF LYRICS, BUT HES DAMN NEAR THE WILLY WONKA OF CLUB BANGERS AND ILL TAKE CHOCOLATE OVER AN ATOM BOMB ANY DAY. HONESTLY, ANYBODY WHO SAYS THAT FRENCH DOESNT SPIT ANYTHING CLEVER IN HIS RHYMES, PROBABLY ALREADY WROTE HIM OFF BEFORE THEY GAVE HIS MUSIC A CHANCE. SO IN A EFFORT TO GIVE THE USUAL NAMES THAT GET THROWN AROUND HERE A BREAK, LETS TRY TO SHOW FRENCH MONTANA SOME WELL DESERVED RESPECT FOR ALL HIS CLUB BANGERS.

      HAAAAN!

      THE ALBUM:EXCUSE MY FRENCH

      THE SONG:SHOT CALLER

      THE BANGER:EVERYTHINGS A GO

      THE HOOD ANTHEM:AINT WORRIED BOUT NOTHING

      BUMPS IN THE WHIP:9000 WATTS

      THE HOOK:OCHO CINCO

      THE BAR

      When they mask up, comin’ for your ice,When they bare-faced, they comin for your life

      WELL THERE YOU HAVE ITAND I DEEM STANNING FRENCH MONTANA COOL. ALL FANS OF FRENCH ON HHDX FEEL TO CELEBRATE YOUR FAVORITE RAPPER FREELY. DO NOT FEAR THE BACKPACKERS AND THE ELITIST HARSH WORDS, BECAUSE EVEN THEY KNOW.

      EVERYBODY LOVES FRENCH MONTANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    8. Kendrick give it up. Your new music is okay but you just an average mc. You aint no Em, Nas, 2pac, Tyler or Dmx…

    9. Amazing album. When I listen to it, it was more than music, it was a story of a person just like me with dreams, fear, dangers, trouble, happiness, adolescence and maturity. He stayed true to his roots he kept it original but different. God bless Kendrick Lamar and hip hop.

    10. Good god, I havent heard an album like this in a GOOD minute. I will actually purchase this rather than download it. If hip hop artist pumped out more stuff like this, labels could move units like it was ’98.

    11. Wow. One thing I liked about the production of this album is that the beats are different from current hip hop albums and it sounded like all the producers were on the same page. It almosts seems as if the whole album was produced by one person. That’s how smoothly the album flows. Great Album Kendrick.

    12. This album will go down as one of the best albums of all time for any genre just like Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt, Ready to Die and the other rap albums that are considered the best of all time. When those albums came out we didn’t understand how great they because were very young at the time. Now we have a chance to witness a classic and a legend in the making. The storytelling is amazing. It’s like a movie. You can’t just listen to a couple of songs or skip through. You have to listen straight through from beginning to end.

      1. I guess you have no idea what a true classic album really sounds like. I bet you would also say everything Wayne and Kayne has dropped is a classic STFU already

    13. This album is ahead of its time. Perfection from start to finish.
      The best hip-hop debut since Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor.

      1. backseat freestyle is one of the best songs of the last years lol, this song displays one of the msot unique flows in hip hop history

    14. I’m glad this album is getting all that praise because its well deserved… I’m glad to see that album on every “best albums of all time” lists

      1. DX,

        blacklist & report the IP of the future school shooter, that kid ain’t dealing with a full deck

        do it before they harm the innocent

    15. He deserves it, but watch them give the grammy to taylor swift or macklemore, this will be the biggest grammy snub since Steely Dan beat Eminem in 2000 for album of the year

      1. Steely Dan won cause they had a much bigger legacy than eminem! They were stealing black music way back in the seventies, and that’s what the grammy’s are all about! You want to know an easy way to tell if an album is no good? It winning a grammy!

    16. Gay ass lines in rap songs:

      1 – “I still smile cause I’m gay” (T.I. on Rubberband Man)
      2 – “I ain’t never had my dick sucked by a man befo’, but you gon be the first” (DJ Quik on some wack ass bullshit)
      3 – “You ain’t got the skills to eat a nigga’s ass like me” (Canibus on Second Round Knockout)
      4 – “You need a fag to come and tear a new hole in my ass” (Eminem on Love Me)
      5 – “Now bend his ass over so I can fuck him with his stick in his ass hole” (Pimp C on Protect & Serve)

      1. Kendrick lames album is not even top 50 of the last 10 yrs.
        Lupe Fiasco Food And Liquor just might be the best main stream rap hiphop album of the last 10 yrs

      1. I bet some of your top 20 all time rappers are like

        Wayne
        Pusha T
        Kendrick lame
        A$apy Rock
        Ross
        Drake
        Tyga

        GTFO outta here Kendrick lame can even be called top 500 yet with only 1 decent album. After he drops 6 albums then we can talk

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