Second album Good Kid, MAAD City was where Lamar first found mass appeal. ‘Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst’ (From Good Kid, MAAD City) It plays out as a moving portrait, a eulogy of sorts to those pulled back and left behind amid the social splintering and dysfunction. Taken from his debut album, Section 80, “Ronald Reagan Era” was an early insight into his ability to contextualise his life and surroundings and enclosed the shifting cadences and reflective gaze that have seen him flourish into the revered MC he is today.
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Born in 1987, Lamar is a child of the Reagan era, among the young people raised in the inner cities who took first steps in communities ravaged by the crack cocaine epidemic and the tailing war on drugs that would crumble neighbourhoods like Compton into dust.Īt its core, “Ronald Reagan Era” is a love letter to those lost children, who emerged from the ashes of a dark period in American history. They are the conditions, as he so explicitly details, that birthed a generation. Over a near cinematic Tae Beast instrumental that pulses with pensive strings and a gripping bass, Kendrick uses “Ronald Reagan Era” to cast a picture of an LA in anarchy, of chaotic neighbourhoods overrun with sirens, lost causes and lost kids. With a fifth album rumoured to be in the works, Lamar stands on the verge of breaking new ground, entering a conversation about his place not just among the finest MC’s of this era but alongside the likes of Jay-Z, Nas, Tupac, Biggie and more as one of the greatest to ever operate in the art form.
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