![]() ![]() The LP is slated for release on October 22nd. You don't see nobody else's eyes, but you see my eyes are innocent, and tryna figure out what is goin' on." Kendrick explains the photo as follows, "Two are my uncles, to the far right, it's my grandpa, and a baby bottle, next to a 40 oz, next to a gang sign, holdin' a kid," K.Dot says of his cover art. "If you look in the background, you see a picture on the wall, and the picture is me and my pops," Kendrick added. "And the eyes blacked out, that's for my own personal reasons, you'll probably hear about that on the album. That photo says so much about my life, and about how I was raised in Compton, and the things I've seen, just through them innocent eyes. I feel like I needed to make this album to move on with my life. I had them old negative vibes and demons haunting me, and it's that real." Kendrick continued, "It had to come from somewhere, had to come from a place, it coulda been negative and it coulda been positive, but for the majority part of it, it was a negative place." He says recording the album helped him move on, "It was a venting process, to tell these stories I never told." Verbally nimble, Lamar experiments with a variety of different lyrical styles, from. His second studio album good kid, M.A.A.d city, conceptual enough to be a rock opera, certainly uplifts the genre with its near-biblical themes: religion vs. Master Splinter’s Daughter', 'Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe' and more. West Coast hip-hop elders like Snoop and Dre have virtually anointed Kendrick Lamar to carry on the legacy of gangsta rap. ![]() He says of his Aftermath debut, "It's really just like a self-portrait. Listen to good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Version) by Kendrick Lamar on Apple Music.
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