It's Kendrick Lamar week on the internet! By now you know that dude just dropped good kid, m.A.A.d city to huge acclaim, but if you're already bored of listening to the tracks themselves, give thanks to Gianni Lee and Mike Blud of Babylon Cartel for doing the dirty work and tracking down all the tracks Kendrick sampled on the record.Īt the very least, check out the list you'll definitely be impressed by his wide-ranging taste.

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Dre) Bonus Track 14 Black Boy Fly Bonus Track 15 Now or Never (feat. MC Eiht) 09 Swimming Pools (Drank) Extended Version 10 Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst 11 Real (feat. Jay Rock) 06 Poetic Justice (feat.ĭrake) 07 good kid 08 m.A.A.d city (feat. Deluxe tracklist via p4k 01 Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter 02 Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe 03 Backseat Freestyle 04 The Art of Peer Pressure 05 Money Trees (feat. Black Boy Fly (Bonus Track) 15.Ĭollect Calls (Bonus Track) 17. Download good kid, m.A.A.d city No download links are allowed! City is as intricate, strange and thoroughly addictive an album as anyone could have hoped to hear from Kendrick Lamar.Swimming Pools (Drank) Single 18.

Lamar even makes his seemingly heavy-handed 12-minute “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” work, given its starting casualness - the gunshots that cut him off from finishing his “if I die before your album drop” line are so matter-of-fact and quick, they ring louder and truer than a hundred other hip-hop tracks utilizing the overused gun shot effect. City continues developing its addictive world of sound, moving into the affecting, detailed account of troubled youth, “The Art of Peer Pressure,” rapping over a Janet Jackson sample with Drake on “Poetic Justice” and taking a dip into the narcotic haze of “Swimming Pools,” evoking the weary, head-spinning world of partying night after night. Its first two tracks set the stage introducing Lamar as a kid from Compton as devoted to religion as he is to girls - “I am a sinner who’s probably gonna sin again,” he says on “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe.” That’s before tearing into “Backseat Freestyle,” a blistering, Lil’ Wayne-style track with production from Hit-Boy, known for his work on such tracks as Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Ni**as in Paris.” From there, Good Kid M.A.A.D. City is how relaxed and assured it sounds. Given that pressure, the most remarkable thing about Good Kid M.A.A.D.

Dre, before releasing this, his major-label debut. City is the sound of extraordinary promise achieved, as Kendrick Lamar, who rapped as an independent artist for years, releasing his acclaimed Section.80 mixtape last year and working with the likes of Drake and Dr.

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