Good Kid: M.A.A.D City

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D City earned Lamar five Grammy Award nominations at the 56th Grammy Awards, for Album of The Year, Best Rap Album, Best New Artist, Best Rap/Sung Performance for "Now or Never" with Mary J. On December 23, 2013, the music video for "Sing About Me", was released, and was directed by Darren Romanelli. Back to the neighborhood and [going] back in that same space where we used to be, got [me] inspired.

The theme of the class was meant to "inspire students to find an outlet to bring some sanity to our own mad city–Augusta", Diehl told HipHopDX. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. The album's second single, " Swimming Pools (Drank)", was released on July 31, 2012, while the music video premiered on August 3, 2012. The music video for the original version of the single was released on May 13, with comedian Mike Epps making a cameo appearance. The tour consisted of 23 headlining shows, 22 international music festivals, and 15 United States music festivals.It featured a cameo from Juicy J, and a bonus clip of a new song by Schoolboy Q from his own respective major label debut album, Oxymoron (2014). Eventually, it was confirmed that Lady Gaga would not be featured on the album due to timing issues and creative differences. Any hesitation about the horror of it all is quickly wiped away by Kendrick's mix of true talk, open heart, open mind, and extended hand.

He would later reference Shyne on the song "The Jig Is Up", stating: "I pray to God this beat good enough for Shyne". Before and after the album's October 2012 release, Lamar toured as a supporting act alongside Drake and Steve Aoki. He also expressed interest in directing the short film, as well as suggesting that Tristan Wilds, Taraji P. Dre (the two recently had a joint XXL cover), Kendrick is ready to release his highly-anticipated major label album ‘Good Kid, m.The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 242,000 copies in its first week – earning the highest first-week hip hop album sales of 2012 from a male artist. The title has been interpreted as a reference to WC and the Maad Circle, a Los Angeles-based hip hop group active in the 1990s. The album was nominated for Top Rap Album at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards and the 2013 American Music Awards, [98] [99] and won the award for Album of the Year at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. When he announced the album's title and release date, Lamar indicated that the "correct" rendering of the title is lowercase except for the two vowels in " m. West Coast rappers Nipsey Hussle, Schoolboy Q and The Game quickly took offense to this, with The Game defending Lamar due to his "non-confrontational nature".

The music video for the song, " Backseat Freestyle", was released on January 2, 2013, which included Lamar's father in a cameo appearance. One week before the standard edition's release (October 22, 2012), snippets of the album leaked online. D is an acronym with two meanings: " My Angry Adolescence Divided" and " My Angel's on Angel Dust", with Lamar stating: "That was me, [and it's] the reason why I don't smoke. Shortly after the remix premiered, Lamar confirmed "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" would be the next single from the album.h] "Compton" contains excerpts from "What's This World Coming To", written by Charles Richard Cason, as performed by Formula IV.

On March 9, 2013, Kendrick told Rap-Up that his next single off the album would be "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe". D City was being studied as a text in the freshman composition class of Georgia Regents University professor Adam Diehl, alongside other coming of age works such as the James Joyce novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gwendolyn Brooks' Selected Poems, James Baldwin's short story " Going to Meet the Man", and the John Singleton film Boyz n the Hood. The song was serviced to American rhythmic contemporary radio on January 15, 2013, [48] and peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.The uncle who is holding Lamar also is displaying the Crips gang sign with his hand, and the poster above the head of the uncle features Lamar and his father. In 2020, the album was ranked 115th on Rolling Stone 's updated list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and in 2022, the publication named it the greatest concept album of all time. Hailed as the new face of west coast rap, the 24 yr-old Compton-native has already been making his mark on the music scene.