I want to keep doing it every time, period. “I’m not doing it to have a good song,” he said. Given its popularity, Lamar’s music can be surprisingly dense, taking shape in winding, album-length narratives ( good kid, m.A.A.d city), live-band hybrids of jazz and funk ( To Pimp a Butterfly), and quasi-conceptual explorations of self (2017’s Pulitzer Prize-winning DAMN.). But he was speaking for many.īorn in 1987, Lamar grew up under the influence of JAY-Z, Eminem, and 2pac-for the wordplay, for the imagination, for the heart and sense of community. “So to see them actually express themselves through song, through lyrics that I wrote?” For a kid from Compton whose life was transformed by hip-hop, the fame was nice, but the singing, the spirit, the possibility that his music was opening a cultural inroad for people joining the fight for civil rights- that was real. ![]() “A lot of people don’t have voices out there,” he said. ![]() For Lamar, the success was that people sang it in the streets. It wasn’t even that it broke new ground for where hip-hop might go. In an interview with Apple Music, Kendrick Lamar reflected on his 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly-in particular, the song “Alright.” It wasn’t that it sold well (it did).
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