Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis.

This is a story about a good kid, a story about a mad city, about Compton, about chaos,

about drive-bys, missed funerals, red hats, blue laces, blacked-out impollas, and the devil on both

shoulders. This is a story about hip-hop,

and about the rapper who didn't just survive it.

He saw through it.

He told the truth, and somehow he lived.

This is a story, though, about violence, and about trauma,

and about the long, slow, brutal climb toward mercy.

Mercy for yourself, for your city, for the people who nearly killed you and the ones who still might.

This is a story about Kendrick Lamar, a man who makes great music. Unlike that music, I played

for you at the top of the show. That wasn't great music. Unlike that music, I played for you at the top of the show.

That wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron

called Northern Exposure MK2.

I played you that loop

because I can't afford the rights to

One More Night by Maroon 5.

And why would I play you that specific slice of,

oh man, who gives a shit?

Cheese, could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America

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