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Welcome to Dissect, Long Form Musical Analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

I'm your host Cole Kishna. In episode one we explored Kedik Lamar's hometown of Compton, California and Lamar's

transformation from K-dot, an adolescent

mixtape rapper to Kendrick Lamar, the fully mature artist. On today's episode, we

dive deep into Lamar's major label debut, Good Kid Mad City.

Good Kid Mad City,

Good.

Good Kid Mad City, which contains the subtitle A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar, is a concept album with a non-linear Tarantino-like plot structure that spans one pivotal day in Kendrick's teenage upbringing in the streets of Compton.

While an entire podcast season can easily be dedicated to dissecting this album,

we thought it only right to spend an entire episode exploring its narrative arc and overall message,

as it sets the stage for the conception and execution of to Pimp a Butterfly, the sequel to Good Kid Mad City.

Kendrick had the concept of Good Kid Mad City years before he began writing it.

TDE's President Punch said of the album, quote,

This project was in the works Kendrick's whole life.

This is his life story. This is the prequel to everything.

He had the title for this album even before the Kendrick Lamar EP had dropped. He was writing the concept the whole time.

Kendrick backs this notion in an interview with Google Play.

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