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good kid, m.A.A.d city (Music)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })good kid, m.A.A.d city is the second studio album and major-label debut of American rapper Kendrick Lamar. Billed as a "short film", the album plays as a fictionalized narrative about Lamar's teenage experiences in Compton, California (the titular "m.A.A.d city"note the formatting of "m.A.A.d" is a two-way acronym for "My Angry Adolescence Divided" and "My Angels on Angel Dust"), deconstructing Gangsta Rap by featuring a darker and more realistic vision of teenage gang life.The album centers around a young Lamar — the titular "good kid", referred to as "K-dot". However, he isn't such a good kid when he's "with the homies"; he claims to believe in sobriety and nonviolence but discards both in their presence, barely evading arrest and suffering through bad drug trips as a result. Distracted by sexual fantasies, K-dot impulsively drives into the wrong neighborhood alone to hook up with Love Interest Sherane. Two blocks from her home, he is instead intercepted by members of a rival gang who predictably beat him senseless for his trouble.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Tired of Running, K-dot's friends get into a shootout to avenge him and drive off the other gang members at the cost of one of their own, seemingly ensuring a Cycle of Revenge. Encouraged by family and religious figures not to continue down this path, K-dot is implied to find religion and grows into a successful rap artist.The album controversially lost several of its five Grammy Award nominations, including Best Rap Album and Best Rap Performance, to Macklemore (for his album The Heist and his song "Thrift Shop", respectively). The confusion from these decisions was on such a massive scale that Macklemore personally apologized via text to Lamar after the award ceremony.
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Darker and Edgier: This album is much darker and more introspective than most hip-hop music that was coming out in the early 2010s. Even the music itself is more down-tempo than its peers.
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Tempting Fate: "Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst":
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All There in the Manual: Averted Trope; the spoken word sketches common to rap albums here color in the narrative rather than serving as comic relief.
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all lowercase letters: The title "good kid".
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Genre Deconstruction: ''good kid, m.A.A.d City" is a critique on Gangster Rap and pointing out how empty the lifestyle is and how it instead will lead those down darker paths, as K-Dot almost does after the events of "Swimming Pools (Drank)".
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Special Guest: Drake, Jay Rock, MC Eiht, and Dr. Dre all take guest verses on the album proper. The rest of Lamar's Black Hippy supergroup appear on bonus tracks from various versions and Jay-Z appears on a remixed "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe". Lady Gaga was supposed to appear on "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe", but Creative Differences and scheduling issues put a stop to that.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: It's a short film. An actual short film adaptation, directed by Lamar, is supposedly in the works.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Kendrick's friend gets shot and killed after they retaliate against Sherane's cousins jumping Kendrick at the end of "Swimming Pools (Drank)". He and his friends, in a broken rage, are about to fight back until an elderly woman convinces him to not to and embrace God as a way to recover in "Sing About Me, Dying of Thirst" and Kendrick's able to slowly recover and cope with the events in "Real", with his mother and father sending their voicemails to comfort him from the ordeal, his mother encouraging him to follow up with Top Dawg Entertainment and tell his story to the kids of Compton and "give back to his city".
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Call-and-Response Song: "Poetic Justice" provides a Sampling-based variant in the chorus, where Lamar's repeated "you can get it" queues Janet Jackson singing "anyplace" and "anytime" in response.
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Song Style Shift: "Good Kid" starts off with a beat reminiscent of classic g-funk, but it becomes dark and atmospheric when it gets to the first verse.
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Sampling: "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" contains a sample of "Tiden Flyver" as performed by Boom Clap Bachelors. "The Art of Peer Pressure" contains a sample of "Helt Alene" as performed by Suspekt. "Money Trees" contains a sample of "Silver Soul" as performed by Beach House. "Poetic Justice" contains a sample of "Any Time, Any Place" as performed by Janet Jackson. "m.A.A.d city" contains a sample of "Don't Change Your Love" as performed by The Five Stairsteps, "Funky Worm" by The Ohio Players, and "A Bird In The Hand" by Ice Cube. "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" contains a sample of "Maybe Tomorrow" as performed by Grant Green, "I'm Glad You're Mine" by Al Green and "Use Me" by Bill Withers. "Compton" contains a sample of "What's This World Coming To" as performed by Formula IV. "The Recipe" contains a sample of "Meet the Frownies" as performed by Twin Sister. "Backseat Freestyle" contains a sample of "Yo Soy Cubano", by The Chakachas.
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Letting the Air out of the Band: The end of "Poetic Justice", leading to the skit setting up the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Exaggerated for comedy in "Backseat Freestyle":
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Censor Box: The eyes of all the people on the album cover have been blackboxed, save for the child (which is the artist himself).
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Epic Rapping: Sort of. Many tracks run long, but the spoken-word sketches are responsible in large part - live versions are actually more reasonable in length.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: "Swimming Pools (Drank)" is from the perspective of one.
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Anachronic Order: The narrative jumps back and forth between Kendrick getting jumped on his way to meet Sherane, hanging out with his friends, and voicemails from his parents. The story ultimately begins at the end of the second track, when K-dot is invited to come along with some friends.
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Boastful Rap: "Backseat Freestyle" is an exaggerated version and possibly a partial deconstruction, clearly meant as the work of an immature teenager. It's also a Discussed Trope during one sketch - two of K-dot's friends work out that anyone successful enough to actually make these isn't on the streets enough to back them up.
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Riddle for the Ages: Why did Kendrick's dad keep asking about dominoes? Was he talking about an actual set of dominoes, or did he want Domino's Pizza, or (as some have theorized) was "dominoes" in this case a slang term for amphetamines?
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Coming of Age Story: The later songs imply that K-Dot takes responsibility for his life after years of ill-judgment "when he's with the homies".
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Anti-Hero: Kendrick is sympathetic, but displays horrible judgement and is hardly heroic.
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Hood Film
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Hood Film: The album is subtitled "A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar" and can be considered the Concept Album equivalent of one. A proposed live-action adaptation from Kendrick himself has yet to materialize.
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Fun with Acronyms: "m.A.A.d city", as revealed by Lamar, refers both to "My Angry Adolescence Divided" and "My Angels on Angel Dust".
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One-Word Title: "Real", "Compton"
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Genre Throwback: The latter section of "m.A.A.d city" shifts into an old-school Gangsta Rap style.
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Album Title Drop: The album title is drop at the end of each verse in "good kid".
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Broken Record: In "Real", in the bridge section, Anna Wise sings "Sing my song, it's all for you" 16 times.
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Catchphrase/Singer Namedrop: Record Producer Just Blaze inserts his on "Compton", though it also functions in context as a drug reference.
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Period Piece: Various references in the lyrics place the album in the mid-2000s.
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Incredibly Lame Pun: The first track introduces Sherane as "Master Splinter's Daughter" - she's a hood rat, you see.
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Running Gag:
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