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Title: Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2012, Hip Hop, West Coast Rap, Compton, CA
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. Family Ties: The “short film” framing pulls directly from his real family pressure—parents’ voicemails and neighborhood expectations acting like a Greek chorus.

2. Scene Ecology: Built inside TDE’s L.A. ecosystem, a crew-first model that grew through mixtapes, local shows, and tight in-house collaboration.

3. Media Narrative: It landed as a rare “consensus album” across rap and rock media, pulling Kendrick into the broader culture-war conversation about what hip hop could be.