Although this could be argued that that is what hip hop was about in the past and now it means something different, Anytime someone talks about the features that comprise authentic hip hop most of its qualifications are rooted in a nostalgic version of hip hop as it was at its onset instead of the more dynamic understanding of what it has become over time and the introduction of popular …show more content…
He is able to portray himself as an “everyman.” In his music by really situating the listener in his life by really rapping in details and lucid commentary about the place he grew up in and talks to the African-American community. His music isn’t loud, or noisey about having chicks and money and he wasn’t really recognized for a while until he realised “m.a.a.d city” which really made him popular but because of his everyman act he feels relatable to audiences earning him plenty of fans, and critics who adore him. On good kid, in “m.A.A.d city”, Kendrick Lamar tells a story, he narrates the story of how he got sucked into gang warfare as a Compton adolescent and how he eventually escaped. His next album “To Pimp a Butterfly” is very different in this album Kendrick Lamar seems to be scattered talking and berating himself, the story in this album is much more serious he makes reference to some people killed by the cops