Kendrick Lamar
In today’s world the rap industry has made some very noticeable changes in material, motives,and overall quality. The material is often based on how much money, girls, and their extravagant lifestyle. This is the basic theme found in today’s rap industry. Although these artist are making profit from this and getting popular over night, real music lovers are not amused or entertained. The real music lovers want the true music that is relevant in today's culture and real world problems. Kendrick is one of the few mainstream rappers that does this in his music. Before his stage name was Kendrick Lamar, he went by the name of K. Dot. Kendrick’s full name is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, although he was born in Compton, California in 1987, his
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Growing up from compton, Kendrick was giving two choices in his life, either to let the world of gangs, drugs, and everything that is considered normal, or spend all of his time in the studio to make something out of life so he can get out. He chose not to involve himself if that part of the culture that would only lead him to the graveyard or the prison yard. By doing this and devoting his time to spreading “ the word” he has been very successful and has brought attention to the problems in the world. This is why he has Hip-Hop in the palm of his hand, he does not portray the lavish life, he speaks about hardship, and struggles in life and the pain of life. A prime example of this are the songs from his album To Pimp a Butterfly, the songs U and Alright. In the song U he is in a hotel room having a conversation with himself and thinking about this situation on life that truly affected him. He then speaks about his personal pain and the hate that he has for himself because of not being there for his people in compton that were going through. In this song you can hear his pain and the suffering he has gone through. Then next after this the song Alright comes on, this song takes place after the night in the hotel room and how beautiful life is. He expresses how tomorrow is another day and that everything will be alright with the help of others and God. Through these two songs he lets his listeners get the real Kendrick Lamar and shows that just because he is famous and wealthy he does not have problems in his life. He then encourages his listeners to overcome their problems in life as he did. Next on the same album he has a song called The Blacker the Berry. In this song he raps about the case of Trayvon Martin and calling himself a hypocrite for being upset about this injustice but not upset of the people
Growing up from compton, Kendrick was giving two choices in his life, either to let the world of gangs, drugs, and everything that is considered normal, or spend all of his time in the studio to make something out of life so he can get out. He chose not to involve himself if that part of the culture that would only lead him to the graveyard or the prison yard. By doing this and devoting his time to spreading “ the word” he has been very successful and has brought attention to the problems in the world. This is why he has Hip-Hop in the palm of his hand, he does not portray the lavish life, he speaks about hardship, and struggles in life and the pain of life. A prime example of this are the songs from his album To Pimp a Butterfly, the songs U and Alright. In the song U he is in a hotel room having a conversation with himself and thinking about this situation on life that truly affected him. He then speaks about his personal pain and the hate that he has for himself because of not being there for his people in compton that were going through. In this song you can hear his pain and the suffering he has gone through. Then next after this the song Alright comes on, this song takes place after the night in the hotel room and how beautiful life is. He expresses how tomorrow is another day and that everything will be alright with the help of others and God. Through these two songs he lets his listeners get the real Kendrick Lamar and shows that just because he is famous and wealthy he does not have problems in his life. He then encourages his listeners to overcome their problems in life as he did. Next on the same album he has a song called The Blacker the Berry. In this song he raps about the case of Trayvon Martin and calling himself a hypocrite for being upset about this injustice but not upset of the people