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Good kid, m.A.A.d city’s story used the mise-en-scène of Compton to illustrate Kendrick’s reflections on his environment and his subsequent resurrection from the streets, going from a teenager that, as his mother puts it on the record’s penultimate track, “rose from that dark place of violence” to “come back a man”. Resentment that turned into a deep depression The sort of thing that would be the blurb on a book, or in this case, the most streamed record of all time. The first few lines are a synopsis of To Pimp a Butterfly’s storyline. Like that album, To Pimp a Butterfly sees Kendrick go through another transition, but this time round it’s a poem, or as he puts it at the end of “Mortal Man”, “something you could probably relate to”, and it's this that guides the narrative.
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The album’s final tracks, “Real” and Compton”, completed the transition of the young K.Dot from Section.80, into Kendrick Lamar the Compton resident, free from the trappings of his environment. The storyline of good kid, m.A.A.d city was split up by skits: Kendrick’s parents demanding to know the location of both their van and dominoes Kendrick getting laced on a blunt and robbing a house Kendrick’s next-door neighbour sending him on a path of enlightenment. And for that reason it makes sense to look at it through such a lens.
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If good kid, m.A.A.d city was like a motion picture, then To Pimp a Butterfly is a novel, with rich interwoven references leaning toward a deep character study that runs throughout the narrative.