Big fans of Kendrick Lamar's excellent new album good kid, m.A.A.d. city (anyone? anyone?) can thank Babylon Cartel's Gianni Lee and Mike Blud for doing some legwork here. They've compiled a mixtape of samples used on the album, ranging from Kanye West's 'We Major' to Beach House's 'Silver Soul' to Twin Sister's 'Meet the Frownies', and a whole lot in between.
Download the mixtape here, via IllRoots.
good kid, m.A.A.d. city: The Samples:
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01 Prologue
02 Dreamscape Interlude (Prod. by Gianni Lee)
03 Boom Clap Bachelors: 'Tiden Flyver' ('Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe')
04 Suspekt: 'Helt Alene' ('Art of Peer Pressure')
05 Beach House: 'Silver Soul' ('Money Trees')
06 Janet Jackson: 'Anytime, Anyplace' ('Poetic Justice')
07 Kanye West: 'We Major' ('M.A.A.D City')
08 Ohio Players: 'Funky Worm' ('M.A.A.D City')
09 Grant Green: 'Maybe Tomorrow' ('Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst')
10 Formula IV: 'What's This World Coming To' ('Compton')
11 Kool and the Gang: 'Summer Madness' ('Compton')
12 Twin Sister: 'Meet the Frownies' ('The Recipe')
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I am extremely proud to bring to you the debut album from Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, set for release on October 22nd. Everybody and their mom’s been waiting on this album, and it is finally here! Whether you get the link from here, piratebay, kat.ph or any other place, go out and purchase the album either in stores or on iTunes. Leaks are great, and allow us all to hear the music early, but we still need to go out and SUPPORT THE ARTISTS that put out this amazing music! Look below for the tracklist and download link! UPDATE:The link has been changed to the deluxe iTunes version of the album, featuring the missing bonus track, ‘Collect Calls’.
Link #1:Download– Kendrick Lamar- good kid, m.A.A.d. city (Album)
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Tracklist:
1. Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter
2. Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe ft. Lady Gaga
3. Backseat Freestyle
4. The Art Of Peer Pressure
5. Money Trees ft. Jay Rock
6. Poetic Justice ft. Drake
7. good kid
8. m.A.A.d city ft. MC Eiht
9. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended Version)
10. Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst
11. Real ft. Anna Wise
12. Compton ft. Dr. Dre
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks
13. The Recipe ft. Dr. Dre (Bonus Track)
14. Black Boy Fly (Bonus Track)
15. Now Or Never ft. Mary J. Blige (Bonus Track)
16. Collect Calls (Bonus Track)
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Official cover art has been released:
http://d3na4zxidw1hr4.cloudfront.net/site_media/uploads/images/post/k/kendrick-lamar/kendrick%20lamar%20good%20kid%20maad%20city_jpg_630x640_q85.jpgThe official title is good kid, m.A.A.d. city and it will be released on Oct. 22nd via Top Dawg Ent./Aftermath.
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the deluxe cover was released as well along with the standard
it can be found here http://www.google.com/imgres?q=good+kid+m.a.a.d+city+deluxe&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1277&bih=637&tbm=isch&tbnid=SIF6JhIbbslPdM:&imgrefurl=http://derickg.com/2012/09/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city-album-cover/good-kid-maad-city-deluxe/&docid=Ozr9aSw_eQuSZM&imgurl=http://derickg.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/good-kid-maad-city-deluxe.jpg&w=500&h=500&ei=j8FbUJDTN6Ls0gHP4IFI&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=616&vpy=140&dur=1098&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=146&ty=105&sig=113712447673464099066&page=1&tbnh=147&tbnw=147&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:84 - Reply
and feelgood is right about the title but that doesnt matter when you have as much talent as kendrick. he could have no album title and i would listen. but u should change it so people can find it easier!
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This is speculative but I would guess with the BET Awards and Cyphers (for which Kendrick is a part) airing on Oct 9th, that we will get a track list sometime near there. The publicity is just too great to not capitalize upon.
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1. Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter
2. Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe f. Lady Gaga
3. Backseat Freestyle
4. The Art Of Peer Pressure
5. Money Trees f. Jay Rock
6. Poetic Justice f. Drake
7. good kid
8. m.A.A.d city f. MC Eiht
9. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended Version)
10. Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst
11. Real f. Anna Wise
12. Compton f. Dr. Dre
13. The Recipe f. Dr. Dre (Bonus Track)
14. Black Boy Fly (Bonus Track)
15. Now Or Never f. Mary J. Blige (Bonus Track)
16. Collect Calls (Bonus Track)
17. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Bonus Track) - Reply
Deluxe tracklist via p4k
01 Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter
02 Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe
03 Backseat Freestyle
04 The Art of Peer Pressure
05 Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock)
06 Poetic Justice (feat. Drake)
07 good kid
08 m.A.A.d city (feat. MC Eiht)
09 Swimming Pools (Drank) [Extended Version]
10 Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst
11 Real (feat. Anna Wise)
12 Compton (feat. Dr. Dre)
13 The Recipe (feat. Dr. Dre) [Bonus Track]
14 Black Boy Fly [Bonus Track]
15 Now or Never (feat. Mary J. Blige) [Bonus Track]
16 Collect Calls [Bonus Track]
17 Swimming Pools (Drank) [Bonus Track] - Reply
New song, “Compton” featuring Dr. Dre is floating out there. I don’t know what it is but hearing Dre rhyme lines that were more than likely written by Kendrick is the best Dre has ever sounded on the mic. The “Recipe” is another fine example of this.
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Meant to tack this to the previous post. But is anyone going to slap a copy of “Cartoons and Cereal” featuring Gunplay at the end of this album as a bonus track?
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Don’t think he’d put any songs from the mixtape on the album
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cartoons and cereal is not on any mixtapes timmaccauley. learn your shit before you respond to every single comment with you ignorance
Yeah I was going to make the same comment; it also does not appear on any Gunplay official releases.
When the song came out it was rumored to be on the album but didn’t make the cut.chill out i made one comment, and c&c is on my version of the good kid in a mad city mixtape?
yeah it’s definitely on there. what are you guys talking about.
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What mixtape? C&C isn’t from any official Kendrick release.
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There is no good kid mixtape, its not an official release.
There is a compilation, 7089 EP, which is not completely legitimate that has the song on there but it is the only connected release.
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I dislike how artist have the mentality of already released songs being “deluxe”
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Swimming pools was only released as a single a few months ago, he could have included it in the album but went with the extended version instead
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30 second snippets are currently available which means a leak must be near plus the album gets released in a week.
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NEW TRACK:
“Backseat Freestyle” (Prod. By Hit-Boy) [MixedByAli]
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hope you guys buy it though even after getting the leak
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My bad, I didn’t see that I wasn’t allowed to post download links. I can’t seem to delete my comment though.
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My god what an album. Just got the leak and im definitely pre-ordering it as i speak
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OMG!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got it the 17th and just wow!! Sing about meactually made me cry. The art of peer pressure is the truth. It’s all the truth. Amazing album
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Aftermath
Some rappers just have more to say than others. A chronicle of his adolescence in Compton, Kendrick Lamar’s debut album for Dr. Dre’s Aftermath imprint, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, is less concerned with the rapper’s formal schooling than his street education, but it’s not a stretch to assume that Lamar was the student who single-spaced his term papers to squeeze a few extra thoughts into their page limits. In a raspy, rubbery patois tinged with shades of André 3000 and Bizzy Bone, he rhymes with a novelist’s attention to detail and seemingly no off-switch, frequently stretching his verses to 32 bars. He hits 38 in one verse on Good Kid’s 12-minute epic “Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst,” and probably could have topped 50 had the verse not faded out for dramatic effect, the implication being he’ll happily go on and on if left unchecked.
On 2011’s independently released Section.80, the critical breakthrough that secured his place on the Aftermath roster—although a Compton rapper this gifted would’ve ended up under Dr. Dre’s wing eventually—Lamar’s run-on pontification sometimes overwhelmed his songs. On that album, he couldn’t resist the impulse to simultaneously weigh in on everything—relationships, identity, addiction, poverty, politics—but on Good Kid he ditches the soapbox, organizing his sprawling thoughts into an orderly narrative about the challenges of leading a normal childhood amid Compton’s precarious backdrop. In his world, every indulgence is a potential trap that could lead to the wrong page of a Choose Your Own Adventure book: alcohol (too addictive), weed (could be laced), friends (they’re gateways to crime), and girls (even the best intentioned of them are, by virtue of their surroundings, femmes fatale). Yet instead of retreating from these temptations, Lamar engages with them, albeit cautiously. “I always knew life could be dangerous,” he raps over the blissful guitar strums of “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe”—the most laid-back track on an album with its share of them—but, he argues, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t live it.
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Coming from the label that virtually created the template for the modern blockbuster rap album, Good Kid is an exercise in tasteful restraint, with Lamar employing his boundless budget in creative ways. When his thoughts turn to romance on the Drake-assisted single-in-waiting “Poetic Justice,” he sets the mood with an expensive Janet Jackson sample. When his tale takes a violent turn on “M.A.A.D. City,” the change is marked by a cameo from hardcore veteran MC Eiht, rapping over a blustering throwback to his Compton’s Most Wanted days. Even Pharrell Williams, who has often been grandfathered dead weight on recent rap albums, is put to real use: His dazed, Blaxploitation beat on “Good Kid” perfectly heightens Lamar’s narrative intrigue. Only the closer, “Compton,” with its overblown Just Blaze beat and chest-beating, city-repping assists from Dr. Dre, rings false. The track’s broad strokes are wholly out of place on an album that otherwise understands cities are too vast and complicated to be represented by one person, or captured in a single song.
The best concept records still have fabulous singles. There is a reason that people know ‘Juicy’ by the Notorious BIG, ‘Mercy Mercy Me’ by Marvin Gaye, or ‘Ziggy Stardust’ by David Bowiedespite maybe never hearing the full albums that feature them. Those singles alone are strong enough that even someone with just a casual knowledge of the albums they come from, can’t deny the talent that is behind them. The same could be said for ‘B__ch, Don’t Kill My Vibe’ or ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’ from Kendrick Lamar’s major-label debut, Good Kid, mAAd City.
Since K Dot released Good Kid, mAAd City on 22October 2012, the album not only holds a place in the hip-hop cannon but it shifted the culture. It’s even been incorporated into the curriculum in several universities.
The Good Kid, mAAd City cover art features a childhood Polaroid of Kendrick with his uncles and grandfather. There is a baby bottle, a 40-oz bottle and one uncle is flashing a gang sign. In the background is a picture on the wall featuring Kendrick and his father. Everyone’s eyes are blacked out. Speaking on the cover art, Lamar says, “That photo says so much about my life, and about how I was raised in Compton, and the things I’ve seen, just through them innocent eyes. You don’t see nobody else’s eyes, but you see my eyes are innocent, and tryna figure out what is goin’ on.”
The title on the cover also reads: “a short film by Kendrick Lamar”. This is not an accident. Good Kid, mAAd City is cinematic and tells a gripping specific narrative. It’s a day in the life of the protagonist, K Dot, as he becomes Kendrick Lamar and in it, hooks up with his girl, robs a house, and goes through misadventures, which makes him question hood politics.
The first track, ‘Sherane aka Master Splinter’s Daughter’ isn’t really the beginning of the story but rather sets the stage. Picture the beginning of Reservoir Dogs and the now infamous Madonna and ‘No Tipping’ monologues. They don’t necessarily push the story forward but they create the world that you’re about to step into. In this song, you step into the mindset of Lamar’s persona, K Dot, who’s the protagonist of the story. K-Dot, is meeting with a girl named, “Sherane” and much like in a Tarantino film, the story doesn’t exactly follow one thread. It’s filled with fits and starts, twists and turns.
The skits following the songs are concise but actually feature Kendrick’s friends and mother and father. They’re what pull the story completely together. The skit after ‘Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter’ has Kendrick’s mother and father wanting him to bring her van back to the house. A picture of this van is also featured on the deluxe version of the record.
The single, ‘B__ch, Don’t Kill My Vibe’ also serves as sort of an introduction and is more about the state of hip-hop. The original version feature guest vocals by Lady Gaga and was titled ‘Partynauseous’. However, timing issues came up and ultimately her version didn’t end up on the album. She later released it herself to Lamar’s surprise. The skit that ends ‘B__ch, Don’t Kill My Vibe’ once again pushes the story along. In it we hear K Dot’s friends telling him to meet them in the car where they have a beat CD.
‘Backseat Freestyle’ and ‘The Art of Peer Pressure’ naturally flow together. The former tells a story about K Dot freestyling with his friends in the car dreaming like “Martin had a Dream/Kendrick have a dream” and that they will make their mark. The song captures a vivid amount among close friends and the simple joys of hot boxing a car and freestyling with friends, then it sets the stage for, ‘The Art of Peer Pressure’, which is a major development in this narrative.
A seemingly innocent caravan with friends ends up being a night of smoking and drinking and robbing someone. There’s less bravado with this but more of an internal conflict. Despite the situation, you’re still rooting for K Dot and relieved when he eludes the cops. He’s then faced with a dilemma, does he fellow the path of his peers, or keep his head down and make that money, which leads to ‘Money Trees’.
‘Poetic Justice’ brings us back to the beginning of the story with Sherane. A group of men jump K Dot just because he’s from a different hood. He realizes even after robbing a house that the predator can just as easily become the prey.
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‘Good Kid’ and ‘mAAd City” are linked as well. ‘Good Kid’ is about the eternal struggle of the hood. How can someone survive in a world where the question is whether you wear red or blue and where you are from? This song is another turning point in the narrative. K Dot wonders if he can make it out alive. Engineer, MixedByAli, explained further in an interview in Complex how “being a good kid is being stuck inside of the box and how [he] has no choice but to ride along on the drive-by shooting, have no choice but to go into the houses and rob, because this is what he’s around”. He’s just going with his people.
He’s once again faced with the double-edged sword of gang life on ‘mAAd City’. If he doesn’t follow the way of the gang, he has no protection. However, if he aligns himself with a gang, it makes him more of a mark for violence. The song is split into two parts: starting with a slow intro before building up to a hard club beat. Legendary West Coast MC Eiht makes a guest appearance on this track in what is yet another moment where Kendrick gives a salute to the Compton hip-hop sound that came before him.
To the casual listener, ‘Swimming Pool (Drank)’ sounds like a party jam, but if you listen closely it’s more of a cautionary tale. At this point in the story, Kendrick’s friends decide to seek revenge against the people who stomped Kendrick earlier, resulting in the death of his friend’s brother, Dave.
‘Sing About Me’ has Kendrick thinking about tragedies that have impacted his life. The first the aforementioned Dave, the second a sister of a prostitute who was the subject of a song in Kendrick’s debut release. Finally, we hear ‘Kendrick’ for the first time questioning his life as K Dot. The song represents being baptized and finding oneself.
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By the end of Good Kid, mAAd City, you’ve come to understand that K Dot’s previous view that “money, power, respect” being the end all be all is dangerous code to live by. And that ‘Real’ is a reflection of what could have been. “That’s the start of me recognizing everything I was doing throughout that day, it wasn’t real,” Lamar said. “Everybody has their own perception of what a ‘real ni__a’ is. Most of the time a real ni__a is a street cat or someone putting in some type of work and doing violence. That’s what we thought they was. But on that record, it was me getting an understanding of what real is.”
The ending track ‘Compton’ could have appeared early in the story, though some liken it to what plays during the credits of this narrative album. It can also signify the cycle starting over or a wink at what new chapters bring.
Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, mAAd City is available to buy here.