Long story short, I rushed to the campus parking lot, hopped in his Chrysler 300 and from there we fled and copped the album.Īfter we were left in awe during our first listen, I immediately spent the rest of the weekend writing my very first album review that gave Lamar the same high praise as nearly every other music outlet did at the time. Following a pep talk from the paper's advisor who doubled as my news writing professor to "write about the things I was most passionate about," my best friend Brodrick eagerly called and told me, "Mark, in the car, we're going to Best Buy! The album's out!"
I was a volunteer staff writer for the school paper then. It was on a rainy October 22 night that my life changed after leaving the student publication building, deflated after an editorial disagreement with a student editor. 80" (2011), a scene-stealing interlude on Drake's sophomore opus "Take Care," called "Buried Alive", and his inclusion on XXL's 2011 Freshman Class cover. In 2012, "GKMC" was one of the most anticipated albums that year after Lamar rode high from the universal praise for his stellar indie debut "Section. Kendrick Lamar's major label debut "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" was my entry point into music criticism as a young, ambitious student journalist at Jackson State University. Insider is looking back on the last decade of musical greats with a series of opinion essays.
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