It certainly wasn’t the first latter-day album to be compared to black music’s legendary, turmoil-riddled state-of-the-nation addresses – Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On, Curtis Mayfield’s There’s No Place Like America Today, Sly and The Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On. To Pimp a Butterfly was sprawling, anguished, wilfully contrary. But it still couldn’t quite prepare you for what he did next. K endrick Lamar’s 2012 breakthrough, Good Kid, MAAD City, was a great album: meticulously crafted, weighty, hugely entertaining, a platinum seller that topped critics’ best-of-the-year lists.
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