Kendrick Lamar beskriver med egna ord "good kid, m.A.A.d. city" och kommande skivan i senaste numret av XXL Magazine. Läs utdrag här!
En av höstens stora snackisar har varit Kendrick Lamars nya singel “i” som med en förbluffande hastighet satte fart på spekulationer och rykten kring hans kommande album, uppföljaren till “good kid, M.A.A.D. city”. I december kunde även Reebok avslöja att man inlett ett samarbete med K.Dot där han ska vara skomärkets ansikte utåt i olika sammanhang. Enligt samstämmiga rykten kommer Kendrick Lamar under våren 2015 lansera sitt nya album och av allt att döma kan det stämma då Kendrick i senaste numret av XXL Magazine tar pennan för att berätta om sitt skapande, med egna ord. Processen att utvecklas till en rappare av hög kaliber kom inte över en natt, Kendrick skriver:
“From 13 years old to the time I was 21, I was in a mode of mastering how to be a rapper. Like a rapper’s rapper, using my tongue as a sword, a fuckin’ barbarian. That’s all it was about, slaying words. So when I turned 21, 22, somewhere around there, I got into a mode where it became more of a writer aspect for me rather than just being a rapper ’cause this is around the same time where cats weren’t putting out mixtapes anymore. They was putting out full bodies of work and wasn’t even signed to a major label. So by that time, that’s when I started developing and actually constructing my music from a writer’s point of view. good kid, m.A.A.d city was probably one of them albums that you could unfold out into a book and read it. And that’s how I treat everything. Everything is critical like that from here on out. It’s the art of writing.”
Compton-rapparen fortsätter:
This is more than just music for me. This is actually a piece of me. I’m obsessed with it. And that’s how I take it. When I make my music, it comes from a genuine space where I’m already spreading myself wide to the world. So during my process in creating it, that time is for me, personally. That’s for my heart, those are my memories that helped me up with these lyrics and get inspiration. That was my memories. Taking those inspirations and going into that booth, that’s something that I hold dear.
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