![]() ![]() ![]() Morale” (the moral clarity of the Conscience). ![]() Morale and the Big Steppers grapples with two halves of the double album being evenly split between “The Big Steppers” (the moral corruption of the Culture) and “Mr. Marking his final outing with longtime record label Top Dawg Entertainment, Lamar’s Mr. Now in his thirties, he has a fiancé and two young children while also being a critically acclaimed and commercially successful global superstar, musical icon, entrepreneur, as well as a Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner. Today, however, Lamar is no longer a twenty-something newcomer to the world of hip hop. In his 2012 major label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d city, Lamar arose as the voice and viewpoint of his generation of Black millennials born and raised more than thirty years ago in the shadow of gangsta rap’s emergence on the world stage. Framed by the hope and change of a two-term presidency of Barack Obama on the one hand and the rise of #BlackLivesMatter protests on the other, renowned author Ta-Nehisi Coates frames this desperate dilemma this way: "How do I live free in this black body?" As if channeling these questions into a fine musical and metaphysical mélange, Kendrick Lamar emerges from his five-year absence with the deeply contemplative and unflinchingly introspective new album. How Kendrick Lamar Uses Religion on DAMN.ĭouble consciousness describes the centuries long struggles of so many millions of African Americans who have journeyed from chattel slavery to racial segregation. ![]()
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