The production on this track is glorious, layered and skippy, but the lyrics are the standout. Kendrick Lamar has written a song which is dark, and sinister, and true. The bombast of West Coast hip-hop is suited to epic songs, and this is like a manifesto for our lost generation.
And his flow is perfectly fluid as he flips seamlessly into double time and out again.
Above and beyond this song, you can see how fast he's developing. The stuff he was making last year has the same tidy rhymes but had a monotonous flow, with none of the cadence that makes A.D.H.D. seductive.
I'm jumping on his new mixtape - the West is back this autumn.
This has rapidly become the most listened to, and my favourite track on my phone!
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