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Staff Picks: Every Kendrick Lamar Album, Ranked


Kendrick Lamar's albums ranked worst to best.

Whether talking to Black fathers about their importance, or detailing the effect his relationship his transgender uncle had on him, or telling his mother that he forgives her for not properly dealing with her own trauma, Mr. Morale holds few punches and covers ground other rap albums rarely ever trod. Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is the rare album that perfectly pays respect to the forebearers of the genre it hopes to impact while breaking all new ground and resetting expectations for artists to come. in-house producers, hitmakers like Pharrell, Just Blaze and Dr. Dre join in to help create the fun, touching, rowdy and eloquent songs that make up an album that’s perfect yet manages to not collapse under the weight of its own aspiration.

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