RS on DAMN.: After the sprawl of To Pimp a Butterfly, Lamar tightened up, going for the jugular in the most aggressive, banger-based album of his career. K-Dot goes for emotional detail instead of gangsta bravado, whether cruising the streets in “Backseat Freestyle” or pondering addiction in “Swimming Pool (Drank).” As he told Rolling Stone, “The best entertainers have to have the most wickedest sense of humor, to be able to take pain and change it into laughter.” Good Kid is his story of growing up in Compton, surrounded by gunfire, gang warfare, police brutality, drugs, liquor, dead friends - billed on the cover as “A Short FIlm By Kendrick Lamar,” like a West Coast answer to Scorsese’s Mean Streets. RS on GKMC: Kendrick’s hip-hop autobiography came as a shock in 2012: musically downbeat, with a film director’s eye for narrative but the voice of a poet. But he topped himself with To Pimp a Butterfly - a sprawling, ambitious portrait of America and his dangerous place in it, with a host of jazz influences. Rolling Stone on TPAB: Kendrick Lamar had already proven himself hip-hop’s boldest visionary - so by now, people expected greatness from him. Kendrick Lamar has put out four albums, three of which being his major label drops, which are the three that are on the list. Topping the top 10, is Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill for rap albums. Rolling Stone’s list compiles 500 of the best albums of all time.

Kendrick Lamar has 3 albums on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of All Time

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