Darker and Edgier: This album is much darker and more introspective than most hip-hop music that was coming out in the early 2010s.An actual short film adaptation, directed by Lamar, is supposedly in the works. Coming-of-Age Story: The later songs imply that K-Dot takes responsibility for his life after years of ill-judgment "when he's with the homies".Censor Box: The eyes of all the people on the album cover have been blackboxed, save for the child (which is the artist himself).Catchphrase/ Singer Namedrop: Record Producer Just Blaze inserts his on "Compton", though it also functions in context as a drug reference.Call-and-Response Song: "Poetic Justice" provides a Sampling-based variant in the chorus, where Lamar's repeated "you can get it" queues Janet Jackson singing "anyplace" and "anytime" in response.Broken Record: In "Real", in the bridge section, Anna Wise sings "Sing my song, it's all for you" 16 times.It's also a Discussed Trope during one sketch - two of K-dot's friends work out that anyone successful enough to actually make these isn't on the streets enough to back them up. Boastful Rap: "Backseat Freestyle" is an exaggerated version and possibly a partial deconstruction, clearly meant as the work of an immature teenager.He and his friends, in a broken rage, are about to fight back until an elderly woman convinces him to not to and embrace God as a way to recover in "Sing About Me, Dying of Thirst" and Kendrick's able to slowly recover and cope with the events in "Real", with his mother and father sending their voicemails to comfort him from the ordeal, his mother encouraging him to follow up with Top Dawg Entertainment and tell his story to the kids of Compton and "give back to his city". Bittersweet Ending: Kendrick's friend gets shot and killed after they retaliate against Sherane's cousins jumping Kendrick at the end of "Swimming Pools (Drank)".I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower Bigger Is Better in Bed: Exaggerated for comedy in "Backseat Freestyle":.Anti-Hero: Kendrick is sympathetic, but displays horrible judgement and is hardly heroic.The story ultimately begins at the end of the second track, when K-dot is invited to come along with some friends. Anachronic Order: The narrative jumps back and forth between Kendrick getting jumped on his way to meet Sherane, hanging out with his friends, and voicemails from his parents.All There in the Manual: Averted Trope the spoken word sketches common to rap albums here color in the narrative rather than serving as comic relief.Album Title Drop: The album title is drop at the end of each verse in "good kid".all lowercase letters: The title "good kid".The Alcoholic: "Swimming Pools (Drank)" is from the perspective of one.Seem like the whole trope list go against me, very time I scroll down I read: "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" (12:03).The confusion from these decisions was on such a massive scale that Macklemore personally apologized via text to Lamar after the award ceremony. The album also controversially lost several of its five Grammy Award nominations, including Best Rap Album and Best Rap Performance, to Macklemore (for his album The Heist and his song "Thrift Shop", respectively). The album has an average critical score of 91 on Metacritic and also debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, netting the highest first-week sales of any male rapper in 2012. Lamar himself was somewhat cooler, calling his work "classic-worthy" but claiming it still needed to pass the test of time to be considered a true classic. Good kid, m.A.A.d city released to near-unanimous critical acclaim with many readily declaring it an instant classic. Encouraged by family and religious figures not to continue down this path, K-dot is implied to find religion and grows into a successful rap artist. Tired of Running, Lamar's friends get into a shootout to avenge him and drive off the other gang members at the cost of one of their own, seemingly ensuring a Cycle of Revenge.
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