Kendrick Lamar Research Paper

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Damn is one of my favorite album of all time, could it be yours? Kendrick has created another must have album that will continuously bump on your AUX players and MP3s not only month after month, not only year after year but technically decade after decade with meaningful lyrics that you could relate to through his storytelling, political view and social issues that he addresses.

Storytelling has been Kendrick Lamar’s greatest skill and most primary mission. Kendrick is a brilliant storyteller and makes it easy by saying so much in few words. “I been stomped out in front of my momma” in “Element”, the fourth song on kendrick Lamar's fourth studio album DAMN., telles his story being 15 years old and stomped out by three guys. The guys ran after they saw his mom coming. His mother tried to make him fight back to the bullies. Some of us have been bullied at some point and our moms did a lot in their power to make us fight it back, at least that what Kendrick’s mom tried to do. “I beat you, keep talking back. I beat you, who bought you that. I beat you if you say that game is broken. I beat you if you jump on my couch” in said in the song “Fear” the 12th song on the
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“Humble”, the 8th song on his album has received raving views after kendrick dropped his music video for it, and not just because it's catchy. The song sends out an empowering body confidence message by celebrating natural body. In the video it shows a women with no makeup, afro hair and stretch marks. He tells women to love their body and not be blindsided by what society shows. “I'm so sick and tired of the photoshop. Show me something natural like afro on richard. Show me something natural like ass with some stretch marks”. A message we all can agree with. I think women are now insecure of their bodies because society wants them to be perfect so they try to fix it or hide it. Kendrick Lamar addresses the issue of

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