For his last album “To pimp a Butterfly” he won a grammy for the best hip hop album. Around the world “To Pimp a Butterfly” is held in high regard. Kendrick Lamar’s subject matter is unlike no others his subject matter comes from where he grew up Compton, California. Compton is known as a place with high crime rates and poverty and according to neighborhoodscout.com Compton is accountable for 34% of California’s crime rate. So around the time Kendrick Lamar grew up a lot of riots were going on in California. With the events going on in the world “To Pimp a Butterfly” was very pertinent album. Kendrick Lamar addressed racism, prison, poverty and depression in the …show more content…
Around the time Kendrick Lamar released “i”, there were a lot of police murdering people. This song would be very relevant in many different times. All because of the poverty and struggles in the hood and there has always been problems with the police and African American With the amount of death in the hood in the article "1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes: America Is Perpetually at War with Its Own People” that article was by Adam Hudson. That’s from stereotypes to murdering African Americans. “This common stereotype has erroneously served as a subtle rationale for the unofficial policy and practice of racial profiling by criminal justice practitioners” that was written by ”Welch, Kelly. In the article "Black Criminal Stereotypes and Racial Profiling." That’s a cultural problem in the black community and in that article it