Good kid m.A.A.d city is a memento mori haunted by dead and living ghosts…When they are pieced together as a sequence they act like Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope: they give us the impression that from these clips we are watching a black boy learn to fly above it all.
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash writes on hip-hop, Kendrick Lamar, and the tradition of the black blues narrative.

25 Notes/ Hide

  1. thenerdwhoisawesome reblogged this from millionsmillions
  2. itsafuckingmineral reblogged this from millionsmillions
  3. thomwanton reblogged this from millionsmillions
  4. booktweets reblogged this from millionsmillions
  5. crsenex reblogged this from millionsmillions
  6. like-radium reblogged this from millionsmillions
  7. sivart-retawztif reblogged this from millionsmillions
  8. tangomeroughly reblogged this from millionsmillions
  9. millionsmillions posted this