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.
