It's difficult to imagine a landscape in which he wasn't considered among the modern day greats, setting the bar in a variety of different categories.
The case for Kendrick Lamar as hip-hop's definitive author is strong. Kendrick might just be right.Kendrick Lamar's conceptual and ambitious "Section 80" turns eight. It’s a claim normally discarded with all the other ridiculous Hip-Hop hubris. Lamar, among a myriad of other young hopefuls, claims to be the voice of his generation. Listen and listen intently, especially if you are a parent of one of these embattled youngsters. There are places and spaces on Section.80 that are brilliant. Learning when to punch it and when to lay back is something that comes with years of practice. Also, Lamar’s delivery at times reads flat and from there his delivery turns awkward. The Pimp C/Aaliyah/Left Eye ode “Blow My High” is too scattered thematically, an issue revisited in other songs. The hook is delivered with a nasal infection.
“Spiteful Chant” trudges both musically and lyrically, recalling Bone, but slowing it down to a dreary speed. It takes a confident emcee to allow a fellow artist to run away with a track on his own album. Ab-Soul’s aggression and his black revolutionary vibe are affective. “Ab-Soul’s Outro” is a fiery piece that leans heavily towards spoken word with a loud, frenetic, free-form jazz foundation that will surely go down as one of Terrace Martin’s best moments. The brotherhood of Lamar’s group, Black Hippy, is present as well.
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Layers and layers of instrumentation coalesce with electronic lines creating full and riveting soundscapes that are as intricate as the bars that cover them. The lack of cohesion in this situation actually makes sense.Ĭoupled with Lamar’s challenging topics is production from a handful of beat makers including Wyldfyer, Sounwave and THC that draws high drama out of jazz and R&B samples, lounge keys and atmospheric synth. The breadth of the album is wide, but so is the life he reports on. Young girls being pimped, raped and murdered, lesbianism, youthful pessimism, religion, criminal endeavors, snitches and threat of incarceration are all considered in between self-aggrandizing bars where Lamar claims access to your girlfriend, all the smoke you need, love of gang members near and far and loads of diamonds. He simplifies the complicated and suggests it just is what it is. “Ronald Regan Era” is a gang hymn that doesn’t glamorize nor demonize. “No Make Up” is a sneaky take on domestic violence and how it dismantles a victim’s self-esteem. “F*ck Your Ethnicity” reconstructs the struggle as generational as opposed to racial, while “A.D.H.D.” tackles the effect self-medication has on him and his peers.
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He speaks to the 80’s babies, born during the decade of the fledgling crack head and the trickle-down theory and the journey they currently find themselves on. With tales of abuse, guns, drugs, gangs, sex, crime and ego Kendrick presents his layers in no uncertain terms and challenges the listener to tell him he’s wrong. The LP is beautiful in its melancholy and brutal in its honesty. But after a few listens it becomes obvious that this thoughtful young man has a lot to say and he does it with a passion that hovers above most of his peers. Spending time with it is necessary, rewinding to make sure you hear what Kendrick says is essential to comprehending his point. It’s a convoluted trip through the good, the bad and the ugly in the lives of young adults looking for their place in a world that threw them curve balls early in childhood. Section.80 is an album that takes a while to sink in.
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