Review: Kendrick Lamar roams Compton in 'good kid, m.A.A.d city'

"Why are you so angry?" asks a grandmotherly voice near the end of Kendrick Lamar's major-label debut. A Compton native born into the same stresses that once galvanized N.W.A, Lamar, at 25, has plenty to be mad about: girl trouble, a lack of economic opportunity, the retributive gang violence that leads to "bodies on top of bodies," as Lamar describes it with penetrating candor. It's a turbulent atmosphere worlds away from the strip-club exuberance of 2 Chainz or the mirrored introspection of Dr...

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