Good Kid: M.A.A.D City

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2022". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 21, 2022 . Retrieved December 2, 2022. h] "Compton" contains excerpts from "What's This World Coming To", written by Charles Richard Cason, as performed by Formula IV. Billboard 200 – Year-end Chart". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 11, 2015 . Retrieved December 9, 2015. Kennedy, John (October 20, 2017). "The Encyclopedia of 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' ". Okayplayer. Archived from the original on September 15, 2019 . Retrieved September 14, 2019.

It's hard to tell why hipsters love some mainstream albums and despise others, similar in scope and style. So this sort of inexplicable inconsistency left us with albums like this or 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' (or how that hideous Kanye West album's name really was?) at the tops not only of 2000s hip-hop charts but taking the reigning position of the RYM's yearly charts. So this phenomena needs a proper analysis which I can't offer as I rarely listen to hip-hop and surely can't be an expert in it. Yet nevertheless it certainly puzzles me why all the GY!BE fans go drooling with this album. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 22, 2020. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020 . Retrieved September 22, 2020.And if you have a album date, just make sure I’m not in the song / 'Cause I don’t need the attention to bring enough of that on my own.” Where do you go next when you've made the best album of the decade? Commercial baby! These are the records that took these artists from well known in the rap community to household names in all of music. Many of the largest hits of the respective years can be found on these albums. While some hardcore fans argue that the artists where selling out, these are the albums that garnered them the fame they deserved. Aaron M (April 18, 2013). "The Greatest 50 Albums Since '93". Vibe. Archived from the original on July 23, 2015 . Retrieved July 22, 2015. Your brother was a brother to me / And your sister’s situation was the one that pulled me in a direction to speak of something that’s realer than the TV screen….. Her personal life, I was like “it need to be told” / Cursing the life of 20 generations after her soul / Exactly what’d happen if I ain’t continued rapping.”

The 50 Greatest Concept Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. October 12, 2022. Archived from the original on October 21, 2022 . Retrieved October 23, 2022. The records that proved just how great these artists where. Lots of councious cuts in both of these records. The albums have clear concepts but still have production that makes them commercial enough for everybody to enjoy them. Regarded as classics in almost every discussion. The Best of 2012: The Year in Music". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 3, 2014 . Retrieved November 3, 2013. Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016 . Retrieved February 27, 2018.

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Paine, Jake. "Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 11/25/2012". HipHopDX. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012 . Retrieved November 29, 2012.