after the sad tale of watching others succeed like it ends with him literally flying himself so beautiful. reminds me of how Kanye was saying "they didn't expect Kanye to end up on top, they expected that College dropout to drop and then flop" which is crazy after the fact, and here Kendrick is talking about flying out of compton on Good Kid, motherfucking M.a.a.D city

When we grow up we gon go and get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane, yeah

"oh yeah i remember that it was the ravioli with the hot sauce in it right" Petey P aka the real mvp is my fav part of that song tbh the imagery of him just looking at the Rodney King riots outside his car window in his little seatbelt and s***

Pure art

and my niggas left me in the dark blind

mama just get back at me this last time

that song cold AF his own Mom like, nah, you gonna learn a lesson

you know the vibes man

i used to walk home from school with this blasting on the the headphones

Got the shenanigans? Give that nigga the shenanigans

i wonder why it was only a bonustrack (i mean i guess cohesiveness tbh) but it's such a giving and chilling perspective of what the lifestyle Kendrick portrays in GKMC can ultimately lead to and the harsh realities thereof. the song essentially being a back and forth phone call from prison is so dope. compliments the overall narrative and story arc beautifully

Kendrick Lamar GKMC Narrative Location Guide: Where It All Happened
kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=2155673.0

Classic thread. Damn time flies!

just skimmed through that real quick, that's legit auto-biography book worthy material fr

Man miss this Kendrick

i think kendrick had a really specific story he wanted to tell and it just didn’t fit in the narrative, which is true. there’s no where you could put this in the album without it sticking out except for an outro, which it kinda is.

hell if i remember right there was rumors Kendrick turned down f***in problems from Drake because it didn’t work for his album. so they did Poetic justice instead and Drake gave that to Rocky.

Yeah there's a solo version of F***ing Problems with 2 Kendrick verses

Building County Blues also sounds like C&C part 2
GKMC was gonna be a double album first part Kendrick as a kid and the 2nd part Kendrick at 17, would've been insane

agree yeah, as much as it fits in terms of narrative and good sounding as it is it would def stick out. there's places i could see it fit though, like after the Art of peer pressure as an aftermath to "get in the car we finna get active" or after the first part of Sing About Me (i know blasphemous af but tying in with the being "sung about"-motif ) but it wouldn't have flown as naturally as the current end result transitions,sequencing of songs + their switch ups and the importance of the skits. would've loved to see the sequence of his version of the tracklist including this song

didn't know F***in problems was considered for GKMC that would definately stick out vibing to the movie of the album than OUT OF NOWHERE "Guh, i know you want DIH DIH"

but im with the homies right naaaaooow