Section.80 Review
2011Album
The blueprint for everything after it, made on a tiny budget by a young man determined to prove he can write.
| Category | Critic | Users |
|---|---|---|
| Production | Good | |
| Lyrics | Great | |
| Vibe | Good | |
| Overall | Great |
This is where the method arrives. Characters with names, a thesis stated openly, verses that switch voice mid song, and a young writer who plainly believed he could out think everyone in the room. Keisha's Song is a full short story about a sex worker told without a single cheap line, and it still ranks among the best things he has written. HiiiPoWeR is the mission statement, and A.D.H.D is the one that actually caught on, a slack, drugged, deceptively casual thing about a generation medicating itself.
The weakness is the sound. The beats are competent West Coast underground fare, keyboard heavy and a little thin, and they cannot always carry the weight being put on them. He also over explains. There are passages here where the concept is announced rather than dramatised, a habit he spent the next decade learning to drop. As a first proper album it is remarkable, and everything that made him matter is already visible in it.
Section.80 at a glance
- Artist
- Kendrick Lamar
- Released
- 2011
- Label
- Top Dawg Entertainment
- Tracks
- 16
- Runtime
- 60 min
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