When he looks around, Lamar sees self-hate, nihilism, institutionalized oppression.
Section 80 album or mixtape crack#
Everywhere he looks, Lamar sees generational symptoms of the kids who came from the era of crack and Ronald Reagan. "You know why we crack babies cuz we born in the 80s," Lamar raps on the excellently emo relationship-song " A.D.H.D.", and that's a theme that comes up over and over. It's a young thinker attempting to describe the world as he sees it. A couple of guys from Lamar's Black Hippy crew- those guys really sound like Souls of Mischief when they get together- show up, but the album isn't a guest-heavy affair. The production, mostly from relative unknowns like THC and Sounwave, is almost uniformly excellent- a spaced-out blur of astral horns and blissed-out Fender Rhodes, with drums that only knock when they need to. Instead, it gives him a chance to chase his muse wherever it runs.
Section.80, Lamar's new album, arrives on a wave of blog-based buzz, but beyond a couple of ill-advised choruses, it doesn't make much attempt to present Lamar to major-label A&Rs or to a wider audience. Instead, he's very much within the tradition of 90s groups like Souls of Mischief or the Pharcyde- self-deprecating and insanely talented kids who routinely ripped dizzy, slip-sliding flows over mellow jazz breaks. Lamar does exist within a strong West Coast continuum, but it has nothing to do with Dre.
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