Lamar is a great MC recognized in both hip hop and wider circles his album Damn won the Pulitzer prize in Music in 2019, the first in forever that wasn't opera or contemporary Avant Garde orchestra music And he fits both the strong / hard / misogynistic trappings of most hip hop these days while also moving beyond that to an examination of the effects of these stances. This was an interesting book - pitched between a pop biography and an academic analysis of Kendrick Lamar and his place in Californian, Hip Hop, and US culture.
