Good Kid, M.a.a.d. City

Studios

• Encore Studios, Burbank
• Patchwerk Recording Studios, Atlanta
• TDE Red Room, Carson

Good Kid, MAAD City is the second album of the American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on 22 October 2012 on the music label Top Dawg, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Good Kid, M.a.a.d. City reached # 2 on the U.S. album charts. The pieces The Recipe, Swimming Pools ( Drank ) and Poetic Justice were released as singles.

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Reception

Success

In the United States rose Good Kid, Maad City at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. In the first week, 241,000 units were sold. By July 2013 950,000 CDs were sold alone in the United States. The album was represented in at least until July 2013 permanently from his debut without interruption in the top 50 of the U.S. album charts. Canada also Lamar's second album was able to position on rank 2 in the charts. In addition, the album debuted in the charts of several European countries. So it positioned itself in Germany at number 74 in the UK was position 16, reached number 72 in Switzerland number 38 in France and 57 rank in the Netherlands. With a ranking of 23 was Good Kid, M.a.a.d. City also represented in the Australian charts.

Criticism

The e-zine Laut.de rated Good Kid, M.a.a.d. City with five out of a possible five points. The editor Stefan Johannesberg called Lamar's second album as a " real concept album " that pulverize about the " half-baked musical life plan " on The Black Album by Jay -Z. Although Kendrick Lamar I choose on his debut album "a few geilere Beats" and treated political issues, yet is Good Kid, Maad City " the true hip hop classic, which called in a few years [ ... ] in the same breath with Boom Bap -G - funk and Dirty South " will. End of December, the editors chose the album to # 1 its list of the " 25 Best Hip Hop Albums 2012".