Album · Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city is an album by Kendrick Lamar, released in 2012. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Swimming Pools (Drank)”, on 2 lists with a best position of #60.
good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar's second album and his major-label debut, came out on October 22, 2012, through Top Dawg, Dr. Dre's Aftermath and Interscope, a year after the independent Section.80. The cover bills it as a short film, and it plays like one: a concept album tracing his teenage years in Compton, hemmed in by drugs and gang life, told with a novelist's eye for detail.
The beats come from a crew that includes Just Blaze, T-Minus, Scoop DeVille and Jack Splash, and Drake, Dr. Dre, Jay Rock, Anna Wise and MC Eiht all pass through, but it's Lamar's show from start to finish. "Swimming Pools (Drank)" was one of the five singles that carried it. It opened at number two on the Billboard 200 with 242,000 copies sold, went triple platinum, and drew seven Grammy nominations, Album of the Year among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from good kid, m.A.A.d city on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swimming Pools (Drank) | 2 | #60 | – | 2012–2020 | |
| 2 | Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst | 1 | #366 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | Money Trees | 1 | #533 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | M.A.A.D CITY | 2 | #92 | – | 2020–2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.