“M.A.A.D CITY” by Kendrick Lamar featuring MC Eiht

"M.A.A.D City" is the eighth track on good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar's second album, from 2012, and the one where the acronym gets decoded: My Angels on Angel Dust, also read as My Angry Adolescence Divided. Lamar uses it to tell the story of growing up in Compton and what that upbringing did to him, and he brings along another Compton native, MC Eiht of the gangsta rap group Compton's Most Wanted, while his Black Hippy cohort Schoolboy Q drops his signature ad-lib into the refrain.

The beat splits in two: Sounwave co-produced the first half and Terrace Martin handled the second, with Marlon Williams on guitar and bass, Mary Keating on violin, and Dr. Dre among the executive producers. Derek Ali mixed it. It reached number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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