In a past interview
with Hot 97 personalities Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg, Compton, California
rapper Kendrick Lamar revealed that his “i” record was made for those locked up
and those who feel they have nothing to live for. K-Dot again addressed the
record while speaking with 93.7 The Beat’s Devi Dev and shared that he too has
dealt with depression and insecurity. The TDE lyricist explained that newfound
fame and fortune can bring about a lot of depression and turmoil. “The
record feels great and feels good, but it comes from a place of depression,”
Kendrick said. “It comes from a place of
insecurity. Not only from them, but from myself. It’s a lot of things that I
deal with personally that you deal with. That all of us in this room deal with.
So, it touched on so many different things. As far as equality within us as
human beings and accepting one another…It comes a lot of turmoil when you talk
about money. When you talk about fame and fortune and success. A lot of things
you gotta handle and balance and that brings a whole lot of depression. I’ve
spoken with artists that’s done it before me. They said they went through the
same phases too.” Kendrick later touched on his good kid, m.A.A.d city cover art.
He explained that the cover art consists of “so many dynamics” and is something
that will stick with him forever. “What’s even more tripped out,
somebody that’s responsible for me being who I am today was the actual poster
that was in the back,” he said. “That’s
me and my father. If you look right in the back it’s me and him. He
light-skinned, super pale, light…So, it’s so many dynamics in that cover, man.
It’s something that’ll stick with me forever. Just the fact that I got my
parents on there. It’s something that I can carry with me forever. When I have
grandkids and they never met they grandparents. They great-grandparents or
whatnot. They can go back and trace that album and say ‘Okay, I know what they
was like in real life.’” With his upcoming appearance on “Saturday
Night Live” scheduled for November 15, Kendrick revealed that he hopes to also
appear in a skit on the show. The rapper even offered his own idea for a skit,
which would touch on matters of gentrification. “I wanna do skits out
of the norm,” Kendrick said. “Something
that contrasts. I always talked about—but recently we started talking about how
it never was any white people in the city, in my schooling. From the Compton
school district. I would like to do something where I can contrast that and
bring it all the way back and put me in the class where it’s different types of
ethnicities other than the minority. I wonder how would I function in that type
of environment. I think that’d be fun."
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