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The second bonus track off of Kendrick Lamar’s major-label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city. It focuses on Kendrick seeing people from his neighborhood rise up and achieve greatness.
Interestingly, the subject of this song seems to form the basis of the thesis for his next album, the masterpiece To Pimp A Butterfly, the idea of looking back on Compton having left.
Lamar told Complex in October 2012:
"That song is talking about everybody that I seen winning in the city when I was growing up. I speak on two particular guys. The first guy is Arron Afflalo, he played for my high school, Centennial High, and he’s in the NBA now. Just knowing that he was going to the league at the time it was like, ‘Damn, he’s the one making it out.’ I was tight about the situation, like, ‘Damn, why is he making it out of this shit? Why are we doing all this stuff and not making it out?’ It’s jealousy. I spoke on a mentor of mine named Jayceon Taylor a.k.a. Game. Before I met him, I still in school and recognizing that he’s from Compton and he’s making it out. So it’s like, ‘Damn, those two cats are doing it, what are we doing? We’re still stuck. Doing nothing.’"
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