Kendrick Lamar Started a Battle, Won a War, and Lost His Way

Grown men with daddy issues

Jeffrey Harvey
The Riff
Published in
7 min readMay 8, 2024

--

Image from pgLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope Records

Kendrick Lamar is one of the most insightful, self-aware, and nakedly honest writers in this generation of music. Kendrick is so viscerally cognizant of his most debilitating traumas and toxic insecurities that, two years ago, he unwittingly unpacked the genesis of the savage vitriol at the root of his current…

--

--