Aug 2012 18

#TDEFamAppreciationWeek has in the last few days bestowed new music from Ab-Soul, Jay Rock & ScHoolboy Q but it looks like the Black Hippy god’s reserved their breakthrough hope for last. Rising saviour and leader of the new school, Kendrick Lamar liberates this latest record produced by Canei Finch and featuring the ole’ head of snowman Young Jeezy. Not as intense as last month’s rapturously greeted ‘Swimming Pools’, ‘Westside’ opts to lean back on it’s 24s, as hydraulic soul samples spin and hustlers are caught sitting out in the sun with 40oz observing the mythology of West Coast living. Lamar himself, still very much the Compton savant.

good kid, m.A.A.d city drops October 2nd, though it’s not been confirmed yet weather this track is making the final.