“When I got to completion, and I said, ‘I may or may not put this out; I’m not going to put this out; it’s way too much,’ I thought about my children,” Kendrick Lamar said about his latest album.
to collect dust. In a new interview with W Magazine, the rapper admitted that the record — which navigates throughout his psyche with poignant reflections as he attempts to relinquish control he obtained as a traumatic coping mechanism — was particularly difficult to release given how personal the record was.
The rapper hoped his children could look back on the record and follow in his footsteps toward generational healing, but he also saw the effects of his honesty trickle into the relationships of people within his inner circle.
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