About the Album: Kendrick Lamar aka K. Dot’s upcoming studio debut ‘good kid, M.A.A.D city’ drops October 2nd, and the album features Dr.Dre, Mary J. Blige, Lady Gaga, and others. On the cover art: “I just wanted to take that next level of vulnerability and let people know that’s real, my lifestyle is real and what I’m talking about is real as far as the concept for what I’m trying to do for my city. So I felt like I don’t want to go over the top with a big super budget photo shoot, I want do something that’s true to me. I always had it premeditated what picture I wanted to use, I just wanted something that would represented everything I was talking about,” said Lamar.

Track Spotlight: “The Recipe” features the inimitable Dr. Dre. Carrie Battan of Pitchfork Media summarized the song as an “anthemic Californian pride cut” and it is.