Blogger #3

1.Context
 Kendrick Lamar
-June 17,1987
-age 28
-Compton, California
Album: To Pimp a Butterfly
-came out in 2015
-featuring artists: Bilal, Snoop Dog, Pharrell Williams, etc.

2.Purpose
-speaking to the continued discussion of race and racism in America -- the matter of Black lives mattering
-Lamar is no longer primarily concerned with his own narrative, as he was on good kid, m.A.A.d city. Because of that, he's also less readily digestible, mixing hood braggadocio, Black dysfunction, personal demons, spiritual yearning, mediations on fame with James Brown's stomp, Sly Stone's riot, etc.

3.Audience
-teens, those who listen to the genre/ similar taste, mature audience
4.Genre
-hip hop, jazz rap
- the history of hip-hop spreads out in every direction. It dates back to the 1920s when the earliest form of hip-hop dance was invented. It includes the Jamaican dancehall toasting era of the 50s and 60s. It spreads to the Last Poets and Muhammad Ali and Gil Scott-Heron, who presented poems over beats. It works all the way forward to modern day poets like Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and The Notorious B.I.G.