But the album spills with data that can be contemplated. I don't profess to have figured out everything "DAMN." is about. His breakthrough 2012 album, "good kid, m.A.A.d city," was subtitled "a short film by Kendrick Lamar." Lamar, time and again, has treated the album not just as a reusable commodity - one in which information reveals itself over repeated listens - but also as a means of experimental storytelling. ![]() Fourteen songs later, Lamar ends the song "DUCKWORTH." and the album with a gunshot, the sound of a tape rewinding and Lamar saying, "So I was taking a walk the other day …. "You've lost … your life," she tells him, and then there's the sound of a gunshot. "So I was taking a walk the other day," Lamar says, the first line of the record's first song, "BLOOD." He comes across a blind woman he tries to assist.
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