I reviewed Section.80 for Pitchfork, and the album mostly struck me as a document of a young artist with unlimited potential. Kendrick’s level of pure, raw talent was off the charts. He was fast and jittery and technically impeccable, and his syllables hammered down like raindrops on a car’s rooftop. Even at his sleepiest, Kendrick charged every line with emotion and ferocity, and on those rare occasions when he indulged in better-than-you stunting, he was almost frighteningly potent. But Kendrick wasn’t really interested in talking shit. On Section.80, Kendrick Lamar had a point to make: “You know why we crack babies?/ Because we born in the ’80s/ That ADHD crazy.” On the song “ADHD,” those words don’t belong to Kendrick. Instead, he tells a story, and he puts those lines in the mouth of a young woman who he meets at a house party. Maybe some version of that actually happened to Kendrick, and maybe the concept wasn’t his. But that idea manifests itself again and again on Section.80.
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