Section.80

2011

On Section.80 — his official debut album and first release for Top Dawg Entertainment — Kendrick Lamar seemed to cram his entire worldview into 16 songs that masterfully covered everything from his generation’s predilection for distraction and hyperactivity to the quiet moments of joy in the workaday grind to his open admiration for the natural beauty of Black women. “Fuck Your Ethnicity” is rife with pointed observations (”My details be retail, man, I got so much in store”) that proved he was destined to be one of rap’s true all-time greats.