Training Day

2005

On Training Day, Lamar, at only age 18, sounds as if he’s already put in his 10,000 hours. On “One Shot Kill,” he effortlessly floats over instrumentals — with a lithe, hair-trigger flow — whose swift BPMs are not even remotely in the wheelhouse of his contemporaries. On “Good Morning America,” Kendrick namechecks Snoop and Tupac, while bragging that he’s the West Coast’s new savior.