Kendrick Lamar EP

2009

With soulful, state-of-the-art production, this brief project flaunted a mix of high-vibrational affirmations and sober street chronicles summed up in a line on the worldly “Wanna Be Heard,” on which Kendrick boasts, “I'm a close cut to Common and Gucci Mane.” And “Uncle Bobby & Jason Keaton” pays tribute to an incarcerated homie with gut-wrenching grace.