React

This is a song off of Upcoming hip-hop legend Kendrick Lamars album "Good Kidd M.a.a.d City", which tells a story about how he grew up in a city around gang violence and drugs and how it changed the way he is as a person. Many times drugs and violence are rapped about and promoted in todays hip-hop music, but Kendrick explains why he doesn't smoke because of what happened to him while living in Compton. He says "Imagine your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth"so he's asking his listeners if they would continue to smoke and do drugs if the first time they tried it, it was laced with another drug that gave him a seizure. Also Kendrick is portraying that the city where he comes from "Compton, Usa" Is a mad city where one must get away from all of the craziness to survive.The chorus of the song is makes the listener understand where this artist is coming from and what he encounters daily. The words "Where you from, nigga" dont mean what city, but what gang instead and then he says "This m.A.A.d city like run, my nigga" which is telling you that to survive you gotta run for your life in his "Maad City"