maybe for the first time in a long time.

It's not an easy listen. It may not be welcoming or comforting. It's alienating in ways that most hip-hop albums are not. A quick scan of it will leave most kids or fans of Kendrick or mainstream hip-hop confused.

It forces us as listeners to pay full attention, to reject everything else going on around us and just listen.

There's a lot going on here. Some of it works, some of it doesn't. It's not perfect, but it's really fucking interesting.