![]() ![]() Most captivating, however, is Lamar’s Christianity. The truth will set you free so to me be completely honest. No matter how much we fail, if we repent, if we continue to acknowledge how we fail, how we fall, God will save us. ![]() For him, in God, all things are possible. Lord forgive me for all my sins for I not know. At the start of “Good Kid,” we see the rapper’s conversion-he acknowledges his human sin and accepts that salvation lies in Jesus Christ. Lamar’s lyrics are wide-ranging, touching on issues from alcoholism (“Now I done grew up/ Round some people living their life in bottles…./ Some people like the way it feels/ Some people wanna kill their sorrows”) to gang life (“I never was a gangbanger, I mean I was never stranger to the folk neither”). 22, 2012, the album chronicles a day in the life of a teenage Lamar, beginning at a house party where he meets a young woman named Sherane (“I met her at this house party on El Segundo and Central.”). Hailed as a classic upon its release on Oct. City,” the major label debut for the Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar. Five seconds later, young men proclaim, “Lord God/ I come to you a sinner/ And I humbly repent for my sins/ I believe that Jesus is Lord./ I will ask that Jesus come to my life/ And be my Lord and Savior.” And so begins “Good Kid, M.A.A.D.
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