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"Rigamortis", álbum Section. 80 (2011). Kendrick Lamar.

"The dance between emotions and autobiography is what makes Kendrick Lamar the most exciting, original and captivating voice that mainstream hip-hop has heard in years. His debut independent album, last summer's Section. 80, was effortlessly high-concept, incredibly thrilling and invariably insightful - a true work of art. (...) Kendrick is an MC that remembers what trully matters; not just a message and a narrative, not just poetry, but a method of delivery, a mastery of craft and point-of-view, steadfast individuality and the creation of new conversations.

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Kendrick is that rare breed: a thinking man's rapper and a rapper's rapper both, able to captivate with worldview and meaning while excelling as a technical tradionalist and progressive experimentalist. His bars are dense with internal rhymes and ideas folding in on themselves. He paints pictures that are at once abstract, impressionist and precisionist. He doesn't rhyme like anyone else, displaying evolving thought pathways and rhymes patterns with each song".

Kris Ex, "Family Affair", in XXL, Vol. 16, No. 6, September 2012, p. 57.