as an aesthetic genealogy16 'I'm an Israelite': Kendrick Lamar's spiritual search, Hebrew Israelite religion, and the politics of a celebrity encounterġ7 Damnation, identity, and truth: vocabularies of suffering in Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.ġ8 Hebrew Israelite covenantal theology and Kendrick Lamar's constructive project in DAMN.Ĭonclusion: KENosis: the meaning of Kendrick Lamar Citation preview cityħ 'Black meaning' out of urban mud: good kid, m.A.A.d city as Compton griot-riff at the crossroads of climate-apocalypse?Ĩ Rap as Ragnarök: Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and the value of competitionĩ Can dead homies speak? the spirit and flesh of black meaning 10 Loving is complicated: black self-love and affirmation in the rap music of Kendrick Lamar11 From 'blackness' to afrofuture to 'impasse': the figura of the Jimi Hendrix/Richie Havens identity revolution as faintly evidenced by the work of Kendrick Lamar and more than a head nod to Lupe Fiascoġ2 Beyond flight and containment: Kendrick Lamar, black study, and an ethics of the woundġ3 'Real nigga conditions': Kendrick Lamar, grotesque realism, and the open bodyġ4 DAMNed to the earth: Kendrick Lamar, de/colonial violence, and earthbound salvation 15 Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.

city (2012) 5 The good, the m.A.A.d, and the holy: Kendrick Lamar's meditations on sin and moral agency in the post-gangsta era6 'Real is responsibility': revelations in white through the filter of black realness on good kid, m.A.A.d. 80ģ Hol' up: post-civil rights black theology within Kendrick Lamar's Section. 80: Reagan-era bluesĢ Can I be both? blackness and the negotiation of binary categories in Kendrick Lamar's Section. Dotting the American cultural landscape with black meaningġ Kendrick Lamar's Section.

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