Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ is the first hip-hop album in history to spend a full decade on the Billboard 200 chart
Every Kendrick Lamar album release now feels like a cultural event, but in October 2012, the hip-hop megastar was prepping his major label debut (and sophomore full-length), good kid, m.A.A.d city. Coming off the high of his debut full-length Section.80, though, his ascent to meteoric success was not a sure thing. These were, of course,…