Revising the Black decolonialization process: Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and the poetics of violence by Delia Grosu

“…The choice that the subjugated individual must make between remaining a victim or using the colonial violence against those who originally initiated it represents one of Fanon’s main arguments in The Wretched of the Earth. Drawing on Kendrick Lamar’s music album DAMN. (2017), this article aims to show how the rapper rewrites the decolonization process in a poetic way, using metaphors, hyperboles and allegories. …”
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REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE 2010s HIP-HOP by Nóra MÁTHÉ

Subjects: “…hip-hop, rapper, Black masculinity, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar.…”
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Sound + Bodies in Community = Music by Barry L. Shank

“…This essay traces the tradition of African American music from congregational gospel singing through early rhythm and blues up to the twenty-first-century rap of Kendrick Lamar, showing how particular musical techniques engage the bodies in the room, allowing communities of difference to find their rhythms together. …”
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CONCEPTS OF RELIGION IN MODERN AMERICAN RAP LYRICS by І. Рязанов, В. Якуба

“…The article studies verbalization mean of religious concepts in Kendrick Lamar’s songs of his 2017 album DAMN. After introducing the inventory of lexemes representing themes of religion, the authors argue for correlations with basic concepts and explain the structure of the thematic field, representing religion in all fourteen songs of the album. …”
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Black Noise from the Break: Ma and Pa’s Black Radical Lyricism by Julia Reade

“…Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 track “We Cry Together” is, if nothing else, a masterful piece of wordplay and rhythm. …”
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