The Poetics of Disclosure: An Analysis of Kendrick Lamar's Rap Music

Hollinger, Andrew

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dc.contributor	Carnes, Natalie
dc.contributor	Great Texts of the Western Tradition.
dc.creator	Hollinger, Andrew
dc.date	2021-05-17T13:11:25Z
dc.date	2021-05-17T13:11:25Z
dc.date	2021
dc.date	2021-05-17
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-18T12:29:07Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-18T12:29:07Z
dc.identifier	https://hdl.handle.net/2104/11221
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/31728
dc.description	In this thesis I analyze in depth Kendrick Lamar’s albums good kid, m.A.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly, and DAMN. Through a close reading of these albums, I examine the ways in which Lamar uses his music as a platform for prophetic music making. Lamar’s prophetic music making comes to bear three general points, corresponding to each album: first, that vices are inadequate to deal with death-anxieties and it is only Jesus Christ that gives meaning to death and life. Second, that capitalism is a tool of American Anti- Blackness and this relationship is undergirded by satanic forces. Third, that God is both a God of salvation and of damnation, so it is important to relate to God with due humility. Through these three points, I argue that Lamar’s prophetic music making can teach us something about the nature of the prophetic, that the prophet is a Divine-World discloser.
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dc.language	en_US
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dc.title	The Poetics of Disclosure: An Analysis of Kendrick Lamar's Rap Music
dc.type	Thesis