Black Boy Fly - Bonus Track

About Black Boy Fly - Bonus Track

The second bonus track off of Kendrick Lamar’s major-label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city. It focuses on Kendrick seeing people from his neighborhood rise up and achieve greatness. Interestingly, the subject of this song seems to form the basis of the thesis for his next album, the masterpiece To Pimp A Butterfly, the idea of looking back on Compton having left. Lamar told Complex in October 2012: "That song is talking about everybody that I seen winning in the city when I was growing up. .

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About this song

Credited to

Kendrick Lamar

Album

good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe) · Track 2 of 17

Released

October 22, 2012

Duration

4:39

On Last.fm

285,115 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe)