My mom was taking me to get a haircut. Was listening to it on a portable cd player. When I heard his parents on the voicemail I knew I was in for a ride

First time I played it was june 2014 but pretty much normal, it was late night with headphones on just eager to hear it since it was already almost 2 years of praise

On a road trip in high school I bought the album on iTunes and listened while driving and was just transported to the world he built with that album

Listened to it for the first time in May 2024. Wow this kendrick lamar fella sure knows how to make music!

Mad excited leading up to release. Had pirated it that morning and was sitting in my grandma’s crib waiting to go to the bus stop tearing up from excitement bc I was finally about to listen to it

Then when I got on the bus BDKMV came on and I just ran that back over and over til I got to school.

On way home after school I finally got to Money Trees and man.. I can still vividly remember what the f***ing day looked like and s***. That beat blew my mind as a kid then Jay rock started rapping and

Was otw to the crib early asf in the morning after being up all night forgot why and I was playing it in the whip and I heard Sherane and I’m like “nah I gotta listen to this after I wake up” and I woke up later that day played it start to finish and by the time I got to Now or Never I was moved emotionally man

One of the most beautiful 1st time listens of my life, probably THEE peak first time listen of my life.

Only things that compare are hearing The Blueprint as a kid from my moms boyfriend on bootleg two weeks before it dropped, MBDTF… that’s about it

I just discovered he existed 2 weeks before the release when I randomly stumbled across Rigamortis. I checked out S80 and knew I was going to like GKMC. Right after listening to Sherane AKA, I knew the rest of the album was going to be amazing.

First listen when I got to Art of Peer Pressure

“This s*** is a classic”

it leaked on a Wednesday im pretty sure, I took a nap and when I woke up everyone on here was posting about it. mediafire classic

reddit

on a bus drive i think

what a beautiful memory

i remember the boy sayin it was fire bought me a cd and threw it in the whip s*** got me insane street cred aura the hood was luvin on me heavy

Played it on the school bus ride home and forgot to do homework because it was on repeat.

Generational drop.

prob hearing backseat freestyle and maad city when i was 13

playing it on a road trip with the fam to florida, that first listen of sing about me was one of the best music experiences ive had

Pretty sure there was streaming already when it dropped?? CD player? lol

I remember my first GKMC and TPAB listens. Both at the road going to my city. Such a mood

was fw damn heavy cuz my rbother bought it from store as first album i was hyped for, i decided to look into his music more and went on piratebay to torrent GKMC, then I burned it on a disc so me and my brother could play it in the car but he was busy a lot so i said f*** it and just edited the metadata played it on windows media player in the background while running DOOM 2 i think

s*** blew my f***ing mind next week played tpab

Downloaded a bootleg version and listened on my way to Florida

Get your glasses, thread title reads GKMC, not CLB lmao

Last album I bought on CD as like my main way to listen to it

Bought it on release day, I was in 6th grade. Dont remember my first listen, I knew I thought it was a classic even then but i wasnt a kendrick stan yet

Brah I was waiting for da bus and I thought my s*** was f***ing up then I heard sherane and just lost my mind