Mr Morale & The Big Steppe

With his last album on Top Dawg Entertainment, Kendrick Lamar has done it again: Committed to an ambitious piece of art that - to an even more radical degree than the previous three albums - manages to put into perspective the traumas Kendrick himself - and African American culture as a whole - have experienced for decades. No one can create a coherent portrait of the America of which he is a part wquite like Kendrick Lamar. But Kendrick is not the savior of black Americans. Neither can nor w…