"Good kid, m.A.A.d city" - A Kendrick Lamar Cultural Analysis

Compton is a neighborhood in Southern California often glorified by rappers and middle schoolers who have never even seen an impoverished community. Many of reading this I bet have never been within 500 miles of the place, but when you hear "Compton" your mind immediately takes you to a ghetto where rappers and gangbangers run free.
Kendrick Lamar is here to set the record straight about Compton and the people who live there.
Being from Compton, Kendrick's childhood and adolescence were a running theme through the album.
In an interview, it was stated that the album artwork was showing how he saw things through innocent eyes for so long, but eventually that went away as he came to understand the realities of Compton and similar areas.
Throughout his lyrics, Kendrick Lamar challenges the glorification of Comtpon. The two song I see this very clearly in are the namesake(s) of the album: Good kid and m.A.A.d city. They work together very well- I'll analyze Good kid, but I encourage you to take a look at both if you haven't already. Good kid analyzes what growing up in Compton was like for him. The hook reads:

"mass hallucination baby // ill education baby // want to connect with your elation? this is your station baby"

The hook takes the meaning of: Mass Hallucination lays out what the song is about: preconceptions that he had when he was in Compton-- about gangs, police, violence, and drugs, to name a few. Ill education refers to his running theme about how people in poverty (namely African Americans in Compton) don't receive the education that they need to succeed in this world and get out of the ghetto.
The first verse is about how he wants to get away -- run away (to fire bullets that stray // track attire just tell you) from Compton and gang violence. "I don't mind because one day you'll respect the good kid mad city" is him saying that he doesn't mind the harassment and gangs anymore because he knows that he'll come out better than them.
Here's the important thing-- Kendrick Lamar making this album itself is deconstructing what people know as race and ghettos-- it provides a story of what it's like growing up there and can help prove a point to those who glorify Compton and the African-Americans living there.