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A Numerical Breakdown of Kendrick Lamar's "good kid, m.A.A.d city"

Official stats on the Compton MC's latest release.

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Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut good kid, m.A.A.d city hit stores this week, and Complex is on top of every aspect of its release, giving the LP an entire week of coverage. In addition to Kendrick's cover story and our feature on the making of his album, like everyone else, we've been listening to the Compton MC's project a whole hell of a lot. Like we've done with a few other recent releases, we decided to run some numbers on the album.

After tallying up exactly what went down on good kid, m.A.A.d city, we're left with some interesting statistics. From the number of times dominoes are mentioned, to the exact count on Kendrick's movie references, we've put many of the album's most prominent nuances into quantifiable terms. Read on for a numerical breakdown of Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city.

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Compton Mentions: 21

"Okay, I know that's borderline Compton or Paramount. Well, is it Compton?" ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"C-O-M-P-T-O-N I win then ball at your defeat. C-O-M-P-T-O-N my city mobbin' in the street." ("Backseat Freestyle")

"Kendrick a.k.a. Compton's human sacrifice." ("M.A.A.D. City")

"It ain't nothin but a Compton thang." ("M.A.A.D. City") (2x)

"Compton, U.S.A. made me an angel on Angel Dust." ("M.A.A.D. City")

"Tell your story to these black and brown kids in Compton." ("Real")

"Compton, Compton, ain't no city quite like mine." ("Compton") (3x)

"Know that's just how Compton roll." ("Compton")

"Look who's responsible for taking Compton international." ("Compton")

"Ain't no city quite like mine, yeah, in the city of Compton." ("Compton")

"His way up out of Compton with further more to accomplish." ("Black Boy Fly")

"Compton made you believe success wasn't real." ("Black Boy Fly")

"I was terrified they'll be the last black boys to fly out of Compton." ("Black Boy Fly")

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Sherane Mentions: 9

"I hope you not out there messing with them hoodrats and shit, especially that crazy ass girl Sherane." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"Drop K. Dot off at his mama van, at the park, cause I know he tryna fuck on Sherane tonight." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Ay, you over here for Sherane homie?" ("Poetic Justice")

"I fucked Sherane then went to tell my bros." ("Money Trees")


"Sherane...Sherane....Sherane...Sherane...Sherane." ("Swimming Pools (Drank)")

Dominoes Mentions: 11

"Your daddy hollering about some damn dominoes." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"Hello? Yeah, where my motherfucking dominoes at?" ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"Where my motherfucking dominoes at?" ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"This the second time I asked you to bring my fucking dominoes." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"Keep losing my God damn dominoes, he gonna have to roll it back to God." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"This man talking about some dominoes, it ain't all that serious. Damn dominoes, I'm gonna miss my damn appointment. Fuck some damn dominoes." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"He ain't even trippin' off them dominoes no more. Just bring the car back." ("Money Trees")

"Did somebody say dominoes?" ("Money Trees")

"I ain't trippin' off that dominoes no more." ("Real")

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Number of Times "Bitch" Is Said: 65

"Bitch, don't kill my vibe." ("Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe") (25x)

"Goddamn I got bitches, damn I got bitches, damn I got bitches, wifey, girlfriend and mistress." ("Backstreet Freestyle) (3x)

"Bitch, no way!" (3x) ("Backstreet Freestyle")

"Bitch, okay!" ("Backstreet Freestyle")

"Bitch, go play!" (3x) ("Backstreet Freestyle")

"Bitch, I look like OJ." ("Backstreet Freestyle")

"Everybody sit your bitch ass down and listen to this true motherfuckin' story told by Kendrick Lamar on Rosecrans, ya bitch." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Bougie bitches with no extensions." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"We on the mission for bad bitches and trouble." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"A dollar might, just fuck your main bitch, that's just how I feel." ("Money Trees") (3x)

"Ya bish." ("Money Trees") (12x)

"Say if you a bad bitch put your hands up high." ("Poetic Justice")

"They bang it and slide out that bitch with deposits." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Pretty bitches and tire marks, let 'em inhale them pipe exhausts." ("The Recipe")

"Some, three W's only for a three day run, bitch." ("The Recipe")

Mentions of Sin: 13

"I come to you a sinner, and I humbly repent for my sins." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"17, with nothing but pussy stuck on my mental, my motive was rather sinful." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"I am a sinner, who's probably gonna sin again." ("Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe") (3x)

"Too many sins, I'm running out, how many sins? I lost count." ("Dying of Thirst")

"Lord forgive me for all my sins, for I not know." ("Dying of Thirst")

"I come to you a sinner, and I humbly repent for my sins." ("Dying of Thirst") (2x)

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Mentions of Guns and Gun-Related Violence: 40

"A quarter tank of gas, one pistol, and orange soda." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Matter fact, I hop out that motherfucker and be like, [Gunshot sounds.]" ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Another casualty of war, you bitch, two bullets in my Uncle Tony head." ("Money Trees")

"The driver seat the first one to get killed, seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out." ("M.A.A.D. City")

"And a fight he tried to put up, but the type of bullet that stuck had went against his will." ("Sing About Me")

"And if I die before your album drop—" [Three gunshots.] ("Sing About Me")

"Santa Claus don't miss them stockings, liquor spilling pistols popping." ("Money Trees")

"In the streets with a heater under my Dungarees." ("Money Trees")

"My homeboy just domed a nigga." ("Money Trees")

"Strapped inside your desire to fire bullets that stray." ("Good Kid")

"That was back when I was nine, Joey packed the nine." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"We adapt to crime, pack a van with four guns at a time, with the sliding door, fuck is up? Fuck you shooting for if you ain't walkin up?" ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Or warn the bullets comin' from AK's, AR's, aye y'all, duck." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"You movin' backwards if you suggest that you sleep wit a Tec, go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"A couple drive-bys in the hood lately." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Shots in the crowd then everybody ran, crew I'm finna slay, the street life I crave, shots hit the enemy, harsh turn brave." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Down the boulevard with the pistol grip." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, it's so real." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Deal with the outcome, a strap in the hand." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"With dreams of being a lawyer or doctor/Instead of a boy with a chopper." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you believe me?" ("m.A.A.d. City")

"You killed my cousin back in '94, fuck yo truce." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"I ride, you ride, bang/One chopper, one hundred shots, bang/Hop out. Do you bang?/Two chopper, two hundred shots, bang/I ride, you ride, bang/One chopper, one hundred shots, bang/Hop out, do you, bang/Two chopper, two hundred shots, bang" ("Swimming Pools (Drank)"

"Banana clip split his banana pudding." ("Dying of Thirst")

"Strayed bullets, AK bullets." ("Dying of Thirst")

"Now back to business, loading the guns in." ("Dying of Thirst")

"To burn for eternity, return of the student, that never learned how to live right just by how to shoot it." ("Dying of Thirst")

"Everybody gon' respect the shooter, but the one in front of the gun lives forever." ("Money Trees") (3x)

"My mind is living on cloud nine and this nine is never on vacation." ("Backseat Freestyle")

"Respect my mind or die from lead showers." ("Backseat Freestyle") (2x)

"Dave, say something! These niggas killed my brother!" ("Swimming Pools (Drank)"

"They just killed the homie brother, my nigga." ("Dying of Thirst")

"The city had fought with firearms and many died before dawn." ("Black Boy Fly")

"Like every time I walked to the corner and them guns bursting." ("Black Boy Fly")

"They all will buy me a chopper if any one of you try me." ("Black Boy Fly")

"K. Dot wrote me saying Marcus got killed. If you knew me, then you know how bad I fee.l" ("Collect Calls")

"Remember all the nights that I cried, thinking that my only son just died." ("Collect Calls")

Young Jeezy Mentions: 3

"Bumping Jeezy first album looking distracted." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"But Jeezy still playing and our attitude is still, 'Nigga, what is you saying?'" ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"What's that Jeezy song say?" ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

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Movie Mentions: 6

The Matrix: "Goddamn I feel amazing, damn I'm in the matrix." ("Backseat Freestyle")


Children of the Corn: "Kill them all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn." ("m.A.A.d. City")


Boyz N The Hood: "I'm like Tre, that's Cuba Gooding." ("Dying of Thirst")


Conan the Barbarian: "Kendrick Conan nigga, where you sword at, hand on the cross and swore that." ("Compton")


Norbit: "I do it big as Rasputia for them shooters, Kama Sutra scream fuck your position and make you hold that." ("Compton")


Friday the 13th: "Hennessy and for my niggas OG Killa, call it Jason Voorhees." ("The Recipe")

Cars Brands Mentioned: 11

Mercedes-Benz

"You report that you see me in Benzes." ("Compton")

"Push an '04 Mercedes-Benz." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

Dodge Caravan

"So now I'm down Rosecrans in a Caravan." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

Chevrolet Corvette

"I looked at 'em and almost ran my front bumper into Corvette." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

Maserati

"Start up that Maserati and VROOM VROOM! I'm racing." ("Backseat Freestyle")

Toyota

"Me and my niggas four deep in a white Toyota." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

Range Rover

"Y'all curled in that little bitty Range I heard that." ("Poetic Justice")

Buick

"A Buick had driven past bumping him when I mowed the lawn." ("Black Boy Fly")

"Back of the Buick, your hood is viewed." ("Dying of Thirst")

Maybach

"When I'm back in the back of my city, back in the 'bach." ("Compton")

Porsche

"I crash the Porsche." ("Compton")

Dodge Neon

"She in the coupe, she in the Neon cause she on the BS before we can start." ("The Recipe")

Lamborghini

"A Lambo in heaven but for now I'm on the red eye." ("Compton")

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TDE Members Featured: 1

Jay Rock on "Money Trees"

Number of Illegal Drugs Mentioned: 7

Cocaine/Crack

"We know a lot bout each other, her mother was a crack addict." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"Baking soda, yola whipping, ain't no turkey on Thanksgiving." ("Money Trees")

"Pots with cocaine residue, everyday I'm hustling." ("Money Trees")

"This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or move cocaine." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Cocaine laced in marijuana." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Cocaine, weed, niggas been mixing shit since the 80's loc." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"And a bird and 10 grand's where motherfuckers stand." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this flame." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Angel Dust." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Then talked about it when crack hit the speakers, the music business." ("Compton")

Weed

"Hennessy and for my niggas OG Killa, call it Jason Voorhees." ("The Recipe")

"Roll that kush, crack that case, ten bottles of Rosé." ("Compton")

"I pass the blunt then pass the torch of course that's my decision." ("Compton")

"Hotboxing like George Foreman grilling the masses." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Known for that homegrown where I come from, smoke one, palm trees, double D's got 'em topless in the sun." ("The Recipe")

"Women, weed and weather." ("The Recipe")

"Smoking on the finest dope." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"I got the blunt in my mouth, usually I’m drug-free, but shit I’m with the homies." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Yea we finally got that nigga faded. I think he hit the wrong blunt though." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"Cocaine laced in marijuana." ("M.A.A.D. City")

"Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth." ("M.A.A.D. City")

"Cocaine, weed, niggas been mixing shit since the 80's loc." ("M.A.A.D. City")

"Roll it up in a blunt, I'mma take you on the next high." ("Compton")

Xanax/Mushrooms

"20 Xanies and these shrooms." ("Good Kid") (2x)

MDMA

"Yea nigga, we off a pill and Remy Red." ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

PCP

"Sherm sticks, butt nakeds make a nigga flip." ("M.A.A.D. City")

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Dr. Dre-Produced Tracks: 0

Dre is featured on "Compton" and "The Recipe," but the legendary producer has no instrumentals of his own on the album.

Number of Times "Good Kid" Is Said: 3

"The good kid, m.A.A.d. city." ("Good Kid") (3x)

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Number of Times "m.A.A.d. City" Is Said: 6

"This m.A.A.d city I run, my nigga." ("m.A.A.d. City") (2x)

"Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess m.A.A.d city." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"The good kid, m.A.A.d. city." ("Good Kid") (3x)

Los Angeles Streets Mentioned: 6

El Segundo and Central

"I met her at this house party on El Segundo and Central, she had the credentials of strippers in Atlanta." (""Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter"")


Rosecrans

"Everybody sit your bitch ass down and listen to this true mothafuckin' story told by Kendrick Lamar on Rosecrans, ya bitch" ("The Art of Peer Pressure")

"So now I'm down Rosecrans in a Caravan." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")

"It was Me, O-Boog, and Yaya, YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans." ("m.A.A.d. City")

"Won't you spend a weekend on Rosecrans nigga, khaki creasing, crime increasing on Rosecrans nigga." ("Compton")


Alameda

"Passing Alameda, my gas meter in need of a pump." ("Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter")


Alandra and Bullice

"Alandra, Rosecrans, Bullice, I'm still in the hood." ("m.A.A.d. City")

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Halle Berry Mentions: 3

"It go Halle Berry, or hallelujah." ("Money Trees") (3x)

West Coast Rappers Mentioned: 7

Hit-Boy

"Killing everything from pussy to a mothafuckin' Hit-Boy beat." ("Backseat Freestyle")


E-40

"Dreams of living life like rappers do, bump that new E-40 at the school, you know 'big ballin with my homies,' Earl Stevens had us thinking rational." ("Money Trees")


2Pac

"Would be a mogul before I visit 2Pac and Left Eye." ("Compton")


Eazy E

"Eazy and Aaliyah when I see you we gon' test drive." ("Compton")


N.W.A.

"Now we can all celebrate, we can all harvest the rap artists of N.W.A." ("Compton")


Dr. Dre

"This was brought to you by Dre." ("Compton")

"It's a beautiful day I guess for a bitch to roll with Andre I guess" ("The Recipe")

Game

"I used to jealous of Jayceon, I used to jealous of Jayceon Taylor when I was young." ("Black Boy Fly")

"It's 2004 and I'm hearing people roar for the name of The Game in front of the store." ("Black Boy Fly")

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