Apr 18, 2025

My name is Alexis and when I was twelve years old I heard my brother and sister listening to good kid, m.A.A.d city while they were high and I stopped my white friend from shooting up our middle school because I didn't want to get high with them. My mother was a prostitute and my father was an alcoholic, because of this I was extremely neglected and I taught my dad guilt while I learned about addictions whilst I went to school. I was constantly bullied for being poor so the only way I could talk to other students was by saying the lyrics out loud so that I could understand them. I used the hard-r and justified it by telling everyone I am from Compton, because I am from Compton. I do not use the word anymore as I learned it is a bad word while doing that.

I learned social skills backwards by reading the album backwards and that was how I found out I was from Compton and that I was real. My two older siblings skipped half of the songs so I read all of the lyrics and sang the same ones they would play when I was at school. I talked to my white friend about the lyrics and how stupid my siblings were for misunderstanding everything and that was how I heard him speak to me about the social skills his father was trying to teach him. I taught myself social skills by getting him to make fun of them and then I heard about how he wanted to s---t up the school with the gun his dad had at home and I stopped it by making him feel better because the entire school kept calling him a school shooter as an insult and I told him to ignore them because I didn't want him to k--- me.

The teacher noticed this and she called my dad and asked if she could see me outside of school and my dad took me to a Mexican grocery store and that was when I saw her and used my social skills for the first time, thus proving I had learned social skills.

I didn't realize this was impressive until I moved out from my abusive household and I listened to the entire album for the first time, and I realized then I understood exactly what excuses Kendrick used and how the lyrics reflected the guilt he felt from his PTSD. I understood his writing to the point where I decided to write a book specifically for him to read as I believe we have the same thought process while writing. I want him to read the book and post his review.