Kendrick Lamar played the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany just months after good kid, m.A.A.d city had established him as the most important voice in hip-hop since Jay-Z. The Compton rapper’s live show was already matching the ambition of his studio work — dense, cinematic, performed with the urgency of someone who had something to prove. Albany concert photographer Jim Gilbert documented this show; original photos from that night are part of the Upstate Concerts archive.
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