Two things: There is a song on Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid Maad City (“Maad city” I believe) that captures a certain recognizable anxiety in such a way that I’ve really never heard in song.
I can remember the first time I heard Kendrick Lamar, I was driving down route 22 from New York to Massachusetts, and “Swimming Pools” came on the radio and I thought it was a party song and thought it was the most depressing song that I’d heard. It sounded wrong. It took months to listen to all of Good Kid, Maad City and it took even longer to have it click.