Introduction : K.Dotting the American cultural landscape with black meaning / Anthony B. Pinn and Christopher M. Driscoll
1. Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 : Reagan-era blues / Ralph Bristout
2. Can I be both? Blackness and the negotiation of binary categories in Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 / Margarita Simon Guillory
3. Hol' up : post-civil rights black theology within Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 album / Daniel White Hodge
4. Singing experience in Section.80 : Kendrick Lamar's poetics of problems / Michael Thomas
5. The good, the m.A.A.d, and the holy : Kendrick Lamar's meditations on sin and moral agency in the post-gangsta era / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas
6. 'Real is responsibility' : revelations in white through the filter of black realness on good kid, m.A.A.d. city / Rob Peach
7. 'Black meaning' out of urban mud : good kid, m.A.A.d city as Compton griot-riff at the crossroads of climate-apocalypse? / James W. Perkinson
8. Rap as Ragnarök : Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and the value of competition / Christopher M. Driscoll
9. Can dead homies speak? the spirit and flesh of black meaning / Monica R. Miller
10. Loving [you] is complicated : black self-love and affirmation in the rap music of Kendrick Lamar / Darrius D. Hills
11. From 'blackness' to afrofuture to 'impasse' : the figura of the Jimi Hendrix/Richie Havens identity revolution as faintly evidenced by the work of Kendrick Lamar and more than a head nod to Lupe Fiasco / Jon Gill
12. Beyond flight and containment : Kendrick Lamar, black study, and an ethics of the wound / Joseph Winters
13. "Real nigga conditions" : Kendrick Lamar, grotesque realism, and the open body / Anthony B. Pinn
14. DAMNed to the earth : Kendrick Lamar, de/colonial violence, and earthbound salvation / Ben Lewellyn-Taylor and Melanie C. Jones
15. Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. as an aesthetic genealogy / Dominik Hammer
16. 'I'm an Israelite' : Kendrick Lamar's spiritual search, Hebrew Israelite religion, and the politics of a celebrity encounter / Sam Kestenbaum
17. Damnation, identity, and truth : vocabularies of suffering in Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. / André E. Key
18. Hebrew Israelite covenantal theology and Kendrick Lamar's constructive project in DAMN. / Spencer Dew
Conclusion : KENosis : the meaning of Kendrick Lamar / Monica R. Miller.