Kendrick Lamar's Great American Slideshow Floors NYC's Panorama Fest: Review

Musicians love using towering video screens to self-mythologize, to MESSAGE us, dazzle and charm us with CGI and cinematography and memes, unspin short films while they towel off the sweat. Kanye, Drake and Beyoncé, for example. Most of it works well. But while Drizzy's on the road with Future, doing 50-song sampler setlists ever so theatrically under a sea of soft glowing orbs, the other biggest rapper in humanity's midst, Kendrick Lamar, is doing something devilishly simpler, and hammeringly effective.