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Section.80 is Kendrick Lamar's first full length project, that was released in July 2, 2011. However, the album was marketed as such, a studio album, but Kendrick Lamar considers it to be a Mixtape, still it is considered to be Kendrick's debuting Album.
Prior to this album, Lamar released multiple mixtapes under the name K-Dot, one of which was Overly Dedicated released one year before Section.80. Production of this Album was handled by Top Dawg Entertainment. The title of the album refers to the Section 8 Housing and the decade of the 80s as a whole, the decade that Kendrick Lamar was born in. The issues that the album tackles ranges from talking about the strifes of the Black Community over the blunders of the Reagan Administration. Moreover, it talks about the crack epidemic during the Reagan Administration, the struggles of women, racial issues, and the drug insensitivity of the Reagan Administration era. Kendirck shows in this album his flexibility in talking about different topics, while still keeping nimble lyricism in his songs.
The way most of this album's lyrics were written, was while Kendrick was in his tour bus or his mother's kitchen. In addition, when it comes to recording, he sometimes would songs unfinished for an extended amount of time, in order to keep it as real as possible.