Eventually, all roads lead back home. For Kendrick Lamar, that was taking his custom GNX ride all the way back to where it began in Chicago.

“This is my second hometown, make some noise,” the chart-busting rapper demanded midway through a masterful performance at Soldier Field on Friday. While Lamar oozes California pride and many tracks detail an American saga of growing up in Compton, his parents actually hail from the South Side of Chicago. And it was their complicated journey to find a better life for their family that initially planted the seeds that would soon flourish in Lamar’s insightful urban poetry that has led to 22 Grammys, reported estimates of $71 million in equivalent album sales and a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his album “DAMN.”

That full-circle journey is a large theme

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