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Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 5 (Original)
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On “Prayer,” Kendrick Lamar reflects over “the voices of art” and personifies a song by Michael Jackson and a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., respectively. In each of the first
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The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – Pray For Me
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“Pray For Me” preaches loyalty, sacrifice and redemption—with both artists taking on the voice of a despondent hero. Kendrick knows a thing or two about a hero/Messiah-complex from
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Kendrick Lamar – Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
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Kendrick Lamar’s two-part “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” depicts life in an urban ghetto. From beginning to end, Lamar breaks down the stories that pulled him away from gang
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Kendrick Lamar – Rich Spirit
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“Rich Spirit” depicts an irreverent Kendrick talking about his own qualities while trying to stand firm against the criticism against him.
Kendrick utilizes ethereal melodies and
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Kendrick Lamar – Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter
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The story opens as a flash-forward. K.Dot has known Sherane for a number of months by this point. He met her at a party where they flirted and exchanged numbers. They kept in
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Kendrick Lamar, Blxst & Amanda Reifer – Die Hard
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In a very Nipsey track, Kendrick opens up about his insecurities and struggles involving honesty and sharing in a relationship. He is having doubts as to whether he will still be
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Kendrick Lamar – Alright
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“Alright” provides a moment of hope amid To Pimp a Butterfly’s battle to find higher purpose. After “u” – where Kendrick lays out his burdens – “Alright” responds by detailing how
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Kendrick Lamar – Worldwide Steppers
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“Worldwide Steppers” is the third track on Kendrick Lamar’s fifth and final studio album with Top Dawg Entertainment, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
The track features a brief
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Kendrick Lamar – FEAR.
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On “FEAR.,” Kendrick explores three instances of true terror at ages 7, 17, and 27, respectively. In the first verse, he explores the fear he experienced growing up in the hood
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. BJ the Chicago Kid & Punch) – Faith
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Produced by King Blue of the group Sore Losers, “Faith” is found on the Kendrick Lamar EP, the first project he released by after the name change.
It details stories of faith and
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Kendrick Lamar – untitled 02
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This track is about Kendrick’s confliction between his life at home in Compton and his life as a global superstar.
In 2014, he was prophesying the success of To Pimp a Butterfly
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Kendrick Lamar – ELEMENT.
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On “ELEMENT.,” Kendrick asserts himself as the most dominant rapper in the game, taking his contemporaries to task and daring them to call him out on wax.
Kendrick delves into his
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Kendrick Lamar – Untitled 2 (Blue Faces)
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Originally performed on the January 7, 2016 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a studio version of this track was released as “untitled 08 | 09.06.2014.”, the
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Kendrick Lamar – United in Grief
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Throughout his first release in exactly 1,855 days, Kendrick muses on his many achievements covering a 19-year career, as well as the pitfalls of fame. He goes into great detail
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Kendrick Lamar – The Blacker the Berry
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Released via Empire star Taraji P. Henson’s twitter, this comes the day after Kendrick won Best Rap Song & Performance for “i” at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The song shares the name
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Isaiah Rashad – Bloom / Prayers Up
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[Part I: Bloom] / [Verse: Isaiah Rashad] / Yeah, yeah / Treated like king in this bitch / Put a few brands on them hoes / Put a lil smoke with that fire / Put a few hands on that
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Beyoncé (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Freedom
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“Freedom” is an anthem dedicated to black women. The song brings Beyoncé’s visual album to an apex with the scene ‘hope’ and features the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown
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Mike WiLL Made-It, Pharrell Williams & Kendrick Lamar – The Mantra
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Mike WiLL Made-It first teased “The Mantra” via Instragram on November 7, 2018. The track reunites Pharrell Williams and Kendrick Lamar, whose previous collaborations include 2017’
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Kendrick Lamar – The Art of Peer Pressure
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The song where the album’s narrative truly begins to set itself in motion, Kendrick takes you through a vivid story of how he learned ‘Peer Pressure’ the hard way.
This samples
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Beth Gibbons) – Mother I Sober
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“Mother I Sober” is the eighth track on disc two of Kendrick Lamar’s fifth and final studio album with Top Dawg Entertainment, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, and the seventeenth
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YG Hootie (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Two Presidents
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YG Hootie and Kendrick Lamar grew up together in Compton, and connected for “Two Presidents” where they depict themselves in relation to two great leaders, Martin Luther King and
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Kendrick Lamar – untitled 06
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A song about embracing one’s unique traits.
Written in the form of a plea to a lover, they purport talking about the character traits that come across as odd rather than see them
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Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 5
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“The Heart Part 5” is the fifth installment in Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart” series. It serves as a promotional single for Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, Lamar’s fifth studio
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Kendrick Lamar – HiiiPoWeR
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The first song released from Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80, “HiiiPower” talks of self enlightenment through reflection and active work. It constantly touches on racial subjects
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. U2) – XXX.
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Kendrick teams up with rock legends U2 on “XXX.,” which delves deeper into the political and religious themes heard throughout DAMN. In an August 2017 interview with Rolling Stone
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Kendrick Lamar – Savior (Interlude)
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On “Savior (Interlude),” Baby Keem delivers a long, well-rhymed verse starting about his problems growing up and his family and then delves into recent experiences, overcomings
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ScHoolboy Q (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Blessed
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ScHoolboy Q gets pretty emotional on a track dedicated to a friend of his who lost a son. This causes him to take a minute and realize how much good he has going for him, and urges
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Kendrick Lamar – LUST.
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“LUST.” can be seen as Kendrick Lamar’s perspective on the repetetive nature of life. Centered around themes of sexual intimacy, Kendrick explores the monotonous routine of daily
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Kendrick Lamar – untitled 05
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Kendrick debuted parts of his first verse during his 2016 Grammys performance. The track explores power disparities and social inequality. Minorities are institutionalized and, in
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Kendrick Lamar – I Hate You
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A creative track by Kendrick where he writes a letter to Death and how he hates it. He communicates many feelings that most have when death occurs, especially at random
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Song Lyrics & Knowledge - Genius
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by Kendrick Lamar · Ain't nobody prayin' for me (Ain't nobody prayin' for me) ... The image of prayer appears throughout DAMN. For example, Kendrick spits a ...
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. MC Eiht) – m.A.A.d city
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“m.A.A.d” is an acronym for both “my Angels on Angel dust” and “my Angry Adolescence divided.”
“m.A.A.d” is also a reference to the 90s Compton based hip-hop group “WC and the
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Kendrick Lamar – DNA. (Remix) [Mixed]
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Dec 31, 2023 ... Q&A · 1. Erotica / Michael's Prayer (Mixed) (Unreleased) · 4. ID2 (from Apple Music Live: NYE 2024, Honey Dijon) [Mixed] (Unreleased) · 6. The Bomb ...
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Kendrick Lamar – Somebody
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[Intro] / I woke this mornin' undecided / My demons takin' over my life, yeah / Sooner or later it's a family divided / These patterns gettin' hard to hide, yeah / [Chorus] / They
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Kendrick Lamar – DNA.
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On “DNA.,” Kendrick Lamar adopts multiple viewpoints; celebrating, critiquing, and exploring his black heritage and culture. In the music video, Kendrick and actor Don Cheadle
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. DJ Green Lantern) – On Da Spot Freestyle
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[Kendrick Lamar] / My turbulence put a burden on young herds / And once it's cracking it's a chain reaction / Minus Young Berg / Killing with no excellence / X-amount with no
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Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta
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Kunta Kinte is the main character in the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley. Haley’s said that Kunta Kinte was his own great, great, great grandfather and
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Kanye West (Ft. Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream) – Ultralight Beam
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“Ultralight Beam” is about Kanye’s faith in God. This track establishes strong parallels for The Life of Pablo with the life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Paul (Saul at the time) was
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