Genius Meanings
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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 – GOD BLESS AMERICA (XXX. Demo)
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[Intro: Congress Alley] / All the signs (all the signs) / Of a dying nature (all the sings) / God save america / Just look around (just look around) / And see the [?] (just look
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Spotify – This Is Kendrick Lamar
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1. Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake- King's Dead / 2. Kendrick Lamar & SZA- All The Stars / 3. Jay Rock- Wow Freestyle (feat. Kendrick Lamar) / 4. Kendrick Lamar- DNA
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Kendrick Lamar – Talk To Me (XXX. Original)
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[Chorus] / I can think of a million reasons, have it all as your seasons / Say no more I feel ya b, say no more I feel ya homie / We traveled the Neverlands, fireworks in the south
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Kendrick Lamar Masterfully Explored Duality On ‘DAMN.’
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Celebrating some of the rapper’s best storytelling on the anniversary of his fourth album.
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Kendrick Lamar, U2 and Dave Chappelle – 2018 Grammys Performance
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Kendrick Lamar has been known to shake up an award show or two in his day, and this highly-anticipated 2018 Grammy Awards performance was no exception.
Viewers were treated to
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Joey Bada$$ & XXXTENTACION – King's Dead (Freestyle)
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XXXTENTACION and Joey Bada$$ link up for a remix of one of 2018’s most popular songs, “King’s Dead”, which is originally by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake. The song
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Bēkon – America
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[Intro] / God bless America / The home of the brave / Now if we could stay alive / Maybe one day Kendrick / We could stay? / [Chorus] / America / God bless you if it's good to you
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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 – HUMBLE.
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On the ironically braggadocious track “HUMBLE.” Kendrick Lamar challenges his competition. It was released a week after the first promotional single, “The Heart Part 4,” with a
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Kendrick Lamar – BLOOD.
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On “BLOOD.,” Kendrick is shot by a blind lady he’s trying to help. The blind woman can be thought of as representing consequences of the damnation referenced in the Book of
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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 – 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. Zacari) – LOVE.
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“LOVE.” finds Kendrick Lamar musing on the woman in his life; presumably his fiancé Whitney Alford, whom he has been in a relationship with since his high school days. Kendrick
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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 – PRIDE.
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“PRIDE” is an introspective track that continues the album’s strong religious themes. Consider Proverbs 11:2:
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
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Travis Scott (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – goosebumps
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“goosebumps” is an eerie love song. Travis and Kendrick detail the unique feelings they have for their love interests—especially when she’s not actually there.
Before performing
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Anna Wise, Bilal & Thundercat) – These Walls
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The title “These Walls” plays off the familiar expression “if these walls could talk…” Kendrick’s complex wordplay introduces layered metaphorical and literal walls—the “walls” of
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Kendrick Lamar – FEEL.
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On “FEEL.,” Kendrick catalogs the wide range of feelings, particularly the negative ones, that his stardom has elicited.
He feels like nobody is looking out for him, yet cites a
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Rihanna) – LOYALTY.
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On “LOYALTY.,” Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna muse on the value and necessity of complete loyalty and honesty in both platonic and romantic relationships. The song marks the first
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Kendrick Lamar – YAH.
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The song title “YAH.” refers to Yahweh (יהוה), which is believed to be the closest estimation to God’s actual name–in Hebrew, it was said as ‘YHWH,’ as they had no vowels in their
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Why Kendrick Lamar Might Be Referencing Nirvana on “Damn.”
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Whether you’re a rocker or rapper, fame is a bitch.
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XXXTENTACION (Ft. Joey Bada$$) – infinity (888)
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“infinity (888)” is the second collaboration between X and Joey, following “King’s Dead (Freestyle).” They planned to collaborate on a full project, but X tragically passed in June
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Kendrick Lamar & Kodak Black – Silent Hill
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On “Silent Hill,” Kendrick Lamar recruits Florida native Kodak Black for a mellow trap cruiser about life, success, and fake friendships.
Hours prior to the song’s release, rumors
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Kendrick Lamar – DUCKWORTH.
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“DUCKWORTH.” is a street tale about how Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith was planning a second robbery at a local KFC where Kendrick’s father, nicknamed “Ducky,” was working back in the
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Kendrick Lamar & Taylour Paige – We Cry Together
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On “We Cry Together,” Kendrick and Taylour Paige take opposite sides in a couple’s ugly dispute that sees them hurling insults at one another for nearly six minutes. Another
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Kendrick Lamar – GOD.
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In “GOD.,” Kendrick flaunts his successes, how it feels, and why he works so hard. Throughout the track, Kendrick compares the sensation to “what God feels like.”
In the first
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Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – The Hillbillies
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“The Hillbillies” is a collaboration between Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar on which they go back and forth, comparing themselves to Neymar and Messi respectively. The cousins rap
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U2 – American Soul
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“American Soul”, the third single from the fourteenth U2 album Songs of Experience, following “You’re the Best Thing About Me”, “Get Out of Your Own Way”, and the free live-version
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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 (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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Kendrick Lamar – Blow My High (Members Only)
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Kendrick Lamar’s track in honor of Aaliyah..
(RIP)
It samples a portion of Pimp C’s verse from his UGK collaboration on Jay Z’s Big Pimpin'
It also samples 4 Page Letter by
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Kendrick Lamar Flips The Bible Once Again For His Intro On U2's “American Soul”
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The Compton rapper takes inspiration from the Beatitudes for the second time in a row.
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Death Is Everywhere On Kendrick Lamar’s ‘DAMN.’
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Has any major rapper since 2Pac talked more about death?
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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 – Alien Girl (Today With Her)
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Perhaps one of Kendrick Lamar’s catchiest early songs, “Alien Girl (Today With Her)” demonstrated his ability to appeal to the opposite sex, while simultaneously furthering the
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Gunplay) – Cartoon & Cereal
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Cartoon & Cereal – i.e. sugar and cheap entertainment – are pegged by Kendrick as the modern day “Opiates of the Masses”
Kendrick knows that if you eat sugar cereal and fast food
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ScHoolboy Q, 2 Chainz & Saudi – X
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ScHoolboy Q and 2 Chainz reunite for the first time since their collaboration on Q’s “WHat THey Want.” With production backed by Sounwave and !llmind, ScHoolboy, 2 Chainz and South
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Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – range brothers
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On “range brothers,” Baby Keem reunites with his cousin, Kendrick Lamar, to discuss numerous topics, including the financial success that comes with fame along with their tough
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