Genius Meanings
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Jay Rock) – Money Trees
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As explained in this, credits to Feeding Time of KTT for this summary.
K.Dot recaps the story so far. He talks about robbing the house, “Home invasion was persuasive/From 9 to 5 I
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Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake – King's Dead
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A star-studded collaboration. In his first single as the main credited artist since 2015, Jay Rock links up with Future, James Blake and Black Hippy partner and label mate
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Jay Rock (Ft. Black Hippy) – Vice City
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“Vice City” is the eighth track on Jay Rock’s sophomore album, 90059. It features TDE and Black Hippy members – Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q and Rock himself. Cardo and
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Jay Rock – WIN
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“WIN” is Jay Rock’s second single of 2018, following the popular Black Panther track, “King’s Dead.”
In this braggadocious song, Rock stakes his claim as a true “winner” in the
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Jay Rock) – I Do This
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Recorded in 2009, Kendrick Lamar’s “I Do This” is a boastful realization of his success as an artist. Fellow TDE labelmate and Black Hippy artist, Jay Rock tags along with Lamar
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Wow Freestyle
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“Wow Freestyle” is a braggadocious collaboration between Jay Rock and his TDE labelmate Kendrick Lamar. The Hit-Boy-produced track displays the incredible synergy the two
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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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Jay Rock (Ft. Chantal Kreviazuk & Kendrick Lamar) – Pay for It
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Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, MixedByAli and Sounwave broke down the song in a behind the scenes video for Beats by Dre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtIkg9-lK8s
The song was
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Black Hippy (Ft. Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar & ScHoolboy Q) – U.O.E.N.O.
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Remember that Rocko song with that infamous date rape lyric by Rick Ross? Well, Black Hippy did a remix of it and each member KILLED IT!
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Big Sean (Ft. Jay Electronica & Kendrick Lamar) – Control
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“Control” is a braggadocious attempt to revitalize the competitive spirit of the rap game.
Kendrick Lamar sent shockwaves across the internet with his verse that name-drops and
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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 (Ft. Black Hippy) – THat Part (Black Hippy Remix)
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“THat Part” is a braggadocious song influenced by Californian culture. The phrase “That part” is used as an affirmation of a boast.
Black Hippy’s remix of ScHoolboy Q and Kanye
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Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – Like That
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“Like That” sees Future and Metro Boomin enlist rap legend Kendrick Lamar for a hard-hitting track, where the two get a few things off their chest. Lamar takes it a step further
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Kendrick Lamar & SZA – All The Stars
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“All the Stars” is the lead single from the Black Panther soundtrack. Released on January 4, 2018, the single was announced as part of the soundtrack that would be produced and
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Jay Rock (Ft. SZA) – Redemption
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Jay Rock reflects upon the trials and tribulations that occurred before and after his near fatal motorcycle crash in 2016. Contributions from label mates SZA and Kendrick Lamar
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Jay Rock (Ft. Ab-Soul & Kendrick Lamar) – I Know
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[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar] / Yeah, come on, she wanna roll, I know / Catch me in the cut with a cup of the juice / I’m chilling, believe this, I’m Jesus to women / They all want to
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Hood Gone Love It
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As the hook plainly puts it:
You ain’t gotta like it
‘Cause the hood gone love it
This Kendrick Lamar-assisted hood anthem is the second single from Jay Rock’s Follow Me Home.
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Kendrick Lamar & Jay Rock – My People
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My people don't love me / Why we hate each other? / Why we kill our brothers, why we hurt our mothers? / My people don't love me / We can love one another / We should stick
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Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 4
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On “The Heart Part 4,” Kendrick Lamar floats across four distinct beat changes, describing his industrious lifestyle while challenging his contemporaries. He finishes the song with
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & Lil Wayne) – Colors
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Jay Rock, Lil Wayne, & Kendrick Lamar are comparing things that are color coordinated like a woman’s hair for example, to a really expensive possession that they have.
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Follow me Home (From Hood Tales to the Cover of XXL)
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On “Follow me Home,” Jay Rock enlists the help of fellow California native Kendrick Lamar for an introspective recollection of how he went from rags to riches. The two rappers
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Kendrick Lamar – Rigamortus
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From Team Kendrick:
When rigor mortis occurs within a corpse, its muscles tighten, causing the body to become stiff and very difficult to move. The chemical reaction makes all
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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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Kendrick Lamar & Jay Rock – I Ain't No Joke
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Inspired by and borrows the instrumental from Eric B & Rakim’s hit track “I Ain’t No Joke”
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Jay Rock) – Misunderstood
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[Intro] / Baby you understand me now / If sometimes you see that I'm mad / Don't you know no one alive can always be an angel / When everything goes wrong, you see some bad / But I
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Jay Rock (Ft. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar & ScHoolboy Q) – Say Wassup
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“Say Wassup” is a Black Hippy posse cut between Jay Rock, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar that appears on Jay’s July 2011 album Follow Me Home. On the track, the TDE
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Kendrick Lamar & Jay Rock (Ft. Ab-Soul) – Enjoy Life
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K Dot, Soul, and Jay Rock spitting over A Tribe Called Quest. Magnificent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9B7rxtxZs4
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Kendrick Lamar – Black Friday
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This song is a counterpart to J. Cole’s rhyme over K.Dot’s “Alright” — both freestyles were released simultaneously on November 27, 2015. The two rappers have long been associated
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. JAY-Z) – Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)
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This is a remix of one of the most successful singles on Kendrick’s critically-acclaimed album, good kid, m.A.A.d city. It features a verse from none other than JAY-Z.
The cover
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TDE’s SiR Breaks Down His New Kendrick Lamar Collab “Hair Down” & Deal With RCA
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“Hair Down” marks SiR’s first collaboration with Kendrick and his first song under his new label.
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ab-Soul & Jay Rock) – The Heart Pt. 3 (Will You Let It Die?)
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Recorded in Las Vegas three days before the release of his second album and major label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick unleashes the third edition of his “The Heart
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Jay Rock) – My People
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Half of the Black Hippy collective teams up on this track conceived for the soundtrack to the film “Bastards of the Party.”
This song discusses the inter-racial conflicts
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Brown, Skeme & U-N-I) – I Do This (Remix)
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This is the official remix for “I Do This” (featuring Jay Rock, from Kendrick’s previous project, December 2009’s The Kendrick Lamar EP. It appeared on his Overly Dedicated mixtape
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Kendrick Lamar & Jay Rock (Ft. Ab-Soul) – C.R.E.A.M.
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[Intro: Kendrick Lamar] / It's all about this money, kid / It's all about this money, C.R.E.A.M / Y'na'mean? / I gotta get it, son / I gotta get it, my pocket's hurt again / (Cash
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & SZA) – Easy Bake
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“Easy Bake” is the second track on Jay Rock’s sophomore album, 90059.
The song features fellow “Top Dawg Ent.” members Kendrick Lamar and SZA. While production credits come from
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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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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & Major James) – Roll On
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[Chorus: Major James] / I ain't worried about these niggas trynna hate on me / To me it's all just jealousy / Don't wanna see another brother get his money / So I roll on, roll on
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Jay Rock (Ft. Jeremih) – Tap Out
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[Intro: Jay Rock] / Redemption life, we been lit / Face down, ass up, vicious (Whoa) / [Chorus: Jeremih] / Backdrops, smoking on the bombest weed / Backshots finna go down when we
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BET (Ft. Ab-Soul, Isaiah Rashad, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar & ScHoolboy Q) – 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards - TDE Cypher
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Watch the cypher
http://www.bet.com/video/hiphopawards/2013/cyphers/t-d-e-kendrick-lamar-and-others-uncut.html
TDE was featured on a cypher for the 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Rapsody) – Complexion (A Zulu Love)
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This song is about educating society on beauty standards, especially colorism. Colorism affects the black community profusely due to its roots, which spawn from the history of
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A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar) – Fuckin' Problems
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This all-star posse cut showcases three distinctive rappers trying to out-stunt each other on the subject of fucking “bad bitches.” Rocky called the song a “reunion” of Drake’s
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Jay Rock, BO & Kendrick Lamar – Schizo
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[Intro: BO] / Yeah, it's your boy BO, Top Dawg Entertainment / Listen to that Do It Nigga Squad mixtape, volume one / Check me out on the web man, MySpace dot com back slash BO
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Jay Rock (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – I'm So Loaded
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[Chorus: Jay Rock & Kendrick Lamar] / I'm so loaded, so low / Get your cup up, so low / Smoke dro, can't control it / Can't control / Going hard, [?] fuck that, pass that / [Verse
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