Kendrick, considered to be the greatest rapper alive, or once again, the god emcee, borrows ironically the image of the Pope and of the Christ’s last dinner before the betrayal, or simply the death of the leader. Got me at peak, possibility of what could beĮven though the lyrics in HUMBLE sound more cocky and confident than ever, It’s been a week already, feeling weak already Once upon a time, I go to church and talk to God Why you wanna see a good man with a broken heart?
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Plus the words « Nobody pray for me » remain omnipresent in the album and haunts the depressed rapper’s thoughts. It is striking to see the similarities between the set up of Kendrick’s 2016 Grammy performance and his posture in HUMBLEĪs he stands in the halo, with the head down, with his feels doomed and with his soul damned. Was Yeshua’s new weapon 3) FEEL: NOBODY PRAYIN FOR K. I was born like this, since one like this Cole would quote.ĭUCKWORTHrecalls Kendrick’s family origins and the surroundings the so-called good kid, mAAd city grew up in. What is more, if God Is Gangsta he can play the game in reverse ( we gon’ put it in reverse),ĭespite the fact that we were ‘ born sinner, opposite of a winner’, as J. With that being said, « he’s a different kind of gangster because he’s a gangster with a conscience »( Hiii Power music video). However, we might picture the character of a gangster, dazed by hood politics/ We go back to gangsta rap style for rappers are only thugs for the likes of these peoples. I can just alleviate the rap industry politics (Institutionalized)Īfter the downgrading commentary of Fox News journalists turning Kendrick’s words onto suggestion for police brutality when really his songs are about positivity, Oh shit, flow’s so sick, don’t you swallow itīitin’ my style, you’re salmonella poison positive The track lyrically resonates with Institutionalized, a piece that depicts Kendrick’s conflicted spirit and state of mind. I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DNA I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA The moment he pushes the button on the lie detector is when he’s tasting the truth and all the components in Kendrick’s DNA The video pictures a bad cop intimidating the leader of a gang supposedly named DNA, Dead Negro Association (actual TDE mafia of the West as we see Schoolboy Q showing off). Many layers in the meaningful track DNAare worth commenting.
Lucy gon’ call you even when Lucy know you love your Fatherįinally, as Kendrick often let appears duality in his lyrics and visuals, the blind woman may just be a reflection of his soul, cursed with madness, blindness and astonishment of heart (Deuteronomy). Indeed, in his previous opus, the evil Lucy sounds like a luscious seductive woman: So begins the damned hell of the doomed character. On another hand, the deceiving woman, with blind eyes you can’t read the truth in, may refer to Lucy, in other words, the devil. Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shoot or you assassin (Mortal Man) Is it Moses, is it Huey Newton or Detroit Red? How many leaders you said you needed then left ‘em for dead? However, in his new studio album DAMN., Kendrick suffers from being this leader, and reminds he’s just a man, a mortal man, no less sinner than another.įor him, that was urgent to rewind and remind it. Truthfully all of ’em spoiled (Institutionalized) The frustrated and struggling blind woman in the narrated story may refer to the Kendrick’s close people in Compton, to the Black community in America, or to Hip Hop.Įither way, Kendrick stands as their leader, and is considered as a woke prophet with words of influence and freedom. The album, follow-up of To Pimp A Butterfly and its leftovers, consists in many heavy layers to dissect. What happens on Earth stays on Earth, we’re all mortal and can’t be immortalized so what’s worth the time of our life? The art cover indicates he’s just the shadow he used to be, walking dead in hell. Kendrick Lamar in his new album is not the man we knew in i (Love Myself). Suicide thoughts and infatuation with death has taken over.
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How tough is your skin when they turn you in? How clutch are the people that say they love you? Can you be immortalized without your life being expired?Įven though you share the same blood is it worth the time?