I want to keep doing it every time, period. “I’m not doing it to have a good song,” he said.
I was tryna spit my best game to her, you. Given its popularity, Lamar’s music can be surprisingly dense, taking shape in winding, album-length narratives ( good kid, m.A.A.d city), live-band hybrids of jazz and funk ( To Pimp a Butterfly), and quasi-conceptual explorations of self (2017’s Pulitzer Prize-winning DAMN.). lyrics & video : Kendrick Lamar: So I met this young lady, ya know, when I went back home. But he was speaking for many.īorn in 1987, Lamar grew up under the influence of JAY-Z, Eminem, and 2pac-for the wordplay, for the imagination, for the heart and sense of community. His music is largely influenced by the works of 2Pac, Jay-Z, Nas and DMX. He is also a member of the hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy collective along with members Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q. Oh, like a little lamb, play in your hair Oh you want it Oh you want it right now Like that I got you baby All on you baby Push it back on daddy Push it back on daddy baby I seen it vividly jogging my brain memory, life is. “So to see them actually express themselves through song, through lyrics that I wrote?” For a kid from Compton whose life was transformed by hip-hop, the fame was nice, but the singing, the spirit, the possibility that his music was opening a cultural inroad for people joining the fight for civil rights- that was real. Kendrick Lamar (born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth June 17, 1987) is a rapper from Compton, California. 1 316.4K Untitled 2 (Blue Faces) Lyrics Verse 1 Two tears in a bucket, I cry with you, agh But I could never lie with you I could never afford not to afford I could never put my plans to the. “A lot of people don’t have voices out there,” he said.
For Lamar, the success was that people sang it in the streets. It wasn’t even that it broke new ground for where hip-hop might go. In an interview with Apple Music, Kendrick Lamar reflected on his 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly-in particular, the song “Alright.” It wasn’t that it sold well (it did).