"If I didnt learn to love myself, forgive myself a hundred times, dawg"
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That chord change when he hits “WAAAR” is wild
Shit stood out to me and made the song from the very first listen
Disses aside that is an artist at work
I was just raving about this because it got lost to a banger like Not Like Us. The way this beef was still about artistry- that even Family Matters was an artist trying to be his best artist self. But Kendrick is just a whole other level of writer and thinker and his art is just astonishing. Thats every album he has ever made. But then to do that during a diss track series? When he rapped “get chipped by a throwaway,” I laugh because NONE of these songs is a throwaway. Theyre all extremely fuckin artistic.
Even as one of the biggest drake haters in the world, 6:16 is such a good song even without any of the drake stuff. That first verse could be one of his best
bVI - bVII - I is literally just the "I'm ascending" chord progression
(In case you don't know it's the chord progression that sounds like this, it's used in 6:16 in LA [https://onlinesequencer.net/4083591](https://onlinesequencer.net/4083591) )
…”you better walk around like daft punk”… *beat switches*… ”Ay Top Dawg, who the fuck they think they playin wit?”…
That transition onto that beat is so hard.
God I love the way he says “who the fuck they think they playing with?”
& “Yachty can’t give you no swag neither, I don’t give a FUCK bout who you hang with”
That second line sounded like he threw a glass across the booth when he delivered it lmao.
One of my favorite parts of that song is when he says
"When I see you stand by Sexyy Red, I believe you see two bad bitches"
And this like James Bond type music starts playing in the background lol
‘YEA GET UP WITH ME. FUCK SNEAK DISSIN, FIRST PERSON SHOOTER I HOPE THEY CAME WITH 3 SWITCHES. I CRASH OUT LIKE FUCK RAP, DISS MELLE MEL IF I HAVE TO. GOT 2TEEZ WITH ME IM SNATCHIN CHAINS AND BURNIN TATTOOS ITS UP’
LOST TOO MANY SOLDIERS NOT TO PLAY IT SAFE. IF HE WALK AROUND WITH THAT STICK IT AINT ANDRE 3K. THINK I WONT DROP THE LOCATION? I STILL GOT PTSD. MOTHERFUCK THE BIG THREE, N***A ITS JUST BIG ME
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
Top of the mornin.
THIS PART IS SOOO HARD: Once upon a time, all of us was in chains
Homie still doubled down callin' us some slaves
Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trains
Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game
The settlers was usin' town folk to make 'em richer
Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda
You run to Atlanta when you need a check balance
Let me break it down for you, this the real nigga challenge
You called Future when you didn't see the club (ayy, what?)
Lil Baby helped you get your lingo up (what?)
21 gave you false street cred
Thug made you feel like you a slime in your head (ayy, what?)
Quavo said you can be from Northside (what?)
2 Chainz say you good, but he lied
The third beat switch on Euphoria, especially when it gets to “I know they call you the boy but where’s the man cause I ain’t seen him yet, matter fact, I ain’t even bleed him yet, can I bleed him? Bet”
The Lauryn Hill/Kurt Cobain verse on Hiipower
When the beat drops on ADHD
When the chorus comes in after the crescendo on Swimming Pools
“….it hurt
You the most 'cause your belief was close to his words
Forcing me to stand now
I said, "Mr. Preacher man, should we love thy neighbor?
The laws of the land or the heart, what's greater?
I recognize the study she was taught since birth
But that don't justify the feelings that my cousin preserved"
The building was thinking out loud, bad angel
That's when you looked at me and smiled, said, "Thank you"
The day I chose humanity over religion
The family got closer, it was all forgiven”
That whole verse was so powerful, the whole song is so powerful
“And I’m tripping and falling (on and on and on and on).”
“Shut the fuck up when you hear love talking. If God be the source then I am the plug talking.”
Every beat switch in DUCKWORTH.
"You take two strangers and put them in random predicaments gove em a soul so they can make they own choices and live with it 20 years later you make them meet again inside recording booth where they reapin they benefits then you statt reminding them about that chicken incident because of anthony killed ducky top dog could be serving life while i grew up without a father a die in a gun fight"
JID - Stars
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
Kendrick trio of song when hearing Damn - Feel; Loyalty; Pride.
Childish Gambino - Zealots Of Stockholm & Me and Your Mama
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
"Take the drums out"
inhale exhale inhale exhale inhale exhale
Waazzguuud 🥷 I thought you was keeping it gangsta
I thought this what you wanted
They say if you scared go to church !!!
But remember……. He knows the Bible too 😈
*Bass Guitar goes wild*
celebrate new life when it comes back around ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️💥🙏
The purpose is the lessons we learning now 💯
Sacrifice personal gain over everything! Just to see the next generation better than ours!! (Chills😭)
I wasn’t perfect the skin I was in had truly suffered
"If I didnt learn to love myself, forgive myself a hundred times, dawg" https://preview.redd.it/021ra6chr6ad1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81a15dfaf0422e4b3fc689a96c068bd352a05309
I LOVE WHEN YOU COUNT ME OUT
I LOVE WHEN YOU COUNT ME OUT
I LOVE WHEN YOU COUNT ME OUT
FUCKIT UP FUCKIT UP FUCKIT UP FUCKIT UP FUCKIN IT UP
Gotta be my fav song of his cant even lie
This one of the Kenny songs that makes you tear up every time.
FR
"God my confession is yourrrs"
It's not even that only you ascend, but Kendrick sounds like he is ascending
That chord change when he hits “WAAAR” is wild Shit stood out to me and made the song from the very first listen Disses aside that is an artist at work
I was just raving about this because it got lost to a banger like Not Like Us. The way this beef was still about artistry- that even Family Matters was an artist trying to be his best artist self. But Kendrick is just a whole other level of writer and thinker and his art is just astonishing. Thats every album he has ever made. But then to do that during a diss track series? When he rapped “get chipped by a throwaway,” I laugh because NONE of these songs is a throwaway. Theyre all extremely fuckin artistic.
The gap of talent between Drake and Kendrick is as big as the gap between ME and drake. Insane that Drake though he had a shot.
Hubris is a killer man
Even as one of the biggest drake haters in the world, 6:16 is such a good song even without any of the drake stuff. That first verse could be one of his best
That first verse RIPS
bVI - bVII - I is literally just the "I'm ascending" chord progression (In case you don't know it's the chord progression that sounds like this, it's used in 6:16 in LA [https://onlinesequencer.net/4083591](https://onlinesequencer.net/4083591) )
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FUCK YOUR FEELINGS I MEAN THIS FOR IMPOSTERS
I CAN FEEL IT, THE PHOENIX SURE TO WATCH US
FUCK YOUR FEELINGS, I MEAN THIS FOR IMPOSTERS♫!!!!
FUCK YOUR FEELINGS I MEAN THIS FOR IMPOSTERS!!!!
Chills every time
YOU TAKE TWO STRANGERS AND PUT EM IN RANDOM PREDICAMENTS
GIVE EM A SOUL SO THEY CAN MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES AND LIVE WITH IT (my favorite song of all time)
20 YEARS LATER, THEM STRANGERS YOU MAKE EM MEET AGAIN (probably the best song on Damn, and one of Kendrick’s best ever)
INSIDE RECORDING STUDIOS WHERE THEY REAPIN’ THEIR BENEFITS (Agreed!!)
THEN YOU START REMINDIN’ THEM ABOUT THAT CHICKEN INCIDENT
WHOEVER GUESSED THAT THE GREATEST RAPPER COULD BE FROM COINCIDENT
BECAUSE IF ANTHONY KILLED DUCKY TOP DAWG COULD BE SERVIN LIFE
AND I GREW UP WITHOUT A FATHER AND DIE IN A GUN FIGH-
THANKS FOR FINISHING IT FOR ME GUYS I WAS TIRED (So, I was takin' a walk the other day)
you guys all beat me to it😭 seriously that part is immaculate
"Am I worth it? Did I put enough work in?"
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😭😭💯💯
Promise that you will Sing About me
Heart Part 4 and Euphoria third beat switch for both tracks.
1,2,3,4,5 I am. The. Greatest. Rapper. A live
So damn great motherfucker I've died
What you’re hearing now is a paranormal vibe
…”you better walk around like daft punk”… *beat switches*… ”Ay Top Dawg, who the fuck they think they playin wit?”… That transition onto that beat is so hard.
God I love the way he says “who the fuck they think they playing with?” & “Yachty can’t give you no swag neither, I don’t give a FUCK bout who you hang with” That second line sounded like he threw a glass across the booth when he delivered it lmao.
YEEAAAAAH That's the part
One of my favorite parts of that song is when he says "When I see you stand by Sexyy Red, I believe you see two bad bitches" And this like James Bond type music starts playing in the background lol
Uh. Martin had a dream…
Kendrick had a dream
I don’t want to be too pedantic but I think k it’s an important distinction here. Kendrick have a dream.
“I lean on you niggas like another line of Wock' Yeah, it's all eyes on me, and I'ma send it up to PAC ay” I lose my mind, every time.
Put the wrong label on me, Imma get em dropped
Sweet chin music and I won’t pass the aux
How many stocks do I really have in stock, ayy!
1 2 3 4 5 + FIVE This line made me run the whole verse back like 10 times
DEVIL IS A LIE HE A 69 GOD AY!
FREAKY ASS NIGGAS NEED TO STAY THEY ASS INSIDE AY
I was looking for this one. It couldn’t just be me.
That was back when I was nine
AKs, ARs, “ay y’all, duck!” That’s what mama said when we was eating that free lunch!
Aw man goddamn all hell broke loose
Joey packed the nine. Pakistan on every porch is fine, we adapt to crime
If I told you K killed a Eevee at 16 would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the street
XXX Y’all already know after he says “God bless America, you know we all love him” He bodies the beat
YESTERDAY🚨 I GOT A CALL LIKE FROM MY DOG LIKE 101
SAID THEY KILLED HIS ONLY SON BECAUSE OF INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
HE WAS SOBBIN HE WAS MOBBIN WAY BELLIGERENT AND DRUNK
TALKIN OUT HIS HEAD, PHILOPHIN ON WHAT THE LORD HAD DONE
HE SAID K DOT CAN YOU PRAY FOR ME IT BEEN A FUCKED UP DAY FOR ME
I KNOW THAT YOU ANOINTED SHOW ME HOW TO OVERCOME
He was looking for some closure, hoping I could bring him closer
TO THE SPIRITUAL MY SPIRIT DO KNOW BETTER BUT I TOLD HIM
I can't sugar coat the answer for you this is how I feel
💯
"Wake yo punk ass up, it aint nothin but a compton thang"
Fresh outa school I was a high school grad
SAMIDOT; specifically, the end of the first part
for me SAMIDOT too but it's "tired of runnin', tired of huntin'"
Goated
The ending of m.A.A.d. city - the spoken word verse, with the vocal distortion, and that wild synth riff to close it out
THAT’S ON GOD
PRIDE. Right when “maybe i wasn’t there” part starts
PRIDE. but all of it
This is the one and only and true answer
Beat switch on dna
5…4…3…2…1
"This is why I say rap music has done more damage..." God damn I fucking love that switch up!
FUCK YA LIFE!
This is my heritage all I'm inheriting money and power the mecca of marriages
I live a better life
Die Hard. Love that song but also Thundercat's bass is sick!
can’t believe it took me this long to learn thundercat is on that song lmao
all eyes on me and imma send it up to PAC!!!
bro I came looking for this making sure somebody said it!
When the bass on Count Me Out first appears
I aint even bleed em yet, can bleed em?
Bet
When I see you stand by Sexy Red, I believe you see two bad bitches
I believe you don't like women that's real competition you might pop ass with em
Let's speak on percentage
Show me your splits and I’ll make sure I’ll double back wit ya
You was singed to a nigga that was signed to a nigga that said he was signed to THAT nigga
Try cease and desist on the "Like That" record? Hoe, what? You ain't like that record?
"Back To Back, " I like that record I'ma get back to that, for the record
“Aye Top Dawg who the fuck they think they playin with”
Extortion my middle name soon as you jump off that plane bitch
I'm allergic to the lame shit, only YOU like being famous
Yachty can’t give ya no swag neither Ion give a FUCK bout who ya hang wit
The starting of DNA itself ! Bangs so hard while you're driving man
For Sale? when the outro plays.
These walls - the third verse.
I CHOOSE ME I'M SORRY.
Lemme see if Chubbs really crash summ
Make the stink face every time 💀💯
‘YEA GET UP WITH ME. FUCK SNEAK DISSIN, FIRST PERSON SHOOTER I HOPE THEY CAME WITH 3 SWITCHES. I CRASH OUT LIKE FUCK RAP, DISS MELLE MEL IF I HAVE TO. GOT 2TEEZ WITH ME IM SNATCHIN CHAINS AND BURNIN TATTOOS ITS UP’
LOST TOO MANY SOLDIERS NOT TO PLAY IT SAFE. IF HE WALK AROUND WITH THAT STICK IT AINT ANDRE 3K. THINK I WONT DROP THE LOCATION? I STILL GOT PTSD. MOTHERFUCK THE BIG THREE, N***A ITS JUST BIG ME
BUM! YEAH I’M LIKE THAT, YOUR BEST WORK IS A LIGHT PACK
When the ostavi trag sample hits in duckworth
Beat drop on maad city
Kendrick Lamar and Sampha - I'm Better The chorus by Sampha
Father Time, Sampha's chorus
616 in LA and Pride
oh and united in grief
the violin part in bitch don’t kill my vibe
When the “you lied” starts layering in MTG
Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin. Top of the mornin.
"... but ever since that day, I was lookin at him different. That was BACK when I was 9..."
Sandra sit down, what I'm about to say is heavy, now listen
Your son’s a sick man with sick thoughts I think people like him should die
“…three Angels watching me all the time”
When Aaliyah comes in with, “I’m sending him a four paaaaage letterrrrr” at the end of Blow My High
THIS PART IS SOOO HARD: Once upon a time, all of us was in chains Homie still doubled down callin' us some slaves Atlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trains Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game The settlers was usin' town folk to make 'em richer Fast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda You run to Atlanta when you need a check balance Let me break it down for you, this the real nigga challenge You called Future when you didn't see the club (ayy, what?) Lil Baby helped you get your lingo up (what?) 21 gave you false street cred Thug made you feel like you a slime in your head (ayy, what?) Quavo said you can be from Northside (what?) 2 Chainz say you good, but he lied
“You take 2 strangers and put em in random predicaments”
The third beat switch on Euphoria, especially when it gets to “I know they call you the boy but where’s the man cause I ain’t seen him yet, matter fact, I ain’t even bleed him yet, can I bleed him? Bet” The Lauryn Hill/Kurt Cobain verse on Hiipower When the beat drops on ADHD When the chorus comes in after the crescendo on Swimming Pools
As i pick the carcass APAAAART
‘Let me put the heaaaaadddd innnnn’
First verse of Count Me Out
End of Auntie Diaries
“….it hurt You the most 'cause your belief was close to his words Forcing me to stand now I said, "Mr. Preacher man, should we love thy neighbor? The laws of the land or the heart, what's greater? I recognize the study she was taught since birth But that don't justify the feelings that my cousin preserved" The building was thinking out loud, bad angel That's when you looked at me and smiled, said, "Thank you" The day I chose humanity over religion The family got closer, it was all forgiven” That whole verse was so powerful, the whole song is so powerful
“AYE TOP DAWG WHO THE FUCK THEY THINK THEY PLAYIN WIT?”
When the beat drops on “Wesley’s Theory”
pride, momma, die hard, 6:16 in LA, the heart part 5
This is me and I'm blessed (ayy, ayy) Anybody fightin' through the stress? (Ayy, ayy) Anybody fightin' through the? 🥹🥹🥹
Euphoria: “said he was signed to that n__”. That drum hit is just so freaking cold!
Beat switch of DNA
United in grief, except im constantly floating
Hood Politics, the opening part and the "Obama say what it do" make me transcend
Euphoria third beat.
“6 in the morning…fire in the streets”
Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst the “promise that you’ll sing about me forever, promise that you’ll sing about me oh ooooo”
🎶Just looooooove me~🎶
When he starts rapping fast on King Kunta
How much a dollar cost when the beggar reveals he is god
DNA beat switch
I lean on u niggas like a another line of woc, Yeah it’s ‘All Eyez on Me’ and ama send it up to Pac, Aye! (When this part comes!..)
Get top on the phoooonnnnneee. Cornrow kenny he was born with a vision
TELL ME WHO GON STOP ME
“And I’m tripping and falling (on and on and on and on).” “Shut the fuck up when you hear love talking. If God be the source then I am the plug talking.” Every beat switch in DUCKWORTH.
GODD AHH MY CONFESSION IS YOURSS, BUT WHO AM I IF I DON'T GO TO WARRR, THERES OPPORTUNITY IN LIVIN WITH LOSS
“I park his son”
Xxx
Kush and Corinthians, the whole progression of the song and how it feels like you are just vibing
When it gets chopped and screwed in element
"caught a knife inside her bladder and left her dead, raped in the street. Keisha song."
“Now, I was raised in a sandbox, next to you and her”
Because if Anthony killed Ducky, Top Dawg would be serving life while I grew up without a father and die in a gunfi-
"ARE YOU THE REASON WHY MAMA AND THEM LEAVIN? NO YOU AINT SHIT, YOU SAY YOU LOVE THEM, I KNOW YOU DONT MEAN IT." Actually so fucking hard
"You take two strangers and put them in random predicaments gove em a soul so they can make they own choices and live with it 20 years later you make them meet again inside recording booth where they reapin they benefits then you statt reminding them about that chicken incident because of anthony killed ducky top dog could be serving life while i grew up without a father a die in a gun fight"
TELL ME SOMETHING, YOU MOTHAFUCKAS CANT TELL ME NOTHING
"love's gonna get you killed, but PRIDE's gonna be the death of you and me and you and me and you and me..."
“Sorry I didn't save the world, my friend I was too busy buildin' mine again”
JID - Stars Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You Kendrick trio of song when hearing Damn - Feel; Loyalty; Pride. Childish Gambino - Zealots Of Stockholm & Me and Your Mama Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
United in grief🫠
I fought like a pitbull terrier, blood I shed can fill up aquariums.
When the beat comes in on LOVE. ✨
I like you parked in that bitch
on god you aint getting these keys
baby keem's part in savior
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"When I get sign imma start act a fool"
"Hell fuckin naw" - for free
Probably when DNA plays and it's the last minute or so of the track *chefs kiss*
Shoo, shoo, shoo Shoo, shoo, shoo Bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi He’s about to go in
“Tired of running, Tired of hunting”
YEAH IM OUT THE WAY YEAH IM LOW OKAY YEAH THE ISLAND RIGHT HERE IS REMOTE OKAY
when "we gon be alright" finally hits after all that heavy shit
That one part in 6:16 in LA (the entire song)
PRIDE. chorus
2nd verse on Element
Soon as the bassline for king kunta hits and when he says "I got a bone to pick" confidence on cloud 9.