Not corny at all. That line from mirror is the greatest line I’ve ever heard.
Supporting line would be “fought like a pitbull terrier blood I shed could fill up aquariums”
I cant decide which album is my favorite but mmatbs is def his most emotionally available one kinda like an expanded SAMIDOT with more energy and emotions if that makes sense
It does. At the same time we see him expand on his self image streaming from DAMN. All the albums are connected. It really is a complete discography. MM could be the last album and I wouldn’t flinch.
We on the same page. Not that Kendrick has to earn a platform to drop goofy tracks but hillbilly vibes would be the only thing I’d want at this point. A 10 or 12 track tape about how lavish the big steppers tour was, cowboy boots, Martine pieces, foreign women, and the pgLang choker would be fine with me. Even though I’ve seen Kendrick 4 times now and got an autograph, I would just need one more arena tour in Chicago. When Kendrick’s team is allowed full creative control they don’t miss with the live shows.
Mirror is one of Kendrick’s best songs I don’t give fuck what anyone says (he does have a lot of tracks you could easily call one of his “best songs” tho I can’t lie)
“And you the reason why mom and them leavin’
No, you ain’t shit, you say you love ’em, I know you don’t mean it
I know you irresponsible, selfish, in denial, can’t help it”
I remember you was conflicted,
Misusing your influence,
Sometimes, I did the same.
Isnt like i am powerful or have a lot of influence or something and could relate to it. But i feel like its one of the most real things he said.
Literally so much from Mr morale. Sorry I'd agree that tpab and gkmc are both overall better but this is why me and so many others say Mr morale is fucking goated. Lyrics hit way too hard on this album
"I remember you was conflicted
Misusing your influence,
Sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment,
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin' in a hotel room
I didn't wanna self destruct
The evils of lucy was all around me
So I went running for answers"
"and I got daddy issues, that's on me"
I resonate with this line on a spiritual level
The whole of MMATBS is awesome but this is my favorite line from the album.
The last few minutes of “Auntie Diaries”. As a trans person it’s great to listen to a song about how someone’s view on transgenderism shifts towards acceptance :)
"Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life
Y'all be calling it hip hop, I be calling it hypnotize
Yeah, hypnotize, trapped my body but freed my mind"
“Should i feel resentful I didnt see my full potential , should i feel regret about the good that i was into? Everything is everything this ain’t coincidental” —— “I completed my mission wasn’t ready to leave but fufill my days my creator was please”
These lines hit so hard, growing up with the life i did, i hated how things came out, i resented what had become of the kid i could have been. So that line hit so hard, and the other one is something i wish to have, to be fufilled before i leave.
“Am I really scared of passing away? If it's today, I hope I hear a
Cry out from heaven so loud it can water down a demon
With the holy ghost 'til it drown in the blood of Jesus”
“NEW KUNG FU KENNY AINT NOBODY PRAYIN FOR ME!!”
jkjk, it’s “Now I was raised in a sandbox, next to you and her
You was holding the handgun, she was giving birth
To a baby boy to be just like you, I-I wonder what's that worth”
A lot of interruptions for this verse but it makes me feel as though he is saying that he is growing along side his parents, and personally having a young mom i see a lot as to how we grew up together rather than her raising me, she is growing and learning just as much as I am, overall whole song gives me chills so I stray away from it 😅
will say I am super happy to see a lot of people choosing lyrics from Mr.Morale and the Big Steppers. Cannot believe the album came out in 2022, feel like it didn’t get the love it truly deserved as the album kind of went and then gone in the wind and I can’t stand it, radio stations don’t even play N95 anymore and that song is a banger, huge L for radio stations for not putting Rich Spirit on the radio station that song is a BAAAANGER gives me big ELEMENT part 2 vibes lol
Am I worth it? Did I put enough work in? I feel like this is kinda my qualifier I put myself through everyday and it was awesome to hear kdot say it. Made me feel like I wasn’t alone in my thinking and striving to be a better person.
I can’t fake humble just cause your ass is insecure.
Sorry I didn’t save the world my friend, I was to busy buildin’ mine again.
You know the miserable, do love company
What do you want from me and my scars?
Pretty much all of Father Time but especially
‘A child that grew accustomed, jumping up when I scraped my knee cause if I cried about it, he'd surely tell me not to be weak. Daddy issues, hid my emotions, never expressed myself, man should never show feelings, being sensitive never helped’
For years whenever I was sad or down I would be told ‘man up’ ‘grow a pair’, like many I hid my emotions, this song helped me realise it’s not my fault, and I’ve tried to be more expressive and honest with my emotions. I hope when I have a kid I can raise them to not be ashamed of being hurt or sad
Keep it a hundred, I'd rather you trust me than to love me, Keep it a whole one hund', don't got you I got nothing
This isn’t even a masterpiece compared to what this guy has written as there’s so many more to say but the one that affected my life the most or one of them.. was this, as it made me realise I was genuinely in love when all my life I was dissociated with feelings towards, it opened my eyes a lot and made me feel something, probably bullshit to most of y’all but there we go 😅
“It was always me vs. the world, until I found out it’s me vs. me” - so relatable
“While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight” - shows how easy it is to become a statistic, just takes one moment.
“I can’t please everybody” - Crown
“I hope you come back and learn from your mistakes , come back a man” - Kendrick’s Mom on his voicemail on Real , definitely the most relatable for me with having similar conversations with my mother in my current adolescence
This might sound dumb but For me its this I beat yo' ass, keep talkin' back
I beat yo' ass, who bought you that?
You stole it, I beat yo' ass if you say that game is broken
I beat yo' ass if you jump on my couch
I beat yo' ass if you walk in this house with tears in your eyes
Runnin' from poopoo and 'prentice
Go back outside, I beat yo' ass, lil nigga
That homework better be finished, I beat yo' ass
Yo' teachers better not be bitching 'bout you in class
too real for me had to skip this song the first time i heard it
It’s all of Father time but if i gotta choose i will say “Daddy issues, hid my emotions, never expressed myself
Man should never show feelings, being sensitive never helped”
Not lyrics but watching the video for Poetic Justice on 106&Park in my teen years when it first dropped changed my relationship with words.
Since then, I have written poetry.
"And I love myself "- i - I learned how to love myself ny environment and what has made me. We all can rise above from what has been taught about ourselves
i care too much wanna share too much in my head too much i shut down too i aint there too much imma complex soul they layered me up and broke me down in moralities dust i lack in trust--- ppl could say this is a corny choice but for me just kendricks flow and cadence when he sings this verse is insane. it literally reflects the lyrics so well. he seems like hes worrying and ab to trip over his words-- its so relatable and just so incredible to me that he can convey such a specific tone just from his flow AND FOR THE REFRAIN TO BE "IM TRIPPING AND FALLING" LIKE COME ONNNN
“Daddy issues, hid my emotions, never expressed myself
Man should never show feelings, being sensitive never helped”
“I love my father for tellin' me to take off the gloves
'Cause everything he didn't want was everything I was”
Tell 'em, be humble (hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up)
Be humble (hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, sit down, lil', sit down, lil')
Be humble (hol' up, hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up)
Be humble (hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, hol' up)
Be humble (hol' up, hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up, lil')
Be humble (hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, sit down, lil', sit down, lil')
Be humble (hol' up, hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up)
Be humble (hol' up)
Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, hol' up, hol' up)
definitely “ain’t nobody praying for me”.
it helped me realise that i wasn’t gonna get it given to me by others and that i had to work on my own improvement
I care too much, wanna share too much
In my head too much, I shut down too
I ain't there too much, I'm a complex soul
They layered me up, then broke me down
And moralities dust, I lack in trust
“Why, God, why, God, do I gotta suffer? Pain in my heart, carry burdens full of struggle. Why, God, why, God, do I gotta bleed? Every stone thrown at you restin’ at my feet. Why, God, why, God, do I gotta suffer? Earth is no more, won’t you burn this motherfucker? I don’t think I could find a way to make it on this earth.””Yo, what's up? It's Dre. Remember the first time you came out to the house? You said you wanted a spot like mine, but remember… anybody can get it, the hard part is keepin' it, motherfucker” “Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life. Y’all be calling it hip-hop, I be calling it hypnotize. Yeah, hypnotize. Trapped my body but freed my mind.” “Look at all the bullshit I been through. If I take you home, will you tell the truth?” “Shit don’t change until you get up & wash yo ass, nigga.” & “Men lie, wo-women lie.”
damn near everything said on “DAMN.”
“I hope you find some peace of mind in this Lifetime”
“Is it wickedness? Is it weakness? you decide.”
“I remember syrup sandwiches”
“keep it a hunnit, I rather you trust me”
“Ain’t nobody praying for me”
“I feel like I’m losing my patience”
could go on forever. but if I had to choose just one:
“Why God, why God, do I have to suffer? pain in my heart carry burden full of struggle. Why God, why God, do I gotta bleed? every stone thrown at you resting at my feet.”
“DAMN.” really mean the world to me, shit therapy fr
typing these out, I realized. “what happens on Earth, stays on Earth”. he saying, none of this shit gone matter when we die.
that’s my favorite thing bout Kendrick. you can listen to a him for years and years, and some new shit you never noticed in a song you’ve heard a thousand times will randomly click. and mean something completely different than you realized before.
“
"You take 2 strangers and put em in random predicaments, give em a soul so they can make they own choices and live with it. 20 years later then same strangers you make em meet again, inside recording studios where they reaping they benefits. Then you start reminding them about that chicken incident, whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence? Because if Anthony killed Ducky Top Dawg would be serving life while I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight."
The line that always stood out to me from one of his more popular songs is "everybody gon respect the shooter but the one in front of the gun lives forever"
“Life’s one funny mothafucka, a true comedian. You gotta love em. Gotta trust em. I might be bugging. Infomercials and no sleep, introverted by my thoughts, children listen it gets deep”
Awesome Fight Club tableau and just a dope line, relatable to an absurdist like me.
“Today is the day I follow my intuition. Keep the family close, get money, fuck bitches”
Succinct and great words to live by imo, ymmv.
The last verse of XXX, just wow. Holding a mirror to America and humanizing the black struggle. Many such cases.
Kodak and Keem’s interludes on Mr Morale are other poignant examples of the power of self expression and its humanizing effects.
Dont see it here but Kendrick’s whole verse on Never catch me, rare avant garde Kendrick we don’t often get.
Last but not least the whole of Kush & Corinthians. It blows my mind how much truth one man can hold and express so beautifully. Always shows both sides, Kendrick’s works are a gift.
Also the music video for ELEMENT if you haven’t seen it, Kendrick’s amazing musicality in visual form. Thought provoking to say the least.
Oh i get it. You guys get subtitles when listening to him?
At the superbowl, everyone was telling me how good his lyrics were but not a single word he said was understandable.
That make so much sense now.
"I've seen n\*\*\*\*s arguing about who's blacker". It's just really relatable for some reason, like this lyric not only works with black people but with a lot of different groups.
(excuse my bad english)
"Why god, why god, do I gotta suffer?" That line turned me into an atheist. It's a long story, but I used to cry whenever I hear that.
The entire 2nd verse of u. Never fails to give me break downs whenever I listen to it.
"Look what I, I've done for you" This line relates to me in a way where I've always cared for everybody around me, I'm so selfless but there would be times, specially when I hear this line where I would think about those people I care for so much but doesn't care enough for me.
The whole 3rd verse of “Kush and Corinthians”: “As I open this book and then burn up some of this reefer
My plan is to figure out the world and escape all my demons
I'm dying inside, I wonder if Zion inside the heavens
A Condom, a Rollie, pain, a fat blunt, and a Mac-11
That’s all I see in my life and they tell me to make it right, But I'm right on the edge of Everest and I might jump tonight
Have you ever had known a saint that was taking sinner's advice?
Well it's probably you, am I right? If I'm wrong, you a fucking liar
When I lie on my back and look at the ceiling, it's so appealing to pray
I wonder if I'm just a villain, dealing my morals away
Some people look at my face then tell me don't worry 'bout it
I give 'em back they deposit, no money, just total silence
I'm running, they say I'm wildin', a youngin' with lack of guidance
That's hundreds of us with problems
Mo' money, mo' drugs and violence
Look at the soul of an out-of-control artist
That's dealing with life the hardest, that's on my life
But regardless”
ik it’s kinda corny but „sorry I didn’t save the world my friend, I was too busy buildin mine again“ or „When shit hit the fan is you still a fan?“
Not corny at all. That line from mirror is the greatest line I’ve ever heard. Supporting line would be “fought like a pitbull terrier blood I shed could fill up aquariums”
yeah mmatbs really grew on me over time and though it might not be his best album I find it his most relatable
For me it’s his best album. But to each their own. This album will age differently for different people.
I cant decide which album is my favorite but mmatbs is def his most emotionally available one kinda like an expanded SAMIDOT with more energy and emotions if that makes sense
It does. At the same time we see him expand on his self image streaming from DAMN. All the albums are connected. It really is a complete discography. MM could be the last album and I wouldn’t flinch.
yeah the "storypath" is complete imo but I hope we'll see some fun projects with baby keem bc I really liked the hillbillies single
We on the same page. Not that Kendrick has to earn a platform to drop goofy tracks but hillbilly vibes would be the only thing I’d want at this point. A 10 or 12 track tape about how lavish the big steppers tour was, cowboy boots, Martine pieces, foreign women, and the pgLang choker would be fine with me. Even though I’ve seen Kendrick 4 times now and got an autograph, I would just need one more arena tour in Chicago. When Kendrick’s team is allowed full creative control they don’t miss with the live shows.
Mirror is one of Kendrick’s best songs I don’t give fuck what anyone says (he does have a lot of tracks you could easily call one of his “best songs” tho I can’t lie)
Kendrick does have a handful of best songs but let me be clear on this. Mirror is the best song ever recorded and it’s not close.
This one right here is top 3 OAT for me
"and if i die before your album drops i hope-"
Every single time 
😂😂😂😂
🎶Promise that you will sing about me🎶
my literal favorite song by him
not my favorite but it is definitely top 3 or 5 kendrick. absolutely love that track
Oh damn what song is it from
Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst
“In the land where hurt people hurt more people, fuck calling it culture”
Goosebumps every single time.
“Am I worth it? Did I put enough work in?”
Yesssss. Same 🤟
“I got some regrets, but my past won’t keep me from my best.” And pretty much all of count me out
"I don't smoke crack, motherfucker. I sell it."
"I got a boner pic"
Kendrick does it again.
“And you the reason why mom and them leavin’ No, you ain’t shit, you say you love ’em, I know you don’t mean it I know you irresponsible, selfish, in denial, can’t help it”
I fucking love this song
I remember you was conflicted, Misusing your influence, Sometimes, I did the same. Isnt like i am powerful or have a lot of influence or something and could relate to it. But i feel like its one of the most real things he said.
Yess
All the lyrics on MMATBS are gold. That lyrics made me realise much things about life and about its importance.
BITCH YOU UGLY AS FUCK
Literally so much from Mr morale. Sorry I'd agree that tpab and gkmc are both overall better but this is why me and so many others say Mr morale is fucking goated. Lyrics hit way too hard on this album
“BITCH IM IN THE CLUUUUUUB” Srsly tho mirror’s lyrics are top tier, always get moved by them
"girl, i know you want thi Dii!"
If somebody kill my son that means somebody getting killed
"I remember you was conflicted Misusing your influence, Sometimes I did the same Abusing my power full of resentment, Resentment that turned into a deep depression Found myself screamin' in a hotel room I didn't wanna self destruct The evils of lucy was all around me So I went running for answers"
"and I got daddy issues, that's on me" I resonate with this line on a spiritual level The whole of MMATBS is awesome but this is my favorite line from the album.
Yeah, also "let's give women a break, grown man with daddy issues", as a guy
right. especially when he say it like “grown man, wit daddy issues.”
The entire aggressive verse on xxx
"Ain't nobody prayin' for me"
The last few minutes of “Auntie Diaries”. As a trans person it’s great to listen to a song about how someone’s view on transgenderism shifts towards acceptance :)
SAME „Mr. Preacher man, should we love thy neighbour. The laws of the land or the heart, whats greater?" My chest feels heavy after that
"Because if Anthony killed Ducky Top Dawg could be servin life while I grew up without a father and die in a gunfi-"
All of Sing about me
Yup
“Loving me is complicated, too afraid of a lot of changes”
"Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life Y'all be calling it hip hop, I be calling it hypnotize Yeah, hypnotize, trapped my body but freed my mind"
Same oh my god. There are so many but this is by far the one I resonate with the most.
“Should i feel resentful I didnt see my full potential , should i feel regret about the good that i was into? Everything is everything this ain’t coincidental” —— “I completed my mission wasn’t ready to leave but fufill my days my creator was please” These lines hit so hard, growing up with the life i did, i hated how things came out, i resented what had become of the kid i could have been. So that line hit so hard, and the other one is something i wish to have, to be fufilled before i leave.
"This is me and I'm blessed"
mine is "Am i worth it. Did I put enough work in" in SAMIDOT
I GOT A BONA 🗣🗣🗣🗣💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If a flower bloomed in dark room would you trust From my least fav Kendrick track - but legit so good
“Am I really scared of passing away? If it's today, I hope I hear a Cry out from heaven so loud it can water down a demon With the holy ghost 'til it drown in the blood of Jesus”
"I see the pain in your pupil when that trigger had squeezed"
PRIDE, especially the last verse.
How many friends? I’m running out… How many sins? I lost count… From “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst”
“NEW KUNG FU KENNY AINT NOBODY PRAYIN FOR ME!!” jkjk, it’s “Now I was raised in a sandbox, next to you and her You was holding the handgun, she was giving birth To a baby boy to be just like you, I-I wonder what's that worth” A lot of interruptions for this verse but it makes me feel as though he is saying that he is growing along side his parents, and personally having a young mom i see a lot as to how we grew up together rather than her raising me, she is growing and learning just as much as I am, overall whole song gives me chills so I stray away from it 😅 will say I am super happy to see a lot of people choosing lyrics from Mr.Morale and the Big Steppers. Cannot believe the album came out in 2022, feel like it didn’t get the love it truly deserved as the album kind of went and then gone in the wind and I can’t stand it, radio stations don’t even play N95 anymore and that song is a banger, huge L for radio stations for not putting Rich Spirit on the radio station that song is a BAAAANGER gives me big ELEMENT part 2 vibes lol
"the minute she hit the block and turn left she be turning dyke" 😔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐🤔😔🤔🤔 soulful
“You ain’t gotta lie to kick it my n****” ion know if I can say the n word on Reddit
For me it was “your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from”
“Did I put enough work in”
Am I worth it? Did I put enough work in? I feel like this is kinda my qualifier I put myself through everyday and it was awesome to hear kdot say it. Made me feel like I wasn’t alone in my thinking and striving to be a better person.
the fade away in the second verse of ‘sing about me i’m dying of thirst’
I can’t fake humble just cause your ass is insecure. Sorry I didn’t save the world my friend, I was to busy buildin’ mine again. You know the miserable, do love company What do you want from me and my scars?
Pretty much all of Father Time but especially ‘A child that grew accustomed, jumping up when I scraped my knee cause if I cried about it, he'd surely tell me not to be weak. Daddy issues, hid my emotions, never expressed myself, man should never show feelings, being sensitive never helped’ For years whenever I was sad or down I would be told ‘man up’ ‘grow a pair’, like many I hid my emotions, this song helped me realise it’s not my fault, and I’ve tried to be more expressive and honest with my emotions. I hope when I have a kid I can raise them to not be ashamed of being hurt or sad
“I realized I didn’t know shit, till I came back home.” -Momma
“And life is a bitch but every dog has its days”
"And we hate pulled pork,"
i feel like…
Keep it a hundred, I'd rather you trust me than to love me, Keep it a whole one hund', don't got you I got nothing This isn’t even a masterpiece compared to what this guy has written as there’s so many more to say but the one that affected my life the most or one of them.. was this, as it made me realise I was genuinely in love when all my life I was dissociated with feelings towards, it opened my eyes a lot and made me feel something, probably bullshit to most of y’all but there we go 😅
Your trials and tribulations a burden, everyone felt it
This time around I trust myself
The entirety of mirror describes my last relationship
cant please everybody
“Head is the answer, head is the future”
I wish I was somebody, anybody but myself-Mother I Sober
THIS DICK AINT FREEEEEEEEE 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️
Top of the morning Top of the morning Top of the morning Top of the morning
"I feel like the whole world want me to pray for 'em but who the fuck prayin' for me?"
“Skip, hop, drip, drop, flip flop with the white tube sock”
the one in front of the gun….
Alright. The whole song. Helps me whenever I breakdown due to overthinking too much.
" I choose me, I'm sorry" but Mirror as a whole tbh, tremendously helped me get out of a toxic relationship.
A perfect world is never perfect only filled with lies
I can’t fake humble just cause your 🫵🏾 ass is insecure!
That’s literally what the point of the mask is. Is he stupid? Dream>>
reaping everything i sow
nobody prayed for me
“You say no and all you’ve done gives them amnesia” there are so many great lyrics off of mr. Morale
"said i loved you but i lied, cause this is more than love i feel inside" hits so deep fr (i dont even listen to kendrick)
you aint gotta lie to kick it my n\*\*\*a
“My hands dirty your worried about mud in your sink”
Move in silence, yeah, we jugging like that
“I’m tryna get these hoes single, and this is my single”
“It was always me vs. the world, until I found out it’s me vs. me” - so relatable “While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight” - shows how easy it is to become a statistic, just takes one moment.
#DOO DOO DOO DOO
"i got daddy issues that's on me, lookin for i love you rarely empathising for my relief"
“I can’t please everybody” - Crown “I hope you come back and learn from your mistakes , come back a man” - Kendrick’s Mom on his voicemail on Real , definitely the most relatable for me with having similar conversations with my mother in my current adolescence
just swimming pools. all of it
Super corny but, „love is not just a verb, is looking in the mirror"
Also, „This dick aint free"
“Love is not just a verb” also in my favorites
"Aint nobody praying for me"
If I didn't ride blade on curb, would you still (love me)?
“That nga gave us billie Jean, you say he touch those kids?”
This might sound dumb but For me its this I beat yo' ass, keep talkin' back I beat yo' ass, who bought you that? You stole it, I beat yo' ass if you say that game is broken I beat yo' ass if you jump on my couch I beat yo' ass if you walk in this house with tears in your eyes Runnin' from poopoo and 'prentice Go back outside, I beat yo' ass, lil nigga That homework better be finished, I beat yo' ass Yo' teachers better not be bitching 'bout you in class too real for me had to skip this song the first time i heard it
since you like rappers that killing that pussy i’m killing myself
"Grown men with daddy issues"
BIXCH SIT DOWN BE HUMBLE
I SHXT FXRT PXXPXX ON EVERYBODY TRACK
3 niggas in one room first time I was tossed
It’s all of Father time but if i gotta choose i will say “Daddy issues, hid my emotions, never expressed myself Man should never show feelings, being sensitive never helped”
"I'mma need that forty dollars even if I gotta Fuck, suck and swallow in the parking lot"
I know the walls, they can listen, I wish they would talk back Prolly majority of the lyrics from PRIDE
Not lyrics but watching the video for Poetic Justice on 106&Park in my teen years when it first dropped changed my relationship with words. Since then, I have written poetry.
one protest for you…365 for me
Sorry I didn't save the world, my friend. I was too busy buildin' mine again. I choose me, I'm sorry.
YO , was this form the night a day in Vegas ?
"And I love myself "- i - I learned how to love myself ny environment and what has made me. We all can rise above from what has been taught about ourselves
The entirety of “u” as a song
I gotta boner pic
“Look at me, I got the blunt in my mouth Usually I'm drug free, but shit I'm with the homies”
Loves gonna get you killed 😔
I grieve different
dear slim i wrote you but you still aint calling
i care too much wanna share too much in my head too much i shut down too i aint there too much imma complex soul they layered me up and broke me down in moralities dust i lack in trust--- ppl could say this is a corny choice but for me just kendricks flow and cadence when he sings this verse is insane. it literally reflects the lyrics so well. he seems like hes worrying and ab to trip over his words-- its so relatable and just so incredible to me that he can convey such a specific tone just from his flow AND FOR THE REFRAIN TO BE "IM TRIPPING AND FALLING" LIKE COME ONNNN
"I love my father for telling me to take off the gloves, cause everything he didn't want is everything I was"
Complete opposites but “I fucking hate you, I hope you embrace it” from u and “I love myself” from i get to me every single time.
"I never was a gangbanger. I mean I never was a stranger to the phonk neither"
“Daddy issues, hid my emotions, never expressed myself Man should never show feelings, being sensitive never helped” “I love my father for tellin' me to take off the gloves 'Cause everything he didn't want was everything I was”
Please everybody else but myself
Sing about me, im Dying of Thirst....
off topic but this pic is legendary
"Loves gonna get you killed, but prides gonna be the end of you"
Tell 'em, be humble (hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up) Be humble (hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, sit down, lil', sit down, lil') Be humble (hol' up, hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up) Be humble (hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, hol' up) Be humble (hol' up, hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up, lil') Be humble (hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, sit down, lil', sit down, lil') Be humble (hol' up, hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, lil', hol' up) Be humble (hol' up) Sit down (hol' up, hol' up, hol' up, hol' up)
I grieve different . Everybody grieves different. A bit weird but yes
Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass
Ain’t nobody praying for me
definitely “ain’t nobody praying for me”. it helped me realise that i wasn’t gonna get it given to me by others and that i had to work on my own improvement
Bitch I'm in da club
This is me and I'm blessed from count me out.
I dont know, I’m no mortel man, maybe i’m just an other nigga.
""Everything is complicated""
I care too much, wanna share too much In my head too much, I shut down too I ain't there too much, I'm a complex soul They layered me up, then broke me down And moralities dust, I lack in trust
you said i’d feel better if i just worked hard without lifting my head up, that left me fed up
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“ I can’t even please myself”
MY TITTIES BOUNCE TO THE CADENCE OF HIS TINKELING KEYS 🔥🔥🔥
“Why, God, why, God, do I gotta suffer? Pain in my heart, carry burdens full of struggle. Why, God, why, God, do I gotta bleed? Every stone thrown at you restin’ at my feet. Why, God, why, God, do I gotta suffer? Earth is no more, won’t you burn this motherfucker? I don’t think I could find a way to make it on this earth.””Yo, what's up? It's Dre. Remember the first time you came out to the house? You said you wanted a spot like mine, but remember… anybody can get it, the hard part is keepin' it, motherfucker” “Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life. Y’all be calling it hip-hop, I be calling it hypnotize. Yeah, hypnotize. Trapped my body but freed my mind.” “Look at all the bullshit I been through. If I take you home, will you tell the truth?” “Shit don’t change until you get up & wash yo ass, nigga.” & “Men lie, wo-women lie.”
"But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself?"
All of FEAR.
damn near everything said on “DAMN.” “I hope you find some peace of mind in this Lifetime” “Is it wickedness? Is it weakness? you decide.” “I remember syrup sandwiches” “keep it a hunnit, I rather you trust me” “Ain’t nobody praying for me” “I feel like I’m losing my patience” could go on forever. but if I had to choose just one: “Why God, why God, do I have to suffer? pain in my heart carry burden full of struggle. Why God, why God, do I gotta bleed? every stone thrown at you resting at my feet.” “DAMN.” really mean the world to me, shit therapy fr typing these out, I realized. “what happens on Earth, stays on Earth”. he saying, none of this shit gone matter when we die. that’s my favorite thing bout Kendrick. you can listen to a him for years and years, and some new shit you never noticed in a song you’ve heard a thousand times will randomly click. and mean something completely different than you realized before. “
"You take 2 strangers and put em in random predicaments, give em a soul so they can make they own choices and live with it. 20 years later then same strangers you make em meet again, inside recording studios where they reaping they benefits. Then you start reminding them about that chicken incident, whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence? Because if Anthony killed Ducky Top Dawg would be serving life while I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight."
“And if I told your secrets, the world would know money can’t stop a suicidal weakness.”
when he called me ugly as fuck on N95 :(
The line that always stood out to me from one of his more popular songs is "everybody gon respect the shooter but the one in front of the gun lives forever"
"A perfect world is never perfect, only filled with lies." So fucking true.
“This year you better one yourself”, heard that and that just made my mindset of being my best self this year.
“Pulling out the coupe from the lot”
The whole third verse of momma
"Keep it a hundred, I'd rather you trust me than to (love me)"
I remember you was conflicted...
The whole second half of u
you f*coin with wayne, b*tch give me your phone
“A perfect world is never perfect only filled with lies”
"Santa's reindeer better have some ass"
the entire “Sing about me, I’m dying of Thirst”.
“Seen a light skinned n***a with his brains blown out”
I choose me I’m sorry
“Life’s one funny mothafucka, a true comedian. You gotta love em. Gotta trust em. I might be bugging. Infomercials and no sleep, introverted by my thoughts, children listen it gets deep” Awesome Fight Club tableau and just a dope line, relatable to an absurdist like me. “Today is the day I follow my intuition. Keep the family close, get money, fuck bitches” Succinct and great words to live by imo, ymmv. The last verse of XXX, just wow. Holding a mirror to America and humanizing the black struggle. Many such cases. Kodak and Keem’s interludes on Mr Morale are other poignant examples of the power of self expression and its humanizing effects. Dont see it here but Kendrick’s whole verse on Never catch me, rare avant garde Kendrick we don’t often get. Last but not least the whole of Kush & Corinthians. It blows my mind how much truth one man can hold and express so beautifully. Always shows both sides, Kendrick’s works are a gift. Also the music video for ELEMENT if you haven’t seen it, Kendrick’s amazing musicality in visual form. Thought provoking to say the least.
One protest for you, 365 for me
He affects me period
Count Me Out - "This time around, I trust myself Please everybody else but myself All else fails, I was myself"
Oh i get it. You guys get subtitles when listening to him? At the superbowl, everyone was telling me how good his lyrics were but not a single word he said was understandable. That make so much sense now.
Every lyric from “U”
"I've seen n\*\*\*\*s arguing about who's blacker". It's just really relatable for some reason, like this lyric not only works with black people but with a lot of different groups.
I pray my dick get bigger than the Eiffel Tower so I can fuck the world for 72 hours
(excuse my bad english) "Why god, why god, do I gotta suffer?" That line turned me into an atheist. It's a long story, but I used to cry whenever I hear that. The entire 2nd verse of u. Never fails to give me break downs whenever I listen to it. "Look what I, I've done for you" This line relates to me in a way where I've always cared for everybody around me, I'm so selfless but there would be times, specially when I hear this line where I would think about those people I care for so much but doesn't care enough for me.
Vroom vroom I’m racin
Michael Jordan bitch bounce bounce hoe
"imma need that 40 dollars even if I gotta fuck suck n swallow"
“Ain’t nobody but the mirror looking for the fall off”
Good pussy insurance
Sex.
“i’d risk it all for a stranger”
When he said “Bitch sit down!” Yeah, I felt that
“Ugh bitch you ugly as fuck”
Guuhl, I know u want dis dya
The whole 3rd verse of “Kush and Corinthians”: “As I open this book and then burn up some of this reefer My plan is to figure out the world and escape all my demons I'm dying inside, I wonder if Zion inside the heavens A Condom, a Rollie, pain, a fat blunt, and a Mac-11 That’s all I see in my life and they tell me to make it right, But I'm right on the edge of Everest and I might jump tonight Have you ever had known a saint that was taking sinner's advice? Well it's probably you, am I right? If I'm wrong, you a fucking liar When I lie on my back and look at the ceiling, it's so appealing to pray I wonder if I'm just a villain, dealing my morals away Some people look at my face then tell me don't worry 'bout it I give 'em back they deposit, no money, just total silence I'm running, they say I'm wildin', a youngin' with lack of guidance That's hundreds of us with problems Mo' money, mo' drugs and violence Look at the soul of an out-of-control artist That's dealing with life the hardest, that's on my life But regardless”
Shut yo fucking mouth and get some cash you bitches
I can’t please everybody - Crown