I know Kendrick Lamar Regrets this
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So u didnt listen to the song huh? its cool i wouldnt of expected u to know real rap anyway
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i don't give a ? how deep the symbolism is
that ? is corny and he sounds like he's 5 minutes away from chasin a wascawwy wabbit
? kendrick fudd -
to be honest i think the fact that the ? is supposedly so "deep" makes it even wacker
ain't nobody tryna decipher his corny ass bars and learn a lesson or gain insight to his corny ass life -
Lol @ him doin tracks with ur boy birdman doe. and it bump in the whip, please my ? jus stop..
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lol @ backinwhite bumpin his head mad that kendrick on the track and killed it
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MC The Rapper wrote: »"If you was in a pine box
I would surely break the lock
I’d jump right in and fall asleep
Cause you are the death of me
This might seem like a straightforward message of him talking about how much he cares about someone, but really it’s nothing like that at all. He’s using death as symbolism for becoming mainstream or “selling out”
Looking in the mirror I’m embarrassed
I’m feeling like a suicidal terrorist
React like an infant whenever you are mentioned
Kendrick feels like a hypocrite for how he used to act like a child when mainstream artists such as Drake were mentioned. Either disrespecting or discrediting them due to jealousy
Now he feels like a suicidal terrorist because he’s killing the person he used to be for hopes of a better life. (Similar to the afterlife that terrorists are often promised for the sacrifice)
He is embarrassed because when he looks in the mirror he realizes he is becoming a mainstream rapper and is on the verge of blowing up
Mind over matter never worked for my nemesis
mind over matter is a term used to describe the belief that the mind is more powerful than the body. a nemesis is defined as a persons weakness or the thing that will ruin them. so he’s saying the fundamentals of mind over matter never worked when it comes to his nemesis (which is the fame, money, and vanity talked about through the song)
I’m in the matter of man arm wrestling hands
I was dope when I said the music business was all I needed
A record deal and fame was all he ever wanted. But when he finally signed his contract the A&R’s/the music business' hand shake felt strong and painful like a match of arm wrestling
When I got it I was greeted by an alien
When he finally got his sound right, he met Fame. On this track, Kendrick (like several rappers in the past) personifies Fame and gives her a somewhat poisonous personality. The term Alien is Kendrick Lamar’s way of describing a beautiful woman. He shares this with us in his track “Alien Girl” off of the O.verly D.edicated EP
That said last year that she slept with a Canadian
That gave him an addiction
That would keep him in Mercedes Benz
Bright lights and Rhianna as a lady friend
Kendrick goes on to explain how Fame was essentially bragging about how she made “The Canadian” (Drake) addicted to vanity and led to him living a flashy lifestyle, driving nice cars, going to nice places and being friends with stars like Rihanna
My vice is similar
Kendrick feels as though he is also getting drawn into the vanity slave lifestyle, especially when it comes to women
women love when your my type
It seems that since meeting Fame, Kendrick has also gotten acquainted with some of her friends (groupies)
And you winning from everything that your palm write
They especially love it when you got the fame and the money from the songs that you write. For a true artiste like Kendrick, it is impossible to avoid groupie attention
Put her in the Palms Hotel, sin city
Devil in a dress, Platinum Chanel
Live the ambiance all cause the audience
One day said I would do it
Kendrick explains how easy it is to get caught up in your own hype from the energy of some of the fans
Drake also references this phenomenon in Fear
“But it’s funny having fans
Who find you before anybody ever has the chance
And build you up so you could be the biggest in the game
And realize when you’re there, sometimes the ? don’t feel the same”
So instead of a verse being read
Ima go ‘n get some head off the strength of my music
Instead of reading a verse from the Bible, he goes to get head from a woman that is probably only interested because of the fame his music brought him
I tell a bad ? your ass too fat
Capitalize That, and you weave look good
With the Indian tracks
Kendrick realizes that in order to be successful in the industry (or capitalize), he needs to degrade women in a way while still trying to sugarcoat it so that they will still buy his music
Tracking device on your used 5 series
I don’t call back just blame it on your Canadian
The same day we say we in the area cruisin’ in Toronto
Hit me on the cellular, thought he was gonna sell me a false word
Like the rappers I know
Sat down with a few drinks, located where you can’t see us
A white waitress on standby when we need her
Speaking about meeting Drake when he was on tour in Toronto. He thought Drake would just say they’ll work together but not follow through with it, but Kendrick Lamar was proven wrong and got put on the album
He explains exactly this situation on a recent interview with MTV
A black Maybach 40 pulled up G
No doors all that ? was missing was Aaliyah
Felt like the initiation
A reality living in the matrix
In the movie The Matrix, Neo is initiated into the real world by choosing the red pill. Kendrick sees Drake and learns about living with fame from the encounter
He felt like Drake was bringing him into the game. Into the higher part of the game and bringing him out of the underground. Now, his dreams are coming true so he is no longer living reality, he is in the matrix of life
We talk casually about the industry
And how the women be the taste makers for the ? we makin’
Then he said that he was the same age as myself
And it didn’t help cuz it made me even more rude and impatient
Kendrick and Drake almost share the same age (June 17, 1987 and October 24, 1986).
When Kendrick sees everything that comes with the fame he wants to become famous, too. ASAP!
He gets impatient when Drake tells him that his time is yet to come and that he probably should focus more on a healthy growth as an artist than to rush to his 15 minutes of fam
So blame it on Mr OVOXO, the reason why I’m breathing on the vanity I know
The reason why my best friend said she love me more than life
But I live a double life and need to let her go
Kendrick is suggesting that his best friend, most likely a personification of truth, or being true to his art, loves him — but he is flirting with fame and is going to have to let truth go to become famous
The reason why the highlight was when he said
You alone to the people when you outside
So dig a shovel full of money, full of power, full of ? , full of fame
And bury yourself alive, then I died"
A powerful metaphor for the trappings of fame — you may be surrounded by wonderful things, but you are in essence buried underground — kept away from other people and meaningful interactions the same lifestyle that provides you with said things
With this metaphor of digging his own grave he closes the circle to the very first metaphor in the song, the pine box coffin
Dawg you really went to rap genius and posted they explanations ?
Hell yeah ? . shoutout to RAPGENIUS.com
somepeople dont understand the lyrics, im doin this site a favor by doin that cuz t/s talkin out of his ass -
That song was good.
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yeah i rap so don't wrote: »Game isn't presenting him tot he West Coast. Game has been working with TDE for years. Everyone knows Kendrick on the West coast.
lmao no way does everyone on the west coast know him. we all know he's popular, but he aint catching the ear of people that listen to more mainstream, radio type of ? . -
i ain't even listen to the ? , doggie
i don't like none of the artists featured on that song
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lol @ u rockin a birdman avi for the longest tho, lol @ u listenin to 2chainz when that song is the same style, u jus ignorant man,, go troll somewhere else
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I think Kendrick represented himself well on this verse .... He's going to pluck some of those drake fans due to that feat. I dont think it's realistic to think a majority of drake fans are going to just hop on board off top due to that verse ... But if you combine that verse with his diverse music then all of those drake fans seeing them on tour together and it's nothing but a win IMO
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lol @ u rockin a birdman avi for the longest tho, lol @ u listenin to 2chainz when that song is the same style, u jus ignorant man,, go troll somewhere else
wowwwww
? you follow me closely don't it?
how you follow me so closely and still be wrong as ? ?
i don't listen to no ? 2 chainz
and i've had numerous wack rappers in my avi
it's a ? meatball with a face in my avi right now, ? do you get outta that, ? ?
i'm ignorant cuz i don't ? with wack ass kendrick fudd?
that angers you huh?
cut the ? , poindexter -
YO THAT TRAK WITH HIM AND GAME IS MY ? .
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all i gotta say is lamar betta make sure alize dont try & do his project on sum DETOX ? lamar betta stay on that homoz azz cuz euromath artistz r known 2 get ? ;d n da azz wit that KY & lose they manhood & musik werd 2 RAKIM , JOEL ORTIZ, BISHOP, HITTMAN & DA LIST GOES ON NO MANN..,,,
http://youtu.be/hteHcc9E3vcThat boy dont need Drake to "launch" his career. Wait till Dr.Dre gets behind Kendrick 100% and starts doing his albums and executive producing them too.... Kendrick will go on to outsell Drake and cop more grammys than dude too.....
lol@ MOD typin all this DELUSIONAL ? smh da day all that happenz woodface is sellin 10 mill on 1 album on sum get rich or die snitchin ? again wow.. -
lmao @ gee "wristless" robertson getting his troll game on
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hip-hopisalive wrote: »lmao @ gee "wristless" robertson getting his troll game on
white boy ya corny wit that wristless ? cracka dont have ya pix post;d back on herr fa us 2 lauf @ again cracka.. -
Rather hear dudes verse on "The City" over that ? Take Care anyday
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hip-hopisalive wrote: »yeah i rap so don't wrote: »Game isn't presenting him tot he West Coast. Game has been working with TDE for years. Everyone knows Kendrick on the West coast.
lmao no way does everyone on the west coast know him. we all know he's popular, but he aint catching the ear of people that listen to more mainstream, radio type of ? .
Good point! 13 year old white girls are important too. I think they ? HIP-HOP, but that's just me you are right tho.
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BackInWhite wrote: »lucky to do 250k?!
i think that ? will be lucky to do 100k overall
? head shaped like a hershey kiss and he got a speech impediment
on top of that he do all that extra wack ? and raps like a def poetry jam ?
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I don't care if it's on Drake's album or not. Kendrick killed Buried Alive. It's definitely the biggest moment of Take Care. I wish it could be longer.
