😂😂😂

shut up

Right

not really media sold to us what they wanted Drake its Bad Bunny puppet now but that DeGenerate Music genera its just misogyny on its complete form look at Billie Elish music too Misandry on the full too but the bitch its half hot and views and subs used to be everything before human rights or morale :D I stoped listening music from Kendrick since he dropped God is Gansta I was embellished degeneration, I cant say its people choice but I cant say its a good hit to all Human traffic and stupid shit that needed to be pointed out on internet.

HEY! 🙌🏼

FrankJavCee Man, I fucking love your channel and thats exactly what I was thinking. I hope you release some more tracks on that streaming service Tradio man!

hey frank ;))))

real shit.

Lol

Hi Frank. Didn't know you were a Kendrick fan! Love your music btw

Hes making as instrument. Dude is fucking genius

This isn’t rap this is spoken word

His cadence is ridiculous. It's spoken rap cuz he does have a pocket and flow with this joint

@@dboii9741well it has a rythm and rhymes so its rap

Nah fr

He had a small part on a tv series called "Power"

@@LuisInkjet Oh yeah, I forgot he cameod on there!

You feelin empty? Having trouble making meaningful connections? ZYMBALTA CAN HELP 🤪🤪🤪

@@PeanutSpring3 further proof he needs to do more roles.

he's coming out with one with the creators of south park. that's how he was able to have those face changes in thp4

Ck

Hahahahaha best part ever 😂

This is sounds a lot like a DJ Quik

I swear that’s my favorite part💀

this shit takes me out all the time

*THIS* *DICK* *AIN'T* *FREE*

When I first watched this that caught me off guard and I died laughing 😂

Mindofamango When lil 6 year old kids hear the ice cream truck coming

0:50 or 0:49 your welcome 🙏🏾

*is ☝️

More akin to hard bop and avant garde jazz of the 50's and 60's, but understanding the lineage from blues to jazz to hip hop is essential to this track and what kendrick is saying. Rap is a continuation of jazz in poetic form, the rhythms, soloistic nature, and the fact that the song serves as a conversation stems from the ideas and values of jazz. It doesn't hit hard in spite of the jazz beat, it hits hard BECAUSE of the jazz beat, and because of what it represents in terms of musical and cultural heritage.

Yeah this is bop jazz, way more of a 60s sound

​@@mattyteerifles2863 facts 🗣🔥

​@@NateGH36O this is a minor blues in the style of mid 60s modal jazz

Rap goes all the way back to the Mississippi Delta so everything connects in the end.

Just gay af, annoying af, and no one Comin back playin this/ bumpin this down the road.. ever lol

Nope, just music for weirdos.

⁠​⁠@@smoothsavage2870@chrisfrank8564 ​​⁠nope, music for ppl who know it’s an INTERLUDE and get he’s being silly and playing on the theme of jazz music by mimicking a stereotypical slam artist but still spitting about what he meant by the track name before it “Wesley’s theory”.

@@chrisfrank8564I still bumping it 🔊

@@rtoriq this the best song on the album

no

thats the best nickname ever. it's like a joke making machine haha (working joke machine at that hauahau)

R/thathappened

Lol thats cool

And here I thought only rappers snitch on themselves

maybe a little symbolism in there too, idk

@@joshuaflackua A lot of symbolism in there

It’s not a ratchet conversation, I think you need to relisten to the song a few times. :)

Overlord Ghs YES I KNOW THE SONG I MEAN ITS LOGICAL AND EVERYTHING BUT THE VIBES ESPECIALLY IM THE START YES I GET IT

That's not genius by any standards.

Respect

Jazz is scary by itself but this level of jazz is like the final boss of a musicians career.

@@juannaym8488 I know jazz musicians who have panic attacks just from listening John Coltrane

Just listened to this for the first time and now hop-jazz feels like a life goal

He aint mr morale his more of a big stepper

I hope you come back and add more Kendrick characters every time a new album drops 😂

he should be in a movie

KSChrome XD right

I guess

By the time

All i learnt from it is Kendrick is EVERYWHERE and you cant escape him

this. content. ain’t. *freeeeeeeeeeee*

Agreed

im DEAD

Randomly coming across this comment five months later at 12:04 am and literally laughing out loud, well done.

A man of the culture

he does

​@@therealyskdaeyeah in his dreams. Be real, he lost.

@@therealyskdae lol I need an update on how stooopid you feel cause everything coming out now

His team of writers told him he had a chance.

People literally think that Drake won. Logic doesn't always prosper.

me😂

drake career still going lol he outlast Kdomestic

@@MichiganHendough I see you're one of BBL Drizzy's groupies. XD

@@MichiganHendoughHell fuckin naww

@@MichiganHendoughD1 glazing

Not just the personification of tax but of capitalism itself. He's also talking about the exploitation of the working class in general.

isn't uncle sam the person that iconic person on pictures that recruite for the army?

@@callmezagh3884 Uncle Sam is America's mascot. It represents the two great facets of the US: capitalism and imperialism.

Didn't she supposed to be Lucy?

Great interpretation!!

I dont understand the saying...

+Rmo balk It's saying how America tries to keep minorities, especially Black people in this case, from rising to power, politically, emotionally, and physically. When she refers to Uncle Sam, it's referring to the government and institutionalized racism tactics. Or, at least, I guess.

+dfjr1990 especially the fact that it then leads to King Kunta

+Glen “PhoenixKId” Oliver i thinks its about people who complains about racism but actually..there is none

+Michael Jason “oops” Seibert That's another issue entirely, but you can't just generalize and say there is NO racism

ikr

Yaeh

MM&BS was a compilation of his whole work.

expect completly different messages

I'll use this too if you don't mind

@@whatuser8I’ll also use this too if you don’t mind

and the smile he gives when hes uncle sam

INVICTUS 😂 same i changed my profile pic to it

Dylan Monarch yes I thought I was alone 😂😂😂😂

INVICTUS I am choking from laughing at that part.

INVICTUS nigga my sides hurt I was laughing so damn much!😂

Trying to keep up with him is ridiculous I dont think any other rapper in the world could do this shit

That is an absolutely amazing insight. I absolutely understand what you mean especially when he sped up at the end, on par with the other musicians becoming more spastic and visceral.

AMEN, you are totally right. His voice is like a wind instrument flowing and improvising.

Very well said

No son, no

Now live in yo purpose

@@USNDTHEMYT It was fun until you started to put money in the streets.

​@@Mark-se4drthen lost monsy once they came back with no recipts

@@Mr.Morale5I’m sorry that I live a boring life I love peace

im a Kendrick fan and i personally did not like damn.

@@favorejiofor24 I can understand Damn was good but faar from a classic. Tpab is waay better

Jordan B i said i didnt like it lol

@@favorejiofor24 I can understand why you don't like it is what I said. Damn was good like a solid 7 imo. Personally I think J. Cole with Kod was better

DAMN. 7/10

The needle drop

+Whatthefuck Whtff well"

+The Shiny Haxorus Nah, it's garbage.

***** Well I didn't think you would care...

***** No probs !

No it's not. They have vastly different styles and mean two vastly different things.

And WOW! It's AMAZING!!!😳

Oh wow 6 years late

You've never hear R.A. The Rugged Man?

that was incredible

It's not on and off beat he emphasizes on the upbeat then the downbeat but always on beat

Tarleda Manley Word

Headass

oreosaysb00 That was a lot of To Pimp a Butterfly but yeah mostly this song, really cool cross over that's done so well

There is a lot of jazz hip hop on KZfaq.

ever heard of a tribe called quest?

oreosaysb00 and poetry

I wouldn't say Kendrick is rapping in this song. It's more spoken word, basically slam poetry over jazz.

Drake was right lmao

⁠​⁠@@daepicclown8608 yeah that’s why they bumping not like us in clubs and the public opinion is that drakes on weirdo time. He really took him on 😂

@@daepicclown8608 the epic clown with the most epic clown take

@@daepicclown8608i expect more from an MF DOOM head. your name accurate tho 🤡

@@TheJ1aa2m3 their is literally no proof at all, every Kendrick fan is only hating on Drake nobody else dawg.

NO!!! This interpretation is when the metaphors don't reach you.

Matador means killer in spanish so"killer killer knock and let him in"

"Matador matador had the door knocking let him in..."*

Those little nuances in the album are what really makes it great.

That's simply the essence of Jazz right there, conversation.

Literally never noticed this, incredible

"BULLSHIT"

That's deep

That line was deep man

And true asf

Pls explain

Sometimes you gotta pop out and show people

@@patrickracer43 he’s the one that ups the score with em!

Not to mention that King Kunta is the next song on the album right after she says you aint no king lol.... Very clever stuff.

Wait, what's yalls interpretation of that?

to me prolly some type law thing that makes him pay her

I didnt even put two and two together until I watched the video.

@@LonelyHeartsHarley This is old but since no one's given a full answer I think it mostly comes down to how the US demonizes black men/people and seeing a black man succeed within the system will try to villainize him. Also how he doesn't live up to the expectations of what it means to be a successful black man, to 'look down on the caterpillar', the people you come from, and how america tries to bring him down to the level of making him demonize the community that made him but he refuses to. At least my two cents coming from the rest of the album.

Go listen to God is gangsta

same here!!! i have been wheezing ever since i knew about this video hahaha

And that little walk oh his lmao

you not seen god is gangsta/u music video?

aint even acting drunk wdym

there's more to acting ... this is a music video in his own character knowing his own lines. lol

He did guest star on an episode of Black-ish.

eminem did it so can kendrick

moviemastee8510 did he really?

Maybe in black panther 2

And Kendrick couldnt do justice to Jumpman or 10 Bandz. Balance

@@seandafny well those aren't as impressive as any of K dots best songs.

Sean Dafny he could tho

@@seandafny DAMN

Drake actually used to be fire but he doesnt rap the same way he used to. Now he seems a bit more trash than he really is. I think its laziness tbh

Interesting how you were able to co-opt "black" people (more specifically ADOS) by using POC interchangeable, quite disgusting.

@@KN-wb6un ???? I said “all POC” to refer to ALL POC, not just black people. I was very clear in making those two distinct. Stop doing BS keyboard warrior shit and learn to read.

@@KN-wb6un what are you talking about?

@@KN-wb6un shut up

@KN-wb6un they did not, they said that black people were mistreated in addition to all people of color, if they used it interchangeably they would say “black skill, and all black skill” they tried to “ in addition to black people getting there skills taken advantage of, so have all POC” which can be very obviously interpreted by reading it once and I should not have to spell it out for you.

What does that mean

superAmaster when she says she gon call her uncle sam for u, thats some serious shit! u in some big trouble bro! it aint a joke no more!

And the mini van from good kid Maad city👏

Ulyces Araisa lol..... the same toyota sienna he and his friend used to stage robberies

+Theophilus Agunu it's actually a Chrysler homie

Sir: no it will be 1.50 Kendrick: 1:13

@@kinglycelay7237 😂😂😂

"This sample ain't freeeeee!"

"matter of fact it has interest, matter of fact its 9 seconds"

@@kinglycelay7237 😂😂😂😂

Jojo A he will be remembered as overrated and a whiny rapper.

penny wiser Just shut up.

+pennywiser if you feel this way toward kdot then why are you even looking at this video

to open the eyes of the blind. because I'm tired of hearing how he is the best rapper/MC/lyricist. Just cus he does concious rap doesn't mean he is the best.

penny wiser good kid m.A.A.d. city wasnt even conscious lmaooo. Just shows you dont know what you're talking about.

This sounds does not sound the least bit gangsta

nobody nigga this is crazy gansta shit

Turcios3000 Yeah, hes saying this dick aint free, that gangsta shit. What else is it, pop, rock jazz, naah it`s gangsta vocals on some psycho jazz music shit. Are they even listenin to the lyrics...

Johnny Dutch exactly

Johnny Dutch real black men that's who

It's such a menacing video tbh! 😂 I love it

I laughed so hard at this

Sgt Pepper lol

For real. I'll pop out the window and everything.

Hahahahaha

I'm dead lol

Lone Wolf yes...yes i am

yes.....yes you are

ikr

Nathan Trujillo only joke is you. smh

TheMercyl3ss1 dont feed the trolls

Mahmoud Sekeen It's deeper than that, the female represents America aka "She" or "Her" and how she has all these demands placed on the blackman, wanting things for free as if it were 500 yrs ago. That's the reason for the lines "You didn't even buy me no outfit for the 4th" which is America's offical b-day, "Imma get my Uncle Sam to fuck you up! You ain't no King!" Uncle Sam IRS or any branch of the armed services. Every chance and angle, America is demeaning and hateful towards the blackman, always trying to keep him down. Kendrick is the voice for the blackman saying "this dick ain't free" no more, futher saying I'm staring to awaken to who I am, I know who you are and I know my worth so this "dick", this blackman will never be free for your enjoyment or America's self gain ever again. Sidenote: America's greatest nightmare and greatest fear is the rise of the blackman, Him chasing Her around in the video, She is terrified, only to go outside and find more Kendrick's.

He ain't even chasing. He's saying "No more extorting me, pimping me, forcing these conventional ideas of success on me. let me teach you a lesson and you're gonna pay me what I deserve"

Exactly! 😂

I genuinely believe he will win the Nobel for Literature once he's older. I mean, Bob Dylan already did it. The thing is you usually don't win Nobels for a single project, but rather your lifes work. I would bet a 1.000 dollars he will win one someday if he keeps dropping classics.

Factsss

He got a Pulitzer, so maybe next he could get a Nobel.

@@springy64svideodump64 Still pisses me off it went to damn, to pimp a butterfly shoulda got it.

i genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or not 😭😭

yessss

It’s out now

Listen to some Digable planets, Roots or Gangstar....they used to do heavy fusions of jazz and hip-hop back in the 90s...

Rap came from jazz so yeah

Damian Privat Both are Black expression.

Check some Saba songs Mainly PROM // KING

A Tribe Called Quest also makes some amazing jazz rap, especially so on the Low End Theory.

it was just amazing from release

Yea

@@Gdurnsbkf and the message

More like an aged whiskey, it keeps getting better

Like milk

KolydoscopeMusic It is not Hilarious he is passing an important message.

Noel Collins He can do that and have the video be hilarious, you know?

Noel Collins, a lot of people may not understand this but Kendrick combines a lot of humour with his work, it's part of what makes him so great. There is a LOT of humour on To Pimp A Butterfly that a lot of people don't pick up on. Look at the hyperbolic funk/jazz sampling and Climpton and Thundercats presence on the record, it's great music but it's also a little bit tongue in cheek.

Matthew Robinson this video represents him as his favorite childhood cartoon character buggs bunny, he always wanted to be smart and witty just like him. He also wanted the ability to "pop up on yo punk ass" at any time xD

KolydoscopeMusic indeed my brother

Comment of the Year

***** Nah Charlie Clips winning

B.s kim kardashian is winning. That's what Kanye said

***** Drake is running the game without a doubt, but Kendrick is the best artist without a doubt.

***** Kendrick doesn't need a fuckin ghostwriter lol

***** A lot of it is the music industry and government as well though which is why there's the character of the Uncle Sam. He makes reference to this as well in the album's previous track, Wesley's Theory with lines like "Uneducated, but I got a million-dollar check like that" or really the entire second verse regarding Uncle Sam and how artists are almost tricked into going broke since they aren't taught how to handle their money. The last line as well of the song as Kendrick has "Tax man coming" repeating over and over. This tracks goes further into those same points while showing Kendrick's resilience to not be "pimped" by the music industry or the government. Everything regarding the girl is a parallel to the music industry and government in fact(shown by how she says "I'm gonna call my Uncle Sam to fuck you up") and while "This dick aint free" has an obvious and literal meaning, it also refers to Kendrick refusing to sell himself away. The government and the music industry benefits when an artist is spending all his money on things like gold chains or cars and eventually go broke. A lot of this track and the album as a whole deal with how Kendrick has to avoid the temptations and demons that come with the fame and how they will eventually destroy you.

***** I'm really not. He has explained a lot of this stuff himself and you could go on Rap Genius if you wanted to and check the annotations on the lyrics there as well. This is one of the most lyrically and conceptually dense records in years.

***** So you're disregarding lines like "40 acres and a mule not a 40 ounce and a pitbull" and "Oh America, you bad bitch, I picked cotton that made you rich"?

***** There's a literal meaning which is regarding the girl but most are unaware of the songs deeper lying meaning which is all I was trying to convey. Very little on To Pimp A Butterfly should be taken at face value, it's incredibly dense lyrically and conceptually.

👌

+HarvesterOfSorrow01 I think about that all the time. He's progressed every project, but how will he get better than this?

Logan Wendt If he does, I'll have a heart attack

***** There's word of him maybe dropping some new music soon. Like a song or a mixtape.

True man I rate it as the best album of this new generation of rappers

+Logan Wendt link where u found that out

Don't sleep on my boy j Cole tho since they're both the same. By that I mean is that behind there's songs there's always a message. Drake is like whatever ya know

+Kyrie Irving Quick question. Why did you mention Drake?

Radiohead makes good ones too.

i like vince staples

nigga u seen getter?

Nits lmao

Underrated

Nits his working on it

😂😂

Hell nah!??!!!

jawad sheeheed ikt

glad you could join us. kendrick is definitely one of our best, and i reccomend you listen to him as a way to ease yourself into the hip hop culture.

To be fair, this is more jazz. But if you think you like this and you're interested in broadening your listening tastes, try listening to his other tracks on the To Pimp A Butterfly album. Really good stuff on there

Raezer it’s hip hop with a jazzy slam poetry sound to it.

@@dysperdotted yea

As a fellow metalhead I can assure you there's plenty of brutal shit to discover in the hip hop community if you look in the right places

cmon, its the worst song of all time

@@gorillachamp5271ur joking lol

@@gorillachamp5271 two options with your goofy comment, opt1: you’re baiting. Or opt2: you don’t understand the song and are too lazy to even read the lyrics.

hello im goofy and you summoned me by calling me in a comment. First of all, the song doesnt sound good not like at all, "this d ain't free" gets rather really annoying and repetitive and its corny sounding shall i say, 2nd yo shoes raggidy 3rd yo music taste is dead as hel. 4th The song is just a mess the jazzy sounds with the fast rap doesnt just simply doesnt sound good, but dont get me wrong i like some of the songs in the album called "tpab" but i prefer kendricks album that came out before "tbap". Same goes with the latest album that came out in 2022 that was just a mess like this, but the other projects sounds beautiful​. "why hate kendrick" "L taste" "lil peep is prolly your fav artist" No, not really. My faves are for example: Pink Floyd, Kendrick Lamar, Björk, Travis Scott it depends on the mood, thank you for watching till the next time👊🫵💪 *npc outro song* @@tn-fw9lx

I don't consider this an interlude, rather a song

For sale? Vs for free?

@@cabbage385 but it's an interlude lmfao

@@kentuckybruce6816I like for free better

Lucas Mota classic!

+Lucas Mota DEATH GRIPS!!

+Lucas Mota INNNNAAAAAMMINATE SENSAAAAATTIOOOOONN!!!!!

Mah dik ant fre

@@bbjkapIT GOES GUILOTINE YAHH

He should just make a short movie (like Kanye RUNAWAY) for Section 80, GKMC and TPAB basically lol

kobron1559 As much as i would fucking love that it's probably not gonna happen

Yesssss that's what I'm saying . I wanna see what he gone do w/ Mortal man . And he really should do a mini movie for TPAB like nicki did for pink print ...

He should make one for "how much a dollar cost" that would be crazy

I get that the video isn't exactly dark in tone but the subject matter couldn't be more serious

He look like Jasper.

@@SwratGRL ong wtf

@@SwratGRL you mean jasper who?

@@rafiluvian045 jasper dolphin, If don’t know who he is. A actor who was a former member of OF and is friends with Tyler

@@prod.newmagiciane2342 breh i know who he is im t fan. odd future, bastard, goblin, VCR, odd toddlers, you name it. i was just askin which jasper he meant .

Forreal, props to her

You got that right

Preach it.

I would retweet that

Damn right

...so are we just quoting Straight out of Compton trailers now?

djhero0071 hes already got 1

djhero0071 he already got 7

nominated for 11 in one night the most for literally any artist except michael jackson

and notice the van from good kid maad city

True. I forgot about that. I'm still salty he lost the Album Of The Year.

Yes! I feel bad for those who don't take the time to appreciate.

Rj Stylezz I'm one of those who got what he was talking about from the jump. I didn't get all the minor details at the start but I understand the big picture he's painting. I'm glad that even if you didn't get it the first time you stood around and tried to figure it out. Open-minded people usually do that and they're usually the best. (in my opinion XD) =D

UpturnTheUncool me too man my dad and cousin have the same mentality and instilled in me when i was in 8th grade opened my eyes. im 16 now and hopefully finiscono to My last year of highschool with no troubles. in young but know what's up and can see through all of the bs and propaganda and all of the stuff america has put colored people not just african americans through (I'm cape verdean and haitian) MY THIRD EYE IS ALWAYS OPEN

Shiiiit!! I was HOOOOOOKEEDD!!!! ON FIRST LISTEN!!! You Playin!!!

UpturnTheUncool yh, everyone's different I guess, but the one thing we have in common is that we know and respect Kendrick as a great artist :)

I ain't even notice that

whoever directed this music video is a genius

haha 1:38 fucking hilarious

+room fr thats some harry potter type ish

Is it some random statue that he turns into or there is some other layer next to that?

Bruh this comment is too true lol imagine what he will do with his next two albums..we can't even know what direction Kendrick will go in now

Guys, for real where can he go from this!? Shit I said that about GKMC. Never mind. Kendrick's got us. We gonna be alRIGHT!

Listen to dizzy wright, he's on Kendricks level

Pleasantly Different no hes not lol. He's good but not on Kendrick's level.

J.cole Close

It took me so long to find a comment about that

When you find your bestie at the store or when you know you stole something

i just did

@@yourdad6558 I know this is late asf, but lemme get that

The face you make when your crush says “make me”

Didn't think I'd see you here Raijin, recognize you from a variety of other comment sections.