Good observation!

to me they seem like polar opposites, with Pride being slow and deep, and Humble being fast and a little less meangingful, but i think that’s what Kendrick was going for.

@@SwagathûnTheDripQueenthats what most the album is, love and lust, blood and dna, xxx and fear, God and duckworth, yah and element, and feel and loyalty, all polar opposites of eachother, in a list of wickedness and weakness. for example, pride is weakness, humble is wickedness, blooad weakness, dna wickedness, love weakness, lust wickedness. this is part of the reason why this album is often referred to as the best lyrical/ storytelling album, as when its played, the story together is kendrick slowly turning to God, weakness (his current life. In the collectors edition, the album is reversed order and tells a story of kendrick turning from God into a life of crime and death (what he fears wouldve happened if his father [ducky] never helped that guy at the kfc [top dawg], as told in duckworth)

From PRIDE. to HUMBLE. is a transition of weakness. From HUMBLE. to PRIDE. is a transition of wickedness.

FEEL gives me similar vibes, I'm thinking about making another video on that or FEAR

@@drxzi1fear has a lot more tbh but either one would be great

Fear has more in terms of stuff to breakdown but FEEL has more in emotional depth

@@drxzi1 agreed entirely

@@drxzi1Feel is an amazing song probably the best on Damn imo

Replace XXX with DUCKWORTH and i'd agree. Don't get me wrong, I love XXX, but the meaning of DUCKWORTH triumphs XXX.

@@protoberserk1352 Nah

@@okuhle1711 I agree with the other guy. XXX is quite literally my favorite song on the album but DUCKWORTH is better for the meaning and what is adds to the album

@@okuhle1711 DUCKWORTH is the throughline of the entire album, it's what makes the narritive of DAMN so interesting

you mean duckworth, fear and feel?

Thank you, I do the best I can :)

Low key I want you to do a full breakdown of your favorite album (favorite rap and favorite over all then maybe a review

@@marcelharris6541 I started writing a analysis for a song on TPAB but its impossible to do one in isolation because of how interconnected the songs are. Definitely want to do that at some point but it will take a while to do it.

It’s crazy this album has this much depth that is still being discovered 8 years after its release

My favourite part of the song

Then the back up sing in the background adds so much emotion

@@prodsage2719 Anna Wise and Kendrick is confirmed Grammys. Her band has great songs too. Steve lacy strings too :)

@@drxzi1 in another life i surely was THEREeeeEEEEEEEEE

Thanks 🙏 None of these meanings are confirmed or anything, they all come from my thoughts no genius annotations here haha

Thanks really appreciate it ❤️

did you know the songs in the album are all opposites of eachother? pride and humble, love and lust, blood and dna, xxx and fear, God and duckworth, yah and element, and feel and loyalty, all polar opposites of eachother, in a list of weakness, wickedness, weakness, wickedness, and so on. For example, pride is weakness, humble is wickedness, blooad weakness, dna wickedness, love weakness, lust wickedness. this is part of the reason why this album is often referred to as the best lyrical/ storytelling album, as when its played, the story together is kendrick slowly turning to God, weakness (his current life. In the collectors edition, the album is reversed order and tells a story of kendrick turning from God into a life of crime and death. Whcih is what he fears wouldve happened if his father (ducky) never helped that guy at the kfc (top dawg), as told in duckworth.

@@babyraven521 I do know I watched a video by tennis Tom who has an hour long deep dive on it

Good ideas

I agree!

A lot of people are not ready for this man. Those that know, know

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Glad to hear that, working on the next one now!

Thanks so much ❤️

Do it! Lmk when you do I’ll watch

That's fair, it was mostly for the title lol

@@drxzi1 lol then fair game

I agree I feel like fear and pride are necessary but without Duckworth we wouldn’t understand the entire album

@@zaidalkhatib3918 yeah and maybe Blood

@@Starry31 oh ya I forgot abt blood

Noted!

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Thank you so much ❤️

Thanks! Yeah with these videos it’s tough to work on them consistently i’ve started probably about 3 different ones but I was forcing it to try and get one out, but I don’t want to have bad analysis. I’m really hoping the get another one out by the end of the week though

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No, thank you for watching!

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Thank you so much! ❤️

Thanks! ❤️

God bless 🙏

The fact you have such a strong connection I think is exactly what Kendrick hopes in making his music, glad to see you are doing better ❤️

Thanks for watching and subscribing! This was my first video in this sort of style of editing so the next one I make when it comes out should be better. For the next one, my current ideas were FEEL or FEAR but I’ll check out Money Trees as well!

@@drxzi1do feel

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I only had about 150 when this video came out, thanks for following 🙏

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Thanks! Lots of suggestions for FEAR it may not be the next video but I will do it soon!

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@@drxzi1 There’s a show called Snowfall which uses this song in its final scene. If you haven’t watched I would highly recommend, the premise of the show perfectly encapsulates what Kendrick talks about in this song. Then greed, pride, imaginations of a utopia, then the hard reality checks. The show makes the song resonate even more.

Hope you enjoyed

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