First, earlier this week TDE announced that it would be dropping a surprise album soon, and frankly I don't think anyone even dared to dream it'd be a Kendrick project. Quotable lyrics: 'Even atheists play my (expletive) / And say, 'My god, Jesus, Joseph and Mary, he’s nice' / Don’t compare me to them / Just compare me to Mike / Jordan when i’m recording.I'm not the hero you need, want or deserve, but I'm the hero you're stuck with because I invented the 1-Listen review, so let's open this laptop, pour this drink, put on my good headphones and get going.Ī bit of background before we really crack this thing open like a 24-pack of Natural Ice at a frat party. Quotable lyrics: 'My momma believed in me, she let me use her van to go to the studio / Even though she know her tank is empty, that's who I do it fo'.' 10. Quotable lyrics: 'See what we facing is now coming, back to the roots / Remember whips on our back and if we would run they would shoot? / Call us n- and figured that we'd never lived in pursuit / Of happiness, we captured these feelings in things that we do.' 9. Quotable lyrics: 'You're banking on good luck, you wishing for miracles / You never been through (expletive), you're crying hysterical / You settle for everything, complain about everything / You say you sold crack, my world amphetamine.' 8. Quotable lyrics: 'The school of hard knocks, we was the first ones in attendance / You walking down the block, he got shot, you wouldn't know I witnessed / You just mind your bidness / You just turn your head, kneel down, and then tie your tennises / It's kinda scary ain't it.' 7. Quotable lyrics: 'Sometimes I wanna say (expletive) rapping, I need money now / Like should I start trapping? If what I write down / Don't connect this very moment, then I'm on it, no question.' 6. Quotable lyrics: 'The government help? No, just put us on death row / Just give us some more guns, then give us some more coke / Then give us another chair, then give us some more rope.' 5. Quotable lyrics: 'We can't believe what we can't see and reality seems stronger than prayer / 'Cause you tried to change your life, and now you live in a wheelchair / And your son was born with cancer and he live in urgent care / At the tender age of 12, and you feel that no one cares / Searching for answers, that's human nature, you ain't in the wrong / Just know, when you feeling that way his spirit's in the room.' 4.

Quotable lyrics: 'See I've spent 23 years on the earth / Searching for answers / 'Til one day i realized I had to come up with my own.' 3. Quotable lyrics: 'On the corners where the gangsters and the killers dwell / The fraudulent tender scars that get unveiled / Everyone I knew was either Crip or Piru / Cousins in elementary, relatives in high school / With that being said, each one of their rivals / Was aiming something at my head, I needed survival.' 2. And so, in recognition of that - and in honor of the rapper's 29th birthday - here are 10 underrated Kendrick Lamar songs. He's just a human being over dope instrumentation. Or, at least, that's what the To Pimp A Butterfly artist affirmed on Ab-Soul's Outro from 2011's Section.80.īut it's precisely Kendrick's acute sense of self-awareness that has shaped his art and rendered his oeuvre a classic body of work.

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