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A r * k For those of you that aren’t huge tans of hip hop, like me, you might not know who Kendrick Lamar is. Although by now, you might recognize at least one of these three songs: “ Swimming Pools (Drank),” “ Bitch, Don’ t Kill My Vibe,” or “Poetic Justice.” All of which are fromjLamar’ s second album, “ Good Kid, M .A.D.D C it j,” released Oct. g» 2 2 ,2 ^ 2 .. Lamar’s new album, “ DAMN.” was rjjfeased on April 14. Just like the title, all of the songs featured in the album are capitalized accompanied with a period. The first song, “ BLOOD.,” is an introduction to the album in sense. ■ si abomination,” hit hard afe the idea that being a person of color in a white man’ s world is a hard lire. So whether your name is well known or not, you have to stick together arid have each other’ k back in this cruel world that we l i ^ H y Anyone that has Lamar released an ^ É alb u m , knows the song “ HUMBLE.” One of my friends introduced me to the song and said, “ This song makes hie wanf to drive around and do crazy shit.” “ HUMBLE.” was released on its own 15 days before the album. This is one of the most upbeat songs on the album, and could easily be a great song on i t ^ ^ K but oddly enough it fits perfectly into the album. This song was also made into a music video. It’ s a materpiece that you’ll just have to watch it. In “ HUMBLE.” Lamar sings, L j l ’m so fuckin’ tired of the photoshop Lamar notices a blind woman who looks like she’ s struggling to find something, so he walks up to her and asks if she needs help. She responds by killing him dead on the street. My take on this intro show me somethih’ natural like ass with some stretch marks” is, you can’t trust everyone you m eef’Bh the street. The outro to the ^ ^ S ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ M e m i n i s t s , even thoughrnerW eussm gancr song is a FoxNews excerpt. In June of 2015, Lamar opened the BET Awards standing on top of a some other explicit languange, Lamar is still respectful to his audience. It’s hard to pick a favorite when the entire album is great, but “ LUST.” , graffiti cop car performing the song, “ Alright” from his third album, is in my top five. The beat in the beginning, pans from the left speaker “ To Pimp a Butterfly” which was released in March of 2015. Later, Eric Bolling and Kimberly Guilfoyle th en criticized his to the right, and back a few times, making you feel a little disoriented. Which is a great transition into this song from “ HUMBLE.” performance in a Fox News segment. Lamar starts singing, In “ BLOOD.,” Lamar samples the news segment, where Bolling said, “ I need somewater “ Lamar stated his views on police brutality with that line in the song, something came over me quote ‘And we hate the popo, wanna kill us in the street fo’ sho.’ ” and hot to simmer down which you hear Guilfoyle reply with, “ Oh please, ugh, I don’t like it.” might as well overheat... ” : • t’ s obvious that Lamar’s views on police brut^ity The theme of being disoriented follows through this song as blood haven’t changed since last year, and he wanted to make that very iavi rushes his “ favorite Vjtfi” and his heart races like a junkie’s ab he tries cleat in this album. The next song, “ DNA.” was made into a music video A H .,” the to get a girt to have sex with him. This album is an am a^ fcp iece of art that is Kendrick Lamar’s life. third song in the album is playing in the background. They zoom in Un Larner sitting in an interrogation room, cuffed to the table with a The transitions in between each song are so smooth, the first time you listen A the album all the way through you might catch jjgjiself lie detector next to him on his right. A bjack cop walks in and starts to interrojjgte him. He says, “ You k n o v ^ ^ p t DNA stands for? Dead looking down at the playiist to see if you’re still on the same song or if it’ s changed. N i g H H H L a t i o n .” Jja r I could e a silf ramble onabout how great this album is^especially The cop takes a seat next to the lie detector and the excerpt of Fox Newsfrom “ B1£)OD.” echoes in, h e ^ K to start the lie detector and after r e s e a ^ B g deeper intoxhe m ean irkof every song a n ^ B in g r is electrocuted. Then the song starts, “ 1 got loyalty, got royalty inside m yD N A^gg^ jg |? ¡r DNA an The vi ideo and the lyrics, “ My DNA not for imitation, L < I •C lackam as Print MAY 3,2017 theclackamasprint.com together p a rts ff the puzzle yourself?^ 1 « r V hoe they arfe connected. . But the more you listen to it, th e lio re you notice and start to piece s - R i
