DUCKWORTH.

What’s crazy is that Kendrick saved this story for this deep into his career. Most artists would jump right out on their first album with a story this wild

2 extra biscuits saved Kendrick lamar life

9th Wonder (Producer): how many beat switch ups do you want?

Kendrick Lamar: Yes

you can argue on who is winning the beef, but i’ll always believe kendrick makes the better music

Weird how this album came out nearly two years ago but I just recently became obsessed with this song.. That's true art that ages well.

I love how the beat changes for each person's part of the story. It adds to the art of storytelling. I love Duckie's beat!

This song is one of Kendricks best work

This ends just like a video game with multiple choices :
Good path : the curse upon Kdot is raised because Anthony chose to let ducky live , leaving a young Kendrick with a father to guide him to the good path , where this blind woman will never shoot him
Bad path (listen to the album from duckworth to blood) : Ducky is dead , leaving Kendrick to life with fear , lust , pride and a curse upon him because nobody pray for him . This leads him to the blind woman and the gunshot , closing the album

At the end of day , is it wickedness ? Is it weakness ? You decide , is he gonna live or die ?

"What happens on earth stays on earth."
Smart.

“If Anthony killed ducky top dawg could be serving life while i grew up without a father and die in a gun fight...”

Whoever produced this is a damn genius.

KDOT was so genius on this album, he literally made an album you can listen from end to start, straight backwards and it goes even harder.

Best song on the album

Lyrics.
It was always me versus the world
Until I found it's me versus me
Why, why, why, why?
Why, why, why, why?
Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth!
We gon' put it in reverse

Darling I told you many times
And I am telling you once again
Just to remind you sweetheart that my—

Oh Lamar, Hail Mary and marijuana, times is hard
Pray with the hooligans, shadows all in the dark
Fellowship with demons and relatives, I'm a star
Life is one funny mothafucka
A true comedian, you gotta love him, you gotta trust him
I might be buggin', infomercials and no sleep
Introverted by my thoughts
Children listen, it gets deep
See once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
Adaptation inevitable, gun violence, crack spot
Federal policies raid buildings and drug professionals
Anthony was the oldest of seven
Well respected, calm and collected
Laughin' and joking made life easier
Hard times, momma on crack
A four-year-old telling his nanny he needed her
His family history pimpin' and bangin'
He was meant to be dangerous
Clocked him a grip and start slangin'
Fifteen scrapin' up his jeans with quarter pieces
Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
Dodged a policeman workin' for his big homie
Small time hustler, graduated to a brick on him
Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing
That's on the daily, seen his first mil twenty years old
Had a couple of babies, had a couple of shooters
Caught a murder case, fingerprints on the gun
They assumin', but witnesses couldn't prove it
That was back when he turned his back
And they killed his cousin
He beat the case and went back to hustlin'
Bird shufflin', Anthony rang
The first in the projects with the two-tone Mustang
That 5.0 thing, they say 5-0 came
Circlin' parkin' lots and parking spots
And hoppin' out while harrasing the corner blocks
Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it
He brushed them off and walked back
To the Kentucky Fried Chicken
See at this chicken spot
There was a light-skinned nigga that talked a lot
With a curly top and a gap in his teeth
He worked the window, his name was Ducky
He came from the streets the Robert Taylor Homes
Southside Projects, Chiraq, the Terror Dome
Drove to California with a woman on him and 500 dollars
They had a son hoping that he'd see college
Hustlin' on the side with a nine to five to freak it
Cadillac Seville, he'd ride his son around on weekends
Three-piece special with his name on the shirt pocket
'Cross the street from the projects
Anthony planned to rob it
Stuck up the place before back in '84
That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war
So many relatives telling us, selling us devilish works
Killing us crime, intelligent, felonious
Prevalent proposition with nines
Ducky was well aware, they robbed the manager
And shot a customer last year
He figured he'd get on these niggas good sides
Free chicken every time Anthony posted in line
Two extra biscuits, Anthony liked him and then let him slide
They didn't kill him, in fact it look like
They're the last to survive
Pay attention, that one decision changed both of they lives
One curse at a time, reverse the manifest
And good karma and I'll tell you why
You take two strangers
And put 'em in random predicaments
Give 'em a soul so they can
Make their own choices and live with it
Twenty years later them same strangers
You make 'em meet again
Inside recording studios where they reaping their benefits
Then you start reminding them 'bout that chicken incident
Whoever thought the greatest rapper
Would be from coincidence
Because if Anthony killed Ducky
Top Dawg could be servin' life
While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight

So I was taking a walk the other day

I'm here again because Kendrick won against Drake. Don't understand how he thought he would win this one.

He’s a fan he’s a fan he’s a fan

Top 5 on the album
1. Duckworth
2. Fear
3. XXX
4. DNA
5. Pride

Just here taking a victory lap. The new Undisputed King Of Hip Hop...... Kendrick Lamar.

The sneaking genius of this song isn't just its true story, the solid samples, or the masterful delivery, but also how it quietly incorporates the themes of all the other previous titles on the album, all into this one song. Love, loyalty, God, humility, DNA, being in his element--every thing from the other 13 songs got put into this one song. A lot of people always miss that part. He saved the best track for last.

I was in prison when this album dropped. I was like 6-7 months in on my 5 year sentence when this came out. I remember seeing the album promo on TV, and just wanting to listen to it. Now I literally listen whenever I want. "Life is one funny motherfucker, a true comedian, you got to love him"