Kendrick's New Song F'd Me Up

This review is a good sign for the upcoming album review. Excited for Anthony to give it a 6!

Kendrick took the drums out before turning into Kobe and Nipsey. Drums are always linked to our heart beat. Rip to the goats.

“Everything that needs to be said has been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again” - André Gide

i'm 24 and im black. As i live my life i've had my views about society and life regarding my race as everyone does but never have i ever felt empowered through my own culture. i just finished watching the music video. I'm unfortunately suffering from clinical depression and even though i couldnt relate to alot of the things he was saying it really lifted me up. I've never really had celebrities i looked up to or wanted to meet in person but i'd love to just have a conversation with the man, just at least to tell him how the things he's doing makes more of a difference than he thinks. those are my thoughts and whoever is reading this i wish you positive vibes in your life.

Oh thanks for clarifying that it was Kendrick. I was unsure if you were crying to that or the new Jack Harlow single

That part with only bass, percussions and Kendrick it’s such a powerful performance

When Kendrick finally goes on tour again, I’m buying tickets the first chance I get, I don’t care what the price is, how far away it is. I’m not going to live my life with the regret of not having seen the voice of a generation perform live. This is a once in a lifetime artist.

Kendrick paints a picture of radical empathy. We can speculate about his motives, but the subject matter remains the same. Radical empathy is what the world really needs, but likely will never get that much of. We got to cherish it when it comes along!

I won't post a meme here. Kendrick returning to hip hop like this is one of the most potent statements I've seen in years. It's astounding. So nice to know he hasn't lost his touch. Just such an amazing piece of hip hop.

Kendrick is so important, he’s able to make those who usually post meme comments give us well thought out praise & intellectual insights. incredible

He will forever be goated for staying true to himself

I think Kendrick understands the egotism in the line "look what I done for you". He is playing with the idea that no matter what you give, the world is too chaotic and too fucked up to even really appreciate the greats without shitting on them too. A more heartfelt version of contradiction on 'HUMBLE'. This concept was being worked on in his leaked song about Michael Jackson too- How can the greatest of all time still be human and still be fucking up and still, after all that greatness, be left dead and unwanted? Kendrick knows what he's doing - fuck the savior complex criticism.

Kendrick is proof that you can succeed and reach mainstream appeal without selling out or losing your political perspective

Great analysis of an incredible comeback track. However, I will point out something important that got overlooked: The third verse was actually from the perspective of Nipsey. It wasn’t about Kendrick’s hypothetical death. The line “Sam, I’ll be watchin’ over you” helps to confirm this; it refers to Nipsey’s older brother. Just thought I’d shed some light on that.

"when shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?"

It's not Kendrick that has a messiah-complex, it's the culture! The performative messiah-complex in this track is still part of his deconstruction of black masculinity and of realness in the hood. The point is not that it's his original desire to be worshipped as a martyr, but that there's a troubled but real cult of martyrdrom that's at the heart of not only gang violence but within the wider culture, 2Pac still being the archetype for this. In order to address this in a meaningful way, he has to tap into this martyr-fantasy, he has to perform a messianic ego, not only to comment on this cult of martyrdom but also to make any meaningful comment at all, it's the only possible way of making a statement, or of having an impact within the hood / the culture, because it's these egos that are being idolized and listened to within the culture. When Kendrick says I want the hood to want me back, this desire is not self-driven narcissistic love, but a relation of troubled but real love within the hood. As he says: I'm doing this for the culture. So this is not only about trying to have an impact but also a reflection about what having an impact means and what it's conditions are. The video makes this super clear: when the face morphs to Kanyes, it's clear that he's not only performing himself but the messianic ego that's part of so many figures within rap, within the culture, but differently from Kanye he is not only taking up that role and pushing it to it's extreme, he's reflecting on it while doing it and he's trying to shift it in a meaningful direction. Yes, Kendrick has a central theme, which is the eternal recurrence of the same in the hood, almost all of his songs do circle around this central theme, and this circling around the theme is a reflection of this eternal recurrence of the same within the hood, but in almost every new song he comes up with a new thought, with a new layer! To me this wasn't the same same Kendrick but even still a new layer.

You know the track is good when the commenters are actually fucking talking about it.

I love that an artist of Kendrick’s caliber and influence is calling for compassion and empathy. It means so much, especially for a world that feels so doomed half of the time.

MAN CRIED 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Kendrick is a transcendent performer, and the consummate showman. Much like Jared Leto in his Oscar winning role as Michael Morbius. The fact that both the world of cinema and the world of music have had such historic additions to the cultural lexicon in such a short span of time is something future generations will marvel at, and what an honor to be alive at such a time!