Dad Reacts to Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 

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Man your dad is smart, it's crazy how quickly he catches things in the lyrics

I love how your dads been so humble about his opinions on rap, but now that he’s starting to truly understand rap, specifically Kendrick, he seems so confident in understanding the message(which he always understands). You’ve obviously sparked a deep love inside of him through this, thank you for always sharing the experience with us and for introducing him to these masterpieces

It’s so nice that Kendrick and his dad are reviewing his own Damn album

BLOOD is also a callback to How Much A Dollar Cost. When he sees the blind woman, he remembers the lesson he learned in HMADC and defies his cautious instincts, only to lose his life over it. This sets up the depression and the feeling of being lost and forsaken by God (ain’t nobody prayin for me) that stays across the whole album.

ive been listening to this album for 4 years and just now found out fear was 8 minutes 💀💀💀 I never skipped it I enjoyed it so much I didn't even peep that

So Kendrick named himself "Kung Fu Kenny" after the name of Don Cheadle's character in Rush Hour 2, which why he ended up getting Don Cheadle in the "DNA." video.

The second half of DNA is entirely a freestyle. Mike WiLL Made-it said that Kendrick was gonna finish before the second Fox News clip but, he continued without the beat for another minute and a half or so. So he snapped while Mike made another beat to fit the freestyle

What I love about Your channel vs others. Is your dad is a BLACK MAN. He has lived these experiences like other black children who Kendrick is speaking too. Any race can appreciate the music, but it takes an elderly black man to respect the perspective on a deep level. The language, lingo, and vibe is something he can tune into without much effort.

I always got the impression that “Feel” came after “Element” intentionally to reflect how Kendrick’s inner insecurities (feel) contrast with his outer dialogue (element). Similar to how art of peer pressure contrasted with backseat freestyle

With as much as your dad loves the jazz elements of Kendrick, you gotta get him into Anderson .Paak and Mac Miller’s last few albums. Would also love to see a Silk Sonic reaction from him!

Rihanna’s role in Loyalty is based more symbolic because of what she went through with her accountant. She also raps in the song as well. I respect Pop’s opinion. But I think she is vital to the song.

man kendrick's body of work is so marvelous that I almost cant even pick a favorite anymore. Every album so top tier and thought provoking. Makes you wonder how his mind works is levels above the ordinary man

I just figure out that even a year after uploading the video, you are still paying attention to the comment section. It has been said before, but i have to say it again, it is formidable to see you and your Dad bonding and having a walk down Kendrick's discography. I would love to do that with my Parents, but as a French Listener Bridging the Gap wth them is close to an Herculean Labour. I definitly enjoyed watching you feeling "XXX.", one of Kendrick's most underrated song IMO. I appreciate your work. Thank you.

So I was taking a walk the other day…

the story behind duckworth is just so amazing the fact that Anthony “Top Dawg” was going to kill “Ducky” Kendrick’s father is just so crazy. imagine if that would’ve happened we probably wouldnt have kendrick in our life like we do now.

I remember listening to a podcast that dissects albums. They dissected "YAH" and what I found was super cool is "YAH" is short for "Yahweh". The radar is buzzin' like Kendrick is talking to God over a radio frequency. When Kendrick goes to the line "But it's money to get, bitches to hit, yah Zeroes to flip, temptation is, yah First on my list, I can't resist, yah", Kendrick has all of these evil thoughts like "hitting bitches", "temptation", etc. but at the end of all of those lines "YAH" comes in like God is trying to communicate through all the wickedness. Found that kinda cool.

Kendrick has said the album is supposed to be played in reverse order so in that case, its like everything he's done up to blood, is the cause of his death. Succumbing to lust, pride and his soulful desires, eventually leading to him being killed unexpectedly. I can see the blind woman representing judgement, exacting the will of God without bias, but punishing him rightfully for his wrongs, but thats just one interpretation of many. Amazing album

The lines “Is it wickedness? Is it weakness?” basically make this album into a choose your own story type of album and are actually the most important lines of the entire album. Every song on the album can fall under either wickedness or weakness and they alternate, for example, BLOOD. is weakness because obviously kendrick dies in the song and the song also has a softer tone. DNA. would be wickedness because of how aggressive and boastful the song is. When you play the album in order, kendrick eventually follows the path of “weakness” and finds god. Once you play it in reverse, the entire story is flipped and he eventually goes down the path of “wickedness” and dies in BLOOD. because of it. It could also be perceived as if playing the album in reverse tells the story of kendrick if anthony killed ducky. Hopefully i explained it well enough this is all from my memory of an analysis i watched on DAMN.

When “FEAR” opens with the vocals in reverse, the first line Kendrick starts with afterwards is “I beat yo ass keep talking back” as the first detail and example of fear coming from his mother as a child..also playing on the duality and album in reverse factor

DNA still gives me chills. I wish I could have heard Gucci on the Humble beat. Mike Will originally had that beat reserved for him once he got out of jail when he lost weight.

FEAR has always been my favorite track on this album and I personally think it should have been the final song. The way it wraps all his thoughts and themes from previous tracks into 1 cohesive song is master class.

You turning it up loud as possible on the DNA beat switch 🤣🔥

You guys should also do "untitled unmastered." Demos unreleased for various reasons including deadlines, license clearing issues, etc. Dope little project in between TPAB and DAMN.

DAMN. Is a modern day masterpiece 🔥 Can't wait for the new Kendrick album next week !!

This album is designed to play backwards according to Kendrick to get the duality

I love how you just let that XXX part run with no cuts. It is the best part of the album and I feel it everytime

15:19 that’s exactly how I felt and exactly what I did when this album first came out My face was still stuck from the beat switch and I wasn’t ready to continue LIFE until I heard that shit again The bass In that second half hits so hard I still use it to test earphones and tune my equalizer presets to this day It’s the last song to stop clipping the audio

Kendrick might just be the best poet to ever touch a microphone. I use to think it was 2Pac, but then Kendrick takes it to abother level. DNA alone speaks so much in just 3 minutes that so many other wish they could say. My favorite track on here us FEEL by far. Top 3 albums of all time.

Curious to see what the total rankings would look like for Pops now that he's deep into Kendricks work

I saw this tour, and the fact that he got an entire Barclays Center to chant “Be Humble” was something that really stood out to me.

Haven’t even started the video but I hope you explained the meaning of duck-worth too him 🙏🏾💯 Love the channel ❤️

I cant wait to see you BOTH react to Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers together for the first time. Kendrick boutta make history again

I listened to this with my father in law last night. He is an old soul drawn towards classic rock but this album blew him away. He recognized a good majority of the samples he used and how clearly lyrical he is all he could say was DAMN

can’t express how much i love this channel. seeing your father experience some of my fav albums albums for the first time kind of feels like i am too so thank you (,:

This is awesome. Your dad is so lucky that he gets to listen to Kendrick for the first time and then go right into the new album. Most of us have been waiting 5 years for this new album.

If anyone was wondering where Kendrick got the name “Kung Fu Kenny” it’s from Rush Hour 2. Chris Tuckers character refers to himself as Kung Fu Kenny in the movie

Bruh I’m not gonna lie at first I thought this was just gonna be another gimmick where people just listen to popular music for views, but your dad is mad insightful. It took me multiple listens to pick up on what he does. Awesome to see, love the content

Before K Dot stops the world again, just wanna say real quick that I found this channel while in the hospital with Covid pneumonia back in December. The few vids that were up at the time distracted me from the pain and I've watched every vid since. Bridging the Gap is a necessary vibe and I can't think of anything more exciting than getting new Dot and then experiencing it with y'all this time. Bless y'all and let's dissect some bars next week lol let's go! 👏👏👏

My first full listen of DAMN. Was amazing. This is my favourite album of all time. The lyrics, the beat, the story. Some of the words he says hit me in the right spot everytime. Truly a great artist. A real artist.

GOD is one of my favorite records it's one of those windy day, windows down with ya hand out the window singing "laughing to the bank like ahhh haaaa" at the top of your lungs type record for me. But far as meaning goes I always apply the saying, "we make plans, God laughs."

I don’t know how old you are, but I’m 24 and I love reliving these albums with both of you. For example, GKMC throws me back to freshman year of high school, this throws me back to summer 2017, and all of these bring back the memories of those times in my life. Seeing you and your father react to these Kendrick albums has been awesome to watch and I love the relationship you both share. Thanks for doing this and I hope it has and will continue to be a great experience for you both.

Technically the Black Panther soundtrack was his last album. It was officially unofficially in the discography.

Listening to your dad talk around 10:15 made me realise the genius of Kendricks storytelling. Your dad was instantly hooked in the story and had this picture in his mind's eye about the lady etc. Made me realise I did too. Such a genius

Yeah, it felt that Pulitzer was actually for Pimp, it was like when they give an Actor an Oscar when it’s really for a previous role, they’re admitting they fucked up.

There was a really interesting or maybe important line in Lust. When he says “lately in James 4:4 friend of the world is enemy of the lord.” I think this is what Kendrick is battling he doesn’t want to be damned if he becomes a friend of the world.(Mainly the world’s social systems AKA, 7 deadly sins) Lust being one of them and Pride, etc. And that is where the duality theme can come from, the duality being Kendrick’s effort to battle trying not to be damned.

I’m a Korean American from the bay who moved to a border town with Mexico. This video is so therapeutic for me because it’s such a comfortable environment to explore my favorite artists and albums with bright minded people. Thank you brothas

What's good bro, just want to give you props on the relationship you and your pops hold. you can tell through the screen its super genuine how it should be! even as life happens and we all get older and for you to be putting him onto music from this era and him enjoying it is Big time!!! Keep the content coming.

Hell yeah been waiting for this one🙏 It’s nice to see that your dad truly appreciates Kendrick now, awesome vid Fr❤️

This album is wonderful and just as ripe for dissection as TPAB!!! Kendrick said this album is his personal favorite that he's done and I can see why. An important factor my girlfriend pointed out to me with DAMN was that the album had a non-linear narrative, as opposed to TPAB which tells one consecutive story. (With occasional callback and narrative parallels) What my gf explained to me was that basically, BLOOD and DUCKWORTH are bookends to an anthology of songs that comprise this "mixtape". I personally believe that the LP as a whole is more in line with the mixtape feel, even forgetting the literal presence of a dj. It's up to the listeners to connect this massive jigsaw puzzle Kendrick has laid out in front of us. He's told us a deeply complex story, told out of order, and gave us everything we needed to deduce how everything in this album was connected. The more you revisit this album, an interconnectedness starts to be noticed throughout various subject matters and styles. Personally, I love the album, and the way he put together a project as rich and multi-faceted as this goes to show why this album won the pullitzer. Just like everything Kendrick puts out, this shit's pretty deep! Sidenote: I'm so excited for the release of Mr Morale & The Big Steppers and your guys' eventual reaction. You're becoming one of my fave youtube channels, so keep it up! :]

First time viewer, this makes my heart warm man this is so cool. Spending this time with your dad and having it saved somewhere you can access anytime is priceless

If you don’t know at the start he doesn’t actually die but she says that because he has no purpose in life. That’s why it goes from pride to humble and lust to love and he is learning. You can choose if he lives or dies.The one you did was weakness,because he isn’t evil by the end of the album.But if you play the tracks from end to start,it all changes and he gets a bad ending as he is slowly learning how to be wicked.

Pops didn’t peep on fear …that he put it in reverse so that when he came in wit the verse he said “I’ll beat ya ass you keep talking back” get it talking backwards= talking back ?

This is gunna be great! Gotta go watch from the beginning so enjoy the rest of the album ✌️

Been watching these Kendrick reaction vids with you and your pops today, and I'm really loving it! And his dad jokes, very sweet interaction. I don't think I could do this with my dad when it comes to music, but sometimes we are able to when it comes to film. Thanks for sharing with us his introductions to the music you listen to.

Yo, I really appreciate how you two get into the sound of the music and the feeling of the music. The technical chat is great. Sometimes I yell at the videos like "Yesss, DISECT THE ALBUM!" I enjoy hearing Rod Sr. make those deep connections or do call backs to connect the theme of the album. Fire content, as per usual. Had to turn the notifications on!

I hope 1day I could share precious moments like these with my son. The dynamic, friendship, & chemistry is beautiful! I love it!

XXX is a play on censorship. In the song, you hear many examples of America. Kendrick gets cut short on some of his lines. XXX is USA, but censored.

I know I'm late to this but the title of this album was SUPER close to being "What Happens on Earth, Stays on Earth", as your father pointed out multiple times but Kendrick thought it was too long. Eventually that title was changed to DAMN . because "damned if i do and damned if i dont" and that's what he felt after such power hitting songs like DNA. and HUMBLE. I think it's a perfect title. After every song I just sit and think "Damn....." We're witnessing a generational legend, one of the greatest to ever do it.

THANK. YOU. Edit: I heard your dad say he was gonna listen to it again. Tell him to listen to it IN REVERSE this time. 😭 No point in listening to it again in the same order bro I promise you playing it 14-1 will really give him the conclusion to the album. Good review tho. He was literally on point with everything. 👌🏽

Thank u for this reaction, what a nice relationship with your father! One day I will listen all this album with my daughter 🤞🏽

Your Kendrick React series made my week, and its got me so excited for Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. Thank you, guys. Can't wait to see what yall think about the new album.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!! great reaction, love kendrick, love this album, much love to u! bless

I’ve watched all the reactions and this one gotta be one of my favorite, genuine appreciation for the artistry

Kendrick: no album roll-out Rod: *Fine, I'll do it myself*

Bro Kendrick is my favorite artist so this is everything. Your channel is great and you and your dad are so wholesome. I hope your channel keeps growing greatly and y’all can thrive from this. Thank you sirs

1:36:10 Trivia: _"What Happens on Earth, Stays on Earth"_ was the album's original title.

Finally joined the Patreon so I could watch the full reactions for these Kendrick albums. Keep up the great content.

I haven’t missed a reaction video of yall, and I appreciate everything you guys post and do, I love Kendrick so much and I love the way we share that love through listening and enjoying his music together…. Keep the good work ❤️❤️❤️

i love your dad’s reaction to LOVE. i played it in the car when it first came out and my mom had sort of the same response. Every now and then i hear her playing the song on her own!

Wish you hadn’t told your dad anything about Duckworth so he could have had that AHA moment at the end like you probably had when you first listened to it

Love it guys! Truly the black Turning the Tables 🙌🏼

That was a good, deep talk with your Pops. Can't wait until the new album review!

I like how Pop's wasn't even vibing too hard to XXX. He was just agreeing. "Yep. That's Right. Uh Huh." 😂😂😂

enjoyed this a lot! if y’all ever trying to check out a different artist that your dad likely hasn’t really listened to who went through a pretty great creativity arch, I’d love to see you guys react to some Mac Miller stuff

Also on DNA Kenny recorded his 2nd verse after the beat ran out and Mike Will made the beat around it.with no click. J Dilla style.

Saving this for later but just wanted to let you both know how much I appreciate this channel and its content. Also thank you for putting me onto The Dissect Podcast! It’s soooo good!

That’s you sitting next to your old version of yourself and your pops sitting next to his younger version of his self. You are your father’s son man and I love y’all relationship wish it was like that with my dad too. Love this channel I’m subscribing🔥🔥

The lady in blood is supposed to be lady liberty who is supposed to pass blind judgment but has lost her way. At least from what I've read

I always have a great time chilling and listening to music with you guys, thanks for the time you put into all these videos

Been looking forward to this one, love this album!

Y’all have come a long way from the first video. Loving this journey and can’t wait to experience Kendrick’s new album with you guys. A podcast would be dope definitely consider it

Yo this my favorite father son music breakdown channel. This my favorite album from Kendrick, and it dropped on my birthday!! 🔥🔥

This is such a cool vibe and new take on reacting to videos. Loving the series like feel to it keep it up

I love watching yalls videos cause the fact you get to do this with your dad and it just so cool y’all both love music and can articulate it so well 🙏🙏

Addicted to the channel! Discovered y'all a few days ago and have almost every video! Love it guys, keep it up!!! Might have to show your dad the "Carter" albums soon!.

Literally, that final line of Duckworth made me a fan, through and through. Thanks for sharing this, and your wondeful relationship to your father.

It definitely makes more sense to give him a Pulitzer prize 🏆 for "To Pimp a Butterfly 🦋" especially because of how jazzy & unique & deeply structured & perfectly thought out that album truly is compared to any other rap album ever made in history & i also thought that's the album he actually won the Pulitzer prize for too at first but I'm not mad that he got it for this album because this has three of K.dot's best songs ever💯💯💯💯💯 LOYALTY , GOD , & LOVE & basically every song from the "Good Kid mAAd city" album & of course his feature verse on SiR's "Hair Down" single from his "Chasing Summer" album (Best R&B album since the mid 90's literally) are all by far my favorite songs of this K.dot man that was ironically born on the same exact day as me , in the same exact year & went through all the similar life trials & tribulations as I did only I wasn't a "good kid" like him but I realized how much that both of us Gemini ♊ do have the same exact mentality as eachother & I didn't even know anything about Kendrick Lamar other than his name untill long after I discovered all those things about him that we actually had in common with eachother & that's what forced me into listening to his music finally 💯 Crazy huh???? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Your dad saying stuff about the demonic nature of it the “reverse”, I wonder if there’s something deeper to that. Most times, Kendrick’s albums are about the journey of a hero (I’m a music major, so that’s the best way I could explain it. It’s a common theme in operas). With his fear of failure or “reverting back to his ways” and stuff, I wonder if the reverse is a story of a fall from grace or something. Rather than a journey people can be inspired from, a story so many other people who aren’t Kendrick fall victim to. Idk what there is in that, but something I’m definitely gonna have to check out

Been waiting for this one!!! 🔥🔥

I see that yall getting ready for the Mr Morale & the Big Steppers drop lol; i been listening to Kendrick 24/7 to prepare for the album and I hope you too enjoy the album aswell!!

Really love you guys. You've become my favorite reaction channel. I'm from South Africa and my aunt is from Washington DC.

Thanks for coming back and sitting down to do this guys

Let’s gooo shoutout to you and your dad can’t wait to enjoy this album again with you both

Kendrick: reverses lyrics at the star of FEAR Dad: “what the hell” 😂

I think your dad would really like the album and resonate with the narrator in Kendricks Section 80. "Gather 'round I'm glad everybody came out tonight As we stand on our neighborhood corner Know that this fire that's burning represents the passion you have" Would love to see you react to it sometime :D gr8 video love kendrick so much and you guys are the best

pops just love eminem rapping wise lmao your reaction junior when he saying that lol is like yeah ok what you talking bout lmao nah em on feel would not have been ideal hahaha

I can’t wait to watch this channel grow you guys are so great. You guys should do some single song reactions too if u ever have the free time. But y’all So sick man!

I cant wait to see the Mr Morale reaction!! Once again didn’t disappoint🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼

2014 forest hills drive is a great album that would be what I would like to see after Kendrick’s album