Kendrick Lamar’s most relevant song 

OKAY EVERYONE - I hear you about the “real hip hop” thing. When I said this, I was referring to the old-head version of “real hip hop” that discredits people like Future or Playboi Carti. It’s silly. Hip hop in its purest form is obviously still around, and something that will never go away. Phrases/terminology become outdated all the time. Even Pepe the frog, a dumb meme from the 2000s became an icon for far-right extremists. This is all I meant, and for a while “real hip hop” was just an excuse for people to gatekeep other rappers

Kendrick is not our savior but he definitely saved hip hop.

He's a champion not your savior

Future said get a money counter is one of the unintentional funny lyrics ever

Kendrick can keep dogdging this cultural activist label, but the culture has decided! He's him!

kendrick is special man especially with what he did mmatbs nobody has ever made anything like it and people act like its just mid. mmatbs is the most beautiful introspective artwiorks ive ever seen in my life no question. love your video keep it up

12:10 Tupac was always aware of this. There is a line that he has repeated several times throughout some of his earlier albums, where he says, "1 nxxxa teach two nxxxas, 3 teach 4 nxxxas, and them nxxxas teach more nxxxas, and when we blast, it'll be the biggest blast you heard!" Tupac wanted the exact same thing Kendrick wants: for us to unite and start a revolution against the powers that be.

He’s not our savior, and that’s a tough pill for many to swallow. Especially after this whole battle, people are still demanding he fit that roll. I don’t know what it will take for people to simply accept him as a mortal man who’s not a mouthpiece for whatever cultural, political or historical points we (as an audience and hip hop as a culture) are trying to make. I love his music. He’s one of the only artists whose music I check for and I’m glad he won this battle, but if there’s anything I’ve learned throughout this whole thing is nobody really listens to him lol. They hear him but they don’t listen to him or the people close to him. The internet has been so busy picking apart every little thing he says and does mining for historical gems and cultural references. We think there’s deep meaning baked into the clothes he wears, the way he knocked on the door, the way he skipped playing hopscotch, the way he ate the fries, why was he sitting on the table? Who are those people in the picture in the background? What outfit of Tupac’s is he wearing today? Why did he say “pizza” like that? Why did he “WOP” like that? It’s way too much and I think it actually does more to disrespect him and his work than it does to show love and adoration.

More celebs need to say this. It's one thing to support an artist you agree with but way too many people outright worship celebrities to the point where they become mindless slaves to their every word. I appreciate that Kendrick doesn't have any desire to take advantage of that and instead tries to prevent people from having that mindset. "Think for yourself" should be a given but far too many people refuse to do so and are always looking for someone else to tell them how to feel and what to think.

one of the best Kung-Fu Kenny songs ever.

I personally disagree saying "Real Hip-Hop" as a term is outdated, there's just more subgenres now but there's still music being made considered real hip-hop aside from da other stuff we get now. Despite my nitpicking this was a great vid bro!

Bruh remember the first time I heard this song. Just getting back from deployment…just this odd empty feeling like regular everyday life doesn’t make sense anymore..IYKYK… just sitting and thinking in my car in a gym parking lot listening to this album because I was staying on a friends couch who was a party guy so that was always loud and annoying…man when this song hit? Idk. Something about the energy, that beat, that last verse “Tupac dead gotta think for yourself “ man idk it just woke something up in me and got me out of my dark cloud. Power of Real music.

The only "biggest" things about this battle were the rappers involved and the absolutely brutal beatdown that took place. It wasn't even close

super introspective video, thank you for taking the time to make this 💙

Hip Hop is a culture. The culture is break dancing, pop locking, graffiti art and rappers. In the beginning the DJ and dancers were just as prominent as the rapper. I grew up in NY. I remember my younger brother and his friends break dancing all day long in our backyard. This was in 1979. And, if you went to the city the trains were covered in graffiti. Graffiti was everywhere. My younger brother was a graffiti artist too. Hip Hop is a black art form. I thought it was a fad, because at the time I was listening to Monk, Miles and Coltrane. I watched Hip Hop grow from its infancy. And, now, I love Hip Hop.

And people that love real hip hop we're following KDOT way before good kid mad city. This is exactly what I mean. He was never a quote unquote conscious rapper. Visitors to the culture think because you're not talking about gang shit, selling drugs, or shooting people, anything outside of that is conscious as if those are our only two options as a race of people where definitely not more complex than that. You cannot be more off about the themes of all of those albums. Stop it. Go back listen to some hip hop and fall in love with it, or pick a different topic for your channel.

The meaning and depth of the lyricism behind the track is so complex and important, but I feel like it's production is the most slept on in hi while discography. It sounds disturbing and haunting, yet beautiful and elegant at the same time.

Really appreciate your reporting bro. Ur giving ppl insensitive to follow the culture and feeding the interest of music lovers everywhere. Great video essays!!

You need to do a video covering Kendrick’s ‘the prayer’

The concept album in the mainstream thing started with Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool. 2007

plz do the full album

lol funny when you think about it.. he wants you to not think he’s a “saviour”… yet actively tries with all his might to Save hip Hop.😂 Lisan algaib much?

Y’all never heard the untitled album and it shows 🥱

Anytime someone claims Kendrick tries hard to be worshipped by his fans I’m just like “say you didn’t listen to mr.morale without saying you didn’t🤦🏾‍♂️😭”. Savior is one of my favorite songs off the album and perfectly describes how he too is as regular and human as everyone else.

Aye 1st Off i know your not a Hip-Hop Purist but there’s a Big Difference Between Hip Hop & Rap

Kendrick uniting the West Coast while destroying a Canadian colonizer has gotta be the most Naruto shit I’ve ever seen😂😂😂

loved the vid fr, but pls just also quote the actual lyrics 😢😅

Great video!

Yea when section80 came out Kendrick was looked at as the next thing I understand you was 10-11 so you wouldn’t know but trust me Kendrick was looked at as the next up

An Important song to reference in this video was Crown. It's lyrics give context to Saviour. Just saying lol

I wonder if real MCs believe in real hip hop.

The term real hip hop is not, and will never be outdated. This is why when you're a visitor to the culture you should not say certain things with your whole chest, check in with a couple of your black friends first, because you are not a member remember? You are a visitor.

0:55 Tupac and Nipsey

Putting Charli in the same conversation as OK Computer is so incredibly based. Do a Brat video next!

i think this song is so important because i have seen multiple drake stans unironically saying "but kendrick claims to be yalls savior!" ... like it just proves how dead media literacy is.

how can you say “im not a hip hop purist” and then try to make the statement that “real hip hop is outdated” lol stuff like this is why purists gatekeep cause casuals say stuff as if they’re fully educated on the subject. 🙄

So that comment u made about the " blind era" is totally false btw lol I know u said it not a purist but it's just factually wrong

We didn't even say he is our Saviour... Where did this come from?? He doesn't even accept the acknowledgement of him being a Saviour. You're just making things up.

9:26 The way you describe Trump when there's so many worse examples... 🤷‍♂️