Metalhead's First Listen to Kendrick Lamar - Euphoria Reaction 

Listening to Euphoria as your first Kendrick song is crazy 😂

Getting Euphoria to be your first Kendrick Lamar song sounds like a "just graduate" journalist covering a war overseas

Guy wearing a hello kitty ears reacting to Kendrick Lamar wasn’t on my this years card 😅😂

the second you bursted out laughing at the dementia bar, i knew i had to drop a like 💀

Shhh... nobody tell him about Meet the Grahams.

"Very first time I shot me a drac" is him talking about the first time he shot a gun he missed because he didn't point down enough to account for recoil. He says he learned and he isn't gonna miss today.

having a cat ear headphone is so metalhead 🔥🔥

Bro jumped into the deep end 😂 props!

DNA. ELEMENT. Money Trees Father Time Rich Spirit Alright These Walls FEAR. Count Me Out Better M.A.A.D. City Blacker The Berry Institutionalized Untitled 5 The Heart Pt. 4 HiiiPOWER ADHD FEEL. Compton

One thing i love about Kendrick is how his lyrics can have multiple meanings. Its straight up poetry and reading the lyrics on Genius blew my mind. Stoked youre enjoying expanding your musical horizon!!!

You gotta do 6:16 , Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us It was the craziest couple days in hip hop history The whole Mr Morale album would be a great bet too. Kendrick is a master of the lost art of making concept albums

this proves that all you have to be to enjoy kendrick is intelligent. at least a little. he gon reach you if you listen

The puff reference was for when puff slapped Drake over a dispute over a beat

The ring reference is about Drake buying Tupac’s ring how Kendrick would pay twice as much to buy it from him. Tupac turning in his grave about Drake having the ring and that Drake used an AI voice of Tupac in his diss track at Kendrick.

This song has a lot related to Pusha T doing "Infrared" and " Story of Adidion" from Pusha T and ---- he clearly has info right.

Of any modern rapper, Kendrick really loves pushing genres and writing meaningful music. He doesn't really have "metal" songs, but to pimp a butterfly and untitled unmastered are full of insane tracks that a non hip hop-head music lover could appreciate. Especially untitled unmastered, wjth Thundercat on bass and some aggressive and dissonant jazz type stuff. It's worth listening to

A metal head jumping straight into rap with not only a Kendrick song, but a diss song at that... this is like taking one of my buddies who only listen to rap and throwing Rammstein or Slipknot in their face 🤣🤣

Dude I love this. All of my friends are strictly metal/punk heads and hate rap but recently got obsessed with Kendrick Lamar. I haven’t seen a true music head deny him yet.

As someone who has been listening to Kendrick since 2011, I LOVE that this is your first foray into the world of Kendrick Lamar and I would love to help guide you through his discography

One of the things that I think gets overlooked in this beef is that because Kendrick’s hatred for Drake is so palpable, people overlook the fact that a lot of Kendrick’s bars are really funny.

This was not the place to start at all with Kendrick 😂😂 This was a complete diss track towards Drake. I’d say start with an album as he’s the type of artist that tells his story through albums. The main reason why I say don’t start here is because there’s too much outside information going into this.

Fellow metal/hardcore head here since the early 2000s. Kendrick has become one of my top 3 artists of all time for a few years now and his concept driven and lyrically deep albums like GKMC, TPAB and Honestly all of them have become some of my all-time music. I highly recommend you to listen or even react to them :) when I was younger I alost avoided hip-hop bc I was under some false impressions that it doesn't go as "deep" or even instrumentally intricate as metal, hardcore etc but Kenny is special. I hope you enjoy it you check out more. 🤗

as a fan of hip hop nearly my whole life i loved watching this perspective! sick video bro

I see no one answer your Drake question. A draco is a kind of firearm. When you use it it tends to go up. So in order to aim and hit what you want you have to aim lower and let it carry you into what you're trying to hit. So it's a double entender because of Drake's name how he needs to attack him is aim low and it will take him to his intended target.

Im a bit late, but "what's the dirt" has a really good video if you want to know the meanings behind all the lines.

People might talk shit because you are new to a thing but look at it like you get to experience things for the first time and people wish they can do things for the first time again

Don’t know if you do stand up reactions but Josh Johnson does a pretty hilarious explanation of why they’re in a rap beef

You got that line “you gone make a nigga bring back puff” pretty close, P Ditty aka Puff Daddy was notorious for being really violent in the rap industry, even apparently slapping drake across the face at one point. He was also accused of being the one that put the hit out on Tupac but it’s never been confirmed

If you liked the first part of the song, it's a sample of Teddy Pendergrass "You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration"

Mannn, crazy way to be introduced to kendrick. i love lots of metal as well, but kendrick just does something no artist can do for me. the man is lyrically powerful and these disses man 😭

“You’re gonna make a N-word bring back Puff” referencing Puff Daddy (aka P.Diddy) who punched Drake in the face at a party

I do hope you check out the rest of Kendrick's diss tracks throughout this battle. 6:16 in LA came out after euphoria, then he released meet the grahams like 20 minutes after Drake responded with Family Matters. And then not even 24 hours after meet the grahams he dropped Not Like Us as a final nail in the coffin lmfao Overall I do recommend Kendrick's stuff in general. You mentioned he's got a special voice and if you like the various "voices" he did in this track you'll find plenty more surprises in his past stuff.

The ynw melly line is insane cus he said " if they not my real friends im ynw melly" and ynw melly is a rapper who killed his friends

There is a LoNG video explaining the meaning of this song on the RU-vid channel “What’s The Dirt” It is really entertaining

That Teddy Pendergrass in the intro gose hard.

damn, wish you would have covered more of this beef. my first time here but your reaction was great. even starting from drakes family matters which is the halfway point t would give you a good insight to kendrick as an artist and clearly tell you who the winner was lol but kendrick has so many amazing tracks that covering all of his best music would be hard to choose from 😅

Wild introduction to Kendrick lol. Id listen to all these diss tracks. Like that Euphoria 6:16 in LA (the sleep IMO) Meet the Grahams Not like us Its a wild ride.

Pushing p is in reference to a song called p power that drake was featured on, in which he talks about pushing p which is supposed to mean have power over women and pussy ig. So Kendrick is basically saying if you wanna talk about pushing p then try to push a t in reference to pusha t who destroyed drake in a previous battle. Kendrick is saying that drake is better off trying to battle pusha t again then challenge him.

the raspiness you brought up in his voice is a sound from compton/long beach ca. im not a rapper but grew up in area and have that raspiness too

“Euphoria” is my favorite. I didn’t love it though when I first heard it because I didn’t understand the references mentioned in the song because I didn’t know the history and context. RU-vid comments clued me in. Once I read the comments and better understood the verses, the song became straight 🔥.

17:29 Guess what: "This is America" was originally a Drake diss track. 😂

when he says “bring back puff lemme see if chubbs really crash something” some years ago diddy (puff daddy) slapped drake and chubbs is drake’s right hand man or security guard and he didn’t do anything when diddy slapped him

Brodie is Toronto slang for your bro, and Kendrick saying Crodie is referencing the crip gang and how they replace Bs with Cs. Basically showing Drake that Kendrick is what he pretends to be. Kendrick himself is not a gang member but has family members and friends who live that life.

P diddy touched me

I would really suggest reacting to the video for "Alright" it is PURE ART!

Great video man!

Its kinda wild that you've been making videos for 2 years and this already your most viewed video. In a genre you don't cover

I highly recommend the WhatsTheDirt video on this track. He breaks down every single part of it and it goes crazy.

you should listen to his snl performance of "i"

There are a lot of really good lines in this but my favorite part of this song is the very first line - when played forward he’s saying “everything they say about me is true!“ which is a reference to when Richard Pryor says “everything they say about me is true! I’m a phony!” from the wiz as Dorothy discovers the Wiz is just a man and not magic at all. It’s like foreshadowing to the fact that Kendrick is going to show everyone how full of shit Drake is

i would recommend reading lyrics from genius so you can get a detailed breakdown of all of the references. you should watch the pop out: ken and friends concert to see a masterclass in artistry and performance as well as the story of adidon- pusha t to see drake get destroyed again. a canadian pop star with 0 originality, creativity or self-identity challenging a pulitzer prize poet and multi-grammy winning artist from compton.

I know this comment is 3 months late but let me help you a little on the questions you had during the song. With the "shot me a drac" it references 3 things. the degrassi bit, the gun itself (which is why I spelled it that way "drac") and the man this song is about, Drake himself. As others have said, this song is an insane song to start. Everything Kdot does great is in it but its a lot for newer listeners. You got the triple quad entendres, the culture references, name dropping but using it as an insult (Aubrey is a weak ass name for a "thug" rapper as Drake has tried to make himself seem like). It has story telling, beat switches and even his own unique voice changes. The "bring back Puff" is in reference to a situation between Puff and Drake in public where Puff punched him in the face and Chubbs (who he references right after) is Drake's bodyguard who was right there and did nothing in the moment. To add, the "crodie" and "nuthin bout dat" bars are Kdot making fun of the Toronto accent where Drake is from. Something a lot of people who don't listen to rap don't understand during all of this is that, someone like Kdot is extremely loved and revered in the culture. What that means is he has street respect across the country but mainly Cali(while staying out the actual gangs), he has the admiration from essentially every single rapper. And he also gives back to his community which is adding to the respect I just mentioned. On top of that? He is becoming arguably the single best rapper to ever live skillwise. Biggie, Pac, Andre 3K, Em and Nas are the only ones you can really compare him to. Drake on the other hand uses a ton of ghost writers on most of his projects. Sorry if you've already talked or knew about all of this. First video and enjoyed how you broke it down and questioned the meanings! I see some other reactors blow past certain things almost as if they are scared to be wrong.

Kush and Corinthians my favorite track by him

If you ever listen to more kendrick or rap in general, i would recommend to use genius lyrics, as you can click on most any line and get a breakdown on the meaning. Most of kendricks lines will have 2 or 3 meanings and most will be lost on people not in the know

Lifelong metalhead here that discovered Kendrick a few years ago. The album To Pimp a Butterfly was my intro, followed by Good Kid MAAD City. (My first song was Blacker the Berry which might be an even more insane intro to Kendrick than this...)

Great reaction

Ive been a true Kendrick fan since 2010, trust me, most of these comments don't know, but there's this unreleased song my Kendrick Lamar that is a must listen, only on RU-vid. Cartoon and Cereal by Kendrick Lamar, won't disappoint 😊

You gota listen to Not Like Us, brother. If you think this is a harsh dis track, you aint heard nothin yet lmao The Pusha T line is a dis track Pusha T made about Drake that exposed a son he was hiding from the media basically. The "First time I shot a drac line is referencing a gun nicknamed a Draco and it's a play on words with Drake

Pls more Kendrick! Meet the grahams and not like us... 👀

You gotta listen to meet the grahams

Ngl euphoria is a good first introduction to Kendrick

you should listen to more kendrick for sure

Dude, you look so chill...why do all metalheads looks like cuties? You remind me of Tom Nook lol

Yo! The deep end?!? Damn!

This was amazing, it shows the power of GOOD music. Doesn't matter the genre, if it's good, people will jam to it. If you haven't, can you listen to Meet The Grahams and Not Like Us? I'm really curious to see how you react to Kendrick getting more annoyed as time went on. 😂😂

Bro you gotta listen to Meet the Grahams!

Bro I remember you reacted to a Kendrick album before

REACT TO MORE KENDRICK PLEASE RAHHHH

O yes, your next track by Kendrick must be Not Like Us.

not sure if yk lil uzi vert but he's a popular rapper and in his last album pink tape he has some songs with baby metal, bring me the horizon and he even did a cover of chop suey! def check those songs out if not the whole album

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Listen to money trees… matter of fact listen to the entire good kid Maad city album. It is truly a journey. I’m going to subscribe so i can see your reaction lol

Look if you like that opening you like Kendrick. Go listen to To Pimp a Butterfly. Legitimately the best album of at least the last quarter century

Kendrick is usually not this hateful. Sorry u had to witness that

I thought you were the dude that got pulled over by feds high af

Kush and Corinthians

Thought this was Jon Wayne

Try Kendrick songs maad city or king kunta

meet the grahams!!!

This is an INSANE way to discover Kendrick

I'm a die hard metal head for over 25 years. Kdot is my favorite rapper. Kdots style resonates really well with fans of all music culture. He won a pulitzer prize for his damn album. It's true art.

The YNW Melly line is crazy 😂 when he said “I pray they my real friends, if not, I'm YNW Melly” he’s referencing to the ongoing court case with rapper YNW Melly who is facing murder charges for allegedly murdering 2 of his friends.

The Puff reference, Diddy slapped Drake and his bodyguard didn't do anything about it so when he says "lets see if Chubbs really crash something", Chubbs is his body guard so he's saying "lets see if he'll stop me"

Is this like watching Endgame as your 1st Marvel movie??🤣🤣

a "drake" is slang for a gun, so he's saying the very first time he dissed (shot at) drake, (with a drake/gun) he didnt go low enough lol

His vocal range is INSANE he is constantly switching up his tone in a way I have never seen any other artist do. Dudes like making up characters and shit just with voice tone

Easy intro songs for Kendrick: Humble, Money Trees, Swimming Pools. Kendrick isn't like any other rap artist, he really emobodies true hip hop...he touches on alot of deep subjects and makes you think. I hope you give him more of a listen. He's one of my favorites.

When the beat switches after he said Daft Punk, it's a Daft Punk song sample call "Forget the World"...

"this sounds like a diss track" 😂😂😂

I feel like Kendrick transcends musical genre. Every genre has some fantastic artists that can entertain anyone, but Kendrick is something so special

One of my favorite parts is kendrick doing the Toronto accent and ordering what drake ordered on the night he got robbed in his own city

4:50 One of my favorite hidden references is when KDot drops the “Shoo Shoo Shoo Shoo… Be Be Be Be.” Shoobie is derogatory slang for daytripper or tourist. So he is calling Drake a tourist in the rap industry. Also “shoo” to all of these ov-hoes (Drake’s brand is oVo or an owl.) 😂 Rumor is that the original version of this song was 19 minutes. I can’t imagine what was cut. Great reaction!

Coming from a pink floyd fan, kdot is leagues ahead most rappers. Listen to these: Money Trees - m.A.A.d. city - Wesley's Theory - How Much a Dollar Cost? - u - These Walls - To Pimp A Butterfly as an entire album -

Coldest line is him saying "In eight bars I'll explain that phrase" and then saying he's YNW Melly eight bars later. YNW Melly went to trial for killing his friends.

He's always been in my top 5. The Pulitzer he won, Drake could never

Like “progressive rock” kendrick makes progressive rap.

If you're still kinda wanting to understand this song in it's entirety; i.e. references and line meanings, please check out the video about this song by a channel named "Knox Hill". The guy is incredible and will explain it so thoroughly that you will not need knowledge of pretty much anything having to do with the beef to get it.

Just listen to “The story of Adidon” by Pusha T and you’ll understand that line. That whole song basically gave a child a father lol. Drake was hiding his son until Pusha T made it public and Drake didn’t want anything to do with him until he got called out for being a bad father

Imagine his first Kendrick song was “Meet the Graham”😂

Your energy is awesome. I did not expect someone uninitiated to Kendrick to walk into Euphoria and handle it with grace and good vibes.