Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar samples Marvin Gaye and pays tribute to Nipsey Hussle on his first song in four years, which arrives just days ahead of his new album...

Kendrick also appears to reference hearing the news of Nipsey's murder while he was at Lollapalooza Argentina ("I'm in Argentina wiping my tears full of confusion"), and he appears to rap from Nipsey's perspective on the last verse. The song comes with a video directed by Kendrick and Dave Free, in which Kendrick raps the song in front of a red backdrop, and as the song goes on, his face morphs into O.J. Simpson, Kanye West, Kobe Bryant, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, and Nipsey Hussle. The video opens with the quote "I am. Kendrick Lamar's long-awaited album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers comes out this Friday (5/13), and he's just released his first new song since 2018, "The Heart Part 5."

Kendrick Lamar shared his new song, “The Heart Part 5,” alongside a video to match less than a week before the release of his long-awaited new album.

As I continue to pursue my life’s calling.” His face also molds into those of OJ Simpson, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and the aforementioned Hussle. The Nipsey portion of the video features Kendrick spit the line “and Sam I be watching over you,” as he raps from the perspective of the late rapper, and throws out an apparent ode to his brother Samiel Asghedom, a.k.a. Blacc Sam. “The Heart Part 5” marks the first time a solo K-Dot track has been listed as a pgLang release, in conjunction with TDE, on streaming services. “And most importantly, the Brotherhood. May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. All of us,” which is attributed to oklama, a nickname that the Pulitzer-winning rapper has been using in recent months. All my fans, all my beautiful fans, anyone who’s ever gave me a lesson.

Kendrick Lamar has finally released a track from the upcoming Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. It's also the rapper's first new song as lead artist since 2018 ...

Starting in 2010 with “The Heart Part 1,” these songs have been a space for Lamar to muse on everything, particularly his identity in relation to other artists. Starting in 2010 with “The Heart Part 1,” these songs have been a space for Lamar to muse on everything, particularly his identity in relation to other artists. “The Heart Part 2” features a monologue from late photographer Dashiell “Dash” Snow, and “Part 5” has tributes (or maybe just portrayals) of OJ Simpson, Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Nipsey Hussle. Lamar deepfakes his way into these personae, and the video gives special thanks to “Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and DEEP VOODOO.” Deep Voodoo is the name of Matt and Trey’s deepfake studio, which they previously used to make “ Sassy Justice.”

Kendrick Lamar dropped a new song, 'The Heart Part 5,' with a video that briefly features Kanye West's face photoshopped over his own.

There have even been several false alarms, such as a social media frenzy ignited last summer by his record label TDE, but that turned out to be a tease for the Isaiah Rashad album. The video, which was directed by Lamar and longtime collaborator Dave Free, opens with a written statement — “I am. Lamar unveiled the long-awaited “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” album last month.

Lamar's new song and video is a precursor to his album, 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.'

The rapper's long-awaited fifth album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers finally arrives this Friday, and he kickstarted his rollout on Sunday with a new song and video for “The Heart Part 5," a new entry in the series of songs he began back in 2010. The transformations appear to correlate with the lyrics: OJ appears as Lamar interpolates a classic Jay-Z line, who of course made “The Story of OJ,' there's a bipolar mention when Ye appears, and the lyric “in the land where hurt people hurt more people” occurs when Smith appears. OJ Simpson's. This continues for the rest of the video, with him taking on the visages of Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith—all notably in the news for recent problematic behavior.

Watch the music video for Kendrick Lamar's new song The Heart Part 5.

Earlier this week, Lamar posted a picture on his website oklama.com that strongly suggested Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers will be a double album. Kendrick Lamar has shared a new song and music video. The song begins with Kendrick thanking his fans, family, and teachers, before launching into a blistering critique of modern notions of culture.

Watch Kendrick Lamar transforms into Ye, Will Smith, Nipsey Hussle, O.J. Simpson and others in new "The Heart Part 5" music video.

Lamar dismissed the claims and posted a video on the Instagram account of Top Dawg CEO, Anthony Tiffith, to proclaim his loyalty. Fans have been anticipating a new record from Lamar for years, even speculating in 2020 that he was about to leave the label. I completed my mission, wasn't ready to leave." Slyly replying to a February tweet that read: "Kendrick Lamar is officially retired," Lamar linked out to the website Oklama.com, announcing the album's title "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers." The video for his new single, titled "The Heart Part 5," features only Lamar against a dark burgundy backdrop in a white T-shirt as he raps: "As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective and my perspective may differ from yours." Ahead of the highly-anticipated arrival of Kendrick Lamar's fifth album "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers" on Friday, the Compton-bred rapper is teasing fans about what's to come with a new single and accompanying music video.

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Kobe taught us to be better: a better teacher, a better teammate, a better loser, a better winner. The tribute features memorable highlights from Bryant's illustrious career and has Lamar's speaking about the Hall of Famer's importance to Los Angeles and the NBA. Lamar himself is seen throughout the video. The Mamba Mentality is about getting better, every day, in everything we do. This relentless drive for improvement is the legacy Kobe leaves. Seeing Bryant's face while Lamar raps instantly recalls the legacy left by Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash with his 13-old-daughter Gianna in January 2020. Bryant's hand is from his fifth championship in 2010 as it's taken from an iconic photo of him with the Larry O'Brien photo.

Ahead of his upcoming album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar just dropped his first lead single in four years: The Heart Part 5.

How much of the new album can we glean from “The Heart Part 5," I hear you ask? “The Heart Part 5,” a continuation of the 34-year-old rapper's series of one-off records, is the first lead single he's released in four years — and trust us, it doesn't disappoint, combining Latin verve with the upbeat spirit of disco. It's all thematically appropriate: at one point, as he rhymes about a “bulletproof rover,” the rapper turns into OJ Simpson. Turning to bipolar disorder, he becomes Kanye West. Whew.

The rapper's flow is as charged and acute as ever as he lays out a manifesto of radical empathy.

“I want you,” Lamar says as the track’s final line, a statement of pure fraternal need. “You can’t help the world until you help yourself,” Lamar says as Hussle, and this is ultimately Lamar’s credo. Yet by rapping in the first person, Lamar blamed himself as much as anyone, and the track’s even fiercer invective was aimed at an apocalyptically racist US: “Your plan is to terminate my culture.” This is a key part of Lamar’s overall musical project: a sustained, fraught, fallible and passionate inquiry into the forces that tear down and build up Black America.

The music video has Lamar's face morphing into the likes of O.J. Simpson, Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith and Nipsey Hussle.

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Lamar’s fifth studio album, follows his Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning project DAMN., which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2017. A music video was released alongside the track. With just days to go until the release of new album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,Kendrick Lamar surprise dropped a new song Sunday night.

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Curiously, “The Heart Part 5” video temporarily disappeared from YouTube on Monday morning after racking up over five million views, although it has since been restored. He continued, “And I want to make it clear, like, he’s an icon, I respect Kendrick. This is just very weird, bruh. While “The Heart Part 5” has been lauded by K. Dot’s fans and peers alike, not everybody is enamored with his latest visual offering.

'The Heart Part 5' is Lamar's first song as lead artist since 2018 and the first track from his upcoming album, 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,' due Friday.

Little is known about “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” which will come five years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Damn” and four years after Lamar’s Oscar-nominated soundtrack for 2018’s “Black Panther” movie. Last week the rapper — who’s taken to using the name Oklama online — posted a picture of two CDs, one marked “Morale” and the other “Steppers,” which led to speculation that the new LP is a double album. The celebrated Compton rapper dropped a new song on Sunday, his first as a lead artist since 2018.