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Essay / Analysis: Rapper Kendrick Lamar - 1182
In the first verse, worry quickly turns to a feeling of despondency as Lamar introduces listeners to the beginning of these new insecurities when he puts himself down and tells us that he can influence a hundred thousand people, but he can't influence his own sister to do the right thing. The feeling of despondency stays with listeners for the rest of the song, and intensifies after the song changes with an instrumental change, moving from jazz to upbeat blues after the chorus repeats for the last time. At the beginning of the service, there is a skit of a Latina maid knocking on a door, and in Spanish, saying, "Open the door, open the door, I have to clean your room!" It's just that we don't have much time and I have to clean your room. Excuse me!" In addition to the shouting in the song's introduction, there is an allusion to his poem that appears throughout the album, To Pimp a Butterfly, particularly the lines that say, "I found myself screaming in the hotel room, I didn't mean to destroy myself From the start of the second verse, listeners should feel immediate heartbreak as Lamar begins to rap through tears telling the story of his best. friend shot and struggling in the hospital, Lamar blames himself for his friend's death because he only called him on FaceTime rather than flying to visit him, even though he was out of the country when the shooting happened Rather than repeating the chorus before the third verse, there are just silent tears that allow listeners to feel his pain Being the last verse of the song, Lamar certainly doesn't lack for it. make the most powerful; between the alcoholic drinks and the confessions of mood swings and depression, all the worry, discouragement and heartbreak felt throughout the song come together..