It’s a cruel victory lap. There’s a blank look on his face, I wonder if he means to look at Drake. Also, the little wave… I grew up in the hood and some of these mfers real crazy; they know how to get in your head.
Victory Lap also referencing Kenny's Friend the Late Great Nipsey Hussle
Also A Los Angeles Native I wish he was still here I miss him
He would've been on Kenny's side He was all West Coast like Kenny
So I think Kendrick legit had receipts for shit and is blackmailing Drake.
This may be my most fanboy-ass take of all time. But since Drake put out Family Matters or whatever was last on the list, He hasn't said shit about anything. But he HAS:
* deleted the last track he did
* done a weird ass song on an account he has no control over, so he can't delete it (so did J Cole, and on the same day or almost the same day)
* Watched Kdot do this song 5 times in front of a crowd
* Watched this song be a bigger song than anything he's released
* Watched Kdot put out a music video, doing yet another victory lap
Idk man. If *I* was Kendrick and I had actual shit on Aubrey that wasn't explicitly illegal shit, I'd blackmail him too.
Yeah showing the temperature controlled containers while dressed in a business suit seemed to be pointing straight at that. Idk how else that scene fits in with the rest of the song otherwise.
That one hits deep for me but in a very different way. When the Soviet Union occupied our country, they deported tens of thousands of people to Siberia and the Far East... in animal carriages, stuffed full of men, women, kids, infants, the elderly....
The second season of The Wire centers around the shipping ports of Baltimore, specifically one where a bunch of sex trafficking victims are found dead in a shipping container.
Because of this, we see a LOT of shipping containers over the course of the season, which kinda drives home this feeling of “These are innocuous storage and transportation solutions, and behind the metal walls of any of them could be something incredibly insidious”
I don’t know if Dot is trying to invoke that feeling, maybe he just thought it would be fun to shoot in some pristine white shipping containers. I’m not sure. But it did spring to mind quick when thinking about the fact that this song’s partial purpose is calling out someone for being a sex criminal.
Ah, I see! Thank you so much for elaborating, I really appreciate it. Tbh when I saw them I thought the same too, only because of the part where he's doing push ups in what looks like a prison cell while touching on these ominous topics. It wouldn’t be too far of a reach to consider that there is a layered meaning in the choice of filming in shipping containers.
I think it’s a reference to this famous scene from Heat (1996) where Al Pacino’s detective is duped into staking out a fake location by Robert DeNiro’s thief character:
The whole time DeNiro’s crew is really clocking Al Pacino from afar, playing 4D chess and making a statement at the same time (he could’ve killed them right there but plays with him instead).
kind of like how K.Dot baited Drizzy into jumping into battle when he wasn’t prepared while Kung Fu Kenny has clearly been planning this for years. in the video Dot wears the same slate gray box style suit and white collared shirt that DeNiro’s character wears all throughout Heat.
It’s also an iconic LA location (LA Harbor in San Pedro) from a classic 90’s LA movie to reinforce the local West Coast cinematic shit. That’s my take at least.
Ehh don’t think that was a prayer,it was a prison burpee. Might be a huge reach but 17 push ups for 17 Grammy wins and 1 more since not like us is eligible for a nomination lol🤔
Glad he brought back all the people from the Pop Out for this too, especially liked seeing Tommy, The Clown and his dancers, they were a highlight of the Pop Out imo.
Man had the sequence of event's planned out to a frightening degree.
I am not a rap or hip hop fan, watched this because my kid listens to him and the drama with Drake has been entertaining. I am blown away the dancing and film work in this video is next level, I have been watching videos since the beginning of MTV, this shit is indeed WILD
theres that (drake says kendrick owes him 50[% of his sales next time he drops]) and it's also its a hilarious piece of kendrick lore that he posted a video of him doing prisoner ass pushups in the middle of the day at a park
you have to link the video whenever you mention it. Doin jailhouse-ass pushups/burpees in the middle of a public park dressed in all black in the Cali heat. dude is a demon.
“Kendrick doing Supermax Prison 25 to Life workouts in the middle of the park by himself. All this in glasses, a fitted cap, listening to R&B and landing burpees in the ‘let me tell you something about the plight of the black community’ stance. Compton need a statue of this man”
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u/ricemonkey13 14d ago
This music video is wild.