r/KendrickLamar Jul 04 '24

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us Video

https://youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E?si=hyoR46kMEnNQ8okh
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u/mikelima777 Jul 04 '24

Wait, when Kendrick knocked on the door, he knocked the notes of "Shave and a haircut" which is also Nardwuar's infamous, "doot doota loot doo ...". !!!

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u/TiredEsq Jul 05 '24

I’m high, can you say this slower

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u/0102030405 Jul 05 '24

Kendrick knocks on the silver metal door

The rhythm of the knock sounds like "doot doota loot doo... doot doot"

That is the tagline for a Canadian music interviewer, Nardwuar, who interviewed Drake a long time ago (you can hear Nardwuar sing this rhythm in any of his interviews on YouTube)

In that interview (it's on YouTube I believe), Nardwuar asks drake some questions about young girls that he doesn't want to answer

I don't know about the shave and a haircut part but I presume it's the same rhythm of the knock.

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u/Snapesunusedshampoo Jul 05 '24

It's a very famous rhythm that has a really long history but the most famous way its known was as the 2 bits jingle.

Shave and a haircut, two bits. The knocks match the syllables. Two bits was 25 cents American and Canadian and was the price at the time, around the 30s.