![]() ![]() ![]() He once again he gives his reputation and his status to the people. Throughout his album and most of his music, Kendrick often makes personal references to his neighborhood friends, such as Yan Yan, and leisurely habits, such as smoking black cherry soda. Humbling himself as well as showing his roots while boasting his dominance in music. He reverses the barbarism on himself, as he does throughout the song describing his success.He synchronizes the materialistic criticisms of his community with his own habits. Pistol and poverty, come get to know us." Serving it like I belong in a basement or maybe a Days Inn, Yan Yan my relative, black cherry soda. He indicates the end of time or destruction of humanity or his neighborhood by the means of the menacing gangsters and ignoramuses that plague the community with their incriminating and wasteful ways. He cries for the grace of God to save his friends and family as well as the Black race from the self-inflicted and institutionalized crime committed. "Get God on the phone, Said it won't be long, I see jiggaboos, I see Styrofoam." This creates a precedence for the entire song and perhaps the album in which Kendrick wittingly criticizes the perpetual vice and stereotypical culture of Black America or, more specifically, Compton. Hooray is used as a sarcastic approval of this dehumanizing flaw. Pimpin' is often glorified, meaning the mastering and materializing of female sexuality as well as materialistic idealism. Pimp is often a shallow affectation used in the ghetto and music and media designed to reflect the ghetto. "Pimp-Pimp, Hooray! Pimp-Pimp, Hooray!"Ī play on the celebratory "hip hip hooray", this reinvented chant sets the tone for his rhetoric. As well as the unique and boundless energy of the people living in those streets. Loose-lipped vibrato, the constant change in key and pitch in every lyric seems to mirror the unpredictability of life on the streets. He presents what feels like the ether of the grimy hazardous nights of Compton. ![]() Yet with a greater ear and a greater perspective of the lifestyle he describes, one can hear the echoes of Rosecrans. At first the lyrics, if you are not familiar with the urban dialect of Kendrick Lamar, seem brash and uncouth. All it takes is one song to understand the dense expression and criticism that Kendrick makes in his music. ![]()
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