Kendrick Lamar

The video for the track – directed by Lamar and longtime collaborator Dave Free – uses deepfake technology to morph Lamar into Kanye West, Will Smith, Kobe ...

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Kendrick Lamar shared a music video for his new It showcased the entertainer rapping in a white t-shirt as his face morphed into Kanye West, Will Smith, ...

At the time, the page read: 'May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. On April 18 Kendrick shared a link to his website Oklama that shared the news for the hotly anticipated album after first teasing it in August 2021. Coming soon: On April 18 Kendrick shared a link to his website Oklama that shared the news for the hotly anticipated album after first teasing it in August 2021 New content: Kendrick Lamar shared a music video for his new song The Heart Part 5 on Sunday Kendrick Lamar shared a music video for his new song The Heart Part 5 on Sunday. The five-minute-long clip showcased the entertainer rapping in a white t-shirt as his face morphed into Kanye West, Will Smith, OJ Simpson, and more.

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The life in which my words will land next.” The Heart Part 5 is the first single from Lamar’s upcoming album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, which is set to be released on Friday 13 May. On the site, Lamar also says that Mr Morale and the Big Steppers will be his “final [Top Dawg Entertainment] album”. Kendrick Lamar has shared the first single from his upcoming album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, titled The Heart Part 5. Rapper Kendrick Lamar has officially dropped the first single from his upcoming album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, as well as a music video to go with it as well. Alongside the new single, Lamar also dropped the music video for The Heart Part 5.

On Sunday night, the rapper dropped a new single, just days before his fifth album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, comes out on May 13.

Lamar’s last album was DAMN, which was released in 2017 and scooped a host of awards for the rapper, including a Pulitzer Prize. At the time, his statement read: “May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. The song is the fifth installment of Lamar’s ongoing project The Heart, the first part of which was released in 2010.

Here's a breakdown of the lyrics to Kendrick Lamar's new single 'The Heart Part 5' taken from his upcoming fifth studio album 'Mr. Morale & the Big ...

Hussle was killed in 2019. Kendrick grew up in an environment rife with gang and drug violence. The song was originally teased back in April on his website Oklama.com.

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At the time, the page read: “May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. Things like that is what keeps guys like me great. And always faith in the unknown. As well as the two discs, a book with the same name as the album and Kendrick's name as the author is being held in the snap, hinting the rapper may have penned a tome to accompany the LP. As I continue to pursue my life’s calling. There’s beauty in completion.

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.

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And that dedication counts man, that’s the fire part about it.” “I need something to get me excited. The Putlizer Prize-winning rapper dropped his first new music in four years on Monday (9 May): “The Heart Part 5”, which comes ahead of his fifth studio album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.

'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.

Since then, the rapper has curated and helmed the Black Panther film soundtrack, headlined Coachella and won a bunch of Grammy Awards. He has also, much to the ...

The promo for the track, which samples Marvin Gaye’s 1976 song I Want You, opens with Lamar standing in front of a dark red backdrop. Ahead of the album launch, Lamar has been deftly building hype with a new single and music video for The Heart Part 5. Other recent examples include Miles Skarin’s creepy deepfake music video for Steve Wilson, which featured famous faces including Joe Biden and David Bowie, and Lil Uzi Vert’s promo for track Whassup, which aimed to parody life under lockdown.

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Like the 44th president, Kendrick is an emotive speaker and ‘The Heart Part 5’ finds him trying to get his crime-riddled neighbourhood to change: “In the land where hurt people hurt more people / Fuck callin’ it culture”. Oklama seems to be the evolved version of Kenny from the aforementioned ‘TPAB’, where Kendrick’s critical eye helped him see where his community is flawed – on this single, though, Lamar speaks more plainly and there’s even greater empathy in his pen. On ‘The Heart Part 5’, this seems to be the best definition.

The latest installment in his long-running song series comes with a jarring video just ahead of his forthcoming album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.

“Part 5” is the second “Heart” entry to be paired with a video, and this time, the intrinsic link between song and visual is a double-edged sword. During the third verse, Lamar speaks from Nipsey’s perspective, positing what he might’ve thought at the moment he was shot and telling his family and his brother, Black Sam, that he’s watching over them. Twelve years later, his respect within the industry is unparalleled and he’s the first and so far only rapper ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. But gold can’t erase the bloodstains of the past, a fact that Lamar openly grapples with on his latest single “The Heart Part 5.”