With a flow that powerful, the Lord just might listen to him. “Get God on the phone!” Lamar screams before turning to racial slurs to motivate the listener, a tactic he would also use on “The Blacker the Berry”. “untitled 02” (our title: “God and Styrofoam”) has a similar dichotomy when his own voice wrestles with itself, jumping from nervous falsetto to his more aggressive lower register as he condemns himself and his friends for often valuing stunting over spirituality or any real kind of social change. On To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick explored the struggle of trying to enjoy success while staying true to his Compton roots, going as far as to literalize the warring halves of his brain by making them into two separate characters on “u”. It’s not so difficult to imagine Kendrick in the garden of Gethsemane, bellowing, “Who love you like I love you?” as the thunder sounds.

“Geez Louise, I thought you said that I excel … I tithed for you, I pushed the club to the side for you.” It’s dark clouds and trumpets, uninterrupted flow backed by a nightmarish hum. What’s the connection? Giving someone what they want, even need, and in K Dot’s case, the possibility that even that may be insufficient. It’s a ferocious track, made all the more unsettling by the carnal, baritone purr that kicks things off. (our title: “Every Good Boy Does Fine”), Kendrick hits fast-forward and heads straight to judgment day. Nevertheless, enjoy! I mean, pimp, pimp, hooray! If we got something wrong, cut us some slack. So, read on for our song titles, as well as our initial thoughts and own analyses of each tune. Since we named the album, we figured we should probably name every track, too.

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