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Do Better (Freestyle) GhostWridah – Do Better (Freestyle)

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This heavily samples Drake’s song Marvin’s Room

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Time Rockie Fresh (Ft. Mr. Hudson) – Time

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This song, the 12th and final track to Rockie Fresh’s 2010 mixtape titled “The Otherside”, is a melancholy anthem reminiscing on Rockie’s friends & life before the fame.

The song heavily samples Mr. Hudson’s song “Time” off his album “Straight No Chaser”.

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HiiiPoWeR Kendrick Lamar – HiiiPoWeR

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What is HiiiPower, you ask?

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[A] special Los Angeles County Jail wing deputies call the “high power unit.” The inmates refer to it as ‘death row.’

This is where the snitches and the serial killers are held, where the celebrities and the dirty cops are kept away from the general jail population for their own protection.

The 9-by-7-foot cells in the unit line both sides of a stark, gray-walled corridor on the jail’s second floor. There are about a dozen cells, each with a reinforced security door. Painted in the hallway, outside each cell, is a red stripe–called a “deadline”–to warn jail trustees, and deputies, not to gawk. […]

(“THE SIMPSON MURDER CASE : Now He’s Prisoner No. 4013970”, Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1994.)

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I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals
Worrisome individuals that live life critical Kendrick Lamar (Ft. GLC) – Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)

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Recall the opening lines from “Memory Lane”, the sixth track on Nas’s classic album Illmatic:

I rap for listeners, bluntheads, fly ladies and prisoners
Henessey-holders and old-school niggas

Kendrick’s rhymes are relatable for everyone. Whether you are an A+ student, a gang member, or someone that over-analyzes life and doesn’t enjoy it as much as they could, his words speak directly to you. Perhaps this is because he has seen both worlds: he’s been the good kid and the criminal.

There is a similar theme on the hook of the previous track:

Compton Crip niggas ain’t nothin' to fuck with
Bompton Pirus ain’t nothin' to fuck with
Compton éses ain’t nothin' to fuck with
But they fuck with me, and bitch I love it

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Recall the opening lines from ["Memory Lane"](http://rapgenius.com/Nas-memory-lane-sittin-in-da-park-lyrics), the sixth track on Nas's classic album *Illmatic*:

>I rap for listeners, bluntheads, fly ladies and prisoners
Henessey-holders and old-school niggas

Kendrick's rhymes are relatable for everyone. Whether you are an A+ student, a gang member, or someone that over-analyzes life and doesn't enjoy it as much as they could, his words speak directly to you. Perhaps this is because he has seen both worlds: he's been the [*good kid*](http://rapgenius.com/Kendrick-lamar-good-kid-lyrics) and the [*criminal*](http://rapgenius.com/1090102/Kendrick-lamar-the-art-of-peer-pressure/I-hit-the-back-window-in-search-of-any-nintendo-dvds-plasma-screen-tvs-in-the-trunk).

There is a similar theme on the hook of the [previous track](/Kendrick-lamar-ronald-reagan-era-lyrics):

>Compton Crip niggas ain't nothin' to fuck with
Bompton Pirus ain't nothin' to fuck with
Compton éses ain't nothin' to fuck with
But they fuck with me, and bitch I love it

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Good kid is part of the title of his debut major label classic.

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It's fire in the street, fire in my Swisher
Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ab-Soul) – Ab-Soul's Outro

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He uses a common theme of fire to describe 3 of the major problems of his generation: violence, drugs, and sex (STDs)

This also comes right back to the album’s first track, featuring an introduction from Section.80’s narrator:

Gather around. I’m glad everybody came out tonight. As we stand on our neighborhood corner, know that this fire that’s burning represents the passion you have.

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Or what if Tammy came across a real man
Who didn't play games like children? Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ab-Soul) – Ab-Soul's Outro

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In “Tammy’s Song”, Kendrick describes a woman who moves from unsuccessful relationship to unsuccessful relationship. Kendrick jokes at the end of Tammy’s Song that eventually “she’ll be turning dyke” because it is the only place she can turn for a solid relationship. Soul wonders how things might have been different had Tammy met a man who wouldn’t have cheated on her.

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And in her heart, she hate it there, but in her mind, she made it where
Nothin' really matters Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ash Riser) – Keisha's Song (Her Pain)

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The heart is more reflective of what we feel is right while the mind is centered on our subjective experiences, and will deny things as that’s easier for us to do. Therefore, deep down, Keisha detests her lifestyle, however, given the mind’s tendency to distort our real feelings, she begins to think she has been emotionally desensitized to it.

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She suddenly realize she'll never escape the allure
Of a Black man, white man needing satisfaction
At first, it became a practice, but now she's numb to it Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ash Riser) – Keisha's Song (Her Pain)

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The woman originally traded sex for money because she saw an opportunity in lustful men and seized it, probably never planning to do it again. However, she has done this act so many times that she has become jaded and grown accustomed to it.

The inclusion of both races here is important because Kendrick is pointing out that this problem is persistent across the board—whether you’re black or white; whether you’re a cop or a criminal.

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At first it wasn’t really that much just lustful men that she allured then she started trading sex for money then it eventually became so usual that she doesn’t even care anymore.

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Matter fact, don't mistake me for no fuckin' rapper
They sit backstage and hide behind them fuckin' cameras
I mosh pit, had a microphone and I tossed it Kendrick Lamar – Fuck Your Ethnicity

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While most typical rappers hide in the dressing room before and after live concerts, only interacting with fans at a bare minimum, Kendrick will jump in the front row and go crazy with his fans to show he appreciates them. He’s confident, but he doesn’t see himself as above his fans. He expresses this by getting off the stage and moshing.

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