turn up boi

-John

Thanks for sharing the reality of this life man

Trey, nobody likes you.

Kendrick’s lyrics are always deep.

So much meaning in every line to this album

I thought this would be an indirect reference to Tupac’s poem, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete”

you know your probably one of the real rappers left in the game that don’t always rap about girls, party’s, fame, and all that. and that’s probably why people like you so much, cuz you keep it real you know, unlike 2 chains or juicy j and all the other fake niggas on 92.5 today and all that stuff.

This fits into the song perfectly in my opinion. It just shows how poetic you are man.

How could i not blow all i do is drop f bombs

I’ll just throw this out there.

Despite Kendrick’s annotation, please keep in mind he’s speaking with a female reporter. He might not feel comfortable sharing the variations of this line. But he did say one thing for sure, that the flower DOES NOT represent him. It represents something about “her”.

1) On the surface we have – Kendrick telling you a flower bloomed without sunlight. Followed by a rhetorical question, would you trust this flower? No, you wouldn’t, because common sense. Forget exceptions.

2) For years WestCoast rappers have been saying “Never trust a bitch” and “We don’t loove dem hoes”, and Kendrick makes a similar statement in the most poetic way possible. He just uses a rhetorical question to do so, and let’s you figure it out. You guys figured everything out except the flower line, which might just affect your word on the lines before and after.

“If a flower…”

Flower is often a word used to describe a vagina. Yes, a vagina. Commonplace in the art world and the rap world. Need proof?
The expression “to deflower a virgin”. Maybe just google the flower paintings of famous American artist Georgia O'Keefe. As well as any Lil Wayne lyrics involving flowers for that matter.

“…bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?”

This woman matured into a lady, and her “flower” bloomed in a dark space between her legs where the sun don’t shine. Kind of strange for a flower to bloom without sunlight isn’t it?

Ohhh Kendrick how real you keeps it. Despite being a conscious rapper, don’t think he’s not straight WestCoast for one second! He’s not above saying “How could you trust a hoe?” exactly as Kurupt did on “Bitchez Ain’t Shit” years before him.

Need more proof?

Reread the lines that start the verse, aaand umm………….

K.Dot might just be eating some pussy.

That doesn’t make any sense 😂 when would a flower ever be full of honey.

True poetry

I feel you

DAMN

I like to think that without knowing the context of Kendrick’s answer, that this lyric asks a very real question that is designed for you to answer candidly. It asks how far your trust goes with someone, like a trust fall exercise. If you can think of someone in your life who could show you a flower and tell you that it bloomed in a dark room would you believe them? Think about why you would believe certain people over others if they told you this. Most likely the people that you’re going to believe are telling the truth are those who you’ve known for a long time, shared experiences with, feel comfortable around, and overall just trust.

are there ever any good endings when it comes to narcissists? endings that dont end in machete cuts and burning bridges?

honey is nectar. or it WAS nectar. so he’s technically right

Typically flowers cannot grow in the dark. Without light and energy. When you close your eyes, you are in full darkness, full consciousness. The things you give energy to grows and manifests in reality. A lot of Kendrick Lamar’s verses are really spiritual. Of course you can compare it to surface level stuff, which most people are going to do because the lack of knowledge on spirituality.

Kendrick is asking Drake that question: Kendrick considers himself the flower he speaks of coming up in Compton ( as he details in previous work) could be considered the dark room. Concluding: If I told you I was the phoenix out of the ashes, would you trust it?

This could be Kendrick opening up a dialogue between the audience and himself, asking if they’d believe him telling them a seemingly egregious piece of information. Maybe that a bigger and more commercially accepted pop-hip hop artist has questionable interactions with young girls in the view of the public and also possibly behind closed doors. Would you believe Kendrick if he told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room? Especially on a song titled Poetic Justice?

Kendrick himself annotated this line.. However, he admits that he is not The Flower.

One flower in particular that blooms in darkness would be “The Moonflower” which could symbolize a few things.
Two of which, that stand out are; Romance (the fragrance line from earlier) or Mystery – because if a flower bloomed in a dark room, logically would you trust it? Typically, flowers go through photosynthesis and get energy from the Sun.

The moonflower is also toxic and could represent the person featured in the slightest of subliminal way. This line itself could be a lot deeper than explained, feel free to dissect it yourself.

Why can’t I hear this?

you know your probably one of the real rappers left in the game that don’t always rap about girls, party’s, fame, and all that. and that’s probably why people like you so much, cuz you keep it real you know, unlike 2 chains or juicy j and all the other fake niggas on 92.5 today and all that stuff.

She’s in the mood for empathy, but theres blood in his pen. Let me ask you this. What else becomes engorged with blood when “She can get it, she can get it, she can get it”?

C'mon guys buncha virgins annotating over here.

Kendrick also says in the interview. He does find something about her attractive, and wants to show both sides of this encounter. Theres no better description of the two sides of a male-female sexual encounter than, “SHE’s in the mood for empathy, and HE’s.. well he’s just hard” haaaa

At least you had a story like that

All Hail Kung fuu Kenny!

et meto agent provocateur it/ s janet jackson* ssssssssssssss

boudelo

again. firing shots at narcissism. send help. advice?

“You’re in the mood for empathy…” Kendrick is most likely speaking to or about someone nearby, directly or indirectly.

Then follows up with: “..there’s blood in my pen” – Blood is the source of life. Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” Mark 14:24 “And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.”

Kendrick hit the evil blunt 😭

so fuckn raw

It’s actually disastrously bad

Kendrick growing up from where I’m from I personally understand exactly what you said homie. That dream is what keeps us alive.

WOKE

Euphoria to me is the E=mc2.
Nuclear as in New Clear the meaning of breeding a slow dance is basically in Love, take it to Lust in progression to DAMN.
Because all seems as desire, fire that feeds on matter such as euphoria burning up the antenna that recipricates with dopamine the positive feel good hormone. Slowing down the need of feeding because euphoria is a anti. More then bread but all this is relative to me in this case us. Euphoria us probably feminine The X is the same chormasome we all share. so yeah idk. kudos i feel like the number kendrick fan in 🇵🇷.
Delegating at a debate about debts yet to come. -MYKE

My life ends up as a quote nigga. – Pusha-T

Today my friend was humming the beginning of this song then I joined in at “Man down, where you from…” with the words, and two other friends joined in with us for the first verse and a kid we didn’t even know joined in too. At the end of the verse we all caught our breath and high-fived each other. Purely impromptu.
-The State of Washington

You are the top dawg in the game right now. You are up there with Em and Jay to name a few already. Your GKMC album is a masterpiece in my opinion and can only hope that your next album is as incredible as the first. Love from the UK brother! :D

lol why are everyone hating on GemLamarDopekhid_Gyamfi?

yea

lol why the 2 first comments so disliked?

your a great rapper keep it up

Y'all worried about the bleep, but the sample that comes with these lyrics is bothering me…what is the sample?? All I hear is something about a roller coaster

Thanks for annotation

“The roller coaster” is a tape playing

he most likely said at the same burger stand wher crips hang out, now this is not a tape recorder saying that they did it, but ever since that day, I was looking at them different.

man i think u got the idea from this song…am i right?

He is likely talking about knowing a specific person who might have done it and doesn’t want to expose them.

he fasure said james

yea boi love this music.

I own like all of your albums listen to them every day

Kendrick is the next generation “Kind of New York”

i’m a big fan of real “ Rhyme African Poetry – aka RAP ” i’m from algeria i start listening to RAP since i was 6 , and when i growing-up i keep listen to the real Art “RAP” , i was so Influence by rappers like Ice Cube, 2pac, Nas, Wu-tang – all NWA – Bone-Thugs , Public enemy , Rakim , Eminem…etc .. but now you stole all my love from this legends
thanks god i’m live now to see the future-legend Kendrick Lamar <3

this reminds me of raekwon’s verse in CREAM

i love u 🙏🏼

this reminds me of DMX’s (RIP) story where he smoked weed laced with crack.