Schemin’, and let me tell you ’bout my life What MAC-11 even boom with the bass down?
I recognize you’re looking at me for the pay cutīut homicide be looking at you from the face down Label: Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)īut if God got us, then we gon’ be alrightĭo you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright This jerk and his gun fingers clearly haven't listened to Alright's lyrics, especially the bit about No weapon on me shall prosper.Track: Alright ‘Alright’ is the single release from Lamar’s 2015 album, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ When the magic lamp-post stretches even higher into the clouds and Kendrick is wilin' out to 360 views.ġ1. Death-defying stunts will always get a hot girl's attention.ġ0. However good your rap squat is, it's not as good as a rap squat on top of a lamp-post above the STAPLES Centre.Ĩ. When Kendrick is monkeying over his mob.ħ. The stereo tower, and the awesome black Angelino dancers doing gravity-defying breakdancing in front of it.Ħ. Basically the best angel to fly through the city of Los Angeles since Nic Cage.Ĥ. The empty lot shot, where Kendrick's pals are reclaiming the power and dancing on top of the police car now, while Kendrick does donuts in an empty lot tossing dollars in the sky.ģ. When the camera pans out on Kendrick and some of his TDE crew are riding around in a car, and the car is being carried by Anglo-Saxon police officers.Ģ. This is definitely the best video we've seen all year - there's so much striking imagery in this clip, we thought we'd break down and take time to appreciate the best frames.ġ. Tilley helmed the video with team of Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment president Dave Free, who collectively credit themselves as 'The Little Homies' for this clip.
Behind the video is Colin Tilley, a veteran music video director, whose done work for Nicki Minaj and Kelly Rowland. Shot in black and white, it’s an epic, seven-minute long, stunningly cinematic offering - and its’ making some rather large waves on the Internet. The Compton kingpin has now followed up the performance with an official video for the track.
The track itself opens with a line (“All my life I had to fight”) from the classic American novel about slavery by Pulitzer Price winning author Alice Walker The Color Purple, and pits the injustices explored throughout history against black people in a modern framework, exploring police hate, reassuring himself and the community “we gon’ be alright.” Last week Kendrick Lamar did a live rendition of his Pimp A Butterfly highlight/Pharrell-produced/featuring rap hit Alright at the BET Awards, rapping on top of a police car covered in graffiti surrounded by US flags (watch it here ), then scooping the award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist.
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