Listen to Kendrick Lamarโs New Song โThe Heart Part 5โ
On Sunday, less than a week before the release of his new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar released his new song โThe Heart Part 5,โ along with a video to accompany it. On Friday, May 13, he releases his long-awaited fifth studio album, which will be his final for Top Dawg Entertainment.
Lamar sits in front of a dark red backdrop in the video for the song, which samples Marvin Gayeโs famous 1976 song โI Want You,โ as his face switches with deep fakes of some of his colleagues, entertainers, and hip-hop superstars including Kanye West and Nipsey Hussle.
The quote โI am.โ begins the shape-shifting image. โAll of us,โ according to oklama, a nickname the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper has started employing in recent months.
โAs I get older, I learn life is about perspective, and my perspective may differ from yours,โ Kendrick says at the start of the song. โIโd like to express my gratitude to everyone who has come down with me. Everyone who has ever taught me a lesson, including my gorgeous fans. Everyone in my family.โ
Throughout the video, Lamarโs face takes on the appearances of different celebs, and at 1:55, he spits the lyric โfriends bipolarโ as his visage swaps to that Kanye West. His features resemble those of OJ Simpson, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Nipsey Hussle, among others. Kendrick spits the lyric โand Sam I be watching over youโ when he raps from the perspective of the late rapper, then throws out an apparent dedication to his brother Samiel Asghedom, a.k.a. Blacc Sam, in the Nipsey segment of the video.
K-Dot raps โIโm in Argentina wiping tears full of uncertaintyโ at 2:05 in the video, which appears to be a reference to Nipseyโs death, considering that the MC performed at Lollapalooza Argentina on March 31, 2019, the day Nipsey was slain.
โThe Heart Part 5โ is the first solo K-Dot single to be classified as a pgLang release on streaming services, in collaboration with TDE. Kendrick said the upcoming album will be his final with TDE in August of last year, telling fans on his oklama website that he feels โpleasure to have been a part of such a cultural stamp after 17 years.โ
โThe Battles. He penned, โThe Success.โ โAnd, above all, the Brotherhood.โ May the Most High continue to employ Top Dawg as a conduit for honest artists. As I continue to follow my lifeโs purpose.โ
Take a look at the new video up below.
