Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -... 〈Windows〉

Kendrick Lamar’s greatest trick is making you search for a version of himself that no longer exists. He killed K. Dot. He buried the good kid in a m.A.A.d city . The man holding the Pulitzer is not the boy who wrote Section.80 .

That song features a hook sung from the perspective of a ghost—a friend of Kendrick's who was shot and killed. The lyrics float in a reverb-drenched ether: "I wonder if I was a better person, would you be at my funeral? / I wonder if I was a better person, would you be at my funeral?" Then, Kendrick adopts the voice of the deceased’s brother, who vows revenge, only to be killed himself. Finally, Kendrick raps about "Keisha’s Song"—a prostitute he knows. Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -...

Each verse ends with the refrain: "I'll never forget your song." But the subtext is grief-stricken amnesia. He is trying to remember the people he used to know before the violence erased them. The melancholic guitar loop of that track is the hip-hop equivalent of Gotye’s xylophone—sparse, circular, entrapping. Kendrick Lamar’s greatest trick is making you search

Listen closely. You can still hear him knocking. He buried the good kid in a m