“The fact that we are in 2020 and we are still protesting for the same thing that some of our grandparents were fighting for puzzles me,” Moore has said. Born out of complete necessity – the track calls to question why racism is tangled into the very fabric of our society. “When is it all going to end?”, cries Hemi Moore in his Rag’n’Bone Man-style powerful and punchy cry for justice. Distributed through Spinnup, all sales of the single are donated to anti-racism charities that support Black Lives Matter. The track was created in Moore’s bedroom via a Zoom call with producers Dominic James and Brookfield. ‘When?’ was written and recorded in just under two weeks, following the death of George Floyd. During his teen years spent in Southend-on-Sea, he quickly fell in love with the piano and making music, with a vision to share his craft with others. Levert Kelvin Kachingwe, (otherwise known as Hemi Moore), moved to the UK from Zimbabwe at the age of 13, in search of a better life. We want to honour those artists and their revolutionary tracks, explore how they came to be, and give you some inspiration on how you can turn mayhem into music. Over the ages people have looked to musicians to take the frankly sh*t situations the world can sometimes throw at us and turn it into art. You have a voice and you have the power to change the world.Īt Spinnup, we encourage you to channel your frustrations and passions in your music. Music becomes a thunderous instrument that brings us joy whilst educating and uniting us. Silence is simply not an option when it comes to standing up for our rights – whether it’s fighting racism, poverty, politics or oppression. It is an outstanding metaphor that continues to prove why Kendrick Lamar is a one of a kind poet whose legacy will never be up for debate.As we’ve said before, when times get tough, creators create. The vivid mental picture of a seemingly approachable and vulnerable woman being capable of such a final, cold hearted action must have been a deep point of inspiration for this album. We as a people shocked and disappointed him. Kendrick tried only to uplift and instead he was almost pulled down. The accusations that Kendrick’s ‘Alright’ and BET Awards performance were regressive by any stretch of the imagination was a figurative shot in the head. Cue Fox News’ dismissal of his police brutality lyrics. Although critics loved the album and it will likely go down as one of the greatest albums of all time bar none, as with any polarising piece of art, there was always going to be an audience who condemned it. Just like he did when he walked over to the blind lady, Lamar had innocently pure intentions with the release of his sophomore effort.Īfter watching us “struggle for a while”, he shared To Pimp A Butterfly with the objective of lending “a helping hand” to the same lost generation he addressed four years prior on Section. The success in the execution is a different story entirely. With To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar attacked topics so crucial that he deserved praise simply for the attempt. To examine further, we must travel back two years. The story of the blind woman and this sample have to be linked. Coincidence is just not a word that exists in Kendrick Lamar’s lexicon. However, this theory fails to acknowledge the outro to the song in which Fox News’ criticism of ‘ Alright’ is sampled. The observant suggestion has been made that the image of the feeble blind woman juxtaposed with the harsh reality of a murderous gunshot implies the “wicked or weakness” theme visited throughout the album. Even more so than ‘Wesley’s Theory’, ‘Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter’ or ‘Fuck Your Ethnicity’.Īfter a cryptic few lines by Bēkon, the already highly quoted and famous story begins. But remarkably, it has by far been the most examined introductory song on any project. Dot album contains absolutely no rapping. ‘BLOOD.’ marks the first time that the opening piece on a K. Just hours after the album leaked, theories were scattered all over social media and Rap forums and people were as confused as they were amazed. Key points are left open to interpretation and complex themes are explored in detail from multiple perspectives.
80 (at the very least) contains content which fans could spend an eternity pondering. This is due not only to high level production, masterful engineering and great rapping but frankly, genius concepts.Įvery Kendrick Lamar project since Section. In an age of disposable music, Kendrick Lamar crafts bodies of works worth dissecting for years. In an age of surface level lyricism, Kendrick Lamar rises as an elite MC. In an age of saturation, Kendrick Lamar makes a point to disappear between album cycles.