Motherâs Day ended on a high note, thanks to Kendrick Lamar. The 34-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper dropped âThe Heart Part 5â in the later hours of May 8, days before heâs set to release Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, his first new album in five years. In âThe Heart Part 5,â Kendrick starts with a message â âI am all of usâ â which becomes even more evident as the video progresses, as Kendrickâs face morphs into OJ Simpson, Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Nipsey Hussle.
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âI come from a generation of pain, where murder is minor,â Kendrick raps at the start of the song, and each deepfake correlates with a line in the track. Kendrick morphs into OJ when interpolating a line from a Jay-Z song (Jay-Z famously wrote âThe Story of OJ,â off 4:44), and he takes on Yeâs visage at the mention of âfriends bipolar.â Towards the end of âThe Heart Part 5,â Kendrick adopts Kobeâs image before shifting into Nispeyâs face while seemingly adopting the slain rapperâs perspective.
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âBut didnât change me starinâ down the barrel of that gun / Should I feel resentful I didnât see my full potential? / Should I feel regret about the good that I was into? / Everything is everything, this ainât coincidental,â raps Kendrick, per Genius.
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The video contains a special thanks to South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and their Deep Voodoo studio. Kendrick, Matt, Trey, and Dave Free (the co-director of âThe Heart Part 5â video) are reportedly working on a film that âwill depict the past and present coming to a head when a young [B]lack man who is interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriendâs ancestors once owned his,â per Pitchfork.
Kendrickâs new song is the latest in his long-running âThe Heartâ series of non-album singles that first began in 2010. Itâs unclear if it will be included in Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrickâs new album slated for a May 13 release. The album could be more than just a follow-up to 2017âs DAMN. On May 3, Kendrick uploaded a photo to his website where he held two CDs and a book. One CD bore âSteppersâ while the other was labeled âMorale.â Each CD was also labeled âMaster Copy,â hinting that this project could be a double album. Also â the book in Kendrickâs hand was titled Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, with Lamar as the listed author. This sparked speculation that Kendrick could be dropping a book along with new music.
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