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  Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle (Explicit)Backseat Freestyle — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. Hit-Boy's beat, a teenager's bravado
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  Backseat Freestyle — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. Hit-Boy's beat, a teenager's bravado

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  Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Explicit)Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe — 2013. The album's calm single, and a title that became a phrase
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  Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe — 2013. The album's calm single, and a title that became a phrase

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  #03

  Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)Swimming Pools (Drank) — 2012. The lead single: a drinking song with a conscience in verse two
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  Swimming Pools (Drank) — 2012. The lead single: a drinking song with a conscience in verse two

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  Kendrick Lamar - i (Official Video)i — To Pimp a Butterfly, 2014. Its first single, on the Isley Brothers' That Lady. Two Grammys
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  i — To Pimp a Butterfly, 2014. Its first single, on the Isley Brothers' That Lady. Two Grammys

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  Kendrick Lamar - King KuntaKing Kunta — 2015. Kunta Kinte, the enslaved man in Roots, crowned
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  King Kunta — 2015. Kunta Kinte, the enslaved man in Roots, crowned

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  Kendrick Lamar - DNA.DNA. — DAMN., 2017. Don Cheadle plays the interrogator, lie detector and all
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  DNA. — DAMN., 2017. Don Cheadle plays the interrogator, lie detector and all

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  Kendrick Lamar - ELEMENT.ELEMENT. — 2017. Jonas Lindstroem shoots it in frames borrowed from Gordon Parks
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  ELEMENT. — 2017. Jonas Lindstroem shoots it in frames borrowed from Gordon Parks

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  Kendrick Lamar - LOVE. ft. ZacariLOVE. — with Zacari, 2017. Dave Meyers directs the album's one tender song
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  LOVE. — with Zacari, 2017. Dave Meyers directs the album's one tender song

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  #09

  Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5The Heart Part 5 — 2022. Deepfakes turn his face into O.J., Kanye, Kobe and Nipsey
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  The Heart Part 5 — 2022. Deepfakes turn his face into O.J., Kanye, Kobe and Nipsey

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