Kendrick Lamar on Fan Theories, Unreleased Songs, Ranking His Albums, and Family | ICYMI

how many unreleased songs do you have in your head or that we haven't heard yet thousands i don't lost hard drives damn really hard drives from 05 06 we never got back took it all the way to san francisco to get it fixed never got fixed but welcome back to the neighborhood man thank you for having me you i'm gonna tell you man at one point when you were saying oh big i don't know if i'm gonna blow up and i'm thinking about getting off the bus and i told you i said man stay on the path it's coming you did that and look at us now look at us now all right you know i can't always try to be responsible for a piece of your of your success like man i told him man you get that every day yeah oh yeah hell yeah but how is it now man you know what i'm saying and not that that that there's no struggle or whatever you know what i'm saying but but how is it now has there been a difference a change from the last five years to today not just record success but just life and everything oh yeah definitely me being able to support my family mm-hmm can you support mine too yeah come on yeah at least just one you know what i'm saying but yeah that's gotta be great that's great uh inspire you know my little brothers and sisters inspired my little cousins my city um it also made me more hungry though really though yeah why yeah because it's it's a need to never be content or to be comfortable you know you always want to continue to grow so whatever that challenge is i'm always looking for do you feel like you wrote your best verse yet my best verse yet nope damn no no do you ever i'm always searching for that really though when you write kendrick do you write or are you in the head or are you on on a device all three damn however i can get to it might just jump on the mic might just have a pin it might be that little tablet right there can you please take that tablet yeah but turn it back into us good lord yeah he wrote me a little note i took the note he don't even know i'm about to sell that in japan right you know is it different now everybody know who kendrick lamar is is it different to kind of to kind of step out now with privacy and everything oh yeah definitely i can't go nowhere really i can't i can't rock like that but i got to right i can't i can't be a prisoner at the same time so you may see me in a little hole in the whole spot you may see me in the city you may see me uh uh at the moment at the corner store i gotta go but you do have to plan your step up you're like you know you're going to be held up just a little bit more now so you do have to give give yourself some wiggle room yeah to like get to a seat you know because i see you at the games you know i see you walking all the way down where your seats are at you know what i'm saying like yeah you know you know all you know you know how you right there like if you put your foot out a little bit more you know what i'm saying or if you're like two inches taller i don't know how tall you are you trip one of the clippers or at least right you know what i'm saying i don't know what those seats call and i'm going to tell you man i will call you and i will i don't know what they cost i'm talking about i will call you and top i will be looking right at y'all just so y'all can invite me down i will call top and i will see top pull his phone out and go like this then put it back in his pocket [Music] like big ain't coming down there you know oh now we don't do big like that he right there on the floor with us somewhere we just don't see him hilarious you'll see a picture it'll be kendrick yep top yup beyonce jay-z and whoever else is just sitting there now if they want to go ahead and put one of them scope lenses on the camera like one of them the long-ass lenses then you'll see big boy veronica jaden and jade i'm fine with where we sit you know what i'm saying it's just that you know we got things to work towards you know what i'm saying okay we got to make some changes then dawg since we said that dave are you right here oh he ain't going to do nothing okay she's like okay all that fake ass turning around your team ain't supposed to do this watch this i want to show you this man hey hey louie what up hey man you know i'm the uh the best man in the world right oh of course there it is you're supposed to do it easy best teammate type of stuff you you know uh next time i go out man i'm gonna have you at a basketball game sit in the front row with me front row there it is when you turn around with that [ __ ] all righty i was at a who show we just that that you came out and did damn where were we at was it what was it yeah yeah man my knee almost gave out that day but it it's crazy what that energy feel like when you come out on stage as well yeah can you still hear that yeah all the time cause i thought you just got like a little more conceited or something you can still hear those things i'm still here how do you pick and choose who do you come out on stage with or just availability yeah it's really artists i respect and and and just have a a love for that music and and off the record too you know it'd be some real cool individuals out there and it'd be some real [ __ ] that i really don't rock with you know what i'm saying so um a lot of people that i work with it just have a mutual mutual bond there because everybody want the kendrick verse yes you know what i'm saying like i don't even do music and i want it exactly how do you pick and choose is it the same kind of thing where it's like you know i i definitely got to rock with that person it's really all in the music at that point yeah cause you can rock with that person right right right song i can't i i'm not inspired by it so the records just have to be something that i can connect to why the just a single word for every song um did it get hard when you started thinking like damn oh that's true yeah you know what i'm saying if you could see that list that list was like scrabble man trying to figure out what emotion uh captured the actual lyrics so i'll write a verse and do the whole song then i feel or look at words that i feel like captures that emotion you know so who's going through that back and forth all through the whole process did you ever have another album title for damn uh yep what was happening on earth stays on earth what happens on everything stays on her why not that that's a long ass that's alone what happens on earth yeah do you have that new uh kendrick what happened what happened like what happens and from the album what happens on earth stays on earth you hear it throughout the album though yeah but you know what's going to happen now yeah and you do so nobody can now we can't even touch that right you know what i'm saying but i'm going to take you straight up like all the freestyles that you've done and what we're going to kind of choke hold you in to do today whatever you do today we're putting together an album called what happens on earth this dude is fast yeah yeah man so we putting that together man so as you see we got joel in here he's been shooting the album cover get this one joel so like in the beginning with blood in the beginning with blood is that the beginning or the end of the album because the end of duckworth confuses me you know i can't tell you that why can't you tell me because it's for the listener i need to know i can't i'll be giving away for the whole world get him out of here two years ago he would have told us you know what i'm saying two years ago he would have told us man now why you can't tell us i mean i mean it's like a damn project feeling figuring out some of your stuff man ain't nothing you can just tell us like legit like gave me a headache trying to figure it out well it can mean multiple things but for me um [Music] the initial thing was these stories never happened that makes sense to you kind of if you go yeah it never happened none of it none of it happened so you get to reverse and start it all over again yeah i i smell so then blood is like starting all over again no i get it you get shot by a blind lady that's a whole nother concept so you got to oh my god dude i'm not doing all that you just gonna have to go bubble gum on us man intricate rap stuff man you gotta you gotta go viciously in the place to be honest yeah you gotta get off all these concepts and all this intricacies over here got us thinking and trying to elevate and educate our and elevate our man trying to look out for the kids what's wrong with you yeah right yeah man got us thinking you know do you find yourself kendra being a little more uh conscious now though too uh what you mean as far as what just like i hear more of a message in the music or yeah is that somewhere you at life it's real it's more like uh my uh my views rather than trying to throw it up throw it on throw it on a listener and i think that's that's my biggest connection with my audience and why it connects um the way i do because it's not it's not necessarily preachy it's just my uh own ups and downs and trying to figure myself out as well as going through these times of traveling the world and my own experiences and putting them all into one and when you excuse me when you say own experiences right in element you say that you got stumped out in front of your mama yeah you really got stumped out in front of your mama yeah avalon swap me damn about when i heard yeah in front of your mama yeah yeah she's walking out i'm already fading about three four dudes and just looking at mom's tweet though that you shared sent back she came back and helped you out though too right oh yeah yeah did she see it or she saw like the aftermath she's seen it you've seen it she's seen it but you know it's funny out of the res how old were you i was probably about 15. damn so somebody claim to fame is that they stomped you out in the avalon oh yeah i soaked them out you hear the story somebody got that damn yeah they got that for sure i heard that man boys somebody i ain't writing about it cats would be like man we went down big at the slaughter swami i like no you didn't on that tip of you saying that you're not trying to be preachy but a lot of people have chosen you to be the voice of this generation does that put what kind of pressure does that put on you uh if if it puts i won't necessarily say pressure all i can you know do is continue to be uh actual human being and and then to show them that you know i go through the same emotions and the same you know feelings that y'all go through yeah so if they you know put that as being the leader of this generation then so be it because all i can do is express myself and hope you you know take something from it do you does it make you happy that you are like i want to say like you're so talented that you've become that like not and that doesn't happen to everyone um does it give you joy or does it um does it pain you to like what kind of emotions go through that though yeah it gave me joy that you know people are actually listening you know um it's people you know they break my whole 16 bars down better than i can you know i'm saying and pull some away from it different from you know what i what inspired me to write it so just that right there is it's the ultimate joy going out on the stages and seeing them kids wrap these lyrics that's the feeling how many unreleased songs do you have in your head or that we haven't heard yet thousands i haven't lost hard drives damn really hard drives from 05 06 we never got back took it all the way to san francisco to get it fixed never got fixed songs in votes do you do you still have the hard drive mm-hmm we praying to god that it'll come back to life let me tell you man i probably have someone for real that can think so you think so probably but it's gonna come with a price of course how much material is in there this is about 500 songs 500 songs all right if i can get that fixed the fourth time we'll be listening to this boy if i can get that fix for you will you give me a free show for sure easy i'm not talking about the radio show doc don't talk about it i'm talking about the person that i can make it off you know what i'm saying you know what i'm saying you know i love real and i love i heart bro but i love jaden you know jade and veronica a lot better what were those times when you thought the we making noise or the the i made it you know what i'm saying like what were some of those like so-called like thresholds where you was like oh we making noise uh probably my first show at um well the first first moment was making noise when rock had the song with lil wayne all my life i was like okay like we all know yeah that was the chuck dilly you know that's the moment like yo this really can happen you know what i'm saying this is biggest rapper at the moment you know me rocking with us and rock doing this thing on the record that was a moment second moment for me was my first show downtown la off my first mixtape kendrick lamar ep yeah how many people how many people about 300 really though yeah you're like man yeah this can happen like man what did it feel like when you first put the mic out in a a crowd finish your verse i'm addicted i was high that was it that was it for me because now i know i i wrote these wraps in my mom's kitchen and i just went around the world and y'all singing these wraps that i wrote in the kitchen that's great blew my mind away mm-hmm what about your first trip overseas archibald where did you go where i went london and that was crazy and they knew that it's crazy that they just know music and they love it though yeah they're like die-hards almost to the point where they feel like they don't get it enough so when we come out there yeah i appreciate it what's the largest crowd you rocked in front of kendrick 95 100 000. yeah do you like smaller venues where you get that energy or is there does the energy compare like is there one way like oh okay i feel this but also like you know if i could do a thousand-seater you know the small venues after being on festival so long i mean it's great energy to crowd you see it thirty thousand forty thousand jumping you love that but there's nothing like going to them small holy walls and people are just hanging on the ceiling and they you know they want to wrap your early reps yeah we got to book that do it right here right yeah we got to book that man i'm glad you answered that when you hear people say the verse if they say you know the control versus the first the first is it crazy that like we know exactly what cats are talking about like there's moments in time where we just like okay we we know this we know that or we kind of throw something back at you right like that's got to be crazy that you created this yeah and and how many people around the world are on top of that definitely hanging on to lyrics all the time it's people i go overseas and there's people screaming at that verse right you know what i mean and it's been what what's that two thousand and i'm not even just talking that verse yeah it's just versus versus yeah yeah definitely it's a trip you know they can hang on to these lyrics and know them verbatim yeah man i don't forgot about them and moved on and they remind me like no this is how you like take that into the booth or into perspective when you're writing also that you're in competition with yourself yeah all the time i gotta challenge myself like i said it's for me it's it's it's always searching for that next thing that you know inspired me within writing it could be another word it could be another concept another song another album but it's just a challenge it's just the church to write that perfect verse or that perfect song i probably never get it but i know one thing's going to keep me driven right to keep going hard you know what i love about it also kendrick is that use not usually but sometimes cats create such a fan base and a buzz that they get to a point where they kind of start mailing it in yeah because you know like we we know it then you can always kind of depend on your catalog to get you through you know a concert but you do say that you continue to to one-up yourself all the time all the time i got to i got to i got to go back to that place when was in the garage and writing wraps you know in top house writing raps and doing verses where that moment is that did you go buy the garage yeah i would go buy no i would go why the garage go by we still got it that's dope do you ever go back there for motivation i go back in there look in it vibe studio's still there mike's still there i heard what happens um your albums all righty now there's some people there's always the barbershop talk you know what i'm saying which one is their their best out which one is their favorite so on and so forth you know and we all got albums right not as artists but we all got albums that we like of yours okay uh we want you to rate your album okay all righty which one is your favorite album all right show it to him and and call it out by name i they section 80. already section 80. oh this should be lost sorry to pimp a butterfly oh this is tough bro ooh you shouldn't write glitter good kid matt city both sides and last but not least damn right he lay him out in front of him because he make a lot of songs he probably don't even remember what songs were on the album yeah all righty i know i'm gonna do y'all though um y'all gonna be mad at me you have to give us a straight answer too don't try to give us no i'm gonna give you a straight ass yeah man don't be a politician you wanna number em one through he could just tell us in case he wants to remember him uh-oh uh-oh there you go that that's the order right there so you agree with your mama matter of fact this is a tweet from your mother right i love it it says oh my god this is this is a text message message oh my god this cd is bomb a lot of emojis in your mind you know what i'm saying you should uh you should have put me and your daddy on this one too joke alrighty this your best one to me no [ __ ] 100. your daddy said you look stressed out on the cover lol i said [ __ ] that's the point we always stressing him out smiley crying face hey hey hey hey since the little boy you've been an overthinker though another emoji and a prayer hand alrighty but what you say a [ __ ] make it look okay it says uh but what you say a [ __ ] make it looks sexy all righty question mark alrighty boy you can make a dog laugh can you make a dog laugh for real already that's what you said lil king can milly rock into it he was so weak l-o-l-o-l album is bomb bomb bomb bomb 100 100 100. i missed the coachella stream i don't know what the uh emoji is right there they say you was floating on air your fans are some die hards i love them and then you came back you say you going emoji brazy who taught you 100 question mark lol that's beautiful i love that you shared that text that was awesome that's true that's beautiful does your mind work security detail too you know because mommy they'd be like man that's my baby over there right what's the one thing that you're so proud of that you did for your mom one thing i'm so proud of um got off section eight i heard that yeah yeah definitely definitely because that was a beautiful being incompetent got to move around different spots and all that got to worry about the landlord selling the house and yeah when don't i know it brother like man we lit and i tell people like hey man what did you grow up like here here here they were like oh man you driving like no we was evicted a lot yeah everything was an eviction so did you your mom you she got the house now she good is it in your name she's straight her name okay cool like yeah you can live here mama exactly man so so when you give when you give her the keys to the crib as a son what does that feel like that's that's the ultimate feeling because you know one thing about my mom she say this and she told me this yesterday she always reminded us you know but she said [ __ ] this [ __ ] [ __ ] i mean she said the thing only thing i have to do for her is continue to love her simple as that she said she brought me in this world you know it was my my reason to bring you here anyway anything you do for me is just a plus wow yeah simple as that so when i look at that and i look at that type of uh wisdom it makes me appreciate it you know even more it made me want to do more she never felt you never felt like you owed her that like she never said it because mike said it i see that's dope okay i never said it cause see where my kids i'm like hey you know daddy got them you know what i'm saying i'm tallying up everything kendrick like you know you you know exactly yeah you know you owe me this exactly you know what i'm saying like you look at this house you're home right daddy want one bigger from you like yeah you know i need you to do better than you know you're better than me because i i need to relax you know what i'm saying like you know i get up at like 3 30 4 o'clock every morning man so i need my kids to pop you know what i'm saying going back to these album ratings here why is damn top spot for you because i think damn is a hybrid of all these projects it was me finally being able to take elements from good kid um butterfly pimple butterfly the message behind the pimp butterfly the sonics and the slapping on good kid uh and the rawness of just being able to do what i want like i did on section 80. i didn't have no rules doing this i was just in there creating having fun so when i take all three of these it makes a hybrid a damn for me do you feel like people over listen to you now dude those kids are like hey brother man i didn't hurt all type of theories are some of the fairies theories you've heard craziest theories um that i'm dropping three more albums right after damn like every week i really thought you're gonna drop a second one we were hoping for because because of spotify though because on spotify we got the picture of you behind a blue wall yeah yeah so i was like okay but he often uses like both of these colors red you know and blue so i really thought you were going to drop that i'm going to tell you something it's a lot of things in that same uh theory that i don't know how these fans get but they're on point in some of them yeah they know about certain songs that may or may not be released okay and they put things together crazy so did you have the two and three albums for real then once we cracked it you're like i can't even bring it out now i think i'll have to wait yeah i'm like oh man they don't figure me out i had a um uh [Music] a selection of songs that i like i wouldn't call it an album but that definitely made sense for them for sure what's your wacky song my whacky song my mic is like y'all probably can look it on youtube too oh really oh [ __ ] i'm in the club yeah that was our [ __ ] though my what you do [ __ ] i'm in the club would you record something like that now probably like everyone's like no hold on man all right y'all need to play that on the record yeah yeah go on on the station they're gonna do that [Music] this is [Applause] like

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