Analysis
In this part of The Heart series
Kendrick Lamar talks about starting up, mounting pressure, and the present.Kendrick Lamar used rap as a tool to escape from reality, he never thought it would become to how it was today. He was able to get a verses with famous rappers and then decided to go all in and was able to get into TDE."Truthfully, I just started rappin' to get awayI never thought that your favorite rapper would want a verse""Now Punch is my mentor, Top Dawg is the coach"Now that he became a rapper there was mounting pressure to become better and beat the competition. The pressure became even greater after received the
torch at the House of Blues, and being called "Pac reincarnated'."I need a better way to take your fans now, huhI need to kill you motherfuckers dead""'Cause when the whole world see you as 'Pac reincarnatedEnough pressure to make you just open the Book of David"In the present day he is focused on making the best music and he has accomplished a lot that he strived to do in his earlier days."I came, I saw, I conquered""I put my life in these twelve songs, my fight in these twelve songs"Lastly he says his next album is coming out October 22nd, 2 days from when this song was released, so will you support him or let hip-hop die."Will you let hip-hop die on October 22nd?"This ending line is very similar to what he did at the end of
The Heart Part 4."Y'all got 'til April the 7th to get y'all shit together"This series as of 2025 has 6 parts in the series.
The Heart Part.1The Heart Pt. 2The Heart Part 4The Heart Part 5heart pt. 6*There may be errors on this page.