Kendrick Lamar What are your favorite Kendrick verses?

Started by Jehovah, Aug 16, 2015, in Kendrick Lamar Add to Reading List

  1. Jehovah
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  2. soul intent
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    soul intent The dude tho

    Aug 16, 2015
    Man this is gonna be tough. Let me think about this for a minute.
     
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  3. Maximus
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    Aug 16, 2015
    Kendricks Blessed verse allways makes me :pac:
     
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  4. Zep
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    Zep Certified Feminist

    Aug 16, 2015
    Kendricks verse on Love game :whew:

    Jk but Kendrick has so many great f---ing verses i can't just pick one
     
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    his jay-z remixed b---- dont k--- my vibe last verse is stellar, you can tell he stepped up for jay
     
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    Ohh s--- I forgot about that one, Kendrick Snaps on that track :rejoice:
     
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    Nosestalgia aswell :whew:
     
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  8. Maximus
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    Aug 16, 2015
    like there are sooo many, there is a reason why he is number 1 atm
     
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  9. Colonel Mustang
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    Colonel Mustang it's a terrible day for rain

    Aug 16, 2015
    His verse on Darkside/Gone has to be up there.
     
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  10. Loyalty
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    Loyalty we go hard on earth

    Aug 16, 2015
    The chorus + verse on "Catch a Fade" :banderas:

    & recently the "Darkside/Gone" verse

    "You think I'm too hood in my video? But really no clue you idiot!"
     
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  11. Tha_Goat
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    Tha_Goat A man got to have a code

    Aug 16, 2015
    To many to choose from
     
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    Aug 16, 2015
    Sing About Me first verse has always been a favourite of mine

    and I love his verse on Deep Water
     
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    Meero Ay ay ay

    Aug 16, 2015
    This one


    Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
    This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or move cocaine
    This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major pain
    Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain

    It was me, L Boogs and Yan Yan, YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans
    It got ugly, waving your hand out the window, check yourself, uh
    Warriors and Conans,hope euphoria can slow dance
    With society,
    the driver seat the first one to get killed
    Seen a light-skinned n----- with his brains blown out
    At the same burger stand where *beep* hang out
    Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it
    But ever since that day, I was looking at him different
    That was back when I was nine,
    Joey packed the nine
    Pakistan on every porch is fine,we adapt to crime
    Pack a van with four guns at a time, with the sliding door, f--- is up?

    f--- you shooting for if you ain't walking up, you f---ing punk?
    Picking up the f---ing pump, picking off you suckers
    s--- a d-ck or die or sucker punch,a wall of bullets coming from
    AK's, AR's,
    "Aye y'all, duck"
    That's what momma said when we was eating the free lunch

    Aw man, g.d., all h--- broke loose
    You killed my cousin back in '94, f--- your truce

    Now crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the news
    Ain't no peace treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve

    Bodies on top of bodies, IV's on top of IV's
    Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys
    When you hop on that trolley, make sure your colors correct
    Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect
    They say the governor collect, all of our taxes except
    When we in traffic and tragic happens, that s--- ain't no threat

    You moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec
    Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess,
    m.A.A.d city
     
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    YiT Kornrow Kenny

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    OD: He spit some real s--- on Cut you off, first verse of average joe: "Who is k.dot? A young black n----- selling raps next to a gun shot"
    Sxn80: Hol up last verse, rigamortus, f--- your ethnicity, hiipower.
    GKMC: Maad city first verse is up there, all verses on C&C. BDKMV remix last verse for sure.
    TPAB: Last verse on TBTB, outro of these walls, Last verse of I, Alright first verse is my favorite here:
    "Uh, and when I wake up, I recognize you lookin at me for the paycut, homicide be looking at you from the waist down, mac-11 go boom with the bass down, scheming!... 20 of em in my chevy tell em all to come and get me reaping everything I sow..."
    Features: Illuminate w/ ab soul, pay for it, radioactive remix, all 3 songs from Compton but especially deep water:
    "MFer know I started from the bottom, vodka baby bottle mixing that with simelac my momma knew I had a problem..."
    Too many to choose from really but I tried my best.
     
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  15. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Aug 16, 2015
    Love his first verse in C&C.

    [Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]
    This s--- make a n----- just wanna write
    Reminisce when I had the morning appetite
    Apple Jacks and after that I hit the TV Guide
    Animaniac the only thing that gave me peace of mind
    I’m a maniac when aiming at the enemy that lied
    Tell a story that I'll never grow to 25
    Not to worry, every warrior will come and see euphoria
    And that's a covenant I put on every tribe
    Ain't nobody gon' tie your shoe
    Nobody gon' abide by your rule
    Nobody holding your gun, how come your tongue say killa then k--- my mood
    Light speed living in the world you know
    Little old me, feeling like a live wire
    Bet I put some new tires on a lightning bolt
    'Til I wreck into a pole, like a right to vote
    I'm from the bottom of the jungle
    Living in the bottom of the food chain
    When you get a new chain, n----- take it from you
    A new name, want stripes, and you a zebra look-alike
    Hope another homicide don't numb you and none do
    Things we will never learn soon
    In the era where we wanna earn soon
    That's a error, you can smell it in the air and everybody really doomed
    That's why I'm backdooring you motherfuckas
    All y'all can s--- my d-ck
    All them days at the county building
    Now I'm 'bout to make my mama rich
    Cartoons and (cereal!) I ain't felt this (good since!)
    Scrooge McDuck, (here we go!) Elementary hood s---
     
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Aug 17, 2015
    His verse on Heaven Help Dem
    "Y'all say the average black man only live to 25/pac died at 25/how many kids you know dead at twenty? Five"
     
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    Aug 17, 2015
    d--- this is tough...I'll have to get back to this. Hey can any of you fellow Kendrick fans point me in the direction of where I can find a comprehensive list of all his songs and features he has done? Kind of like the Eminem one. I love Kendrick but caught the train about 1 year late so I am sure I am missing some essential verses somewhere out there.
     
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    GKMC
    TPAB
    OD
    Kendrick Lamar EP
    C4
    S80
    Unreleased
    Unreleased 2

    I believe there is also some older Kendrick mixtapes & you can also check out his verses on Compton (Dre's new album)
     
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