Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta” leads the pack of this week’s edition of the HipHopDX Top 10. Just below the To Pimp A Butterfly track is a rare Tupac Shakur interview recorded in 1994 that Kendrick reinvigorated at the end of the album.
Lower down the list the Young Money pack aims for Cash Money in a new cypher, Lil Wayne drops visuals to his “CoCo Freestyle,” and a handful of rappers experiment with virtual reality.
Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta” On Top
With his album release quickly shattering a single-day Spotify record, the last track to leak before the album was released climbed to the top of HipHopDX’s Top 10 this week.
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King Kunta leaked last Friday ahead of the full album being released and finds Kendrick fired up over a Thundercat bassline and production from Terrace Martin.
“I was gonna kill a couple rappers but they did it to themselves,” Kendrick raps, “Everybody’s suicidal they don’t even need my help / This shit is elementary, I’ll probably go to jail.”
Listen To The Full Tupac Interview Samples On Kendrick Lamar’s New Album
The end of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterflyrecord “Mortal Man” concludes with an imagined back-and-forth between K-Dot and the late Tupac Shakur. The “interview” between the two artists was created using quotes from what GlobalGrind.com reports was a 1994 interview between Tupac and Swedish music journalist, Mats Nileskär.
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At one point, Kendrick asks “I always wanted to ask you about a certain situation—about a metaphor actually. You spoke on the ground. What you mean by that? What the ground represent?” Tupac responds, “The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil. That’s how I see it. My word is bond. I see—And the ground is the symbol for the poor people. The poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. Cause the rich people gonna be so fat and they gonna be so appetizing. You know what I’m saying? Wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry. You know what I’m saying? It’s gonna be like—There might be some cannibalism out this mothafucka. They might eat the rich.”
Listen to the full original interview on HipHopDX here.
Young Money Releases Cypher Featuring Lil Wayne, Corey Gunz, & More
A new Young Money cypher finds several of the camp’s rappers aiming directly and conspicuously at Cash Money and the label’s roster.
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“I say hit em up to my daddy bitch ass,” Wayne raps just past the 10 minute mark of the video in reference to Tupac’s classic diss track “Hit ‘Em Up,” targeting Birdman.
YMCMB associate Flow also disses relative newcomer Young Thug, saying, “Young motherfucking Money / These my motherfucking brothers not my fucking hubbies.”
This Week’s Top 10
1. Kendrick Lamar – “King Kunta”
2. Listen To The Full Tupac Interview Samples On Kendrick Lamar’s “Mortal Man”
3. Young Money Cypher feat. Lil Wayne, Corey Gunz, Lil Twist, Euro, Hood, Flow, Gudda Gudda [Video]
4. Lil Wayne – “CoCo Freestyle” [Video]
5. Lil Wayne – “Coco Freestyle” (Teaser) [Video]
6. Kendrick Dominates & Young Thug Continues “Tha Carter” Series [Video]
7. Action Bronson, A$AP Ferg, Fetty Wap, & More Watch Virtual Reality Porn [Video]
8. Rae Sremmurd feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug – “Throw Sum Mo” [Video]
9. Yelawolf’s Eminem Collaboration, Amber Rose On Kanye West [Video]
10. Big L Was Going To Sign To Roc-A-Fella, Royce Da 5’9 Is 3 Years Sober [Video]
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