BEST NEW VIDEOS: KENDRICK LAMAR - GOD IS GANGSTA

1/15/16

Kendrick Lamar “a.k.a. realest negus alive” has another blockbuster of a music video out, entitled “God is Gangsta.”

The short film, directed by Jack Begert, is scored by To Pimp A Butterfly tracks “u” and “For Sale?”. It begins with Lamar alone in a hotel room, getting black out drunk. After rapping most of the bars off “u,” including the refrain in which K. Dot memorably yelps, “Loving you is complicated.” The next cut is a hip hop baptism, which features King Kunta himself washing his sins away in a pool filled with topless women. Here he encounters Lucy, the devilish character from TPAB who appears to throughout the record tempting Kendrick with the lures of materialism. And that’s only about the halfway point. There’s much, much more, but I don’t want to spoil it all for you. Take in the full 7 and half minutes below:

 

KENDRICK LAMAR “GOD IS GANGSTA”

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