Sit Down, Be HUMBLE.: Deconstructing Kendrick Lamar's Hottest one hundred #1 song
From its ALL CAPS title to the image of martial art Kenny in cardinal gear within the instantly classic music video, ‘HUMBLE.’ was meant as a daring statement.
The song’s bequest and impact owes to an ideal storm of circumstances – the anticipation encompassing a replacement album, its mass attractiveness, the video, the method it dominated social media. All this, in conjunction with Kendrick’s usually high level of superior skill and intent, mix to deliver not solely the Arthur Holly Compton artist’s most commercially fortunate song so far however create the most popular song of 2017, creating him the primary person of color high the triple j enumeration within the method.
The Context
On his previous album To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick intellectualised over a gumbo of free jazz, religious funk, and political soul. however whereas Butterfly remodeled him into a national hero and advocator, providing the unofficial anthem to the #BlackLivesMatter movement in ‘Alright’, he additionally risked antagonistic listeners unwilling to follow him deeper than the singles....................
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