***at the beach with my Kendrick Lamar CD with white people in the background taking a peaceful walk***
This one was motivated by a track from the Kendrick Lamar’s album titled ‘Alright’, it comes in as track no:7 after a trail of sad songs, basically the song breaks away from all the sadness and misery by reminding us that whatever ills and sadness we are going through, eventually those ills will come to pass and we will be alright, we might be in a shitty state, bad environment but the world reminds you that the beach will always be there, where the sand is always whiter and the water is always clear and blue…. We go’ be alright..
“Uh, and when I wake up
I recognize you’re lookin’ at me for the pay cut
But homicide be lookin’ at you from the face down
What Mac-11 even boom with the bass down
Schemin’, and let me tell you ’bout my life
Painkillers only put me in the twilight
Where pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight
Now tell my momma I love her but this what I like, Lord knows
20 of ’em in my Chevy, tell ’em all to come and get me
Reapin’ everything I sow, so my karma come
And heaven no preliminary hearing, so my record
I’m a motherfuckin’ gangster in silence for the record
Tell the world I know it’s too late
Boys and girls, I think I gone cray
Drown inside my vices all day
Won’t you please believe when I say”
“Wouldn’t you know
We been hurt, been down before
Nigga, when our pride was low
Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go?”
Nigga, and we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho
Nigga, I’m at the preacher’s door
My knees gettin’ weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon’ be alright”
Explanation from www.genius.com
The previous song, “u,” explores the burdens Kendrick has had to deal with. “Alright” coming in afterwards is appropriate, as it details how Kendrick means to escape from his troubles. Kendrick attempts to capture the post-depression moments where people are able to ignore their problems and comfort themselves with the idea that’ll be alright in the end. Once he looks past what he believes to be his failures, he is able to accept the fact that this is still all part of God’s plan, and that’s what is going to help him get by. If he repeats it enough it could possibly numb him from the pain and help him enter a positive mind-state.
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