We met up, chilled out, got to vibe, see where each other was at and shit. He got a real genuine soul. We clicked immediately. We had spoken probably one time before that. He reached out, I wanna say, after I dropped Section He was actually the first person to hear Section I gave it to him that night.
He was catching a flight somewhere, and I sent it to him through e-mail, and he was just rocking out with it for a minute. Probably a week after [it dropped], he said, I wanna get you on the album. The first time he told me, he said he wanted to get me on a song with The Weeknd.
And then after that, a few more conversations, and he finally sent me an instrumental and told me to do what I want on it. I don't know about you, but it was one of the first times I heard Kendrick Lamar , if not the first. When Marvin's Room transitioned into the hypnotic "Buried Alive Interlude" I was immediately fixated on Kendrick's magnetic performance.
What follows is a haunting and revealing reflection on fame and vanity, delivered with earnest sincerity from the then-emerging Lamar. It's crazy that Kendrick ultimately had one of the highlight verses on a Drake album, and their dynamic is a dominant theme throughout the track.
There's a moment where K Dot reminisces about a meeting they shared, in which he admits to feeling a sense of resentment toward Drizzy: "Then he said that he was the same age as myself, and it didn't help 'cause it made me even more rude and impatient, so blame it on Mr. Who'd have thought Kendrick would have gone on to become one of the biggest artists in the world?
He breaks down his journey for Audiomack World. Every time I am listening to this beauty I can't help but wonder why nobody comes up with this as an argument for Kendrick in the Best Rapper Alive discussion.
On a first listen it appears as if K. While the "Interlude" doesn't have a topical connection to "Marvin's Room" it does fit in when looking at the whole picture that Take Care is drawing. Issues like the road to success are being rapped about, as well as fame and how it effects one's connection to other people, envy, concerns about losing control of life, the competitiveness in the rap game, egos, Mr. OVO XO himself and, of course, aliens.
And this is where his conversation with Drake comes into play Not only is the variety in subjects tremendous, but also the way Kendrick is describing these topics is remarkable.
Take the way he starts off the verse in his classic Kendrick-weirdo-voice-thing manner. Just mention the song among your friends. Also, K. Speaking of which, the essential topic of the record is seeking success while trying to stay true to one's self, keeping in mind that with incoming success one might trade the right path for the one with money trees pun intended , an issue most of us will fight at some point in life.
While legit pro and con arguments can be made for both sides, Drake is dropping knowledge on Monsieur Lamar that once you've chosen the path of fame, you depend on the masses to stay relevant.
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