Tour De Vaap

“I got my finger on the motherfuckin’ pistol,
Aiming it at a pig, Charlotte’s web is going to miss you,
My issue isn’t televised and you ain’t gotta tell the wise,
How to stay on beat, because our life’s an instrumental”

Kendrick Lamar has been floating around the rap game for a minute now, but I have kinda overlooked him, so far. Although I downloaded the Kendrick Lamar EP sometime last year, I wasn’t really impressed with more than a few songs. But recently, Kendrick’s name has been mixed in with some heavy hitters in the game, like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, as well as some prospective up-comers, like J. Cole and Jay Rock. A few weeks ago this track, produced by J. Cole, hit the internets and caught my attention. Now with a video filled with revolutionaries and racial tension of past and present, this track clearly illustrates that Kendrick has been doing some lyrical learning from his peers. For that, I am glad, ’cause Kendrick spits on this track, hard. Keep as eye out for this dude and check out the lyrics here. – D. Gold