“Squabble Up,” the second track you hear when embarking on a front-to-back pay attention of Kendrick Lamar’s surprise-dropped GNX venture, now has a video.
Monday, Kendrick rolled out the track’s official video, directed by Calmatic. See it above. For a rundown of credit and options for the album, which arrived with out warning final Friday, see right here.
Tucked into the video are a tribute to the late Nate Dogg, a nod to Ice-T’s Energy album, and a e-book hilariously titled Learn how to Be Extra Like Kendrick for Dummies. Count on a better dissection of the video within the minutes and hours forward, as is customary with something Kendrick-related. Notably, a banner unfurls on the finish. It reads, maybe as an indication that Kendrick has one thing particular deliberate for the vacation season, “Compton Christmas Parade.”
Different references noticed within the instant aftermath of the “Squabble Up” video reveal embrace (however are usually not restricted to): Menace II Society, Soul Practice, and Isaac Hayes’ Black Moses. The setting of the video, in the meantime, seems to take inspiration from The Roots’ “The Subsequent Motion.”
Kendrick and Dave Free are credited as government producers on the video, which options choreography by Allure La’Donna.
Lyrically, “Squabble Up,” first teased within the video for “Not Like Us,” sees Kendrick referencing two songs off his 2012 album good child, m.A.A.d metropolis. On the finish of the primary verse, Kendrick raps that he has “the cash and the ability each gyratin.’” This, after all, calls to thoughts that album’s “Backseat Freestyle,” during which Kendrick raps “All my life, I need cash and energy” within the refrain. The second verse in “Squabble Up” makes point out of “a cash tree,” calling to thoughts each a sure line from Drake amid their historic back-and-forth and the 2012 single “Cash Bushes.”
“Not Like Us,” in truth, stands so as to add a number of extra Grammys to Kendrick’s title in February.
