![]() ![]() ![]() The video's second chapter, over the song's final-minute swing for the fences, flies in the face of Geraldo Rivera's statement that "hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years." Lamar parties, he flaunts a room full of Grammy awards, living his life that is not any one thing - and making the best damn music out there while doing so. I got, I got, I got, I got Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA Cocaine quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DNA I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA I got hustle though, ambition, flow inside my DNA I was born like this, since one like this, immaculate conception I transform like this, perform like this, was Yeshua new weapon I dont contemplate, I meditate, then off your. It's intense (and a note that Don Cheadle should really be in more music videos). But once Cheadle hits the power on a lie detector test, he's electrified and raps Lamar's proclamation right back to his stone-cold face. Nabil Elderkin - who's made videos for Frank Ocean, Kanye West, FKA Twigs and Bon Iver - co-directs "DNA." with "the little homies." In it, the actor Don Cheadle grills Lamar in an interrogation room. Lyrics Verse 1 I got, I got, I got, I got Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA Cocaine quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DNA I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA I got. like none other on Kendrick Lamar's new record: "I got millions, I got riches, buildin' in my DNA / I got dark, I got evil, that rot inside my DNA." Dude contains it all, claims it all and doesn't have time for the single-minded platitudes people throw down upon him, heard in the album's second Fox News sample. I wont be, no I wont be like you Fighting back, Im fighting back the truth Eyes like yours can look away But you cant stop DNA No, you cant stop DNA Are the pieces of you In the pieces of me Im just so scared Youre who Ill be when I erupt, just like you do They look at me Like I look at you I wont be, no I wont be like you. ![]()
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