Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers finally arrives this Friday, and he kickstarted his rollout on Sunday with a new song and video for “The Heart Part 5," a new entry in the series of songs he began back in 2010.
The video begins simply enough, with Lamar rapping looking slightly off camera against a maroon backdrop. “As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective.” That, and a message before the video that reads “I am all of us,” take on different meaning around the 1:45 mark when Lamar turns toward the camera and his face morphs into… OJ Simpson's.
This continues for the rest of the video, with him taking on the visages of , Jussie Smollett, —all notably in the news for recent problematic behavior.
The transformations appear to correlate with the lyrics: OJ appears as Lamar interpolates a classic Jay-Z line, who of course made “The Story of OJ,' there's a bipolar mention when Ye appears, and the lyric “in the land where hurt people hurt more people” occurs when Smith appears.In the final verse, Lamar takes on two fallen Los Angeles giants: and Nipsey Hussle.
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