The new Kendrick Lamar “The Heart Part 5” single has social media in a total uproar!
Ahead of the May 13th release of his fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, our favorite lyrical genius delivered a compelling visual to the continuation of his “The Heart” series.
Lamar took to his Instagram to tease the unveiling of the now-celebrated track.
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The five-minute video sees him standing in front of a bloody-red backdrop as he poetically cites his verses over a sample beat of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You.”
Directed by Dave Free, alongside Lamar, the Compton-bred rapper creatively pays homage to fellow culture giants OJ Simpson, Will Smith, Jussie Smollett, Kobe Bryant, Kanye West, and Nipsey Hussle by morphing into them throughout the controversial clip.
“As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective,” Lamar says in the song’s intro, later leading into lyrics that match Simpson, Smith, Smollett, Bryant, West, and Hussle’s life stories. “And my perspective may differ from yours.”
WATCH the visual for the Kendrick Lamar “The Heart Part 5” single below!
The forthcoming album will be Kendrick Lamar’s last project under Top Dawg Entertainment, also serving as his official reintroduction to the music scene.
Following the premiere of “The Heart Part 5,” fans of Lamar’s have flooded the Twitter timelines with their thoughts and opinions on philosopher artistic re-emergence.
This is what Twitter had to say about the Kendrick Lamar “The Heart Part 5” joint…
Honestly, it’s nice to have D’Angelo-level mystique in the rap game: that’s what Kendrick Lamar has brought us.
— Bennett’s charged up. ♠️ (@BennettDBennett) May 9, 2022
I could write an entire book about why @kendricklamar is the greatest contemporary psychedelic musician on earth
— M Ross Perkins (@mrossperkins) May 9, 2022
Kendrick rapping from the perspective of Nipsey talking to the man who killed him was wild! #TheHeartPart5 #KendrickLamar #Kendrick pic.twitter.com/V7ZcVhEoId
— Jordan (@__JHead) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar’s single is a tribute. It’s art. It’s a masterpiece, lyrically and visually. Thank you @kendricklamar ?
— Sedi ??? (@compton29sedi) May 9, 2022
They all hyped on Kendrick Lamar
— The Alchemist (@IamTyrellP) May 9, 2022
I liked the song to begin with, but watching the video put it all into perspective ?? @kendricklamar #kdot #TheHeartPart5
— Mike Bell (@niceisright216) May 9, 2022
New Kendrick Lamar music is a spiritual cleansing for me. Drake is my favorite artist but don’t nobody speak to my spirit like Kenny
— #️⃣1️⃣ Stunna ? (@isaiahdaboy) May 9, 2022
I love Kendrick Lamar because you can learn something from his music you don’t really have that in todays music
— RISSA? (@lulrissa_) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar fye but some of y’all be on his nutsack oc
— Undercover Popstar ? (@undrcvrpopstar) May 9, 2022
EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOUR DOING. THE HEART PT.5 IS OUT #KendrickLamar
— Taboo. (@itzTabuu) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar writing The Heart Part 5 pic.twitter.com/bkb9OKFYgj
— txnishk (@txnishk) May 9, 2022
I’ll say it till the end of the blue bird
Kendrick Lamar Is the most overrated rapper of this era https://t.co/YZz6Nw5fni
— Idolized (@ItsIdolized) May 9, 2022
#kendricklamar The heart pt 5 is some another rap level man y’all can’t find competition to that on this planet
— AJINKYA CHAVAN (@ajeankya) May 9, 2022
Yall really be letting kendrick lamar play on yall top man dude aint drop in like 6 years come back out and gave yall a snap chat filter flow
— ?? (@KeepitcoolGee) May 9, 2022
that nigga Kendrick Lamar is something else
— Michael Carleone (@dandre985__) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar is the greatest…. The will smith face change was another message
— Horus 约旦 (@HappyAnkh) May 9, 2022
Might be listening to Kendrick Lamar too loud. I’m getting a lot of looks when people walk past my desk.
— Kilometer Salsa Company (@Tego_Eleven) May 9, 2022
This nigga @Kendrick Lamar is just way too big 4me
— Babatunde Akinpelu (@BabatundeAkinp2) May 9, 2022
That Nipsey part of Kendrick song is so fire @kendricklamar good shit.
— TMC MIKE (@Muzuk_) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar + Marvin Gaye = pure gold
— Holli H FSU (@NolesStacey) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar make music that should be played on the credits in Selma
— That Ain’t New To Me (@nard___) May 9, 2022
What Kendrick Lamar’s done on #TheHeartPart5 is the main reason I feel I love with rap and Hiphop!?conversation can begin
— harrison (@ka1eo) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar is the greatest artist alive. As a fan since the age of 12, man am I happy to see the growth. Art at its finest.
— Jordan Isaiah (@jroselol) May 9, 2022
I just cannot get with Kendrick Lamar ?? and I’ll never post this on fb because folks act like he’s Beyoncé over there ?
— Jordan??✨ (@jayAustin90) May 9, 2022
New Kendrick Lamar is absolute trash Lmaoo waits 5 years to drop that Reggie Miller
— MC Mikey (@Michael_Wagn3r) May 9, 2022
When Kendrick Lamar turned into Nipsey Hussle and said “And to the killer that sped up my demise I forgive you, just know your soul’s in question. I seen the pain in your pupil when that trigger had squeezed. And though you did me gruesome, I was surely relieved”#MusicWithDME pic.twitter.com/EebUASEfkh
— Death ☠ Stroke ?? (@Death_Stroke01) May 9, 2022
The goat has made his presence known #KendrickLamar
— The Realtor (@macstaxx) May 9, 2022
Good morning to Kendrick Lamar and Kendrick Lamar only
— Sneak Nurse (@SneakNurse) May 9, 2022
kendrick lamar still sucks i’ll never understand
— d (@bankupdev) May 9, 2022
Kendrick Lamar’s album is dropping soon so at least everybody can stop talking about how Jack Harlow’s album was an atrocity.
— logansphotos? (@logansphotos1) May 9, 2022
@kendricklamar You’ve raised the bar for the culture
— Cocailina Blue (@RealCocailina) May 9, 2022
That Marvin Gaye sample hit different with Kendrick Lamar rapping over it
— Jamorie Crews (@crewsjamorie) May 9, 2022
Niggas bout to spend the next 2 weeks writing a essay breaking down all the subliminals in that Kendrick Lamar video
— Clitasaurus Rex ? (@OGNaijah) May 9, 2022
The fact that Kendrick Lamar can go missing, pop out and shake something, and then just… leave ?
— ? (@riverempress) May 9, 2022
in kendrick lamar’s new music video he says “friend’s bipolar” and then his face morphs into kanye and I giggled
— lyss (@alyssabrianne96) May 9, 2022
Y’all see the video editing technology they used in that Kendrick Lamar video is very dope but can be used to fool the incompetent to believe things that never occured, it’s malicious
— AusareOne (@AusareOne) May 9, 2022
Aight!! A conversation is beyond necessary for this one! Let’s talk about it! @kendricklamar you just unleashed an entire era of blind eyes and deaf ears.
— Myeesha Williams (@moe_wms) May 9, 2022
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