![]() ![]() "The craziest part about that verse," he continued, "and in real life him saying, 'If something happens to me before your album drops, just make sure you mention and tell this story in a positive light,' and that's exactly what I did and he definitely passed, too. his brother being irrevocable, a street cat, and him just thanking me for being right there, and wishing that he could've found a passion in something - maybe music, maybe sports - but him recognizing the fact and truth that he was already in too deep." ![]() That one particular situation is my homeboy getting smoked while I'm right there, and I'm being the last one right there just seeing him take his last. It hits home, as far as the past members of tragic situations that happened in my life. "That's one of my favorite verses on the album," he explained. Speaking with Life + Times, Lamar explained that he wanted recount the story in the first verse of his late friend's older brother, who was trapped in a life of crime. So when I say 'Dying of Thirst,' she's really talking about getting hit with holy water or saving yourself." I really based them two tracks together because that was a situation that happened that exact same time. So when you go to a track like 'Dying of Thirst,' and that same day we was getting a spoken word from an elderly lady telling us about God and getting some type of prosperity out of that. It really turned everything around full circle. 'Dying of Thirst' is actually a specific story about one of my homeboys passing away before my eyes. "Before I became this person with a mature aspect on life, it was a dark place I came from, a place of negativity, a place of being unruly. "That's a real turning point of the album," he said. Because of that, he brought the songs together to symbolize a shift in perspective on the Good Kid, M.A.A.D City record. So why did Lamar combine the tracks "Sing About Me" and "I'm Dying of Thirst" into one song? He explained on Power 106's Big Boy's Neighborhood, that the events described on each track occurred on the same day. In a direction to speak on something that's realer than the TV screen," he spits. And your sister's situation was the one that pulled me. ![]() "And you're right your brother was a brother to me. On the second half of the song ("I'm Dying of Thirst") Kendrick raps from his own perspective about opting out of this hazardous life. ![]() "I met her sister and she went at me about her sister Keisha, basically saying she didn't want her to put her business out there and if your album do come out, don't mention me, don't sing about me." " 'Keisha's Song' is a real song too, and what I didn't understand was the fact that she had a younger sister," he told MTV News. The second part is from the perspective of the real-life sister of prostitute Keisha, whom Lamar rapped about on the tragic 2011 Section.80 track, "Keisha's Song (Her Pain)." Lamar tells us how Keisha's sister chastised him for revealing intimate and embarrassing details of her late sibling. "First verse is speaking from my partner talkin' to me, speakin' on a story of how I was there when his brother passed," he explained. The first section is from the perspective of Lamar's late homie, Dave, who when he was alive made the young rapper promise that he'll dedicated a song to his brother and himself. "'Sing About Me' is definitely a true song," Kendrick told MTV News. This 12 minute track in which Kendrick raps about the ins and outs of the harsh reality that his life has been is split into three parts. ![]()
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