Hidden Genius of Kendrick Lamar’s “Nosetalgia” Verse Sparks GOAT Convo… Incredible Breakdown
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
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Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Nosetalgia” remains one of the most potent collaborations of the last decade - not just because of its coke rap theme.
The true genius of Kendrick’s “Nosetalgia” verse may not have been fully appreciated until now. In a new video from Dissect - the Spotify podcast series famous for its deep dives on classic albums from Kanye West, Frank Ocean and more - K. Dot’s rhymes are methodically broken down, revealing the hidden numerology behind his verse.
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#KENDRICKLAMAR #PUSHAT #NOSETALGIA
Thanks for showcasing the video. Incredibly happy that millions of people now know a little more about the genius of Kendrick Lamar.
How come he didn't come out to explain the bars or something tho. Just imagine if you guys didn't exist tho. Someone please get top on the phone fr fr.
this is why people gotta check out the podcast
@@emmanuelbamidele1976 he hardly ever explains his bars even on good kid Maad city. Some people don't know there a double meaning of maad as my angels on Angel dust and my angry adolescence divided
@@insideroutside yooo I just caught it now. I’m deep diving into this Dissect podcast headfirst. It’s actually amazing!
Thanks for your incredible work. Legit one of the best breakdown videos of all time
Now I see why Kendrick hasn’t dropped a new album. We just now deciphering his bars from 8 years ago.
"I'm so ahead of my time, I got people 5 years from now rewinding my tracks" - Kendrick Lamar in a freestyle around 13 years ago
(paraphrasing but 90% accurate to what he said)
@@lordsafro I was just about to cite that freestyle. No lies told by K dot
Eddie Murphy voice: We???
Shiiiiit if I wasn’t bored and didn’t click on this video my ass woulda still been lost ...and you talking about we ..you know damn well you weren’t deciphering this until 2054, if that podcast hadn’t broke it down. Ain’t nobody got time to be listening to a rap verse with a calculator in they hand
@@Sauce1011 bruh
Bro he literally raps about the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest on LUST. not to mention for sale for free he been a prophet fr
That “nine times out of ten niggas don’t pay attention” takes on a whole different meaning now because we definitely weren’t paying attention 😂
If it's true then it's mind blowing...
FACTS😂
😂😂
😂
@@fideletamo4292 it is
This is absolutely mind-blowing. Too calculated to be an accident. Jeezus
Yup, the numbers on the barcode also add up to 36.
*Jeen-Yuhs
Jeezus...seriously? Yikes.
Kendrick was playing with coke rap as that was his job on the Push song
@@traplover6357 we know that already bud.
And it took the world 9years later to fully understand his verse.🤯
The world? Nope. One person figured it out and he told the rest of us. All credit goes to him.
9 Years for bars about 9 and 10..ain't that crazy?
Probably cuz 9 times out of 10 niggas don't pay attention.
9 years to unders10d the verse 👀
This is why we love lyrical hip hop
Kendrick is so scary man, he's NOT normal
@@fightingdreamer8681 Facts. I love lyrical rap way more than the cookie cutter shxt ie bitches,chains and cars etc etc
Who here 2024 after Kendrick diss drake
I’m glad somebody finally broke this down … this is one of his best verses …. GENIUS !!!
He's still waiting for us to catch up 🤣🤣
check out the “dissect” podcast, it’s the guy that did it. he’s very intelligent and dissects mbdtf, tpab, and other great albums and has greatly opened my mind about all of the albums he dissects. it’s incredible.
His verse isn’t even 36 bars. This is made up.
His best verse is on turn it up with ab soul
When I saw that tiktok it absolutely blew my mind, now I'm just wondering how many of these hidden messages there are in Kendrick's verses that no one has been able to find yet! And btw this verse is crazy because of this, but don't forget the great rhyme scheme and just a good verse in general. He's actually saying something rather than just saying random numbers
Somebody call Robert Langdon to figure this all out. We might figure out who shot PAC and Big in the versus.
We knew this the moment it came out. The culture is too busy counting how many “Gucci gang” Is said in a song
His verse on Freedom (w/Beyonce) is also similar in terms of numerology and structure.
@@willyschitumba5914 yeah the count down first with the numbers in the sentences then onto counting with words in the sentences
@@mytwo2cents lool
I always knew Kendrick's bars had hidden meaning. I caught the brick reference at 1st listen, however, the numerology bars flew over my head, DON'T WANNA LIE.
The numerology bars are cool but I feel like he took Jay's 222s concept and adapted it to his life.
@@radarinfinite1032 This makes 22 2's look like child's play.
@@radarinfinite1032 This is way more complex
Give credit brush. Don't be that guy.
@@quintonmiller8266 it's not that complex. He basically used a formula and put his input. It's great but I do get the feeling that it's built on a platform. Easy to do with a platform, harder to do without. I'm giving credit, first to the original idea and next to the adaptation. Y'all act like recognising an influence discredits the current thing. Tell me the way he counts the 9 and tens is not the same way the two's are counted. I'll wait?!
@@BobBobOnRUclips No lies detected.
drake didnt do his homework
My mind just melted. I've heard that song so many times and just got hip to that. Crazy!!!
Makes you wonder what else Kendrick hiding huh😂
@@chandler119 I gotta go listen to TPAB again
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I feel we also need to give praise to Kendrick Lamar for respecting the game and not pushing it down our throats. He let us delay some of his props fr. People are organically catching it in 2022! That's big news
Who pushed a lyric down your throat? Did you take it all😂😂😂😂
Brain delay.
Do you know what astounds me about this verse the most….it actually sounds good. I feel like if you asked any other artist to replicate this it would sound forced, off-beat, and just bad.
Thank you, this is so not considered, the level of understanding and dedication and ear for quality plays such a huge part in this.
He didn’t write it
@@jayw.1042 you’re weird.
There are a couple songs that were meant for others and they have other versions. I can’t remember who it is but there is someone who has their version of the song “Alright”
@@jayw.1042 prove it
This is example number 3745 why I put Kendrick over J. Cole. People have the audacity to consider the complexities of Kendrick’s lyrics as some sort of negative. 🤷🏾♂️
Facts!!!!! We are literally talking about a verse that was 8 yrs ago!!!!!! My gawd
I hate when y’all do stuff like this lol. For a. You don’t know if Kendrick even meant all of this. Y’all be over-explaining everything he say. For b. Kendrick be having hella average lines that y’all choose to ignore, example: “I can show my ass and take y’all to class like Megan brother” …if Cole said some bullshit like this y’all would destroy him. I do not believe that Kendrick was adding up the 10s and the 9s. That’s hogwash
@@dual_KODACHIS I’m sure he just randomly threw up all those numbers for no reason in particular. 🙄
Also, nobody is saying all of Kendrick’s bars are amazing. He has lows like anyone else. But his highs are exponentially higher than his contemporaries’ highs.
@@parkermudsen1063 he also said his pops turned a quarter piece into 4 and a half… please tell me how those numbers fit into this whole mathematical equation??? Lol I swear y’all be reaching so hard for Kendrick. Until the man come out himself and say he meant that, I’m not buying it. Kendrick be having A LOT of subpar verses
@@dual_KODACHIS I agree
knew about the 9's & 10's. the mathematics, verse & song structure is new to me. KDOT GOAT status being cemented every passing day
Ngl I picked everything
Me neither
But it wasn’t on the syllabus anyway
Finally someone who’s not capin, with a believable comment on what they knew and didn’t know. These mfs on here acting like they’re going to get a pat on the back or something for “already knowing this” even though no one believes them anyway. Lol
If he explained his verses on Genius we would be mind blown
Who's here after that FLAWLESS VICTORY Kung Fu Kenny just served🥷🏿
I would’ve never made those connections and thank god someone did. Really cool to see an artist put this much effort into a verse. Kendrick is just on a different level with this shit
Dissect should be required listening for anyone who loves hip hop, amazing podcast.
Fr, it's absolutely phenomenal.
This went over the heads of 99%+ listeners, mine included
It didn’t go over your head because this is a reach. You’re good.
It went over 9/10 listeners heads
@@officialconch Nothing that perfectly aligned can be a reach bruh. Believing that everything mentioned lined up perfectly like that was coincidence is what you call a reach. Stop hating. Lol
@@jwdathefax377 it’s a perfectly fabricated lie. The numbers have nothing to do with quantum physics and at the very least, is him adding up to his birth year 87 which isn’t that crazy. The verse he spit was only 24 bars, not 36. The whole “10 + 9 = 19” thing is ridiculous. And I could go on but I won’t because I already left a long ass comment on this video. Kendrick Lamar himself would say this is a reach.
Stop dicc riding
@@officialconch I’m not a Kendrick fan but being that you admitted to leaving an even longer comment somewhere else and that you “could go on” I feel comfortable telling you to STOP HATING. 😆And explain how exactly did you count those bars so we can all get a good feel for how sad you are. Lol
He plays with numbers and supreme mathematics every verse
Give another example.
@@BobBobOnRUclips his verse on Freedom is a countdown from 10 to 1
@@BigVeech Cool. Give another example.
Yoooooo!! That was an amazing display of genius! This man structured his verse so well that the dissection of it made it way more dope than it was on first glance.
@UCUKxyy1xPhfKcWzHrdQssPg but to structure it down to the seconds on the track though, this is definitely up there with Gaza’s Animal Planet, Nas I gave you power and Organized Konfusion Stray Bullet
@@mustafaahali3474 kendrick does this with almost all his songs
@@zthegreat4538 he doesn't lol. also this ain't new Jay has done this shit before in a little different way.
@@brajwasi6258 what song
@@leorodrigues9596 222. 🔥🔥🔥
Kendrick should be protected at all cost🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶. I've listened to this song a million times and never caught these bars 😭😭😭😭
Damn. Rap genius community should of caught these lines years ago. Dope shit.
Genius is just basically a collection of fans giving their opinions on the meaning of rap lyrics. Don’t get me wrong, they’re right most of the time but other times they’re just guessing.
Kendrick is a GOAT among the other lyrical greats like Eminem, Black Thought, Nas and so many more.
I wouldn't do it based on this verse. to me it feels like he tweaked Jays 222s concept and added a twist.
@@radarinfinite1032 and? Oh yea, where's Lupe in your comment?
PREACH
@@radarinfinite1032 How is it like 22 2's? In 22 2's, Jay just counted how many times he said 2 (to, too, two) and said the number at the end of the verse. It didn't have any deeper meaning or when they were added, it meant something else. It's like saying, the atomic bomb is just a tweaked firecracker with an added twist.
@@garygnu8775 what does Lupe have to do with this. Don't tell me you're trying to compare them conceptually.
Guys we were too slow for this and we're pushing Kendrick for a new album😭
Right
This just confirms Kendrick was learning how to structure his verses by those hiphop message boards all the true lyricists frequented in the early 2000s.
The blog era was different
@@Durrelloneal5 No doubt. Some of the illest people Ive ever known. They are the specific reason Genius exists in the first place.
What hip hop message boards? How can I find these?
@@Durrelloneal5 suuuuuuper different yo. Some of the illest battles ever/my toughest challenges I read in those blogs/chats
Any way to find those old message boards? 👀
And people still don’t want to give Kendrick the credit he deserves
What do you mean? They do
This video is giving him credit for some shit he didn’t even intend. His verse ain’t 36 bars, the numbers don’t got ish to do with quantum physics, etc.
Yeah bro he has a Pulitzer Prize remember 🤣 what the duck you mean son?
He didn’t write this verse check credits
@@jayw.1042 who do you think wrote it?
At first I was like "how is this a revelation?" I thought most people already knew about the 9's and 10's and 87 flow.. but then they started with the 36 flow and I'm here 🤯 all over again almost 10 years later!!
🐐
Bro I kept listening to this back when it first came out trying to find out what he was doing. When neck and wrist came out I went back and was so stumped glad to stumble upon this I love Kendrick GOAT
he the goat and it ain’t even close it goes way beyond just this verse
Wooooooooooooooooow I knew Kendrick was dope but now it’s universally solidified. King Kendrick.
This brother is genius man.I was tryna dig into his verse and crack the code when it dropped.Somebody finally figured it out,shit crazy. This dude is special and he’s ahead of most of these rappers💯✅🤦🏾♂️
Kendrick, man... He is scary
Drake didn't do his homework. 😂😂
I knew when I head the first 4 bars that this verse would be amazing… although I caught the 9-10 bars, everything went over my head 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Kendrick's bars are like hieroglyphics...gotta be deciphered... smh one of the best to ever do it
Jesus ! Your reference is deep.
@@deniseeugene1852 Lol its true tho
@@rogerwhittaker161 I know ! I saw him at the super bowl and I am mesmerized . Trying to listen to his stuff.
@@deniseeugene1852Ok...good choice
@@rogerwhittaker161 👍🏾
9x outta 10 people just nod they head in agreement instead of thinking for themselves. A true artist. His art provokes thought.
I caught the nines and tens, but I never thought to put em together like this. King Kendrick strikes again.
One of my favorite Kendrick Verses and I never peeped now it’s my favorite verse period.
Fuck i need to stop drinking and smoking weed and start reading books and listen to Kendrick Lamar
Again thats genius
Yes stop drinking that will kill you...but keep smoking, reading and listening to music, it opens your mind and expands your brain 🙂
@@peckpeckahson3005 it's does hey 👋 how are you today and do u have kendricks new album
Love how Kendrick is still relevant
This makes me love the song all over again.
I always tried to tell people this verse has way more depth and genius than it was initially given credit for.
Would never believe you since you’re a nobody
bruhh that’s a fact tho smh niggas def late
Thank you
Maybe I already caught on when it dropped lol when I saw it trend on twitter I was like you got to be kidding me but then I realize people probably didn't catch it lol but he has several verse like this where he uses numbers.
I felt the same way dude
This was already one of my favorite verses from Kendrick but now I’m just 🤯🤯🤯
im literally laughing, i thought i had this verse all figured out. hip hop needs to make a come back
Kendrick Lamar is freaking crazy
It's amazing how ppl who related already understood both verses, but now I really appreciate how now verses are broken down now. Its not only about a catchy hook, trap beats. Use your writing skills use that art. Make your fans rewind your verse. Thats exactly what I did when I first heard that song.
The way and HOW he incorporated his whole birth year….the meaning of 36….the song itself being cut perfectly in half with 36 bars a piece, and simply doing the math on your own for no reason are the reasons why I think everyone who’s acting like they caught all that when it first came out are full of shit! 🤣
Kendrick is living legend
I've been putting my friends on to this track since that album dropped back in the day. To this day still a classic.
One of the ALL TIME hip hop songs. This is one of the purest ever.
I've always heard the 9s and 10s when i've listened to it but I definitely didn't start doing math and adding everything up lol That's meticulous af, i'm glad there is people out here who go that deep into breaking down lyrics because I don't. Looking up a double meaning for an entedre is about as far as I go
Never realized the connection with the numbers. I’ve been in love with that verse since I heard it though. One of my fave verses I’ve ever heard.
Both pusha and kendrick’s verse go crazy. Amazing song
One of my favorite Pusha T tracks.
While I'm a fan of King Push, Kendrick's verse did stood out on "Nosetalgia".
You have to come hard when you barring on a pusha song, he came ready for the challenge
Did stood out?
@@bigxcon Yep, it's called past tense, buddy.
@@kenterminateddq5311 🤣🤣🤣 Ok "Bud"
I’m sure you meant stand lol
Been arguing this for years. Almost mind blowing to see this verse being broken down years later.
Till this day from a middle schooler to a guy in his mid 20s this line gives me the stank face
I had already thought this was the hardest verse he ever spit. This just confirms it.
It's been my favorite verse from his for a while now, absolutely loved the 9s & 10s usage and I got the coke references, but I never added up the digits!! I have an even deeper appreciation for this song now.
There's so much verses like this from all kinds of different rappers. They just go way over your head.
Facts
I knew TPAB had some clever lines... But I won't front for a millisecond saying I caught any of this and this was one of my favorite songs from that year! Artists like him and Lupe (Tracks like "Mural" for example) are true geniuses in their own right.
As an extra hidden Easter egg: the numbers on the barcode cover of this track also add up to…
you guessed it:
36.
Crazy. That man is a genius low key in rap.
barcode 602537411016 =36
Wow
Kendrick is really crazy... Damn !!!
Shit as a ONE PIECE FAN..I absolutely love the intentional numerology that went into this verse and people that say it couldn't have been the case aren't used to an artist with an obssessive tendency to hide multiple layers in plain sight
Listen to that song a thousand times , and i never knew
Kendrick is the best rapper alive, yeah WE already knew..thanks dissect for the numerology but the 9 and 10 bars were already great in themselves...
Classic banger. I can see myself at 74 banging this shit, them young kids will look at me crazy 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
I started listening to the dissect podcast a few weeks ago so seeing that same podcast's tik tok getting notoriety from a kendrick verse is such a trip, im so happy the podcast is getting love and i recommend y'all listening to their dissection of TPAB and DAMN.
Reminds me of Primetime with Jay-Z and Kanye West. Pusha and Kendrick are two of the best. Utmost praises for the lyricism.
How is he still my favorite rapper of all time yet I haven't unlocked everything he wrote?
Kendrick was the one who shook the rap game to make new avenues. He is one of the best rappers to breathe air. My number two after JayZ
After Jay-Z!?! What!!??
@@ofrhythm Jay-Z is such an amazing rapper but I can’t put Kendrick behind him personally..
Lol is Nas dead?
Dang! One of my favourite tracks, I knew about the 9 and 10 bars but never knew what it equated too. Nor the brick/ounce references. Sheeesh. 🔥🔥🔥
This is why i listen to Rap, REAL RAP, most of these new dudes dont even rap on beat
RIP Drake. Fuck a double or triple entendre. kung fu Kenny can go five or more deeper
I love the fact that some of these artists let you figure out the meanings behind their lyrics.
Damn, I heard that song thousand times and never picked up on that. Kendrick is a lyrical genius. Cant wait for his new album next month
Kendrick is the goat 🐐 but also Pusha T he killed this track to just as good as Kendrick did.
Imagine Pusha T giving us a flawless verse talking about Johnson & Johnson while being a baby face monster & having KDot follow with that shit! This song should be studied in colleges because the wordplay is insane. I debate ANY 2 rapper song that can match this.
This just shows how technical he is about his craft. Not taking anything away from it, but there are other artists who spend a lot of time doing the same thing. He is still one of the GOATs.
Yeah honestly, there are so many I'll niggas that ppl don't really get.
They are technical, but trust
me they are not doing the “same thing”. You can’t sit here and say “Not taking anything away from him” and then take it away from him😂. What he did was great and most technical rappity rap backpackers can’t do shit like that. Of course there’s people like Em, Royce, and Black Thought, but that’s a distinguished minority.
@@micahcoleman2760 Lupe can🤷🏿♂️ and more complexity to boot.
I not gunna cap. When I heard this song I was going nuts over it, had it on repeat. I peeped the first 2 sets of 9 and 10's but after that it slipped by me. I didn't catch the whole scheme till now. THAT SHIT IS HARD!!!!
That boy lethal with that pen 🤐
I listened to the track and the whole album but never knew how incredible Kendrick was there!!!
In total awe. Genius
Wow, this is incredible. Kendrick is the truth, which is why he's my fave rapper. Lyrical genius.
I’ve always caught the 9s and 10s scheme but the all the other shit my gosh that’s nxt level writing ✍🏾
Yeah I would’ve never caught that had they not broke it down that’s dope asf
Was listening to it earlier today 🔥🔥🔥
These are the types of songs that needs to be MEGA HITS in Hip Hop
I picked up most of it when I listened at the surface but adding it to his birth age and the amount of bars … brooo he jam packed that shit hitting you from every direction ! Great post guys
Glad the new generation is catching up.
No they're not.
This song is eight years old
I listened to that track like twice. I heard the numbers, never thought to add that shit up. 🤷🏿♂️ Never heard of Dissect. I guess that’s where all these Kendrick stans are getting their arguing points from. I can’t lie, I feel a little silly arguing how overrated Kendrick is. I think I’ll shut up for a minute. 😂
Dissect is a podcast on spotify they breakdown albums. Kendrick fans just take time listening to his music cause he been putting messages in them since the beginning
@@insideroutside pretty & smart 😍
He is not overrated I got the bar when it dropped he did the same on Freedom but K dot is a very talented writer for sure you can tell he really cares about the craft.
@@sven7037 😂 You didn’t get shit on the first listen, stop capping! Most people don’t care to dedicate hours to deciphering rap lyrics, and that’s understandable. Credit that guy at the podcast and be honest.
@@l2dac937 thank you. Hun 😘
Holy Shit?! I wasnt expecting this - this guy is one of the GOATS
It's called the song writer's secret. Many of your most favorite singers, rappers, writer's do this. Not only does it make the song more meaningful to them, it adds extra layers of magic to the song to hook the listener. No, it's not a coincidence. If you know anything about how magic is done you will understand that this is the level of the ones that get through the door.
It’s pretty good but Lupe does this all the time. Tetsuo & Youth, House EP, Drogas Wave, Tokyo Frees Vol 1-3, and all these practice freestyles he put out ever since the Steve Jobs Royce diss track. Lupe is the 🐐
If you count the letters of their names combined Pusha T + Kendrick Lamar it also gives you 19. Possibly tying in the double perspective.
A coke verse based of a biblical lesson "you reap what you sow"!? Amazing. The father sowed a plant, coke comes from cocoa leaf, and he reaped a son who is a brick writer. It definitely made me feel high!
I think that has nothing to do with it cause it's not like they Chand he'd their names, it's just a coincidence
Imagine Kendrick watching this and thinking “yeah ... what he said” 🤷🏽♂️
I'm glad kendrick verse was broken down in that song i get it..kendrick been having something to say in his music he another rapper that's a problem in the rap game he ahead of his time too i rock with a lot of his music. Love & respect to kendrick💙💯
Kendrick watching this like "...it was an accident, I ain't even know I did that, but don't tell em." 😂😂
To be fair sometimes the mind of a genius works on its own. I know its many times rappers listen back to their own songs nd start to get a deeper meaning of what they were saying. Nd sometimes with a good verse a listerner can fill in to put their owner meaning based on how they relate to the words
I think that too...lol
I need a confirmation from kendrick…. Not saying he couldn’t do it or it wasn’t intentional… but when you practice being great greatness is more coincidental vs intent
If you add up the numbers on the cover photo it equals 36… it was all purposeful😂😂
@@chandler119 exactly there are too many throughout the song for it to be a coincidence.
There are WAYYYY too many "coincidences" here. They sat down ans spoke about this. Dot knew what he was doing
God damn I thought I was bad at math
This is exactly what I love about hip hop
I FOUND THE LAST CLUE!!!!: WHEN DID THE EPIDEMIC START???? (80'S) GUESS WHAT THE TEMPO IS????? YEA BUDDY