Kendrick Lamar ft SZA - All the Stars (Black Panther Soundtrack)
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Updated this track with another SZA verse 
Jorja smith cover.
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BBC Sounds - Clara Amfo - Jorja Smith is in the Live Lounge!
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BBC Sounds - Clara Amfo - Jorja Smith is in the Live Lounge!
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Now that you mention it...
You go onto genius and they talking about how the song is about Kendrick's personal life or the events of Black Panther. I think both are way off.
When I heard that shyt drop right as the closing credits rolled, I thought that the lyrics were about the EVENT of the movie. Kendrick's speaking directly to the audience about the making of Black Panther and all it represents. The pre-chorus/chorus is spoken to Black people telling them its about them, and the verse is reminding everyone else what's up.
Black Panther was a labor of love, love for the entire Black diaspora. "Is it anything and everything you hoped for?" speaks directly to the gigantic expectations the community had going into the movie. All the visuals in the video are enormous crowds of Black people looking up to Kendrick, kids sheltered in the arms of Mother Africa and faces bright in expectation.
This night, this opening, this movie, it makes us all feel a little closer to reaching the stars. The superimposition of the stars on Africa makes that visual tight too.
He's saying FU to all the critics from outside [implicitly the white power structures], it don't matter if they come to talk shyt or come to give praise, he doesn't care. "I don't even want your congratulations" sounds so damn specific like he's talking about the congratulations they're going to get for the movie. But he's saying screw that, he sees right through it, this movie is NOT for you and your reaction to it is NOT the truth.
It's also interesting that in the video, he's standing in the African slum and shouting OUT, facing away from the video, away from the slum, speaking out into the outside world. He's telling the outsiders what he thinks of them.
That doubles down on it. Again, "I ain't invite you" to watch this, this isn't for you. "You important? You the moral to the story? You endorsin?" sounds so damn like White people trying to make themselves important and insert themselves into the picture, either by endorsing the story or trying to fit themselves into the moral somehow. And he's saying fukk that, I don't even like you, this ain't about you.
And as he confronts the White viewer/critic directly, notice that he is surrounded by Black people, and the camera switches to Black faces which are looking not at Kendrick but also at that viewer, in confrontation.
Kendrick isn't in this one for the money and he ain't gonna be bought off. He's keeping this one in the family because he wants everyone to know that this is a Black movie from one end to the other and Black people are getting the credit for it no matter what.
And as the video switches towards the pre-chorus again, Kendrick turns back towards the Black community and faces them, "Let's talk about love, is it anything and everything you hoped for?"
I think that if you read it that way it's a well-written and direct lyric. All those words like "your expectations", "your congratulations", "I want the credit, "who I'm buildin' with", "moral to the story", "everything you hoped for", I don't see how this could be about anything other than the making of the movie and what that represents to Kendrick and within the community.
I wouldn't have written all this, but I've just heard a lot of people talk about the song and ain't heard no one mention this, so I checked genius and they seem to have totally missed it too.
Though there may be a reason for that.
lightbearerchef
Von!!!
This hard but not harder than
It captured a mood but the song lyrics weren't anything memorable. The singing in the beginning and chorus are the best parts.Now that you mention it...
You go onto genius and they talking about how the song is about Kendrick's personal life or the events of Black Panther. I think both are way off.
When I heard that shyt drop right as the closing credits rolled, I thought that the lyrics were about the EVENT of the movie. Kendrick's speaking directly to the audience about the making of Black Panther and all it represents. The pre-chorus/chorus is spoken to Black people telling them its about them, and the verse is reminding everyone else what's up.
Black Panther was a labor of love, love for the entire Black diaspora. "Is it anything and everything you hoped for?" speaks directly to the gigantic expectations the community had going into the movie. All the visuals in the video are enormous crowds of Black people looking up to Kendrick, kids sheltered in the arms of Mother Africa and faces bright in expectation.
This night, this opening, this movie, it makes us all feel a little closer to reaching the stars. The superimposition of the stars on Africa makes that visual tight too.
He's saying FU to all the critics from outside [implicitly the white power structures], it don't matter if they come to talk shyt or come to give praise, he doesn't care. "I don't even want your congratulations" sounds so damn specific like he's talking about the congratulations they're going to get for the movie. But he's saying screw that, he sees right through it, this movie is NOT for you and your reaction to it is NOT the truth.
It's also interesting that in the video, he's standing in the African slum and shouting OUT, facing away from the video, away from the slum, speaking out into the outside world. He's telling the outsiders what he thinks of them.
That doubles down on it. Again, "I ain't invite you" to watch this, this isn't for you. "You important? You the moral to the story? You endorsin?" sounds so damn like White people trying to make themselves important and insert themselves into the picture, either by endorsing the story or trying to fit themselves into the moral somehow. And he's saying fukk that, I don't even like you, this ain't about you.
And as he confronts the White viewer/critic directly, notice that he is surrounded by Black people, and the camera switches to Black faces which are looking not at Kendrick but also at that viewer, in confrontation.
Kendrick isn't in this one for the money and he ain't gonna be bought off. He's keeping this one in the family because he wants everyone to know that this is a Black movie from one end to the other and Black people are getting the credit for it no matter what.
And as the video switches towards the pre-chorus again, Kendrick turns back towards the Black community and faces them, "Let's talk about love, is it anything and everything you hoped for?"
I think that if you read it that way it's a well-written and direct lyric. All those words like "your expectations", "your congratulations", "I want the credit, "who I'm buildin' with", "moral to the story", "everything you hoped for", I don't see how this could be about anything other than the making of the movie and what that represents to Kendrick and within the community.
I wouldn't have written all this, but I've just heard a lot of people talk about the song and ain't heard no one mention this, so I checked genius and they seem to have totally missed it too.
Though there may be a reason for that.
The escalation of those strings
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
I like the OG version of the song better. The kind of vibe she went for is not a good fit for this song imo.
I don't like it as an acoustic song but maybe that's just me.
bourgeoisie tall freak
Superstar
lets talk about love 
BeachBum Unreal
SD Born & Raised: 760, 619
Super Classiclets talk about love
this song much better now that i know he was cooking BBL drizzy
Tell me what you gon' do to me
Confrontation ain't nothin' new to me
You can bring a bullet, bring a sword, bring a morgue
But you can't bring the truth to me
fukk you and all your expectations
I don't even want your congratulations
I recognize your false confidence and calculated promises all in your conversation
I hate people that feel entitled
Look at me crazy 'cause I ain't invite you
Oh, you important?
You the moral to the story, you endorsing?
Motherfukker, I don't even like you
Corrupt a man's heart with a gift
That's how you find out who you dealin' with
A small percentage, who I'm building with
I want the credit if I'm losing or I'm winning
On my mama, that's the realest shyt
breh been consistent
Tell me what you gon' do to me
Confrontation ain't nothin' new to me
You can bring a bullet, bring a sword, bring a morgue
But you can't bring the truth to me
fukk you and all your expectations
I don't even want your congratulations
I recognize your false confidence and calculated promises all in your conversation
I hate people that feel entitled
Look at me crazy 'cause I ain't invite you
Oh, you important?
You the moral to the story, you endorsing?
Motherfukker, I don't even like you
Corrupt a man's heart with a gift
That's how you find out who you dealin' with
A small percentage, who I'm building with
I want the credit if I'm losing or I'm winning
On my mama, that's the realest shyt
Rest In Paradise Chadwick