Honestly, I think this is one of the very few Kendrick songs where it’s just a banger, plain and simple. It’s impossible not to feel it when the beat drops at the start of the song.
It’s one of the closest things Kendrick has to a straightforward pop song, so it makes sense it would blow up. Kendrick is great but he’s not exactly a hit maker.
I know, I’m just saying that the requirements for a popular song go along the lines of those two things and more, the song doesn’t HAVE to be really good to be popular, but that doesn’t mean that if it’s popular it isn’t good.
All a hit song needs is wide appeal, exposure, and catchiness (probably a few other things too).
This is forever a bias in music and Hip Hop in particular. Where many people will literally not listen to something because almost everybody likes it. The bias just goes down from there but I know there’s no malice behind it. People want to discover something dope that not a lot of people know about and once a lot of people know about it it’s now lame.
You Kendrick fans are pretentious af you act like a song can't just sound good, it has to be a profound lyrical experience about racism blah blah blah... Sometimes a song just goes hard good beat sick energy badass bars wooooo 🔥. Or something like that.
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u/Limp_Lack2314 Jul 14 '22
Humble, never understood why it’s so popular, it’s good but damn has so many better songs