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Kendrick Lamar: A Heroic Analysis

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After the car scene we see how the video goes into more symbolic visionary displays. The viewers see Kendrick Lamar floating in the air with a look as if he has been sent to earth as a child to save mankind. First they show his boots in between different clips of children chasing after him looking up stretching their arms out towards him in awe. Then the video reveals his whole body as he floats down a street with his hands to his side, but no cape. The kids watching him chanting similar to the students at Cleveland State University were shown chanting 'Alright ' during a protest against police harassment after a Black Lives Matter conference was being held at the institute turned bad (NME 2015). Kendrick Lamar then lands on the lamppost like a comic book hero we shall not name. For Kendrick Lamar, the ideal superhero would be the one that could save people through music but he intertwines that reality with Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. …show more content…

Starting the song with “Alls my life I had to fight,” Kendrick recognizes all the wrongs surrounding him, like the enslaved ancestors before him, shows confident that with God on his side everything will be “Alright”

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