Topic > Analysis: Rapper Kendrick Lamar - 1182

In the first verse, worry quickly turns into a feeling of dejection as Lamar introduces listeners to the beginning of these new insecurities when he belittles himself and tells us he can affect a hundred thousand people , but fails to influence his sister to do the right thing. The feeling of despondency lingers in listeners for the rest of the song, and is accentuated after the song changes with an instrumental change, going from jazz to upbeat blues after the chorus is repeated for the final time. At the start of the shift, there's a skit of a Latina housekeeper knocking on a door and, in Spanish, saying, “Open the door, open the door, I have to clean your room! It's just that there isn't much time and I have to clean your room. Excuse me!" Along with the screaming in the song's introduction, there is an allusion to his poem that appears throughout the album, To Pimp a Butterfly, particularly the lines that read: "I found myself screaming in the room hotel room, I didn't mean to -destroy." As soon as the second verse begins, listeners should feel immediate heartbreak when Lamar begins rapping while in the midst of tears. Telling the story of his best friend who was shot and who struggled in the hospital, Lamar blames himself for his friend's death because he only gave him a FaceTime call instead of coming to visit him on the plane, even though he was abroad when the shooting happened Instead of repeating the refrain before the third verse, there are only silent tears that allow listeners to feel his pain As the last verse of the song, Lamar definitely doesn't fail to make it the most powerful one among the drinking and confessions of mood swings and depression , all the worry, despondency and heartbreak felt during the song combine.