We’ve given flowers to Kendrick Lamar on our website plenty of times before. With a few months left here in 2024, I think it’s more than ok to officially crown Kendrick Lamar as the Hip Hop Artist of 2024. Dominating the entire summer with his beef vs. Drake, all the way to being chosen for next year’s Super Bowl, 2024 has been all about K-dot.\u00a0 Then if all that wasn’t enough, he seemingly moved past that beef, and focused on hip hop and black culture, with Watch the Party Die.<\/p>\n
Kendrick has owned this entire year. A year with a lot of real decent music dropping all around.<\/p>\n
Overall it has been A great year for hip hop, coming off the year long 50th celebration we got in 2023.\u00a0 Real hip hop ‘seems’ to be making a slight reemergence, as more of the fanbase is getting more vocal, about moving away from toxic, negative messaging.<\/p>\n
Here on authorityhop, we have referred to ‘street music’ as, tales from the hood.\u00a0 Most of the music inspired by those tales of yesteryear, are both a cry for help but also more. Evidence that the heavy focus on one form of hip hop, over others, is influencing negative cycles.\u00a0 Cycles, which do seem to be worsening, when we examine all that has gone on, with these young rappers that are dying from drug overdoses, or worse, from gang related violence.<\/p>\n
Right on time, it would seem again this year, Kendrick Lamar suggests it’s definitely time to ‘watch the party die’. Releasing this track just days, before Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested by the feds. While also, sparking off a real quick flurry of response tracks, that in my mind continue to put the ‘beef with Drake’ in the rear view.<\/p>\n
Kendrick references Lecrae, asking ‘What would Lecrae do?”, and so he responded.<\/p>\n