Kendrick Lamar & Jay Rock On ‘SNL’
November 16, 2014 @ 4:19 AM EST
Song
Touching Fire.
Kendrick Lamar returned as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this evening and brought Jay Rock for their collabo, “Pay For It”. Prior to their performance, a half-braided and black contact-eyed K-Dot recited his current single “i” with a new verse. All praise Black Hippy.
dope!
He is the truth.
He is the One.
He is our future.
It’s him. Standing right there in front of us.
k chill..thats balls in the mouth bruh
Kendrick is the future of Rap Music!!! I’m so proud of him!
85% of todays rappers probably saw this & said “damn, we have a lot of work to do”.
People hate on Young Thug but love Kendrick Lamar? What kind of world do we live in? Did I get sucked into some sort of alternate dimension or something?
Young Thug got a unique and one of the best flows around, he’s a real ass MC too!
Hahahaha if you’d listen to Young Thug over Kendrick then you are for sure taking dick in the ass haha.
Cut the shit already, We get it, you love to troll around, you made your presence felt, now do us all a favor and sniff some rat poison.
this is clearly a parody account
Be careful with what you wish for! Karma is a bitch!
thugga got lyrics but most ppl don’t take the time to hear them out
I agree but I believe it’s more 95%… If this dude Kendrick drops a better album than GKMC, I believe it will propel him into superstardom.
Because he’s on Saturday Night Live doing the hokey pokey? I don’t even get this comment
i can tell you don’t get it, you pointing whatever dance moves he was doing. smh
god damn this man can perform almost as well as he can make albums!
This guy is the truth.
One in a kind. Damn.
That I performance was dooope. The first one had to forward to Kendrick’s part but still good.
Jay rock killed it tho.
Rock is the truth!!! The kid is promising… a lot of peeps slept on “Follow Me Home” but it was our heat.
Captivating… I got f*cking lost in this performance. Dude is on another level.
Tribute to Method Man was super dope! Kendrick the one
Shame that most folks hadn’t peeped the Tical reference and thought he was just merely bugging out.
Put a brother on????
the eyes chico…
http://cdn.defjam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/method_man04.jpg
Tical 20th anniversary was yesterday. Half braids, blacked out eyes, just like Meth. This kid is a student of the genre.
you think kendrick woke up and thought that up himself? or you think maybe 1 of his 20,000 support systems in the industry said hey kendrick, do this so we can gain some cool points from wu-tang fans
you’re a bitch. real talk..throwing shade no matter how hard someone works on their performance…motherfuckers like you dont deserve to breathe
lol it was a question you kike piece of shit. but good looks on defending kendrick on how hard he works. you must be his wife. lmao take his dick out of your mouth
…even if that’s true, it don’t matter. Kendrick probably has a million people in his ears saying shit on any given day. ultimately, he did it so just give him props and keep it moving.
Why don’t you ask Top Dawg faggot?
At this point who cares, ain’t no one else paying homage in a dope way.
Thank u for explaining that
shiit i was wonderin wassup wit homie eyes lol…but the nigg been on some i aint trynna be cute shit so i aint think nothin of the hair…
Yea I thought thats what it was, Thats dope that he did that, What the blood clot
Also. ODB was born Nov 15 and died on Nov 13th 2004. 10 years ago. First thing I thought when I saw his hair was ODB and Meth
i thought he was tapping into his inner coolio
I thought it was more a tribute to ODB
Ohhh man, kendricks music has a way of growing on you, it’s really is dope,, yo bdot, you ever noticed that rappers don’t ever remix kdot, even jcole and big krit music, I wonder y is that?
Shit hot up in the 6 boy
The return of Enoch!
Jay Rock doing saturday night live before Officer Ricky gets asked… HAH. At least they did that skit about rappers before the music and said he was the red teletubbie.
i love my milfs
All Hail King Kendrick.
Lost on the reason for the contacts tho..
how old are you, dude?
22
20th anniversary of method man’s debut album tical
Thanks.
Kendrick spazzed on this and the tribute to Method Man was way 2 dope
Whoa!
TOO MUCH ACTIN… HE PLAYS BIG SHOWS I GET IT I GET IT, BUT TO ME IT WAS ALOTTA FLUFF.. I RESPECT KENDRICK , BUT I THINK IT WAS TOO MUCH & IT TOOK AWAY FROM THE SONG… IVE SEEN HIM DO THIS SONG WIT LESS DRAMA & IT WAS BETTER.. A LIL BIT TOO MUCH SHUCKIN & JIVIN – WHEN KANYE DOES IT ITS NATURAL – MOVE IT ON YO LEFT SOUTHPAW MR METH…
this one obviously flew over your head.. this is the first time he performed “i” too.
I SAID I SEEN HIM PERFORM THIS SONG BEFORE MY G.. THAT FLEW OVER UR HEAD – YOUTUBE IT – IT AINT THE 1ST TIME
So many dick riders on this site seeingg shit like” i got lost in the performance” smfh whata fag….this shit was dame shit hes been doing..boring performances..this guys a decent spitter ..but when the rap game is over saturated with shittt rappers..yall make the decent ones look like GODS smh this guy wouldnt of been shit if it was the 90s or 2000s Gimme a break..an let the “old head” hate start…btw im 25 an got more alot more sense about this rap shit then the main majority..I Jus Kept it 100
Kendrick is a God for the new age of rap because their are very few “NEW” rappers doing what he does, face it the nigga dropped one of the best rap albums and out sold damn near every OG rapper that dropped that same year. Kendrick would have been perfectly fine as a MC back in the days because everything the OG rappers stood for he stands for… Lyricism, Aggression, Word play, Metaphors, samples and more. Also the OGs in the game love him, so what are you talking about?
Damn CuHz killed it, this nigga is on some other shit.
I HATE THIS SONG AND I CANT SEE WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS WACKASS SONG
You hate the song why, cause it has a positive message and a soulful sample. Would you rather K dot rap about guns he never shot, models he never fucked, drugs he never sold, lean he never drunk? Cause the records that you niggas think are hot is what 95% of the rappers rap about… The sample of this record which is classic record played by are grandparents, fathers, mothers and at the backyard bbq’s that ALONE lets you know the record will still be in rotation 10yrs from know. It’s a great record not a turn up and wave your toy guns in the air record…
not because of the message because the way it sounds
The sound is soulful sample from a legendary song… Keep it real you just looking for something to hate on, are you prefer the new age turn up records produced by Mike Will and Mustard? How can a record that sounds so soulful with a live band not appeal to your ears, i’m missing your point. Don’t get me wrong I like turn up records too, but a record with a soulful sample and dope message is what hip-hop is about…
quick question did i ask for you opinion
Ha sucka I knew you would type some kid shit like that… Nigga to embarrassed to admit he was just hating… It’s ok homie we all got a lil hate in us… “quick question did i ask for you opinion” is the legendary response for i’m hating just let me hate… LOL this is Hip-Hop we all have opinions, and your opinion is you don’t like the song because it sounds soulful? & My opinion is you just looking to hate.
wow you have waaaaaaay to much free time on your hands
Nah just love Hip-Hop and know how to engage in topics like Hip-Hop.
you like it i dont not everything you hear your going to like thats just being real
Yeah but sometimes people just don’t like a song. It’s not always hating. I don’t like the song and its not because of the message or the sample, its because I dont like the beat or the voice effects or the overall sound of the song period. There is no hating involved, some people simply do not like the song.
Right On Bro.
you probably hate melody..you one of them bars-on-bars rappitrap papoose fans
I think people try to downgrade bars now as if having dope lines aint cool only because the most hyped new rappers don’t have many dope lines. You can still have bars regardless of the melody or style of music.
don’t get me wrong..bars are necessary, but every song? nah fuck that…the greatest hiphop artists of all time made sure they had balance in everything…melody is necessary just as much as bars
hiphop started with melody, not bars
but once its gets to a point where whole songs don’t have any dope bars then melody can’t be an excuse. Its not 1977 anymore either so regardless where Hip Hop started, it has evolved passed just melody.
everything has a time and a place
and for MCs who are supposed to be held in regard for their bars. First singles are that time and place.
dj premier just said that an MC is somebody who has bars AND/OR can control a crowd and make a fun performance
so yes, young thugs an emcee, im sorry that hurts you
You can pretend that when I say “bars” that I mean it in the context of Young Thug? But you know damn well thats not what I mean. Dj Premier can think Brittany Spears is an MC cause she can control a crowd but when I say “bars” thats not what I mean and you and Dj Premier both know that…
you can live your sad life and think hiphops dying bruh and stress over things like that
its strong as fuck right now
I didnt say Hip hop is dying? You just did. The reason Hip Hop is strong is because of the niggas in it with bars, not Young Thug and some of these niggas who are supposed to have bars are really just rapping at the speed of light so you don’t really notice they lines is basic and non specific while they ramble shit and hide behind the melody.
The point is people make excuses for not having bars because they don’t have them bottomline. Melody is not an excuse for not having bars and just because you could say a Iggy Azlaea is an MC cause she can make a crowd but they hands up? Thats not an excuse for not having dope lines.
not a fan of the sound the message is cool its just the way it sounds that it
‘i’ like this song more because of this performance. we need this in MP3
No accent thats why!
What I like most about this is the brotherhood of the TDE camp. Jay Rock was the original soldier, and for Kendrick to give him so much, deserved shine, on this is beautiful. And the song works, the song rocks, I need to hear what they are saying exactly, but musically it builds and delivers.
That was amazing – his like an old soul 60s blues guitar player – fucking well done mate !
Kendrick is the man I first I didn’t get what he doing until i get ODB reference and Method man. King Kendrick
I love the energy and I love the songs but let’s be honest none of those ppl watching at home knew one word of what Kendrick was saying. I get it. Lyrics are everything but bro, the music on top of u rapping as fast and loud as u can I can’t understand one word. But great performance tho. Would have liked to hear the words.
And you think they understand with Eminem say?? Real talk in today’s era, there’s not to many DOPE audible rappers….meaning ones you actually want to hear from…Jay, Nas, Drizzy, Ross, Common…you catch my drift.
I’m one of TI biggest fans…but you think “America” knows what he’s spitting most of the time…we do bc we’re fans.
Kendrick KILLED this shit!!! MURDER…and as an old head myself…as soon as I saw the half braid and black-out contacts…i thought Ticallion Stallion
Megamind
if you dont understand it the first time you go back and listen to it again, thats how its always been. that or get on rapgenius.
Love the fact that he payed homage to Method Man. New cats probably didn’t even get it, which makes it even better. Tical a CLASSIC hip hop cd that no one could hate on.
Amazing. Hip hop. A message. Performance. Respect to pioneers. Goosebumps.
this has nothing to do with this post…but when Rap Radar gonna talk about that new J.Cole album
method man 20 year anniversary tical album tribute was nice
too animated for me in this one. Kendrick is dope but this ‘I’ song isn’t.
Jay Rock slaughtered this verse
Saw K.dot sweating before the performance even started and thought he was about to OD! Forgot to fix his hair and everything…
Then I realized the ODB thing. That was a close one.