{"id":1703,"date":"2019-04-02T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2019-04-02T05:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T05:58:05","slug":"truth-trumps-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/assignments\/music-power-politics\/truth-trumps-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart says Truth Trumps Lies &#8230; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diss track and political track both in a comeback makes Kendrick Lamar one of the loudest rappers in our current generation of pop culture. In The Heart Part 4, this single paves Lamar\u2019s big entrance back onto the top of the Billboard chart after laying low since his last album To Pimp a Butterfly which was released in 2015. This six to seven time beat changing song brings all ears to listen to what he has to say after staying quiet for the past two years. He has so much to say that the farther you listen through his song he gets more and more riled up with anger and frustration, he even counts out loud \u201cYellin&#8217; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I am the greatest rapper alive\u201d&#8211; let\u2019s be real though, is he really being HUMBLE?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/7744248\/kendrick-lamar-heart-part-4-zayn-gorillaz-iggy-twitter-top-tracks-chart\">https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/7744248\/kendrick-lamar-heart-part-4-zayn-gorillaz-iggy-twitter-top-tracks-chart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nThere\u2019s a lot that goes on in The Heart Part 4 leading to the song having such great success and popularity. All in a span of four minutes and fifty seconds Lamar manages to hint on his next album release date, throw shade at an unidentified rapper (even though we all know it\u2019s at &nbsp;Drake), and literally even calls out Donald Trump. That\u2019s not even half of the song but with each point he tries to make the beat changes correlate with his words to create a certain vibe for each message he tries to get out. You have to make sure to listen carefully to his words and try to keep up or you could end up missing something. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Heart Part 4 - Kendrick Lamar - IV - (Official Audio)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lbYIUnV8u7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Kendrick-lamar-the-heart-part-4-lyrics\">https:\/\/genius.com\/Kendrick-lamar-the-heart-part-4-lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One controversial topic that has come to listener\u2019s attention is none other than the famous name drop in this song. There are lots of unspoken jabs at rappers such as Drake and Big Sean but the one explicit name mentioned is none other than America\u2019s current President, Donald Trump.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kendrick Lamar raps in the middle of verse two: <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump is a chump <br>Know how we feel, punk\u2014tell him that God comin&#8217;  <br>And Russia need a replay button, y&#8217;all up to somethin&#8217; <br>Electorial votes look like memorial votes  <br>But America&#8217;s truth ain&#8217;t ignorin&#8217; the votes <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this phrase Lamar pretty much calls out President Trump and his undercover collaboration with Russia during America\u2019s 2016 election against Hillary Clinton. There had been some past controversy on them both working together to intervene with Clinton\u2019s campaign by attempting to release private information that would greatly affect vote numbers. Lamar goes on to question and express his anger on the law between electoral votes versus popular votes during a Presidential election. He is not one of the first to bring this to attention but he is definitely one that is trying to bring this point to light to try to get something done about this. It\u2019s not that often a President wins through an electoral vote without also having a majority popular vote as well. After this past President Election, having popular vote to win the election is being taken into consideration for America\u2019s 2020 Presidential Race.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/26\/popular-vote-could-decide-presidential-election-if-these-states-get-their-way\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.3e0ae776bf16\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/26\/popular-vote-could-decide-presidential-election-if-these-states-get-their-way\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.3e0ae776bf16<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of disses and attacks are made at unnamed people and even to a certain extent there is no discreet in plain site exposure of specific personal wrongdoings in this song. Everything is all strongly implied and probably remained \u201canonymous\u201d all thanks to his chorus where he repeats:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t tell a lie on me <br>I won&#8217;t tell the truth &#8217;bout you  <br>Don&#8217;t tell a lie on me  <br>I won&#8217;t tell the truth &#8217;bout you  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This chorus pretty much warns others that if lies about Lamar are made, he\u2019ll share all the little secrets that person has to the world. How much does he know and would there be another diss track just for that special someone? Honestly, I wouldn\u2019t mind. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diss track and political track both in a comeback makes Kendrick Lamar one of the loudest rappers in our current generation of pop culture. In The Heart Part 4, this single paves Lamar\u2019s big entrance back onto the top of the Billboard chart after laying low since his last album To Pimp a Butterfly which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/assignments\/music-power-politics\/truth-trumps-lies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Heart says Truth Trumps Lies &#8230; Part 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-power-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}