Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "BEYONCE & KENDRICK LAMAR - AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM (REMIX)"

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticKENDRICK LAMAR AND Beyoncé reunite for the first time in seven years on the surprise new remix for Renaissance’s “America Has a Problem,” which arrived with ...no warning late Friday.In his first new verse in over a year, Lamar bounces from horoscopes and sudoku to CGI and AI (“Even AI gotta practice clonin’ Kendrick,” he boasts of his inimitable skills).It’s unclear what fans did to deserve the “America Has a Problem (Remix),” but the song has been surging on social media since the launch of Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, where the track is among the concert’s many highlights.source: Kendrick Lamar Hops on New Remix of Beyoncé’s ‘America Has a Problem’ – Rolling StonePrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Mike Dean, Beyonce, and Kendrick Lamar. Now, if you would have told me you can have three of these artists and musicians on the same track, and it was titled America as a problem, I would 100% bet all my money on it being a hit. Because when I first listened to it, of course, I was scared. Because, you know, for the last time, I don't know if it was the last time, but the last time I felt like it was a hit, like a mega hit, was when, Kendrick Lamar was on Taylor Swift's Bad Blood Remix.
Starting point is 00:00:33 Because the way that he rolled the beat and the way that he kind of spit into that pocket that the whole bad blood song surrounded around, it was like two worlds colliding. And that's how I feel with this Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar collab. Because at the end of the day, when Kendrick Lamar comes on saying Turbulin Watcher, PG Lane Caller, Luke at my garage, synced up, get the Gene. out the bottle. What does he say? He says, he says, my horoscope said, I'm really out my noodle. I'm troubling. I'm puzzling. It's Sudoku. So at the end of day, this man really wraps in a way that you just can't fathom because who would have, like honestly, who would have rhymed puzzling
Starting point is 00:01:21 with, no, who would have rhymed noodle with Sudoku? You tell me the last rapper who, who rhymes something was Sudoku. So anyways, a Sudoku, how everyone pronounce it. Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce is back again. I don't know if this is the first collab ever, I believe it is. If I had to look at it, I believe it's the first first verse of the year for Kendrick, I believe. Of course, Beyonce, she put out this album in 20, she put out this album last year, I believe. I think. I really don't. Honestly, this is the first biancy album that and be in beehive you know chill out i'm not going to say anything crazy but this is the first time that i listened to a biancy album and after a week or two of playing it i was just completely done with the track so anyways um well completely done with the album like of course you got your
Starting point is 00:02:19 ones you go back to like the vergo's groove or the um cuff it remix with the the the weather remix I have never heard of a weather remix and I do not want to know what that is. But anyways, for the first verse of the year, Lamar hops on America's got a problem and of course he shows why everybody considers him one of the best rappers to have a great mic. Because honestly, when it comes to Kendrick Lamar and when it comes to all these other rappers, I'm not going to say it's not close because of course I'm a Drake Stan. So I'm not trying to get my OVO card taken away. But I do believe that Kendrick is on the level all by himself. And he's not going to say, him teaming up with Beyonce on a track called America has a problem.
Starting point is 00:03:03 The remix is like, y'all didn't get it the first time. So let's add the ultimate black empowerment rapper in who's also considered one of the best rappers of all time. Like if you would have had a top three of all time and had Kendrick in it, at this point, you can't really be upset. As Kendrick Lamar has given us a bunch of anthems like, we're going to be all right. and the whole to Pimp a Butterfly
Starting point is 00:03:33 album section Good Kid Mad City Section 8 like he's given us so many classics that just derives from the black experience and his actions
Starting point is 00:03:47 not off the court because of course he's not balling but off of the out of the studio aligns with this message of black empowerment and I really think that the way that Kendrick Lamar pushes his message and the way that he wraps is a very fine line because there's a lot of people who can rap.
Starting point is 00:04:05 I don't want to be disrespectful, but I'm just pointing this out to make a point. Black Thought is a person who can rap, but of course when he starts rapping, a lot of people, like turn that off because we're not trying to hear that lyrical, miracle, spiritual, we're trying to listen to something that we can ride in the car with. And that is exactly what Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar did for this track. And of course, a lot of people say that Beyonce is a perfectionist, so you do not put out a Kendrick Lamar feature and it not be perfect. So this was definitely indeed perfect coming off the heels of Mr. Well, not the heels of course, but coming off the release of Mr. Morale
Starting point is 00:04:41 and the Big Steppers, this is Kendrick Lamar's first appearance since that album. And boy, did he make a splash because Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce might as well be the new Splash brothers because it was one of the greatest tracks of 2023. So anyways, click my link tree in my bio. Let me know in one of my social medias. What do you think about Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar teaming up for a remix of America has a problem? And do you think it's fire or trash?

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