Kendrick Lamar will appear on SNL on November 15th.  Lamar has owned SNL twice, but when he performs this time he should be sporting a sack of new songs from his next album (to be released this year).   One new song that’s been released to much acclaim and is loved by Lefort is the track i , the lyric video for which you can watch below.  Lamar had this to say to Carson Daly recently about the new song:

“When I first started doing music, I did a lot for myself, just for my enjoyment, but then I started doing these shows and I start seeing these kids saying my song saved their lives [because] they were going to commit suicide.  It got a little bit deeper than me, you know?

As for the song’s cover art, Lamar told Daly:  “Where I’m from, there’s a lot of gang culture and things like that, so instead of throwing on up gang signs, which we used to, I put a Blood and I put a Crip together and we’re throwing up hearts.  It got a little bit deeper than just going with a simple contemporary hit record cliché sound, and I said I’m going to use my pedestal and speak about something much more and do it my way because I’d rather go out like that.”

As you’ll hear, the song features an old Isleys sample from That Lady, including Ronnie Isley’s iconic guitar riff.   Evidently Isley also added a few ad libs to the song himself.

Check it out, and get ready for Lamar on SNL on November 15th.  We can’t wait.