While this scene between Lamar and the priest seems random and comedic, the very end of the music video provides clarity to its intention when it cuts to a black screen with the words “Death to Molly”.
BITCH DONT KILL MY VIBE CHURCH FULL
The priest then replies with “I thought you said baptize in a pool full of liquor”. In the music video, there is one bizarre interlude where Lamar is being baptized and remarks “my eyes burning!”.
This altered meaning is furthered during the end of the video when the congregation takes the coffin out into a field and dances around it – Lamar and the priest even strike poses for the camera in front of the coffin. The all-white clothing goes against the traditional black attire of a funeral, shifting the meaning of the funeral from one of mourning to one of celebration. The video goes on to depict Lamar attending a funeral in a church, surrounded by other African Americans dressed in white. Lamar’s Christian viewpoint is also in the foreground of the music video for “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” as it starts with a close-up on scratched church pews. That’s the vibe I wanted to kill.” Lamar’s critique of the quest for fame and recognition in the song through the idea of sin shows how he believes the rap industry today does not live up to his Christian, moral standards. He states in an interview with Complex magazine that the song centers around “everybody getting mixed in a situation where everyone wants to have creative control. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body.” The album and its theme of sin continues with the second song, “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe,” and the beginning lyrics: “I am a sinner, who’s probably gonna sin again/ Lord, forgive me! Lord, forgive me!/Things I don’t understand.” This song stands outside the narrative of the album and allows Kendrick Lamar to critique the lifestyle and music of famous rappers today. The lyrics reference 1 Corinthians 6:18, “Flee fornication. The song tells the story of their teenage lust as Lamar recounts that he was “Seventeen, with nothing but p**** stuck on my mental/My motive was rather sinful.” Here the idea of sin reappears in the song as Lamar critiques himself for only wanting Sherane for her body. Lamar then introduces his love interest in the album, a girl named Sherane who, like Kendrick, lives around Compton and comes from a dysfunctional family with gang affiliations. Master Splinter’s Daughter,” starts with a chorus of black men praying for the redemption of their sins, setting the tone of the album as a battle against sin to find salvation in a fallen world. The opening track on the album, “Sherane a.k.a.
A concept album that reads almost like a film script of teenage Kendrick trying to find himself while navigating the violent, gang infested streets of Compton, good kid, m.A.A.d city is rich with Christian imagery. Good kid, m.A.A.d city, Lamar’s second studio album, launched the rapper into the mainstream popular music scene, selling 242,000 copies in its first week and debuting at number two on the Billboard charts.
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