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    Kendrick Lamar’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    May 05, 2022 4 minutes

    20. Wesley’s Theory (2015)

    A crash course in To Pimp a Butterfly’s expansive sound – Thundercat’s bass ricochets around, George Clinton is on hand to bolster the P-funk-like chorus – and its lyrical viewpoint. It starts out like the standard bling-dripping, screw-you rapper’s victory lap, but suddenly flips into a troubled disquisition on materialism as a form of control.

    19. Poetic Justice (2012)

    Lamar has had a fractious relationship with Drake over the years – there are umpteen articles online picking apart their apparent lyrical references to each other – but all was harmonious on the standout collaboration from the LP Good Kid, MAAD City, replete with its fantastic Janet-Jackson-sampling beat.

    18. DNA (2017)

    DNA is Lamar in virtuosic form: a firework display of his technical ability as

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