Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -... [ LIMITED ]

But the exercise matters because it reveals a truth about both artists: It’s about the horror of looking at a face you once kissed, or a city you once repped, or a version of yourself you once loved—and feeling absolutely nothing except a dull, metallic ache.

Kendrick Lamar has spent a decade singing that exact ache over jazz beats and funk basslines. To hear him sing it over those four iconic xylophone notes? That wouldn't just be a cover. Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -...

We live in an era of the “mashup” and the “cover,” but some artistic collisions exist only in our collective imagination. One such phantom track that refuses to leave my brain is this: Kendrick Lamar performing a rendition of Gotye’s 2011 indie-pop masterpiece, “Somebody That I Used to Know.” But the exercise matters because it reveals a

SZA’s character would flip the script: “You tell the world I abandoned you for the hills / But you forgot the night you chose the tour bus over the hospital bill / You call me a stranger? / King, you made yourself a stranger.” That wouldn't just be a cover