The Untold Story Behind Kendrick Lamar's Most Powerful Anthem

This video is about Kendrick Lamar's powerful song entitled "hiiipower" which was released as the last song on Kendrick Lamar's Section80 album. The hiiipower music video also dropped in 2011 with controversial imagery and thought-provoking topics of discussion. In this video we dive deep into the mind of Kendrick Lamar and do a lyrical breakdown on all of the meanings behind the references mentioned in the hiiipower song. 0:00 Intro 3:44 Producer 4:44 XXL Freestyle Cypher 5:33 Music Video Drop 7:00 Concerts 8:00 The 3 i's 8:45 2pac vision 9:10 Altered Malcolm X photo 9:42 The Beat and Samples 10:40 The Sky is falling. Stand for something 11:50 Visions of MLK and Malcolm X 14:45 The Serengetti's clone 15:35 You slipped your disc. You wanted to diss. 16:30 Aiming it at a Pig. (Origins of the word pig) 18:13 Charlottes web is gonna miss you 18:56 Grown men should never bite their tongue 19:47 I won't sugar coat it. Youll die from diabetes if these other dudes wrote it. 21:00 Everything on TV is a figment of imagination (Matrix) 22:00 Allegory of the cave 23:48 We off the slave ships, writing our own heiroglyphs 24:29 Egyptian race 25:40 Black Panther Party 30:16 Orson Welles: A gangsta with a conscience 31:48 Visions of MLK... that would make my mama happy (Civil Rights) 34:20 Off the edge like a Widow's peak 35:08 Who said a black man in the illuminati 36:26 Everyday we fight the system: Alori Joh 37:00 They play musical chairs once I'm on that pedestal 38:18 Enough to drive a man insane 38:49 Reason Lauryn Hill don’t sing 40:19 Kurt Cobain loaded that… 41:00 Thug life. Thug life. #kendricklamar #hiiipower Business inquiries: [email protected]