Dead Poets Society & Mortal Man by Kendrick Lamar - Day 70

Created
Jan 1, 2025 6:00 PM
Tags
Rap Gods
Date Published
July 9, 2024
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Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? - Dead Poets Society

Lyrics - Mortal Man

[Kendrick Lamar:]

That's crazy, man, in my opinion

Only hope that we kinda have left is music and vibrations

Lot a people don't understand how important it is, you know

Sometimes I can like, get behind a mic

And I don't know what type of energy I'ma push out

Or where it comes from, trip me out sometimes

[2Pac (Kendrick Lamar):]

Because it's spirits, we ain't even really rappin'

We just letting our dead homies tell stories for us

(Damn)

[Kendrick Lamar:]

I wanted to read one last thing to you

It's actually something a good friend had wrote

Describing my world, it says:

[2Pac:]

"The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it

Its only job is to eat or consume everything around it

In order to protect itself from this mad city

While consuming its environment

The caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive

One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him

But praises the butterfly

The butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness

And the beauty within the caterpillar

But having a harsh outlook on life

The caterpillar sees the butterfly as weak

And figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits

Already surrounded by this mad city

The caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon

Which institutionalizes him

He can no longer see past his own thoughts

He's trapped

When trapped inside these walls certain ideas take root, such as

Going home, and bringing back new concepts to this mad city

The result?

Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant

Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations

That the caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle

Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different

They are one and the same"

What's your perspective on that?

[Kendrick Lamar:]

Pac? Pac? Pac?!

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