I've listened to this song intently, mainly because of what I think is misinterpretation. This album is about Kendrick escaping Compton and the demons infesting his life. Alcohol is one of them. As seen clearly on the album cover, he was in a home where alcohol was abused, but it also spilled into his teenage life. This song is about how Kendrick tried not to be influenced by the peer pressure of drinking at parties, succumbed, but never gave into addiction or abuse of alcohol like many of his peers and family.
Notice during the song when he sings "First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ve in it"
Kendrick wants you to hear the stress on 'die,' as if you drink too much you may have alcohol poisoning, in addition to drinking to a figurative level of a pool.
At the end, the skit about the shooting is the aftermath of a night drinking and what can happen with short sighted thinking. They go to shoot someone and then one of the brothers in the skit dies, showing how the evils of alcoholism can lead to the evils of murder.
I agree with your comment except for the "die" part, mainly because when a person is singing, the only sound that you can sustain is the vowel sound, which just happens to sound like diiiiiie in this case
I agree with your comment except for the "die" part, mainly because when a person is singing, the only sound that you can sustain is the vowel sound, which just happens to sound like diiiiiie in this case
I've listened to this song intently, mainly because of what I think is misinterpretation. This album is about Kendrick escaping Compton and the demons infesting his life. Alcohol is one of them. As seen clearly on the album cover, he was in a home where alcohol was abused, but it also spilled into his teenage life. This song is about how Kendrick tried not to be influenced by the peer pressure of drinking at parties, succumbed, but never gave into addiction or abuse of alcohol like many of his peers and family.
Notice during the song when he sings "First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ve in it"
Kendrick wants you to hear the stress on 'die,' as if you drink too much you may have alcohol poisoning, in addition to drinking to a figurative level of a pool.
At the end, the skit about the shooting is the aftermath of a night drinking and what can happen with short sighted thinking. They go to shoot someone and then one of the brothers in the skit dies, showing how the evils of alcoholism can lead to the evils of murder.
I agree with your comment except for the "die" part, mainly because when a person is singing, the only sound that you can sustain is the vowel sound, which just happens to sound like diiiiiie in this case
I agree with your comment except for the "die" part, mainly because when a person is singing, the only sound that you can sustain is the vowel sound, which just happens to sound like diiiiiie in this case