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Today we are here for the second part of our Kendrick Lamar series. This is the final installment

in advance of his Super Bowl halftime performance,

which is happening this weekend. So without further ado, here is Pop Pantheon, Kendrick Lamar,

part two.

Nobody pray for me. It's been that day for me.

Yeah, yeah.

After establishing himself as his generation's rap sense, with 2012's Good Kid Mad City and

2015's to Pimp a Butterfly, along with his well-received EP of Butterfly leftovers,

2016's Untitled, Unmastered.

In the mid-2010s, Kendrick entered a new phase of his career in pursuit of a new ambition,

hitmaker.

This happened on guest appearances for other artists

like Maroon Fives Don't Want to Know, Beyonce's Freedom and Taylor Swift's Bad Blood, the latter

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