I'm Cole Kishna from Dissect.

And I'm Charles Holmes of the Ringer Music Show in Midnight Boys and in this first season.

The Last Long Standing, we're diving deep into one of the most talented and complicated

rappers of a generation.

Mr. Kendrick Lamar, Cole and I are debating our way through his entire catalog in an effort to decide what's the greatest Kendrick song of all time.

Each episode is dedicated to one Kendrick album where we are forced to choose only one song from that project to advance to the season finale,

our Royal Rumble. Last week in a surprise upset, Cole and I agreed for once

and crowned Mad City as the best song of Kendrick's 2012 debut, Good Kid Mad City.

One episode in, I have to ask you, Cole, man, how are you feeling?

Does this exercise feel a little bit harder than we thought

it would be it yeah really I mean I thought it was going to be hard but it's been I mean just

the prep of these episodes and listening to the songs and weeding them out is

definitely hard I mean kendrick has so many great songs that's kind of what makes it difficult but also

you're trying to juggle a lot like like we kind of talked about in the first episode where it's like you know it can't be your just your favorite songs you

it also has to be a representation of who Kendrick Lamar is what it you know what he's kind of

means and in the hip-hop legacy there's just a lot of factors to consider so it's been difficult but very very fun how about you?

I'm no closer to knowing what the best of our song of all time is like I keep being like can I predict what I'm going to pick and then each

time I like dive into an album like man I don't have any clue that's why we're doing

the exercise honestly but yes, to answer the broader question,

this is very hard.

I don't know what the best Kendrick Lamar song of all time

is going to be, but on today's episode,

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