S13E10 - Dissecting "Count Me Out" by Kendrick Lamar

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Our dissection of Mr Morale & The Big Steppers resumes with "Count Me Out." As the first track on Act 2, the song is positioned as the first therapy session with Eckhart Tolle, as Kendrick reveals some his most vulnerable thoughts and emotions. Shop ⁠Dissect S13 Merch⁠. Follow Dissect on⁠ Instagram⁠,⁠ Twitter⁠, or⁠ TikTok⁠. Host/Writer/EP: Cole Cuchna Video/Audio Production: Kevin Pooler Additional Production: Justin Sayles Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the Ringer Podcast Network, this is Dissect, long form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.
0:06.9	This is episode 10 of our season-long analysis on Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Moral and The Big Stepers.
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0:55.5	Last time on Dissect, we examined the final track of Mr. Morrell and the Big Stepper's first act,
1:00.0	Purple Hearts. As the center point of the album, we discovered how Purple Hearts is in many ways
1:04.8	the heart of the album, as Kendrick positions God and love as the center or source of all life.
1:10.4	Rather than drugs or vices that
1:12.0	can only provide short-term relief for a wounded heart, God and love are eternal medicines that have
1:17.3	the ability to truly heal. We also heard Ghostface Killer perform a critical feature verse as he plays
1:22.7	a purple-hearted veteran of the game who offers Kendrick divine guidance as he prepares to confront his demons
1:28.0	and the therapy-guided journey of the album's second half. This sets the literal stage for
1:32.5	Act 2 of the Morality play that is Mr. Moral and the Big Stepers. Singer Sam Doe takes the stage
1:38.0	once again to set the scene. We may not know which way to go on this dark road.
1:47.0	Mr. Duckworth.
1:51.0	All of these holes make it difficult. Session 10, Breakthrough.
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