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Welcome to Dissect, Long Form Musical Analysis Broken into short digestible episodes.

I'm your host Cole Kishna. Today we continue our serialized examination of Tampi Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar with part two of the song I. If you haven't heard

part one I'd suggest stopping now and listening to that episode first. There we

examined the studio version of I the album's first single released six months prior to

to Pimpa Butterfly's debut.

We heard I as a straightforward

self-affirming anthem for the disenchanted,

the depressed, and the incarcerated.

The song was built around the refrain I love

myself which Kendrick unabashedly screams on the song's hook. The world is a ghetto who becomes a dicky side.

I love myself, but they can do what they want when everyone I don't mind.

I love myself.

He said I gotta get up like she's working to the side.

I love my, self.

One day in the town. So I'm gonna shine. I love and affirmation is a long way from I's narrative counterpart, a manic drunken declaration of self-love and affirmation is a long way from eyes narrative counterpart, you, a manic drunken declaration of self-hate, anxiety, and depression heard earlier on the album.

I know your secrets nigger.

Moon swings is frequent nigger.

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