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

I'm your host Cole Kushna. Today we continue our serialized examination of Tepip a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar.

We're currently in the midst of the album's second act, which we've titled

Cocooned and displays the various ways Kendrick is confined as he attempts to balance his

competent mentality with his new life of fame. On institutionalized, we saw how systemic racism breeds

an institutionalized mind state, which manifested in Kendrick's friend's desire to rob at the

BET awards. On these walls, Kendrick misused his influence to get

revenge on an imprisoned competent enemy by having sex with the mother of his child, who is

lonely and vulnerable. At the conclusion of these walls the narrative poem returned

revealing three new lines. I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence. sometimes I did the same.

Abusing my power full of resentment,

resentment that turned into a deep depression.

Found myself screaming in the hotel room.

Ah!

Oh!

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