When Kendrick dropped untitled unmastered many weren’t sure exactly what to expect. Some of the songs sound highly mixed and mastered, other portions sound raw. At the end of the day, if you are really listening there are some gems on there and it seems like Mr. Lamar was just playing around on the project. He’s running laps around everyone as we try to figure out the magic behind the madness.
Of the most classic segments on the album is when Kendrick chants “levitate, levitate, levitate” the other being when Kendrick proclaims that “head is the future.” It’s raw unadulterated, sexually explicit lyrics. It’s drugs, love, fame, money and more. It’s “untitled 07 | 2014-2016.” Check it out by the numbers below.
4,029, 428 (and counting) – Plays since the untitled unmastered album came out
100,000 – Fans at a live show. “You gotta see it” in the words of Kendrick. Be it money or the fans, you know Kendrick is seeing it and he wants you to see it too.
2014-2016 – The years in which bits and pieces of the song were recorded and mixed and mastered. Wait but isn’t this “unmastered”? Joe Budden doesnt think so.
42 – The number of time Kendrick says “come on”
28 – The number of times Kendrick says “levitate”
25 – Times Kendrick says Love, Drugs, Fame, Chains, Juice, Crew, Hate, Life, He, She, For Free?, Two Keys, Bentley’s “won’t get you high as this”
17 – The number of times Kendrick swears in this song (Sh*t, B*tch, F*ck, N*gga)
15 – Kendrick says this is a 15 min song even though it isn’t – it’s really 8:16 long (or short, depends on how you look at it).
14 – Times Kendricks says “We Do” or “We Don’t”
12 – Times Kendrick says “Me Do” or “Me Don’t”
8 – Sides on the stop signs that Kendrick runs through on the track.
7 – The 7th song on the album, and the 7th most popular song on Kendrick’s Spotify page.
6 – Times Kendrick says “pimp” when he says “Pimp, Pimp, Hooray” in the intro.
5 – Producers that helped finalize the track (Frank Dukes, Cardo, Yung Exclusive, Swizz Beatz & Egypt Dean)
4 – Times that Kendrick says “head” on the hook. Kendrick says “head is the future,” and we can’t disagree.
3 – The number of parts to the song separated by interludes.
2 – Members of the Beatz family aka Swizz Beatz and his son (Egypt Dean) that contributed on the track.
1 – Kendrick Lamar