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“Squabble Up,” the second song you hear when embarking on a front-to-back listen of Kendrick Lamar’s surprise-dropped GNX project, now has a video.
Monday, Kendrick rolled out the song’s official video, directed by Calmatic. See it above. For a rundown of credits and features for the album, which arrived without warning last Friday, see here.
Tucked into the video are a tribute to the late Nate Dogg, a nod to Ice-T’s Power album, and a book hilariously titled How to Be More Like Kendrick for Dummies. Expect a closer dissection of the video in the minutes and hours ahead, as is customary with anything Kendrick-related. Notably, a banner unfurls at the end. It reads, perhaps as a sign that Kendrick has something special planned for the holiday season, “Compton Christmas Parade.”
Other references spotted in the immediate aftermath of the “Squabble Up” video reveal include (but are not limited to): Menace II Society, Soul Train, and Isaac Hayes’ Black Moses.
This story is being updated.
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