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podcast episode we are talking about Kendrick Lamar's brand new song, Watch the

Party Die slash Dear God. We're going to talk about the song in broad strokes, dissect a few individual lines. We're going to speculate on what it all might mean, what might be coming in the very near future.

Just a forewarning, this is going to be a little bit different than typical

episodes. I'm not going to do a line by line analysis. This song dropped what 12 hours ago or something.

And there's definitely a chance that something might be coming tonight as early as tonight, who knows,

but I wanted to get this episode up sooner than later because things could possibly start moving very quickly.

And so let's talk about it. New song, Watch the Party Die

slash Dear God. Importantly, it drops on September 11th. It drops at 8 p.m. Eastern time,

prime time. We'll talk about the significance of that.

In a second, it's an IG exclusive song, at least for now, just like 616 in LA.

The cover art is a pair of beat up Air Force One's black Air Force One shoes. We'll talk about that.

And the song is very much at least to me in that 616 in LA kind of overall feeling. It feels like a precursor to something else just like 616 in LA was a precursor to the kind of the main event of the battle. Kendrick is talking to God directly again as if

something is about to happen and asking him to watch over him. And so my personal

kind of immediate interpretation of the song is that it does feel like a precursor.

It does feel very much in the vein of the Heart Series, which are the pre-album singles that he tends to drop just before an album release or just before album rollout.

We'll talk more about that in a second. Also let's remember just a few days ago he announced that he's going to be

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