From the Ringer Podcast Network, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short, digestible episodes.

This is episode three of our season-long analysis of Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morrell and The Big Steppers.

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Last time I dissect, we examined Mr. Morale's second track, N95, where Kendrick gave a grading

evaluation of the current state of the world. He threw shots at cancel culture, materialism, fake friends, fake wokeness, and fake fronting

online. He asserted these are simply masks we wear in order to validate ourselves through the

eyes of others, a grand charade or theater act in service of our ego, as we seek to avoid

exposing our imperfections to the world. Having himself

admitted to some of these very things on the opening track United in Grief, we understood

that Kendrick was including himself in this diagnosis, and that Mr. Morrell and the Big Stepers

is the journey of one man's decision to remove the performative mask and take a long look in the

mirror. Thus, as we move deeper into the album, we keep in mind that Kendrick's journey mirrors our

own as we are united in this human condition.

Kendrick's global diagnosis of dysfunction then continues with the album's third track,

the subject of our episode today, Worldwide Steppers.

Call that black?

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