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

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

I'm your host, Cole Kushner. Six opinionated Brits with very different views on immigration,

experience parts of refugee routes to Britain.

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Will the ordeal change their minds?

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Last time I dissect, we examined Mr. Morales' third track worldwide stepers. It was there we heard

Kendrick unify human beings by our capacity to kill each other in big or small ways.

He began by confessing a few of his own quote-unquote murders,

describing the way he weaponized sex against women as an act of ancestral revenge.

He then admitted that these transgressions contributed to the objectifying denigration of women.

After confessing his own sins, the song's third

verse and chorus turned the spotlight on society, challenging us to reflect on our own transgressions,

to be real about our own imperfect motivations. The potent cynicism of both N95 and worldwide

steppers is an incredibly bleak two-track sequence, as we can't help but wonder if

Kendrick feels humanity is doomed to its own self-centered egoic destruction.

However, as the album continues, Kendrick makes clear that despite our imperfections, he does

see hope in us and himself.

I pop the pain away. I slide the pain away. I slide the paint away. I'm going to cry. I'm going to

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