The Hidden Meaning's In Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us Music Video

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  • čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
  • These are easter eggs and hidden meanings in Kendrick Lamar's not like us music video that you might have missed. Explained. Let me know what you think
    #kendricklamar #kendrick #notlikeus
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  • @raykashrk
    @raykashrk Před 3 dny +81

    "Stop playing with me before i turn you into a song" - Kendrick lamar 😂😂😂😂

  • @nyaraisimbi9657
    @nyaraisimbi9657 Před 3 dny +109

    You forgot the start where Tommy the clown ask for the password to enter the classroom. It’s referencing gate keeping the 5 elements of hiphop so that they never get culture vultures like the owl dude. In the class room you have representation of DJ when Tommy goes to start the music at the turntable , representation of dance, representation of graffiti art work , representation of spirituality when the bible is being passed around and representation of mc’ing. Basically hiphop should not make it easy for people to come in and traffic out the culture.

    • @negative2positve380
      @negative2positve380 Před 3 dny +17

      And the empty chair for drake but he apparently doesn't know the password

    • @isaacscott7311
      @isaacscott7311 Před 3 dny +3

      wow great take

    • @sumwun1812
      @sumwun1812 Před 3 dny +1

      This was excellent. I hadn't thought of that. ! Very pensive

    • @Oli3TB76
      @Oli3TB76 Před 3 dny

      Where was knowledge?

    • @apollyon1
      @apollyon1 Před 2 dny

      Don’t gate-keep… set boundaries.

  • @hectorornelas8306
    @hectorornelas8306 Před 3 dny +32

    I love it when Aubrey fans try to say we reaching 😂 if the shoe fits it isn’t reaching 😂

  • @joelman1989
    @joelman1989 Před 3 dny +33

    For those doubting the caged bird poem reference, not only is that poem one of the most popular poems of all time, making it extremely hard to not think of it when looking at a caged bird, Kendrick is also a documented fan of her work. He’s already referenced that poem before. And featured her in his song “Sing about me.” She’s the voice mentoring the young man at the end skit.

    • @jeremyhecht
      @jeremyhecht  Před 18 hodinami

      @@joelman1989 wow I didn’t even make that connection but yes this all makes perfect sense

  • @CrystalJanelleTV
    @CrystalJanelleTV Před 3 dny +24

    I believe when he said “I Am” and then the reincarnated was referring to being a black man and blacks are the original people. We birthed other skin tones. He said something about stargazing, our ppl studying the stars and the part about hold my children, meaning the ancestors got us.
    He was talking about US…BLACKS. Letting Drake know, it’s about the culture. He not like us.

  • @marcusfentress6894
    @marcusfentress6894 Před 3 dny +11

    Glad I was able to be apart of that historic moment

  • @BethGaming
    @BethGaming Před 3 dny +40

    The Shipping containers scene is during bar “those predators moving flocks”, I.e. traffi**ing / shipping women. Definitely agree with your take on that location being used and why.

    • @MrPritchett88
      @MrPritchett88 Před 3 dny

      The family is shot in Black and white also because I mean well you know

    • @MrPritchett88
      @MrPritchett88 Před 3 dny +4

      Reminds me of The Wire

    • @BethGaming
      @BethGaming Před 3 dny +1

      @@MrPritchett88 I’ve heard others say that - I’ve never seen the show. Just read a lot of true crime books, lol.

    • @MrPritchett88
      @MrPritchett88 Před 3 dny +2

      @@BethGaming its a decent show about reality, season 3 I believe for the trafficking.

    • @mainothompson3845
      @mainothompson3845 Před 3 dny +2

      season 2 the docks. the greatest show ever made

  • @Jokerhaha01
    @Jokerhaha01 Před 3 dny +23

    2:32
    yo Jeremy, the jacket actually says "S/S 24", as in "Spring/Summer 2024", like a fashion line. If you look up the Martine Rose Spring/Summer 2024 collection you'll see that same jacket 🙏🏽

    • @Matthews_Dintwe
      @Matthews_Dintwe Před 3 dny +6

      I had to stop the video there, coz he's clearly not done any research and taking any random theories we see on twitter.

    • @sneakykamon
      @sneakykamon Před 3 dny +2

      @@Matthews_Dintwe He lost me right at the beginning with Whitney wearing the wife beater. I was like “Or she could just be wearing it because it’s hot as balls in the southwest right now? I would know because I live in the southwest too🤔”

    • @Da_JackPot
      @Da_JackPot Před dnem

      @@sneakykamonso she had a wife beater on because it’s hot but also a hoodie and jeans while dancing…yeah that makes sense to wear all that just because it’s hot. 👍🏽 great job buddy

  • @robinvolpi
    @robinvolpi Před 3 dny +10

    LA natives are saying that Whitney & Kendrick were Blood Walking aka "B" Walking.
    Not every dance/walk is Crip. ;)

    • @kava2935
      @kava2935 Před 3 dny +2

      Crips Skips, Bloods slides and spins, Hoovers Stomp

    • @robinvolpi
      @robinvolpi Před 3 dny +1

      @@kava2935 I see. So what would you determine that Whitney was doing?

    • @kava2935
      @kava2935 Před 15 hodinami

      @@robinvolpi Blood walking

  • @KINGLIONLYFE
    @KINGLIONLYFE Před 3 dny +13

    Hey Drake they not slow😂😂😂😂

  • @TripSe7en_77
    @TripSe7en_77 Před 3 dny +2

    During the shipping container scene in the video, he clearly says “your homeboy need subpoenaed, them predators move in flocks…” making it clear the shipment containers is a reference to human trafficking.

  • @glennsatterfield1755
    @glennsatterfield1755 Před 3 dny +4

    You missed the hand signs Kendrick was making during the cell block shot. The heart and 2 Ls with both hands while saying the verse "hide your little sister from him". There's a viral tiktok video of drake dancing with a young girl while making the same L signs

  • @stitcherywitchery8611
    @stitcherywitchery8611 Před 3 dny +12

    Sheisty means untrustworthy or deceitful 😂. If I was Drake I would never wear a sheisty mask again! 😂

  • @marceljuan103
    @marceljuan103 Před 2 dny +1

    Kendrick asked if he ever walked your enemy down with a poker face. That’s what he did to the owl

  • @ronnieliles5351
    @ronnieliles5351 Před 3 dny +11

    Hopscotch is what we did as kids so I would say he was referencing minors playing hopscotch, and he has five more in the chambers/ diss. 12345plus 678910.

  • @Milan-jd3he
    @Milan-jd3he Před 3 dny +4

    You nailed it ....It's important to know the difference between C walking and B walking (Whitney) if you wanna know

  • @BothTeamsPlayedHard
    @BothTeamsPlayedHard Před 3 dny +4

    All I heard was “I didn’t watch the wire” wtf…

  • @Mrsonelife
    @Mrsonelife Před 2 dny +1

    I wonder if Kendrick watch these reactors dissecting his music and laugh. Kendrick saying “I just like the jacket”. 😂😂

  • @thenotoriousrin
    @thenotoriousrin Před 3 dny +3

    The all white background is a nod Tupac’s Hit Em Up

  • @melissashomeandlifestyle1462

    The hopscotch game I felt was in reference to Drake liking young girls because that’s an old school young girls game and he did it on A-minooooooooooorrrr😂

  • @jbk19xx57
    @jbk19xx57 Před 19 hodinami +2

    The wife beater thing, flew by me.

  • @jasonwaters-ms2rb
    @jasonwaters-ms2rb Před 3 dny +3

    The jacket def says S/S 2024

  • @limbovectors4138
    @limbovectors4138 Před 3 dny +2

    The Wire is the greatest TV show ever made. No cap. Definitely watch it. No Spoilers:
    The shipping containers and the port were central to the whole of the second season for many reasons.

  • @jeffythecreator467
    @jeffythecreator467 Před 3 dny +4

    Someone mentioned actually kdot has 6 in the tuck. Like that was metro and futures song so don't count as kdots

  • @gretchenclark9837
    @gretchenclark9837 Před dnem +1

    The correct poem title by Dr. Maya Angelou is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".

  • @mathewmartinez9631
    @mathewmartinez9631 Před 3 dny +1

    Nicely done!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

  • @Becauseimme
    @Becauseimme Před 3 dny +10

    I see 444 every day and I don’t even look for it.

    • @nothanksplease
      @nothanksplease Před 3 dny +8

      if you are not yet dedicated to Christ then i suggest you start reading the bible and praying; do not pay attention to numerology in most situations cause things like that are just means to spiritually manipulate you. So you need to be familiar with God's word.

    • @ericcerino
      @ericcerino Před 3 dny

      @@nothankspleasetalk that talk sister!

    • @PositivityTrain
      @PositivityTrain Před 3 dny +2

      When I started seeing Angel Numbers I was scared because it was 666, until I looked up what it meant in Numerology, which means to Relfect, it also says that all numbers belong to God. but that Journey has led me to do my own research and ask God for guidance. Because I would normally rely on persons in authority to Tell me what to do and how to think, so my Journey led me to becoming an independant thinker. I'm now seeing new Angel numbers, so I'm guessing a new Journey is beginning for me. Always talk to God and ask for Wisdom when reading anything including the Bible.

    • @TrekTheTech
      @TrekTheTech Před 3 dny

      Its soooo crazy, I seen that on the girls arm and immediately thought of biblical symbolism.

    • @Becauseimme
      @Becauseimme Před 2 dny +1

      @@nothanksplease I am a Hebrew Israelite, I stay in the scriptures

  • @JTCyfers
    @JTCyfers Před 4 dny +4

    Bro you nailed all the points the but the wire shipping containers 4 point play😂 if you know you know lol appreciate the work you put in 💯

  • @iamedwardbibbins9012
    @iamedwardbibbins9012 Před 3 dny +2

    Deroz was a reference to the bar “your entourage is only to hustle you” he definitely got paid off his relationship with Drake for his ovhoe modeling.

  • @LatarshiaMatthews
    @LatarshiaMatthews Před 3 dny +3

    *FOR THE CULTURE LOVE BEING BLACK* 🖤🖤🙌🙌

  • @inspiredphoenix4001
    @inspiredphoenix4001 Před 3 dny

    This was one of the best breakdowns I've heard yet! 👍🏾💯❤️

  • @VisionsFromAmari
    @VisionsFromAmari Před 3 dny +4

    the symbolism of kendrick being in class with tommy the clown is perfect…he’s helped unite the gangs as well 💪🏾🏆
    that’s my favorite metaphor in the video

  • @AangAtum
    @AangAtum Před 3 dny +2

    You a real one for seeing the 555. That's the first thing i noticed. 👑 kendrick Definitely did that on purpose

  • @hmack8937
    @hmack8937 Před 3 dny +1

    If he was referencing Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird Poem - then it sounds like he’s saying Drake is going to sing on everybody involved in the trafficking once it all comes to light.

  • @raymondreddington3572
    @raymondreddington3572 Před 4 dny +5

    0:51 - Kendrick & Whitney (on that right hand pic) look like & remind me Tom Cruise’s & Nicole Kidman’s characters from Eyes Wide Shut , if you know you know … 💀

    • @BarbieDoll-ih2fy
      @BarbieDoll-ih2fy Před 3 dny +2

      It's actually the American Gothic portrait. Look it up! That's why BBL's stans said she not smiling. If you look up the picture, you'll see it. Kendrick is a pure artist NS he is just next level IMO 💯

  • @southeastdaygo6193
    @southeastdaygo6193 Před 3 dny +2

    The shipping containers painted White is also a metaphor for our culture being whitewashed! Hence the dancers dancing in them and around them. And the tightrope woman scene was a connection to the early scenes from Tommy and his crew, prison, shipping containers to the Block party and his family, I could be off but that's how I took that! The hop scotch scene was also a reference to being with minors because you only see kids playing that game. The tight rope scene was a visual representation of Drake's album cover of him in the sky

    • @quintonmiller8266
      @quintonmiller8266 Před 3 dny +1

      More of the traffic thing though. The name of one of the Dancers was Kidthegreat. Notice his name Kid.

    • @southeastdaygo6193
      @southeastdaygo6193 Před 3 dny

      @@quintonmiller8266 Yeah I left that part out because he covered it in the video

  • @mathewmartinez9631
    @mathewmartinez9631 Před 3 dny +4

    How about that painting in the back round while doin push ups turned around facing the wall?

    • @msdrema01
      @msdrema01 Před 3 dny

      Drake lyric about his pic hanging on the wall while you cook up?

  • @souloshinobi7307
    @souloshinobi7307 Před 3 dny +1

    Y’all gotta please learn the difference between crip walking and b stomping. Shit cringe when yall say yall fuck with the culture.

  • @Sonsclothing90
    @Sonsclothing90 Před 3 dny +1

    Hip hop is crazy! you got to love it wat other genre of music would have the infrastructure for this- 2 of the biggest names in hip hop going all out- and it’s an all or nothing for the direction off hip hop you got to love it-

  • @nepps617
    @nepps617 Před 2 dny

    I also feel the shipping containers refer to black American culture as an exported commodity

  • @dudettevlogs4257
    @dudettevlogs4257 Před 3 dny +3

    When did a white crop top become a white beater? Omg-

    • @dudettevlogs4257
      @dudettevlogs4257 Před 3 dny

      **wife

    • @cashnelson2306
      @cashnelson2306 Před 3 dny +1

      Decades ago lol. Might have just been a white people thing idk it’s a terrible name

    • @msdrema01
      @msdrema01 Před 3 dny

      @@dudettevlogs4257 That's an old mostly Caucasian term. It died out because the type of men who typically wore them beat their wives.

  • @xyfnthrn714
    @xyfnthrn714 Před 3 hodinami

    Shes bloodwalking but the dj quick version where he took elements of the mexican hat dance its funny that those who know know

  • @marceljuan103
    @marceljuan103 Před 2 dny

    You forgot the picture being turned around on the cell while he was doing push ups. Drake said he knows his picture on the wall when he cook up

  • @orbeadone6757
    @orbeadone6757 Před 3 dny +1

    The date on the jacket Easter egg is wrong, says “S/S season”. Jacket from martine rose collection, look it up

  • @jeremyhecht
    @jeremyhecht  Před 4 dny +2

    What do you think? Which are true and which aren't? Some people saying the jacket is just ss not 8/8. What about the others?

    • @jchris333
      @jchris333 Před 3 dny

      The jacket says SS BUT, it’s made by a Jamaican designer who’s based out of London. Can’t remember their name

    • @b3to653
      @b3to653 Před 3 dny +1

      @@jchris333martine rose

    • @garciav3
      @garciav3 Před 3 dny +1

      The first shot with the bird is Drakes perception of kendrick now being a bugger artist than him. The 2nd shot of the bird in the cage is kendricks perception of Drake being a prisoner of his lifetime deal, being a prisoner of his lifestyle and lack of judgement/morals, and kendrick just straight up putting him where he belongs

  • @Docmatema
    @Docmatema Před 2 dny

    Correction: Whitney was nt crip walking, she was B (blood) walking. Which is significant because Kendrick is associated with the Pirus (the bloods) and this shiws that she's in full support of Kendrick

  • @lakyrashackelford6350
    @lakyrashackelford6350 Před 3 dny +2

    Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • @tiptoe7760
    @tiptoe7760 Před 3 dny

    I remember the House Of Blues show 🔥 I loved this video

  • @TuchNGoh
    @TuchNGoh Před 3 dny

    Funny how kawhi got Toronto a ring and he from Compton as well

  • @nothanksplease
    @nothanksplease Před 3 dny +3

    Jesus loves you all
    please dont fall into numerology and astrology and the like

  • @Marina-ld3ew
    @Marina-ld3ew Před 3 dny

    Unfortunately the 8/8 2024 is actually S/S 2024. Meaning spring/summer collection from the designer of that jacket.

  • @hugh_jasso
    @hugh_jasso Před 2 dny

    2:50 Could also be a reference to 11's powers in Stranger Things.

  • @HugoBanks1307
    @HugoBanks1307 Před 3 dny +1

    Hey Jeremy 👋 if you do sum more research, there's a video going around of drake with a young girl doing the exactly same hands movements that kendricks is doing on that push ups scene

  • @mpendulombhele5036
    @mpendulombhele5036 Před 2 dny

    *owl is Goku killing all these androids*

  • @dwaredoesit_tgds3626
    @dwaredoesit_tgds3626 Před 3 dny +5

    Missed the most obvious one. Kendrick being crazy.. he did half the video in an Asylum room w a clown and imaginary friends lol

  • @varnellbeatnik5768
    @varnellbeatnik5768 Před 2 dny

    Why the caged bird sings ... Welcome to the culture

  • @janbonne
    @janbonne Před dnem

    They’re piru/blood affiliated, they don’t Cwalk…

  • @QwaackMusicVideos
    @QwaackMusicVideos Před dnem

    Why y’all keep messing up the amount of diss records left. It’s actually 6 more diss records left. Only 4 dropped. I’m very sure Like that don’t count.

  • @--REGULAR--REGULAR
    @--REGULAR--REGULAR Před 2 dny

    Kendrick is still 10 steps ahead .😂

  • @bronxkies
    @bronxkies Před 3 dny +2

    Brother, I ask this respectfully but isn't what you're wearing a wifey? What she's wearing looks like a regular cropped white tank. I know people are looking for symbolism and doubles all over, and I see a lot of people saying this but I'm kinda confused because growing up, a wifey was the exact thing you're wearing. I don't know. I'm sure people are gonna come for me but maybe there's something I'm missing lol.
    Respect to you, though. I'm not trying to attack you or anything.

    • @negative2positve380
      @negative2positve380 Před 3 dny

      🤣 bruh its called a wife beater, that reference is extremely easy to grab

    • @bronxkies
      @bronxkies Před 3 dny +2

      @@negative2positve380 i'm not saying it isn't easy to grab. I totally understand what people are saying I'm just saying that it's not accurate. It's like people getting hype that Dave Free is in the credits as if it's something new. He's in the credits often even in their Chanel campaign. She's wearing a regular white tank. Jeremy is wearing a wifey. I just feel like people are taking ideas and running with them.

  • @kayjunior7345
    @kayjunior7345 Před 2 dny

    I didn’t notice the 8/8/2024 but could that be a thing where he’s doing it for LA and paying homage to Kobe? He did wear 8 and 24…just a thought

  • @alinareyes4745
    @alinareyes4745 Před 3 dny

    The photo / painting / portrait being flipped to the wall in the cell scene has a meaning also.

    • @msdrema01
      @msdrema01 Před 3 dny

      Drake lyric about his pic hanging on the wall while you cook up?

  • @flaneurfilms1940
    @flaneurfilms1940 Před 3 dny +1

    That’s not a “crip” walk. Stop discussing gang politics.

  • @AboveTheClouds87
    @AboveTheClouds87 Před 3 dny

    It's crazy that Kawhi brought the raptors to winning their first chip, he came home too lol

  • @six0two824
    @six0two824 Před 3 dny

    The jacket says s/s/2024 -spring/summer/2024

  • @dftv709
    @dftv709 Před 3 dny

    The 17 push-ups is a reach though

  • @ki4815
    @ki4815 Před 3 dny +1

    Also with the numerology in this video/single the date 8/8/2024 is the number 888

  • @sifisondabangaye2554
    @sifisondabangaye2554 Před 3 dny

    I think the date on the jacket might not be related to the release of his album😂. I think that his wearing a Martin Rose jacket and that's the release date of her collection.

    • @quintonmiller8266
      @quintonmiller8266 Před 3 dny +1

      What? You do not know Kendrick. Come back 8/9/24 I bet his album is out. He chose that jacket cause it had that date on it. That's Kobe number

  • @paulanicolethomason7252
    @paulanicolethomason7252 Před 3 dny +1

    Whitney🩸Walking

  • @Howhaveyouben
    @Howhaveyouben Před 2 dny

    Lol season 2 of the wire, the one with human trafficking in shipping containers is considered the white season of a show that is predominantly black and about black culture. Idk about you but Ive never seen a white shipping container... Seems like that would get damaged immediately.

  • @leaffinite2001
    @leaffinite2001 Před 3 dny

    0:32 oooohhh.. so whitneys beating on kendrick! /j

  • @LatarshiaMatthews
    @LatarshiaMatthews Před 3 dny

    Whitney 🤎🤎I LOVE IT *WIFE BEATER ON* Gahhhhhhh

  • @aaronbacchus7785
    @aaronbacchus7785 Před 3 dny

    Think j cole was the next person in the back while drake attack kendriick big 3 1 step up and got blasted

  • @YFStunnah
    @YFStunnah Před 3 dny +1

    All u did was copy this from another video… this only went over slow ppls heads

  • @PFOD1008
    @PFOD1008 Před 3 dny

    U never watched the wire???????????

  • @kingghidra3854
    @kingghidra3854 Před 3 dny

    I wish Drake diss Kendrick so we can hear what he has in stock

  • @cashnelson2306
    @cashnelson2306 Před 3 dny

    why do you have an apostrophe in meanings

  • @robinvolpi
    @robinvolpi Před 3 dny +2

    The obvious OVERreaches on these images has become downright embarrassing, particularly coming from a Creator who obviously doesn't know and doesn't come across as confident while pushing these ridiculous theories. Lol
    Whew. Bless everyone's hearts. 😭

  • @SonnyWane
    @SonnyWane Před 3 dny +4

    the caged bird poem is such a reach LMAOOOOOOO

    • @joelman1989
      @joelman1989 Před 3 dny +6

      It’s one of the most famous American poems of all time. I don’t think it’s such a big reach for it to be referenced. I don’t know how you see a bird in a cage and don’t immediately think “I know why the caged bird sings.” Thats the first thing I thought of. Maya Angelou is actually featured in the song “sing about me. Dying of thirst.” She’s the voice mentoring the young man at the end skit.
      “Sing about me”… another reference to this poem lol.
      And this is like her most famous poem. It would be absurd to think Kendrick, a clear and documented fan of her work, wouldn’t immediately think of this poem when orchestrating that shot.

    • @quintonmiller8266
      @quintonmiller8266 Před 3 dny +1

      Naw. A very famous prom and Kendrick is into that type of art. So double meaning.

  • @hottakehylas
    @hottakehylas Před 3 dny +1

    Its a lot bigger than The Wire ffs...human trafficking is synonymous with shipping containers. Its obvious hes referencing that toom..cos Kendrick wouldnt just go to a shipping yard/have them dropped off for no reason. Genius. Also, fuck aubrey.

  • @l.a.wrecords6537
    @l.a.wrecords6537 Před 3 dny

    The kendrick glazing is strong with this one

  • @sarime8371
    @sarime8371 Před 3 dny +1

    @Dammndeepov look at this

  • @lanabest1605
    @lanabest1605 Před 2 dny

    And you forgot he’s wearing all white because he dropped it for of July because he knew that Drake would be at that Fourth of July party so he’s waving at Drake😂