{"id":14911,"date":"2013-01-28T07:04:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2014-09-05T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T04:41:09","slug":"watch-kendrick-lamar-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/watch-kendrick-lamar-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kendrick Lamar on SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kendrick-Lamar-on-SNL-608x391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kendrick-Lamar-on-SNL-608x391.jpg\" alt=\"Kendrick-Lamar-on-SNL-608x391\" width=\"608\" height=\"391\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kendrick-Lamar-on-SNL-608x391.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kendrick-Lamar-on-SNL-608x391-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kendrick-Lamar-on-SNL-608x391-450x289.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At year&#8217;s end,<strong> Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s<\/strong> album <strong>good kid, m.A.A.d city<\/strong> posed a serious threat to <strong>Frank Ocean&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Channel Orange<\/strong> for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/the-best-albums-of-2012-2\/\"><strong> Best Album of 2012.<\/strong><\/a> The album was universally hailed by critics and fans alike.\u00a0 We had been immune to <strong>Lamar&#8217;s<\/strong> allure until a couple of fans held a &#8220;<strong>good kid&#8221; symposium<\/strong> at our house over the holidays (thanks <strong>Derp<\/strong> and<strong> Hazznah<\/strong>).\u00a0 And at long last we got it.\u00a0 And we got it more still when Lamar appeared on <strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong> as musical guest this weekend.\u00a0 See what all of the fuss was about below as Lamar and band slay on the self-possessed call-to-consciousness (literally) of <em><strong>Swimming Pools (Drank)<\/strong><\/em> and then <em><strong>Poetic Justice<\/strong><\/em> from the album.\u00a0 The former, in particular, was stunning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BiCHlQf8I2Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/in8dar_4Vc8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At year&#8217;s end, Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s album good kid, m.A.A.d city posed a serious threat to Frank Ocean&#8217;s Channel Orange for Best Album of 2012. The album was universally hailed by critics and fans alike.\u00a0 We had been immune to Lamar&#8217;s allure until a couple of fans held a &#8220;good kid&#8221; symposium at our house over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22197,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions\/22197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}