{"id":22915,"date":"2014-12-04T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22915"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T01:30:09","slug":"you-must-watch-this-the-official-video-for-flying-lotuss-never-catch-me-featuring-kendrick-lamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-12\/you-must-watch-this-the-official-video-for-flying-lotuss-never-catch-me-featuring-kendrick-lamar\/","title":{"rendered":"You Must Watch This:  The Official Video for Flying Lotus&#8217;s &#8220;Never Catch Me&#8221; Featuring Kendrick Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FlyLo-KL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FlyLo-KL.jpg\" alt=\"FlyLo-KL\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FlyLo-KL.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FlyLo-KL-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FlyLo-KL-450x322.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-09\/this-weeks-best-kendrick-lamar-cameos-listen-to-new-jeezy-and-flying-lotus-tracks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>pointed to the audio when the song was first released<\/strong><\/a>, we then got lifed.\u00a0 And so we completely glossed over the fantastic video released last month by the Phoenix-that-is-<a href=\"http:\/\/flying-lotus.com\/youre-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flying Lotus<\/strong><\/a> for his new track, <em><strong>Never Catch Me<\/strong><\/em>, featuring <strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>. \u00a0 Check out the superb video below (by <strong>Hiro Murai<\/strong>) which opens on a casket and (true to<strong> Lamar&#8217;s<\/strong> verses and like <strong>FlyLo&#8217;s<\/strong> newest album, <em><strong>You&#8217;re Dead<\/strong><\/em>) meditates on death, life and the afterlife (the euphoria of which is arguably depicted here via two outstanding young dancers, just killin&#8217;&#8211;so to speak).\u00a0 We love everything about this video and song (&#8220;modern jazz&#8221; if there ever was such a thing).\u00a0 Kudos to <strong>Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, Hiro Murai<\/strong> and those two kids for a tour de flippin&#8217; force!\u00a0 Bravo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lamar&#8217;s<\/strong> hopeful, yet brutally honest and self-examining, verses can be found below the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2lXD0vv-ds8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can see the darkness in me and it&#8217;s quite amazing<br \/>\nLife and death is no mystery and I wanna taste it<br \/>\nStep inside of my mind and you&#8217;ll find curiosity, animosity<br \/>\nHigh philosophy, hyper prophesied meditation<br \/>\nReminisce on my wonder years and I wonder here<br \/>\nSentiments of my words ain&#8217;t been so sincere<br \/>\nThe sentiment of my nerves that I just persevere<br \/>\nThe big thought of fallin&#8217; off disappeared to my fate<br \/>\nThey say that Heaven&#8217;s real<br \/>\nAnalyze my demise, I say I&#8217;m super anxious<br \/>\nRecognize I deprive this fear and then embrace it<br \/>\nVandalizing these walls only if they could talk<br \/>\nConversations won&#8217;t contemplate to my dark thoughts<br \/>\nLookin&#8217; down on my soul now, tell me I&#8217;m in control now<br \/>\nTell me I can live long and I can live wrong and I can live right<br \/>\nAnd I can sing song and I can unite with you that I love<br \/>\nYou that I like, look at my life and tell me I fight<br \/>\nThis that final destination, this that find some information<br \/>\nThis that find some inspiration, this that crack the instillation<br \/>\nThis that quantum jump and that fist pump and that bomb detonation<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t bomb my nation, embalming fluid waiting<br \/>\nI got mind control when I&#8217;m here, you goin&#8217; hate me when I&#8217;m gone<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no blood pumpin&#8217; no fear, I got hope inside of my bones<br \/>\nThis that life beyond your own life, this ain&#8217;t physical for mankind<br \/>\nThis that out-of-body experience, no coincidence you been died<br \/>\nBitch, you&#8217;re dead[<strong>TLR<\/strong>-FlyLo&#8217;s album title]!<\/p>\n<p>Say you will never ever catch me, no, no, no<br \/>\nSay you will never ever catch me, no, no, no<br \/>\nSay you will never ever catch me, no, no, no<br \/>\nSay you will never ever catch me, no, no, no&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though we pointed to the audio when the song was first released, we then got lifed.\u00a0 And so we completely glossed over the fantastic video released last month by the Phoenix-that-is-Flying Lotus for his new track, Never Catch Me, featuring Kendrick Lamar. \u00a0 Check out the superb video below (by Hiro Murai) which opens on [&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-22915","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\/22915","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=22915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22920,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915\/revisions\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}