Understanding Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers

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  @pearlfountain · 4 years ago · pinned

  Thanks for all of your patience, hope you guys enjoy the breakdown and let me know what your thoughts were down below<br><br>Chapters: <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=25">00:25</a> - Count Me Out<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=160">02:40</a> - Crown<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=323">05:23</a> - Silent Hill<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=372">06:12</a> - Savior (Interlude)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=481">08:01</a> - Savior<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=676">11:16</a> - Auntie Diaries<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=840">14:00</a> - Mr. Morale<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=911">15:11</a> - Mother, I Sober<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtr2xGxloo&amp;t=1405">23:25</a> - Mirror

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• ED

  @edgarelflaco17 · 2 years ago

  I was SA’d &amp; I never spoke on it until I heard mother I sober

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• JO

  @joseguerrero2253 · 4 years ago

  “Mother I sober” is top 5 in his catalogue. For me this song conveys how using lust as copying mechanism not only affect yourself, but also your loved ones .

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• NI

  @nickyg_37 · 4 years ago

  I got sober from drugs/alc the day this album dropped Friday the 13th. I was drinkin or druggin everyday and got into a deep depression. Woke up in the ER that Friday morning and had to go to detox, started listening through the album on the way there. Haven’t picked up since and i largely credit that to listening through this album during my stay. I remember listening to Mother, I sober the first time in there while going through withdrawals and just breaking down. Having my first few listens to this while detoxing was truly a spiritual experience, and felt like the album was made for me. There are no coincidences, everything is everything. You could say his “calling was right on time”. God bless King Kendrick

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• JU

  @justusmccrory725 · 4 years ago

  Can we all take a moment to appreciate the greatness that is “Count Me Out”? Like no one talks about it but it’s a top 10 Kendrick song imo.

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• JO

  @jonna3802 · 3 years ago

  I have struggled with a lot of childhood trauma and pressure , I never even noticed how unhealthy and stressful my live was. I started doing therapy and this album helped me so much in accepting what I was going through. Kendrick has definitely stepped up.

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• SH

  @ShawnMsa · 4 years ago

  &quot;Mother I sober&quot;<br>For me this song has shown me my imperfections and anger I project on my loved ones especially since the death of my grandmother or as I called her (my second mother).dealing with the abandonment of my parents and family that grow in anger and my toxicity by feeling as if I have to be validated to be loved with the only person who has ever shown me love passing away anger I projected on my partner and my mother but kindness to my father....<br><br>It showed me I &nbsp;can&apos;t choose everone and can&apos;t please everone especially if i can&apos;t even love myself or look myself in the mirror<br><br>This song shows the generational anger in my family and greed also trying to fit in or be validated by others. Qualities I have seen in everyone in my family. And will not let this cycle control me as it did my family.

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• DM

  @dmabs7860 · 4 years ago

  MOTHER I SOBER VIDEO PLEASE 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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• LU

  @lucasgabrielvilasboas8436 · 4 years ago

  mother i sober and this album opened my eyes about how much i need to heal myself and help my mom to heal herself after! im crying a lot righ now because im proud of myself. as i write this comment im going to the 3rd therapy session and it feels good to start breaking the cycle. will give my best to keep on the path. this video is helping me a lot to heal through the album too thank you so much brother! &nbsp;love from brasil &nbsp;&lt;3

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• 倪文

  @倪文瑄 · 3 years ago (edited)

  This album came to me during a really dark period of my life. I had lost my grandfather, the only member of my dad&apos;s family who cared for me, my abusive ex had broken up with me 2 weeks after the funeral, then 2 weeks after that my grandmother passed from covid. My parents disallowed us to see her before she passed or attend her funeral, and my ex used that low point to reenter my life. <br><br>When MM&amp;TBS dropped, I was a broken person - struggling to take care of my younger brother, I had nobody to turn to besides someone who had hurt me deeply during a vulnerable moment in my life. I was deeply suicidal, still struggling with unemployment (disability) and my PTSD had worsened. Unable to turn to anyone, I sat on an empty street at 1am to scream and cry and apologize because I knew nobody was there to hear me.<br><br>Hearing &quot;united in grief&quot; when the album first dropped when Kendrick said &quot;I grieve different&quot; hit me hard because of how the people around me commented that it seemed like I didn&apos;t care. Hearing it in concert and screaming that line with everyone was cathartic. MM&amp;TBS gave me the strength I needed to kick my abusive ex out of my life for good, and it gave me the cause to keep going. Kendrick dropped this album about him and his journey, but it changed my life when I had nearly given up. He&apos;ll always be King Kendrick to me.

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  @ashbycamacho7979 · 4 years ago

  Such a reflective and meditative album. My fav this year

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• CH

  @Christian_Kotto · 1 year ago

  I remember listening to “Mother I sober” walking around the town and start crying so much without knowing why

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