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Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE Review César Alfonso López Torres

The music video for Kendrick Lamar's song 'Humble' features scenes of him dressed as a pope, lying on money, and sitting in the place of Jesus at the Last Supper. The video uses irony and imagery that could be seen as anti-conformist or having deeper meanings.

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Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE Review César Alfonso López Torres

The music video for Kendrick Lamar's song 'Humble' features scenes of him dressed as a pope, lying on money, and sitting in the place of Jesus at the Last Supper. The video uses irony and imagery that could be seen as anti-conformist or having deeper meanings.

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Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE review

César Alfonso López Torres

Initially dressed like the Pope in a cassock, the scene immediately jumps to Lamar
in all black lying on a table of money, shooting loads of money from a cash cannon.

First, he’s an modest man of the church, then an braggart, setting the tone for a
clip that features its subjects at their “best” and “worst.”

Next, there’s a reenactment of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century painting, The Last


Supper. Lamar boldly sits in Jesus’ chair as his disciples unappreciatively gorge on
wine and bread. Lamar has to chide the man to his left to stop acting a fool and
respect the table.

The entire “Humble” video is a poignant exercise in irony and is also filled with
messaging that could be perceived as anti-conformist.

It’s unclear if scenes where Lamar and his corn-rowed head is the only one with
hair in a sea of bald Blacks or the closing shot of him being the only man wearing
white at what's possibly a funeral are jarring images that could have deeper
meanings, or if they’re just interesting shots thought would be cool to use.

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