Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Kendrick Lamar

It's Ones all the way down. SomeOnes last week, One Song this week. The topic: one of the most transcendent, prolific artists of our generation. Some would add the qualifier of "hip-hop" or "rap", and while that would be accurate, it's far from necessary.To wit: compile the list of all seven humans with 27+ Grammy awards. Take out conductors and producers (John Williams, Quincy Jones, and Sir Georg Solti - legends in their own rights, of course).That leaves you with four performers: Beyoncé, known for being Beyoncé; jazz standard Chick Corea; expert bluegrass fiddler and EXTREMELY underrated and amazing vocalist, Alison Krauss; and our artist du jour, none other than Kendrick Lamar.IDGAF who you are, what style of music you release, whether you are part of a band or solo or whatever. It takes a truly stratospheric artist to reach K.Dot's heights. And we talk about all of those heights on this episode.We all picked one song from his six-album discography (plus a few mixtapes) as the best, with the knowledge that there were no wrong answers to this question at all. Okay, there were a small handful of wrong answers. But very, very few. This discography was a true joy to listen to, and I implore all of you to do the same.Which song hits as your top from Kendrick's full catalog? Let us know in all the usual ways:Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickassTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickassThreads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickassWebsite (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/Next week: the floral episode, the monthly review output of the April showers. It's a good one. They're all good ones. And so are you. Especially when you Keep. Kicking. Ass. Which is always, obvbiously.