Kendrick Lamar has turned his tumultuous track “We Cry Together” into a short film — check it out below.
K. Dot’s latest music video from Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers arrives after actor Taylour Paige teased the visual back in May. Kendrick had also premiered the short film at the Laemmle Royal Theater in L.A. back in June.
It was recently revealed that the six-minute film has qualified Kendrick for consideration for the Academy Award’s Best Live Action Short category.
The film plays out exactly as the song does, with Paige and Lamar starring as an incendiary couple that trade hurtful bars over the Alchemist’s driving piano.
“We Cry Together” is the most divisive track on Mr. Morale, with some fans praising Kendrick’s authentic depiction of a toxic relationship, while others found the song unsettling, and compared it to tracks such as Eminem’s “Kim” from The Marshall Mathers LP, or RZA’s “Domestic Violence.”
The single in turn made history in a way few artists would want. According to Chart Data, “We Cry Together” plummeted 81 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in just a single week. After initially debuting at No. 16, the track experienced a sharp nosedive, becoming the largest single-week drop in the chart’s history for a song that remained on the chart.
All 18 tracks from Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers separately charted on the Hot 100 when the album dropped on May 13, and the album itself debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, moving over 295,000 total album-equivalent units, making it one of the biggest release weeks of the year.
It marked Kendrick’s fourth No. 1 record and was met with widespread praise across the Hip Hop landscape. The album also was also recently deemed the first album to hit a billion streams on Spotify in 2022.
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Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar can add Madonna to the long list of artists eager to work with him.
The Queen of Pop put her K. Dot collaboration dreams in the air during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, telling host Jimmy Fallon: “There’s one artist that I worship more than anything in life and I would love to collaborate with him, and that’s Kendrick Lamar.”
Madonna also heaped high praise on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, saying: “His new record is history-making. Mind-bogglingly brilliant. It’s insane.”
Honestly, IMO this was the dopest song on the album. Easily!
I can see why it’s divisive. But I really like it. These kinds of songs take courage to include on an album. Em has had a few of them over his career, Darkness from the perspective of the Vegas shooter was one of them. No media platform will push these kinds of records or let them show up easily in your suggested lists.
The track doesn’t hit as hard in the video imo and I think this has something to do with Taylour putting in a more subdued vocal performance than she does on the record. I suspect this might be because shes a professional actor wheras Kendrick is not, and it might look like he’s getting acted off the screen if she hadn’t brought the performance down a bit. Her emotion on the record is incredible, and she was incredible in Zola. Not to tale anything away from kendrick, it’s his track, his lyrics, hes amazing also.
ppl here gettin philosophical all of a sudden .. get of dem weed
Get off dem weeds and grass stuff. Take lsd, is better much for you. Trust and care. Xx
Kendrick has to be closeted.
The fact you’re concerned about another man’s life shows you’re also closeted
Calm down son.
Get off my back
Here’s Kendick’s bottom bitch to defend him from ANY criticism
Criticism, more like being a miserable bitch
I’m not concerned. Just pretty sure he’s gay or Bi. It’s just an observation, and I didn’t even say its a bad thing. Just my two cents.
This dude tryna be all problack and shit. But noone mentions the fact he said that he only takes orders from gabriel and metatron, two white angels who probably weren’t even real?? Everyone in hollywood is fake!
Thanks a lot, Mr Perfect
Just stfu!
Lick my nuts, ho
Ye, you’re definitely whote with that reply. Gtfoh you white piece of shit.
Fuck off, dickhead
little no sheet bois in the comments below are all retards, 100%. Kendrick a genius and if you can’t understand what this song means to people you are also a CHILD. SHUT YOUR RETARDED DEMELANATED CHILD MOUTHS!
Stop telling black lies! #trashalbum #kendrickiswack
Shut the fuck up, clown
Ok whitey, whatever you say.
Lmfao, u really think I’m white
Stop telling white lies!
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Kendrick looks like the sort of black guy with a white guy dick.
shit is wack as fuuuck, id rather listen to Ja Rule’s “I cry” and that’s saying a looooot!
Cause I’m reeeaaaallllll
Lmfao MF said Ja Rule
Not gonna lie, Kendrick kinda look like Ja to be honest