


The song has been described as "the most virtuosic display" on Damn by Vice. The song samples a bit of " Mary Jane" by Rick James. Lamar proposed that it sound like "chaos", and Mike Will put together the second half of the song with the intention to make it "sound like he's battling the beat". After the first verse was recorded with the beat that Mike Will had already prepared, Lamar started rapping the second verse a capella, requesting that Mike Will build the beat around the rap. "DNA" was the second song from Damn to be recorded by Lamar and Mike Will, after " Humble". The song's music video was released on April 18, 2017, and features American actor Don Cheadle. The second track on the album (thirteenth on the Collector's Edition of Damn), it was written by Lamar, while the production was handled by Mike Will Made It. Despite not being released as a single, the song received support at rhythmic radio after its official music video was released. I got hustle, though, ambition flow inside my DNA Kendrick Lamar – DNA." DNA" (stylized as " DNA.") is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar from his fourth studio album Damn. I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA This made it pretty tough to pick a few that would resonate, so we thought the intro bars would be the best.Ĭocaine quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DNA The whole song is filled with impressive bars, including the amazingly fast paced second half where Kendrick appears to be battling the beat. The second track on the album, it was written by Lamar, while the production was handled by Mike Will Made It. Definitely one for the history books.ĭNA is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar from his fourth studio album Damn. Pulitzer Prize winning, mad verse spitting, complex lyric writing, crazy beat dropping. Is it any surprise that Kendrick Lamars words from the album ‘DAMN’ made it to our curation?
