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Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Kendrick Lamar
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- The Fairly KickAss Podcast
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- May 29, 2026
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- 2009
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Summary
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.social Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass Website (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, obvbious…