How Kendrick Lamar Uses Jazz

[@Volksgeist]

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[@marlow7376]

Volksgeist Kendrick did not save jazz

[@muratkerimaslan6415]

please put the names of the background tracks in description bro

[@DezMonKei]

Anderson .Paak and Noname are criminally underrated, glad you brought them up.

[@regirayquaza]

Anderson is going to blow up. Bubblin already is and he'll soon be a public name. Be with Dre and you become mainstream.

[@GManmusiq]

regirayquaza i hope so!!

[@m335am]

Noname's Room 25 on metacritic is one of the highest rated albums of all time, what are you on about

[@alexdelgadillo3398]

Yeah Anderson is so sick. One of my favorite artist and the shows he puts on are crazzzzzzyyy.

[@sozboy1]

Think you meant criminally not critically.

[@greenricky4782]

I love how Kendrick Lamar and Tyler the Creator use jazz instrumentals

[@Zach-ic9ho]

Jazz has a very strong influence on hip hop

[@cmackk7284]

Joey bada$$ is the jazziest

[@dappunk1]

Spanish Moustache this man Benny said “rock/blues drums” ppl really just say anything lmfao

[@dexterreyes9372]

It's not just Kendrick. How about J. Cole? Counting him out?

[@everett7869]

@@ty_hens he didnt say how rare it was, he said how well they utilize jazz in they're music.

[@dende_ult714]

Mac miller was a lil bit jazzy on the side too. RIP

[@TimXMan1000]

TrafalgarNM R.I.P Mac Miller

[@dende_ult714]

@@TimXMan1000 Yh RIP man

[@TimXMan1000]

TrafalgarNM He was one of my favorites man. His song with Kendrick Lamar Sexy Nasty was an absolute beautiful song. And Cinderella with Ty Dolla $ign

[@fateful2868]

RIGHT! Mac is the first person it comes to my mind when i heard about jazz. Mac was great man, i miss him so fuckin much. RIP Mac

[@dende_ult714]

@@TimXMan1000 I know im mainstream but I can't stop listening to Dang!

[@mememan3799]

Jazz rap will always be my favorite genre of rap.

[@mxxxw4529]

So good and chill like these walls or pothole

[@buggin7884]

always strive and prosper These Walls is great bro

[@fakedat9233]

always strive and prosper pothole? Damn I don’t like that song that much I mean it’s not bad but really”watch out for the lit hole nigga that’s a pothole”

[@jaycee598]

Tribe Called Quest has a beautiful discography.

[@ethanielclyne5810]

I'm just sad it fell out of popularity in the mid 90s, it's the creative and lyrical peak of hip hop and was replaced with much worse music

[@AhsokaTano36BBY]

Jazz is Hip Hop's grandmother. Jazzy sounds are on the rise again, just look at the amounts of views ChillHop/Lo-Fi Hip Hop videos get and not to mention the whole Neo Soul/R&B scene.

[@bmchromo2131]

Lenalee Lee scat weeb

[@localmilfchaser6938]

Ahsoka Tano scat weeb

[@localmilfchaser6938]

Bm chromo scat weeb

[@ludwigvansolo1999]

Ahsoka!😁👍

[@dylanclarke2949]

kendrick saved my life

[@IllDawgable]

Yup. GKMC specifically changed my life.

[@775.-]

Lebogang Seleleko tpab changed my entire life

[@coleintheville117]

TPAB turned me into a better person

[@stefan_4508]

“i” will forever be one of the best songs ever made

[@je6874]

Dylan Clarke SAME. Made me really think and feel deeply about myself, especially untitled (personally).

[@adphi8219]

As much as I love Kendrick Lamar, you can't say he "saved" jazz. That's like saying Stevie Ray Voughan saved blues. They used these genres like instruments. TPAB is 10/10 by the way. Peace.

[@coleemmersonhallman5329]

ah and you got the tipping point. nice nice

[@jamieminetto5398]

He didn’t save jazz. He helped revive jazz rap.

[@adamturbot6737]

He introduced jazz once again as a mainstream genre

[@epicvbucker3401]

tyler the creator helped jazz more than kendrick i think

[@Solaire_of_Astora13]

One could argue he saved it commercially, which is kinda true I guess? Or heavily helped it happened? But yeah, agreed.

[@marcguidobolen693]

Talks about jazz rap but doesn't talk about The Roots?

[@jasonbourne6365]

Kendrick wen triple platnium with that album. The Roots are not that main stream.

[@marcguidobolen693]

I mean sure, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't recognize a group that had a large contribution the the genre.

[@Hummabubba]

Just because an act hasn't gone triple platinum doesn't mean that they're not mainstream or that they haven't been mainstream; They've won Grammy's and their records have gone gold. Also, the mainstream status of The Roots has nothing to do with whether or not they belong in this video. Plenty of artists mentioned in this video are not considered "mainstream", but they either had an impact on Kendrick or the genre as a whole, which The Roots did. Check ya self.

[@M.Sleeze]

Jason Bourne Who gives a shit about selling? smh

[@olivermutalemumba2913]

or Shabazz Palace and/or Injury Reserve

[@larkstonguesinaspic4814]

Now I wanna add something from my own experience. Before I hear To Pimp a Butterfly I was one of those Prog Rock/Metal/ Jazz fans who always dismissed Rap as inferior popular music that had no musical value. Often I would've made fun of rap fans. But after seeing the reviews for TPAB and hearing about all the Jazz influences on it, specially knowing Kamasi Washington is playing on it and Flying Lotus producing it, I decided to buy the CD and listen to it on a stereo set up, and I'm telling ya it was one of the best albums I've ever heard. If you took the rapping out of it the music on it's own still would've been amazing and it really made me understand Hip Hop is quite capable of making great music. In fact after that listening experience I went on to discover some other great albums from MF Doom, Outkast, Tribe called quest .... I'd say I'm still not a huge fan of the genre, But I can definitely appreciate it and see the art in it. So awesome job K Lamar.

[@whatischampion]

"today's jazz artists grew up listening to hip hop" Nice

[@hellofbsondnsk]

I got to that part exactly while reading your comment and it was weird

[@vmdp8790]

That’s true and that’s me But I also listen to metal, edm

[@froggyleggy]

I love the truth in this sentence

[@vmdp8790]

Arthur Wacker hehehehe A matter of knowledge I need to check it out

[@IsaiP]

Im no jazz artist but I consume jazz a bit, study theory used in jazz and always look for jazz samples for my music and prefer jazzy rap with samples like J Dilla and Madlib use. This is very true.

[@callumpatrick1073]

I see Kendrick, I see Volksgeist, I click.

[@anirudhchandroth5044]

I'm a hardcore jazz fan and I believe in our generation, there ain't many jazz fans and Kendrick using his platform helped make jazz popular again..he might not be a jazz musician but surely gave it life again..a new look

[@jeefneef7500]

Jazz still is alive just not in the mainstream, Kendrick didn’t save jazz it’s also unfortunate you didn’t mention Gil Scott-Heron who made jazz political before any of these artists.

[@johnnicholas7420]

And Mingus, Archie Shepp, Max Roach, and even Billie Holiday.

[@karla.b]

The Revolution will not be televised! Or will it?

[@lookattheflowers969]

Kendrick Lamar is a visionary of the future of Hip Hop, just like my boy lil Pump. lil pump's lyricism is so beyond our comprehension that it appears to be unintelligent, but he has skillfully riddled them with so many entendres that God himself had to stop counting.

[@onety3578]

"Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang Gucci Gang" Lil Pump- Gucci Gang

[@lookattheflowers969]

Smashin' on your bitch, esskeetit (esskeetit!) Runnin' up a check with no limit (ooh!) Poppin' on X, poppin' on X Poppin' on X, pills (poppin' on X) Got a new car, got a new bitch And I got a new deal (yuh, yuh!) *Lil Pump- ESSKEETIT*

[@ctminus2220]

stfu

[@klink4313]

Lil Pump was Tupac’s ghost writer

[@DarkshadowXD63]

People say K-Dot is 2Pac reincarnated but it's actually Lil Pump he so lyrically ahead of everyone else

[@Asterix2003]

Nice video man ! Could you do earl sweatshirt

[@kg13]

Please!

[@userjoinedyourchannel1]

honestly

[@mightycobalt3269]

For real...

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

Please do earl sir!!

[@pook6939]

He better

[@64TheDarkness64]

Hey Volksgeist i was wondering if you have something planned for Nujabes. He is my favorite artist and i think his music has had a quite bif influence on hip-hop and jazz and a video on him would be very interesting.

[@leobeatzproductions6958]

Hip hop is a combination of all the genres

[@TheAnthraxBiology]

I sighed a lot throughout this video...it was well made but the title is ridiculous and basically everything you said about jazz music is just wrong. Any jazz fan would be a little annoyed to say the least. Kendrick definitely introduced people to jazz but you have to remember that a lot of stuff had been heating up in jazz around 2015. For instance...The Epic by Kamasi Washington and a new Sons of Kemet album.

[@Hummabubba]

The title change makes this comment look a bit out of place now lol

[@TheAnthraxBiology]

@@Hummabubba true but it doesn't change how clearly limited his knowledge of jazz is and how he makes out like kendrick saved it. I love Kendrick and he turned so many people onto jazz but he isn't responsible for its revitalization.

[@Hummabubba]

I never got the vibe that he was trying to say that Kendrick saved it. Maybe since that was the title that you saw the video with, that was your mindset going into the video, but I never really felt he was trying to say that Kendrick saved jazz or even that he completely revitalized it. If he revitalized anything, it was jazz in (relatively) mainstream hip-hop, but yeah, not jazz itself. Now, I'm not a jazz historian, but I didn't find much of the information to be egregiously wrong. Sure, he didn't cover many nuances, but for what he's covering, it wasn't really necessary. What were the things you found to be so wrong?

[@TheAnthraxBiology]

@@Hummabubba saying jazz's commercial heyday and cultural relevance was in the late 60s and 70s when really it was fading by the late 60s and was revitalised by Bitches Brew, and once again in the 70s jazz faded out (although many of the musicians in jazz turned to other genres which kept them popular). He also said it died in the 90s of oversaturation when really it was just lacking in giants and experimentalists who could cross into the mainstream because the market was more interested in simplicity and fans of its complexity just turned to hip hop instead. He also put down it's revitalisation down to kendrick instead of the big names in jazz too which was my biggest problem. Also said it came from blues when it really started in the 1880s and 90s and crossed with blues for a short time in the 30s and wouldn't do so again until the later 50s. He also said it came from African music (it did in part) but what made jazz what it was, was the crossing of black music with baroque recordings being brought from Europe (with a healthy dose of musical theatre), and from the 1890s to the late 20s when it had a brief intersection with blues, jazz barely resembled African music. It was more African influenced baroque music than baroque influenced African music. Also his time frame for brass entering the scene was wrong, and his time frame for it's popularity, and he miscategorised all the albums he mentioned. I know this sounds like nit-picking but nearly every statement he made about jazz had a major error in it.

[@yeetusboi7764]

@@Hummabubba the thumbnail's still there...

[@Lemwell7]

The movements within jazz which are cool and are less hidden and more mainstream that are big now were coming up anyways, Glasper and folk have been pushing that music forward for a minute. TPAB may have exposed more people to it for sure but it was not the cause. If TPAB didn’t come out Glasper and Esperanza and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and folk would still be pushing that style forward and it would still be getting more mainstream. TPAB just helped.

[@officiallipsey]

Lemwell7 totally agree. Most of TPAB’s sound is because of artists who were pursuing it before him.

[@rochen384]

another high-quality video, amazing job

[@MUMZAUZ]

In addition to your videos being super well thought out and conveyed, they're also pure eye candy

[@LegendOfTee]

People always forget about the raw project kendrick dropped in 2016, untitled unmastered. This project is so underrated yet fits the bill perfectly for rap jazz fusion

[@LegendOfTee]

Lol as I write this u mention untitled unmastered 👌🏾👌🏾

[@reekhigh5789]

TPAB another classic LP

[@reekhigh5789]

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[@jovannibarba9157]

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[@naufrage0]

Dude... Just cause jazz wasnt on your radar before Kendrick doesnt mean it was dead. He didnt save shit, Jazz saved him and elevated his career. Jazz has always, always had a strong fan base. Do you know how many jazz fest there are throughout the world each year? Its massive. Compare that to the amount of hip hop fest there are and youll see wich has the most active fanbase. From Chicago, to Tulsa, to Berlin, you can catch a Jazz show.

[@TimXMan1000]

pSmall360 Yeah to say Kendrick Lamar saved Jazz isn’t correct and absurd. To be fair saying that is over hyping Kendrick. However his music did make me more aware of jazz melodies in hip hop a little more.

[@Maxokej]

Volksgeist, you deserve a lot more attention. Every line, every sound, every visual, everything you do fits so well together, i watched all your videos and the quality is the same in every single one. 63k subscribers for this kind of quality is insane, you deserve millions!

[@insertname8889]

How kendrick saved the uman race

[@IllDawgable]

I'm assuming you left the "h" out of the word on purpose

[@insertname8889]

@@IllDawgable Of... Course? I guess

[@Makwood99]

How Kendrick saved the planet earth

[@tyronef1798]

“Saved jazz” lol

[@V.A.C.C]

Yeah, like he created something brand new. If you want something new and someone who 'saved' jazz go listen to Christian Scott, with his latest albuns. Putting back in the mainstream did not save jazz. Being mainstream is not a synonym to being good.

[@jamieminetto5398]

“Helped revive jazz rap” sounds better

[@pereztube2]

There has always been, good, interesting, and innovative things happening in jazz. Just because the mainstream isnt buying it doesnt mean it isnt good, which must be your assumption in order for you to make the conclusion that Kendrick "saved it". Kendrick may have turned people on to the sound of jazz, specifically in the context of hiphop, but that is about as far as it goes.

[@vittoriabrandoni4943]

One can never talk about TPAB enough. The one record that changed my whole perspective on rap, and on music.

[@MrCrazyman206]

Everyone needs to see this. I've always been a fan of Jazz and Hip Hop.

[@oceanboog8184]

I feel Soulquarians came back when I listened to TPAB. It is beautiful and is like the Bible for me. I love not only musicality but also messages in it.

[@brandon952]

It's been awesome seeing your channel grow over the past 6 months, I love meta-analysis of the music scene. I'm not sure how you put out a video essay every week though, you must be working round the clock!

[@kuaraba]

It's also important to note that 80s and 90s Jazz rap had jazz samples but was practically the opposite of jazz. Repetitive and linear beats with mostly steady flows on the vocals. TPAB or Shabazz Palaces Black up put the progressive and improvised feel of jazz into hip hop

[@ianrobinson3740]

"I merge jazz fusion with the trap music"

[@amr1kb]

Nice. Can u do a video on Kanye kid cudi and pusha t. Or childish gambino.

[@blazeallan7636]

AMRIK BR Kanye Nd cudi

[@je6874]

Kanye west is cancelled

[@thenavigator2559]

@@je6874 this didn't age well

[@localmilfchaser6938]

J E this aged like fine wine

[@kennethmakau8886]

As much as I love your videos, your editing is an art of its own!!

[@abishorynbassarov1274]

Awesome! Also, kendrick deserves more detailed long-read video

[@Volksgeist]

What should I make next? Let me know here! ⬇️⬇️

[@dylanclarke2949]

a video on anderson .paak would be very cool

[@qiovan]

make a video on mumble rap and how it is killing the present state of rap

[@ThatOneGuy7550]

The Microphones/Mount Eerie and Death Grips!

[@qiovan]

Ohhhh talk about physicadelic rap and rodeo

[@gamestarters]

Kero kero bonito!

[@shaddjimenez4524]

very interesting video essay, loved every second.

[@nyshyn307]

Note: haven't watched the vid but I see ATCQ as the best example of Jazz Rap pioneers. Not only the sound, but they define lyrical jazz rap and also bring entertainment value and greater-than-rap sounds that I feel loosely inspired some techniques in TPAB Another noteworthy and modern example of a Jazz Rap pioneer is Anderson Paak

[@MCTancu]

Your vidoes are executed flawlessly. It's apparent that you put a lot of thought into making them

[@prodorigem]

this channel is so underrated.

[@dasnufffilms3849]

Kendrick may be the one in English rap, but the Spanish group VIOLADORES DEL VERSO have been nailing it since the 90's as no one else !!

[@aiden359]

Everything Terrace Martin touches is gold.

[@djbello8157]

Amazing video, ended up citing this for a music project. Keep up the good work man!

[@jojobeks9016]

I love ur vids mayn

[@Volksgeist]

ty bro

[@joedevitt9422]

I showed my dad ur videos on Kendrick and they were good enough (swell as his music ) to put him onto kdot that's high key a testament to ur vids

[@waohw1775]

There are also new artists that uses jazz like rex orange county's rain man or king krules album ooz

[@pook6939]

Come to think of it some of my favorite albums have heavy jazz influence

[@SXDSCXM]

"when the four corners of this cocoon collide.."

[@theovolz8437]

you who wants to hear jazz rap: Digable Planets, Guru, Common, Us3, MC Solaar, Jazz Liberatoz, Pete Rock, Large Professor, The Roots, Loyle Carner, The Pharcyde, Slum Village, J dilla and Q-tip are some great artists :)

[@calumfoster-bayliss7122]

Jazz also lives on in Math Rock, a genre not yet making mainstream waves but def very groundbreaking.

[@ohhimark8028]

Your video begins on the premise that jazz is dead or dying because it isn’t in the mainstream lmao

[@poopslayer9000]

Mark Jang he said it was the second worst selling genre at a certain time tho 🤔

[@jasonbourne6365]

It's not the same now.

[@hanoj243]

"Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny."

[@kaingates]

Mark Jang there’s a difference between not mainstream and the second lowest selling genre. If there’s no audience the musician isn’t selling. While Jazz is better here in Europe you’d be sleeping if you think jazz musicians has a future playing jazz, most are studio musicians who compose jazz.

[@DanielJimenez-jj2kr]

With Kamasi Washinton's sister that's how I know about him. Look him up. He's an amazing saxophonist.

[@Hummabubba]

Surprised there was no mention of Nujabes, The Roots, or A Tribe Called Quest.

[@sagevaldez5743]

Did you even watch the whole video, cuz ATCQ was mentioned

[@Soldier22Jake]

Your videos are always informative and very well done. Keep up the great work!

[@tegarahadinata380]

Literally just thought about this 15 minutes ago in the ferry on my way back home!

[@FabriceBourgellePhotography]

Bruv... you neeed to see 'WE OUT HERE' it's a doc on how Jazz is BOOMING in the UK..!!!

[@nickolassucharew840]

I would say that in a mainstream sense yes in a way, but the underground had elements of jazz rap as well. Black star by Mos Def and Talib Kweli, and 1999 by Joey bada$$ are two examples that spring to my mind.

[@seanstroman6087]

Facts

[@josephbiglin585]

TPAB uses jazz in a really shallow way and kind of gives up on the concept halfway thru. He certainly didn't "save" jazz simply because he used it. And instrumental jazz can't be political, huh? Listen to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. I doubt you've ever actually listened to jazz beyond reading the wikipedia page

[@christianbessard7206]

So none of us are gonna y’all about the mispronunciation of “Nas”?

[@TheJumboBurrito]

But TPAB isn't jazz, it's hip hop in the style of many different black genres, such as jazz, funk, and soul. But inspiration does not a jazzer make.

[@ezraprzytyk]

You didnt listen did you

[@jasonbourne6365]

Your post is so wrong. Wow.

[@moselaw2]

It is incredibly Jazz heavy, even the Pac skit was a throwback to spoken word jazz

[@dappunk1]

Ezra Przytyk nah it’s just not a jazz album it’s a hip hop album. sorry guys

[@kelwalls3886]

Did this used to say “how Kendrick Lamar is saving jazz” or something like that? Thank you for changing it

[@seymourbutts6835]

"how kendrick lamar saved jazz" as if jazz needs saving. i know it's a little generic to say this maybe, but it's not like it hasn't been going on still. just because it's not in the mainstream doesn't mean it's "dead". there are still plenty of good jazz artists and records coming out every year (from last year i would recommend albums by sons of kemet, kim oki and avantdale bowling club who he brings up in the video), you just have to dig for them. and even though it may seem a little more abstract, jazz can in fact deliver some strong political themes without lyrics (again, sons of kemet, charles mingus, even john coltrane). kendrick didn't even revolutionize jazz rap, it was going on before and after that record, including a few cuts on his first record which i'm surprised wasn't brought up at all. kendrick just made a great record, which fuses together more genres than just jazz: funk, soul, as well as wider forms of hip hop. and listen, i love kendrick as much as the next guy, but if you want jazz, just go listen to actual jazz. let's stop fooling ourselves by pretending kendrick is some jazz master. he's just a great rapper who wanted his record's sound to enhance his message

[@cezararvelo2262]

this video made me cry

[@LeadByFaith81]

Pharrell Produced the Jazz feeling "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar. Worth being Mentioned...

[@joshliggins2260]

hey volks,can you do a video on section.80 and how the story plays out like a novel, it also started kendricks classic album run!

[@guy100008]

god damn you killed this my dude

[@chrislacy1990]

Great video, guys! I’m a little disappointed that Quincy Jones’s ‘Back on the Block’ album wasn’t mentioned for bridging the gap between jazz and hip-hop. There’s a clip from Quincy’s 2018 documentary where Kendrick told Q how influential ‘Back on the Block’ was when he was growing up in Compton.

[@imayhaveadhd]

So glad terrace Martin is being recognized in this.

[@fakedat9233]

The jazz on tpab is why I listened to it for what I call the second season of listening I listen to it many times for lyrics and then many times for the jazz

[@Retr0ver4]

This is why I need to go to new Orleans I need to hear some live jazz 😩

[@thePlum]

2:57 Frank Zappa

[@RamSama]

I would also argue while not main stream badbadnotgood are/were a great fresh new take on modern jazz and they were earl '10s.

[@davidtyierejian1033]

And now make a video about how the GOAT Lil Pump saved Hip-Hop with his complex lyricism

[@david91lvb]

Wtf he didn't save it He brought it back to life

[@DarkshadowXD63]

Lil Pump is 2Pac reincarnated

[@bleyzza3739]

What did he save it from

[@lenadros]

Hey man! I'm from Zaragoza, a city from Spain. Here we have some of the best spanish Mc's, the ones that impulsed hip-hop in my country. One of them is Kase O, well-know here in Spain and South America. Kase O a.k.a. Javier Ibarra recorded an album back in 2011, mixing hip-hop with jazz in a way i'd never seen. This album is called 'Jazz Magnetism', and 'To pimp a butterfly' has the same vibe. You could check it out!! P: Great video tho

[@theHumanBryno]

Kendrick Lamar's music turned me onto Thundercat and Kamasi Washington, for that I'm eternally grateful.

[@jonnyconnoro]

Jazz hip hop never died, kendrick was just one of many who helped bring it back into the mainstream. I'd almost say that kendrick jumped on a bandwagon that was gaining momentum

[@jonnyconnoro]

Not saying that TPAB wasn't an incredible album and easily one of the best of the decade.

[@jachimikedenis]

can we just take the moment to appreciate how amazing Volksgeist`s voice is.

[@Nico-be8bz]

Nice audio Quality👍

[@adznmitch3]

I bloody love these videos, and I love Jazz too. Keep it up brother!

[@empeethree]

Kendrick revived jazz, hopefully he does it to rock too.

[@katfud9864]

Okay, I like the video, but it felt like you had an interesting direction to go in, but kinda got lost in seeking to prove your thesis. If you had just changed the main topic to how jazz is coming back, and only used Kendrick as your main example, I think your video would have been stronger. It seemed weak especially when considering how you completely ignored the most important jazz release of the decade, Kamasi Washington's The Epic, and didn't really highlight, Thundercat, or Flying Lotus enough. All in all, I still LOVE the direction the video was going in. Keep up the good work! God bless.

[@themediumprofessor]

I'm mad that someone would think that Kendrick Lamar was kind enough to throw jazz a bone. Jazz is at the root of everything. Kool and the Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, J Dilla, the entire genre of R&B, Bob Marley. Ask them. Check out how many standards they sang and played. Check out some of those EWF interludes. Jazz infiltrated everything, and it continues to do so today. Kendrick may be one of the most popular artists to know the history of music, but he is far from the first. Jazz musicians have always struggled. We know that, and while we wish we had any sort of leverage, we play this music anyway. If you become a jazz musician, you understand that you won't get paid much to play. That said, if you want to be financially secure, become an accountant or a lawyer. Bodies are buried at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean so that jazz - or whatever you want to call it, since the greats didn't actually use that term - could exist. It's not our fault that mainstream radio sells lifestyles and products instead of stories. Informed, creative music usually takes some effort to find. We didn't need to be saved; we didn't need anyone to give Kendrick credit for what we have been doing for over a century; we are what we are. If you want to find us, come find us. We'll be here long after I die.

[@toastiemarshmallow1771]

video on tangled pls

[@zaidmurtaza9280]

Very very well edited!!

[@babadioum2270]

Thank you for this great review I would like to suggest you an underground album named Its nice outside by Anti-Lilly and Phoniks its all about Jazz sample and beats yall should check it out

[@DaPokeBoss]

Can you make a video on James Fauntleroy? Soooo underrated for his voice, features and production.

[@whynotwynaut2427]

u should prob talk about busdriver if u want jazz rap that pushes the boundaries of it

[@maxlubbers3135]

Dude, love your video. Do a album story of my chemical romance the black parade

[@miltonsalmeron900]

I don’t like that title saying “How Kendrick Lamar saved Jazz”. Jazz was never dead or dying out, it still is strong and very present. Kendrick has done maybe 0.0000000001% to help it. Jazz is kept fresh new and very much alive by the legends of today that keep it moving forward

[@najma50000]

Incredibly well-made video essay

[@hiramcaraballo2927]

thanks for this

[@liu6950]

I swear you need more subs! Awesome Job!!

[@drr-ns7fv]

A tribe called quest saved jazz....

[@tshanbarnes9505]

This is a really good and informative vid dude👍

[@renatocfrancisco]

holy shit! ma boy is back !

[@brendtbilleck9855]

Great video!

[@pranavmxp170]

Can you do a video on Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler etc... Just a general video on the wonders of odd future?