Ngl I thought this was the official video for years. Joshua Forman went way too hard making this. Even syncing the cartoon characters with the lyrics. A pure gem
Imagine making a fan music video for an underground song, and in 7 years having 23 mil views and having the easiest way for fans to listen to an unreleased song.
3 days before 2025. As I take this path to sobriety next year I had to come back to the last song I played before I started getting heavy into drinking. This song just gives a feeling a hope. So if anybody reading this is planning to change something and improve themselves, this is the message. This is the sign, keep changing, don’t go back, move forward and make a better life. It’s possible.
Does anyone remember when Kendrick said that he got into rapping to help with his stutter? Now listen to the hook lines? The way they’re delivered? Chills
😂 brother are you really the gaming lemon if so man I am 23 now I watched you when I was 12 childhood memories because of you brother always made me laugh on a bad day to see your account comment on here has made my year 😂
Wtf Gaming Lemon? You’re a Kendrick fan? I’m pretty much the same as the guy above me, but you and Nerdcubed were my absolute favourite TH-camrs when I was around 7-8 and now I’m 18. Gherkins or whatever I think that was the inside joke.
This has been my favorite song for 12 years the nostalgia is insane. For people who grew up in a torn up home with nothing but cartoons to lead the way this is the song for you
My brother put me on this song during high school about 14 years ago. We would drive to school blasting this, Mac Miller or other Kendrick songs. Just a few months ago, he took his own life. I now listen this song to picture him, hear him, see his face, just to remember him 😔
I remember me and my cousin just being teens would sneak out and smoke a couple bowls to get high and go back in the room with the lights off and watch this video and vibe that is something I won’t forget every time I hear this song it brings me back to that. Time is precious and full of memories
2013 - I saw Kendrick at University of Georgia for the first time. He closed with this and it felt like something out of this earth. Three months later - I got to see all of TDE in Atlanta on MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY. That was one of the best shows of my life and he closed with this again. GOAT.
He performed in South Africa the year after and opened with this song...I swear on my life he looked into my eyes...one of thee best concerts I've been to
Dude this is exactly how I felt after randomly waking up with it in my head and coming back to this video. Definitely needed that woken ambition that has been suppressed.
He actually played this one when he did a show in Amsterdam in 2013 (7th February)! It was the last song he played, I remember going crazy as I did not at all expect it but I was hoping he would play and he did! Crowd went crazy
I remember the Good Kid tour in 2013 in Cleveland. He finished his set and then came back out and did an encore with Cartoons and Cereal .. it was dopeeeee
I’ll forever remember Kendrick making this his encore song on his GKMS tour show in Orlando. I had sang 99 percent of every word he spoke up to that point. I didn’t even have a single hope that this song would be involved in the show because of copyright issues. He left the stage, the crowd got rowdy, and the intro to this song played. I lost my sh**. Great night.
Just found this because someone wrote it on the wall at a Starbucks near my apartment. Been a Kendrick fan for a decade and this song blew my mind. happy the stars aligned for this to be in my life
I remember going to Kendricks concert in Toronto and he finished the show. The crowd was going crazy still and he walked off stage. Then this song started playing crowd went nuts and he came out and performed this to close the show. Earl Sweatshirt had opened for him and you could see him going off on the side of the stage as well. Such a legendary track.
What. This video is genius. Whoever made this has some real talent. The cartoon characters do and say what the song says. On top of that there is drums and sound effects from the song matching the video as well. Genius.
It would be cool somebody would make a short film music video to this song n make it look legit and all the money you make from it you give to the artist or you give it to people that really need's it. The reason to do it is to be creative on a video showing issues in our world n government.
I’m lucky to say I watched him perform it live at a normal sized venue in Houston. it was my favorite song for a long time before he became huge. This shit still go hard in 2023!
@1:22 if anyone is interested that video is called “tidy monster”. A friend showed me over a decade ago while on acid and it was super trippy and a video I go back to often
@@brownie3454 It's really not popular. 23 million views doesn't mean 23m people have watched it. Those are plays , some people probably have watched the vid like 10+ times. The song is slept on because it's unreleased.
Just realised this songs about him being a child growing up in Compton with guns all around him and all his memories are the TV to escape his reality as a child 🤯
I forgot this song existed.. I literally just found a flash drive when I was in high school in 2014 and this song was saved under “ahead of its time” 😭
Maaan i always end up coming back to this song and Gunplay's verse is probably the most realist the most hardest verse ive heard... man said "Ya thats me no mic, no cameras, no lights just pain... momma how much trauma can i sustain" like god dam shit hits me everytime! 🔥
I wonder who's actually gonna believe me when I say, just now as I'm scrolling through these comments while having the video playing, I got to your comment, and as I'm reading it, I got to the part where you put "ya that's me, no mic, etc." at the exact same time as it got to that part of the song in the video. Literally the EXACT same time.
This is one of the most depressing but motivating rap songs ever, like it has that sad hook about having a bad upbringing but then just drops the bomb with the verse just king of this “get off your ass and make it yourself”
20 million views got this guy paid..why would kendrick steal it and this dudes hard work?he wouldnt...hes not the type to stand on someone elses hard work n claim it for his own..
@@JoshForman That sucks man, hope you're at least still proud, you should be it's amazing, I mean getting 20 odd million is an amazing achievement in itself, just wish you could profit of what is partially your work.
anybody else just shed a tear when he says “mama how much trauma can i sustain?”. you can hear the pain so clearly in his voice, and then he ends his verse with humble confidence and hope for the future. like fuck. i cant really even begin to imagine what its like to go through the things articulated in the song. being a human is weird, we all live such vasty different experiences and yet art/music is a way to bring us all together to understand one another. beautiful
Chills every time I hear the tone in Gunplays verse.. Hand on my heart, face to the hood, I pledge every word you ever heard was honest Yeah this me, no mic, no cameras, no lights.. just pain MAMA HOW MUCH TRAUMA CAN I SUSTAIN?!
Still harder than anything ever released by French Montana Edit: This isnt some random comment. French and Kdot was fake beefing last year. This post is in reference to French saying he can go "hit for hit" with Kendrick. Now that you know, please stop replying with weird shit.
Kev’s Uploads tf you smoking on, French has never had a #1 song in his life 🤣 your definition of a "hit" is shameful, just because you hear a song in the club dont make it a hit. And then you say French is deep?? French and Kdot is not anywhere on the same level. Max B will be released and have a #1 hit before French. French been trash since Mac And Cheese boy, stop it
NYCKenny French has been out wayyyy before mac and cheese.. and he has no.1 hits. Stop being bias.. the dude got ask a question and he answered with confidence. But some of you dudes too emotional to understand hit for hit vs being a better rapper.
This song's hook and samples makes me feel emotions i genuinely never thought i wouldve felt from a song before. Its like finding a weird comfort in those horrible parts in your life where the only things you had were cereal and cartoons.
With how new old leaks have appeared on Kendrick’s on TH-cam channel either he was hacked or he is going through old hard drives so maybe this one gets remastered? Who knows?
😂😂😂 im experiencing this song for the first time and already played it more than 20 times or more. This song is fire. Kendrick is really something special
I've watched this video thousands of times I just noticed that when gun play verse come on the cartoons turn darker cause his verse has a darker tone genius
Kendrick need to release a couple old songs like this on apple spotify etc like Drake's ''Care Package'', theres a younger generation that missed these classics bro.
Josh... This is probably the greatest unofficial music video created... usually people just try and mix together past videos the artist has made but you went back and matched sound bites from the song and mixed everything to the beat.. Absolutely amazing.
Ngl I thought this was the official video for years. Joshua Forman went way too hard making this. Even syncing the cartoon characters with the lyrics. A pure gem
Frrrr
If I'm not mistaken, Kendrick shared this video and referred to it as the official video for the song.
I literally just now realized this 😭😭😭
& I’ve been playing this since 2015😂😂
HOW THEY GET THE MOUTH MOVEMENTS SO GOOD!!! THIS A WORK OF ART!!! THAT ISH WAY MORE INSYNC THAT IT SHOULD BE!!!!
Imagine making a fan music video for an underground song, and in 7 years having 23 mil views and having the easiest way for fans to listen to an unreleased song.
Jose Soto big comment
200IQ
Yeah
Jose Soto shoutout to Josh Forman
💯🔥🔥🔥✌️
josh's da real mvp
This ain't even fan made anymore. This the real shit
Frfr
Really though
I mean it hasn't gotten taken down and shit you know kdot cool with it. Legit af I just stumbled on this again. How could I I I forget
Bruh I agree with ya
Bro real talk. My memories and nostalgia will always have this as the video
3 days before 2025. As I take this path to sobriety next year I had to come back to the last song I played before I started getting heavy into drinking. This song just gives a feeling a hope. So if anybody reading this is planning to change something and improve themselves, this is the message. This is the sign, keep changing, don’t go back, move forward and make a better life. It’s possible.
We gonna make it bro
11/24/25 5 years no drinking. 💯
Thanks, I’m also going towards uncharted territory too. You got this man.
IM ROOTING FOR YOU! this was beautiful to read, crazy how many of us are out there all feeling the same, you got this!
You got this man we all believe in and love you.
Does anyone remember when Kendrick said that he got into rapping to help with his stutter? Now listen to the hook lines? The way they’re delivered? Chills
“Now that’s ironic”
warms bro.. warms
Its bad when im sober that shyts funny cito reminded me of some shyt i didnt know bout myself
Wow. I didn't know that. Wow. What a way to bring that part into the song. Genius!
Buried Alive Interlude too
ive never heard another person other than myself play this
U livin in da wrong area g
Facts... I was bumping this for awhile
Need a new circle dawg lol
Some funny comments on here, but I get your point. Sometimes I feel that way too with some jams, that includes the Kendrick from this era.
I never hear much of anything i play from anyone other than myself..
This song has an atmosphere that no other song has
U so right
Absolutely
Money trees or sherane, kendricks music sounds like no other 🔥
Kendrick's producers are amazing man
Similar to blackskin head, wash us in the mood, freestyle 4, Nd backseat freestyle
This song is so electric I love it. Keep coming back to it, timeless
😂 brother are you really the gaming lemon if so man I am 23 now I watched you when I was 12 childhood memories because of you brother always made me laugh on a bad day to see your account comment on here has made my year 😂
You're GTA IV videos were what got me into your videos glad to see you're still doing your thing mate very pleased keep it up
Wtf Gaming Lemon? You’re a Kendrick fan? I’m pretty much the same as the guy above me, but you and Nerdcubed were my absolute favourite TH-camrs when I was around 7-8 and now I’m 18. Gherkins or whatever I think that was the inside joke.
It's a crime that this song isn't on spotify
There's a low quality version called cartoon. Not under kendrick name
It used to be. They took it down
Drives me nuts
OR APPLE MUSIC
there is a "podcast" :)
Kendrick’s a real dude for not filing a copyright claim for this video.
I dunno if he can, did this ever get an official release?
Heard it was supposed to be on GKMC but couldn't get on cause of sample clearance
@@TomRussss Yea don't think Kendrick even has copyright claim for this haha
He acknowledged it
I think his label does that
Prolly liked it tbh lol
bro the is seriously one of kendricks most underrated song
yup
true it's in my top 10
mfkn word
Hell Yeah It Didn't Even Go Viral I Found Out About It Through A Friend Really One Of My Favorites By K. 💯
I dont think its underrated, but its just that no one knows about this song
This has been my favorite song for 12 years the nostalgia is insane. For people who grew up in a torn up home with nothing but cartoons to lead the way this is the song for you
😢
Amen baby. 🫂 This song speaks to little me too.
Faxx and gta❤️🩹
This song is hands down one of Kendrick's most fire songs
Right up there with Backseat Freestyle and Rigamortis
2 z's untitled 07 is underrated
@@user-jr3ur2ce5u yeah that's a really good one too
@@user-jr3ur2ce5u levitate
One of the best songs ever any genre
"nobody can can mute me, but i never said nobody cant shoot me" songs a hidden gem i come back to constantly
Still vibing 2022 2023here we come 🎉
Here in 2023🎉!!
Happy new year y’all
Fa sho
2023
“Not to worry, every warrior will come and see euphoria
And that's a covenant I put on every tribe” the irony years later
Bruh i just heard that euphoria line😳 and thought the same thing🤯wtf?
🤯
@CajunGator There's levels to it, you and I know
In this songs context, it's a nod to the 12 tribes of Israel and how all 12 tribes will find peace at the end of their 400 year curse in Deuteronomy.
BRO. PLEASE GO TO "GENIUS" AND LOOK AT THE LYRICS FOR THIS. KENDRICK HIMSELF EXPLAINS WHY HE WROTE IT. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT I PROMISE.
My brother put me on this song during high school about 14 years ago. We would drive to school blasting this, Mac Miller or other Kendrick songs. Just a few months ago, he took his own life. I now listen this song to picture him, hear him, see his face, just to remember him 😔
this song feels there is only a select group of people worthy of being graced with it's existence.
That part
I can't tell you how happy I am to be in on it. this is so good even 12 years later. Timeless.
R u dumb bra💀 35 milli views on it fym select few😭🤣
ASE
"Momma how much trauma can I sustain?"
Yeah bro, this track hits different for those who understand it
I dont care if this is fanmade, THIS IS THE OFFICIAL VIDEO 👌🏾
On bro 👌🏽
pretty sure it even has more views than the official video. (did not double check that though)
Even kendrick would admit this
💯Facts
Thought it already was lol
I love how this has canonically become the official music video for this song.
It’s actually really well done and if I didn’t read this comment I wouldn’t have questioned it for a second
FACTS ITS A WORK OF ART
Wild coyotes in the room bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh
@@happyproduction4209wile
even kendrick shouted this guy out, its a legendary music video in hiphop
1:42 perfection
This song is single handedly one of the hardest pieces of Music ever to exist.
Dats real
Agreed
I think I agree with you on this one. Over the years I’ve decided that it’s my all time favorite song…and I’m a hip hop head since ‘91 as a kid!
Almost ten years later, still one of the best songs Kendrick ever made
My personal favorite
The first Kendrick song I've heard and the best to me !
yup
@ bro theres no way this is your first kdot song bro
@@elyjahg6835 what's yours
2023 and this still hits differently , forever an underrated gem
Buddy played this for me when i was tripping balls years ago. Still get goosebumps everytime i hear it.
Underrated bruh there’s 32m views lmao reaching ass mfs I swear
You know the vibes.
ALWAYS
I just logged into my old TH-cam and went into my likes and I just discovered this again 🙌🏽 i totally forgot about this, this song is insane
I remember me and my cousin just being teens would sneak out and smoke a couple bowls to get high and go back in the room with the lights off and watch this video and vibe that is something I won’t forget every time I hear this song it brings me back to that. Time is precious and full of memories
10 years later, still a perfect hip hop song. Kendrick Lamar a genius.
Gunplays Verse is just insane
like fine wine
Gunplay's verse on this is one of the best guest verses of all time. My mans gone berserk on this
I was looking for someone to compliment his verse. He went stupid!!!
He’s a feature king
He’s like Ty Dolla $ with how elite his features constantly are lol
yea, he paced himself and was gritty and droppin jewels....fire
THIS ISN'T TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH!!😭😭😭
2013 - I saw Kendrick at University of Georgia for the first time. He closed with this and it felt like something out of this earth. Three months later - I got to see all of TDE in Atlanta on MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY. That was one of the best shows of my life and he closed with this again. GOAT.
Gold
Nice
wish I could have been there...just saw kendrick for the first time the other night and it was life changing
He performed in South Africa the year after and opened with this song...I swear on my life he looked into my eyes...one of thee best concerts I've been to
Legendary
F.D. really putting people on to the Kendrick deep cuts, we love to see it
What video did he mention this song?
@@bbrimstonee it was on a community post
@@bbrimstonee he also mentioned it on one of his recent b sides on his other channel
thats how I heard about it yeah lol. havent stopped bumping it since then
@@sgtmustang4206that’s what I’m here from, no regrets this song is so amazing
Kendrick has 100% watched this fan made vid, congrats josh.
And he didn't copywrite it , that's a dub
Legend of Awww Sheeet 24 million views
read the description he posted it before GKMC dropped
Bro this whole time I thought this was the official music video 🤯 didn’t even realize it wasn’t posted by Kendrick till now
This was fan made? Holy shit. Props!💯
this is one of those songs that if you're getting comfortable, when you hear it, it makes you hungry and ambitious again.
Dude this is exactly how I felt after randomly waking up with it in my head and coming back to this video. Definitely needed that woken ambition that has been suppressed.
THIS....first time I heard this, that's exactly how I felt ❤
facts
Facts
Perfectly executed on the Description it does.
Can’t even imagine how crazy it would be if Kendrick played this at a packed show
Amazing is what it would be.
He has. It was crazy
Absolute pandemonium.
He actually played this one when he did a show in Amsterdam in 2013 (7th February)! It was the last song he played, I remember going crazy as I did not at all expect it but I was hoping he would play and he did! Crowd went crazy
I remember the Good Kid tour in 2013 in Cleveland. He finished his set and then came back out and did an encore with Cartoons and Cereal .. it was dopeeeee
12 years later this is still one of the greatest fan made videos
This may be the greatest fan-made music video OF ALL TIME
Big facts.
It's official tho...
Paul Betty no it’s not
Best fucking fan made video ever
100% Facts!
This song is proof that Kendrick didn’t accidentally become great. Man’s has always had it in him, this song is 10+ years old 🎉
gkmc released like more than 10 years ago your comment makes no sense
@futurehofer1564 pretty sure it's yours that doesn't make any sense.
@@futurehofer1564hense why I said 10 PLUS years old, TF ?????🤨
Kendrick was already popping 10 years ago
Nobody said he wasn’t
"Aye dawg how many seizures you want?"
"All of them"
Facts😂
Trueeeeee
This was back when we was prettysure wayne wa finna die. crazy that these kids latched on.
💯😂...
I have epilepsy and im good bro😂
The way Gunplay comes in fires me tf up for 10 years now
We going into 2022 and this is still legendary
I play this everyday man
W
He went great ape on this one
It's like I'm time travelling listening to this
Facts
Kendrick's unreleased music is better than some people's entire discography
*cough cough* Benzino *cough cough*
@@YimYum911 Dropping a glass on the floor sounds better than Benzino
@@digitalcamaro9708 everything sounds better than benzino
@@YimYum911I mean, not expecting much from a dude that has no neck. lol.
Cue stone cold’s theme
Shame Kendrick couldn’t get the samples cleared on this song. It was supposed to be on GKMC
@Luis Villalba um no, it didn’t make the album bc the sample wasn’t cleared.
i don't feel like it would've fit on GKMC, imo.
@@fijineetyt7782 na as an intro track i mean sherane's great too tho
Real talk
@@fijineetyt7782 would’ve been great for the deluxe edition
Whos here after the album
Haha you know
Me
U mean back here 🤫💪💪💪
yoo this is the best fanmade video ive ever seen
You have the best lyric video :)
FG This's fan made? Fucking hell! Dude's done Kendrick a solid.
Check out the lyric break down of lupe's "murals" that's the only shit id say out does this
yo FG I see your comments everywhere
+Shawn Bergen I know hahahaha lmao
I’ll forever remember Kendrick making this his encore song on his GKMS tour show in Orlando. I had sang 99 percent of every word he spoke up to that point. I didn’t even have a single hope that this song would be involved in the show because of copyright issues. He left the stage, the crowd got rowdy, and the intro to this song played. I lost my sh**. Great night.
Gonna see kendrick in June, Portugal! So hypeeed
This sounds crazy, is there any video of this show?
@@ruidias8038 Did you see him yet?
I was there and %100 remember that happening.. one of the best shows I’ve ever been to
@@ruidias8038yo I went to Portugal then, damn didn't know he was playing!
This is where true Kendrick fanz at
Not officially lol
I heard no one listen to this
The sound quality is horrible. Much better on youtube.
the 🎉unreleased is fun too (orange borders)
Nah not really everyone knew this song
2025 who here 😳
My first concert was in SanFrancisco at the bill graham theater , I was 19 years old.. when he played this SONG THE CROWD WENT INSANE 😢❤
We never left my G
👀👀👀👀🎶👀👀
Can’t never let a classic die
We in here
Just found this because someone wrote it on the wall at a Starbucks near my apartment. Been a Kendrick fan for a decade and this song blew my mind. happy the stars aligned for this to be in my life
SALT ALL IN MY WOUNDS
@@HaikesXO hear my tears in my tunes
That’s dope!
This song put me on Kendrick so long ago lol had to come back after the “meet the grahams”
Kendrick is a legend
This song literally came to me while driving after realizing kendrick been great for years
💯
Here after NOT LIKE US 😭❤😂
Most underrated song. Been bumping this sinve 2014. Dot's flow is tooooo sick. Been a fan ever since
I remember going to Kendricks concert in Toronto and he finished the show. The crowd was going crazy still and he walked off stage. Then this song started playing crowd went nuts and he came out and performed this to close the show. Earl Sweatshirt had opened for him and you could see him going off on the side of the stage as well. Such a legendary track.
That sounds legendary, never knew Earl supported Kendrick back in the day
In Toronto crodie?
Was there!
2018 TDE tour?!
Bro this sounds like a legendary moment.
Was there as well. Epic times. The beginning of GOAT generation.
What. This video is genius. Whoever made this has some real talent. The cartoon characters do and say what the song says. On top of that there is drums and sound effects from the song matching the video as well. Genius.
The genius behind the video is Josh Forman.
Man if they would’ve released this officially it would’ve changed Gunplays Career
on god
man the leaks fucked it, i heard it was supposed to be a huge track on the album.
Fucking facts. But he's too hood for mainstream. I love his music. But you know image and such🤦🏾♂️
@@GGGZ777 pretty sure it was sample clearances as well, but it leaking def didn't help
It’s on Spotify but it’s lower quality “cartoons” by Kendrick
8 years later and gunplay’s last verse still gives me chills like the first time I heard it as a youngin in high school
Bro I was 11 😮💨
th-cam.com/video/blVaMSxUNFE/w-d-xo.html 🔁🔁🔁
Facts
🗣💯❗️
Gunplay went dumb on this almost 10 years later shits fire.
thought it was jay rock 😅
Drizzy never stood a chance
Nope.....a knife to a gun fight
Especially Black Friday
Drake
Don’t
Rap
Against
Kendrick
Ever
Exactly 😂
This shit made me.
The Venom lip-sync at 6:06 is biblical.
That worked so well wtf
This the Kendrick I want to respond to Drake & Cole...
facts
That shit ain't happening though unforch. Unless Kendrick wants to be rap's unapologetic murderer with Cole already waving the white flag
I think it’s getting bigger than rap at this point
A kendrick this hungry could drag Drake through the dirt
same
Who’s going into 2020 listening to this fire wit a side of Seizure
Seizure never sounded so fire
Seeing you guys on the other side of the seizure. Shit's flame
RealBIGDEE fuckin hell yeah 🤘🏻
It would be cool somebody would make a short film music video to this song n make it look legit and all the money you make from it you give to the artist or you give it to people that really need's it. The reason to do it is to be creative on a video showing issues in our world n government.
Oh yeah n have the artist in the video also
This has got to be the greatest unreleased song of all time! Bro, kendrick is crazy for not dropping this, it's an absolute masterpiece
This is one of those 10/10 rap songs, produced so well and the lyrics are so deep and visual
@@LversEvE444 any others like this you know of ?
@Brian Diehl DUDE THE BEAT SWITCH ON ALIEN HAD ME FLOATING
Masterpiece indeed
I’m lucky to say I watched him perform it live at a normal sized venue in Houston. it was my favorite song for a long time before he became huge. This shit still go hard in 2023!
@1:22 if anyone is interested that video is called “tidy monster”. A friend showed me over a decade ago while on acid and it was super trippy and a video I go back to often
Tidy monster
Goosebumps everytime gunplay starts rapping
I got the same feeling one of the dopest verses I know about . ABSOLUTELY
Fr
I get them when the first “Elmer fudd said shoot him down” plays
‼️
He Real asf
This song is so abstract and so conceptual and yet so catchy and goes so hard. I would love Kendrick to really dive into this sound tbh
Morpheus REBORN th-cam.com/video/P02OdLmzJH8/w-d-xo.html
I always thought that bro such a shame
KDot dies after GKMC, but the run from Overly Dedicated to GKMC will always be legendary
@@sakihealthbars1341 no he declined after untitled unmastered
@@sakihealthbars1341 oof. Overly dedicated. Good album, but stuff like P and P.....lol that shit is just kinda dumb and clunky.
"Nobody cant mute me
But i never said nobody cant shoot me"
This right here 🔥. Song is so slept on.
because 22 million views is slept on right???????
@@BloodestbathBill Compared to other Kendrick songs, yes.
@@AxeLerios12 still not slept on. you can praise it and give it the credit it deserves without acting like it's not popular when it clearly is.
@@brownie3454 It's really not popular. 23 million views doesn't mean 23m people have watched it. Those are plays , some people probably have watched the vid like 10+ times. The song is slept on because it's unreleased.
I've memorized every word of this eternal banger (this only good version) and have returned again. And I run it.
Gunplay verse on this is one of the most underrated in all of hip-hop history...
Yes!!!!
Ever
Just thought the same thing
him and school boy
Just realised this songs about him being a child growing up in Compton with guns all around him and all his memories are the TV to escape his reality as a child 🤯
This could have worked as the intro on gkmc.
Deeper than that. It’s ironic because his dad is like the bird running from the cops ( Wiley coyote). Ironic.
This is like one part of it, yes. It's an insane song.
Bkc 14 it was supposed to be on GKMC but Kendrick couldn’t get the samples cleared from the cartoon samples
gaddem
This is the lyrical beast that BBL Drizzy is up against. Goodnight and goodbye Canada
as a Canadian, nobody here likes Drake 😭😭😭😭
^^^ drake is way more popular in america than he ever was here
He dont even put on the Canadian rappers that be in the streets fr.
@@dartfiend kendrick still better
@@PacersPushinPbecause that won’t get him streams
Had goosebumps the entire time
I forgot this song existed.. I literally just found a flash drive when I was in high school in 2014 and this song was saved under “ahead of its time” 😭
What are the other tracks?
damn that's dope you really had the right mindset about dis song dawg
make a playlist from those pls
to true way ahead of 2012 😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gunplay spill his heart on this
I’ll be your 100th like👍🏽
Let his life loose in the booth
@@SantasBlumpkin JUST FOR U.
Facts !!!
Never to been seen again after this verse.
Never seen a comment section in such peaceful coexistence
We assimilate peacely and arbitrate amicabley
Talidan ain't it the truth!
Talidan the coexistence of high people watching this
Kendrick man its kendrick
I have seen this only once
2025 Still 0:19
Yep!! Waiting for that ITunes release!!
Maaan i always end up coming back to this song and Gunplay's verse is probably the most realist the most hardest verse ive heard... man said "Ya thats me no mic, no cameras, no lights just pain... momma how much trauma can i sustain" like god dam shit hits me everytime! 🔥
I wonder who's actually gonna believe me when I say, just now as I'm scrolling through these comments while having the video playing, I got to your comment, and as I'm reading it, I got to the part where you put "ya that's me, no mic, etc." at the exact same time as it got to that part of the song in the video. Literally the EXACT same time.
@@mexiguayan this shit happened to me right now as well. spooky
This song jus popped in my head.. can’t believe it’s been 7 yrs , so many memories
Damn bro facts . . . i remember listening too this shit in middle school .
Mac Veli FACTS 😔
Now 12 me dear lad. We're getting old 😂😅
The beat fades and gunplay yelling “mama how much trauma can I sustain” chills every single time without fail.
This is one of the most depressing but motivating rap songs ever, like it has that sad hook about having a bad upbringing but then just drops the bomb with the verse just king of this “get off your ass and make it yourself”
6 years later and I still can’t believe Kendrick didn’t make this an official video and pay this man.
coyote will b ballin
20 million views got this guy paid..why would kendrick steal it and this dudes hard work?he wouldnt...hes not the type to stand on someone elses hard work n claim it for his own..
@@wonderland4586 this video is monetized by the record label so they're the ones profiting off it
@@JoshForman That sucks man, hope you're at least still proud, you should be it's amazing, I mean getting 20 odd million is an amazing achievement in itself, just wish you could profit of what is partially your work.
@@JoshForman post a paypal link to donate you
2:18 is top 10 if not top 5 Kendrick Lamar cadences ever.
2024 anyone here😢
hello dear
Hello my dears.
yooooo
First timer here, don't know how I missed out on the track all this time
You know it, bud
November 2024 who tf in this bih???
We in this bish 🎉
🙋🏾♂️🙋🏾♂️😅🙋🏾♂️🙋🏾♂️🙋🏾♂️
Wow 👏👏 here we are. Amazing to see a comment like this on basically every Kendrick track on TH-cam
We right here!
🐐🐐🐐
anybody else just shed a tear when he says “mama how much trauma can i sustain?”. you can hear the pain so clearly in his voice, and then he ends his verse with humble confidence and hope for the future. like fuck. i cant really even begin to imagine what its like to go through the things articulated in the song. being a human is weird, we all live such vasty different experiences and yet art/music is a way to bring us all together to understand one another. beautiful
Grace
Is our blessing
I’ve never once made it through the song without ugly crying because of this
on a real note, if you think about it, some of the cartoons that were around when we were younger was pretty dark/creepy stuff.
courage the cowardly dog
Courage The Cowardly Dog gave me a fear of darkness for my entire teenage years
Jared Jolivette someone was training us for something that don't even know what it is yet
Also cow and chicken.
Eek the cat was twisted az
lol who remembers "Ahhhh! Real Monsters"
This was incredible, the subtle touches like Tupac on the news screen etc, just brilliant.
Phantomdirt cheers!
@@JoshFormanwow, 9 years- how's it feel being the best music fan ever?
❤
This song never gets old. Years later and it's still on repeat for me DAILY.
Chills every time I hear the tone in Gunplays verse..
Hand on my heart, face to the hood, I pledge every word you ever heard was honest
Yeah this me, no mic, no cameras, no lights.. just pain
MAMA HOW MUCH TRAUMA CAN I SUSTAIN?!
This verse made me realize gunplay was dope
You heard Bible on the dash by him? Dope
@@kalidell760 Classic.
Still here 2024. Kendrick lost treasures. Gunplay went crazy🔥🔥🔥
Gunplay understood the assignment, and passed with flying colours 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@@IWillFatherYoufactttssss
Still harder than anything ever released by French Montana
Edit: This isnt some random comment. French and Kdot was fake beefing last year. This post is in reference to French saying he can go "hit for hit" with Kendrick. Now that you know, please stop replying with weird shit.
NYCKenny you stupid if you think so.. and I’m a k.dot fan
Kev’s Uploads if you back French Montana in this then you obviously not a kdot fan
12liter pepsican lol, it wasn’t about French being a better rapper than k.dot, it was about a hit for hit battle.... and French has deep songs.
Kev’s Uploads tf you smoking on, French has never had a #1 song in his life 🤣 your definition of a "hit" is shameful, just because you hear a song in the club dont make it a hit. And then you say French is deep?? French and Kdot is not anywhere on the same level. Max B will be released and have a #1 hit before French. French been trash since Mac And Cheese boy, stop it
NYCKenny French has been out wayyyy before mac and cheese.. and he has no.1 hits. Stop being bias.. the dude got ask a question and he answered with confidence. But some of you dudes too emotional to understand hit for hit vs being a better rapper.
This song's hook and samples makes me feel emotions i genuinely never thought i wouldve felt from a song before. Its like finding a weird comfort in those horrible parts in your life where the only things you had were cereal and cartoons.
The first Kendrick song I ever heard. And the one I’m hearing after him winning a generational beef. What a time to be alive 🔥
Same broski same, been listening to him since 2012
how did you here this first? that's such a unique intro into dot.
@@thomashanrahan2707 idk but for me it was like that aswell😂 not a huge Kendrick fan tbh but keep coming back to this for like 10 years
spent so many days playing need for speed listening to GKMC…
we used to whip around in a white minivan with the bros… 2 of em gone already🙏🏼
💫🤲🏼🤞🏼
I just know after the beef settled, all the new Kendrick fans are over here trynna find old kdot music. Hi, welcome, enjoy the good music
old fan finding these gems
Facts comments show it all he genius
thank you. i appreciate yous not gatekeeping, but welcoming :)
hi :)
I always lived for Gunplay's verse..So much emotion and I love it.
Keep rewinding his verse !!
I'm a Florida boi!!
I got love for gunplay he like that big brother from my hood that keep you on your G shit
Kendrick wrote the verse
@@lookhector are you outta yo fuccin mind? Gunplay is ferocious on anything he touch
This needs to be updated and remastered it'll excel numbers!
With how new old leaks have appeared on Kendrick’s on TH-cam channel either he was hacked or he is going through old hard drives so maybe this one gets remastered? Who knows?
Well, whatever the case us, kendrick influenced will, RUN IT!
Still bumping in 2022.
Forever bumping this gem
moise myrvil ttc
The Rapture is happening and this is still bumping
Here from 2021 make sure you Dont.........
Don Jhon bruh they got you didnt they 😧 you cant just say im from 2021. Well anyways...
☮ from above the 🌎 👽🤘
For all these people coming back to Kendrick and experiencing this song for the first time, I’m jealous.
😂😂😂 im experiencing this song for the first time and already played it more than 20 times or more. This song is fire. Kendrick is really something special
@@JeanMahmutyep, same
This song is first step to not being casualkendrick fan, welcome! 😂
My 1st and not my last time 🧚♂️🧚♂️🧚♂️
@@mertbey706💙🤍🙏🏽 I've been a Kendrick fan since 2016...truly I've never heard this😢
There’s absolutely no reason GunPlay needed to go in this hard
He's on a track with Kendrick; he absolutely needed to go this hard and this track is a classic because of it
You have to bring your best game to make a good song with the king.
It's not talked about enough. I feel like this is one of hip hops dopest tracks/verses.
Gunplay is underrated in general
Makes ya on some hype shiit , some real gangsta ass shiit
I've watched this video thousands of times I just noticed that when gun play verse come on the cartoons turn darker cause his verse has a darker tone genius
Hardest beat ever. I can’t believe not everyone knows about this song
Im saying I come back to this video every year lol
It’s not on any major albums and it doesn’t have its real name on Spotify
I forgot this song even existed. It was a crazy feeling hearing this again after a solid 5+ years, kendricks a 🐐
@@WyWid what's the name under on spotify?
@@officialbobbybbobchannel on Spotify it’s just Cartoons by Kendrick Lamar
This has gotta be one of the most atmospheric and immersive hip hop songs of all time, and idt those words are used often to describe hip hop
Listen to more hip hop then
@@CpHakR1L
i second, game recognise game, u dont need experiece if an art piece is screaming loud enough
@@CpHakR1this has gotta be one of the most brain dead replies I’ve ever gotten
This might be Kendricks most unique song. Sonically and thematically strange, but beautiful
💯💯
Exactly. It’s silly and deadly serious at the same time. Excellent tone and the gunplay verse is incredible.
Gunplay is such a dope artist what a great choice for the feature
Kendrick need to release a couple old songs like this on apple spotify etc like Drake's ''Care Package'', theres a younger generation that missed these classics bro.
Real shit cuz this shit rn was and still is my favorite banger from him . Forever a fan and people don't even no this shit smh 😠
i think theres issues with a sample in this song, i assume?
This song is on Spotify. It's just titled Cartoon on an album of random west coast artists and the quality is horrendous lol.
@@Dirkastan_Man was gonna say the EXACT SAME THING 😂
Fr hu before the decade ends 🙏
Bro, this must have taken ages to create. Respect bro.
Of da 🏥🏔🐅
Yep
Lol not in his times it wasn't hmmm
Fr
Josh... This is probably the greatest unofficial music video created... usually people just try and mix together past videos the artist has made but you went back and matched sound bites from the song and mixed everything to the beat.. Absolutely amazing.
thank you homie! appreciate the kind words
You forever iconic for this frfr- if I found out you directed Q’s Lost Times I might just cry!!!!!
You killed it, bodied it and killed this some more
clips tooked from shows and movies is just crazy, cuz it all fits in with the song so well