ELEMENT.

The most braggadocio cut on DAMN, this track finds Lamar daring his rap rivals to call him out on disc. If I gotta slap a p---y-ass nigga, I'ma make it look sexy If I gotta go hard on a bitch, I'ma make it look sexy I pull up, hop out, air out, made it look sexy They won't take me out my element Nah, take me out my element Some fans have interpreted this chorus as a shot at Drake. Lamar seems to be mimicking Dreezy's sing-song style and the track's beat and structure significantly resembles his 2014 hit "0 to 100/ The Catch Up."

The song has a number of lines where Lamar appears to be taking his contemporaries to task. He delivers the final blow with the last lines of his third verse by referencing back to his 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly. Most of y'all don't fade, most of y'all been advised Last LP I tried to lift the black artists But it's a difference between black artists and wack artists To Pimp a Butterfly dealt with various topics such as social injustices, and black empowerment. While Lamar tries to empower and motivate, he's not afraid to call out "wack" artists, regardless of the color of their skin.

The legendary DJ Kid Capri, who defined New York mixtapes in the early Nineties, supplies an energetic intro. In an annotation on Genius, Kid Capri explained that even he isn't quite sure what one of his lines means. Y'all know, what happens on Earth stays on Earth Said Kid Capri: "To tell the truth, I never asked Kendrick the meaning of it. I said what I said and I never asked him the meaning. He told me to say that part."