Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd teamed up for this futuristic song from the soundtrack album of the Marvel Studios superhero film Black Panther. Lamar produced the film's curated soundtrack, along with Top Dawg Entertainment founder Anthony Tiffith.
"Pray For Me" marks the second collaboration between Lamar and The Weeknd, following "Sidewalks" from the Canadian R&B singer's 2016 album, Starboy.
The song opens with The Weeknd's silky singing asking who is "gonna save me" before slipping into the hook where he contemplates the superhero's burden: Who gon' pray for me? Take my pain for me? Save my soul for me? 'Cause I'm alone, you see This leads into the second verse where Kendrick Lamar viciously echoes the theme of a despondent hero. Mass destruction and mass corruption. The souls are sufferin' men Clutchin' on deaf ears again, rapture is comin' It's all prophecy and if I gotta be sacrificed for the greater good Then that's what it gotta be Lamar's apocalyptic verse references his belief that we are nearing the last days as foretold by the biblical Book of Revelation. The last book of the Bible explains there will be a period of great tribulation before the Christian believers will be taken to heaven while non-believers await judgment. The Compton MC sees the hero's fate as inevitable in the light of these prophesies.
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