Social media is buzzing over Kendrick Lamar’s new music video for “Squabble Up,” the first visual from his latest album, GNX.
The single, poised to become another West Coast anthem following hits like “Not Like Us”, brilliantly samples Debbie Deb’s timeless classic, “When I Hear Music.”
Fans have flocked to Twitter to react to the Calmatic-directed visual and point out all the Easter eggs that might have missed your basket.
Read the tweets below.
the film/rap nerd in me caught the reference immediately.
— Alex Sono (@alex_sono) November 25, 2024
The Roots -The New Movement (1999)
Kendrick Lamar – squabble up (2024) pic.twitter.com/T0L2aLorc4
“Don’t hit him.
— MONTY (@MontyBasquiat) November 25, 2024
He got kids with him, my apologies” @kendricklamar Menace II Society reference in Squabble Up video pic.twitter.com/LuOYRS5slk
Two flags in the design of David Hammons “Untitled (African-American Flag),” 1990, hang from the walls in Kendrick Lamar’s “squabble up” video.
— Brooklyn White-Grier (@brooklynrwhite) November 25, 2024
They replace the colors of the American flag, instead using the red, black, and green from the Pan-African flag by Marcus Garvey. pic.twitter.com/XA7UghHERe
CUZZOS IN THE SQUABBLE UP VIDEO YEAH WE WON!!! go listen to them if you haven't already. one of my favorite new acts 😭 pic.twitter.com/Z0YW83mZsv
— nadirah (@hinadirah) November 25, 2024
Streets saying Kendrick’s Squabble Up video is out what a time to be alive man pic.twitter.com/vARzK6dm0m
— tido bling (@its_tiidoo) November 25, 2024
rip issac hayes. 🙏🏿🕊️
— iLLADELL (@halfshelldell) November 25, 2024
black moses reference in squabble up, kendrick ain’t playing! pic.twitter.com/Lj77tRs8n0
Me laughing at all the nonblack Kendrick Lamar fans who think the flag in the Squabble Up music video was a nod to Ebony Prince pic.twitter.com/g2Nthrn3jr
— chromaphobia (@frostedtakes_) November 25, 2024
If you genuinely apart of this collective black American experience and actually KNOW your history. You will get every reference in that squabble up video, instantly.
— Yuie (@YusufYuie) November 25, 2024
No deep dive needed. It’s right there. You either know. Or YOU a guest.
Being in tune with LA culture is knowing who everyone is in Kendrick Lamar’s squabble up music video
— cloudnai (@itscloudnai) November 25, 2024
Love Kendrick's nod to Ice-T's 'Power' cover in the "Squabble Up" video
— Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) November 25, 2024
(and shout out to Darlene Ortiz) pic.twitter.com/KbNe4i1WGQ
2 albums referenced in the Squabble Up music video you should listen to if you haven’t already:
— Z (@70133x) November 25, 2024
G Funk classics Vol 1&2 – Nate Dogg
Black Moses – Isaac Hayes pic.twitter.com/aM4EgkMM6A
"How to Be More Like Kendrick for Dummies" 👀
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) November 25, 2024
— Kendrick Lamar in the Squabble Up music video https://t.co/1GJPpOiR4g pic.twitter.com/MfcdRSd3fp
Kendrick dropped the video for Squabble Up. How am I supposed to focus at work under these conditions? pic.twitter.com/hNUV0xnCcq
— The Show Stopper☃️❄☃️' (@LilSnowmageddon) November 25, 2024
When you see Taz Arnold in the Squabble Up video. pic.twitter.com/oU5PWE0owu
— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) November 25, 2024
Drake saw that “Squabble Up” video drop and said “ENOUGH!” 😂😂😂😂
— Low (@LowKeyUHTN) November 25, 2024
Told niggas K. Dot a patriot. He’s putting on for LA but he’s putting on for America too. Specifically black America but America nonetheless. This “Squabble Up” video just confirms it.
— Steven Dingle (@stevozone4_) November 25, 2024
Kendrick Lamar’s “squabble up” music video features an homage to the late Nate Dogg and his G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2 project which features the classics “Nobody Does It Better” and “Never Leave Me Alone.” pic.twitter.com/zuYHGEb5YS
— Andrés Tardio (@AndresWrites) November 25, 2024
That Squabble up video was black af and i love it
— $tu. (@_OgStu) November 25, 2024
Ice-T took to his Instagram account to react to Kendrick Lamar paying homage to his POWER album, writing:
“The 👑 @kendricklamar gave me some love… Now YOU have the POWER 👊🏽”
See his original post below.
What’s your favorite moment in Kendrick Lamar’s “Squabble Up” video?
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