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Busta Rhymes featuring Kendrick Lamar “Look Over Your Shoulder”

The most incredible thing about “Look Over Your Shoulder” is that it features Kendrick Lamar and Busta Rhymes rapping at the top of their game along with samples of a young Michael Jackson from the climax of “I’ll Be There” and you could take all three of those voices off the track and it would still feel overwhelmingly emotional just with the piano chords and strings in Nottz’s instrumental. The gut-punch of the song is in how he contrasts this very melancholy and nostalgic vibe with a very innocent sweetness and hope, and that’s just amped up by the presence of Jackson’s earnest and empathetic voice. Kendrick and Busta approach their verses from different angles but I love that both connect to the sentimentality of the music by talking about their commitment to rap as an art form. When given a track that has this purity and love at the core of it, they both think of the one thing they clearly love more than anything else in the world.

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