HUMBLE. x GOAT v The Lamb

SUMMARY: Kendrick's face from the HUMBLE video with scripture written across his eyes, a blurred figure with "selfishness" behind him, and what looks like blood but is actually the word "HUMBLE" distorted across his face—it's about two kinds of humility and the call to choose selflessness over the world's selfishness.

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THE BREAKDOWN:

First thing you see is Kendrick's face—stark, graphic, kind of off-putting. Philippians 2:3 is written across both his eyes in Times New Roman, the same font from DAMN. The verse says "Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves."

What looks like blood dripping down his face is actually the word "HUMBLE" stretched and distorted until you can barely make it out. It's got that DAMN aesthetic but it's also referencing the blood of Christ

Behind Kendrick there's another face, blurred and darkened, with "selfishness" written over both eyes. That's the contrast—scripture calling us not to be selfish versus the world telling us to be selfish

When HUMBLE came out, Kendrick was calling out other rappers—sit down, be humble, I'm the GOAT, you need to earn it. But he later said he was really talking to himself, like therapy, telling himself to be humble. So here's the greatest rapper alive, according to a lot of people, needing to remind himself of this.

Then you've got Jesus. Not just a man, but God who chose to come down as man. Took on our suffering, our pain, our temptations. Died the ultimate shameful death on a cross, defeated death, rose again, exalted in heaven. That's the ultimate example of humility in Philippians 2. Kendrick the GOAT telling himself and others to be humble versus Jesus who is God and actually humbled himself.

And that's what we're called to. Not the selfishness of the world, but selflessness. Taking on that attitude of Christ, putting others before ourselves because we've seen what true humility looks like. Both versions of humility sitting in the same frame, that tension just there.

The whole image is distorted, abrasive, Kendrick's face pushing out of the frame. It's offensive on purpose and it's beautiful.