Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -... ⚡ Fully Tested

That would be a funeral for a former self. What do you think? Could Kendrick pull off the melancholy of Gotye, or is this a bridge too far? Drop your dream mashup in the comments.

Kendrick Lamar has spent a decade singing that exact ache over jazz beats and funk basslines. To hear him sing it over those four iconic xylophone notes? That wouldn't just be a cover. Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -...

We live in an era of the “mashup” and the “cover,” but some artistic collisions exist only in our collective imagination. One such phantom track that refuses to leave my brain is this: Kendrick Lamar performing a rendition of Gotye’s 2011 indie-pop masterpiece, “Somebody That I Used to Know.” That would be a funeral for a former self

This is the genius of Kendrick. He is the only rapper who would lose the argument in the middle of his own song. He would leave the “somebody” with the final word, forcing us to realize: Maybe Kendrick was the toxic one. Of course, this cover will never happen. Gotye is famously protective of the song, and Kendrick is allergic to nostalgia-bait covers. He doesn't look back; he excavates. Drop your dream mashup in the comments