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The Best Songs On Kendrick Lamar's Album 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers'

Jared Baly

Updated November 1, 2024 18 items

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Vote on your favorite cuts from the ‘Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers’ tracklist.

Have you listened to Kendrick Lamar's highly-anticipated fifth studio album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers yet?! The legendary rapper brings his A-game throughout the double album's entire 18-song track list. From rap artists Baby Keem and Kodak Black to R&B singer-songwriter Summer Walker and actress Taylour Paige, the two-disc project features a meticulously-curated roster of diverse musicians, paired with powerful lyrics and Kendrick's signature sound. Some of the record's hottest hip-hop singles include "United In Grief," "N95," "Die Hard," “Father Time,” “Silent Hill," “Savior,” and "Mirror."

How do the album's songs compare to Kendrick Lamar's greatest previous works? Vote up the best songs on Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, and vote down the tracks that don't live up to Kendrick's top singles.

1
Count Me Out
386 votes
Best lyrics:
Masks on the babies, mask on an opp
Wear masks in the neighborhood stores you shop
But a mask won't hide who you are inside
Look around, the reality's carved in lies
Wipe my ego, dodge my pride
2
Father Time (feat. Sampha)
412 votes
Best lyrics:
I come from a generation of home invasions and I got daddy issues, that's on me
Everything them four walls had taught me, made habits bury deep
That man knew a lot, but not enough to keep me past them streets
My life is a plot, twisted from directions that I can't see
3
N95
299 votes
Best lyrics:
Take off the foo-foo, take off the clout chase, take off the Wi-Fi
Take off the money phone, take off the car loan, take off the flex and the white lies
Take off the weird-ass jewelry, I'ma take ten steps, then I'm taking off top five
Take off them fabricated streams and them microwave memes, it's a real world outside (Take that sh*t off)
Take off your idols, take off the runway, I take off to Cairo (Take that sh*t off)
4
United In Grief
280 votes
Best lyrics:
Shaking and moving, like, what am I doing? I'm flipping my time through the Rolodex
Indulging myself and my life and my music, the world that I'm in is a cul-de-sac
The world that we in is just menacing, the demons portrayed religionous
I wake in the morning, another appointment, I hope the psychologist listenin'
5
Mother I Sober (feat. Beth Gibbons)
236 votes
Best lyrics:
I'm sensitive, I feel everything, I feel everybody
One man standin' on two words, heal everybody
Transformation, then reciprocation, karma must return
Heal myself, secrets that I hide, buried in these words
Death threats, ego must die, but I let it purge
Pacify, broken pieces of me, it was all a blur
6
Savior (with Baby Keem & Sam Dew)
210 votes
Best lyrics:
The cat is out the bag, I am not your savior
I find it just as difficult to love thy neighbors
Especially when people got ambiguous favors
But they hearts not in it, see, everything's for the paper
The struggle for the right side of history
Independent thought is like an eternal enemy
Capitalists posing as compassionates be offending me
7
Rich Spirit
157 votes
Best lyrics:
Paintin' pictures, put me in the Louvre, that's a definite
Universal shift, I'm in a groove
And celebrity do not mean integrity, you fool
I'm a good man, shakin' hand, firm grip rule
Seventy-two ways, lost ten, ballin' with the flu
More than two hands, for sho', but add another two, hmm
8
Die Hard (with Blxst & Amanda Reifer)
216 votes
Best lyrics:
When I fall short, I'm leaning on you to cry out
We all got enough to lie about
My truth too complicated to hide now
Can I open up? Is it safe or not?
I'm afraid a little, you relate or not?
Have faith a little, I might take my time
Ain't no saving face this time
9
Mirror
154 votes
Best lyrics:
I can't live in the Matrix
Rather for sure than your graces
This time I won't trade places
Not about who's right, who's wrong
Evolve, the only thing known
Ask me when I'm coming home
Blink twice again, I'm gone
10
Silent Hill (with Kodak Black)
151 votes
Best lyrics:
Uh-huh, I be immune to sh*t
Tuck in the broom and sh*t
They want to assume and sh*t
Know you a choke, my assets are close
I hide like the moon and sh*t
Know the results, the ballot is in and I'm about to boom again
You funny, dawg
Peek-a-boo, can't hide behind your money, dawg
A week or two, I meditate on runnin' lost
Swerve, swerve, swerve, shake the currents off, yeah
11
Auntie Diaries
138 votes
Best lyrics:
My auntie is a man now, what a relationship
I grew up fast, I needed no one to babysit
He gave me some cash, then gave me some gang
Cherry freshener on the dash, I never complained
She even cut my hair at the pad, was loving my fade
The first person I seen write a rap, that's when my life had changed
House full of demo, smoke stuck on the window
Cameras on the microphone, all women and men though
My auntie was a man now, we cool with it
The history had trickled down and made us ig'nant
My favorite cousin said he's returning the favor
And following my auntie with the same behavior
12
Mr. Morale (with Tanna Leone)
139 votes
Best lyrics:
Uzi, your father's in deep meditation
My spirit's awaken, my brain is asleep
I got a new temperature
Sharpenin' multiple swords in the faith I believe
I think about Robert Kelly
If he weren't molested, I wonder if life'll fail him
I wonder if Oprah found closure
The way that she postered the hurt that a women carries
13
We Cry Together (with Taylour Paige)
156 votes
Best lyrics:
I swear, I'm tired of these emotional a**, ungrateful a** b****** (shut the f*** up)
Unstable a**, confrontational a** dumb b******
You wanna bring a n**** down even when I'm tryna do right
We could go our separate ways right now
You could move on with your life, I swear to God
14
Worldwide Steppers
98 votes
Best lyrics:
I am not for the faint of heart
My genetic build can build multi-universes, the man of God
Playin' "Baby Shark" with my daughter
Watchin' for sharks outside at the same time
Life as a protective father, I'd kill for her
My son Enoch is the part two
When I expire, my children'll make higher valleys
In this present moment, I saw that through
15
Crown
100 votes
Best lyrics:
They idolize and praise your name across the nation
Tap the feed and nod the head for confirmation
Promise that you keep the music in rotation
That's what I call love (that's what I call love)
But the time it'll come (but the time it'll come)
To not be there when somebody needs you (when somebody needs you)
You say no and all you've done gives them amnesia (they don't remember)
One thing I've learned, love can change with the seasons
16
Purple Hearts (with Summer Walker & Ghostface Killah)
128 votes
Best lyrics:
This my undisputed truth, uh-huh
My life is like forbidden fruit, my b**** know better than I do
A woman's worth, I barely went to church
I'd rather fast with you than f*** it up
F***** with skirts 'cause I'm rational
A n**** still gon' be a n****, emoji heart, my family pictures
Two-steppin' away from rappers, I don't trust their true intentions
I'm not in the music business, I been in the human business
Whole life been social distant, hoes like, "When you not trippin'?"
17
Savior (Interlude)
86 votes
Best lyrics:
You ever seen your mama strung out while you studied division?
Your uncle ever stole from you, day after Christmas?
Seen both of those on the county jail's visits
The first and the fifteenth, the only religion
Noodles in the microwave, shark tank tidal wave
Grandma shootin' n*****, blood on the highway
Crosses on the dashboard, you just want a platform
I wanna take everything that I ask for
18
Rich (Interlude)
87 votes
Best lyrics:
I learned in trappin', in the business
Smart people makin' horrible decisions, you know?
Rich n****, gettin' my d*** sucked after the show
I ain't gon' lie, we were poor
A bunch of lost souls in survival mode
It wasn't no way for us unless we find our own