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Alright - Kendrick Lamar - Digging Deeper. Please Make A Copy of This Worksheet

This document provides analysis questions for Kendrick Lamar's song "Alright" from his album "Digging Deeper". The questions explore themes of police brutality, struggles, faith, and finding reassurance. Lamar uses the chorus "We gon' be alright" as a chant of hope for communities suffering injustice and hardship. The lyrics discuss fighting through difficult times and vices but ultimately being made right with God.

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Alright - Kendrick Lamar - Digging Deeper. Please Make A Copy of This Worksheet

This document provides analysis questions for Kendrick Lamar's song "Alright" from his album "Digging Deeper". The questions explore themes of police brutality, struggles, faith, and finding reassurance. Lamar uses the chorus "We gon' be alright" as a chant of hope for communities suffering injustice and hardship. The lyrics discuss fighting through difficult times and vices but ultimately being made right with God.

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Alright - Kendrick Lamar - Digging Deeper. Please make a copy of this worksheet.

Intro: Questions to answer (please answer in full


sentences and in as much detail as possible):

1. “Alls my life I has to fight” – What is this an


Alls my life I has to fight, allusion to? Why do you think Lamar chose to
make this reference in his song? what do you
Alls my life I think Lamar has had to fight for?

Hard times like, yah!

Bad trips like, yah!


2. What patterns can you see in the introduction
Nazareth, I'm f**ked up verse of his song?

Homie, you f**ked up


3. What is Lamar’s views on God? What do you
But if God got us then we gon' be alright
think Nazareth can be compared to?

The Chorus Questions to answer (please answer in full


sentences and in as much detail as possible):

We gon' be alright 1. Explain the purpose and the effect of repetition of


“we gon’ be alright”? Who is the “we”?
We gon' be alright

We gon' be alright

Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright 2. Who is Lamar aiming the rhetorical questions
“do you hear me, do you feel me?” at? Explain
We gon' be alright the effect these questions have?

Huh? We gon' be alright

We gon' be alright
3. Why do you think this chorus became a chant at
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright protests?

4. How are the lyrics reassuring for people?


5. In what ways are Black community in America
suffering? Use examples from recent news
stories, The Hate U Give, or your experience.

6. Can you relate to the “we gon’ be alright’


statement? In what ways do we need to be
reassured that we are going to be alright in our
own lives?

First Verse Questions to answer (please answer in full


sentences and in as much detail as possible):

Uh, and when I wake up

I recognize you're looking at me for the pay cut 1. What references to police brutality can you find?
What is Lamar trying to tell us?
But homicide be looking at you from the face down

What MAC-11 even boom with the bass down?

Schemin', and let me tell you 'bout my life

Painkillers only put me in the twilight 2. Lines 5-7, what is the speaker saying became a
large part of his life?
Where pretty p***y and Benjamin is the highlight

Now tell my momma I love her, but this what I like, Lord
knows

Twenty of 'em in my Chevy, tell 'em all to come and get 3. Who does he feel will be disappointed in him for
me giving into vices?
Reaping everything I sow, so my karma come in heaven

No preliminary hearings on my record


4. Why do you think religion is a recurring theme
I'm a motherf**king gangster in silence for the record, uh in this album?
Tell the world I know it's too late

Boys and girls, I think I gone cray

Drown inside my vices all day

Won't you please believe when I say


Pre-Chorus Questions to answer (please answer in full
sentences and in as much detail as possible):

Wouldn't you know

We been hurt, been down before, 1. What is the slang word for police? How does the
speaker feel about them and why? Link to
When our pride was low context.
Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?"

And we hate po-po


2. Can you find an example of an idiom? What
Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, does it mean in this context?

I'm at the preacher's door

My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow 3. What is another word for preacher? Why might
But we gon' be alright the speaker need one?

Questions
Second Verse

Why does this verse start with all the rhetorical


What you want you, a house? You, a car? questions? What is the purpose?

40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar?

Anything, see my name is Lucy, I'm your dog 1. Thinking about Lamar’s religious beliefs,
who do you think Lucy might be?
Motherf**ker, you can live at the mall

I can see the evil, I can tell it I know when it's illegal
2. What other evidence can you find
I don't think about it, I deposit every other zero regarding the speaker’s conflict with his
beliefs and his relationship with god?
Thinkin' of my partner put the candy, paint it on the regal

Diggin' in my pocket ain't a profit, big enough to feed you


3. How does Lamar feel about
Everyday my logic, get another dollar just to keep you consumerism?

In the presence of your chico ah!

I don't talk about it, be about it, everyday I see cool 4. Why does he mention his friends/ cousin
If I got it then you know you got it, Heaven, I can reach you who have passed away?

Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, my dog, that's all

Bick back and Chad, I trap the bag for y'all

I rap, I black on track so rest assured

My rights, my wrongs, I write 'til I'm right with God

Outro Questions

I keep my head up high


1. What is he promising to do?
I cross my heart and hope to die

Lovin' me is complicated 2. What are the famous sayings and the


Too afraid of a lot of changes effect?

I'm alright and you're a favorite

Dark nights in my prayers

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