Kendrick Lamar’s “PRIDE.” track is the newest to affix Spotify’s Billions Membership, which celebrates songs which have eclipsed multiple billion views on the streaming platform. This marks the singer’s tenth track to succeed in this milestone.
“PRIDE.” is a deep reduce from the rapper’s 2017 fourth album, DAMN, that includes background vocals from producer Steve Lacy and singer Anna Smart, the latter of whom collaborated with Lamar on “These Walls” from his Grammy-winning To Pimp A Butterfly album. Whereas “PRIDE.” wasn’t formally a single (it did enter the Prime 40 on the Billboard Scorching 100), its introspective themes make it a spotlight on DAMN. In 2023, the track was used on the finish of the sequence finale of FX’s Snowfall.
DAMN. debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and earned a Grammy Award for Finest Rap Album. The album featured singles, “HUMBLE.”, “LOYALTY” that includes Rihanna, and “LOVE” that includes Zacari.
Different songs from Lamar within the Spotify Billions Membership embody DAMN.’s “HUMBLE.”, “LOVE”, and “DNA.”; “All The Stars” that includes SZA and his “Pray For Me” collaboration with The Weeknd from 2018’s Black Panther movie soundtrack; “Money Trees” that includes Jay Rock from 2012’s Good Child, M.A.A.D Metropolis; his options on Child Keem’s 2021 single “family ties” and on Maroon 5’s 2016 single “Don’t Wanna Know”; and 2024’s diss observe “Not Like Us”.
Lamar is at the moment on his “Grand National” Tour, with pal and frequent collaborator SZA because the co-headliner. The North American leg kicked off on April 19 in Minneapolis, with the UK and Europe leg starting on July 2 in Cologne. In February of this 12 months, Lamar, in fact, carried out on the Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present, which surpassed Michael Jackson’s 1993 efficiency as essentially the most seen halftime present.
That very same month, “Not Like Us” gained 5 Grammy Awards: Music of the Yr, File of the Yr, Finest Music Video, Finest Rap Music, and Finest Rap Efficiency. On the 2025 NAACP Awards, the inescapable observe additionally took house a trophy for Excellent Hip-Hop/Rap Music.
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