Kendrick Lamar, tv off | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 44th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “tv off” performed by Grammy-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, Kendrick Lamar.  

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“All I ever wanted was a black Grand National / Fuck being rational, give ‘em what they ask for.” Ooh-wee! Thus begins “tv off”, one of the best songs from GNX, the 2024 album by Grammy-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar. “TV off” is a two-part song produced by Mustard, Sounwave, Jack Antonoff, Sean Momberger, and Kamasi Washington.  That is a talented team! Both parts of the song go hard – they are sleekly produced. Notably, K-Dot gets the assist from rapper Lefty Gunplay who appears in the outro (“Shit gets crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious”).  Word 💯!  The star of the show is Kendrick Lamar, NO CAP!

In part one, Kendrick delivers the intro (excerpted above), choruses, and two verses. After expressing his desire for a Buick GNX, K-Dot delivers a killer chorus. He asserts, “Few solid niggas left, but it’s not enough,” speaking to the lack of good, trustworthy people.  One of the most spirited lines from the first chorus is, “Say you bigger than myself, but it’s not geood enough (Huh) / I get on they ass, yeah, somebody gotta do it / I’ll make them niggas mad, somebody gotta do it.” Woo! Kendrick is relentless in the verses, too. “It’s the alpha and omega, bitch, welcome home,” he spits in the first verse, adding, “This is not a song / This a revelation, how to get a nigga gone.” In the second, he memorably informs us, “I hate a bitch that’s hatin’ a bitch and they both hoes / I hate a nigga hatin’ on them niggas and they both broke.”

Part two is equally, if not more memorable.  It starts with Lamar’s enthusiastic shout-out: “MUSTARD!” From there, he delivers he infectious, unforgettable chorus: “Niggas actin’ bad, but somebody gotta do it / Got my foot up on the gas, but somebody gotta do it / Huh, turn his TV off, turn his TV off.” Unlike part one, there is only one verse. As expected, rapping over the sickening musical backdrop, Kendrick eats it up.  He delivers some potent, thought-provoking rhymes, delivered in the vernacular. “I’m in the city where the flag be gettin’ thrown like it was pass interference,” he spits, adding, “So when I made it out, I made about 50K from a show / Tryna show niggas the ropes before they hung from a rope.” With a plethora of memorable lyrics, Kendrick Lamar kicks ass and takes names on “tv off”, one of many highlights from GNX.

Kendrick Lamar // GNX // pgLang / Interscope // 2024

Kendrick Lamar, tv off: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 44 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; pgLang / Interscope; Bigshow Lamar Campton, Daniel Duarte, Eduardo López from Pexels; AcatXIo, djexpectations, OpenClipart-Vectors, Thai Zeo from Pixabay]