Kendrick Lamar's "King Kunta" is as strongly black as anything else on his smash new album, To Pimp A Butterfly: The title itself is a reference to a character from the classic television series Roots, and it features samples from James Brown's "The Payback" and Ahmad's "We Want The Funk." That makes it all the more ironic and humorous when one amused listener mashed-it up with the theme from Seinfeld (from Consequence of Sound).
Jack Dudley, one of those folks who will go down in internet history for this "one-hit" wonder, seems to have set up a Soundcloud account just to showcase this 50-second clip he came up with, simply titled "To Pimp A Seinfeld." And it's well worth it. The producer (we suppose he has some experience) doesn't do anything to alter Lamar's flow in the least, simply taking the first verse from the track and laying it over the funky bass-n-horns theme song, creating a short burst of comedy worth a good head-shake.
The stream of jokes and pop culture references came spewing forth, of course. Our favorite: A commenter on the Soundcloud page altered the title of the original single to "King Kostanza" in reference to Jerry's best buddy, George Costanza.
We hate to break up the party but it bears mentioning that, like quite a few tracks on To Pimp A Butterfly, "King Kunta" should be given at least some reverence, even if it does make for a good '90s sitcom mashup. Kunta Kinte was a real-life slave in Virginia, whose life served as the basis for the novel Roots: The Saga of An American Family (by Alex Haley), which would later be turned into the famous television series.
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