PSYCHOTHERAPIST REACTS to Kendrick Lamar- Mother I Sober (ft. Beth Gibbons)

This entire album was created as Kendrick Lamar was undergoing therapy, which resulted in an album that is jam packed with personal insights and amazing art. Cheers

Mr morale is Kendrick. The kid at the end is Kendrick’s daughter talking. He went away for a while and had two kids and focused on his traumas and life. This album is putting it all out there and how he dealt with it. Father Time is my favorite from the album would love to see you listen to that one. Keep it up Tom thank you for the content ❤️

This is the type of song that gets you to stare into space for 5 minutes straight without moving a muscle.

Whitney is proud that Kendrick broke all those curses and patterns that could have affected her children by confessing them publicly. And it hits harder when his daughter speaks and thanks her dad for doing this so that they could live a better life. That he has to suffer so that they don't. Jesus said, "Blessed is the man who gives up his life for the sake of others"

I was a drug addict for 10 years until 7 days ago. I heard Father Time by Kendrick, and it snapped me awake. I was numbing the unresolved pain of a fucked upbringing. If anyone's struggling right now, you CAN get sober. It hurts, it's awful, it's necessary, and I hope you make it through.

the last time kendrick dropped an album was in 2017 (that album won a pulitzer prize) and so five years later he drops an album (Mr Morale & The Big Steppers) that is structured into two act (two discs). the first act is labeled The Big Steppers and the second act is labeled Mr Morale. the album is told like a stage play with a tap dancing motif throughout the album and taking inspiration from shakespeare, using Iambic pentameter which is a type of metric line used in traditional english poetry. the album takes us through his inner troubles, conversations with his wife, then a complete therapy session with Eckhart Tolle who is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. Mr. Morale is Kendrick, and this represents a side of Kendrick that has the responsibility of lifting up people that are down. The Big Steppers are the people that have a life full of sins and trouble, and, because of that, they need Kendrick to help them. if you look at the track-list the first song of act one and the last song of act two relate to each other, the second song of act one and the second to last song of act two relate to each other, and so on. the album has a lot of talk about saviours cause before this album he was considered the saviour of his culture and genre. and in this album he denies it and thats why he is wearing a diamond crown of thorns on stage and in his albums cover. he believes that only Jesus died for our sins and that he is no saviour (their is alot more philosophy in the saviour conversation but i would be here forever). in the album cover he wears the crown of thorns, with a pistol tucked in his pants, holding his baby, and his wife holding their other child in bed. this album was his return after five years

This album is a MASTERPIECE

Nothing happened to Kendrick. That’s the point of the song along with SA being the main theme. It was an issue of the question and not being believed by his family when he would say no, which led to internal trauma he had to deal with. However his mother was violated, and her question was inadvertently creating issues for Kendrick by projecting her pain on to him which would resurface in his relationship with his wife.

I think you misread part of the song, "The violated in Chicago" part you missed that he went back to talking about his mom and his cousin not touching him but her not believing him. You accidently attributed those parts of the song to the cheating part because he was going back and forth between situations. He was saying that his mom didn't believe him because she was sexually assaulted in the past and she was scared that it was happening to him and he just wasn't speaking up about it and refused to believe him even though he was telling the truth.

Men (especially Black Men) have HUGE reservations for therapy. Kendrick's album forced many to have their 1st session.

Crazy but this song actually mad me cry, never thought that would ever happen. Kendric is much more than a rapper he’s a modern day poet. Masterpiece

2:15 what’s crazy about that is that if you listen to a full album (like to pimp a butterfly especially for example) the story gets even bigger as it spans the whole album

This song. It hit me like no other. I unfortunately was around a group of friends when I first listened to this album—this was less than a yr after I was raped. Just typing that without changing, modifying, or censoring the word to anything but what it is—it’s strange. It always feels like it happened to someone else than me. My trauma doesn’t end there though. I have endured a lot. Then that happened when I allowed myself to trust again. There’s so much I could say. But Kendrick encapsulates so much of how I feel, how my dad feels, how my partner feels… When me and that group of friends listened to the album, I felt like no one was really listening. It started making me angry. Then this song came on. It was too much. Suddenly there were too many people. I couldn’t stop the tears. I had to leave the room. It was one of those painful, cathartic cries. Thank you Kendrick. Thank you to the counselors and therapists I have spoke to. And thank you, dad, for finally getting help.

You gotta listen to this album front to back. It has a narrative arc about Kendrick's recent mental health journey. Also, I interpret the lyrics as saying that Kendrick actually wasn't abused but the persistent insistence that he was actually disturbed him to the point that he might as well have been. That he maybe even doubted that he wasn't. And the tragedy of that trauma being unintentionally inflicted on him by his mother because of the abuse she had experienced.

this is probably the best song on the new album, alongside "auntie diaries" Also definitely worth checking out, tho it is less of a mental health thing and more asking important questions about society

This song, and whole album is honestly too much for me. One of the most powerful revealers of trauma ever imo. It's a powerful tool for shadow work (and then healing). That's why so many people can't listen to it. It's scary to them.

Another main theme is the historical trauma from slavery and how the damage has been passed down through generations of black families. This lends us not to talk about generational trauma or personalized trauma. There was no therapy for freed enslaved people to overcome being beaten, tortured, r*ped and they had to cope the best way they could, which is what Kendrick is experiencing.

This one brings tears to the eye every time. Beautiful

This song always hits me in my soul no matter how many times I listen to it

What i’ve always admired most about Kdot is his utter ability to convey these complex album long themes or stories and have every single word mean something, the lyrics are so dense that the albums only get better over time because months later you’re uncovering something new or even a year or two later you’re able to attach or relate to a song more just from life experience. It’s like he truly takes all the emotions in his head and somehow puts it all into song structure, it’s really marvelous work and i’ll never stop giving him his flowers while he’s here