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"Heart Pt. 6" (stylized in lowercase) is a song recorded by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was surprise-released under PGLang and Interscope Records as the tenth track from his sixth studio album, GNX, on November 22, 2024. It serves as the sixth installment in "The Heart" song series, and the first to not be a promotional single released prior to a project. The song was produced by Lojo and Jack Antonoff, with additional production by M-Tech and Juju. The song features uncredited vocals from R&B trio SWV, sampled from their track "Use Your Heart", written and produced by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, as the Neptunes. The track also features additional background vocals from American singer Sam Dew.

Background

"The Heart" is the title of a series of songs by Kendrick Lamar, starting with "The Heart Part 1" in 2010. "The Heart Part 5" was released in 2022. In May 2024, during the public feud between Lamar and Canadian rapper Drake, Drake released a diss track against Lamar titled "The Heart Part 6"; Billboard magazine wrote this was Drake using Lamar's own song titles against him. Lamar released his own song titled "Heart Pt. 6" on his album GNX later that year, which Billboard viewed as him reclaiming the song title, while not acknowledging Drake's song by subtly changing the title.

Composition

The song begins with a 12-second soft guitar solo, before later progressing into slow R&B-styled production. The lyrics contain Kendrick Lamar reminiscing on his experiences with his initial label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), and creating music along with. In the second verse, he then expands on the idea called "TDE", and mentioning peers such as Dave Free, record producer Sounwave (who coincidentally is one of the producers of the song), mixing engineer Derek Ali, Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, who is the founder of Top Dawg Entertainment, and former label-mates Punch, Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, later explaining in the third verse, as to why the supergroup Black Hippy didn't work out, rapping

“Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a black exec / I jog my memory, knowing Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me / Creatively, I moved on, with new concepts in reach”

whilst also explaining his departure from TDE altogether. He ends the song off by giving advice to people younger than him.

Charts

References

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• 2024 songs
• Songs written by Chad Hugo
• Songs written by Kendrick Lamar
• Songs written by Pharrell Williams
• Song recordings produced by Jack Antonoff