In a recent exclusive published by Interview Magazine, Kendrick Lamar confirms the validity of the tale he tells on his DAMN track "Duckworth," in which he goes into detail about his father's generous relationship with Top Dawg label boss Anthony Tiffith back when Tiffith was running wild in the streets sparing him from being murdered in one of Tiffith's armed robberies.
Listeners of Kendrick's 2017 album will recall how the final bars of the song unfolded with Kenny spitting, "Pay attention, that one decision changed both of they lives," and telling how he and Tiffith would wind up being partners in the music business years after Tiffith's recollection of Lamar's dad hooking him up with free meals during his tenure as a KFC employee, prompted him to let him survive. "Because if Anthony killed Ducky, Top Dawg could be servin' life / While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight," Kendrick caps the song off by spitting.
Interview Magazine's guest reporter for the feature, Dave Chappelle, inquired into the Compton rapper's composition of the "Duckworth" lyrics. He said that the song happens to be one of his favorites off of the project, and expounded on how it was fun for him to craft because he was so enamored with the idea of all of the angles any situation can be looked at from, based on each unique point of view.
"Everybody has their own perspective, and recognizing someone else’s perspective blows my mind a hundred thousand per cent," K. Dot told Chappelle, before zeroing in on his personal perspective concerning his father's involvement in the situation. “The way that event unfolded…I had to sit down and ask my pops, ‘What was your perspective at the moment?’ And, ‘Did you ever think it would come around full circle like that?’ That always fascinated me.”
Source: allhiphop.com
