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The remix keeps Gotye's iconic chorus but recontextualizes it to represent the distance between Kendrick and the people from his past. The TDE Connection: Doechii’s "Anxiety"

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The Genius annotation of "Girl, I Know You Want This Dick" provides a glimpse into how Kendrick Lamar approached the Gotye sample. Kendrick ends this track with his love interest getting a good dose of karma on her, now Kendrick being rich and she, well, is left behind. In many ways, the emotional core of Gotye's original — being left behind and feeling like a stranger to someone who was once central to your life — is reversed in Kendrick's narrative. He positions himself as the one who has moved on and found success, transforming the song's original pain into a tale of triumph. Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -...

This article explores how Kendrick Lamar and Gotye's hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know" intersected, the story behind the track, the legal complications that followed, and the broader place of this connection in mashup and remix culture.

The "Somebody That I Used To Know" in Kendrick’s universe is not an ex-lover; it is: The remix keeps Gotye's iconic chorus but recontextualizes

The legacy of this sound continues today through Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) labelmate . Her hit song "Anxiety" prominently samples the same instrumental from Gotye’s 2011 classic . This direct lineage shows how the "Gotye sound"—originally rooted in Luiz Bonfá's 1967 instrumental "Seville" —remains a staple in the TDE creative toolkit. Kendrick Lamar – Somebody That I Used to Know (Remix)

The song was originally built entirely around a sample of Gotye’s "Somebody That I Used to Know". In many ways, the emotional core of Gotye's

These AI versions are frequently mistaken for official unreleased leaks, further confusing the history of the actual 2012 sample. 4. Kendrick’s Unrelated Track "Somebody"

The most literal reading comes in songs like “The Art of Peer Pressure,” where Kendrick recounts committing crimes with friends who have since faded into prison, death, or estrangement. He raps, “Me and my nigga, we was scheming again / That’s all we knew, wasn’t nothing to it.” Those friends are now “somebodies he used to know”—not because of a dramatic falling out, but because survival and fame created an unspoken distance. The chorus of Gotye’s song insists, “We’re just somebody that we used to know.” For Kendrick, the tragedy is that both parties still remember the bond, but the context has rotted it away.

The song "Somebody That I Used to Know" is famous for its , where both Gotye and Kimbra blame each other for the relationship's failure. Kendrick employs a similar storytelling device in his own deep narratives: