# The best Kendrick Lamar songs

Kendrick Lamar's best songs according to Billboard, XXL, Complex and The Guardian, from good kid, m.A.A.d city to GNX.

- 333 votes · 12 items
- May 8, 2025 · vinylhead_grumpy
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## Top 12

1. **Not Like Us** (32 · ▲35 ▼3) — 2024. The Drake diss track; Billboard's number one rap song of 2024 and five Grammys.
2. **Alright** (31 · ▲38 ▼7) — To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015. Adopted as an anthem by the Black Lives Matter movement.
3. **Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock)** (30 · ▲33 ▼3) — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. Fifth in Complex's ranking and sixth in The Guardian's.
4. **The Blacker the Berry** (21 · ▲23 ▼2) — To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015. One of his angriest songs, about racism and hypocrisy.
5. **King Kunta** (18 · ▲22 ▼4) — To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015. Funk and the image of Kunta Kinte.
6. **HUMBLE.** (17 · ▲23 ▼6) — DAMN., 2017. His first solo number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
7. **Swimming Pools (Drank)** (17 · ▲21 ▼4) — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. A party hit that is really about alcoholism.
8. **DNA.** (15 · ▲21 ▼6) — DAMN., 2017. Aggressive bars and a famous video with Don Cheadle.
9. **Backseat Freestyle** (14 · ▲19 ▼5) — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. Sixth in Billboard's ranking of his 20 best songs.
10. **Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst** (12 · ▲16 ▼4) — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. Twelve minutes in two parts about violence and redemption.
11. **luther (with SZA)** (12 · ▲16 ▼4) — GNX, 2024. A romantic duet that topped the Billboard Hot 100.
12. **m.A.A.d city (feat. MC Eiht)** (12 · ▲15 ▼3) — good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012. Compton seen from the inside, in two halves.

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