Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -... May 2026

That would be a funeral for a former self. What do you think? Could Kendrick pull off the melancholy of Gotye, or is this a bridge too far? Drop your dream mashup in the comments.

We live in an era of the “mashup” and the “cover,” but some artistic collisions exist only in our collective imagination. One such phantom track that refuses to leave my brain is this: Kendrick Lamar performing a rendition of Gotye’s 2011 indie-pop masterpiece, “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Kendrick Lamar - Somebody That I Used To Know -...

SZA’s character would flip the script: “You tell the world I abandoned you for the hills / But you forgot the night you chose the tour bus over the hospital bill / You call me a stranger? / King, you made yourself a stranger.” That would be a funeral for a former self