Makes sense that Kendrick Lamar would sample Janet Jackson
on his critically acclaimed debut. During his formative years in the 1990s,
Janet's reign and influence were inescapable, so as the Compton MC readies his
next good kid, m.A.A.d city single, the Drake-assisted
"Poetic Justice" seems like a no-brainer.



The
track borrows its title from Janet's 1993 film and lifts a vocal sampling from
her hit record "Any Time, Any Place" from the same year. For the song's video,
K-Dot figures that once he and Drizzy work out their schedules, getting the OVO
MC on set will be no problem, but if Kendrick has his way he'll also have a
cameo for Ms. Jackson as well. "That'll be a blessing," he told MTV News on
Friday just moments before he took the stage to headline at Power 106's annual
Cali Christmas concert.
Lamar even went as far to make a
personal pitch to the icon, hoping to eliminate the difficult process that often
comes with working with a star of Jackson's stature. "Janet, c'mon, Janet. No
paperwork with the managers, contact the managers. This is artist to artist," he
pleaded. "This is a young boy that looked up to you for years. Please, yeah,
video, Janet Jackson 'Poetic Justice.' It'll only be right."
That's not the
only visual element Kendrick has planned. Part of good kid's appeal are
the cinematic skits that piece the album's music together, so to play off of the
album's strengths the TDE crew are working on a film that will complement the LP
as well. "We actually started the visuals for this whole project," he said. "I
called it a short film before I even started the actual foundation of the
music."

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common Janet! Do it!! Get some street cred

Love the song, love the album.

I'm not sure about this idea. The last time Janet worked with a rapper (Plies) I thought it was disastrous. However, I do like Kendrick's song better. I guess it would depend on the video treatment.

this would introduce poetic justice to a new generation, I hope janet does it

I like this dude and I love Janet. I hope she does it.

we don't want to see a shaggy interview from dude in the future now

^ what did Shaggy say about Janet?

anyway Janet's reaction will probably be

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banks said:

I like this dude and I love Janet. I hope she does it.

hell no miss jackson. janet is a legend kendrick lamar is a hot for now wanna be up and coming girl dont jump on anybody song just cuz they want u do u knows how many people has begged prince and michael and they kept on walking like jesus was calling them .janet dont need street cred or none of that horse shit everybody knows who she is and if they dont thats their problem.

oh oh I see Janet got her poetic justice look back

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Janet looks very "satisfied" & happy in those pix.Glad she has finally found her soulmate.I was rooting for her...

Those braids look great on her. I'm kind of torn about her doing the video, though. Although it would be cool to see her appear in a video where her song is sampled. Goodness knows, plenty of her songs have been sampled over the years. It could be a good way to let some of the young'uns know what time it is

i had never heard the song so i went to listen on youtube, i read some of the comments. the young kids were asking 'who is the girl singing', those who know the song kept telling them its janet and its her song they sampled

cbarnes3121 said:

hell no miss jackson. janet is a legend kendrick lamar is a hot for now wanna be up and coming girl dont jump on anybody song just cuz they want u do u knows how many people has begged prince and michael and they kept on walking like jesus was calling them .janet dont need street cred or none of that horse shit everybody knows who she is and if they dont thats their problem.

She really shouldn't waste her time with something like this. I can picture how horrible the video will look already.

mancabdriver said:

common Janet! Do it!! Get some street cred

Love the song, love the album.

she doesnt need to go slumming

Janet looks good. I love the braids. Janet fans are going apeshit over this on her forums I really dig Kendrick, his probably one of the most dopest MC's out now. HOWEVER, Janet does not NEED him Shes an ICON. He NEEDS HER.

i have never ever never been a big fan of rap and i hate that janet even allowed her lovely voice on this horseshit. i was digusted when prince the worlds greatest of all time allowedrap in his world.shut it down let it go only reason i ever excepted rap was for fine men like nelly,t.i and big boi otherwise they can call it a day over here in my gay world