"Heart Pt. 6" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song recorded by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was surprise-released under PGLang and Interscope Records as the tenth track from his sixth studio album, GNX, on November 22, 2024. It serves as the sixth installment in "The Heart" song series, and the first to not be a promotional single released prior to a project. The song was produced by Sounwave and Jack Antonoff, with additional production by M-Tech and Juju. The song features uncredited vocals from R&B trio SWV, sampled from their track "Use Your Heart", written and produced by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, as the Neptunes.[1] The track also features additional background vocals from American singer Sam Dew.
Composition
The song begins with a 12-second soft guitar solo, before later progesssing into slow R&B-styled production. The lyrics contain Kendrick Lamar reminiscing on his experiences with his initial label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), and creating music along with. In the second verse, he then expands on the idea called "TDE", and mentioning peers such as Dave Free, record producer Sounwave (who coincidentally is one of the producers of the song), Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, who is the founder of Top Dawg Entertainment, and former label-mates Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, later explaining in the third verse, as to why the supergroup Black Hippy didn't work out[2], rapping
“Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a black exec/I jog my memory, knowing Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me/Creatively, I moved on, with new concepts in reach”
whilst also explaining his departure from TDE altogether. He ends the song off by giving advice to people younger than him.
