Released March 15, 2015 Producer(s) Terrace Martin | Length 2:10 | |
Genre Jazz rap
spoken word
experimental hip hop Label Top Dawg
Aftermath
Interscope Writer(s) Kendrick Duckworth
Terrace Martin
R. McKinney | ||
"For Free? (Interlude)" is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It is the second track on his third studio album To Pimp a Butterfly, released on March 15, 2015. A music video for the song was uploaded to Vevo and YouTube on July 31, 2015.
Music video
The song's accompanying music video premiered on July 31, 2015 on Lamar's Vevo account. It starts with a woman named Hikeah Kareem voicing the introductory spoken word section, a long list of complaints about her "unfortunate" boyfriend, played by Lamar. He appears, face pressed to a window, and proceeds to chase her around the house while rapping and yelling, “This dick ain’t free!” Then, Lamar appears again from behind a window with a live band and pops his head into the bathroom. In the Joe Weil & The Little Homies-directed clip, Lamar takes a number of forms terrorizing his wife who, despite living in a mansion, isn't content. The visual metaphors aligns with those of the song's lyrics, both asserting his own self-worth to a woman and to the marginalizing temptations of "success" in America.