Iconic Music Videos That Defined The Past Few Decades

“HUMBLE.” by Kendrick Lamar (2017)

“HUMBLE.” truly made music video history. Kendrick Lamar’s spiritual video opens with Lamar dressed as the Pope, spitting verses in a cathedral. He then recreates Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting The Last Supper, sitting in Jesus’ seat at the table. Religious visuals, fire, and money made critics laud the video as a meditation on consumerism. It never hurts to take a leaf out of Lamar’s book and “sit down, be humble.”

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